| Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
Pregnancy and Childbirth are sensitive subject to most of us. We spend a good part of our day thinking, researching and planning for an event that will change our life. Whether you come to this blog in hopes of exploring your options for childbirth, or with experience to share, come with an open mind, an open heart, and most importantly; open eyes. Birth Matters Tidewater is a local chapter of the statewide non-profit organization; Birth Matters Virginia. We are committed to providing support, guidance and information for women and families, helping them achieve a safe and empowering birth experience.This blog is about more than the mechanics of pregnancy and childbirth. It is a place to talk about the subject you may find yourself fascinated by as you prepare for the arrival of your baby, or have come to realize a powerful sense of experience that you have to share with other women and families.
High schools: Christian Academy vies for title today; Prayther top ...
The teams had a dual meet on Friday night, but the more intriguing matchups are today. Dream matchups between some of the state's top seniors will be held at 1 p.m. today. Some wrestlers will compete across weight classes and against their own North-South teammates. Prayther, Richie Schneider, Chip Hester and C.J. Clay, along with Loris' Jonathan Willard, are the area's North-South selections. ONLINE | To view Hoke's high school sports blog 'Prep Talk,' go to MyrtleBeachOnline.com. Contact JOSH HOKE at 843-626-0318. .
Lang Lang, Perlman to perform with Toronto Symphony
Chinese pianist Lang Lang and great violinist Itzhak Perlman will perform with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as part of its 2008-2009 season. Lang Lang, artist in residence for China's Summer Olympics in Beijing, will have a one-week residency in Toronto. (Toronto Symphony Orchestra) Lang Lang, whose concerts in Toronto this spring sold out, will participate in a week-long residency with the TSO that will include several community engagements, according to TSO music director Peter Oundjian, who on Monday released details of the coming season. Among Lang Lang's performances will be the Canadian premiere of Tan Dun's Piano Concerto with the TSO. Perlman appears as part of the TSO's Great Performances series, open to subscribers only, which also features American violinist Joshua Bell and Yo-Yo Ma performing with the Silk Road Ensemble.
Q&A with Alex Pentland
THREE YEARS AGO, Alex "Sandy" Pentland huddled in front of a computer, predicting the future. On his monitor, he could follow the behavior of 100 students and faculty members as they traveled around the MIT campus; he could also see projections of what each person would do next. Over several months, as each of the subjects scurried from class to dorm to coffee shop, their cellphones beamed back moment-by-moment updates to Pentland's lab. After he had crunched the numbers, he came up with a kind of fingerprint of each person's weekly routine. Pentland and his colleagues could pick out any one student and guess - often with an 80 to 90 percent accuracy rate - whether that person was about to head to the gym, go home, or meet her boyfriend for dinner. And when the researchers looked at all the routines together, they could make inferences about the behavior of groups.
NASCAR and Hollywood still worlds apart
So, here's the plan: Watch the NASCAR race in the afternoon, walk next door to the Kodak Theater and see what film wins best picture. Pretty sure it's do-able. I think they share parking lots. Some of you suffer under the misapprehension that the two-mile track we used to call California Speedway is located in the Inland Empire. Actually, it's practically in Los Angeles. Santa Monica Pier is just down the street. You can see the Hollywood sign from the start-finish line. You can feel the ocean breeze from here. Smell the salt air at night. Or maybe that's exhaust fumes. One of the laughable vanities of Southern California sports is the Fontana track's attempts to market itself as NASCAR's show-biz pit stop.
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