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14 Natural Energy Boosters
Give Your Rooms a Paint-Lift
Accent your walls with a new color and your energy levels will rise, says Julie Edelman, author of The Ultimate Accidental Housewife: Your Guide to a Clean-Enough House. If you don't want to paint an entire room, paint just your ceiling. A bird's-egg blue simulates the spring sky and brings the cheery outside in.
Make Chores a Workout
Need to clean that top shelf? Leave your stool where it is and carefully balance on your tiptoes, working your calves as you lengthen through your legs, says Sara Haley, a personal trainer and Reebok Global Instructor. Turn picking up the floor into an opportunity to do push-ups. "Every chance you get, lift your knees up off the floor so that you look like you're about to get into a push-up position," she says. Then hold it. Want a bigger challenge? See if you can scrub with one hand while staying in position. Even if this "kitchen" workout simply makes you laugh, you'll feel more energized from taking a break.
Let the Sun Shine In
Studies show that a mere 20 minutes a day of sunshine can do wonders to boost your energy—and mood. "And who doesn't need an excuse to pull up a chair to a window and start basking?" Edelman says.
Tidy Your Desk
Clutter can sap the energy right out of you! Tackling one project, like your desk, can make you feel better, says Cynthia R. Green, Ph.D., a memory and brain-health expert. "To begin, clear everything from your desk and dust and clean the surface," she says. "Now be thoughtful about what you put back and where you put it. Keeping items to a minimum will boost your attention for the items that remain there."
See Red (and Wear It Too)
The colors around you (or on you) definitely affect how you feel. Tap into red, a very powerful color, to help you exude confidence. Seek out orange for its playful, high-energy qualities. "If you like wearing all-black, consider accenting your outfit in these colors," says Edelman. Think red handbag or tangerine-orange necklace. Instant pick-me-up!
Purge the Pantry
The mere act of cleaning out your kitchen cupboards and pantry will boost your energy. Be sure to toss everything that has expired and give away items that you won't use. Organize as you go by placing opened staples like flour and rice in glass, metal, or plastic storage containers, which can help prevent how quickly the foods deteriorate.
"After you've completed your pantry cleanup, you'll have more room for healthy staples like dried or canned beans, low-sodium soups or broths, whole-grain cereals, and spices to add flavor to your meals," says Molly Morgan, R.D., author of The Skinny Rules. "Moving forward, when you add new foods to your pantry, use a permanent marker or label and mark the date the food was added to your cupboard. This way it'll be easy to know which foods should be used first."
Think Positive Thoughts
"Scientists have proven that we have around 60,000 thoughts a day, and the vast majority of those are negative," says Brant Secunda, a body-spirit health expert and co-author of Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You. "What negative thinking does is rob us of energy," he says. The solution: Every time you catch yourself thinking negatively, remind yourself to live with the opposite quality. "Replace 'I can't' with 'I can.' Make that shift over and over for one week until you begin to see more and more time pass between negative thoughts," Secunda says. Then, watch how much more energy you have.
Wake Up Your Skin
To help remove dead skin and surface impurities, exfoliate weekly and reveal glowing skin. Janice Cox, author of Natural Beauty at Home, makes this natural exfoliant at home: Mix together 1 cup of raw sugar, 1/4 cup of light oil, and 1/2 teaspoon of vitamin E oil. Massage the combination over your body and rinse well. You'll be invigorated and your skin will look great.
Shop the Farmers' Market
Find your local market and pick bright colored produce for a fresh-from-the-farm meal, says Rosemary Devlin, founder of o2 Living, a lifestyle and wellness community in Cross River, New York. Reach for strawberries, which contain 130 percent of your daily requirements for energizing vitamin C in just one cup. "Shopping for produce at a local farmers' market means you're making a low impact on the environment," she says. "Eating locally is what our bodies are meant to do—we're designed to eat seasonally and locally. Our bodies take to these types of foods best." What could be more invigorating than doing good for the earth while you eat well?
Go Outside
Being in nature is one of those things that can make us feel happier, calmer, and more energetic all at once, studies show. "For one week, make a conscious effort to spend at least 30 minutes outside," says Mark Allen, a body-spirit health expert and co-author of Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You. "It can be a walk or play or a few moments on your deck watching the sunset or looking at the stars. After just one week, you will feel significantly less stressed, more connected and more energetic than you did a week before."
Change It Up
Drive a different route to work, take your shower before breakfast if you usually take it after, get a new hairstyle, reverse the order of your workout or what days you do what type of exercise. "Let yourself be surprised," says Anne Parker, a wellness counselor at Miraval, a spa in Tucson. Not only will you feel refreshed, but studies show changing your routine makes you smarter, too.
Plant a Garden (or Visit One)
Communing with nature is a proven stress-reducer. Less stress equals more energy. Plant something (even a window box garden counts) or visit a public garden.
Have an Adventure
A new adventure can get the adrenaline pumping. Plan something as simple as going to a restaurant you've never been to, watching a movie you've never seen or putting together a new outfit with a different combination of clothes you already own, says Parker.
Strike a Pose
To increase your energy and whittle your middle, try yoga, says Sadie Nardini, an instructor in New York City. Her favorite energizing pose is Twists of Fire: Stand with your feet together. Bend your knees as if you're sitting in an invisible chair. Make sure your feet are planted evenly from ball to heel and lift your lower belly to support your lower back. Reach your hands straight up on an inhale. Exhale, bring your hands together at your chest and twist, touching your right elbow to your left knee. Stay here for one breath. Then, on an inhale, reach up. Repeat the twist to the left on your next exhale. If you're just starting: Bend your knees less to lighten the pose. When you're done, fold forward, relaxing over your legs like a rag doll for five breaths, with your arms dangling to the floor. Slowly roll up and enjoy the new energetic you.


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The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is the first treaty negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization. The WHO FCTC is an evidence-based treaty that reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health. The WHO FCTC represents a paradigm shift in developing a regulatory strategy to address addictive substances; in contrast to previous drug control treaties, the WHO FCTC asserts the importance of demand reduction strategies as well as supply issues.
The WHO FCTC was developed in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic. The spread of the tobacco epidemic is facilitated through a variety of complex factors with cross-border effects, including trade liberalization and direct foreign investment. Other factors such as global marketing, transnational tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and the international movement of contraband and counterfeit cigarettes have also contributed to the explosive increase in tobacco use.
The core demand reduction provisions in the WHO FCTC are contained in articles 6-14:
• Price and tax measures to reduce the demand for tobacco, and
• Non-price measures to reduce the demand for tobacco, namely:
- Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke;
- Regulation of the contents of tobacco products;
- Regulation of tobacco product disclosures;
- Packaging and labelling of tobacco products;
- Education, communication, training and public awareness;
- Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship; and,
- Demand reduction measures concerning tobacco dependence and cessation.
The core supply reduction provisions in the WHO FCTC are contained in articles 15-17:
- Illicit trade in tobacco products;
- Sales to and by minors; and,
- Provision of support for economically viable alternative activities.
The WHO FCTC opened for signature on 16 June to 22 June 2003 in Geneva, and thereafter at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Depositary of the treaty, from 30 June 2003 to 29 June 2004. The treaty, which is now closed for signature, has 168 Signatories, including the European Community, which makes it one of the most widely embraced treaties in UN history. Member States that have signed the Convention indicate that they will strive in good faith to ratify, accept, or approve it, and show political commitment not to undermine the objectives set out in it. Countries wishing to become a Party, but that did not sign the Convention by 29 June 2004, may do so by means of accession, which is a one-step process equivalent to ratification.
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To build highly available electrical infrastructures, you need redundant components like power distribution units (PDUs), UPSs, and generators. Yet many installers fail to consider redundancy near the point of use, especially with the single-corded equipment so prevalent in today's common rack-mounted configurations.
Rack redundancy should be part of any power quality strategy because it facilitates the maintenance and repair that is so essential to power quality and uptime at the point of use.
At the rack level — home to servers, mass storage assemblies, routers, and hubs — redundancy allows for routine maintenance and quick repair. Its absence means electrical systems are often neglected until they fail, resulting in power corruption or downtime.
Approaches to rack redundancy
A typical backup for rack-mounted equipment is a single rack-mount UPS. You usually see this configuration in commercial office networks, small data centers, and wiring closets. In data centers with hundreds of racks, distributed 3-phase power from a central UPS is a more common configuration because it's often easier to manage a small number of large UPSs than it is to manage a large number of small UPSs. Yet neither configuration offers power redundancy in the system. Given the high quality of today's UPS systems, either configuration will work well in many situations, but they present a single point of failure that may be unacceptable for maximizing uptime in mission-critical situations.
Fig. 1 on page PQ2 demonstrates power distribution in a mission-critical data center, such as a credit-card processing facility. Here, the UPS systems are redundant. The PDU is equipped with a static transfer switch that will transfer power from the primary to the secondary. However, the static transfer switch, downstream subpanel, equipment power cord, and all terminations are single points of failure. This makes maintenance difficult, because you can't take these components offline without dropping the load. As with UPS systems, the issue is not component quality or reliability, which are typically quite high, but the existence of a single point of failure.
The configuration in Fig. 2 below addresses this limitation by pushing redundancy toward the load, using an extra PDU and subpanel. Notice the rack-mounted transfer switch, or point-of-use (POU) switch. It will allow you to conduct maintenance upstream of the POU switch without taking down the load. However, the POU switch and the equipment power supply remain single points of failure.
The configuration in Fig. 3 on page PQ3 shows full redundancy to the load, achieved with dual-corded equipment. This scenario is identical to that of Fig. 2 except the POU switch has been replaced with dual-corded equipment. You even have a redundant power strip.
Availability analysis approach
Does bringing redundancy closer to the load work? We conducted three availability analyses to see — one for each of the configurations described above. We used a method called "linear combinatorial analysis," which uses defined reliability data and develops a system model that represents the configuration under analysis. The data for this analysis came primarily from the IEEE Gold Book (Recommended Practice for the Design of Reliable Industrial and Commercial Power Systems) and a military specification: Mil Spec 217 Reliability Prediction Of Electronic Equipment (See Sidebar on PQ3).
In this analysis, we modeled all key components, including terminations, circuit breakers, UPS systems, the static transfer (STS) and point-of-use (POU) switches, and power distribution units (PDU). As with any availability analysis, you must make certain assumptions to create a valid model. Our assumptions were:
All components exhibit a constant failure rate.
The failure rate of the wiring is low and is not modeled.
Downtime caused by human error is not accounted for here.
Silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) controls are 100% reliable.
These assumptions allow us to address the power. Most downtime in data centers is due to human error, which we cannot control. We have taken human error out of the model for purposes of examining the power system design, which we can control. This improves the accuracy, relevance, and usefulness of the analysis.
After measuring availability with respect to the outlets supplying power to the critical load, we found all common components shared the same mean time between failure (MTBF) data. For a dropped load to occur in the case of a single-corded load using an STS, both UPSs or the transformers would have to fail at the same time, or any component downstream of the transformer would have to fail.
For a dropped load to occur in the case of the single-corded load that uses a POU switch, at least one component from each path upstream of the switch would have to fail simultaneously. The Achille's Heel of this configuration: A failure of the POU switch would also result in a dropped load.
In the case of a dual-corded load, at least one component from each path upstream of the load would have to fail simultaneously for a dropped load to occur. Without the POU switch to act as a single point of failure, the configuration offers higher reliability. In all cases, redundant feeds from the UPS do not share the same bus. This is critical to ensuring fault isolation. The Table at right summarizes the results of the three availability calculations.
This analysis demonstrates that if you don't use dual-corded equipment in a critical application, you should at least use a POU switch with single-corded loads. One of the principles for increasing the availability to critical loads is to bring redundancy as close to the load as possible. You can see this by comparing the availability of the single-corded load using an STS to that of the single-corded load using a POU switch, which represents a difference of nearly 1 hr of downtime per year.
In the end
In general, equipment with one power cord can be a liability when trying to develop a high-availability network or IT infrastructure. This is true of all mission-critical equipment. To maximize uptime, you must remove as many single points of failure in the power distribution system as you can.
Most servers and routers are available with dual cords, but many low-end hubs or PCs have only one. The decision to implement POUs or larger static transfer switches for single-corded loads depends on the network architecture. For example, a large data center has several small transfer switches to manage — a potentially challenging task. However, a failure in a network employing one larger transfer switch can bring down a large portion of equipment; a failure in a smaller switch will only bring down one rack. Also consider the time required to repair or replace these switches and the cost of keeping spares. Larger switches pose more challenges in this regard.
Ultimately, architectures with complete system redundancy will provide the highest levels of availability, be resilient to component failure, and allow for concurrent maintenance. Anything less results in an availability compromise and an increased threat of downtime.
Avelar is an availability engineer with APC's Availability Science Center, West Kingston, R.I.
Mil Spec 217
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command prepared Mil Spec 217 Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. The synopsis reads as follows:
"The purpose of this handbook is to establish and maintain consistent and uniform methods for estimating the inherent reliability of military electronic equipment and systems. It provides a common basis for reliability predictions during acquisition programs for military electronic systems and equipment."


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More than two dozen Afghans were killed and dozens more wounded Wednesday in two insurgent attacks in eastern Afghanistan, including an attack in Khost province that also killed three coalition soldiers.
In Khost, a suicide bomber attacked an Afghan-U.S. military convoy, killing two policemen and 14 civilians and wounding 35 others, said Baryalai Rawan, a spokesman for the provincial governor. The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said three coalition soldiers also had been killed in the attack, along with their Afghan interpreter. The statement didn't identify the soldiers' nationalities, but most coalition troops in Khost are American.
The attack was the deadliest in a spate of recent violence that contrasts sharply with recent positive statements by coalition officials about the progress of the war in Afghanistan. Earlier this week, the outgoing senior coalition spokesman, German Brig. Gen. Carsten Jacobson, claimed that "the Taliban's stated spring offensive has so far been a failure."
Earlier in the day, in Logar province, south of Kabul, a roadside bomb hit a tractor carrying 10 civilians in the Baraki Barak district, killing four children, two women and two men, said Ghulam Sakhi, Logar's police chief.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the Khost attack, which follows a series of attacks in the past two days in southern Afghanistan that killed two dozen civilians, police officers, insurgents and coalition soldiers.
Khost province, which borders Pakistan, is one of the most volatile areas of Afghanistan. A truck bomb attack by insurgents June 1 on a U.S. base there killed two Americans and wounded about three dozen troops, according to U.S. military officials.
The attacker in Wednesday's incident in Khost, who was on foot, set off his explosives at midday in a market near the well-known White Mosque in Khost city, Rawan said.
"The area where the attack took place is a very crowded area where there are a lot of civilians," Rawan said. He said two women and a child were among the dead, as well as two police officers.
The director of public health for Khost province, Dr. Amir Badshah, said 12 bodies had been taken to government hospitals in the area, including those of three police officers. "The rest are civilians," Badshah said, and included a child.
Badshah said 17 civilians – including two women and a child – had been admitted for treatment, and four were in critical condition. "The number of casualties may increase," he said.
Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, a coalition spokesman, said insurgents reportedly had attacked a security checkpoint and that a coalition mounted patrol had responded to the incident and secured the area.
The Khost police chief, Brig. Gen. Sardar Mohammad Zazai, told McClatchy that a single suicide bomber had targeted a U.S. convoy that was driving through the city.
"Normally (the Americans) set up checkpoints in different areas, but in this case the convoy was on patrol and passing by," Zazai said.


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There are days when I have to reassure my 6-year-old son that his dad wants to live with us but can't. I don't know how to explain it to him. I can't say that his father can't come home because he might be taken to jail. My son believes bad guys go to jail.
When I met my son's father, my husband, he was a better student than I could ever be. He first came to the United States from Ghana in 1991. He studied computer science but had to leave school because of financial problems, which made him ineligible for a student visa.
He was afraid to return to Ghana. In the late 1980s, he protested against the president, Jerry Rawlings, and was jailed and tortured for three months. So my husband hired a lawyer and applied for asylum. But the lawyer was corrupt and negligent. He didn't file necessary paperwork or answer my husband's phone calls, and he missed deadlines. Because of this lawyer, my husband was denied asylum.
We hoped we would get a fresh start after we got married, but we learned that his case was already sealed and he could be deported at any time. The courts gave him voluntary departure, but he felt that he was wronged and chose to stay and fight. After 9/11, immigration policies became strict, and we were unable to convince the court to reopen his case.
On January 10, 2007, about 5:30 A.M., we woke to hostile knocks at our door. Our son was 2 years old and still sleeping in our bed. They knocked for 10 minutes and flashed lights through the window. When I peeked out the window, I saw agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One of them held a picture of my husband. My husband and I whispered to each other in the dark, and I told him I wouldn't open the door.
That morning, I felt like my world had completely changed and our family was torn apart. The ICE agents left but came back three hours later claiming to look for someone else who was not my husband. Before they returned, my husband left on foot, taking only his computer and the clothes on his back. He hasn't been home since. We didn't have time to say goodbye. Now, about an hour, once a week, is all we have together. Our family meets in secret. We try to make this time about our son and what he likes. When he wants to play soccer, we play soccer.
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Chiara de Blasio, the daughter of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and soon-to-be first lady Chirlane McCray, revealed a history of battling depression and substance abuse in a video released Tuesday by the de Blasio transition team.
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Jan Łukasiewicz's father, Luke Łukasiewicz, was a captain in the Austrian army. Perhaps before proceeding we should explain why the father in this Polish speaking family, living in Lvov which is now in the Ukraine, should be in the Austrian army. Galicia, in which Lvov was situated, was attached to Austria in the 1772 partition of Poland. However, by the time Łukasiewicz was born in Lvov, Austria had named the region the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and given it a large degree of administrative autonomy. Jan's mother, Leopoldine Holtzer, was the daughter of an Austrian civil servant and both Leopoldine and Luke were Roman Catholics.
Łukasiewicz was interested in mathematics at school and he entered the University of Lvov where he studied mathematics and philosophy. Following his undergraduate studies, he continued to work for his doctorate which was awarded in 1902 with the highest distinction possible. Wishing to lecture in universities, Łukasiewicz continued to study for his habilitation, submitting his thesis to the University of Lvov in 1906.
Once he had been awarded his habilitation, Łukasiewicz began to lecture at a Privatdozent. Then in 1911 he was promoted to an extraordinary professor at Lvov. Soon large changes in Poland would present new opportunities to Łukasiewicz.
Since the partition of Poland, Russia had controlled that part of the country called Congress Poland, which included Warsaw. The University of Warsaw had been closed and only a Russian language university operated there. At the outbreak of World War I, the Central Powers (Germany and Austria- Hungary) attacked Congress Poland. In August 1915 the Russian forces withdrew from Warsaw. Germany and Austria-Hungary took control of most of the country and a German governor general was installed in Warsaw. One of the first moves after the Russian withdrawal was the refounding of the University of Warsaw and it began operating as a Polish university in November 1915.
Łukasiewicz was invited to the new University of Warsaw when it reopened in 1915. It was an exciting time in Poland and a new Kingdom of Poland was declared on 5 November 1916. Łukasiewicz was Polish Minister of Education in 1919 and a professor at Warsaw University from 1920 to 1939. During this period between the wars Łukasiewicz was twice rector of Warsaw University.
During this time Łukasiewicz and Lesniewski founded the Warsaw School of Logic. Tarski, who was a student of Lesniewski, would make this school internationally famous. Łukasiewicz published his famous text Elements of mathematical logic in Warsaw in 1928 (the English translation appeared in 1963): [1]:-
... viewing mathematical logic as an instrument of enquiry into the foundations of mathematics and the methodology of empirical science, Łukasiewicz succeeded in making it a required subject for mathematics and science students in Polish universities. His lucid lectures attracted students of the humanities as well.Łukasiewicz had married Regina Barwinska and they suffered great hardships during World War II. Łukasiewicz wrote an autobiography in 1953 and, after his death it was published by his widow Regina Łukasiewicz [6]. The suffering of Łukasiewicz is graphically illustrated in this autobiography. Łukasiewicz and his wife fled from Poland and in 1946 they were in exile in Belgium when he was offered a chair by the University of Dublin in Ireland.
He worked on mathematical logic, wrote essays on the principle of non-contradiction and the excluded middle around 1910, developed a three value propositional calculus (1917) and worked on many valued logics.
Łukasiewicz introduced the 'Polish notation' which allowed expressions to be written unambiguously without the use of brackets and his studies were to form the basis for Tarski's work.
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Harvard Business Review is pleased to announce the 2009 McKinsey Award Winners.
Since 1959, McKinsey & Company and Harvard Business Review have presented annual awards recognizing the best articles published each year in the magazine. Learn more at hbr.org/mckinseyawards.
HBR thanks this year's panel of judges.
Elizabeth J. Altman
Vice President, Business Development
Libertyville, Illinois
Vivienne Cox
Climate Change Capital
Patricia Fili-Krushel
Executive Vice President, Administration
Time Warner
New York
Jean-Pierre Garnier
Pierre Fabre SARetired CEO, GlaxoSmithKline
Castres, France
Jeffrey Immelt
Chairman and CEO
General Electric
Fairfield, Connecticut
Dwaine Kimmet
Treasurer and Vice President, Financial Services
Home Depot
Rita Gunther McGrath
Associate Professor
Columbia Business School
New York
Michael Shih-ta Chen
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Harvard Business School Asia-Pacific Research Center
Hong Kong
Russ Smyth
President and CEO
H&R Block
Kansas City, Missouri
"Restoring American Competitiveness"
July–August 2009
First Place
The authors are Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr., Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Willy C. Shih, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School.
"The Innovator's DNA"
December 2009
Second Place
The authors are Jeffrey H. Dyer, a professor of strategy at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Hal B. Gregersen, a professor of leadership at Insead in Abu Dhabi and Fontainebleau, France, and Clayton M. Christensen, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.


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The medical model of childbirth is broken right to the core.
When I was just getting started with this birthing thing I was pretty enthusiastic. I did a lot of reading. I wrote optimistic essays about birthing choices for my shockingly bad website. I tried to be a doula, though I'm not sure I was ever a particularly good one. I went to conferences and training days by the dozen. I believed that I could make a difference. I believed that positive change was inevitable, that the facts were lining up and soon everyone would have to agree on the appropriate approach. All we had to do was be firm, keep tabulating research, and make it available. Wait the change out and it would happen.
But as I say, I was a perhaps not very good doula, and in the main the births I ended up attending were those of strangers, often strangers that I hadn't met before I found them in the labour and delivery room at a local hospital (ah, the free referral service of the local doula organization), and by the time I got there things were already on their downward spiral. The induction was on and it was only a matter of time before someone became exhausted and bored and suggested a c-section. Hapless women of colour with poor English and their equally hapless husbands and partners were funnelled through to the operating room and for all my enthusiastic soothing and panting and rocking and walking and changing positions there was nothing I could do to change it.
In all the births I attended at that time, there were only two decent ones, one a homebirth, the other a hospital birth, older white mothers full of determination. They knew what they wanted. They fought for it, and they were very clear about what they wanted from me. So, it worked, you see. They had the education, experience, determination and white privilege to get what they wanted, a birth that wasn't abusive or horrible. It certainly helped that they were women having second babies, as second babies are always more responsive to the arbitrary timelines of the medical model. It was a gift to be their doula, it really was.
In between births I did postpartum doula work, some volunteer, some for a pretty good wage. Here too I could see how damaging the medical model was. One young woman I was helping for free was in Canada alone, her husband in Malaysia waiting on his visa application. She'd given birth alone, a young non-white woman with no apparent partner and poor English. She'd had a good nurse, she felt, but the doctor, a woman, was rough and impatient with her, and had performed an episiotomy that resulted in a fourth degree tear, very painful and with a difficult and perhaps surgical recovery.
Another woman I served for a few weeks, helping out through the nights, had been pregnant with twins. Her babies were delivered via c-section, for no other reason than that they were twins. She was struggling with the continuing pain of her incision, not being able to breastfeed her son, who wouldn't latch and would only take a bottle, and pumping around the clock to supply them both with breastmilk. She was exhausted.
Another woman was in Canada from England, but was not yet covered by health benefits. The doctor she saw would not permit her to attempt a trial of labour after her previous c-section, so she was forced to undergo another surgery and pay for the entire thing out of pocket as well.
I was called to help with breastfeeding with another older couple, who gave birth at home with registered midwives. She had a tear which required stitching and while the midwives were stitching it up they kept the baby in another room away from her. For an hour and a half. The first time she tried to breastfeed after her birth her baby was already through its wide awake period and slept instead. Two days later, still not nursing.
All of this is a very long-winded way of saying that after a few months of thinking about birth! and babies! with stars in my eyes! and then attending a weekend workshop in which women imagined awesome births and inspirational stories were told by the doula instructors of how they had saved women's births and so on, I somehow plunged headfirst into the deep end of how awful and how broken the medical model of birth really is.
I'm making this all sound a little grim, that's because it is a grim business and the statistics bear that out. In British Columbia (BC), where I live, the current c-section rate is over 30%. It's not a stretch to suggest that for every three women who give birth in this province, one will end up with major abdominal surgery. This is not a supportable rate. The World Health Organization recommends that a reasonable c-section rate should be no more than 10-15%, and this rate has been shown repeatedly to produce the best outcomes for mothers and babies.
Now if a reasonable rate with the best outcomes is 10-15% and our current rate is over 30% then 15-20% of birthing women are having unnecessary surgery.
Let me repeat that.
The medical model of birth as practiced in British Columbia (and the rest of Canada and much of the United States) results in 15-20% of all birthing women, perhaps as many as 1 in 5, having unnecessary surgery. 50% or more of the c-sections performed do not improve outcomes for mothers and babies.
And of course, it's not as though the women who are giving birth vaginally are getting off scott free in this system. They're birthing under the ever present threat of major abdominal surgery, for one thing. Forceps and Vacuum extractor are used 3.4% and 6.3% of the time, so that means another 10% of women at the very least are having episiotomies and having their babies pulled out with varying degrees of skill. 45% of women have epidural anesthesia, which is certainly successful, most of the time, at blocking sensation, but also makes far more likely the perceived need for "augmentation" of labour, including artificial rupture of membranes and syntocinon augmentation - I couldn't find a rate for syntocinon usage, but it tends to be fairly high, often as much as twice as high as the c-section rate. 21% of women in BC also have their labour artificially "induced".
Women are having pretty awful birth experiences. Not universally, of course. But a lot of them.
I used to explain to people how the cascade of interventions worked, how one intervention would lead to another and then another, and how one simple bad decision on the decision tree could lead to a seemingly necessary (but really unnecessary) c-section. And in my explanation, I'd pile them on a little. My hypothetical birthing women experienced as much intervention as I could believably throw at them in order to demonstrate the point.
And people were a little disbelieving. Who could blame them? It does seem a little outrageous that doctors, who are in the main probably well-meaning people, could end up performing unnecessary major abdominal surgery on one fifth to a quarter of their healthy birthing patients.
But the problem with my hypothetical is I saw it played out or heard about it played out in almost exactly the ways I'd described far too many times. It wasn't just an illustrative fiction, it was a common reality.
The last birth I went to as a doula was for an aboriginal woman and her husband who had been referred by a friend of a friend. I met them, literally, outside the hospital's door when they were going in for an induction. She was only 38 weeks pregnant, but was diabetic and her doctor was quite concerned that her baby would be enormous. "Huge, 10 pounds at least!" was the way it was quoted to me.
She was pretty chilled out about being induced early, because with her previous child, now an active three-year-old, she had been induced at 38 weeks as well. 10 hours later she was holding her vaginally birthed baby in her arms. Hard to argue with that record of success, and although I suggested that perhaps waiting at least another week would be a good idea, big baby or no, I could see that this idea was falling on deaf ears. I didn't say much.
She went in for her induction in the evening and they gave her prostaglandin gel applied to her cervix. Her cervix was "unfavourable", which is to say, nowhere near ready for giving birth, but the induction happened anyway. By 1 a.m. she was having frequent sensations and was throwing up - often a good sign of progress in birthing. This continued through the night. Her husband wouldn't lie down and sleep for an hour to remain rested, so when morning came they was pretty exhausted, but they were both convinced that things must be going swimmingly and the birth would be soon.
The OB-of-the-day arrived and checked her and her cervix was as it was before, not dilated at all, not effaced, still posterior. Still, in other words, unfavourable. But still, her sensations were still frequent, and so the doctor started her on syntocinon. The sensations became more uncomfortable and during one when she was moaning through the sensation a nurse poked her head in the door and said, "You look like you're in pain. I'll get you some pethidine." She came back and put it in the IV, I think. This, by the way, is an excellent example of the kind of "informed consent" that is often demonstrated in hospital births. She wasn't asked whether she wanted it. She wasn't even asked if she was in pain or suffering. She wasn't presented it as an option with these pros and these cons. It was just given to her.
Once the syntocinon was started, of course, external fetal monitoring was put on next. The contraction monitor worked consistently, but the baby, as babies pretty consistently do, kept moving around and the monitor would no longer be correctly placed so that the nurse would come in and fuss with the monitor, get the baby heart swooshing away on the speaker again and then bustle off, only to repeat the scene five or ten minutes later. She dozed with the pethidine for quite a while, not even feeling her contractions any more and her husband and I dozed too in uncomfortable upright chairs against the wall.
The OB-of-the-day kept coming in and telling the nurse, who had already been upping the syntocinon on schedule, to up it some more. At one point the nurse said, "We're already at the limit that we're supposed to use for an induction."
The OB replied, "This is an augmentation, not an induction. Up it some more." The nurse bit her tongue and did as she was told.
Every time she was checked her cervix was unchanged. Or no, a little changed. Effaced (thinned) to two fingers instead of three, still not dilated at all, but perhaps less posterior. This was considered to be progress.
Finally, after 24 hours from the first prostaglandin gel and about 2 hours before the OB-of-the-day was supposed to end her shift, the OB came and inspected the situation.
The baby was healthy as a horse, moving around, repeatedly bashing and kicking at the monitor, strong heart rate throughout, so they couldn't use fetal distress as their reason for a c-section.
For some reason (because her cervix never dilated much most likely) they had never gotten around to rupturing her membranes, so they didn't have that artificial timeline on their side, something to point to with assurance for why they needed to do a c-section.
Since she'd had a previous large baby vaginally it would be very difficult to argue cephalopelvic disproportion (where the pelvis is too small or narrow to allow the passage of the baby's head).
And of course, they couldn't just let her go home, say, "Oops, our mistake, your body wasn't ready." Not with that enormous ten pound baby inside.
Nope, they needed an ironclad irrefutable reason to cut this woman's belly open. So they told her her baby was breech.
How big was that baby, do you think? 7 pounds, 3 ounces. And showing signs of prematurity. And sleepy, oh so sleepy, wouldn't get on the boob and nurse, not for days and days and days. I lost track of them when she went home to her active three-year-old with her belly cut open.
It's not like I did them any good. And while, as I say, I kind of suspect I just really wasn't very good at this doula thing, I'm not sure that another doula could have improved things, prevented the outcome. I realized that as a doula I didn't have any power to change the system. I might be able to occasionally help a woman emotionally or practically, but I would be witness to so much abuse. I stopped going to births as a doula.
I didn't stop being interested. I hung around with a lot of unassisted birthers online. I didn't stop reading or following research. The evidence for less interventions or for only appropriate usage of interventions keeps piling up, they reversed the prohibition on "allowing" women to go past 41 weeks without inducing them, a Vancouver doctor did a massive study on episiotomy and proved once and for all how useless and dangerous it was and the rate actually dropped, there are positive changes.
At the same time, the rate of positive change is very very slow, and it often seems like for every one step forward there's half a step back and one step off in a complete other non-helpful direction. I've been witness to two births in the last couple of months, one a homebirth and one a very interventionalist hospital birth. It was night and day between the two.
The homebirth was a VBAC and resulted in a home waterbirth to a beautiful baby. This was after the mother was told she couldn't possibly have a homebirth after a previous cesarean. She then asked her care providers whether she could at least labour in a tub of water in the hospital and was told that of course she couldn't. Irrirtated at being undermined at every turn in her very reasonable and safe wishes for her birth, she sought out a traditional birth attendant who had no problem facilitating her (safe) homebirth.
The hospital birth was of a young woman having her first baby with registered midwives as her caregivers. It was truly shocking to me. It was as though someone had brought to life my old story of the cascade of interventions. The fact that the birth ended in a c-section was all so unnecessary, every step along the way so unsupported by the available research.
It's sometimes mind-boggling that as a birthing community, in which I include doctors, midwives, doulas, OBs, pregnant women and partners and all the rest, we can know the right things to do or not do. We can have the research in front of us, from well-executed and documented studies and trials and we can have it for years with every new study backing it up, and yet the reality of the abuses that occur in mainstream birthing all in opposition to what we know continue. Does spontaneous, uninterfered with birth just not have a great marketing department? I don' t know, and I sometimes feel very discouraged.
But then, I'm kind of an optimist. Or perhaps the better word would be idealist, although I think we are wrong as a society to say "idealist" with the kind of sneer. If we do not ask for and strive for the ideal then we'll never come close. Asking for a compromised position right off the bat means that the eventual product will inevitably be even more compromised (just look at the current American health care debate for a prime example of that).
As I said before, I don't believe that all or even most doctors and registered midwives are evil people looking for the quickest and most painful way to hurt people. That's ridiculous. Of course most of them are caring and well-meaning people. I say that even though I've witnessed quite a few fairly ignorant or arrogant people in the field, one or two exceptionally abusive and manipulative individuals, and rather a lot of folks who exhibit that passive "just following orders/my protocols/our customs" well-intentioned uselessness.
But the problem is this. The system is broken. It did not and does not have women's best interests or the best interests of their babies at heart. It is a fraud.
A 30% c-section rate (and a 19% primary c-section rate) is not a bug, it is a feature of the broken system.
That some women would choose to give birth unassisted because they fear what they will experience otherwise at the hands of the medical system, this is also a feature. Unassisted birthers can be used by the mainstream model to make homebirth seem extreme and outlandish, something that only those crazy hippies or religious fundamentalists would do. I say that as someone who chose to give birth unassisted, and who feels that this can be an awesome valid choice for some folks, but that it should never feel like the only choice available.
When I say that I believe people are well-intentioned, I should also say that it's time for folks to face the fact that intentions really don't matter. Or at best they matter only a little bit. What matters is not what you intend, it is what you do. It is the real results of your actions in real people's lives. If you as a provider through your action or inaction facilitate 20% of of your clients right into unnecessary surgery with very real and significant impacts on their life, health, future fertility and reproduction and on their future children's life, health and births, but you meant well, it doesn't reverse the effects. It doesn't change the real effects that a caesarean scar on her uterus and belly produce.
It seems to me that with a system as broken as this there are only two ethical choices. The first is the actively try to fix the system from the inside. The second is to work outside the system to provide another option for women. I suppose, now I think of it, that there's a third ethical choice, which is get out of this business entirely. Passively continuing within the system, acting in such a way that you perpetuate the harm that it does, this is not an ethical choice.
I'll be honest, I'm not sure if it is possible to fix the broken system from the inside, but if you are a care provider within the medical model, there's a lot you can do to try. Here's a few suggestions:
Perhaps you already do some of these things. Perhaps these do not seem like workable suggestions to you. But if not, ask yourself why and own your answers. For an online discussion on this article visit Kenzie's Blog
Written January 22, 2010
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SEATTLE - President Barack Obama wasted little time casting Republican rival Mitt Romney as "backwards on equality" on Thursday, eager to transform his historic embrace of same-sex marriage into donor enthusiasm and grassroots vigor.
Just one day after announcing his support of the top gay rights issue, Obama was attending a lavish West Coast fundraiser hosted by actor George Clooney in Los Angeles' Studio City area, the heart of celebrity gay marriage activism. At the same time, his campaign rolled out a Web video claiming Romney would roll back some rights for same-sex couples
White House spokesman Jay Carney brushed aside questions about the timing of the attack on Romney, saying that Obama and Romney had differed on issues of gay rights even before the president declared his support for same-sex marriage.
"Gov. Romney is for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would enshrine discrimination into our founding legal document," Carney said. "The president thinks that's wrong. So their positions were starkly different before yesterday."
In Seattle, where he was attending two fundraisers, Obama witnessed the support first hand as his motorcade passed a woman holding an infant and a sign that said: "Thank you! Mr. President for standing up for my mommys!"
He drew big cheers from supporters at Seattle's historic Paramount Theater when he said his vision for a better America applies to everyone, "no matter what you look like, no matter what your last name, no matter who you love."
Without referring directly to marriage, Obama expanded on the theme of same-sex equality.
"We are moving forward to a country where every American is treated with dignity and with respect and here in Washington you'll have the chance to make your voice heard on the issue of making sure that everybody, regardless of sexual orientation, is treated fairly," Obama said. "You'll have a chance to weigh in on this. We are a nation that treats people fairly."
Washington state has passed a law approving same-sex marriage, but opponents in Washington are gathering signatures for a ballot initiative to overturn the law and declare marriage as union of man and woman.
Outside the Paramount, 44-year-old Teri McClain was holding a double-sided sign expressing gratitude to the president for "evolving on same-sex marriage."
"He's looking out for the good of the people, and this is what the people want," McClain said.
Though the timing of his announcement was not of his choosing, the campaign was not shying away from the issue even though aides conceded it held some political risk for the president. Just hours after Obama voiced his support for gay marriage in an ABC interview, the campaign emailed a clip of the interview and a personal statement from the president to its vast list of supporters, drawing attention to his stance
Still, Obama said Vice President Joe Biden got "a little bit over his skis" in publicly embracing gay marriage, forcing Obama to speed up his own plans to announce support for the right of same-sex couples to marry.
"Would I have preferred to have done this in my own way, in my own terms, without I think, there being a lot of notice to everybody? Sure," Obama said. "But all's well that ends well."
Biden apologized to Obama on Wednesday for getting ahead of him, a person familiar with the exchange said. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the private discussion, said Obama accepted the apology and told Biden he knew Biden's own words of support for gay marriage were heartfelt.
Hollywood has been outspoken in its support of gay rights. Although Obama will be in a liberal bastion, California itself illustrates the crosscurrents of gay marriage. Californians have twice voted to ban gay marriage, most recently in 2008. The most recent ban, known as Proposition 8, is being fought in the courts.
Clooney's dinner was organized by Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of DreamWorks Animation, and will include such celebrity guests as Robert Downey Jr. and Barbra Streisand. The event was initially to be a spring gala hosted by Katzenberg at his house. But Katzenberg's home is under renovation, so Clooney offered to host instead.
That prompted the Obama campaign to conceive an online raffle for the general public. Tens of thousands of people participated, drawn by the campaign's pitch: "For a chance to hang out with President Obama at George Clooney's house, donate $3 or whatever you can to be automatically entered to win."
As a result, nearly two-thirds of the money raised for the event will be from people who won't attend. The two winners were Beth Topinka of Manalapan, N.J., and Karen Blutcher of St. Augustine, Fla.
The timing of the event is creating a blockbuster confluence of high celebrity, big money and committed activism. Hollywood is home to some of the most high-profile backers of gay marriage. The 150 donors who are paying $40,000 to attend Clooney's dinner will no doubt feel newly invigorated by Obama's watershed announcement the day before.
The dinner, heavily promoted online by the Obama campaign, is expected to net close to $15 million. That's an unprecedented amount for a single event. And it means that in one single evening the Obama camp and the Democratic Party will collect more than Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican challenger, has amassed in his best single month of fundraising.
In Seattle, Obama expected to collect at least $3 million toward his re-election effort. On Friday, he will fly to Nevada, a highly contested state, where he will call for housing relief in a speech in Reno.
Despite the attempt to turn the campaign page, Obama's support of gay marriage is likely to set the tone for several days. Obama holds a fundraiser Monday in New York sponsored by gay and Latino supporters.
Obama doesn't have the power to make same-sex marriage legal. But his announcement had long been sought by gay rights advocates, who cheered his public affirmation of gay marriage.
Gay marriage remains enough of a divisive issue that there could be political risks. If opposition to gay marriage drives even a sliver of the voting population, it could make a difference in close swing states. Moreover, it could boost fundraising for social conservative groups that are mounting their own campaigns against Obama and galvanize conservatives still uncertain about Romney's commitment to their causes.
"It would be hard to argue that somehow this is something that I'd be doing for political advantage," Obama said in an interview aired Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"Frankly, the politics, it's not clear how they're going to cut," Obama said.
Romney quickly reiterated his opposition to same-sex marriage. "I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman," he said Wednesday in Oklahoma.


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Yoko Ono: 'Don't hold your breath' for Beatles on Apple's iTunes
08/06/2010, 07:08 am
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Apple inks deals for all DRM-free iTunes, 3G downloads
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In what could be a significant victory for its online music store, Apple is believed to have landed agreements not only to remove copy protection from the music of all major labels but to also allow direct music downloads to iPhones over cellular networks.
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Apple is believed to be on the verge of an end-of-year push that would start by finally offering unprotected iTunes Store music from all major labels and would switch a special post-holiday campaign giving away music and videos to Europeans.
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11/19/2008, 03:11 pm
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Last of the "big four" labels to offer DRM-free music tracks
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Berry became the first student-athlete in Ivy League history to amass 1,300 career points and 500 career assists. (Gil Talbot).
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Brogan Berry became the first Ivy Leaguer to record 1,300 points and 500 assists while leading the Harvard women's basketball team to a 71-51 win over Yale Saturday evening in Providence, R.I.
Berry finished the night with eight points and seven assists, giving her 1,361 career points and 503 career assists. She currently ranks sixth in program history in scoring while her assist total is third in program annals, sixth in the Ivy League.
Christine Clark scored a game-high 23 points, marking the fourth time in the last six games she has scored 20-plus. The sophomore did so on 10-of-12 shooting and added seven rebounds. Emma Golen notched a career-high 15 points on 7-of-8 shooting, while Victoria Lippert and Elle Hagedorn added 14 points and 11 points, respectively.
Harvard (13-10, 6-3 Ivy League)shot 51.0 percent for the game, marking just the second time this season the Crimson have shot over 50 percent from the field. Harvard's defense limited Yale (15-9, 7-3 Ivy League) to 28.8 percent shooting, meanwhile, and outrebounded the Bulldogs 44-32. Hagedorn led the Crimson on the glass with a career-high nine boards while Lippert added eight.
Janna Graf led Yale with 15 points as Hayden Latham and Megan Vasquez notched 10 apiece.
Harvard's defense was on point early as Yale shot just 2-of-14 to open the game. Harvard, meanwhile, was in rhythm at its offensive end and shot 7-of-14 for a 16-4 lead. Berry and Lippert gave the Crimson an early 4-0 advantage, and after five straight points from Golen, Harvard was in front 11-2. An and-one by Clark and layup by Berry gave Harvard the 12-point margin with 10:31 remaining.
Clark scored four straight points to put the Crimson on top by 15, 22-7, before a 15-5 run cut the Bulldogs' deficit to single-digits, 27-22, at the break. Yale scored 10 unanswered points to make it a 25-22 game with 1:01 to play, but Berry found Golen in transition for a long jumper just before the buzzer for the five-point edge. Clark scored 10 points in the half to lead all scorers while Golen added nine on 4-of-4 shooting. The Crimson held a 16-8 advantage in points in the paint and outrebounded the Bulldogs 27-17 while holding them to 8-of-33 shooting.
The teams traded baskets out of the break until a three-point play by Hagedorn opened a nine-point margin, 38-29. Hagedorn later made it a double-digit lead with a three from the corner, 43-33, as Berry picked up the 500th assist of her career on the play. A pair of Graf free throws pulled Yale to within seven, before a pair of Lippert layups extended the lead back out to 49-38. Moments later Lippert made six straight free throws for a 56-40 lead with 7:24 to play.
Graf scored four points during a 9-3 Bulldog run and capped it off with a putback to make the score 59-49 with 4:16 on the clock. Hagedorn ended the stretch with a pair of free throws, sparking a 12-2 stretch by the Crimson to close out the game. Back-to-back baskets by Golen made it a 69-51 game, and Clark closed out the scoring for the final 20-point margin, 71-51.
Harvard will be back on the road next weekend with trips to Princeton and Penn. The Crimson will first face the Tigers Friday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. before taking on the Quakers Saturday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m.
Game Notes: Brogan Berry became the first Ivy Leaguer ever to record 1,300 points and 500 assists, and finished the night with 1,361 points and 503 helpers … Harvard's 20-point margin of victory is its largest at Yale since a 79-59 win Feb. 1, 1997 … Christine Clark has scored 20-plus points in four of the last six games, including two straight … Emma Golen scored a career-high 15 points on 7-of-8 shooting … Elle Hagedorn has pulled down a career-high nine rebounds in each of the Crimson's last two games … Harvard shot over 50 percent from the field for just the second time this season.


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By the way, do the colors look familiar to you? If they do, it's probably because these were knit entirely with stash yarn -- the brown was the last skein from the yarn for the Seamless Hybrid and the green is the same yarn I used for my CPH. It's nice to have handknits that coordinate, isn't it?
We're off for a quick trip to Cleveland in about half an hour. I'm taking my Chevron Scarf for my car knitting, as it hasn't seen much attention lately. Have a great weekend!


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