 Barrow(s)) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK & Ireland's most popular megalithic community website. 4 images, 2 fieldnotes, 1 piece of folklore, plus information on many more ancient sites nearby and across the UK & Ireland.
Very easy to see right next to the minor road.
This is a decent round barrow, very nicely preserved and in a very prominent position. Topped by trees and easily visible from the minor road running alongside, this is one of the best examples of a round barrow along the western edge of the Cotswolds.
The barrow appears to have had the name since at least 1777, when it was marked on Taylor's Map of Gloucester as "Paul Aposd".
"It has been suggested that an epistle was read there at the beating of the parish bounds, which run close by. In the mid 19th century, however, the name 'Paul and the Epistles' was sometimes used and was said to refer to the number of trees."
Rather less religiously, it is also known locally as "Bull's Pissel"!Congratulations on Nearing your birth!

Most of the factors affecting dilation have been explained by others. I hope my message can give you a little reassurance as well. Statistically, only 8% of all women giving birth are affected by prolonged labour. The chances of this happening to you are low.

My advice to you would be the following:
- Write up a birth plan and share it with your birth attendants (including staff and family present with you). Include in the birth plan what actions you would like taken in regard to an emergency and your thoughts on routine episiotomy. 
- While in labour, keep yourself strong by eating small snacks regularly and taking small sips of water. Nausea and vomiting is a common occurence in labour.
- Walk around as much as you can to allow gravity to assist you. You can also do squats and other types of light exercise if you are well supported. Please don't fall.
- Empty your bladder as much as you can before reaching active phase of labour. A full bladder can block baby's passage and it causes you discomfort too.
- Keep yourself calm with music, breathing techniques, help from your birth attendant, help from your family. If your family are not helping to keep you calm, don't be afraid to ask them to leave. This is your birth and you have control over this.

The 5 P's of Labour are Passage, Passenger, Powers, Position and PSYCHE.
You can control your body's position and your psyche. Leave the rest to your baby and your body to figure out.

You can do this. You are strong enough. Stay calm, stay strong. Do not be distracted by doubts and discouragement from those around you. Focus your heart and mind on your birth and on bringing a beautiful life into the world ♡package io.scalecube.services.leader.election.example;

import io.scalecube.services.Microservices;
import io.scalecube.services.leader.election.Config;
import io.scalecube.services.leader.election.RaftLeaderElection;
import io.scalecube.transport.Address;

public class LeaderElectionMain {

  /**
   * starting a leader election node.
   * @param args host and port for seed node.
   * @throws InterruptedException 
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

    if (args.length < 2) {
      System.out.println("the application paramters must set with seed node address ");
    }

    RaftLeaderElection leaderElection1 = new GreetingServiceImpl(new Config());

    Microservices node1 = Microservices.builder()
       .seeds(Address.create(args[0], Integer.parseInt(args[1])))
       .services(leaderElection1).startAwait();
    Thread.currentThread().join();
  }

}
On a cold, snowy day in December 2018, Kresge’s Education and Human Services teams met to explore a simple idea – Can human services organizations and higher education institutions achieve better and more equitable outcomes for their clients and students if they partnered?
Our sense from our existing grantee partners, prior evaluations, and thought leaders was -- YES. Increasingly human services nonprofits were embracing social and economic mobility, beyond self-sufficiency, as their north star. With this new end goal, high-quality postsecondary programs became an important component leading to family-sustaining careers and mobility. Meanwhile, higher education continued to grapple with the changing demographics of their student population, including the reality that roughly 1 in 5 college students are parents. They clearly needed partners to provide critical supports to students striving to earn a life-changing credential or degree.
We wanted to support the promising practices of cross-sector partnerships that put the needs of families striving for their version of the American dream at the center of their efforts. So in July 2019, we released a Request for Proposals for an initiative we call BOOST: Boosting Opportunities for Social and Economic Mobility for Families, which puts human service nonprofits and community colleges on equal footing helping families in their cities climb the social and economic ladder.
Genuine partnership: The selected city partnerships demonstrated a history and track record of engaging and delivering results with and for their community. Both organizations saw and clearly explained the complementary nature of their missions, services, and organizational strengths. In many cases, the city partners had been collaborating for years or even decades, like Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and Forward Service Corporation, which have been jointly serving Green Bay residents for 15 years.
Racial Equity Commitment: At Kresge, we often cite the Center for Social Inclusion’s definition of racial equity, or a state “when race no longer determines one’s socioeconomic outcomes.”[1] The funded city partnerships exhibited belief systems aligned with this definition. They explained, with qualitative and quantitative evidence, the current racial inequities in their communities and shared multiple ways in which they need to recreate systems, organizations, policies, processes, and programs to achieve equitable outcomes. For example, the Baltimore partnership routinely assesses how actions, big and small, impact their largely African-American community members and uses advocacy to challenge and change discriminatory state-level policies that contribute to racial gaps in postsecondary education, employment, and wealth.
New Concepts tied to Economic Mobility: In designing BOOST, we took inspiration from several frameworks, including Ascend at the Aspen Institute’s two-generation approach and Jobs for the Future’s lifetime and springboard jobs framework. While not all the cohort members were seasoned in these concepts, they recognized and embraced the overarching philosophies behind them, such as measuring outcomes for both children and their parents and supporting people for careers, not just entry-level jobs. For example, in its application, the Syracuse partnership applied the Jobs for the Future’s framework to existing labor market data to identify the specific lifetime and springboard jobs in their community, while Hartford’s work used three neighborhood-based Family Centers that intentionally serve both the parents and children for mutually reinforcing outcomes.
Change at multiple levels: In the proposal process, we challenged applicants to think about outcomes at the program level, organizational/institutional level, and at larger systems and policy levels. To a large degree, the final cohort plans to advance change at all three levels. The Portland partnership identified networks and mechanism through which they’d influence Head Start and higher education practices across the state of Oregon. Similarly, the New York City partners seek to shift workforce development practices in the City University of New York system and at community-based providers.
It has been just over a year since the Education and Human Services teams met to ponder the question, “can human services organizations and higher education institutions achieve better and more equitable outcomes for their students and clients if they partnered?” While we have learned a lot, we know there is more to come. We are committed to sharing our lessons from BOOST with the field. Follow us on this journey by signing up for our newsletter at kresge.org/subscribe and following us on Twitter at @kresgehumansvcs and @kresgedu.
Stephanie Davison is a program officer with Kresge's Human Services Program. Bethany Miller is a senior program officer with Kresge's Education Program.
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