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Describe Your First Parenting Crisis
DH: First real crisis was probably when we thought my youngest was choking on something. His face was red, he was spitting up and I instinctively - I guess - sat him on my lap and listened to see if he was breathing. We rode in the ambulance and it was horrible, but somehow I remained calm.
Oh wait, a month before that my oldest near-fainted and we had to call the ambulance. I was shaking like a leaf inside but surprisingly handled it well, but was very scared.
I guess we're lucky so far to not have many crises - until now!
JWP: The first big thing was when we were on vacation at my grandparent's place (1/2 way across the US) with my mom and A got sick, he was four months old. We finally took him to the ER (small town, not many choices) the day before we were supposed to go home and he ended up being admitted and then transferred an hour away to a bigger hospital. He tested positive for RSV, had double ear infections, and viral meningitis. He spent 3 days in the PICU and then we got to go home and he was perfect. It was horrifying and my poor husband was at home not knowing what was going on, I felt so bad for him. We got to spend an extra week with my family though.
JWD: Well, her first issue was being born nine weeks premature by emergency cesarean when I didn't even realize I was in labor, let alone fully dilated. I was in a state of shock, I didn't even know I was in labor and suddenly I'm having major surgery in my street clothes. I responded with complete love and awe, she was perfect and in my eyes I saw a healthy full term baby. (I suppose that means I responded with denial.)
I disagree! I think sometimes we have to react that way to keep us calm.
SS: The first illness was at fourteen months. He had the stomach flu and vomited all over me. I took him to bed and just nursed him for hours while he recovered. He'd throw up, then nurse, then throw up, then nurse. He came out on the other side of the vomiting and diarrhea perfectly hydrated and well nourished despite three days of illness. Not so for me. I caught it from him day three and I was vomiting and had diarrhea for three days myself and came out feeling like a truck ran me over.
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SS: The first crisis was when my then-husband dropped my son in the bathtub when he was less than a month old. He hit his head and went under the water. I was FURIOUS. I made him call the pediatrician to ask what we should watch for and ask if we should take him to the hospital. All the while I had him latched onto my breast between sobs. (At least once he stopped the purple-faced airless soundless scream.)
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SS: My second son who is now five months old has not yet had a crisis. By this age my then-husband had dropped my older son in the bathtub and had let him fall off of the couch.
APM: She fell from a hammock in a very distant beach in the south of Brazil and broke her front teeth, the damage was clearly bad. We had to drive for about two hours. I gave her Tylenol and sang "The Sound of Music" songs all the way to the hospital, and she was calm. No fun. It took years for a full repair but no trauma for her... only for mama.
TC: First born choked on a coin at twelve months old. It just so happened that a friend was visiting fresh out of his EMT class (from) a few hours earlier and had just learned how to perform Heimlich on infants. He set straight to action as soon as we observed he was not breathing and it was fixed within moments of him taking him into his arms and thumping him very hard on the back. Whew.
JG: Pneumonia at age two (?). Sudden fever of 106-107. Rushed her to the doctor who sent her for an immediate chest x-ray.
MS: my daughter had a high fever and diarrhea at about 8 months old. Hubby begged off work that morning so he could be with us and take her to the doctor. His boss threatened to fire him if he took his daughter to the doc and missed work. Hubby said nothing to his boss but took us to the doctor anyway. It turned out to be a stomach bug and we were advised to give her Pedialyte and some Tylenol. It ran its course in a couple days and she got better. Meanwhile, my hubby quit and his boss got fired.
JRBB: My daughter was a newborn and lost a lot of weight and became jaundiced at only a few days old. She struggled to regain her birth weight and we finally realized I was not making enough milk. The pediatricians weighed her every few days and life was constantly stressful. I ended up having to supplement with formula and weaned from breastfeeding at 6 months.
MAH: My daughter walked across a floor furnace and burned her feet. I did what I always did in a crisis, called my mama. She came and sat with me and helped me treat her feet (thank goodness she didn't sit down) and provided moral support for me. My mama is gone now, but I sure wish I still had her here in a crisis.
CB: Gosh there were so many things with our first but the tip off that things were going to be harder (this is retrospectively, at the time being a first time parent I was clueless) when he could only nurse with a nipple shield in use - and we nursed for 12 months that way, he grew so that was okay with me (nursing was successful and it made me throw out my inhibitions when it comes to nursing in public). All in all, he is a healthy and thriving kid but he has been the one who gets sick; two hospitalizations and numerous trips to the ER and Urgent Care.
LF: The first crisis I actually remember was when my son (now sixteen) was about eighteen months and fell and smacked his forehead HARD on the brick hearth of the fireplace. I still feel sick imagining the sound it made, and then he cried for about ten seconds and fell asleep in my arms, and I could not wake him. STARK RAVING TERROR. We rushed him to the Ped's office (closer than the hospital) - I sat next to him in his carseat sobbing and begging him to wake up. No response. He woke up just as I laid him on the exam table at the doc's. He was fine- got a bit of a bruise but not even a goose egg. Still have no idea why he fell asleep like that when he was pretty much uninjured, but I will never forget how scared I was.
NgM: My muscles are tight reading these stories! You poor moms!
Tristan, my first kidlet, was about 6 weeks old... maybe 8... and he was screaming, would not stop. Now I know it was a pain cry, but I had no idea how to translate his cries back then. He cried for at least an hour and a half before I called my mom, hysterical, and begged her to come over. The second she took Tristan out of my arms, he quit crying... and that brought me to near hysteria that he hated me. My mom told me to quit that and call the doctor, that he had a fever. A fever? I didn't even know my kid had a fever? What a horrible mother I was!
We went to the doctor and he had a double ear infection (the first of many, many ear infections) and once he was on antibiotics for twelve hours, was much better. (This is the olden days, before I knew about garlic olive oil and not to do antibiotics with ear infections.)
I could go on and on with Tristan tragedies; I thank him all the time for letting me learn on him.
- crashing his head into a concrete doorway as we were racing down a hallway
- burning him with the car seat buckle... in the summer, in Florida
- barely snatching him from a backing up car smashing him
- his being so sick they thought he had Cystic Fibrosis and we went for nine months not knowing what he was dying of... turned out to have a protein allergy and the only thing that saved him was breastmilk, donated from LLL friends until Meggie was born... then she shared.
There were times I felt so inept as a mom.
CB: We were home from the birth center for about five hours when my son started to cry uncontrollably. Two hours into it we took him back to the hospital, but to the ER instead. He was really dehydrated and starving. They tried putting an IV into his three day old veins and then started taking blood for his jaundice, but we didn't feel right about the doctor's decision. Going on instincts alone, we made a stop to all the procedures. We asked for another Doctor and a lactation consultant. They were our saving grace!
EC: K tripped at the playground and went face first into a metal step when he was seventeen months old and severed his frenulum and cut the inside of his lip badly. The trip to the ER and the resulting wait was awful. Not being able to fix it is the worst feeling as a new mother!
CB: Well, at least you didn't dislocate his shoulder stopping him from running in front of logging trucks outside the laundry mat (which is when my mom bought a washer and dryer, it was one of my older brothers)! Seems like older kids get to deal with our ignorance besides what else they may come with.
KM: I think mine was when Orion, was about 3 months old. He had a horrible fever. I'd taken him to the Pedi, and was told to alternate Motrin and Tylenol. At 19, I had no idea about anything, so I did it. His fever never went down.
I panicked, called my mom because hubby was at work and she came, picked us up and took us to her house. She gave him a cool bath, mixed in with a little bit of alcohol and that lowered his fever a bit while I called Hubby and struggled to get a hold of him. I finally did (he worked at the hospital in Patient Transport, so he was always on runs driving the ambulance all over Texas.) I told him what was going on and he came to my parents house.
By the time he got there, Orion's fever was back up and it wasn't time for Motrin or Tylenol yet. Hubby and I decided to take him to the ER.
Once there, the doc told us that there was nothing they could do for a 3 month old with a fever. All he did was mix some Sprite and Gatorade together and give it to my baby with a syringe. Orion was booby fed, so drinking from a syringe was hard for him, but we went home. We gave him the Sprite/Gatorade mix about every 15 minutes and then waited. He finally broke the fever and was better a few days later.
My little boy always has super high fevers, even now that he's 4.5 years old. I also have the story of when he had undiagnosed infant GERD, but I'll leave that for later.
Sprite and Gatorade?! Ick! Now we know breastmilk is the absolute best thing for illness in a sick baby. And NO ALCOHOL BATHS! The alcohol is absorbed into the body that way and can really, really make someone very ill. Had to have been very scary!
SSM: C was about two weeks old. It was the week before Christmas and I decided he needed his finger nails cut because he kept scratching and hurting himself with them. I cut off the teeniest tip of his finger. Called my Mom (and my 76 year old Grandmother also a nurse and raised 5 kids) who lives a block away and is a nurse (pediatric at that time). She came over calmed me and Connor down. Put a bandaid on his finger and a baby sock over his hand. Life went on, but I was convinced I had scarred him for life.
It wasn't until I had my second kid that I learned the fingernails are actually attached to the end of the baby's fingers when they're born! I had no idea! So, cutting the nails of a new baby = BAD. Filing them with the light side of an emory board = Good.
C: My first real crisis was when my first was about 2 1/2. Before that, she had fallen off the bed, bumped her head, fell down, etc, but this is the single most frightening thing that happened.
I was visiting my father and put her down in front of the tv to watch Sesame Street while I gave her baby brother a bath. When I got the baby out the bath, I went to look for her, and she was gone. Called her name, no answer, ran through the house looking for her, she was no where in site. With the still naked baby in my arms, went running to the back yard and to the pool. The hardest steps I have ever taken, but thank the goddesses she wasn't in the pool, but still missing.
Back in the house, screaming her name. No answer. To the neighbors, not there. Neighbors now calling all the other neighbors while I am freaking out and running up and down the street with a naked 6 month old. My father gets called, comes home from work, calls the police.
By now, there's a regular kid-hunt going on, police arrive, neighbor lady takes the baby to dress him, goes to the living room where I left his clothes, sits on the couch, and sits on my daughter.
While I was bathing the baby, she somehow nestled herself behind the cushions on the couch and fell alseep. She was so well hidden that no one saw her until the neighbor sat on her.
I responded by freaking out. Completely. Utterly. The things that were going through my mind those two hours were terrifying.
MM: I think the really only horribly scary situation that I've had was my son falling into the dishwasher and coming out of it with a fondue fork stabbed into his arm. He screamed at it furiously and jerked it out of his arm with a mighty roar. That was it. He was fine despite a little bit of blood.
We've dealt with RSV. Thankfully we caught it early enough and my two-week old did NOT have any infections that we had to deal with. My older son did get an ear infection, a little medication and he got better. But spending the night with my youngest in the hospital was nerve wrecking!
S: Easy for me, the first absolute panic crisis was when my eight-month old and two-year old both got Rotavirus at the same time. I was pretty sure they were going to die after a week of literally NO food and only occasional sips of Pedialyte or breast-milk, so exhausted that when they threw up in their sleep (four or five times a night, each) they didn't wake at all, just vomited and heaved all over them selves. It was terrifying, rushing between bedrooms and making sure kids were sleeping on their sides so that they didn't aspirate in their sleep, changing out towels covered in vomit and diarrhea every few hours. It lasted three weeks in all, and I will always blame myself for not insisting the peds office see them earlier. They kept blowing me off and treating my like an irrational hysterical person over the phone. It was when my son went down a diaper size that I finally brought them in despite the peds saying not to. He got an IV fluids and they both got RX for anti nausea suppositories. He went from the 98th percentile for weight to the 40th. She went from the 60th percentile to the 42nd. We changed peds offices soon after.
That is such a horrifying story. Thank God your babies lived through that. And I totally understand the memory of fear.
K: Our first crisis was within an hour of our eldest's birth. My husband was calling everyone we've ever met to tell them J had been born, but had trouble getting through to his parents. Left a message on FIL's mobile. His Mum called back shortly after, FIL had suffered a massive heart attack within minutes of J's birth and had passed away.
Not a crisis with the baby, but to this day i can hear my husband's voice, the pain and confusion. At 10 days old we attended my FIL's funeral. I was near delusional with sleep deprivation, my nipples were shredded, it was a horrific time. We got through it though, our now 7yo was an easy going baby thank goodness and really we just tried to focus on the miracle of him. I still grieve not only my FIL but the loss of what should have been such a joyous time.
A few weeks later my grandfather died (not unexpectedly) and I flew interstate to farewell him with my family. On returning home our baby became very floppy and lethargic. I took him to the doctors who sent us straight to hospital for testing for meningitis. After all we'd been through watching our tiny baby have a lumbar puncture was just horrific. Luckily it wasn't meningitis though and he was admitted and put on IV ABx for a couple of days and made a complete recovery.
The upside of having dealt with so many stresses so early on is that it takes a lot to upset me now! Our fourth child is 7wo and the most calm and happy little babe imaginable. We're treasuring every minute with all our children with full knowledge of how quickly the world can change.
D: It was my firstborn, and I felt terrible. We had adopted a cocker spaniel about two years before and that dog was my protector. He slept with me when my husband worked nights, often sleeping on my belly on the couch. We also had adopted a hyper little terrier. My cocker spaniel Duke would often attack the terrier because he attacked other people and me. He bit me after the baby came home one day, and so my husband regrettably took him back to the pound. We were told the previous owner had chained him to a leg post of a table during the day and her grandchildren tormented the dog, and so that it was just something we could do nothing about. We worried he'd go after the baby when he crawled.
At 9 months old our baby began to stand and cruise, walking by 10 months. He still crawled sometimes. A few times our dog gave us a warning, growling at the baby after he stood up. One day I was playing with the baby in the living room, and he crawled around to the side of the couch. I didn't see our dog back there, he was with his favorite toy. All of a sudden I heard a growl and a cry. I was only a few feet away, but didn't see it. When I came around the corner, the dog was no where to be seen, and my baby had bite marks under his eye and on his cheek in a few places. I panicked a bit, I was a bit of a hermit and used to get lost easily. I called my husband, and then knocked on my cousin's door...she lived in the same apartment complex. I drove and she comforted the baby. He was pretty calm actually, we had a cold, clean wash cloth on his face.
We went to the emergency room, my husband came along soon. They gave my son some kind of medication that made him tired. They wrapped him in a full body thing with velcro that held him still. We were lucky in that the on call doc for such things was a plastic surgeon. She stitched up his face, the gash under his eye was millimeters from his actual eye ball. He received 13 stitches on his cute little face, and it was a strange and terrible experience.
I felt so horrible that my beautiful baby had been attacked, and worried greatly for him. He did get an infection in one of the wounds, but for the most part, it healed well. I put vitamin E on it religiously and rubbed it daily to work on the scar. It healed and after a while no one knew where the scar was but me (except for the one little part that had been infected, my son still picks at it in his sleep).
I recall my boy as a social being, always saying "hi" to people and talking early. Before the bite, people would tell me how cute he was. After ward I recall the feeling when little children would point and whisper to their mommas and they would say something to their kids and walk away, not telling me how cute my son was or even talking to him. I also got a lot of judgemental questions. Every time I did tell someone that the dog bit him they would ask if we "put it down." We did not, we gave the dog to my husband's parents and they just kept him from our children for a while. The dog never bit again, and loved it when our kids came. He loved their attention. I do know he did have cataracts in his eyes, and wonder if he mistook the boy for another dog or saw him as a threat at that time and in that day only.
It was very sad that it happened, but I am very cautious with dogs and children now. We now have a dog who has welcomed 4 children and he's never bit a child. I still am careful.
Wow, Dawn. Scary! And you are right to watch all animals around kids; cats scratch and bite, too.
You speak about a couple of things worth mentioning.
- The medication they gave to make him go to sleep was probably a narcotic; pain relief and sedative in one... that makes it easier to do the repair without the baby/child/adult going bonkers at the same time. Especially since he had the gash near his eye! I know I would have a hard time watching a needle and thread going right next to my eyeball, I can imagine how scary it would be for a baby.
- The thing they strapped him down is called a Papoose Board.
- Regarding dog bites... Aimee was, what... eight? and walking in the neighborhood. A dog she'd always been friends with charged her and bit her leg open, it needing many stitches to close the 5-inch gash and even a couple of more bite marks. The dog had just had babies and somehow felt threatened. Even the dogs that are the most docile are still dogs. We all have our threshold for tolerance.
- Isn't it amazing how personally we take what people think and say about our kids? I know you know this now, but moms always feel responsible for their children's accidents or illnesses. Always. I've known moms who've been investigated by CPS for childhood accidents; imagine that sort of guilt! All we can is our best, but in life, accidents happen.
- Here's a short list of the worst childhood accidents I've been around (moms I know):
* skull fracture after 10-month old fell off counter
* poisoning that put the baby in ICU for a week
* drowning (baby died) of 3-year old... at a backyard party with 50 people standing right there around the pool (which had a black bottom)
Of course, the very worst are going to result in a baby that dies or is forever affected, so, blessedly, so far, none of these we've shared have been that sad. I know I'm counting my blessings, right this minute.
Tristan, hurt again. (Poor dear!)


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John Quincy Adams, byname Old Man Eloquent, (born July 11, 1767, Braintree [now Quincy], Massachusetts [U.S.]—died February 23, 1848, Washington, D.C., U.S.), sixth president of the United States (1825–29) and eldest son of President John Adams. In his prepresidential years he was one of America's greatest diplomats (formulating, among other things, what came to be called the Monroe Doctrine), and in his postpresidential years (as a U.S. congressman, 1831–48) he conducted a consistent and often dramatic fight against the expansion of slavery. (For a discussion of the history and nature of the presidency, see presidency of the United States of America.)
Early life and career
John Quincy Adams entered the world at the same time that his maternal great-grandfather, John Quincy, for many years a prominent member of the Massachusetts legislature, was leaving it—hence his name. He grew up as a child of the American Revolution. He watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from Penn's Hill and heard the cannons roar across the Back Bay in Boston. His patriot father, John Adams, at that time a delegate to the Continental Congress, and his patriot mother, Abigail Smith Adams, had a strong molding influence on his education after the war had deprived Braintree of its only schoolmaster. In 1778 and again in 1780 the boy accompanied his father to Europe. He studied at a private school in Paris in 1778–79 and at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, in 1780. Thus, at an early age he acquired an excellent knowledge of the French language and a smattering of Dutch. In 1780, also, he began to keep regularly the diary that forms so conspicuous a record of his doings and those of his contemporaries through the next 60 years of American history. Self-appreciative, like most of the Adams clan, he once declared that, if his diary had been even richer, it might have become "next to the Holy Scriptures, the most precious and valuable book ever written by human hands."
In 1781, at age 14, Adams accompanied Francis Dana, United States envoy to Russia, as his private secretary and interpreter of French. Dana, after lingering for more than a year in St. Petersburg, was not received by the Russian government, so in 1782 Adams, returning by way of Scandinavia, Hanover, and the Netherlands, joined his father in Paris. There he acted, in an informal way, as an additional secretary to the American commissioners in the negotiation of the Peace of Paris that concluded the American Revolution. Instead of remaining in London with his father, who had been appointed United States minister to the Court of St. James's, he chose to return to Massachusetts, where he attended Harvard College, graduating in 1787. He then read law at Newburyport under the tutelage of Theophilus Parsons, and in 1790 he was admitted to the bar association in Boston. While struggling to establish a practice, he wrote a series of articles for the newspapers in which he controverted some of the doctrines in Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1791). In another later series he ably supported the neutrality policy of George Washington's administration as it faced the war that broke out between France and England in 1793. These articles were brought to President Washington's attention and resulted in Adams's appointment as U.S. minister to the Netherlands in May 1794.
The Hague was then the best diplomatic listening post in Europe for the War of the First Coalition against Revolutionary France. Young Adams's official dispatches to the secretary of state and his informal letters to his father, who was then the vice president, kept the government well informed of the diplomatic activities and wars of the distressed Continent and the danger of becoming involved in the European vortex. These letters were also read by President Washington: some of Adams's phrases, in fact, appeared in Washington's Farewell Address of 1796. During the absence of Thomas Pinckney, the regular United States minister to Great Britain, Adams transacted public business in London with the British Foreign Office relating to the exchange of ratifications of the Jay Treaty of 1794 between the United States and Great Britain. In 1796 Washington, who came to regard young Adams as the ablest officer in the foreign service, appointed him minister to Portugal, but before his departure his father became president and changed the young diplomat's destination to Prussia.
John Quincy Adams was married in London in 1797, on the eve of his departure for Berlin, to Louisa Catherine Johnson (Louisa Adams), daughter of the United States consul Joshua Johnson, a Marylander by birth, and his wife, Katherine Nuth, an Englishwoman. Adams had first met her when he was 12 years old and his father was minister to France. Fragile in health, she suffered from migraine headaches and fainting spells. Yet she proved to be a gracious hostess who played the harp and was learned in Greek, French, and English literature. Accompanying her husband on his various missions in Europe, she came to be regarded as one of the most-traveled women of her time.
Johnson was not, however, Adams's first love. When he was 14 years old, he had had a "crush" on an actress he saw perform in France, and for years afterward, he confessed, she was in his dreams. At age 22 he fell deeply in love with one Mary Frazier but was dissuaded from marrying her by his mother, who insisted that he was not able to support a wife. Ultimately, Adams could see that, in marrying a rich heiress like Louisa Johnson, he might be able to enjoy the leisure to pursue a career as a writer, but her family suffered business reverses and declared bankruptcy only a few weeks after the wedding.
The union had many stormy moments. Adams was cold and often depressed, and he admitted that his political adversaries regarded him as a "gloomy misanthropist" and "unsocial savage." His wife is said to have regretted her marriage into the Adams family. The loss of two sons in adulthood—and a daughter in infancy—may have heightened the strains between husband and wife. The eldest son, George Washington Adams, was a gambler, womanizer, and alcoholic whose death by drowning may have been suicide. The second son, John Adams II, succumbed to alcohol. He remains the only son of a president who was married in the White House. On that occasion, the president unbent and danced the Virginia reel. A third son, Charles Francis Adams, brought honour to the family name once again, being elected to the House of Representatives and serving as United States minister to England during the American Civil War.
While in Berlin, Adams negotiated (1799) a treaty of amity and commerce with Prussia. Recalled from Berlin by President Adams after the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency in 1800, the younger Adams reached Boston in 1801 and the next year was elected to the Massachusetts Senate. In 1803 the Massachusetts legislature elected him a member of the Senate of the United States.
Break with the Federalists
Up to this time John Quincy Adams was regarded as belonging to the Federalist Party, but he found its general policy displeasing. He was frowned upon as the son of his father by the followers of Alexander Hamilton and by reactionary groups, and he soon found himself practically powerless as an unpopular member of an unpopular minority. Actually he was not then, and indeed never was, a strict party man; all through his life, ever aspiring to higher public service, he considered himself a "man of my whole country." Adams arrived in Washington too late to vote for ratification of the treaty for the purchase of Louisiana, which had been opposed by the other Federalist senators, but he voted for the appropriations to carry it into effect and announced that he would have voted for the purchase treaty itself. Nevertheless, he joined his Federalist colleagues in voting against a bill to enable the president to place officials of his own appointment in control of the newly acquired territory; such a bill, Adams vainly protested, overstepped the constitutional powers of the presidency, violated the right of self-government, and imposed taxation without representation. In December 1807 he supported President Jefferson's suggestion of an embargo to essentially stop all commerce with other nations (an attempt to gain British recognition of American rights) and vigorously urged instant action, saying: "The President has recommended the measure on his high responsibility. I would not consider, I would not deliberate; I would act!" Within five hours the Senate had passed the embargo bill and had sent it to the House of Representatives. Support of this measure, hated by the Federalists and unpopular in New England because it stifled the region's economy, cost Adams his seat in the Senate. His successor was chosen on June 3, 1808, several months before the usual time of electing a senator for the next term, and five days later Adams resigned. In the same year he attended the Republican congressional caucus, which nominated James Madison for the presidency, and thus he allied himself with that party. From 1806 to 1809 Adams was Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard College.
In 1809 President Madison sent Adams to Russia to represent the United States at the court of Tsar Alexander I. He arrived at St. Petersburg at the psychologically important moment when the tsar had made up his mind to break with Napoleon. Adams therefore met with a favourable reception and a disposition to further the interests of American commerce in every possible way. From this vantage point he watched and reported Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the final disastrous retreat and dissolution of France's Grand Army. On the outbreak of the war between the United States and England in 1812, he was still in St. Petersburg. That September the Russian government suggested that the tsar was willing to act as mediator between the two belligerents. Madison precipitately accepted this proposition and sent Albert Gallatin and James Bayard to act as commissioners with Adams, but England would have nothing to do with it. In August 1814, however, these men, with Henry Clay and Jonathan Russell, began negotiations with English commissioners that resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Ghent on December 24 of that year. Adams then visited Paris, where he witnessed the return of Napoleon from Elba, and next went to London, where, with Clay and Gallatin, he negotiated (1815) a "Convention to Regulate Commerce and Navigation." Soon afterward he became U.S. minister to Great Britain, as his father had been before him, and as his son, Charles Francis Adams, was to be after him. After accomplishing little in London, he returned to the United States in the summer of 1817 to become secretary of state in the cabinet of President James Monroe. This appointment was primarily due to his diplomatic experience but also due to the president's desire to have a sectionally well-balanced cabinet in what came to be known as the Era of Good Feelings.
Secretary of state
As secretary of state, Adams played the leading part in the acquisition of Florida. Ever since the acquisition of Louisiana, successive administrations had sought to include at least a part of Florida in that purchase. In 1819, after long negotiations, Adams succeeded in getting the Spanish minister to agree to a treaty in which Spain would abandon all claims to territory east of the Mississippi River, the United States would relinquish all claims to what is now Texas, and a boundary of the United States would be drawn (for the first time) from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This Transcontinental Treaty was perhaps the greatest victory ever won by a single man in the diplomatic history of the United States. Adams himself was responsible for the idea of extending the country's northern boundary westward from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific—considered a stroke of diplomatic genius. To use his own word, it marked a triumphant "epocha" in U.S. continental expansion. Before the Spanish government ratified the Transcontinental Treaty in 1819, however, Mexico (including Texas) had thrown off allegiance to the mother country, and the United States had occupied Florida by force of arms.
As secretary of state, Adams was also responsible for conclusion of the treaty of 1818 with Great Britain, laying down the northern boundary of the United States from the Lake of the Woods (at the border of what is now Minnesota and Canada) to the Rocky Mountains along the line of latitude 49° N. Years later, as a member of the House of Representatives, he supported latitude 49° N as the boundary of Oregon from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean: "I want that country for our Western pioneers." In fact, President James K. Polk's Oregon treaty of 1846 drew that boundary along the line of 49°. The Monroe Doctrine rightly bears the name of the president who in 1823 assumed the responsibility for its promulgation, but its formulation was the work of John Quincy Adams more than of any other single man.
Presidency and feud with Jackson
As President Monroe's second term drew to a close in 1824, there was a lack of good feeling among his official advisers, three of whom—Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, and Secretary of the Treasury William H. Crawford—aspired to succeed him. Henry Clay, speaker of the House, and General Andrew Jackson were also candidates. Calhoun was nominated for the vice presidency. Of the other four, Jackson received 99 electoral votes for the presidency, Adams 84, Crawford 41, and Clay 37; because no one had a majority, the decision was made by the House of Representatives, which was confined in its choice to the three candidates who had received the largest number of votes. Clay, who had for years assumed a censorious attitude toward Jackson, cast his influence for Adams, whose election was thereby secured on the first ballot. A few days later Adams offered Clay the office of secretary of state, which he accepted. Jackson's supporters charged a "corrupt bargain" and turned Adams's term in office into a four-year campaign to win for their man what they regarded as his rightful place, the presidency.
Up to this point Adams's career had been almost uniformly successful, but his presidency (1825–29), during which the country prospered, was in most respects a political failure because of the virulent opposition of the Jacksonians. Adams worked hard, rising between four and six o'clock in the morning and often going for a walk around the city or for a swim in the Potomac River before breakfast. Once he almost drowned as the sleeves of his blouse filled with water and weighed him down. But he knew he was not a man of the people. He had admitted in his inaugural address that he was "less possessed of your confidence…than any of my predecessors." He favoured, among other forward-looking proposals, creating a national university and a national astronomical observatory; he wished the western territories to be held in trust by the federal government and developed only gradually; and he proposed a vast expansion of the country's roads with federal aid. Congress turned a generally deaf ear to his initiatives.
In 1828 Jackson was elected president over Adams, with 178 electoral votes to Adams's 83. It was during Jackson's administration that irreconcilable differences developed between his followers and those of Adams, the latter becoming known as the National Republicans, who, with the Anti-Masons, were the precursors of the Whigs. Adams's intense dislike of Jackson and what he represented remained unabated. When Harvard College in 1833 awarded Jackson an honorary degree, Adams refused to attend the ceremony at his alma mater. He avowed that he would not "be present to witness [Harvard's] disgrace in conferring its highest honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name."
Adams had retired to private life in 1829 in the Massachusetts town of Quincy, but only for a brief period; in 1830, supported largely by members of the Anti-Masonic movement (a political force formed initially in opposition to Freemasonry), he was elected a member of the national House of Representatives. When it was suggested to him that his acceptance of this position would degrade a former president, Adams replied that no person could be degraded by serving the people as a representative in Congress or a selectman of his town. He served in the House of Representatives from 1831 until his death, in 1848. But he had not abandoned his hopes for a reelection to the presidency—whether as nominee of the Anti-Masonic Party (in which he was very active as long as that party had political possibilities) or of the National Republican Party or of a union of both or even of the later Whig Party—always in his own mind as a "man of the whole nation." Gradually, these hopes faded.
Second career in Congress
Adams's long second career in Congress was at least as important as his earlier career as a diplomat. Throughout, he was conspicuous as an opponent of the expansion of slavery and was at heart an abolitionist, though he never became one in the political sense of the word. In 1839 he presented to the House of Representatives a resolution for a constitutional amendment providing that every child born in the United States after July 4, 1842, should be born free; that, with the exception of Florida, no new state should be admitted into the Union with slavery; and that neither slavery nor the slave trade should exist in the District of Columbia after July 4, 1845. The "gag rules," a resolution passed by Southern members of Congress against all discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives, effectively blocked any discussion of Adams's proposed amendment. His prolonged fight for the repeal of the gag rules and for the right of petition to Congress for the mitigation or abolition of slavery was one of the most dramatic contests in the history of Congress. These petitions, from individuals and groups of individuals from all over the Northern states, increasingly were sent to Adams, and he dutifully presented them. Adams contended that the gag rules were a direct violation of the First Amendment to the federal Constitution, and he refused to be silenced on the question, fighting indomitably for repeal in spite of the bitter denunciation of his opponents. Each year the number of antislavery petitions received and presented by him grew greatly. Perhaps the climax was in 1837 when Adams presented a petition from 22 slaves and, threatened by his opponents with censure, defended himself with remarkable keenness and ability. At each session the majority against him decreased until, in 1844, his motion to repeal the standing 21st (gag) rule of the House was carried by a vote of 108 to 80, and his long battle was over.
Another spectacular contribution by Adams to the antislavery cause was his championing of the cause of Africans arrested aboard the slave ship Amistad—slaves who had mutinied and escaped from their Spanish owners off the coast of Cuba and had wound up bringing the ship into United States waters near Long Island, New York. Adams defended them as freemen before the Supreme Court in 1841 against efforts of the administration of President Martin Van Buren to return them to their masters and to inevitable death. Adams won their freedom.
As a member of Congress—in fact, throughout his life—Adams supported the improvement of the arts and sciences and the diffusion of knowledge. He did much to conserve the bequest of James Smithson (an eccentric Englishman) to the United States and to create and endow the Smithsonian Institution with the money from Smithson's estate.
Perhaps the most dramatic event in Adams's life was its end. On February 21, 1848, in the act of protesting an honorary grant of swords by Congress to the generals who had won what Adams considered a "most unrighteous war" with Mexico, he suffered a cerebral stroke, fell unconscious to the floor of the House, and died two days later in the Capitol building. His obsequies in Washington and in his native Massachusetts assumed the character of a nationwide pageant of mourning. Senator Thomas Hart Benton, the main eulogist at the service in the Capitol, asked: "Where would death have found him except at the place of duty?"
Few men in American public life have possessed more independence, more public spirit, and more ability than did Adams. Still, throughout his political career he was handicapped by a certain personal reserve and austerity and coolness of manner that prevented him from appealing to the imaginations and affections of the people. He had few intimate friends, and not many men in American history have been regarded, during their lifetimes, with so much hostility or attacked with so much rancour by their political opponents.Samuel Flagg Bemis The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Cabinet of President John Quincy Adams
The table provides a list of cabinet members in the administration of President John Quincy Adams.
|March 4, 1825–March 3, 1829
|Henry Clay
|Richard Rush
|James Barbour
|Peter Buell Porter (from June 21, 1828)
|Samuel Lewis Southard
|Attorney General
|William Wirt
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A little blog about life, family, food, and living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Garden Tuesday! 06/02/09
Garden to do list for this week includes:
- Add more soil/bury the bottom half of the garbage can potato plants. This will be an ongoing process.
- Have hubby and son construct trellises for the beans and peas. I think I'd like to use string for it, but some folks like netting. Any suggestions?
- Figure out how to help the tomatoes and peppers. Any suggestions?
- Investigate different types of tomato cages. My cages from last year need to be replaced. They were old to start with, and are now falling apart. Any suggestions?
- The first of the strawberries will be ready to harvest this week! Yeah!
Happy Gardening!
17 comments:
- Marjie said...
I should have preplanted inside. Many of my plants are not that good, although my Simpson Black Seeded Lettuce is marvelous. I planted my second set of seeds about 2 weeks ago, and if we ever get sun again, I hope to see your kind of green! Maybe next year we'll tackle strawberries. And I suggest some miracle gro for your plants. I know it's not organic, but it truly is a miracle, and when you need help, you just need help. Did you get coffee grounds to put around your garden and protect your lettuce from those horrible slugs? They also suggest beer, but I'm not a big fan of that idea. At least coffee grounds enrich the soil.
- June 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- noble pig said...
Wow you are in serious garden mode. That is wonderful how things are growing!
- June 2, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- Cheryl said...
OH MY gosh I havent even started yet, I am just not inspired this year. I will garden vicariously thru you
- June 2, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- Gloria said...
I LOVE YOUR GARDEN!! I have some plants too, the summer is the best times and the spring, now in the autumn is as mother Nature was sleepy, je!! bu the pics are abslutely nice and beauty, enjoy your garden!!!! Gloria
- June 2, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- OhioMom said...
Kudos! Love your garden updates, you have inspired me to try potatoes next year (or will it be beans?) LOL
- June 2, 2009 at 2:40 PM
- Pam said...
You make me want a green thumb - I am so jealous of all your bounty!
- June 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM
- Lynda said...
Your garden is lovely, Paula; everything looks so healthy.Your oregano is huge!
- June 2, 2009 at 3:13 PM
- Manggy said...
You should have made us guess!! Then again, I've never seen a beet plant so I don't think I would've gotten it. I am rooting for your sweet pea! Come on, little one!
- June 2, 2009 at 10:11 PM
- Jan said...
All looking good! I'm also growing a load of stuff at the moment including bell peppers.
On the back of my bottle of tomato feed it says it's also ideal for peppers! So I've given it a go and they are coming on really well.
- June 3, 2009 at 1:13 AM
- Cathy said...
Wow, Paula, your garden looks great. I forwarded your garbage can potato idea to my daughter. She loved it.
- June 3, 2009 at 7:23 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
I just get goosebumps thinking of all the critters I could write stories about in your garden.
- June 3, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- Proud Italian Cook said...
Wow Paula, I'm so impressed with your garden, you really know what you're doing girl!!
- June 3, 2009 at 6:38 PM
- Robynn's Ravings said...
Boy it IS all gouda at your house. YUM!!!!!
- June 3, 2009 at 7:41 PM
- Aggie said...
Oh!!! Look at all this beautiful green!! I love it all, everything looks like it is growing wonderfully! Gorgeous photos Paula!
- June 4, 2009 at 4:55 AM
- Bridgett said...
Paula, your garden is gorgeous to say the least! Isn't it fun to go out there every day to see the progression? I am getting loads of tomatoes budding up and my zucchini are bright with their yellow blossoms. I love it! This is my first year but I can see you are quite the professional gardener! Very impressive. I look forward to seeing your garden grow.
How is the family? Hope you all are well.
- June 4, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Bethie said...
I had to laugh when I saw your trash can potatoes, my brother is doing the same thing.
I am so anxious to see how this experiment turns out.
- June 4, 2009 at 5:47 PM
- Pam said...
Paula, what a green thumb you have!!
We don't use any nonorganic plant food, we supplement our garden with a fresh load of compost every spring and then I spot feed needy plants with a fish emulsion based food.
I have to be pretty ruthless with my oregano, otherwise it would take over my herb bed. I cut it back hard several times in the growing season, nothing phases it.
Do you keep your trash can potatoes in the sun or are they in the shade?
- June 5, 2009 at 3:56 AM


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The sedan is among the most common types of cars, in part because they're so versatile. Sedans and 4-door cars are big enough for most people, they can fit a few passengers inside as well as some luggage in the trunk, and most sedans have front-mounted engines and a front-wheel-drive configuration, which are efficient as well as easy to work on when it's time for repairs. Sedans generally aren't thrilling or dazzling, but it's easy to see why they've earned a place of respect in the worldwide and domestic automotive landscapes.
Since there's not much that can be changed about a sedan's basic architecture, other than some rather superficial aesthetic elements, all sedans share similar structures of a fixed roof supported by three pillars on each side, four doors, a front engine compartment and a trunk. Some auto experts consider wagons and four-door hatchbacks to fall into the sedan family, even though these variations are marketed and sold as classes on their own. Since they share similar pillar structures, though, they count as sedans, at least functionally.
Because of sedans' enduring popularity, new sedans are a particularly competitive vehicle class, especially since most sedans also fall into other vehicle categories. Hybrid sedans are just one example; these cars became popular as soon as people realized a hybrid didn't necessarily have to be a subcompact car in order to achieve its target efficiency. And on the other end of the spectrum, luxury sedans are another way for auto manufacturers to get some extra mileage (and extra profit) out of the standard four-door body style by incorporating sophisticated designs and cutting edge features. New sedans can also be purchased with sporty or performance engines. And of course, some purists just see new 4-door cars as basic transportation, and prefer plain vanilla sedans, and there's plenty of those to choose from, too. There's lots of options for new sedans on the market, and whether a buyer's purpose is for family travel, business commuting, or basic everyday driving, not all new sedans are built the same.


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Health Canada News Release
MONTREAL – Canadians now have access to more than 60,000 licenced natural health products as a result of the Government of Canada's more efficient approach to authorizing these products, Parliamentary Secretary of Health, Dr. Colin Carrie announced on Feb. 2.
"The safety of Canadians is always our number one priority," said Parliamentary Secretary, Dr. Carrie at the Canadian Health Food Association Trade Show in Montreal.
"This efficiency allows for industry innovation and growth, while still assuring consumer safety and access to a wide range of authorized natural health products."
In 2010, Health Canada brought in the Unprocessed Product License Applications Regulations (UPLAR) which allowed for the legal sale of lower-risk products while their applications were under review.UPLAR, brought in as a temporary measure, ends February 4, 2013. The Government has now introduced a new approach to natural health products that provides a stable, predictable regulatory environment for the efficient processing of applications.
The efficiencies gained under the new approach have set the foundation for how applications are now processed.
Within the new approach, the measures in place to protect consumer safety stay the same. Companies still need to provide sufficient evidence that their products are safe and effective, and products continue to be labelled with necessary warnings.
"Many Canadians use natural health products every day and want access to a wide range of safe and effective products," added Parliamentary Secretary, Dr. Carrie.
The new approach is in keeping with the authority of the Natural Health Products Regulations, which have been in place since 2004 and continue to set the standard and requirements for authorizing natural health products in Canada.


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Dan Bailey kicked a 38-yard field goal in overtime and Dallas overcame a critical fumble by Tony Romo that sparked a wild ending in the Cowboys' 23-20 victory against Cleveland on Sunday.
Bailey's winning kick with 6:07 remaining in overtime came after both teams punted once in the first overtime game at Cowboys Stadium. Bailey hit a tying 32-yard field goal with 2 seconds left in regulation.
Dallas (5-5) rallied from a 13-0 halftime deficit and went ahead 17-13 on Romo's 28-yard pass to Dez Bryant.
A fumble by Browns rookie Brandon Weeden on a sack appeared to put the Cowboys in control, but Romo gave it right back with a fumble on another sack.
The Cowboys made one goal-line stand in the final minutes, but the Browns got another chance and went ahead 20-17 on Weeden's 17-yard pass to Benjamin Watson.
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Is Your Left Side Your Good Side? You May Be Surprised What Most People Think
The next time someone is taking a photo of you, make sure to show the camera your left cheek.
That's because a new study suggests the left side of a person's face is almost always more visually pleasing than his or her right.
To reach this conclusion, researchers had 37 male and female college students rate photos of both sides of people's faces for attractiveness. The students showed a "strong preference" for the left side of the faces. And they did so even when the image was reversed, making the left side appear on the right.
Kelsey Blackburn and James Schirillo, the Wake Forrest University professors who conducted the study, believe this is because left cheeks display "a greater intensity of emotion, which observers find more aesthetically pleasing."
According to the pair, this is because the right side of the brain, which controls the left side of the face, also controls emotion.


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32 wrote:On a related note, another monster is quickly coming up. I see Al Jefferson having a quietly dominant year this year... and than exploding next season. He's like Dwight Howard, only behind a year.
Jefferson is averaging career-highs in PPG (20.1), free throw percentage (70.4%), SPG (0.9), APG (1.3), offensive rebounds per game (3.7), defensive rebounds per game (7., RPG (11.5), and minutes (36.5), to go along with his usual 1.3 BPG. Its also worth mentioning that Jefferson is keeping out of foul trouble: averaging 2.7 FPG (which he hasn't done since he was a rookie). What's truly scary is that Jefferson is dominating while his FG% has been slightly below-average, by his standards, this year. 48% is a career-low for him. Imagine next season, if she shoots 53 or 54%.
I predict Jefferson will have an extreme breakout season next year. While It won't be the absolute rampage that Dwight Howard is going on, it'll be something special. Jefferson's a better inside scorer than Howard and should be in the upwards of 25, 26 PPG by next year, provided the Timberwolves keep going to him and don't crowd the offense by giving Randy Foye too many shots.
Yeah, he's definitely having a strong year. He should break out pretty soon.
This is a good time to bring up a point that I never understand which is why in the NBA the definition of dominance is often "being a great big-man" rather than being a dominant player? For instance, if you asked somebody who is more dominant, Al Jefferson or Deron Williams, a lot of people would say Al Jefferson, but I don't really think Al Jefferson "dominates" more.


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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The York College women's track & field squad competed in their final meet before next week's Capital Athletic Conference Championships as they traveled to Shippensburg University for Saturday's Paul Kaiser Classic.
Thrower Brittany DeManda captured York's best individual finish of the day, as she took second in the javelin. The Spartan tossed the javelin 38.40 meters to register the runner-up spot in a field that saw 40 student-athletes register distances.
Laura Rowlands, the reigning CAC Women's Track & Field Field Athlete of the Week, put together three top-tens in a trio of jumping events for the second straight meet. The springy sophomore nabbed her top finish in the high jump as she tied for third with a leap of 1.57 meters. In the triple, Rowlands posted a distance of 11.00 meters to secure fourth while she took seventh in the long jump with a 5.20-meter result.
Rookie Deborah Fidele picked up a top-ten finish of her own on Saturday, running to a 27.08 in the 200 meters to secure ninth overall. She also competed in the javelin where she recorded a 15th-place distance of 32.70 meters.
Dana Mangano collected 11th in the triple jump with a trio of bounds amounting to 10.32 meters.
In the throws, Ashley Menniti competed in the shot put, discus, and hammer. The Spartan rookie's top finish came in the shot put where she nabbed 15th courtesy of a 10.01-meter heave. She posted a 29.98-meter distance in the hammer while throwing the discus 24.53 meters.
Fellow thrower Katie Shinn registered a 33.24-meter result in Saturday's hammer throw.
On the track, Mandy Parshall ran to a 4:58.76 in the 1500 meters to collect 16th while Misty Parshall crossed the line at 5:02.52 in the event. Rachel Berninger ran a 2:30.74 in the 800 meters.
The Spartans are now set to embark on final preparations for the 2012 CAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships on May 5-6 in Frostburg, Md. York finished second at the 2011 championships, their highest finish in program history, and will look for another tremendous showing at the CAC's first two-day track & field championships. Action is slated for a 3:00 pm start on the 5th and 12:00 pm on the 6th.
PHOTO: Deborah Fidele begins a race during York's Quad Meet earlier this season. Courtesy of "Cars, Sports, and Toys."


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Breaking Barriers with SIP Trunking – Cisco Emerges as Market Leader in New Infonetics Market Share 2012 Report
The way that enterprises connect to the outside world is changing. The transition to voice over IP (VoIP) that began with enterprise networks a decade ago, is now in full force in service provider networks. In a report issued on Monday, Infonetics Research reported that Cisco, the global market leader for unified communications and collaboration, is now the new market leader in global enterprise session border control (SBC) solutions for the first half of 2012, providing secure IP connectivity from the enterprise edge to the service provider session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking service.
Why is this so important? Service providers are now offering SIP trunking services instead of legacy dial tone (also known as time-division-multiplexing or TDM) to connect to enterprises of all sizes, including small businesses. In fact, according to their 2012 VoIP and UC Services Report, Infonetics forecasts SIP trunks to grow over 66 percent in 2012 alone. Customers are quickly embracing the new technology, which offers substantial cost savings and the promise of extending real-time rich-media collaboration applications beyond the enterprise to customers, partners and suppliers.
To begin realizing the benefits of SIP trunking, businesses need to deploy a session border controller in order to efficiently and securely connect to service providers while preserving voice quality and features. Session border controllers connect IP networks and provide session control, security, demarcation for better troubleshooting and interworking to help overcome differences in the deployment of the SIP standard (such as CODEC or signaling).
Cisco reinvents the collaboration edge
Cisco's session border controller, called, Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) is a software license add-on to the widely deployed Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) and Aggregation Services Routers (ASRs). CUBE provides significant benefits over competitors' stand-alone session border controller offerings. For example, CUBE enables customers to transition more smoothly to SIP trunking while reducing costs and operational complexity, often requiring no new hardware to be purchased or deployed. As a result, CUBE has been adopted by over 5,000 customers in 160 countries.
In their report, Infonetics credited Cisco's differentiated model for delivering SIP trunking service, stating: "This is a natural extension of Cisco's dominant market position in the router market—the majority of organizations have Cisco routers already installed and deployed at the important network border points."
Other benefits of CUBE include:
Multi-service capabilities: Cisco routers can be repurposed to adapt to the changing needs of the business. Beyond routing and session border control, Cisco routers can also deliver other critical services, such as TDM gateways, call processing (Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express) or branch survivability (Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony). This routing architecture enables companies like BT Global Services to leverage Cisco ISR and ASR to deploy their BT Assure Security Service to fight voice and data threats in the enterprise. "Cisco is a natural partner to work with, not only because of the multi-service capabilities of the Cisco ISR and ASR, but also because of its market share leadership in routing, TDM Gateways and now for CUBE. It makes it easier to deploy our services as our customers are already familiar with Cisco," said Mark Danton, Global Executive for the Business Continuity, Security and Governance at BT.
Smoother transition to SIP trunking: EPL, a data processing and turnkey IT service company, stated, "CUBE was an easy decision for us as it leveraged the Cisco routing and UC technology that we were already familiar with. We were able to transition to SIP trunking at our own pace by simultaneously deploying CUBE and TDM voice gateway functionality on our Cisco routers."
According to Doug Davidson, senior network engineer at EPL, "We avoided a potentially risky cut-over that could have interrupted service and affected our entire organization. Instead, we were able to test and become familiar with the new technology before disconnecting the legacy environment."
Global Experience with Service Providers: Touton, a 150-year old trading company in France, saw the benefits of CUBE immediately. "We see why CUBE is the market leader. When we deployed CUBE in three countries, we learned how tricky interoperability could be. All three service providers were deploying the SIP standard in subtly different ways. CUBE helped overcome these differences simply, and retain the same functionality and quality that we were used to. Using a single solution sped our deployment and makes on-going management easier," said Nicolas Horchower, group IT manager for Touton.
SIP trunking – the Foundation for the Next Generation Collaboration Experience
SIP trunking technology can enable new levels of collaboration with any user regardless of location. Applications like high definition audio and video operate most efficiently with IP as the base. Moreover, SIP trunking provides businesses with immediate benefits over the legacy TDM technology, including lower costs through more efficient bandwidth utilization, better reliability, more flexibility, and easier manageability with a single network for voice and data.
Cisco is not only providing an end-to-end solution for collaboration, but is also offering a solution that is proven to be market leading, from the enterprise core to the edge – all based on IP. If you have not yet migrated to SIP, what are you waiting for? Learn about the benefits of migrating to SIP trunking using CUBE – you can read more here.
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For the latest installment of our ongoing Street Style series, we captured Mattia Cheaib sporting some of streetwear's finest. A T-shirt from Stussy Milan is the focus of the outfit while a few clean, complementary pieces provide a dynamic edge. This monochromatic outfit includes a pair of SUPER Flat Top sunglasses, Carhartt trousers, an all-black G-Shock watch, and a pair of crisp Nike Flyknit Trainer+ sneakers.
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Tristan was strolled in an umbrella stroller. It wasn't until I went to La Leche League while I was pregnant with Meghann that I ever even considered Babywearing. We got a Snugli, dark blue corduroy one that had zippers, on an angle, so I could unzip and stick my breast through for the kid to nurse, all while remaining covered and modest (a concern I gave up mid-way through my nursing career). This was 1984.
The Snugli was a puzzle of flaps and snaps; it took an entire family of engineers to strap the thing on. Through trial and error, I finally figured out to put the baby in after putting the carrier on. One try doing it while the baby was inside already ended in with the baby falling onto the bed… at least I'd had enough foresight to be near a bed! I could put it on this very second if someone laid it in front of me. The long strap that criss-crossed my back, the plastic hook grabbing the plastic ring… repeating with the other strap crossing in the other direction. snap snap Each shoulder was gifted with thick padding, helping the wearer to not have cutting cloth leaving dents in his or her flesh. One more long, thinner, belt-like strap wrapped around the waist and also snapped into a ring, securing the carrier in yet another direction. Bolted down, the baby could now be dropped (so to speak) into her seat, a sling of yet more cloth (dang, this thing was heavy!), legs through the seat's holes. It was important to hold the baby through the rest of the process lest she flip out of the contraption. With hand on the baby's back, we'd tuck her feet into the outer sack before pulling the drawstring tight around her back. I suspect an earlier version had the baby's face resting on the corduroy itself, but imprints of lines isn't what a mom wants to see on her newborn's face, so someone came up with the good idea of putting a "bib" of flannel wherever the baby's face might touch; it was white (at least until it got barfed on). It was under the bib that the zippers hid. In order to allow the baby to nurse, the flannel bib had to be unsnapped and left dangling from the other snap. Even writing this, I'm exhausted thinking about all we did to carry a baby!
As it is now, Mothering Magazine was our window into Natural World… natural birth, extended breastfeeding, not vaccinating, etc. I devoured the magazine, trying to incorporate the foreign ideas into my new life as a homebirthing and co-op working mama. It was there I learned about rebozos, the traditional baby carriers of Central and South American Indians. One rebozo in particular caught my eye. I saved for months to buy it and remember being so excited when it finally came in the mail, folded into a small puddle of cloth inside a golden envelope. I took it out, kept it near me for years, but I never learned how to use it. Occasionally, I'd ask someone to wrap Meggie in it, she on my chest, the cloth 'round and 'round my torso, but it seemed like a math problem to learn how to use it, so I found other uses for the rebozo.
When a mama's laboring for an extra long time, the suspicion of a malpresentation can set off a cascade of ideas to re-position the child inside mom's uterus. Using a rebozo, we can sling the cloth under her belly, grasping the ends and lifting her belly (and, hence, the baby) up and out of the pelvis, then allowing the baby a do-over in getting himself/herself into the pelvis at a better angle. We do need to repeat this a few times, but this midwifery trick of old can save a woman from a cesarean for an acynclitic baby.
I'll admit, I even used the rebozo as a dining room table runner on occasion.
After years of non-childwearing use, I finally lost the rebozo in a heap of bloody drapes and chux after wrapping it around the squat bar and having a mom pull on it as she pushed. When her baby was born, the nurse untied the rebozo, dragging it into the birth fluids being caught in the plastic "bowl" at the end of the bed. She looked at me and asked, "Want it?" And in an instant, I said good-bye to the lovely rainbow cloth that'd been in my birth bag for two decades.
Over the years, I've seen rebozo-like wraps come into fashion with the crunchy crowd. Babywearing being an overt sign that a mama has natural ideas and her family choices are surely questioned by the mainstream. When I see a mama "sling her baby" (as I call it), I go out of my way to thank her for doing so. My kids, as they've grown up, chuckle when they see me approach an unsuspecting mama (and occasionally dad or grandparent), watching her expression go from concern to confusion to a smile of understanding. (I do the same with nursing-in-public mamas.)
Not too long ago, I was in Costco and came across a mom and baby, both crying, as mom struggled with her wrap, holding the baby flat against her chest as she tried to adjust the cloth. The baby was very new and I could tell this might have been mom's first outing after the birth. I smiled as I came up to her and asked her if I might help her with the wrap, that I was a midwife. Her face filled with gratitude and even more tears fell. She said she couldn't understand the instructions very well and I let her know there were tutorials (of sorts) on YouTube and those would help a lot. I also let her know there are several Babywearing groups here in San Diego and she'd find many like-minded mamas to keep her company during these strange new days of motherhood.
After asking if I could touch her, I unwrapped the material from around her waist, then pulling the cloth that was around the baby tighter, helping the baby down some in the wrap as well. Already, the baby stopped hollering. Mom had also stopped crying. I explained about swaddling, making the wrap around the baby tight, that the baby would feel so secure and loved that way… and she'd have her hands back. (It defeats the purpose of the sling if you're always holding the baby with your hands.) Once her baby was securely wound around, I showed her how to tie the ends so they were secure, but she could also undo it quickly if she needed to. I also showed her how she could nurse while wandering around the store, no one the wiser; she liked that info lots. I gave her my card and walked away smiling, seeing her a few minutes later down another aisle, leaning over to get something off the bottom shelf, hands-free and the sleeping baby ensconced in love and cloth.
We all should be so lucky.
(Babywearing is a right our babies deserve! Make your voice heard by writing about your own experiences with Babywearing. Link back here to join those who are tired of being legislated down to the last hair on our babies' heads. We know what's right for our families! Get out of our slings so our babies can stay in them!)


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It's a first for the drug industry, and patients will still need a doctor's prescription to buy the erectile dysfunction medicine.
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Sara E. Yount and Jeffrey L. Pettingill, both of Louisville, were united in marriage Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, in Kauai, Hawaii. Todd Fuerte officiated the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Leonard and Linda Yount of Pleasureville. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Louisville and is currently employed as the Dean of Graduate Admission at Bellarmine University.
The groom is the son of Lou and Diana Pettingill of Ft. Meyers, Fla. He has his master's degree from Capitol College and is currently employed with Humana, Inc.
We just celebrated the Thanksgiving season, and I've heard many folks talking about the good visits they had with family and friends. Personally, that's what I'm most thankful for. Here in Henry County, we were thankful for the abundant rains which fell last Wednesday and Thursday. More on that rain in a moment.
It's pretty easy to gain 5-10 pounds from Thanksgiving through New Year's. Big holiday meals, parties and open houses, and candies, cookies and rolls are more available at home, work and school. All promote weight gain, and pair that with less time for exercise... well, you see the problem.
Underage drinking plagues our communities with property damage, an increase in crime, personal injury, and even death. The youth who engage in underage drinking generally do not set out to create mayhem. They believe drinking just means a good time. They don't' think about the future or fully understand the chance of negative consequences with their actions.
By Ryan Conley
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Andrew Lentini couldn't idly stand by and watch a loved one suffer, so he decided to walk… or at least get others to walk with him in raising beneficial funds for a struggling family.
Lentini, a Shelby County resident who is an eighth-grader at Eminence Independent School, has organized a benefit 5k run/walk to raise funds for extended family member Troy Capps, who is suffering from the effects of stage-IV lung cancer.
The holidays give us a few days to travel to see family and friends. But as we travel around there are some precautions to take to prevent getting bedbugs. Ric Bessin our Extension Entomology Specialist shares these tips with us.
By Steve Moore
Every winter, many Henry Countians utilize firewood for heating, sometimes for supplemental heat and sometimes for the primary heat source. When buying firewood two factors will determine just how hot your fire is — seasoning and the kind of wood.
Wood is made up of air and cellulose (wood fiber). The more air space that wood has, the less there is to burn. Buying wood with the heaviest/most dense per unit volume will keep you toasty.
Thursday, November 11
Free adult scrapbooking offered at the Eminence Community Life Center from 10 a.m. until noon on Thursdays.
The County Kickers Line Dancing group meets on Thursday nights at the Henry County Fairgrounds 4H Building in New Castle. Lessons are held for beginners from 6 to 7 p.m. and advanced lessons follow from 7 to 8 p.m. There is a fee of $20 per year. For more information contact Darlene Tipton at (502) 750-0954 or (502) 947-5160.
Wednesday, October 13
The Henry County Middle School SBDM will meet at 4:30 p.m. in the conference room.
Thursday, October 14
Wednesday, October 6
Eastern Elementary SBDM Council meeting will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the school library.
Thursday, October 7
Wednesday, September 29
Children's Story and Craft hour every Wednesday from 10 to 11 a.m. at Pleasureville Christian Church. Also, the community library at the church is open to the public.
Thursday, September 30
Wednesday, September 22
Thursday, September 23
Wednesday, Sept. 15
Thursday, Sept. 16
Wednesday, September 8
The HCMS Site Base Meeting will be held in the middle school conference room at 4:30 p.m.
Afterschool Adventures at the Henry County public library from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Thursday, September 9
Wednesday, September 1
Resume assistance at Henry County Library at 10:30 a.m.
Eastern Elementary SBDM meeting will be held in the school library at 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 2
Wednesday, August 25
The Campbellsburg Elementary School Site-Based Council will meet at 4 p.m. in the school library.
Thursday, August 26
Wednesday, August 18
Free keyboarding class at the Henry County Public Library at 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 19
Wednesday, August 11
Thursday, August 12
Wednesday, August 4
Eastern Elementary will hold its SBDM Council meeting in the school library.
The Henry County Middle School SBDM Council meeting will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the conference room.
Thursday, August 5
Wednesday, July 28
Keyboarding class at the Henry County Library at 2 p.m. These 30 minute classes are for all skill levels and set at your own pace.
Thursday, July 29
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Overlooking the Pacific Ocean at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains, the Costanoa Coastal Lodge and Camp fits Sarah McDowell and Gabriel Cade's vision of a dream wedding locale. The environmentally conscious lodge has the laid-back, feed-the-soul vibe they sought, promotes a wellness philosophy, and offers lots of hiking, mountain biking and kayaking.
Communal Spirit: A country backdrop sets the stage for a leisurely ambience. "We wanted the weekend to be like a retreat, where people could relax and really get to know each other," says Sarah. All 150 guests stayed on-property-some pitched tents, others opted for rooms with whirlpool tubs.
Informality Rules: An outdoor theme lends itself to a creative, less structured event. The night before the wedding, guests were invited to a barbecue where a naturalist lectured about bats, and everyone joined in a game of Capture the Flag. The next morning, they gathered for group yoga.
Simple Ceremony: Bagpipers and a gospel choir would be too showy for a wedding in the wild. Sarah and Gabe exchanged self-written vows in a short and sweet ceremony. A judge who is also a friend officiated on a grassy bluff overlooking the hills and ocean. In a meaningful "giving away" gesture, the walk down the aisle included the couple's parents, stepparents and siblings.
Artisanal Menua: Locally grown food is a must for an outdoor celebration. Sarah and Gabe, both vegetarians, served a buffet dinner that included vegetable napoleons and goat cheese and artichoke crostini. —Nancy Mattia
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In an Overall Sunny Jobs Report, a Few Clouds
The June U.S. jobs report was broadly positive. Payrolls rose strongly, the unemployment rate fell and the number of Americans who have been out of work for more than six months continued to decline.
But there were a few upbeat ingredients still missing from the brew: accelerating wage growth, rising labor-force participation and more Americans finding full-time work instead of settling for a part-time job.
If American workers earn more money, they'll spend more money and in turn boost the overall U.S. economy, since consumer spending accounts for more than two-thirds of output.
But average hourly earnings in June were up just 2% from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Thursday, basically keeping pace with rising prices as measured by the agency's consumer-price index.
Wages are showing no acceleration: The average year-over-year wage gain since the beginning of 2010 has been precisely 2%.
"Despite the rapid decline in the unemployment rate...we are still not seeing any significant pick-up in wage growth," Capital Economics chief North American economist Paul Ashworth said in a note to clients.
There was no movement in June for another closely watched number: the labor force participation rate. It was 62.8%, unchanged since April but down from 63.5% in June 2013 and 66% when the recession began in December 2007.
Participation in the workforce has fallen in recent years, in part because a share of the unemployed stopped looking for work entirely. If many of them were encouraged by the stronger job market and began looking again for work, they would return to the labor force and the participation rate should rise. It hasn't, at least not yet, and unemployed workers continue to drop out of the workforce in large numbers.
"The participation rate is at lows not seen since 1978, and therefore conditions in the labor market are certainly worse than indicated by the reported steep drop we have been seeing in the unemployment rate," said Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at MFR Inc., in a note to clients.
Some of the slippage is demographic as baby boomers retire, he noted. "However, some of the decline is more worrisome in nature, as the participation rates of the youngest workers have been declining, which is more of a barometer of limited job prospects than of anything demographic in nature," he said.
One more cloud in the sky: the number of people working part-time because they couldn't find full-time work rose by 275,000 in June to 7.5 million. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, in a March 31 speech, described the more than 7 million Americans in this category as "much larger than we would expect at 6.7% unemployment, based on past experience, and the existence of such a large pool of 'partly unemployed' workers is a sign that labor conditions are worse than indicated by the unemployment rate."
The jobless rate has since fallen to 6.1%, but the number of involuntary part-time workers remains high.
Still, the number of Americans working part-time for economic reasons has declined 7.9% over the last year. And the overall strength of Thursday's report has economists feeling pretty good.
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In This Moment's Chris Howorth Talks Evolution of the Band, Memorable Fan Moments + More
In This Moment are no strangers to ShipRocked, and this year they performed two stellar sets on the Deck Stage and the Stardust Theater. We had the chance to sit down with guitarist Chris Howorth on the Norwegian Pearl as we made our way back to Florida during a full day at sea.
Howorth spoke candidly about how he never imagined being in a female-fronted band but explained that In This Moment is the best thing that could've happened to him. When you see Howorth onstage, it's obvious he is having the best time possible. This was especially true during ShipRocked 2014, where fans dressed up like members of the band. Women donned black facepaint while big burly men wore blonde wigs and corsets to capture the essence of frontwoman Maria Brink. At the Stardust Theater, in addition to the theatrics onstage, the fans in costume created their own theatrics in the crowd.
Howorth also talked about In This Moment's first live DVD 'Blood at Orpheum,' which was recorded in Wisconsin. The night marked the first show with the masked 'Blood' back-up dancers onstage. He also mentioned his initial hesitance at the thought of back-up dancers as part of the live show but admits the innovative idea soon won him over and added to the band's evolution as a whole. Check out Part 1 of our interview with Chris Howorth of In This Moment above, and stayed tuned for Part 2.


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"What is this incredible world?" you ask? Tracy's built a fantasy storyline for Midgard that brings giant metal robots (fielded by the deep dwarves of the world) and skeletal giant Jotnar (piloted by human warriors) together on the field of battle! The main, base sourcebook for War of Metal and Bone is written by Tracy for the story-focused Fate Core system, and will include information and guidance for building Holdfasts, customizing your Jarls, Thralls, Runemarked, and Bonebonded, and having a grand old time in the fantastic medieval world of Iron Edda's Midgard. Tracy's gathered an incredible team of talented designers to expand Iron Edda to be approachable and instantly playable in a staggering array of RPG systems.
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Heroes of Metal and Bone Introduction: http://angille.net/wp/?p=459
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Twenty-one Cal State Northridge student-athletes from eight spring sports were named to the 2011 Big West Academic All-Conference team, the conference office announced Thursday.
To be eligible for the All-Academic team, student-athletes have to maintain a 3.2 cumulative grade point average, complete one full year at the member institution (CSUN) prior to the season for which the award is being received (at least a sophomore academically) and must compete in at least 50 percent of their team's contests.
In all, the Matadors were represented in each sport eligible for recognition with the exception of men's tennis, which is not fielded by the university. Below is a list of the student-athletes who earned Academic All-Conference honors for Spring 2011:
Jennel Alexander – Women's Golf – English
Sierra Brooks – Women's Track and Field – Kinesiology
Vanessa Carr – Women's Track and Field – CTVA
Yvonne Castillo-Urbina – Women's Track and Field – Kinesiology
Karla Chaparro – Softball – Finance
Nick Delio – Men's Golf – Criminology/Criminal Justice
Jessica Goforth – Women's Water Polo – Kinesiology
Alyssa Goldie - Women's Water Polo - Kinesiology
Clariss Guce – Women's Golf – Undecided
Hunter Hays – Men's Track and Field – Management
Jenna Hulion – Women's Track and Field – Sociology
Leah Janke – Women's Water Polo – Undeclared
Ryma Korab – Women's Tennis – Business Administration
Alex Muren – Baseball – Criminology
Mia Pagano – Softball – History
Heidi Pettinger – Women's Water Polo – Liberal Studies
TS Reed – Baseball – Sociology
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018 from 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Choose from any painting in our gallery. Don't worry, an instructor will be on hand to help out!
Payment is made at the door(cash or credit). Book online to reserve your seat. Walk-ins may attend if there are seats left. We prefer online reservations first. Cancellation Policy: Please contact us 48 hours in advance to cancel your seat or reschedule. Last minute cancellations and no-shows will have their credit card charged after the party that night. By registering for this event, you will allow us to post photos of the party online. If you do not allow your picture taken, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or speak to the instructor during the party and we will make sure your privacy is intact. Wine, Beer, Nonalcoholic beverages and prepackaged chocolates are available for sale. (We serve alcohol to 21+ only). No outside beverages are allowed, Southborough does not allow BYOB. You may bring food or take out. For your convienence, we are next door to Yama Fuji Restaurant and Eros Pizza. This party is open to 16 & up. Ages 9 & up may attend with an adult.
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