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Nicole Metzler married for 6 years.  Had 3 failed IUIs and a failed cycle of IVF, and two miscarriages. Nicole has become passionate about educating military spouse friends and friends of friends about a very common (but seldom discussed) problem: the difficult intersection between the military and infertility. It’s hard for some couples to start a family; it’s even harder when one person spends a lot of time on the other side of the globe. But Nicole was lucky enough to declare Mission Accomplished when their daughter was born after trying IVF at a clinic in England that they never would’ve gone to if she and her husband hadn’t been stationed there!  The Metzlers brought their little sparkler into the world through a Cesarean Section at 39 weeks gestation at the urging of Nicole’s physicians due to the steeply increased risk for stillbirth associated with a “geriatric pregnancy” during the third trimester.My name is Dr. Monica Maa and I live in Clinton, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC.  I have been married to my husband MenSa for 11 years. We have two daughters, Genesis (age 8) and Makeda (age 6). Both were born in our home with the assistance of midwives.

My husband was the one who initiated the conversation of having a natural birth long before we had children.  We both liked the idea of bringing our children into the world in the comfort of our own home, and not in the sterile, impersonal setting of a hospital. As a veterinarian by profession, I've always been impressed by the ability of other mammalian species to give birth without assistance and without fear.  As a fellow mammal, I figured that I should be able to do the same!  I was very happy with our decision to pursue natural childbirth; although each birth experience was different, we were pleased with the outcomes.

The Miracle of Home Natural Child's Birtth

Originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, Ska came before musical styles such as Rocksteady and Reggae. Ska is a combined musical element of Caribbean Mento and Calypso with a bit of American Jazz and also Rhythm and Blues. It separates itself from other musical genres due to its walking bass line accented with rhythms on the upbeat. In the early 1960s, Ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with the other communities as well, including the British Community. 

Ska music was made for dancing.  It stand out because the music is upbeat, quick and exciting. Musically, it can be characterized with a drumbeat on the 2nd and 4th beats (in 4/4 time) and with the guitar hitting the 2nd, 3rd and 4th beats. Traditional Ska bands generally featured bass, drums, guitars, keyboards, horns with sax, trombone and trumpet being most common.

Music historians typically divide the history of Ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s (First Wave); the English 2 Tone Ska revival of the late 1970s (Second Wave); and the third wave Ska movement, which started in the 1980s and rose to popularity in the US in the 1990s. Without a doubt Ska has set a musical standard for genres that follow it such as Reggae and Rocksteady.

Just Ska and Rocksteady Hits of the 60s 70s and 80s with Alphanso Castro

Una Maud Victoria Marson (5 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and programmes for the BBC. Marson travelled to London in 1932 and worked for the BBC during World War II.Una Marson was born on 6 February 1905, in Santa Cruz, Jamaica, in the parish of St Elizabeth. She was the youngest of six children of Rev. Solomon Isaac (1858–1915), a Baptist parson, and Ada Marson (d. 1930). Una had a middle-class upbringing and was very close to her father, who influenced some of her fatherlike characters in her later works. As a child before going to school she was an avid reader of available literature, which at the time was mostly English classical literature.

At the age of 10, she was enrolled in Hampton High, a girl's boarding school in Jamaica of which her father was on the board of trustees. However, that same year, Rev. Isaac died, leaving the family with financial problems, so they moved to Kingston. Una finished school at Hampton High, but did not go on to a college education.

After she left from Hampton, she found work in Kingston as a volunteer social worker and used the secretarial skills, such as stenography, she had learned in school.Marson returned to Jamaica in 1936, where one of her goals was to promote national literature. One step she took in achieving this goal was to help create the Kingston Readers and Writers Club, as well as the Kingston Drama Club. She also founded the Jamaica Save the Children Fund, an organization that raised funds to give the poorer children money to get a basic education.Marson returned to London in 1938 to continue work on the Jamaican Save the Children project that she started in Jamaica, and also to be on the staff of the Jamaican Standard. In 1941, she was hired by the BBC Empire Service to work on the programme Calling the West Indies

Jamaican Anti-Colonial, Feminist, Pan-Africanist,Anti-Racist,Una Marson

Twista

Are you gonna be? Say that you're gonna be

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

She said she want some Marvin Gaye, some Luther Vandross

A little Anita will definitely set this party off right

(are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be

Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, well well well well)

She said she want some Ready for the World, some New Edition

Some Minnie Ripperton will definitely set this party off right

(are you gonna be, are you gonna be, are you gonna be

Are you gonna be, are you gonna be, well well well well)

It definitely will

You know what I told her

I told her to drive over in yo new whip, bring some friends you cool wit

I'ma bring the cool whip, then I want you to strip

See you is my new chick, so we get our grind on

Love....Four letters that cause great joy..and much pain depending on whether it is Returned in like or is unrequited. It gives great drive to many to do their best in hopes of impressing and winning over the one they love.

One big misconception is that we are ruled by our hearts in this regard... Totally wrong. Our hearts are nothing but an organ that pumps our blood and keeps us alive. Love is fed by our minds and our emotions and our needs and wants.

We do indeed choose who we attach our emotions to...rightfully so or tragically so. We ... our conscious mind makes that choice much as we wish to blame our heart as we have been programmed to believe in all the romanticism fed to us.

Love... who we love..when we love...and how we love is up to us and our choices. We are wholly responsible for all we do in that regard. We make a conscious decision to allow our emotions to attach to a person in our romanticized thought processing.

When all seems to be going haywire in the relationship and our rational mind says bail out now...we tend to lean on the romantic notion that we can fix it all to work. Logic takes a backseat...our decision..not the heart's which is probably cussing out the brain and emotions for endangering it's welfare by putting the body through so much stress and tension.

Love is to be enjoyed and shared with respect, tenderness kind words and actions. Failing to acquire these tenets from a prospective partner .. have the good sense to bail before you get so involved it becomes a pariah on your existence to continue being around someone you have come to detest who denigrates you. Choices...it is what separates us from the other creatures..the ability to reason and become proactive towards our own welfare.

Choose wisely...Love Wisely.

Pontiak

Denroy Morgan is a Jamaican reggae artist. He was born 1946 in May Pen in Clarendon, but left Jamaica in 1965 at the age of 19 and traveled to the United States to become a musician. He was part of the formation the Black Eagles, a New York City reggae band in the 1970s, before launching a prosperous solo career in the 1980s onwards. His children encouraged by his success have also taken on musical careers themselves including Laza Morgan, Gramps Morgan, and in family bands LMS and Morgan Heritage.

Denroy Morgan is a Jamaican reggae artist. He was born 1946 in May Pen in Clarendon, but left Jamaica in 1965 at the age of 19 and traveled to the United States to become a musician. He was part of the formation the Black Eagles, a New York City reggae band in the 1970s, before launching a prosperous solo career in the 1980s onwards. His children encouraged by his success have also taken on musical careers themselves including Laza Morgan, Gramps Morgan, and in family bands LMS and Morgan Heritage.