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Six years ago, clad in duct tape and a few tattered fragments of raingear, my husband Hig and I paddled leaking Sevylor rafts through a maze of nets and fishing boats to land in the remote village of Chignik. We were desperately thin, despite having subsisted for the past week on jars of Betty Crocker frosting. We had been trekking along the Alaska Peninsula, through a remote wilderness of tundra and volcanoes, for two months and over eight hundred miles. Outside of the few towns we passed through, we'd seen zero people and eighty-five grizzly bears. But I was happier than I ever had been. And what was originally planned to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience would eventually become a way of life.
Since then we've walked and rafted over three thousand miles in the Alaskan wilderness, traveling through thickets of alder and devil's club, down roiling rivers and past angry bears to some of the most amazing places I've ever seen.
On June 9, 2007, we will hand our keys to the landlord, shoulder our backpacks, step off our Seattle front porch, and head for the mountains. Our plan is to walk, packraft and ski four thousand miles from the heart of urban Seattle to the first Aleutian Island. We estimate the journey will take nine months, finishing in March 2008.
The Wild Coast Route Map
I'm not sure when the idea of walking to Alaska first occurred to me Perhaps it was on a flight from Seattle to Anchorage, gazing down on the enticing mountains and islands below. Perhaps it was staring at a road atlas of British Columbia, imagining the rugged topography out beyond the roads. In any case, the idea grew on us quickly, and what began as a plan to walk to Anchorage soon morphed into a trek all the way to the Aleutians.
Following the northern edge of the Pacific Ocean, this journey will take us through some of the most rugged terrain in the North America. This coastline is steep, fragmented, and remote. The line on our map follows no road or trail – nothing but plans, imagination, and hopefully some paths beaten by the bears. North of Vancouver, only a handful of roads even reach the Pacific coast. And beyond Anchorage, there are no roads. We'll be traveling through forests, between islands, around glaciers, and across the tundra – through summer, fall, and winter. No one has done this before.
Hig overlooking Prince William Sound, Alaska
Environmental mission
Our expeditions bring us to remote places, rarely visited – and to environmental battlegrounds at the far end of nowhere, sometimes far from the public eye. In 2003 we spent our honeymoon hiking and rafting through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It was the first wilderness I'd traveled in that was under an immediate environmental threat. The arctic was already well represented in the public debate, but it planted a seed in my mind. I'd seen what other photographers and adventurers had done in wild places across the world, from Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison in the arctic, to Michael Fay's megatransect in Africa. Perhaps our expeditions could serve a broader purpose. Perhaps our journeys could educate more than just the two of us…
Over the past few years, I've used our journeys in the region of the proposed Pebble Mine to raise awareness of that issue. My website has become a primary source for information and photos on a place where few images could previously be found. Our mission is to make these places real for people. By combining adventure and photography with careful observation and analysis, we seek to inform as we entertain.
Nushagak River in the Bristol Bay watershed, Alaska
Our Wild Coast journey is much larger than any single issue or proposal. Here we plan to focus on the largest and broadest issues facing this region; clearcutting of the rainforests, the decline of wild salmon, pollution caused by mineral extraction, and global climate change. We chose these issues for three reasons: their importance to much of the terrain we plan to cover on our route, the potential for our journey to provide insights into what's going on, and the ability for all of us to have an impact.
Our journey will take us through some of the most amazing wilderness in North America. But we'll see much more than just wilderness. We're doing the entire journey under human power, accepting no rides of any kind. This means that we'll experience everything that lies on our route, from areas well explored by suburban commuters to areas rarely visited by a modern human being.
Salmon spawning in an Alaskan stream
Salmon are an iconic species of the entire Pacific Northwest, and the only species that ties together our entire route. They have been a keystone of ecosystems and economies in this region for thousands of years. But their unique lifestyle leaves them dependent on healthy ecosystems both at sea and on land. Salmon return to their home stream to spawn, making each river we pass a new experiment in salmon management. One of the things that makes this issue so interesting to explore on our journey is the huge variability in the fate of the salmon along our route. At the route's beginning, salmon are at less than ten percent of historic levels. At the end, they're still at one hundred percent. We'll be passing through areas heavily impacted by urbanization and dams, by salmon farms, and by logging in the spawning watersheds. We'll be passing through areas where salmon runs are large and healthy. And we'll be passing through areas that are hanging on the edge – where the balance can still tip between preservation and restoration.
Rainforest in the Queets River valley, Washington
From journey's start in Seattle to Prince William Sound in Southcentral Alaska, we'll be walking the zone of temperate rainforest. In sheer mass of vegetation, temperate rainforests are the most productive ecosystems in the world, and support a number of wildlife species that exist nowhere else. But they're rare – only occurring where temperate coasts are butted up against the high mountain ranges that trap the moisture. In the Tongass in Alaska, and the Great Bear in B.C., vast tracts of "forest" remain untouched. But the few remaining areas of productive lowland old-growth are dwindling fast. Logging has preferentially targeted the valley bottom forests – home of the largest trees and the most productive habitat. By bushwhacking through thousands of miles of forests, muskeg swamps, steep slopes, and clear cuts, we hope to highlight the difference between these places that fall within the shaded green of the map, and paint a broad picture of the forests' current state.
Resource Extraction
Mining Exploration in Pebble Valley, Alaska
Salmon runs can be fished every year. Forests regrow on a time scale of centuries. But oil, coal, and metals are formed by geologic processes with a time scale of millions of years. These resources are concentrated in specific locations along our route, but the footprints of the extraction projects can be enormous. Mining is the most polluting industry in the country, responsible for acid mine drainage, cyanide spills, and heavy metal pollution. Oil drilling and transport carries the risk of devastating spills, like the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989. We'll be passing through sites of current extraction and past disasters, but we'll be primarily looking at current exploration and proposed extraction sites. The key proposals along our route are the proposed mines in Bristol Bay and in Northwest B.C/Southeast Alaska and the proposed offshore oil drilling in Bristol Bay and off the B.C. coast. Mineral exploration happens in remote locations, usually well under the public radar. It can be very difficult just to figure out what exploration is happening, and often by the time the public is aware of what's going on, it is nearly too late to do anything about it. At some of these places, we may bring the only eyes that aren't flown in by the mining companies.
Global Climate Change
Bear Glacier Lake in the Kenai Fjords, Alaska
Climate change will affect the whole planet, but Alaska is a canary in the coal mine, warming much faster than the rest of the world. Here, the effects are not just hypotheses of scientists – people are living them, in the form of shrinking glaciers, melting permafrost, eroding coastlines and increased wildfires. We'll be skirting some of the largest glaciers and icefields outside of Antarctica and Greenland, traveling over water, rocks and meadows that are still marked as ice on the map. The shrinking glaciers of this coast are a very visible demonstration of warming. Our journey will both show the current reality, and provide a comparison for future observations.
We've chosen a journey where our stories, photos, and observations can provide insights into these issues. But we've also chosen this region because the decisions that people make about it now will determine its future. Parts of this coast are as wild and remote as any place on earth, and the fate of much of the land is still being decided. Our ever-growing industrial appetites are driving new exploration and development throughout this region. Yet we still have the opportunity to influence what happens here – which areas are protected, which are developed, and how that development is carried out. That's what makes this project so exciting.
Of course, an awareness-raising project is only as good as our efforts to publicize it. To this end, I'll be continuing to develop the website at www.groundtruthtrekking.org, adding information, photos, writing, videos, and map-based tools that let people explore the areas of our trip. After the journey's end, I'll be writing a book for Mountaineers Books, articles for magazines (you'll probably be stuck reading me here again too), and giving public talks. And because we can't do everything ourselves, we've been working with a number of environmental groups in the regions we'll be passing through, gaining their deeper knowledge and insights into some of the issues and sharing our photos and observations. Ultimately, we hope our broad exploration of the state of this coast will help communicate what's at stake here, and help to chart its future.
Steep mountains, thick brush, heavy rains, and wild oceans have kept most adventurers away from this coast. Along our path, only the Inside Passage is regularly traveled by human power, and only in summer, by boat. We'll be facing one of the world's wettest climates, rainforests thick with brushy undergrowth and some of the largest glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland. More brown (grizzly) bears live in this region than anywhere else on the planet. We'll hazard fjord crossings in the wind and surf and experience the long dark nights of the Alaskan winter and temperatures that could dip to -40 degrees F (though it probably won't get quite that cold). The winds of the Alaska Peninsula are legendary. On top of this, we must keep our bodies and minds intact for over nine months of physically challenging travel.
Six days of food
In summer and fall, we'll be traveling largely on foot, through the thick rainforests of the B.C. and southeast Alaska coasts. In the winter, skis will carry us over the frozen tundra and marshlands of the Alaska Peninsula. We expect to be walking a bit over one-third of the way, skiing about the same amount and packrafting the rest. Across the whole nine months, packrafting is the key to this journey. Without a boat, we couldn't make our way through the convoluted fjords of the Inside Passage, paddle glacier-filled bays on the Gulf of Alaska, cross wide and icy rivers or bridge the gap between the Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Island.
On this journey, our eating schedule will be at the mercy of the village groceries, where we will resupply as often as is feasible. On average, we'll hit resupply spots about once a week. In urban areas, we might shop every day, but in the more remote regions of our trip it can be over three hundred miles between towns, and we may end up carrying up to 16 days of food at a time.
To train for this trip, I am typing this article, acquiring gear, and moving out of our house. Hig is finishing his PhD thesis. Aside from our normal city activities (I do aikido), we're not doing anything particular to get in shape for this expedition. This journey is not a race. And the first 100 miles will be great training for the next 3900.
Though we'll try to keep gear resupplies at a minimum, we will be mailing gear to replace worn out shoes and socks, mail home notes and pictures, and to pick up skis and warm clothing for the winter. We'll also be mailing a laptop ahead of us to the larger towns, primarily as a way to back up our thousands of photos. Stay tuned for more on gear in the next article.
We're starting in Seattle because it's our current home; we're ending on Unimak Island because that's as far as our mode of travel can take us. The Pacific Ocean ties this route together, but across four thousand miles the character of our journey will change dramatically. The seasons will shift from early summer to late winter. The ecology will slowly transform from towering rainforests hugging steep island coasts to windswept tundra between the cones of volcanoes. And with the changes in ecology, geology, population, and politics, the issues will change as well. We'll move from urbanization, to salmon farms and clear cuts, to remote mining prospects.
Cities, suburbs, and the Cascade Mountains – June 2007
Our Seattle neighborhood
On June 9th, we'll step out our front door with the biggest crowd we can muster, heading north along a paved urban trail. From Seattle, we'll walk east along the Tolt River aqueduct, which is the water supply for the city and connects us directly to the Cascade Mountains. We'll hike through the proposed Wild Sky wilderness area avoiding the I-5 corridor, and explore some of the wilder chunks of Washington. From the Cascades, we will float the Skagit River to the coast, and walk beaches and roads north from Bellingham to Vancouver.
On this first leg of the trip, the landscape will be shaped by the people that live here. Over two million people live in the greater Seattle area alone. The obstacles we'll encounter will be different from those we will face on most of our journey. We'll choose our routes not for efficiency of travel, but to avoid the highways. And we'll choose our campsites based on stealth, private property signs, and the likelihood of getting harassed by the cops.
Vancouver Island Coast – July 2007
Vancouver Island sits at the southern end of British Columbia, shielding the mainland from the storms and rain of the Pacific Ocean. As the tide wraps around the island, swift rapids form in the narrow channels, and boats line up to cross at slack tide. Ships of all sizes cruise up and down the passage, ferrying passengers and freight, netting salmon, or guiding tourists. We'll be detouring through the mountains, paddling amongst the kayaks and ferries in our little packrafts and walking across many tiny islands.
Disjointed highways run along the southern end of the coast, connected by ferries. Logging roads crisscross the tiny islands. Most of the forests here have been cut, and some are now re-growing. Salmon farms speckle the sheltered bays, delivering their waste to the ocean and their diseases to nearby wild runs. Almost half the salmon eaten in the world now come from farms like these.
Great Bear Rainforest – July-August 2007
Extending along the British Columbia coast from Bute Inlet to Alaska, the Great Bear Rainforest is one of the largest remaining old-growth temperate rainforests in the world. It gets its name for its abundance of grizzlies and black bears, as well as the rare white variant of the black bear known as the Kermode or Spirit Bear. Salmon farms are rare here, and as we travel through the forest, the wild salmon will be returning to their streams to spawn.
The Great Bear Rainforest lies in the middle of the Inside Passage, an ancient transportation corridor for the native people who lived along the coast. With an abundance of salmon and cedar in its sheltered waters, the passage once supported one of the densest native populations in North America.
Tongass National Forest – October 2007
Misty Fjords Wilderness
In Southeast Alaska, the climate is cold enough, and the precipitation great enough, that the tongues of mountain glaciers begin to reach the ocean. Towering peaks and ice fields isolate the coast from the Canadian interior. We'll be traveling through this rainforest during the rains of autumn, relying heavily on fleece clothing and dry suits to keep misery at bay.
From Ketchikan, we will detour into Canada, through the volcanic country between the Unuk and Iskut Rivers, past remote sites of mining exploration and abandoned mines. The Stikine River will carry us back into the U.S., and into the Tongass forest.
The Tongass is the largest national forest in the U.S., but lies in a harsh climate, draped over steep and mountainous terrain. Much of what looks like forest on the map is rock, ice, or muskeg on the ground. Even the forest itself varies greatly with location. Old growth trees on the ridge tops are small and spindly, while huge trees live only in the few flat valleys near sea level. Most of these have already been logged. The Tongass was carved up for the benefit of two pulp companies in the 1950s, and was logged at an unsustainable rate and at enormous taxpayer expense ever since. Though these long-term contracts have not been in effect since the 1990s, it remains to be seen what will happen to the enduring wild areas of the Tongass.
Gulf of Alaska – November 2007
The Inside Passage, and most of its boat traffic, ends at Glacier Bay. From here, we will walk on a much harsher and wilder coast. The Gulf of Alaska is wide open to the fury of the Pacific Ocean, and no land blocks the storms. The few protected bays are headed by glaciers. 15,000 foot peaks rise barely fifteen miles from the sea, and where there are no fjords the glaciers spill out over the flatlands, nearly touching the shore. At high tide, the open Pacific laps at the toe of La Perouse glacier.
Some of the largest glaciers in North America line this coast. The Malaspina covers fifteen hundred square miles, and will take us three whole days just to walk around. Huge volumes of water spill out from under the glaciers in dozens of different channels, necessitating repeated packraft crossings.
Traveling in November, we may be exposed to some of this coast's impressive storms, when we can expect twenty inches of rain to fall on us in a month. With protected boat harbors scarce, the Gulf of Alaska coast is a largely unpopulated place. We may need to walk over three hundred miles between Yakutat and Cordova without a resupply.
Prince William Sound to Cook Inlet – December 2007
Packraft and Oil Rig in Cook Inlet
Surrounded by the rugged Chugach Mountains, Prince William Sound is a bay of convoluted glacial fjords encompassed in the Chugach National Forest. We will walk and raft the eastern edge of the sound, sticking close to sea level to avoid the snow.
As the northernmost ice-free port in the U.S., Valdez serves as the endpoint of the oil pipeline from the arctic north slope, and was the site of the infamous 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Valdez is also the first place since Haines, in Southeast Alaska, where a road reaches the ocean.
As we leave Valdez, the last of the temperate rainforest will be behind us. The Chugach Mountains provide a barrier between the temperate ocean and the cold interior. Crossing them in December, we will enter the true depths of winter, switching our travel mode from foot to skis. After six months of travel, spare fat will have long since melted from our bodies, and in the increasingly cold temperatures we will be forced to carry more food for each day of travel.
After ten days of resting and fattening up in Anchorage, enjoying the wonders of electricity, we'll point our packrafts across Knik Arm, along with any intrepid Anchorage packrafters who want to join us. Skiing down the west side of Cook Inlet, we'll visit the site of the proposed Chuitna Coal Mine, and head over the mountains towards Lake Clark.
Bristol Bay Uplands – January 2008
Pebble Valley, proposed mine site
On Lake Clark, mountains separate us from the Pacific Ocean and its tempering effect on the climate. In the interior landscape of the Bristol Bay watershed, winter is dry and cold. Narrow strips of forest along rivers and lakes are surrounded by plains of rolling tundra. Where the country is open, travel on skis should be relatively easy. But the days will be short, and our winter gear will be both bulkier and heavier than in summer and fall.
At the end of Lake Clark, we'll reach the familiar territory of Nondalton village and the Pebble Valley – a place I've visited three times in the past two years. Rarely seen by outsiders until a few years ago, Pebble Valley is at the heart of a controversial proposal to build one of the largest gold and copper mines in the world. The proposed Pebble Mine site lies at the headwaters of two of the world's largest salmon spawning rivers, which drain into Bristol Bay. Heavily opposed by commercial, sport, and subsistence fishermen, and heavily funded by the mining industry, Pebble's fate is still uncertain.
From Pebble, we will travel south to Lake Iliamna. Following the route of proposed mine road, and against the prevailing winds, we will ski the frozen lake edge east, back to Cook Inlet and the Pacific Ocean.
Alaska Peninsula – February 2008
Packrafting Bristol Bay
The volcanic line of the Aleutian Range stretches southwest, forming the Alaska Peninsula. Bounded on the north by the cold Bering Sea, and on the south by the warmer Pacific Ocean, the Alaska Peninsula is in some places only a few miles wide. Winds howl across this thin strip of land between two oceans.
From Katmai Park at the base of the peninsula, we will travel southwest past the last of the spruce trees, into a wind-swept land of brush and tundra. In February, the region's legendary bears will be asleep, the salmon still at sea, and the volcanoes snow capped and steaming.
Peulik Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula
We will ski over thousands of unmarked acres of mining claims and prospects, buried beneath the snow. No mines exist in Southwest Alaska now, but with metal prices rising, mining companies around the world are turning their attention to this remote area.
Unimak Island – March 2008
The Alaska Peninsula ends at a narrow strait, one mile from the town of False Pass on Unimak Island, first of the Aleutians. The Alaska Peninsula trends both west and south, and by the time we reach Unimak, we will be at the same latitude as Prince Rupert (on the B.C. coast). The Bering Sea keeps the climate far colder here, but as winter wears on, we may have to deal with warming spells.
Temperatures just above freezing present some of the most difficult weather in winter. Snow that brushes easily off our gear sinks in as rain, chilling us, and freezing solid when the temperature drops again. Hard snow can melt to slush, slowing travel.
From False Pass, we will skirt the volcanic cones to the black sand beaches at Scotch Cap, at the southwestern end of the island. Separated from the next island by twelve miles of stormy open ocean, Scotch Cap marks the limit of the range for all large mammals. It's the end of the line for caribou, the end of the line for bears, and the end of the line for packrafters.
Gore Point Beach, Kenai Fjords, Alaska
I'm not sure why this is such a common question, but everyone seems to ask, "are you walking back?" No. After 4000 miles of human-powered travel, we certainly intend to take advantage of modern gasoline-fueled power to return from False Pass. Though I don't even know what state we'll end up in, I know what I'll be doing: writing a book, and seeking in whatever way possible to communicate about the issues and the places of our journey.


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Dogs called Max are Scotland's naughtiest pets, according to a new study.
Staffordshire bull terriers (11%) and Labradors (8%) top the list as the naughtiest dog breeds, whereas Golden Retrievers are more well-behaved, with only 3% of their owners reporting their naughty behaviour.
Research by Pets at Home and Petplan Insurance reveals that over a third of pets owners (35%) have had to cancel what they had planned because their pet had been naughty. 11% have missed a night out and 8% have a party or a holiday because of their pet's behaviour.
Around two thirds (65%) of pet owners admit that their pet has eaten something they shouldn't, which can result in a visit to the vet's surgery and the additional veterinary costs that come with it. 24% say that their pet has eaten its own poo, and a third (38%) of pets have eaten their owner's dinner.
In 2016, Petplan Insurance paid out £4.7million for pets who had swallowed foreign objects and £2.3 million for poisoning.
Toys (23%), shoes (24%) and socks (24%) are the most common non-edible items pets have eaten, with other strange items pets have been caught eating include false teeth, batteries and a bag of knitting.
Others cannot trust their pet to be left alone at home, with 35% of pets doing a poo somewhere they shouldn't, and 26% of pets ruining furniture.
Pets at Home is working in partnership with Petplan, the UK's number one pet insurance provider, to help ensure pets get the treatment they deserve and cover for the unexpected, regardless of their naughtiness.
Jonny Armstrong, Head of Insurance for Pet's at Home, said: "Pet insurance is an integral part of responsible pet ownership. It allows owners to seek veterinary advice at the earliest opportunity and get the necessary treatment to ensure the long term health of their pet, something we know pet owners prioritise.
"We know that pets will naturally get up to no good, particularly when it comes to eating things they shouldn't, so it's best to be prepared for any unfortunate or unexpected incidents."
We all know that our pets can get themselves into bumps and scrapes as a result of their naughtiness. If your pet ever puts themselves in danger through ingesting something they shouldn't have, then ensure you seek medical attention from a veterinary surgeon immediately. Ensure you keep anything they shouldn't have locked away in order to prevent any unwanted mishaps taking place as a result.
To find out more about Petplan pet insurance through Pets at Home, please visit Petsathome.com/petplan.
Top 10 unusual items pets have been caught eating:
1. Batteries
2. Bean bag
3. Dirty nappy
4. Glasses case
5. Bag of knitting
6. False teeth
7. Rubber chicken
8. Sanitary towel
9. Tinfoil
10. Wedding certificate
Top 10 cities with the naughtiest pets:
1. Newcastle
2. Manchester
3. Glasgow
4. Southampton
5. London
6. Nottingham
7. Edinburgh
8. Plymouth
9. Norwich
10. Birmingham.

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I just committed some new code for Themis examples, which for now on, will be also an integration tests. The whole case is about values which are allowed for some roles.
Let's take a case where there are two types of users: Admins and standard users, for the sake of briefness called Users. Let Admins are allowed to choice an offer type between Internal and External, and a standard user's choice is narrowed to one value: Internal. How can a domain be modeled to handle it easily? First of all roles are needed:
public class AdminRoleDefinition : RoleDefinitionBase<Admin> { public AdminRoleDefinition( ) { ValueIsAllowed(OfferType.Internal); ValueIsAllowed(OfferType.External); } } public class UserRoleDefinition : RoleDefinitionBase<User> { public UserRoleDefinition( ) { ValueIsAllowed (OfferType.Internal); } }
What's the method ValueIsAllowed? It's a simple, internal extension method, setting the possible value, using an markup demand.
public static class ServiceExtensions { public static TValue[] GetAllowedValues<TValue>(this IDemandService @this, params object[] roles) { return @this.Evaluate<AllowedValueDemand<TValue>, TValue>( AllowedValueDemand<TValue>.Instance, roles); } } internal sealed class AllowedValueDemand<TValue> : IDemand<TValue> { public static readonly AllowedValueDemand<TValue> Instance = new AllowedValueDemand<TValue>(); }
Having all this configured, now one can query a demand service for allowed values for a specific drop-down! It could be also done on the filtering basis with NHibernate, but it was an example how simply extensible Themis is.


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Capcom will launch downloadable content for DmC Devil May Cry that will allow players to take control of Vergil, Dante's twin brother.
Hardly surprising, Capcom have to find ways to scrounge every last dime out of their customers somehow.
i will boycott
enough is enough!
I played half an hour of it at PAX. It's a dumbed down Heavenly Swords with cringe-worthy exposition and dialogue.
I cant wait to play the full game! I Played a bit of it at NYC comic con and it felt pretty good and responsive, The demo launches pretty soon so many doubters will have time to judge for themselves I cant wait for it! :-) January 15th needs to hurry the F up!


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Preparation Time: 5 mins
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Yield: 8 x (approx. 2 Tbsp servings)
Combine avocado with goat cheese and mix until well blended. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
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The Era of the Mobile Web
IBM recently released a new study titled, "Go mobile, grow... Should mobile internet services be the next big growth gamble for mobile device makers". The IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed nearly 700 consumers in the United States, Japan, India, China and Germany on their current satisfaction and preferences of the mobile internet.
Only 20% of consumers surveyed indicated that they were "very satisfied" with their current mobile services, the remaining 80% of consumers were split between "somewhat satisfied (40%)" and varying levels of dissatisfied (17%) and non-users(23%). When asked "What stops you from using mobile Internet more often than what you do today?" 50% of consumers indicated it was too expensive, 40% indicated the connection was too slow, 37% indicated they didn't find it convenient and 17% indicated they had tried it but didn't find it useful.
Despite the low level of satisfaction with the current state of the mobile Internet the study estimates that the number of mobile Internet users worldwide is projected to approach 1 billion, a 191 percent increase from 2006 and a compound annual growth rate of 24 percent.
The market forces feeding this growth include:
- A growing number of mobile Internet users:
The next generation of "digital natives" is leading the way, these are users who have grown up accustomed to using mobile devices to access digital content and applications on the mobile Internet. Their expectations of the mobile internet are much higher than any generation before.
In mature markets, the study predicts users will increasingly use the mobile Internet to extend their personal computers. Microsoft for example is looking to capitalize on this trend through a new service called Microsoft Mesh which provides a set of personal Internet services and software creating a seamless connection or mesh between the desktop and the consumer's mobile devices.
In emerging markets like India and China, consumers are skipping the PC and going straight to high-end mobile platforms that deliver the same services they might have found in their first PC. A significant percentage of the world's population may first experience the Internet on a mobile device.
- A growing number of internet ready mobile devices:
The next generation of mobile devices coming onto the market today can support mobile internet applications, especially rich internet applications which use the back-end computing power of the internet "cloud". According to the study Smart phone shipments are expected to grow at about 25 percent annually and reach 150 million units by 2009. These new devices have the increased computing power and storage capacity needed to extend the desktop.
- Faster wireless broadband networks anytime, anywhere:
Connection speed and convenience were major road blocks to mobile Internet usage according to the study. The increasing ubiquity of faster wireless broadband like 3G and WiMax will play a major role in the increase usage of the mobile Internet.
- Improved, easier to use human interface:
Innovations like rollable screens and nano projectors are driving to make the "Fourth Screen" a reality ( the first screen being the movie screen, the second the television screen and the third the PC screen.)
Combined with other innovations like virtual keyboards, voice recognition and multiple touch screens the human interface to the mobile internet will diminish as another major road block to adoption.
- More reasonable pricing for using the mobile Internet:
The competition for the mobile Internet is fierce and includes some of the world's most prominent brands, such as Google, Apple, Vodafone, Nokia, RIM, Yahoo and MSN in addition to the plethora of other network providers and mobile device makers. Competition for market share will require competitors to provide attractive pricing that creates a strong value proposition for customers. The study predicts that a transition from volume-based pricing to flat rate data tariffs will kickstart an upward cycle in mobile Internet usage which will in turn make the mobile Internet more attractive to content providers.
- More applications, more choice, more customization:
A key finding in the study reveals 80 percent of consumers would prefer a service provider that gave them more choice in the applications and services available on their mobile devices, and 69 percent of consumers going further to state their preference for devices that are open to personalization and configuration of applications. An interesting note according to the study, three of the top five ranked mobile internet service offerings are from companies focused on software, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, the remaining two are mobile device makers Nokia and RIM.


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NEW YORK – Fire up your laptops, cellphones and even your video-game consoles. It's time to make your voice heard.
On Monday, Major League Soccer launched fan voting to determine the "All-Star Fan XI" for the 2013 AT&T MLS All-Star vs. AS Roma. This year, beyond the usual digital voting platforms -- online, text message, and Twitter -- MLS is incorporating an innovative integration of game play on EA SPORT FIFA Soccer 13, into the fan voting process.
Here's how the full Fan XI selection process works:
Fans can choose from a pool of 115 players, who were nominated by members of the media.
The 10 players with the highest combined votes from the three traditional voting methods will be named to the All-Star Fan XI.
The 11th player – a forward – will be decided after the general voting window closes on July 2, as part of what is called the AT&T MLS All-Star "In the Game" Challenge. Among remaining forwards on the ballot, the player with whom fans score the most goals in EA SPORTS FIFA Soccer 13 from July 3-July 10 will be named to the Fan XI.
The first 10 players voted to the Fan XI will be announced on Sunday, July 7, on ESPN during halftime of the Chicago Fire-Sporting Kansas City match that kicks off at 3 p.m. ET. The AT&T MLS All-Star "In the Game" Forward will be unveiled on July 11, after the play-in period finishes.
The rest of the MLS All-Star team will be selected by the coach, Sporting KC's Peter Vermes, and MLS Commissioner Don Garber, who is allotted two Commissioner picks each year.
Vermes will select the gameday roster and starting XI for the July 31 match at Sporting Park in Kansas City (9 p.m. ET | ESPN2 and Unimas in the US | TSN and RDS in Canada).
READ: MLSsoccer.com editors predict who might face Roma on July 31
The final list of 32 All-Stars (four goalkeepers, eight defenders, 13 midfielders and seven forwards) will be announced on MLSsoccer.com on July 31.
Here are more details on the four methods of selection available to fans:
1) Online at MLSsoccer.com: Vote for your starting lineup of 11 players, beginning June 10.
2) Via text message (SMS): Text an MLS player's last name to 22442, beginning June 10.
- Each vote will count equally with those submitted online in determining the Fan XI.
- Message and data rates may apply.
3) Via Twitter: From June 20-21; full details of Twitter voting will be released on MLSsoccer.com in the near future.
4) The AT&T MLS All-Star "In the Game" Challenge: From July 3 at 12 p.m. ET through July 10 at 3 p.m. ET
- The top two forwards who have received the most votes after voting closes are removed from the eligible forward list. Voting for the AT&T MLS All-Star "In the Game" Forward will then take place using FIFA Soccer 13. Fans will be invited to play the game and score as many goals as possible with their favorite player among the remaining eligible forwards. Each goal scored will count as one vote. The player who tallies the most goals will be named to the final spot on the Fan XI.


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Resident Evil - Game Information
For: PS1 - PS2 and PS3
Resident evil - 1: from 1996
In this game you play as: Chris Redfield or Jill Valentine
The player's character is a member of a special law enforcement task force who is trapped in a mansion populated by dangerous mutated creatures. The objective of the game is to uncover the mystery of the mansion and ultimately escape alive. The game's graphics consist of 3D polygonal characters and objects superimposed over pre-rendered backdrops with pre-determined camera angles. The player controls the character by pushing the d-pad or analog stick left or right to rotate the character and then move the character forward or backwards by the pushing the d-pad up or down.
To fulfill the game's objective, the player uncovers various documents that provide exposition about the game's narrative, as well as clues that help them solve various puzzles within the mansion. Key items are also available that give the player access to other items or new areas. The player can arm their character with weapons to defend themselves from enemies, although the ammunition available for each firearm is limited and the player must learn to conserve the ammunition they have for situations where they will really need it. To restore the character's health, the player uses first-aid sprays or three types of healing herbs that can be mixed together in different combinations for different healing effects. The carrying capacity of the player is limited depending on the character and items that the player does not wish to carry at the moment can be stored into an item box to be retrieved for later use. To save their progress, the player must pick up an ink ribbon and use it on any of the typewriters scattered through key locations in the game. However, the supply of ink ribbons the player can acquire is also limited much like the player's ammo and healing supplies. The various enemies the player encounters include infected creatures like flesh-eating zombies, zombie dogs, giant spiders, crows and artificial creatures with codenames such as Hunter and Chimera, as well as the game's ultimate adversary, a new type of biological weapon known as the Tyrant.
Resident evil - 2 from: 1998
In this game you play as: Leon S. Kennedy or Claire Redfield
The game is set two months after the events of the first Resident Evil, in the Midwestern American mountain community of Raccoon City. Nearly all of its citizens have been transformed into zombies by an outbreak of the T-virus, a new type of biological weapon secretly developed by the pharmaceutical company Umbrella. The game's two protagonists are Leon S. Kennedy, a rookie police officer on his first day in the local force, and Claire Redfield, a college student looking for her brother Chris. Having just arrived in the city, Leon and Claire make their way to the Raccoon Police Department, seeking protection from the mutated population.
There, they discover that most of the policemen have been killed already, and that Chris has left town to investigate the Umbrella headquarters in Europe. With no remaining motivation to stay, the two protagonists split up to look for other survivors and flee the city. While searching for an escape route, Claire meets a little girl named Sherry, who is on the run from an unknown creature, and Leon encounters Ada Wong, who claims to be looking for her boyfriend John, an Umbrella researcher.
Resident evil - 3: from 1999
In this game you play only as: Jill Valentine
The game begins on September 28, 1998. The player takes control of former Special Tactics And Rescue Service (STARS) member Jill Valentine in her attempt to escape a ruined and zombie-infested Raccoon City.
On her way to the Raccoon City police station, she runs into Brad Vickers, who is killed by Nemesis for being part of the STARS, since Umbrella believes that the STARS members know about their operations in the Arklay Mountains, and will reveal Umbrella to the world. Later on, she encounters three surviving members of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service (UBCS): Carlos Oliveira, Mikhail Victor and Nicholai Ginovaef. Nicholai is soon presumed dead after an encounter with zombies as Jill gets parts for the cable car. Mikhail sacrifices himself to save Jill and Carlos from the Nemesis, a bio-organic weapon. The cable car that the three were in bursts into flame and Jill and Carlos are separated.
Jill and Carlos meet up later in a clock tower where Carlos has said a rescue helicopter will arrive. Jill summons the helicopter by ringing the clock tower's bell. Nemesis destroys the helicopter, and infects Jill with a virus. Jill temporarily defeats Nemesis, Carlos finds her in a state of weakness, and she blacks out. During this period, Carlos searches for the vaccine to Jill's infection, as, unknown to either of them, Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield (Resident Evil 2) make their way into Raccoon City.
Resident evil - 4: from 2005
In this game you play only as: Leon S. Kennedy
Resident Evil 4 marks a new chapter in the Resident Evil series. You'll rejoin Leon S. Kennedy six years after his first mission as a rookie cop from Resident Evil 2.The player controls Leon S. Kennedy from a third-person, over-the-shoulder perspective in a mission to rescue the daughter of the President of the United States, Ashley Graham. The gameplay focuses on action and shootouts involving crowds of enemies in large open areas. The camera is focused behind Leon, and it zooms in for an over-the-shoulder view when aiming a weapon. Unlike previous games in the series, there is the addition of a laser sight that adds a new depth to the aiming, allowing the player to aim in various directions and easily change their placement at any time. Bullets affect the enemies specifically where they are shot: shots to the feet can cause enemies to stumble, while shots to the arms can cause them to drop their weapons.
Another new aspect of Resident Evil 4 is the inclusion of context-sensitive controls. Based on the situation, the player can interact with aspects of their environment: kicking down a ladder, jumping out of a window, or dodging an enemy attack. There are also dynamic cut scenes, in which the player must press buttons indicated on-screen to execute actions such as dodging a falling boulder or wrestling an enemy to stay alive. These are often incorporated into the game's many boss battles, where the player must avoid instant kill attacks.
The main enemies are violent villagers referred to as Los Ganados ("The Cattle" in Spanish). Los Ganados can dodge, wield melee and projectile weapons, and are capable of working collectively and communicating with each other. They were once simple farmers until becoming the product of an infestation of Las Plagas ("The Plague" in Spanish).
Resident evil - 5: from 2009
In this game you play as: Chris Redfield or Sheva Alomar
Chris Redfield, a former STARS member and now part of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA), is dispatched to Kijuju, Africa to work with Sheva Alomar to apprehend Ricardo Irving before he can sell a bio-organic weapon (BOW) on the black market. Upon arriving, they discover the locals have been converted by parasites into Majini, and that the members of the BSAA's Alpha team have been killed.
Chris and Sheva are rescued by BSAA's Delta team, whose membership includes Sheva's mentor Josh Stone. In the data provided by Josh, Chris sees a photograph of Jill Valentine, his old partner, presumed dead after a confrontation with Albert Wesker. Chris, Sheva, and Delta team close in on Irving, but he manages to escape with the help of a hooded figure, leaving behind documents that lead Chris and Sheva to oil fields in the marshlands where Irving's deal is to occur. They soon discover this was a diversion created by Irving to allow the deal to take place. Chris and Sheva attempt to regroup with Delta team, but at the rendezvous, find the team slaughtered by a BOW; Sheva cannot find Josh among the bodies.
Resident evil - Operation Raccoon City : from 2011
In this game you play as: Umbrella team or Spec Ops team
Umbrella Security Service (USS) Delta team enters the Raccoon City Underground Laboratory, where they meet up with Alpha team leader HUNK. Their mission is to assist Alpha team in stopping Dr. Birkin from handing over his T-Virus research to the U.S. military and retrieve the G-virus. On their way to Birkin's lab, they find Birkin has paid numerous Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service (UBCS) mercenaries to work for him while the deal goes forward. When they reach Birkin's lab, the doctor is shot, and HUNK and another Alpha leave with the samples. They soon find that Birkin survived the attack and infected himself with the virus. The Birkin creature proceeds to kill off most of Alpha team before disappearing; HUNK offers to go back in search of the sample.
Not long after the battle, it becomes evident that the T-virus has leaked city-wide, and people are beginning to transform into flesh-hungry zombies. In what they see as a punishment by USS command, Delta team is ordered to remove evidence of Umbrella's role in the outbreak. Heading into Raccoon City Hall, Delta team meets with a UBCS mercenary and they monitor Nicholai Ginovaef; he is soon revealed as a traitor and attempts to kill Delta team.
Later, the team is sent out around Raccoon Park to find the Nemesis-T Type, which has gone rogue. A second parasite is injected into its body in order to bring it back under control. Shortly after this mission is completed, the team is then sent out to the Raccoon City Police Department, ordered to kill any surviving police officers and destroy evidence linking the company to the outbreak. When this is done, the team exits the station, and soon after encounter Leon S. Kennedy, whom they begin to hunt down along with Sherry Birkin. After they find and corner Leon, Claire Redfield and Sherry, the game can end in two ways: in one ending, the team resigns from Umbrella over their abandonment during the mission and betrays them by letting the three live; in the other, Leon and Claire are executed and Sherry is sent to an Umbrella facility.


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Galveston audience sees first composite photos of two historic shipwrecks
The discovery of three historic shipwrecks, most likely from the same event, is so unusual in the northern Gulf of Mexico that just about any information gained from their analysis will chart new ground, said a researcher on the project.
Amy Borgens, the state marine archaeologist with the Texas Historical Commission in Austin, spoke Thursday at Galveston's Moody Gardens about the shipwrecks she visited with a team of scientists in July.
They were on the exploration vessel Nautilus, from which a remotely operated vehicle retrieved about 60 artifacts from a 200-year-old shipwreck.
The Nautilus docked in Galveston July 25, while the wreck, its identity and origin still unknown, remains in about 4,300 feet of water some 150 to 170 miles off Galveston.
The artifacts are soaking in water at a Texas A&M lab in College Station to desalinate them, so the processing work known as "conservation" hasn't started yet, Borgens said.
"Now is a jumping off point," she said. "We were hoping more would be going on with the artifact assemblage but we're not at that phase yet."
Frederick Hanselmann, chief underwater archaeologist at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University in San Marcos, also spoke Thursday at Moody Gardens.
During their weeklong trip on the Nautilus, the researchers also visited two other shipwrecks within about five miles of the primary one and conducted the first remote video surveys of those sites.
Composite photos known as "photomosaics" of the two other shipwrecks were shown for the first time to the Moody Gardens audience, Borgens said.
The photomosaics give "incredibly detailed views of the shipwreck," she said.
The researchers believe the three ships were somehow involved in privateering but don't have proof yet, she said.
A privateer was a ship with a crew that had been issued a commission by a government, giving it permission to attack and capture certain vessels, such as merchant vessels from enemy nations, Hanselmann said in July.
Because the ships are all in such deep water, it makes it harder to figure out what happened to them, Borgens said.
"So many things are stacked on top of each other," she said. "Were some of those cannons cargo? Those are big questions."
Using the remote vehicle, the crew took a small sample of the main ship's wood hull. It will be sent to a lab to try to determine the ship's nation of origin.


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Tooling Article
Manifolds or Stand-Alone Gas Springs--Make the Right Choice
Low-Pressure-Rise Manifolds Ideal for Drawing
"Manifold systems often have found a home in first-station drawing
Manifold systems supply low, even
pressure without spikes, making them ideal for deep-draw applications
where sudden pressure rises can tear material.
Protect Piston Rods to Prevent Leaks
Something else to remember about manifold systems—they all feature bore-seal cylinders that protect piston rods. Grinding particles, trim steels and shavings all can locate around cylinders in a typical stamping environment.
"With cylinders in manifold systems," explains Sanchez, "the condition of the piston rod is not an issue because you are sealing on the bore. With a standard rod-seal gas spring, the main seal surface is the piston rod itself, so any imperfections on the surface of the piston rod will cause leaks. A rule of thumb: If you run your fingernail across the piston-rod surface and it snags, a leak is guaranteed."
On each stroke, as the imperfection passes by the seal, some nitrogen will escape. Over the course of several strokes, the system will continue to deplete its nitrogen volume.
"In a harsh environment where metal shavings or other abrasive contaminants find their to the piston-rod scraper surface," offers Sanchez, "you'll want to employ manifolds, not rod-seal gas springs, in the lower die. A rod-seal gas spring, in many cases, will not perform as well as a manifold system in this type of environment."
Consider Gas Volume
The difference in available gas volume between manifold systems and individual gas springs also should be considered.
"A manifold system contains significantly more gas volume than typical gas springs," Sanchez says. "In the event that over the course of the system's lifecycle a leak develops, the initial gas volume is so large that the system will take quite some time to bleed down. However, a quick hiss or two coming from a gas spring could be a significant amount of escaping nitrogen—a large percentage of gas volume, depending on the cylinder diameter."
So if you are looking for longevity, manifold systems again get the call.
Individual Gas Springs Best for Small Stripping Force
So when do hosed gas springs get the call? When applications require minimal stripping force and manifold systems simply would be overkill.
"An example is the use of pre-lubricated material where the compressed oil creates a small vacuum," Sanchez explains. "Another: where metalformers want to avoid any imperfections on parts, mini gas springs provide minimal force without causing damage."
Do Homework Up Front
Whatever force method is applied, it's best to make the correct selection during die design. Changes after die construction bring higher costs and in some cases long delays.
"Be careful when designing complex geometries or deep-drawn flanged channels without a pad delay, which can lead to part inversion—turning the part inside-out," says Sanchez. "If a die is already built without a neded delay, changes can be expensive and time-consuming. Thorough knowledge of part geometry and the means to produce that part prior to die build is the better alternative. Consult an expert beforehand and conduct simulations."
Over-utilizing parallels provides a case in point for planning that can save time and money.
"A designer may know that the die will contain a certain amount of parallels due to the shut height of a particular die," Sanchez says. "He can design clearance holes through the die shoe and place a nitrogen system, whether pocketed cylinders or a manifold system, right into a parallel. This proves beneficial, especially to a shop that standardizes parallel heights, because the nitrogen systems can be used on various dies." MF
See also: HYSON Metal Forming Solutions
Related Enterprise Zones: Tool & Die


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We provide a canoe or kayak, paddles, PFDs (personal floatation devices), shuttle service and at least one experienced guide/naturalist for all guided trips. These trips are good for paddlers of all skill levels who enjoy paddling with others to share the adventure. The guide will give a brief paddling and safety talk before each trip and can help you along the way. Advance registration is required for all guided trips.


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Popular PSEO program is free for students, pricey for school districts
Adam Gardner is in his first semester at Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount. He's a soft-spoken senior at Cannon Falls High School, south of the Twin Cities.
Gardner's Detroit Tigers baseball cap is fashionably cocked off to one side. The words "skate or die" line his t-shirt. He's easily the youngest person in Gayle Larson's 11 a.m. writing and research class, but in no way does he stand out in the mix of recent high school graduates and older returning students.
"It's actually more laid back than I thought it would be," Gardner said. "Better than high school was. There are a lot more people here. Everybody talks to everybody. It's more open. There's no clicky kind of things going."
His mother, Laura Gardner, said Adam has already embraced his new environment and has a renewed focus to study business at a four-year university next fall.
"He's already, in his first week, made friends," Laura Gardner said. "He's finding out you don't just have to sit in class. You have more choices, more consequences, more responsibilities. I think it will be great for him to learn how to step up and take control of his own life, which is one thing he didn't like about high school -- being told what to do."
And for the 15 credits Adam will end up with, he saves his family more than $2,000 toward the cost of his college education.
But that money has to come from somewhere.
"(There) are actually too many students for one teacher and not enough for two. And this creates problems for us."
Adam is one of 11 students at Cannon Falls High School taking PSEO courses full time this year. That's about 10 percent of the senior class.
When those students leave the building, state money -- between $5,000 and $6,000 per student -- goes with them.
It's a reality Superintendent Todd Sesker said his district has learned to live with. He said Cannon Falls has to compete by offering Advanced Placement courses, and providing something else the college campuses can't.
"Some students are ready to go to college and ready to get out and work in the real world," Sesker said. "They're tired of high school and they want to try something different. And other kids aren't. They like the community and the social atmosphere that a high school offers."
The budget crunch for Cannon Falls gets worse because the district sees its enrollment drop about 20 students a year.
The PSEO balancing act gets tougher the smaller the school.
In northern Minnesota, the Ely School District is reeling from a series of financial setbacks. In addition, 12 high school students are going full time, and four are part time, at nearby Vermillion Community College this year.
School Board Chairman Ray Marsnik, himself a graduate of Ely Memorial High School, said each student is crucial to the future of the district, now more than ever.
"We're getting classes that are basically right around 40, which are actually too many students for one teacher and not enough for two. And this creates problems for us," Marsnik said.
Ely doesn't have enough students or teachers to offer Advanced Placement courses like some larger districts do, in order to compete for the PSEO students and the state education money that goes with them.
When the PSEO program started statewide in the mid-'80s, about 3,500 students took PSEO courses. That number has now leveled off at about 7,500. That's about 5.5 percent of the state's 11th and 12th graders.
State Education Commissioner Alice Seagren said PSEO has valuable financial and educational benefits for students.
"I think we need to look at this much more holistic, and look at a seamless system and a transition period and points where kids can ... kind of come back and forth between the two systems," Seagren said. "Bottom line, how can we help our kids and support them?"
The state Legislature changed the PSEO funding formula in the early 1990s to help school districts. They now get a small part, 12 percent, of the state money they normally would have gotten for each student before PSEO.
School administrators and state officials don't expect the Legislature to increase that any time in the future.


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Once you have found out you are pregnant, the next step is usually deciding who you would like to provide your care and where you would like to give birth. The choices open to you very much depend on where you live. If you live in a major city, you have a wide range of options. However if you live in the country your options are more limited. General practitioners (GP) are usually aware of most of the choices that are available in your local area. Other sources of information include contacting your local hospital or contacting organisations such as Childbirth Education Association, Maternity Alliance, Association for Improvement in Maternity Services, Homebirth Australia, Australian Society of Independent Midwives or Australian College of Midwives. You could also look up the yellow pages - sometimes you can find listings under 'Childbirth Services' or refer to books or magazines.
The internationally accepted definition of a midwife is:
She must be able to give the necessary supervision, care and advice to women during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, to conduct deliveries on her own responsibility and to care for the newborn and the infant. This care includes preventative measures, the detection of abnormal conditions in mother and child, the procurement of medical assistance and the execution of emergency measures in the absence of medical help. She has an important task in health counselling and education, not only for the woman, but also within the family and the community. The work should involve antenatal education and preparation for parenthood and extends to certain areas of gynaecology, family planning and child care. She may practice in hospitals, clinics, health units, domiciliary conditions or in any other service (World Health Organisation, International Confederation of Midwives and International Federation of Gynaecologists).
Midwives in Australia are registered with individual state Nursing Registration Boards. A midwife can provide prenatal care, care for you during labour, assist you to give birth, stay a couple of hours after the birth and provide postnatal care for up to six weeks after the birth. Midwives believe that pregnancy and birth are normal physiological events. Midwives focus on the whole person, that is the physical, psychological, social and spiritual person. A midwife is trained to identify complications and to make appropriate referrals when necessary. Midwives assist women to give birth in hospitals, birth centres and at home. The majority of midwives are employed in hospitals and some practice independently. Those midwives that practice independently may have visiting rights to a hospital.
Many hospitals offer midwifery services which can include midwifery run antenatal clinics, team midwifery programs and case load midwifery programs. Team midwifery programs usually comprise of a team (usually no more than 8) midwives that care for you during pregnancy, birth and postnatally. Case load programs provide one or two midwives to care for you.
With independent midwives, you are able to select the midwife with who you feel most comfortable. It can be difficult to find out who are the independent midwives in your area. To find out more about midwives or independent midwives you can contact the following:
General Practitioners (GP's) are doctors who are trained to treat the whole family. They are generalists which means they have skills in many areas, but specialise in none. A GP is commonly the first person you see when you find out you are pregnant. Many GP's are able to continue to see you during your pregnancy if they are accredited with your local hospital. This form of care is known as shared care. This means that your care is shared between your GP and the Hospital. The hospital midwives and/or doctors usually provide care during labour, birth and postnatally. Some GP's, particularly those practicing in country areas, can provide complete maternity care including attending women during labour and birth. These GP's, although not qualified as obstetricians, have usually received further education to enable them to care for women experiencing normal pregnancy. The majority of GP's prefer women to give birth in hospital although there a few who, in conjunction with midwives, will attend women who choose to give birth at home. If any complications arise the GP will refer to an obstetrician. Some women feel that an advantage of seeing their family GP is that they have already built a relationship with them and that they will continue to see the GP after the baby's birth.
An obstetrician is a doctor who has specific training in obstetrics. Obstetrics is a branch of medicine that deals with management of women during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. Obstetricians receive extensive training in their field of expertise. They are specialists in abnormal pregnancies and complicated labours. Obstetricians primarily are concerned with the physical aspects of pregnancy and birth. Obstetricians only work within the hospital setting. Women can see an obstetrician privately. This means they see the obstetrician for all their prenatal care. When a woman goes into labour, she will be attended by the hospital midwives with the obstetrician being informed of progress. The obstetrician usually arrives during the second stage of labour in time to deliver the baby. The obstetrician will usually visit the woman in hospital after the birth and sees her for a six week check-up. If choosing a private obstetrician, the hospital will automatically charge you for private care. A Medicare rebate is available for the obstetrician's fee but there is usually a considerable gap that you have to pay. The private rate for the hospital is usually covered (to varying degrees) if you hold private health insurance. If you choose public health care you will find that some obstetricians are employed by public hospitals. You are sometimes able to meet them at the prenatal clinic. Obstetricians in public hospitals are usually only involved with labour and birth if complications arise.
Choosing the right practitioner is a very personal decision. There is no right or wrong way to go about selecting the best person for you. You may find it helpful to talk to family and friends to find out what their experiences were like. You can gather information about your choices available through books, magazines, the internet, friends, family and health organisations. Think about where you would like to give birth (eg. large hospital, small hospital, public hospital, private hospital, birth centre or home) as practitioners only assist women to give birth in a limited number of places. It can be helpful when trying to make a decision to write down a list of questions you may have. Some issues to consider are:
You can interview different health professionals for a fee. It is important during the interview to present your questions in a relaxed and friendly manner. It is not an interrogation. The following are a sample of questions that you may like to consider asking a practitioner.
There are many other questions that can be asked, research and reflect on what is important to yourself and your partner.
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Doma makes his Arrival be officially known.
On a smoke filled stage, Damir Doma's intergalactic vision became clear. Or was it inspired by martial arts? Or maybe a show of quasi-religious outfits? Probably a combination of them all. What is clear, though, is that the menswear schedule in Paris has got itself a hot new name. A massive mob outside the show pushed and shouted to get in, but nothing worked…
But that can't be said of Doma's aesthetic vision. Grey and powerful, over sized and often bloc patterned, Damir Doma created a breathtaking show at the Garage on Rue de Turenne.Many models were hooded or wore turban-esque hats and both continued the feeling of having joined a secretive following. A few Feodora hats even had an Amish touch to them.
There is, of course, nothing secretive about Damir Doma, and neither is his clothes, for that matter, secretive. On the contrary, it was clear to many people leaving his show on Saturday evening that Doma will soon be a household name in fashion.
Dazed Digital: What inspired the collection?
Damir Doma: There was an poetic feeling to the collection, and about people coming from somewhere else, from another planet.
DD: Yes, it was almost a bit religious
Damir Doma: I agree, it is very monastic!
DD: Are you happy with the result?
Damir Doma: Yes. The collection is called 'Arrival', because it's really the first time I feel settled, this is really me, and what I like. I have arrived to where I want to be!
DD: There were many loose silhouettes with lots of volume.
Damir Doma: Yeah, I have done that for a while now and I really enjoy it. It's effortless and easy to wear.
DD: You showed a few female models at the end – are you working on a womenswear line?
Damir Doma: That was a teaser for the launch of my womenswear collection, which I will show in March during the prêt-a-porter in Paris! I just wanted to prepare people!
DD: Any favourite pieces from the collection?
Damir Doma:I liked the first outfit, two layered coats with different textures.


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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
ICC10 Offspec Kitty Gear
One major thing I've noticed with the ICC10 leathers is that it lacks expertise.
This is a pretty big problem. I have the T9 232 hat with its little chunk of expertise keeping me just a bit below the expertise cap (which is 26 total, including talents; I have about 22), and now I've also picked up the funky little Discarded Bag of Entrails that looks like it came off the digital set of the movie "9." The ICC hat is, of course, a huge upgrade... in everything but expertise. And, as if to mock me, the gem socket is yellow: not something I can easily slip a pure expertise gem in to attempt to make up for the huge loss, not without loosing out on the socket bonus.
The alternative is, of course, to socket expertise in other parts of my gear. Using those wonderfully expensive cardinal rubies and overwriting the agility rubies I put in not two weeks ago. All for an offkit.
See where this is annoying? Balancing all the melee caps is THE MOST irritating part of trying to keep up a kitty offspec, because I know that as soon as I put in those expertise gems, I'm gonna probably pick up some new pair of legs or bracers or neck and end up just socketing agility into those anyway.
Grrr. The feral gearing fury and wrath, it burns.
For now, I've not socketed out the new hat. I've been healing in all the raids lately so I haven't needed to equip my feral kit, but the hat has sat in my backpack, staring up at me with its little glowing wisp of green smoke curling up around my flasks and potions and lucky rock. I'm worried it's going to eat my T9 hat before I get a chance to swap them... but I will take that risk, and bide my time until I either break down and get the expertise rubies for my other pieces, or get a new piece of gear that I can socket fresh with that missing expertise.
"Current stats:" 731 Arp (w/NEScorp), 221 hit, 22 expertise
New hat stats: 819 Arp (over cap), 221 hit, 14 expertise
A neck upgrade dropped my expertise another -2 points and overinflated my hit by some phenomenal amount. Gahhhhh. Why do upgrades mess with my head like this?
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You can actually do pretty well on the expertise front in the T10 range, but not from ICC10 drops. You can craft the Impending Death boots and pick up the T10 legs and (with talents) be just fine on the expertise front.
The real problem for 10-man T10 equivalent gear is hit. There's just not enough of it to go around. There's precisely zero on our tier gear, none on the crafted boots/legs and very few non-set drops where you can make it up.
Hersir's Greatspear can give you a chunk (although ironically the heroic version has *less* hit than the regular version), the trash drop neck (Wodin's Lucky Necklace) and the Lady Deathwhisper belt (Soulthief's Braided Belt), but that's about it.
Given that we're jutting up against the crit cap in T10-ish gear, it's a tough jumble to handle...but on the plus side, you can take advantage of those yellow slots now =)
- March 24, 2010 at 6:05 PM
- Kae said...
Seeing as those boots take primordial saronite, I'm less likely to see them than I am the t10 :)
I am hoping for leg/hand upgrades from VoA, but I haven't seen any druid drops from there yet.
- March 24, 2010 at 7:13 PM
- Neil said...
I would recommend taking a look at Rawr and seeing if hit and expertise are even worth capping. Depending on your gear level, it might actually be better to just gem for Agility. Misses and dodges are not that bad for cats.
- March 24, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- Unknown said...
I just love seeing another tree/kitty hybrid. I am mainspec resto, but only because I'm needed more as a tree, cause I love both specs equally.
My favorite raids are the ones when I can mix up roles and dps some fights and heal others. Particularly kitty on gunship.
"So do you want me to scratch or patch today?"
- March 25, 2010 at 12:34 AM
Expertise and hit are not priorities of feral cats. Agility is still the go to stat once you get soft-capped for armor pen. Still, against all logic, I know it eats at me to be missing attacks. The tier legs have expertise (and drop in VoA). Alternatively, look at 10 exp / 10 hit orange gem, which will satisfy yellow sockets and with the yellow socket bonus are sometimes superior to 20 agi or 20 armor pen gems without a socket bonus.
- March 25, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Kae said...
Yeah, I was looking at the 10exp / 10hit gem last night, considering it for the hat. As an orange, it is cheaper, gives me a bit of that expertise back, and nets me a socket bonus... most of my sockets are all red anyway, and filled with either agil or armor pen.
Fortunately, am I nearing the end of my main-spec frost emblem purchases, and will be able to look at T10 for kitty.
Re: Scratch or Patch... awesome :D
- March 25, 2010 at 11:02 AM
- Vallen said...
Quite a few of the commenters have touched on bits and pieces of it but I'll try and summarize for you.
Expertise is actually not a problem nor is it an overly important stat for feral (kitty) druids based on ICC (3.3) gear choices for two reasons.
1)First Primal Precision covers 10 (out of your required 25). On top of that all kitty should aim for obtaining 4pc10 which should include the T10 pants which at 251 includes another 9.76 exp. This will leave you at 19.76 out of 25 expertise req.
2) Even though you are not capped, Primal Precision refunds 80% of your spent energy which can be reused to apply the ability that just missed.
I understand that frost badges may be a rare commodity but even so you should never (ever) gem for expertise as that will probably give you the least return.
Always gem for Arp/Agility (depending on which viewpoint you believe in) and gem close (but not necessarily hit) the hit cap.
- March 25, 2010 at 4:03 PM
- Kae said...
That is the difficulty with a secondary spec: the likelihood of getting tier gear for it is slim (especially 4-pc), or will take far too long to just "wait out." While I can hope for a pair of pants to drop out of VoA, we all know that what we want will never drop unless we aren't there to get it ;) (or, in a pug, the moonkin who never plays feral will roll and win it and the RL will decide to give it to them anyway cuz you were resto at the time.... )
It's like ferals with an offspec tree form: their kit will likely consist heavily of offset leather spellpower that no one else in the raid wanted.
Basically, what I'm trying to argue is not whether I should be using tier gear or not, but rather how difficult it is to plan for future upgrades that will force a number of regems of a gear set, particularly when it's not a primary spec. This does include the shifting arp-agil focus for 10-man raiders.
Regardless, I think I can safely say I'm looking forward to the simplification of the melee stat system with Cataclysm.
- March 25, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- Vallen said...
Whether you get lucky with T10 or you go with offset gear, the point I was trying to make was that expertise is one of the lowest valued stats and really should not be factored into gear consideration.
It is nice to get T10 pants and fill that gap but you really do not need to worry about it at all. Focus more on arp/agil/hit. :)
- March 25, 2010 at 7:11 PM
As kitties attack from behind on most mobs expertise is wasted on us compared to hit. Remember if you have a Dranie in your grp then you get +1% which will help allot.
A couple of pieces with +Hit on include the neck from Ony's Head and the Pyrite Infuse trink from FL.
If you can get the T10 4 Piece then Agi is the way to go due to the new critting ability given by the set bonus.
RAWR recommends gemming Agi over Arp in 10 man situations and with 25 man buffs Arp trumps it so go for those 2 over anything.
If you do have a blue socket, use the +10 all stats gem in there as it is the least useful socket of all.
- March 26, 2010 at 10:22 AM
- Kae said...
Even if we attack from behind, there is still a chance for our attacks being dodged. Our expertise "hardcap" assumes that you are attacking from behind, so expertise is only wasted past 26 (assuming you are attacking from behind). ...and I think I've also mentioned several times already that I am horde, no space goats, and that it's an offspec, no tier gear ;)
Hit is not my issue right now... I have plenty of it. Having 12 expertise and missing on yellow attacks due to dodges (not parries and not misses) is the problem.
We don't need much expertise, not much at all, but having *no* gear with it on does cause problems.
- March 26, 2010 at 3:30 PM


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