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Eighty-four Hope College seniors have been awarded monogrammed blankets for their participation in athletics at Hope.
The orange and blue "H" blankets are presented to seniors who earned at least three varsity letters while at Hope. One of the varsity letters must have been earned during the student's senior year.
The students were recognized on Monday, April 15 at the HOPEY's awards ceremony.
The recipients are:
Megan Altieri, Bay Village, Ohio, soccer (captain)
Tricia Bajema, Grandville, soccer
Nathan Barnes, Laingsburg, football
Elliott Barney, South Holland, Ill., track and field, cross country
Ashley Bauman, Manistee, basketball
Casey Baxter, Saline, tennis
Taylor Berge, Johnsburg, Ill., cheerleading
Melissa Bieri, Holland, tennis (captain)
Amanda Black, Lancaster, Ohio, swimming
Nicholas Boersma, Holland, swimming
Kristen Bosch, Allendale, track and field
Greer Bratschie, Grand Rapids, volleyball (captain)
Laura Cameron, Ann Arbor, swimming
John Cannon, Traverse City, golf (captain)
Jordan Carrigan, Buchanan, baseball
Gabriel Casher, Ann Arbor, tennis (captain)
Robert Cawood, East Lansing, tennis (captain)
Kylie Clark, Noblesville, Ind., soccer (captain)
Molly Collins, Houghton Lake, softball (captain)
Chase De Maagd, Woodland, basketball
Maxwell DeBoef, Plainwell, soccer
Luke Dishnow, Saline, soccer (captain)
Rachel Doud, Rockford, soccer
Curtis Drozd, Allegan, baseball
Courtney Earles, Kentwood, volleyball (captain)
Jeffrey Ekdom, Holland, soccer (captain)
Greggory Elhart, Zeeland, swimming
Elizabeth Ellis, Grand Rapids, basketball (captain)
Nicole George, Hamilton, volleyball
Joshua Grabijas, Howell, swimming (captain)
Olivia Haines, Greenville, cheerleading (captain)
Nicholas Hazekamp, Janesville, Wisc., swimming (captain)
Sharon Hecker, Grandville, cross country, track and field
William Hewitt, Grand Haven, cross country, track and field, (captain)
Kristin Higgs, Sturgis, softball
Erin Holstad, Traverse City, swimming, (captain)
Joshua Holwerda, Gallup, N.M., basketball, (captain)
Lindsay Jipping, Jenison, soccer (captain)
Kevin Kandow, Clio, football
Mark Karam, Grosse Pointe Woods, football (captain)
Timothy Klein, Circle Pines, Minn., baseball (captain)
Andrew Kreichelt, Northville, track and field, (captain)
Kyle Kreps, Holland, tennis (captain)
Sarah Krueger, Wixom, swimming
Meredith Kussmaul, Hartland, basketball (captain)
Courtney Kust, Cincinnati, Ohio, basketball (captain)
Leah LaBarge, Hudsonville, tennis (captain)
Sara Lang, Traverse City, soccer (captain)
Jonas Lawson, Inkster, track and field (captain)
Geoffrey Ludema, Ada, swimming (captain)
Alexander Luke, Grand Rapids, baseball (captain)
Brian Lynn, Holland, football (captain)
Jessica Maier, Grandville, volleyball
Magdeline Mangan, Wheaton, Ill., golf (captain)
Taylor Mattarella, Traverse City, cross country, track and field (captain)
Morgan McCardel, Traverse City, cross country, track and field (captain)
Andrew McCubbin, Galesburg, track and field
Jordan Meyers, Kent City, football
Kyle Mireles, Livonia, cross country
Jason Muller, Petoskey, soccer, tennis
Jillian Nichols, Brighton, basketball, soccer
Joseph Nielson, Mount Vernon, Ohio, swimming
Kathryn Olsen, Traverse City, cross country, track and field
Colton Overway, Holland, basketball (captain)
Charlotte Park, Grosse Pointe, golf (captain)
Adam Peplinski, Cedar, golf
Christopher Ray, Fort Wayne, Ind., basketball
Joel Rietsema, Rockford, cross country, track and field (captain)
Blake Rottschafer, Spring Lake, cross country, track and field (captain)
Christopher Ryan, Vicksburg, cross country, track and field (captain)
Cory Schmidt, Milan, Ohio, baseball
William Seiler, Chillicothe, Ill., basketball
Kyleigh Sheldon, Hastings, diving
Nathan Snuggerud, Zeeland, basketball (captain)
Mark Soission, Gobles, football
Amanda Thomas, South Lyon, track and field (captain)
Laura Tjepkema, Dorr, softball, (captain)
Caitlin Trompeter, Kalamazoo, volleyball
Benjamin VanAusdall, Hudsonville, football (captain)
Kelsi Vande Guchte, Hamilton, track and field
J. Davis VanderVeen, Clarkston, tennis (captain)
Sarah Venlet, Zeeland, track and field (captain)
Libby Westrate, Grandville, swimming (captain)
Andrew Wiersum, Minnetonka, Minn., cross country, track and field


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| Here's a 2007 ad
from the much-missed
Weekly World News. *
Alas, The web site listed on the ad
is no longer in service. (Click to enlarge.)
As you are probably more than aware by now if you have been hanging around this Whirled at all over the past... oh... fifteen months or so -- or even if you have been paying attention to the occasional news story about the matter -- serial scammer Kevin Trudeau is in a whole heap of trouble. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is on his a$$ big time. He has a criminal contempt trial coming up in November. And a judge recently appointed a receiver to take over all of the known Trudeau business entities, and possibly even some unknown ones if they can find them, to see if they can scare up enough money to pay that $37 million dollar fine that the FTC decided would be a fair price for Katie to pay consumers who felt scammed by his weight loss book.
One of the latest pieces of buzz is related to Katie's biggest scam of all, the Ponzi-like Global Information Network (GIN), which, according to rumor, has caught the attention of the FBI. Recently there have been rumors of G-men showing up at the doors of X-GIN and quizzing them about their involvement with the club. If this is even remotely true, it is no doubt a logical consequence of events set in motion years ago. Apart from the FTC, numerous other government agencies (IRS, SEC, etc.) have had their noses in Katie's business for years. So have various consumer orgs and state Attorneys General and District Attorneys. It may all be coming to a head now... or maybe not. I'm not really too excited about the FBI buzz at this point, particularly considering the sources. And I would question the credibility of anyone who says that the FBI is now handling GIN refunds.
Anyway. One of the chief defenses that KT defenders use to defend what I find mostly indefensible is that Kevin Trudeau has been a source of priceless information over the years -- particularly "health" info. Many folks honestly seem to believe Kevin's line that he is mostly being persecuted and prosecuted because he has been such a valuable source of information that "they" don't want you to know about. The "they" who want to keep this valuable data away from you include the big bad gummit, the big pharmaceutical companies, the medical profession, the food industry, and whatnot.
While much if not most of his "information" is questionable -- and is almost always presented in the context of selling something -- one thing that isn't questionable is that many purveyors of frauducts and flopportunities have skyrocketed to new levels of fame, particularly over the past few years, because Kevin Trudeau promoted them, either via his books, his radio show, or GIN. One of the more notorious flopportunists is the nefarious Not-Doc Loony Coldwell, the former Bernd Klein/Bernd Witchner, who, after fleeing his homeland of Germany (for reasons he has never really explained in a credible manner), was a daft little nothing in the US until Trudeau recommended him in his first Natural Cures book. And voila! Overnight, Loony had been transformed, via that Trudeau magic, into a daft little something. After being ousted from GIN in spring of 2012, Loony turned on his former b.f.f., but his ride on the Katie train was a good one for him while it lasted.
Numerous other folks have ridden to fame, and some to at least fleeting fortune, on that same train. And though some may now feel a little bit uncomfortable about their past (or present) association with Trudeau, in light of his troubles becoming so glaringly apparent, most have remained rather quiet about it. Loony is an exception, ranting nonstop about Trudeau on Facebook and on his own site. He is like an angry red boil on the bum of Scamworld -- a boil that just won't go away.
But there's one guy you may not have heard of who also got a ride on that train for a time. He took a couple of paragraphs' worth of frauduct promotion in Katie's first Natural Cures book and built a whole cottage empire, complete with cheesy web sites. I'm talking about Alex Chiu, a Chinese-American crackpot who has a line of frauducts for which he has made some very big claims indeed.
F'rinstance, there are his Immortality Rings. These are magnetic rings you wear on your fingers while you're sleeping, and, if you really want superb results, you also wear magnetic foot braces on your toes. Sez Kevin, writing about the rings in Natural Cures:
"These are inexpensive and easy to use. Simply wear this specially designed Magnetic ring on the small finger of each hand, and if you want even more benefit, wear the foot (toe) brace on each foot. These are worn when you sleep. The health benefits seem to be almost unbelievable. This device appears to radically slow the aging process and, in most cases, appears to reverse the aging process; people report looking and feeling younger as time goes on. These are absolutely amazing."Maybe that's why Katie looks so young for his advanced age -- well, it's advanced according to some of the dolts who actually believed Kevin when he wrote, a few years ago, that he was 76. (Hint: He was joking. He even said he was joking, the point being to taunt the FTC.) At present Kevin is actually only 50, though he was still in his 40s at the time he said he was 76.
~ Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures, pg.116 [cited in Chiu's promotional copy]
The only bad thing is that once Kevin made Alex's magickal magnetics so popular, a host of copycat magickal magnets flooded the market. So Alex and his affiliates had to spend a lot of time and energy convincing people not to fall for imitations. For instance, there's this 2011 vid where you get to see a real live set of the genuine Alex Chiu magickal rings, sitting in front of a copy of Natural Cures and set off by some shaky camera work.
There's a small catch, though -- and here's what Katie doesn't tell you in Natural Cures -- the Immortality Rings/Braces alone won't do the trick if you have some really egregious things wrong with you, such as a serious handicap or a giant tumor. (Actually, either one of those could describe what Loony Coldwell was to Kevin True-dough... but I digress.) If you have some potentially grave stuff going on inside or out, such as tumors or handicaps or cancers or herpes or angry, maniacal little German twerps, you also need the Super Chi Flush. Here is the scientifical explanation from Alex:
The Immortality Rings re-align and regroup your body faster than it ages. Therefore it is believed to reverse the aging process. But if you have a serious handicap or a giant tumor, the rings alone cannot cure you....
...That's why Super Chi Flush is created.
Super Chi Flush's herbal compound is strong enough to break the toughest clogs in your body. It will send Chi energy into any area of your body. Super Chi Flush will allow you to feel healing throughout the entire body. You will feel constant healing for the entire healing session. (around 2 hours) So you can enjoy 2 hours of very strong and noticeable 'healing feeling' every night at your most critically blocked area.
Super Chi Flush fights the toughest clogs in the body slowly opening up the blockades which hindered the flow of Chi energy. The end result is that the entire body's Chi flow will eventually be unclogged. Could this mean that all handicaps, tumor, herpes, cancer, etc. will all be flushed away by Super Chi Flush? No medical claim, so you decide.
Super Chi Flush is green-food powder that contains only natural herbs. Absolutely no side affect. Super Chi Flush does not work without Gorgeouspil and the Immortality Rings.
Direction of use: Dump 3 teaspoons of Super Chi Flush powder into half a cup of cold or warm water. Mix well. Drink it along with Gorgeouspil 20 minutes before you go to bed for healing.
Ingredients: Dong Quai, Korean ginseng, Hoelen, Ramulus Mori, Shitake, Reishi, Kelp, barley grass, Marjoram, Basil, Thyme, Parsley, Ginkgo Biloba, American ginseng, ginger, black pepper, and Licorice. Most of it is Chinese herbs.I bet Super Chi Flush is even better than a Bepure Cleanse. (I wonder if it would help the intractable drain in the tub in our master bathroom...)
Now, let's suppose that you have successfully stopped the aging process by wearing Immortality Rings/Braces on your fingers and toes, and have unclogged the clogged areas of your innards so that your Chi is flowing wherever it needs to flow. (Hopefully you won't get any excess Chi on those new 800-count Egyptian cotton bed sheets.) With your Ring-wearing and your Super-flushing, will you have finally found the key to perfect health and happiness?
Well... probably not, and certainly not if you happen to be ugly. But the good news is that there is a cure for ugly too, and Alex Chiu has it. It's this marvelous supplement called Gorgeouspil. Gorgeous + pil=Gorgeouspil. Get it?
Gorgeouspil works, says Alex, by magically rearranging your bone structure. It can make you right purty right away, and if you use it long enough, you will one day reach PHYSICAL PERFECTION.
Don't take my word for it. Pictures don't lie. Here, for instance, is a picture proving that if you take Gorgeouspil, you can be transformed from a pouty young woman with no makeup to a pouty young woman with makeup. And if you take Gorgeouspil long enough, like maybe three to four weeks, you can morph into a pouty young woman who has makeup and also has fake blood all over the lower part of her face.
You can read more about these miraculous makeovers -- including Alex Chiu's own transformation from a man with a "typical Asian face" to one with a more "macho and manly" white-person face -- right here. I know this will blow all of your preconceived notions out of the water, but Alex Chiu managed to look good at the ripe old age of...gasp... 38!.. because of Gorgeouspil and his magnetic Immortality Rings.
But if you are still not convinced after all of that, take a gander at Franco Fiori of Italy, whose before-and-later picture appears in the 2007 Weekly World News ad at the top of this page. Franco went from an average man to a man with TV star looks in just a matter of weeks.
But wait, there's more! Gorgeouspil, like those magickal magnetic rings, will not only make you prettier, but it will also help keep you from aging. And ultimately, if enough people take Gorgeouspil, it will solve the problem of human overpopulation. It all has to do with that Chi-flow thing again.
And Gorgeouspil can stop humans from multiplying! So spreading the usage of Gorgeouspil can save the environment. Here's why:Keep in mind that Gorgeouspil doesn't really work properly without the magickal rings and Super Chi Flush. Here's what it says on the Super Chi Flush page, regarding Gorgeouspil and the rings:
So people who take Gorgeouspil don't want kids. (You still can have kids. But you just don't want one.) A person who takes Gorgeouspil likes to concentrate his soul within his own body and does not wish to scatter his soul on to other bodies. So making babies is not desirable for people who take Gorgeouspil. Gorgeouspil allows a person to achieve unlimited beauty and unlimited youth. Meanwhile, it stops humans from unnecessary reproductions of more human beings.
- Without Gorgeouspil, people's bodies would age. Blockages of Chi energy would torment a person's soul. The soul can no longer tolerate flowing inside a deteriorating body. New bodies need to be reproduced.
- The deteriorating body is forced to produce offspring so that his soul can share a line of new and fresh bodies. This is what I call 'abandon ship' theory.
- But with Gorgeouspil, the body will constantly be repaired. Blockages of Chi energy will slowly be opened up. If there is [sic] no more blockages of Chi energy, the soul will no longer be tormented. Therefore the body no longer needs to reproduce itself. No more 'abandon ship'.
Help bring this new technology to light. For the sake of mother nature, for the sake of millions of innocent animals, for the sake of your own future. Don't blindly let the unnecessary reproductions of more human beings ruin our home. Spread the word about Gorgeouspil.
As an immortal you have a duty to protect our planet. Let the spreading of words be your first mission.
We don't sell copper bracelets. We offer neodymium magnet, which was introduced by Natural Cures Trudeau, the book natural cures they don't want you to know about (page 194, 1st edition). Copper bracelet doesn't work as well as health magnets that we sell. Our neodymium magnets are truly the best magnetic finger rings on the market.
Gorgeouspil will maximize the power of the rings by stimulating all cells in your body forcing them to regroup and re-align. But I find it difficult for Gorgeouspil to open up the extremely critical damages of your body. Gorgeouspil can help regroup and rebound your backbone because bone and flesh are the easiest to heal. But delecate [sic] Chi blockades in the spinal cord might be difficult for Gorgeouspil to rebound. The Gorgeouspil energy simply by-passes through the bone and flesh area and might not enter the spinal cord's nerve area.So of course you do need you some of that Super Chi Flush too. Just remember that Super Chi Flush, as you probably noticed from the copy above, doesn't really work properly without Gorgeouspil and the magickal rings. And the magickal rings don't really work properly without Super Chi Flush and Gorgeouspil.
I think you get my drift. You need the whole shebang.
How much will all of this set you back? This may give you an idea.
And there you have it, Dear Ones: the seekrits to immortality, and all for a very reasonable price. Maybe if that other famous Trudeau-endorsed "immortal," Mony Vital, had bought some of this junk, he wouldn't have kicked off on the GIN cruise earlier this year.
In any case, had it not been for Kevin True-dough, the work of the genius creator of the Immortality Rings and Braces, Super Chi Flush, and Gorgeouspil might have gone unnoticed by the world. And that would have been a tragedy.
Thanks to the Trudeau-endorsed Alex Chiu (who, oddly enough, seems to be missing in action these days; perhaps the FTC and the FDA "noticed" him too), we have seen that there is, at last, a possible cure for aging, death, tumors, herpes, and ugly. But it appears that even with all of these great advances, there is still no cure for stupid.
And for as long as he can possibly manage to do so, Kevin Trudeau will continue, in one way or another -- whether through magickal magnets, hair farming systems, mystical e-Pendants, or any number of other frauducts and flopportunities -- to milk that stupid for all it's worth.
PS ~ I've linked to this before, but this October 2005 (pre-GIN) piece from the Washington Post portrays Trudeau's penchant for frauducts, as well as his huckster personality. Even though I have a better understanding than I used to have of Trudeau's appeal, I still find it remarkable that Trudeau was so well-known in popular culture as a huckster... and yet so many people still fell into that whole GIN web.
More snarks about Chiu from years past:
- http://www.cracked.com/funny-342-alex-chiu/
- http://mcclare.blogspot.com/2004/01/eternal-life-through-cheap-magnets.html
* Thanks to my pal Chris Locke, author of the fabulous but too-long-neglected Mystic B blog, for sending the Weekly World News ad to me.
More True-dough on this Whirled:
- August 2013: Kevin Trudeau smacked around again by ABC, while Loony Lenny & Captain Winky sell speed
- August 2013: Kevin Trudeau: things heat up as criminal trial approaches
- July 2013: No cage for Katie (sorry, Lenny)
- July 2013: Leonard Coldwell and Kevin Trudeau: love and marriage and pots and kettles
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau asks court to let him go to Zurich, FTC sez no, judge sez no too
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: The FTC is really, really mad now...sort of
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Gone fishing? Or something...
- July 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Rumors, lies, and SNAG support
- June 2013: The Health Ranger: another phony hero in the fight against Scamworld?
- June 2013: Kevin Trudeau in court again: Something big... something really big!... or maybe not
- June 2013: Kevin Trudeau and justice: muddy waters
- May 2013: ABC has fun with Kevin Trudeau, and life goes on
- May 2013: ABC tackles Kevin Trudeau -- again!
- May 2013: Kevie goes a-courtin': pleading the Fifth
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Justice...or just more paper shuffling?
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau: Countdown to court date (or not)
- May 2013: Kevin Trudeau + Mark Hamilton = GIN with a twist of Neo-stink
- April 2013: Bankruptcy: GIN members await Level 7 while Kevin Trudeau files Chapter 7
- March 2013: Ryan Kath at KSHB-TV does Trudeau/GIN update, Coldwell & Wink continue to scam with cheap imitation of GIN
- February 2013: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: The sky is falling (again)...yawn
- February 2013: Loony Coldwell: Cheesy video and bad spelling
- February 2013: IBMS Master's Society Supreme Loony Coldwell strikes again
- February 2013: Faux heroes and hypocrisy in action
- February 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 2
- January 2013: Vital signs: "Immortal" (former) breatharian Mony Vital dies on GIN cruise
- January 2013: Meet the new scam, same as the old scam, Part 1
- December 2012: 2012 ~ The Whirled goes on
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: justice delayed...again
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau exposé on KSHB-TV: buzz, backlash, and big beginnings
- November 2012: Alien nation: just how crazy is Kevin Trudeau (not to mention his sheeple)?
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau: KSHB-TV undercover investigation
- November 2012: Kevin Trudeau gets some more mainstream lovin'
- October 2012: Evil has not won
- October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: Rats in our heads, GIN down the toilet...and life goes on
- October 2012: Kevin Trudeau: The shape of things to come?
- September 2012: Leonard Coldwell and Fred Van Liew: Pot, meet kettle
- August 2012: Truth is better than GIN any day
- July 2012: Drunk on GIN, and you can too!
- July 2012: Kevin Trudeau's GIN: part of the big sick machine
- July 2012: Independence Daze
- May 2012 (updated September 2012): Paging Dr. C: Bernd bridges in Deutschland?
- May 2012: Can alien DNA save Kevin Trudeau's GIN?
- May 2012: Does a canary with a GIN hangover sing as sweetly?
- April 2012: Viva Lost Wages: Sin City Become GIN City for a weekend
- February 2012: A. Rose by any other name would shill as sweet
- December 2011: True-dough updates: Bad poetry for KT, hate mail for CC
- November 2011: A jumpsuit for Jimmy
- August 2011: First Amendment Stuporhero
- August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by any other name) -- Part 2 of 2
- August 2011: Calling all lazy men: let's build a pyramid together!
- August 2011: Everything old is Nouveau again (or, Neo-scam by any other name), Part 1 of 2
- June 2011: Holy Guacamole! True-dough's racist rants
- June 2011: For he's a jolly good felon: True-dough speaks out for Death Ray
- December 2009 (amended several times in 2010): Illuminutty: the secret brotherhood of the chronically gullible
- November 2009: How to take over the world
- July 2009: Horse farts and related matters
- January 2009: Mr. Fire meets up with true dough
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With the governor in Asia, I've got that continent on the brain. So here's a question I'd love to hear Meg Whitman answer: How did she lose China?
Her argument for herself as governor of California is that she can make the state more competitive economically. Her evidence is her time at eBay.
But eBay, as the Forbes Beijing bureau chief Gady Epstein writes here, "got trounced in China" by a competitor: Alibaba Group's online marketplace Taobao.com. It would be great to hear Whitman's explanation of why. It'd also be good to know what she sees as the competitive lessons of such a defeat are, if any, for California companies and the state government.
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It's a live question because overseas competitors can quickly become competitors here in California. As Forbes notes: "Taobao continues to encroach on eBay's home turf, acquiring two U.S. companies in recent months — Vendio in June, Auctiva in August."


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To find out, I turned to one of my favorite resources on the web: Neil Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS). Sloane has spent more than 40 years amassing a vast database of known integer sequences, now totaling close to 200,000 entries.
Entering the sequence 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 in the search box, for example, yields five results—known sequences that contain this particular string of consecutive integers. One is the sequence defined as follows: If n is in the sequence, then so are 2n and 4n – 1. Sloane's entry provides information on how that particular sequence arose, along with comments, formulas, references to the literature, links to other websites, related sequences, and computer programs. You can even graph or listen to it!
However, if I were to extend the sequence by one term, adding 13, no match turns up.
I also use Sloane's database to find interesting properties of individual numbers, just by entering a single number in the search box. Entering 2658, for instance, generates 42 results. One result reveals that 2658 is the number of 8-digit numbers in base 6 with adjacent digits differing by 1 or less. I'm not sure why anyone would want to know that, but there it is.
Sloane was at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January, promoting the transition of his indispensible database from essentially a one-man operation to a wiki format at oeis.org, giving each sequence its own web page. A board of 50 associate editors will moderate submissions, relieving Sloane of much of the burden of checking new sequence submissions, which come in at a rate of more than 50 a day, and making all the necessary changes to web pages.
Sloane has set up the non-profit OEIS Foundation as owner of the database.
Cipra, B. 2010. What comes next? Science 327(Feb. 19):943.
Peterson, I. 2003. Sequence puzzles. Ivars Peterson's MathTrek (May 19).
______. 2002. The EKG sequence. Ivars Peterson's MathTrek (April 8).


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|Picking up where the coaches left off
I would like to offer huge congratulations to Coach John Harbaugh and the Baltimore Ravens for such an exciting Super Bowl win. Despite being a relatively new Ravens fan, the second half of the game still caused enough anxiety to have me picking at my weightlifting calluses to the point where I knew the next day's workout would involve hands ripping and bleeding. The things we put ourselves through when living vicariously through sports! I may be a born-and-bred Seattle Seahawks fan, but I also carry a secondary affinity for the Ravens. Fair-weather you say? Allow me to explain…
I didn't know a darn thing about the Baltimore Ravens until members of their coaching staff came out to spend time with us in Park City, Utah, as we did last minute preparations for the 2010 Olympics. Head Coach John Harbaugh and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron experienced the always shocking first ride in a bobsled, followed by a dinner reception with our entire U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team. I have no idea how, but my Olympic brakeman Emily Azevedo and I landed the choice seats at Coach Harbaugh's table along with Coach Cameron. We were riding high on finally qualifying for the Games, and Coach Harbaugh seemed to really enjoy our candor with his questions. We spent the meal strategizing how Emily would get the team to wake up early for a photo shoot for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, think-tanking various inspirational "Save-The-Boobs" speeches. Boob talk was followed by tackling strategy, which Emily got to practice later. But it wasn't until Coach Harbaugh stood up to give us a speech that I learned how beautifully easy it can be to make a lifetime fan.
|Emily and I spent forever plotting this video attack, which I ended up so nervous for!
I couldn't even pronounce Harbaugh's name. All of it was well worth it for Emily's
"forearm" tackle.
NFL coaches aren't just brilliant strategists; they're gifted motivators as well. Coach Harbaugh delivered the most incredible motivational speech I've ever heard in all my years of athletics. It was passionate, genuine, and so utterly inspiring that his words carried me all the way through the critical moments right before we raced down that treacherous track in Whistler. He reminded us of all we'd been through to make it to that point, what shining individuals we all are, and that we have an unstoppable glow. He emphasized that now was the time to "let our light shine" and show the world that gift. As you can imagine, anxiety management was essential when preparing for that Olympic race on what was such a dangerous track at the time. But there were key moments where Coach Harbaugh's words popped into my head, and I knew I was exactly where I belonged. Those moments reminded me it was my time, paved for and earned by me, and it was my job to let that pride and accomplishment glow from within, letting my light shine.
|Excited for breakfast in the Ravens cafeteria
The connection continued on our White House visit after the Olympics, where we were treated to breakfast and a private tour of the Ravens training headquarters. We met players in the weight room who were ecstatic to see Olympic medals won by my teammates, and even got to run routes on their practice field. Emily got to further her tackling education, this time sparing Harbaugh and using the appropriate equipment instead.
Most often our sports fan loyalty isn't chosen, it's a birthright depending on where you grow up. I was born into being a Seahawks fan; I had no choice. The mood in our house on a Sunday or Monday night was entirely dependent on how the Seahawks played. New pets had to be acclimated lest they wet themselves when my dad and brother started yelling at the television. I felt physically ill after their playoff loss to the Falcons despite such an incredible comeback. Such is the theme in households across the globe regarding various sports. Yet because of a chance encounter my hands are torn up from the stress of rooting for my new secondary favorite, the Baltimore Ravens.
We wear the jerseys, we play in fantasy leagues, and we shout "Kobe" as we shoot a basketball – all of this a product of where we grew up or how well a team is publicized. But there are those other times when a connection happens and a fan is born out of something as simple as having the pleasure of meeting someone who's passionate about what they do. These 'earned' fans say so much about an organization. It felt like the Ravens couldn't lose, because I'd met the staff and they were magnetic and inspiring people.
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Because lesser-known sports such as bobsled are more apt to make fans one-by-one, the majority of bobsled fans tend to have the same last name as those participating. Our fans are fanatic, but limited to our families and a couple of dudes on Twitter. But now I see every new person I meet as a chance to make a new bobsled fan. I had many people tell me after the Games how much more excited they were to watch having had someone specific to cheer for. I once sent an acquaintance's dad (who I knew to be a huge fan of the Olympics) a few signed postcards from the Games. He was so touched that he sent a box in return full of incredible souvenirs from Winter Olympics past.
All athletes need to remember that we are always representing our sport, and it's the smallest interaction that can build the biggest fan. It is a responsibility to be bared with excitement, because that is what catches fire.
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The internet is an integral part of any business that has embraced the use of various online platforms to market its products and services. Websites are essential tools for all business organizations. The benefits a website on the development of a business cannot be understated. It is one of the most effective ways to attract the attention of an international audience who may actually be potential clients and customers. Perhaps, websites could not have the ability to execute their functions quite efficiently in the absence of search engines. Undoubtedly, search engines rank the websites according to their popularity or page views per day. It is from this factor that websites are required to be optimized well in order to boost its rankings in the leading search engines. This article explains why your business website needs SEO.
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A business needs to have as many clients as possible to enhance its profitability. As much as the physical location of a business is vital, developing an online presence is equally critical. The internet revolution has swept many and as a result, more people are developing a liking towards making online transactions. With such untapped potential of the online fortunes, websites are evidently useful in bridging the gap between the business and the online potential. Unfortunately, there are literally thousands of businesses already with an established online presence. This therefore, necessitates that a highly optimized website is required to compete amongst the thousands that are already online. By doing this, search engines will easily capture it in their first page. A first page ranking in a giant search engine like Google certainly translates into increased visibility, thereby giving your business the potential to be accessed by millions of people from all over the world.
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Mr. Speaker, following today's historic address by Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, I rise in the House today to reaffirm the importance of NAFTA to the flourishing trading relationship on the North American continent.
Since NAFTA's implementation, merchandise trade between Canada, Mexico and the United States has more than tripled, reaching $946 billion U.S. in 2008. Today, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico trade roughly $2.6 billion U.S. in merchandise on a daily basis. That is about $108 million U.S. per hour.
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There is much buzz about "big data" and "big analytics" but precious little information exists about the struggle of building an infrastructure to tackle these problems. Some notable exceptions are Facebook, Twitter's Rainbird and MetaMarket's Druid. In this post we provide an overview of how we built Aggregate Knowledge's "big analytics" infrastructure. It will cover how we mix rsyslog, 0MQ and our in-house streaming key-value store to route hundreds of thousands of events per second and efficiently answer reporting queries over billions of events per day.
Overview and Goal
Recording and reporting on advertising events (impressions, interactions, conversions) is the core of what we do at Aggregate Knowledge. We capture information about:
- Who: audience, user attributes, browser
- What: impression, interaction, conversion
- Where: placement, ad size, context
- When: global time, user's time, day part
just to name a few. We call these or any combination of these our keys. The types of metrics (or values) that we support but aren't limited to:
- Counts: number of impressions, number of conversions, number of unique users (unique cookies)
- Revenue: total inventory cost, data cost
- Derived: click-through rate (CTR), cost per action (CPA)
Our reports support drill-downs and roll-ups all of the available dimensions — we support many of the standard OLAP functions.
We are architecting for a sustained event ingest rate of 500k events per second over a 14 hour "internet day" yielding around 30 billion events per day (or around 1 trillion events a month). Our daily reports run over billions of events should take seconds to run and our monthly or lifetime reports run over hundreds of billion events should take at most minutes.
Over the past few years we have taken a few different paths to produce our reports with varying degrees of success.
First Attempt: Warehouses, Map-Reduce and Batching
When I first started at Aggregate Knowledge we had a multi-terabyte distributed warehouse that used Map-Reduce to process queries. The events were gathered from the edge where they were recorded and batch loaded into the warehouse on regular intervals. It stored hundreds of millions of facts (events) and took hours to generate reports. Some reports on unique users would take longer than a day to run. We had a team dedicated to maintaining and tuning the warehouse.
At the time our event recorders were placed on many high-volume news sites and it was quite common for us to see large spikes in the number of recorded events when a hot news story hit the wires. It was common for a 5 minute batch of events from a spike to take longer than 5 minutes to transfer, process and load which caused many headaches. Since the time it took to run a report was dependent on the number of events being processed, whenever a query would hit one of these spikes, reporting performance would suffer. Because we provided 30-, 60- and 90-day reports, a spike would cause us grief for a long time.
After suffering this pain for a while, this traditional approach of storing and aggregating facts seemed inappropriate for our use. Because our data is immutable once written, it seemed clear that we needed to pre-compute and store aggregated summaries. Why walk over hundreds of millions of facts summing along some dimension more than once if the answer is always a constant — simply store that constant. The summaries are bounded in size by the cardinality of the set of dimensions rather than the number of events. Our worries would move from something we could not control — the number of incoming events — to something that we could control — the dimensionality and number of our keys.
Second Attempt: Streaming Databases and Better Batching
Having previously worked on a financial trading platform, I had learned much about streaming databases and Complex Event Processing (e.g. Coral8, StreamBase, Truviso). Our second approach would compute our daily summaries in much the same way that a financial exchange keeps track and tally of trades. The event ingest of the streaming database would be the only part of our infrastructure affected by spikes in the number of events since everything downstream worked against the summaries. Our reporting times went from hours to seconds or sub-seconds. If we were a retail shop that had well-known dimensionality then we would likely still be using a streaming database today. It allowed us to focus on immediate insights and actionable reports rather than the warehouse falling over or an M-R query taking 12 hours.
Once worrying about individual events was a thing of the past, we started to look at the dimensionality of our data. We knew from our old warehouse data that the hypercube of dimensional data was very sparse but we didn't know much else. The initial analysis of the distribution of keys yielded interesting results:
Keys are seen with frequencies that tend to follow Zipf's Law:
the frequency of any key is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table
Put simply: there are a large number of things that we see very infrequently and a small number of things that we see very often. Decile (where the black line is 50%) and CDF plots of the key frequency provide additional insights:
60% of our keys have been seen hundreds of times or less and around 15% of our keys had been seen only once. (The graph only covers one set of our dimensions. As we add more dimensions to the graph the CDF curve gets steeper.) This told us that not only is the hypercube very sparse but the values tend to be quite small and are updated infrequently. If these facts could be exploited then the storage of the hypercube could be highly compressed even for many dimensions with high cardinality and stored very efficiently.
We improved our transfer, transform and loading batch processes to better cope with event volume spikes which resulted in less headaches but it still felt wrong. The phrase "batching into a streaming database" reveals the oxymoron. We didn't progress much in computing unique user counts. Some of the streaming databases provided custom support for unique user counting but not at the volume and rate that we required. Another solution was needed.
Third Attempt: Custom Key-Value Store and Streaming Events
From our work with streaming databases we knew a few things:
- Out-of-order data was annoying (this is something that I will cover in future blog posts);
- Counting unique sets (unique users, unique keys) was hard;
- There was much efficiency to be gained in our distribution of keys and key-counts;
- Structured (or semi-structured) data suited us well;
- Batching data to a streaming database is silly;
Unfortunately none of the existing NoSQL solutions covered all of our cases. We built a Redis prototype and found that the majority of our code was in ingesting our events from our event routers, doing key management and exporting the summaries to our reporting tier. Building the storage in-house provided us the opportunity to create custom types for aggregation and sketches for the cardinality of large sets (e.g. unique user counting). Once we had these custom types it was a small leap to go from the Redis prototype to a full-featured in-house key-value store. We call this beast "The Summarizer". ("The Aggregator" was already taken by our Ops team for event aggregation and routing.)
The summarizer simply maps events into summaries by key and updates the aggregates. Streaming algorithms are a natural fit in this type of data store. Many O(n^m) algorithms have streaming O(n) counterparts that provide sufficiently accurate results. (We'll be covering streaming algorithms in future posts.) It provides us with a succinct (unsampled) summary that can be accessed in O(1). Currently we can aggregate more than 200,000 events per second per core (saturating just shy of 1 million events per second) where some events are aggregated into more than ten summaries.
Our summaries are computed per day. (Future blog posts will provide more information about how we treat time.) They are designed such that they rarely contain more than 10M rows and are stored in CSV format. Initially we used CSV simply because we already had all of the code written for ingesting 3rd party CSV data. We quickly found other uses for them: our analysts gobbled them up and use them in Excel, our data scientists use them directly in R, and even our engineers use them for back-of-the-envelope calculations. Having manageable summaries and/or sketches enabled agile analytics.
To get the events into our summarizer we completely rethought how events move through our infrastructure. Instead of batching events, we wanted to stream them. To deal with spikes and to simplify maintenance, we wanted to allow the events to be queued if downstream components became unavailable or unable to meet the current demand. We needed to be able to handle our desired ingest rate of 500k events per second. The answer was right under our noses: rsyslog and 0MQ. (See the "Real-Time Streaming for Data Analytics" and "Real-Time Streaming with Rsyslog and ZeroMQ" posts for more information.)
Wrap Up
Our challenge was to be able to produce reports on demand over billions of events in seconds and over hundreds of billions in minutes while ingesting at most 500,000 events per second. Choosing the defacto technology de jour caused us to focus on fixing and maintaining the technology rather than solving business problems and providing value to our customers. We could have stayed with our first approach, immediately scaling to hundreds of nodes and taking on the challenges that solution presents. Instead, we looked at the types of answers we wanted and worked backwards until we could provide them easily on minimal hardware and little maintenance cost. Opting for the small, agile solution allowed us to solve business problems and provide value to our customers much more quickly.
Astute readers may have noticed the point on the far-left of the CDF graph and wondered how it was possible for a key to have been seen zero times or wondered why we would store keys that have no counts associated with them. We only summarize what is recorded in an event. The graph shows the frequency of keys as defined by impressions and it doesn't include the contribution of any clicks or conversions. In other words, these "zero count keys" mean that for a given day there are clicks and/or conversions but no impressions. (This is common when a campaign ends.) In hindsight we should have summed the count of impressions, clicks and conversions and used that total in the graph but this provided the opportunity to show a feature of the summarizer — we can easily find days for which clicks and conversions have no impressions without running a nasty join.


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SKF is meeting the demands of the automotive industry with the two innovative products in one for electric cars
2014 November 21, 14:00 CEST
SKF has developed a Motor Encoder Sensor Bearing Unit (SKF MESBU), providing smooth and accurate motor control for the next generation of electric and hybrid motor vehicles, including starter-alternators for stop & start.
Gothenburg, Sweden, 21 November 2014: SKF has launched a Motor Encoder Sensor Bearing Unit (SKF MESBU) for the electric and hybrid vehicle market. This significant development in sensor bearing technology is a first for the industry, integrating bearing and sensor technology in a single, compact unit. The SKF MESBU is specifically designed and manufactured to improve the operational performance and precision of electric and hybrid cars, including stop & start function based on starter-alternator devices. It also simplifies and reduces customer manufacturing costs significantly, because the sensor's performance is totally independent of the customer's assembly process.
Moving forward from previous sensor bearing offers for synchronous motors, the new SKF MESBU delivers accurate signals for asynchronous motor control, thanks to the integration of magnetic sensor technology into a bearing. The unit delivers incremental encoder-like signal output with a quality and accuracy level certified by SKF, allowing asynchronous electric motor real time speed and direction measurement.
Due to the compact design and the enhanced performances of SKF MESBU, there is a reduction and in both the weight and size of the electric motor and cost savings for the customer. The end result is a more streamlined assembly process and finished product.
SKF Engine and ePowertrain Segment Manager, Alberto Carlevaris, commented: "With the launch of the Motor Encoder Sensor Bearing Unit, SKF is reinforcing its leadership position in delivering unique bearing technology and solutions. As the electric motor industry gears up to asynchronous electric control, it's imperative that the technology that supports these changes: the SKF Motor Encoder Sensor Bearing Unit it is the clear response to customer needs. This means offering more compact products that are attuned to the specific requirements of both increased performance and reduction in energy consumption, while enabling greater power density and simpler assembly for electric motor manufacturers."
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Although I enjoyed reading this Sunday's special issue of Sun Magazine entitled "50 Women to Watch", I was extremely disappointed at the glaring omission of Sen. Barbara Mikulski from the list. Considering all that Senator Mikulski has done for Maryland's citizens during her service since 1971 as Baltimore city councilwoman, U.S. congresswoman, and U.S. Senator, how does she not deserve a top spot on a list during which you discussed "the most intriguing, powerful and memorable personalities making an impact on the Baltimore region?"
Senator Mikulski was recently selected as the first Marylander and the first woman to serve as chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and, as of March of 2012, she became the longest serving woman in the history of the U.S. Congress. Senator Mikulski has dedicated her life to public service and has always advocated for her state and its citizens in arenas ranging from education and health, to services and benefits for seniors and veterans.
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Palestine- Just after midnight, on Friday, September 28, Palestine Police dispatch received a report of a structure fire at 119 East Oak Street. Palestine Fire Department responded with three engines and a command vehicle. There were unconfirmed reports of the possibility of individuals being inside the building.
Upon arrival at the scene, heavy fire conditions in the rear of the building and heavy smoke throughout the structure were encountered. Within minutes of being on scene, the structure suffered the first of multiple collapses making it impossible for fire fighters to enter the building. A defensive strategy was employed to protect exposures and fire personnel on scene. Once the fire was extinguished, a search mission immediately commenced.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice personnel assisted in the efforts by bringing in canine units to search the area. At approximately 4:00 pm two victims were located at the scene. At this time a positive identification of the victims has not been made. They were taken to the coroner's office for autopsy.
The fire remains under investigation, and the State Fire Marshal's Office has been contacted to assist with the investigation.


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A short post to outline several ideas and thoughts about the use of drones in the US strategy against Al Qaeda.
1) we have to grasp the political significance of Obama's choice to rely on drones and SOF in order to « disrupt, dismantle » Al Qaeda:
The president narrowed its political goals: fighting Al Qaeda and its allies or affiliates without relying on state building, and without committing too much troops on the ground in a comprehensive counterinsurgency approach. Instead, Obama understood his role as fighting the jihadist organization in order to deter further attacks against the US.
2) that goal led to a new strategy:
Using drones strikes as well as SOF raids (or other more conventional assets) is done through an attrition strategy. The main mechanism through which attrition is supposed to work is to inflict casualties to the enemy organization faster than it can replace it. It is not primarily intended to exhaust the adversary, but to raise its costs to pursue the war. In other words, exhaustion is only one possible outcome. At the other end of the spectrum, complete annihilation is another one.
3) physical and psychological effects of drone strikes:
Drones are not used only to inflict physical casualties, thus undermining the operational capabilities of AQ/its affiliates to control effectively a territory, to keep safe havens or to prepare further attacks. They also have psychological impacts, mostly on the networks, and especially on its weaker nodes, that is those actors amenable to leave the fight, or to hide in order to escape the strikes. As such, the strategy which relies on drones is not only an attrition strategy, but also a part of a more comprehensive deterrence strategy. That's what « disrupting » means: inflicting systemic blows that undermine the operational capabilities of a given network as a whole.
On the material side of the effects, drones have proven highly effective as a decapitation tool. On the psychological one, it's difficult to really assess the effects, but it seems that drones, used in addition to other tools, may have produced subversive effects.
4) Pressuring Al Qaeda?
The problem is the relevance of such a strategy on the long run. A « pure » attrition strategy would likely lead to a slaughter, since AQ and its affiliates have been able to reinforce or to replace the losses. What could be the threshold that would trigger an annihilation, or exhaustion of AQ? The « search and destroy » experience in Vietnam should remember us that relying only on measurable metrics (especially in terms of « body count ») is fraught with cognitive biases.
On the other hand, a « pure » deterrence strategy is difficult to wage against non-state actors, and especially « irregular » organizations. It is thus possible to limit AQ's capabilities to wage a campaign of attacks, but up to a point. Zero-risk is not really a realist option.
That's why using drones strikes – both more precise and less costly than conventional counterinsurgency i.e. as much efficient as a strategy can be – should prove more relevant on the long run if used as a way to sustain the pressure against AQ and its affiliates. The goal would not be to dismantle or to disrupt (not to speak of neutralize), but instead to compel AQ to stay on a defensive stance (or, at least, a less offensive one).
In addition, relying on drones and SOF raids, while highlighting other potential costs (in diplomatic terms since it is necessary to achieve an agreement with the host nation, with the very exception of failed states maybe; in terms of domestic support since both the military institutions and the public opinion could raised several political obstacles, in terms of local support since drones may have a negative impact on the local population), should not be thought as a silver bullet. Furthermore, relying on such an indirect way to deal with AQ should not let the military institutions to forget its institutional experience from Iraq and Afghanistan.
In short, that strategy has to adapt to the evolving character of the war, which is both conditioned by internal calculus and political bargaining and of course, by the adversary's strategy.
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My second favorite presenter of our favorite television show of any kind, Top Gear, needs some new dining room chairs. Today was the second time that his plexiglass chairs have failed him. It may be the chair's fault, or maybe the good life is taking a toll on his waist line. He's turning into an American! Thanks to his daughter, Em, for the insight.
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To begin my birth story of Finley, I first need to go back and tell you a bit about my first birth. It was an uneventful pregnancy; I felt great and was looking forward to welcoming my baby the way Mother Nature intended. I did yoga, ate well, exercised and prepared myself by reading lots of info about natural birth and active birth techniques. Unfortunately, I skipped the parts about cesarean, as in my mind I wasn't having "one of those". It wasn't even a thought. I didn't even consider it an option. That was a mistake. It made me very underprepared for what eventually unfolded.
My waters broke, contractions started a few hours after and we headed into hospital soon after that, as things seemed to be progressing quickly. I was coping well, until I got the urge to push. After being examined I was told I was "only 8cm" and so "couldn't start pushing yet". My baby was posterior. I changed positions, used the shower and changed positions again. I did all I could (because I didn't think there was an option to question the midwife) to fight against what my body was telling me to do – PUSH! Eventually I could not fight anymore and asked for an epidural. Things went down hill from there. After another 3 hrs, some synto and still at 8cm I was told my baby was "in distress" and I needed an emergency cesarean. I was devastated to say the least. The worst part for me was the separation from my baby for over 2 hrs after she was born. The nurse in recovery was so nonchalant when I kept asking if I could go and see my baby—she casually answered with "all you cesarean mums are the same"!! I was too shocked and upset to say anything back to her. I felt so disconnected. I knew I'd just had a baby, but I didn't feel her come out – did she come out of me? Did I just give birth? Does she know I'm her mum? I wasn't even the first person to hold her. I put on a brave face and just got on with being a mum. Breastfeeding came easily and I really think it was my saving grace – it really helped me bond with my daughter. After her birth, I didn't even consider having another c-section. I never knew the struggles I might possibly come up against. I just assumed that next time I would have a vaginal birth. Isn't that the way it's supposed to happen?
So this led me on the path to my VBAC. I started reading lots of positive info about VBAC and joined a VBAC support group where I met some lovely mums, doulas and midwives who were all so supportive. It was so nice to be in a room talking with other women who had experienced what I had; who knew how I felt; who understood. I never really discussed my true feelings with friends and family as I just thought, "unless you've had a cesarean you can never fully understand how I feel".
We fell pregnant when my daughter was 22 months. We were excited! We had been discussing our birth options before this and had decided that having a midwife was more preferable to an OB for a successful VBAC. I booked in to Gosford Hospital under the community midwives. At the same time I had met a wonderful independent home birth midwife and was interested in chatting with her about home birth and what it all meant. My husband and I had been reading lots of empowering and positive HBAC birth stories and we were starting to warm to the idea that we could have a home birth. I'd also been hearing of other women's struggles with the hospital system for their right to birth how they wanted to and I just didn't want to have to fight for what I knew my body could do. I didn't want any negativity or doubt or hospital bureaucracy surrounding me.
If you'd asked me before I had my daughter if I'd ever have a home birth, I would've said no way!
Sadly, that pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. We took some time out to grieve and in the time before we fell pregnant again, we decided that when we did conceive, we would be having a home birth with the beautiful Lisa Richards from Bella Birthing and our beautiful close friend Lauren Horton as our Doula.
Five months later we were pregnant again! We contacted Lisa and set up a meeting so my hubby could meet her. We never looked back. Lisa was a constant source of information, support and woman centred care. It was so special having her come to our home for antenatal appointments, often for hours, to chat about anything and everything. Mina loved her too as she always let her unpack her bag and help with my blood pressure and let her use the Doppler to listen to bub. She knew us and we knew her. I did yoga with Lauren every week, I had regular Chiro, reflexology, I rested and I ate well. We did a birth workshop with Lauren and Calm Birth classes with a student practitioner.
We felt safe. We felt loved. We felt prepared.
The last couple of weeks of my pregnancy were tiring. By 38 weeks I really didn't think I was going to make it to 40 weeks. I felt heavy, had lots of pubic symphisis pain, many strong Braxton hicks and a busy 3 yr old to look after, but I remained calm and relaxed. I never once doubted that I could birth this baby out of my vagina!
Saturday 6/4 – we had dinner at my parents place for my sister's and daughter's birthdays. I felt very irritable, heavy and tired. I couldn't get comfortable. I went to the bathroom about 5 times in the hour we arrived! My mum noticed. She said to me before we left that she thought I'd have the baby on Monday. Well, mums know don't they! She was right!
Sunday 7/4 (39 weeks 2 days) - I went to prenatal yoga as usual. It was heaven. I came home and we went about our afternoon as usual. That night Lauren came over to do some Reiki on both hubby and I. She worked her magic and told me after the birth that I had looked like someone about to go into labour.
Lauren left at about 8.30pm and her partner came over to watch some cycling on TV with my hubby. I went to bed after showering around 9.30pm totally disinterested in watching the cycling. I checked Facebook and returned some emails and text messages and turned the light out around 10.30pm. I was woken briefly at 12.30am by the guys' muffled cheering but went back to sleep quickly.
Next thing, I woke up with a slight cramping feeling. I think I'd just had a few more of those in my sleep. I glanced up at the clock; it was 2.55am. I closed my eyes and waited. Again, I felt a period like cramp creeping in. I glanced at the clock again. It was 3.10am. This got me wondering….. again I closed my eyes but to feel that cramping sensation once more. I looked at my phone; it was 3.22am. Mmmmm. I think today is the day! I opened my contraction timer app and timed a few more "cramps". They were coming pretty much every 12 mins. After about an hr, I still hadn't been able to go back to sleep, I think I was too excited. My hubby woke up from the light on my phone and I told him that I was having mild contractions. He brought me a hot water bottle, which felt nice and eased the sensations. I wanted to stay in bed for as long as possible as I didn't know how long this was going to take and it was the middle of the night anyway, so I put my earphones in and listened to my positive birth affirmations.
Two hours passed; it was now 5.15am. I decided it was time to text Lisa and Lauren. I said to my husband that I thought it was a decent enough hr to wake them! I can't believe I was concerned about waking them – I'm pretty sure given their job titles that they're used to being woken at all hours! Oh the things a labouring woman is concerned about!
Over the next 45 mins my contractions had moved to 9 mins apart lasting for about 60 secs. I was still listening to my birth meditation. It was 6.05am. Lauren and I text back and forward a bit more about how I was going. I was still lying on my side breathing through the waves. Lauren talked about Mina being at kindy that day and that's when I thought "there's no way she's going to kindy today, we won't be driving anywhere". I knew it would be soon. The last message Lauren sent was at 6.30am. I didn't reply to that one. I was now unable to just lie on my side; I was on my knees, head down over a couple of pillows. I was now putting all my focus into my contractions. In 25 mins they had gone from 9 mins apart to about 4 mins apart! I had hubby call Lisa as we hadn't heard back from her yet (funny story – she'd done a "dream" text!). He was casually telling her that my contractions "were about 7 mins apart" – he wasn't even timing them!! I was bent over a pillow next to him getting cranky saying that I'd just had 2 in the time that he'd been talking to her and another as he hung up! They were definitely about 3 mins apart now. I told him to call her back and ask her to come. I was concerned that now it was after 7am, by the time she got ready and left she would get stuck in school traffic (it was Monday morning) and she had to come from 30 mins away. Lisa and Lauren were both now on their way.
7.05am – I was now out of bed leaning over pillows propped up on the side of the bed. I spotted Mina at the bottom of our stairs looking a little shocked. She'd just woken up and came up to see what was happening. I was vocalizing by this point with my ahhhs and ohhhs. I asked her to come up and told her that mummy was having the baby today. We had prepared her well for this so she knew what was going to happen (to some degree!).
I don't really recall times from now on but I now had the urge to use the toilet so I made my way through to our ensuite and sat down. I couldn't go. Now that I was upright things ramped up again. I had the longest contraction whilst sitting on the toilet; I'm sure it lasted about 2-3 mins! I got off the toilet and ripped off all of my clothes. I felt so hot, clammy and flustered! I went straight onto my hands and knees; the cool tiles were heaven! Loz had arrived at this point and kicked into action putting pressure on my back with each contraction and bringing me drinks. It felt great! I was so relieved when she arrived as hubby was running around trying to finish blowing up the pool (apparently it wasn't firm enough – I didn't care at that point I just wanted to get in!!), filling it, reassuring Mina and putting pressure on my back every 2 mins! I felt irritable and hot and asked for a face washer. Hubby lovingly tried to wipe my brow, but I just snatched it off him and wiped my whole face roughly and threw the washer back at him! My wrists were also starting to hurt from leaning on the hard tiles so hubby brought me 2 pillows to put under them. I put one under my hands and threw the other one out the door, frustrated. I was now in transition!! I was starting to feel pushy at the end of each contraction and only for a minute, wondered how dilated I was?
Lisa arrived around this time. She just slipped in and it felt like she'd been there all along. I felt relieved she'd arrived and I think I relaxed a bit in my mind knowing she was there. I had a few more contractions on the floor then Lisa suggested we move to the pool; it was ready. I think it was about 8am?
With Lisa's help I walked back into our bedroom and eased myself into the pool. AHHHH it was bliss! It really felt like what I'd imagined. How all the birth stories I'd read described the feeling of the warm water. But for a split second I thought "Oh no, it's too hot, I feel claustrophobic" and then that feeling left as quickly as it had appeared. I had a few more contractions and then during a break opened my eyes. The fog had lifted, labour land seemed clearer. I looked at Lisa and said "Hello!". They reminded me later that I had also looked at Lauren and commented on how beautiful she looked!! I looked around our bedroom – my birth space looked calm, serene and birthy! Lauren had done a wonderful job setting it up; candles lit, music playing, birth flags hung.
My husband, my daughter, my midwife and doula, all there; supporting me, nurturing me. Pouring warm water on my back, stroking my arms, kissing me, talking to me, bringing me drinks and wiping my face. All of them there, all for me – I was a birthing goddess!
Lisa noticed that I was glancing at the clock after every couple of contractions so she suggested that it be turned around. I don't really remember taking much notice of the time but it was in my view. I got back to the task at hand!
My body was so powerful; I couldn't believe the intensity of what it was doing. I didn't consciously push, not once – my body did it without instruction, it was unstoppable! It was overwhelming at times and at one point I even tried to get out of the pool and push his head back up! What was I thinking!
But all along Lisa, Lauren and Nick echoed their reassuring words around the room. At this point Lisa suggested that I feel down there; I was hesitant at first but then after the next contraction I put my fingers inside and felt a squishy head! Oh my, what a feeling! I was doing this! This baby was coming down and out of my vagina! From then on I couldn't keep my hand away – during each contraction I felt him coming closer and closer. I could feel the pressure of his head; I could feel the burning as he, bit by bit, made his way out. I was vocalizing quite loudly during the whole pushing stage and used all sorts of noises that if I made now would make me feel very silly! But there in that pool, in our bedroom, surrounded by my birth team it felt right, I felt empowered, and I was uninhibited! I was vocalizing with the word "OPEN" when Lisa gently said "I think you should use DOWN now Brooke, I'm pretty sure you're OPEN!". This made me laugh. It was so nice to be reminded to laugh and smile.
I had been leaning forward over the pool since I got in and I felt ready to turn over and lean back with my arms over the pool. I wanted to see my baby being born. I'm not sure how long it had been, but I had relaxed a bit by now and had my eyes closed. Lisa had let Mina use the torch and once she saw the head starting to emerge she called out "BABY" and stripped off her clothes ready to jump in. I asked hubby to get her to wait till the head was out as I was really focusing on getting through that. Not long after, I felt his head come through and what a relief that was! I put my head back on the pool thinking I'd have a little break before the next contraction brought his body out, but bubs had other plans. He kept on coming and swam quickly into his daddy's hands!! He was out!! I did it; I just birthed my baby! Hubby passed him to me (we didn't know the sex at this point) and I brought my baby to my chest and kissed him and talked to him as I cried and smiled and cried! He let out a cry and hubby kissed me and we looked to find that we'd had a beautiful baby boy. We watched in awe as he pinked up and cried and stared at us in wonder. His eyes said "I know you, you're my mummy!" I was in love! We stayed in the pool for about half an hour drinking up our new baby boy. He was just perfect! His cord was quite short so we hopped out and got cozy in bed. About 45 mins after he was born, Nick and Mina cut his cord and we snuggled up for our first feed. Mina and Nick had cuddles whilst I was birthing the placenta. Unfortunately, my placenta was a little stubborn and I was still bleeding so had to have the synto injection to help it out. When it finally came out it wasn't all there – I had retained some of it and I was still bleeding. It wasn't an emergency and the bleeding did stop but the issue remained of the retained piece of placenta. Lisa and Megan (second midwife) discussed our options thoroughly, and we came to the decision to transfer to hospital for follow up care (but that's another story!). I spent 1 night in hospital and was home in my own bed the next day snuggled in with my beautiful boy and to celebrate our daughters 3rd birthday. Yes, they are only 1 day apart!
I'm so grateful to my amazing birth support team. That, in my opinion, is the most important part of a woman's VBAC journey.
I'm forever thankful to my amazing husband Nick, our beautiful daughter Mina, my wonderful midwife Lisa and gorgeous Doula Lauren.
And most of all to my son Finley, I thank you for being born! X x x
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Donald Custer Bradley continued a Bradley family tradition of serving his country, a tradition stretching back to his ancestor Aaron Bradley of Litchfield, Connecticut, who served in the Revolution War and to ancestors who served in local militia groups in Guilford, Connecticut, in the 1600s. Here is his story, shared on Veterans Day 2012.
Donald C. Bradley studied military science and was a Cadet Captain in ROTC at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he graduated on May 29, 1943. On July 1, 1943, he received orders to report to Camp McCoy, near LaCrosse, Wisconsin. He was then transferred to Fort Benning, Georgia, for six months of training. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry at Fort Benning, Georgia, on Dec. 30, 1943.
His first assigments were training troops as follows:
— Feb. 27-June 4, 1944, IRTC, Camp Roberts, Templeton and Atascadero, California.
— June 6-July 18, 1944, Camp Adair, Corvallis and Albany, Oregon, 70th Infantry Division.
— July 22-August 11, 1944, Fort Leonard Wood, Lebanon, Missouri, 70th Infantry Division.
On September 5, 1944, his second wedding anniversary, he was in New York City waiting to be shipped overseas to Europe. This was three months after the D-Day Invasion. He went first to England and then to France for the end of the Allied Campaign in northern France. He was assigned to the 116th Infantry of the 29th Division that, in late September, took up defensive positions along the Teveren-Geilenkirchen line near Aachen inside Germany.
Lt. Bradley was wounded at the Battle of Aachen, which began on October 13, 1944. Located near the border with Belgium, Aachen was the first major German city to face invasion by the Allies. The American 1st and 30th Divisions began the assault, but when the 30th had many losses, parts of the 29th Division entered the battle. Military historians state that winning Aachen was key critical step for American soldiers attempting to breach the fortified Siegfried Line in the fall of 1944.
More specifically for Lt. Bradley, his 116th Infantry was deployed in the Aachen battle as follows: "The main German escape route from Aachen was the road to Alsdorf, which ran northeast from the besieged city. With attached battalions from the 66th Armd. Regt., 120th Inf. Regt., and 99th Inf. Bn., the 116th moved against Wurselen, five miles north of Aachen, Oct. 13, repulsed a counter-attack, cut the Alsdorf Road to seal the Aachen Gap." [Source: "29 Let's Go!" — a small booklet on the history of the 29th Infantry Division, published by the Stars & Stripes in Paris in 1944-1945.] The Combat Chronicle of the 29th Division in World War II also reports of 1944 battles that "In mid-October the 116th Infantry took part in the fighting at the Aachen Gap."
After hospitalization and healing, Don rejoined the 29th Division in action pushing east into Germany. He was with Allied Forces when they met the Russian Army at the Elbe River at the end of the war. Some sources say the Division had reached the Elbe on April 19, 1945, and that first radio contact with the Soviet troops occurred by April 23. The official meetings of American and Russian forces occurred on April 26, 1945, near Torgau.
According to the "29 Let's Go!" booklet, "Given a regular combat mission again, the 29th dispatched its 115th and 116th to clear all opposition in the division sector west of the Elbe. Resistance was slight; the river was reached April 26."
A 1945 newspaper article from Wisconsin summarized it this way: "Lt. Bradley, a rifle platoon leader, fought with the 116th Infantry of the 29th Division from Aachen to the Elbe River, where his unit was one of the first to make contact with the Russians. He was wounded in the Battle for Aachen and was awarded the Purple Heart."The article added that Don was then transferred to the Military Police Platoon, 95th Infantry Division, and returned to the United States with that platoon. There was every expectation that his next assignment would be in the Pacific, but the Japanese surrender in mid-August 1945 made that unnecessary.
Lt. Bradley completed his military duties with assignments as follows:
— August 10-October 13, 1945, stationed at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, awaiting redeployment.
— October 15, 1945-March 9, 1946, Camp Butner, Durham, North Carolina
Don, his wife and their young daughter then headed home via a visit to Washington, D.C., and its historic monuments, including a stop of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The U.S. 29th Infantry Division has as its motto, "29. Let's Go!" Its nickname is Blue and Gray, and its patch is a yin and yang symbol of the two colors, recognizing that it was made up of units that fought for the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Donald C. Bradley was awarded a Purple Heart, recognizing that he had been wounded in action. The original Purple Heart, called the Badge of Military Merit, was created by George Washington in 1782.
=> Find the booklet "29 Let's Go!" at this Web address: http://www.lonesentry.com/gi_stories_booklets/29thinfantry/
=> Read the story of the 116th Infantry during World War II: http://116thinfantry.org/2.html
=> See the history of the 29th Division at this Web address: http://www.29infantrydivision.org/ and also here: http://www.freewebs.com/29thbattlefieldclan/29thhistory.htm


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Visiting the Doctor—Autism Toolkit
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Going to the doctor can be stressful for any child. For a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), there may be additional challenges because of sensory, communication, and other symptoms related to the ASD. Here are some tips to help make visiting the doctor easier.
How can we prepare our child for a visit to the doctor?
Many children with ASDs have difficulty with changes in routine and new situations, so preparing ahead of time can help. Talk to your child about the doctor visit before you go so he knows what to expect. This may help your child respond better to what is required of him at the visit. Many books, videos, and other materials explain step-by-step and in a positive way, what will happen at the doctor's or dentist's office. They also point out that most steps don't hurt, and the ones that might are done quickly. Social stories may be helpful for your child. These stories have pictures about what to expect and how to behave or react in a certain situation, like going to the doctor or dentist. You can review these expectations and practice these behaviors with your child ahead of time.
Practice some of the procedures with your child at home. Take your child's temperature or blood pressure; look into his mouth, ears, and nose with a flashlight; and use a tongue depressor or a stethoscope. A toy doctor's kit might have some instruments that look like the real thing and can be fun for the child to practice with. This can also be done in play with a doll or stuffed animal.
Make a schedule board for your child so he knows what will happen during the visit. You can use photographs, drawings, or words for each step and provide a reward at the end. The reward can be a small treat, high five, verbal praise, or preferred activity such as a handheld electronic game or bubbles.
What if preparing ahead of time doesn't help? What else can we do to make the visit go smoothly?
Sometimes doctor or dentist visits are stressful even when you prepare ahead of time. Children with ASDs may have a hard time with language and may not understand what you explain. A visit to the doctor or dentist can be seen as a bad thing, as they may often be connected with getting shots or being sick. Uncertainty and fear can lead to problem behavior.
Try to ease anxiety and make a more pleasant link with the doctor's office by rehearsing visits. You can go to the office with your child and sit in the waiting room while doing something your child enjoys.
Organize yourself to keep the visit moving along. Bring a written list of questions or issues to discuss with the doctor. Some children do well if the doctor or dentist can review the order of the visit with them and check off (verbally or on a list) when each part of the visit has been accomplished.
Make copies of any related items (such as testing by specialists) and bring them to the visit to give to the doctor. If you can, bring another person to the doctor's office to help with your child. This way, you don't have to be rushed or worried about your child's behavior while you talk with the doctor. Some doctors can also have special visit times scheduled for you to meet alone with the doctor without your child if you have many questions and need more time or feel your child cannot tolerate a long visit.
You may want to bring activities or toys that your child likes to help keep her busy during waiting times and to make your child feel as safe and calm as possible.
Do what you can to reduce your child's time at the doctor's office. Try to get the first slot of the day or right after lunch, or at a time in the schedule when waiting times will be shortest and the waiting room will be quiet. Remind the office staff ahead of time and when you arrive that your child has an ASD so they will do their best to see your child as quickly as possible. Help the nurse or doctor during the examination by calming your child or assisting with procedures. Giving a special reward right after the visit might help your child to view the visit more favorably and to calm down faster if she is upset.
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Yale had a good reason to fire Williams. He was 16-14 in three years, and 0-3 against Harvard. When you're competing against the likes of Dartmouth and Princeton and Columbia (with a couple of Patriot League cupcakes to begin the season), barely above .500 stinks.
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What do you call a guy who can fish, handle a rifle, loves his dog, can cook and looks like the Brawny paper towel guy? Should we call that man "our ideal hunk"? Well, that man exists and his name is Ben Sargent.