New Releases by Taylor Armstrong

Commercial surrogacy continues to grow in popularity. Lack of legal provisions at the international and domestic levels, however, has given rise to myriad problems. This has increasingly caused states and academics to consider whether regulation may be the preferable approach. Yet despite the extensive sociological and anthropological literature that has conceptualised contract pregnancy as a form of work, the question of whether and how this might translate into a new legal framework remains underexplored. This thesis seeks to bridge this disciplinary gap by investigating the merit of treating surrogates as the employees of their intended parents, therein regulating contract pregnancy through labour law. To do so, it addresses numerous issues through five substantive Chapters: the controversies with marketizing reproductive labour, the current legal landscape, whether surrogacy could really be regulated as labour, what labour law might have to offer, and finally what the challenges might be with this approach to regulation. It draws on a range of secondary sources to answer these, but also integrates analysis of both Californian surrogacy contracts and interviews with industry actors conducted as part of this research. Overall, I argue that particularly for states which do not currently regulate surrogacy - whether because it is prohibited, ignored, or they ascribe to a Free Market approach - labour law has real potential as a pre-existing solution to help ensure that these arrangements operate as ethically as possible. Certainly, exploring this possibility would help to overcome the exceptionalisation of reproductive labour, which this thesis shows is detrimental not only to gestational carriers, but also the coherency of labour law itself.

"The NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) uses a multidisciplinary approach to understand how ocean chemistry is changing in response to ocean acidification (OA), how ecosystems are responding to these changes, and how human communities and economies may be affected. In close partnership with other NOAA programs, labs, and science centers, OAP supports an interdisciplinary range of intramural and extramural science in support of NOAA''s mission and communicates OA science to the public and stakeholders. The OAP resides in NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), but is considered a “matrix program” involving multiple NOAA line offices including OAR; National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); National Environmental, Satellite, and Data Information Service; National Ocean Service; and Office of Marine and Aviation Operations"--Executive summary.

Book One in, The Adventures of Starlight and Sunny Series, "The Princess Path," How to be True with Good Deeds; a Fun, Morally Conscious Picture Book for Baby to 3 and Ages 4-8 Come join Starlight and Sunny, a pair of happy, adventurous sisters who go wherever their imagination takes them. Whether under their bed, in their back yard or far from home, these darling girls always follow imagination''s lead. You may find them wriggling into a fancy costume, playing heroes, petting a puppy, or searching for buried treasure. One thing''s for sure; wherever you find Starlight and Sunny, adventure will not be far behind. Come along to see what adventures and lessons the girls will discover today and like Starlight and Sunny you will find happiness, in its truest way. Don''t forget to continue on with Starlight and Sunny''s adventures in the rest of the series, The Adventures of Starlight and Sunny: Book 2, The Secret Valley Book 3, I am me ! Who are you? Book 4, Princesses don''t need a job! and Book 5, Building a Dream www.StarlightAndSunny.com

Taylor Armstrong, star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Bravo, pulls back the curtain on the years she suffered in silence through domestic violence in this searingly honest account of her troubled marriage to the late Russell Armstrong. The terrible truth is that I felt lost without the control that Russell had imposed on me for the nearly six years that we were married. Disturbingly, I missed that control. I didn’t know what to do once I had no one there to tell me how to dress, act, and behave; what to want; and who, even, to be. In some ways, I missed the abuse. I missed the pain. I missed being scared. Not because I liked feeling any of that. But because it was the life I had become accustomed to, and without anyone to be afraid of, to apologize to, and to cover for, I felt completely lost. Reality hit Taylor Armstrong hard one tragic evening last August when she found the body of her estranged husband, Russell, hanging in his California home. Fans across the country were shocked at the horrific news of his death and even more shocked to discover that behind the glittering “reality” of Taylor’s life on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills lurked a painful story of emotional and physical abuse that she had been terrified to tell. To the outside world, the Armstrongs lived like royalty, throwing lavish parties—including a memorable tea party for their daughter’s fourth birthday—and mingling with their privileged Housewives co-stars. It was impossible to hide the cracks in their marriage from the cameras forever, though, and their darkest secrets slowly began to seep through the gilded façade. With searing honesty, Taylor candidly examines her difficult journey from the abusive home in which she was born to the low self-esteem that kept her constantly on the run from herself, to the tumultuous marriage that ended in suicide, and ultimately to her realization that only by sharing her moving story could she help other women.

The Mw6.9 (Ms7.1) April 14, 2010 Yushu earthquake and aftershocks devastated Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Qinghai Province, China), killed 3̃,000 people, injured 12,000 people, and caused extensive damage throughout the region. The earthquake swarm occurred in the central region of the Tibetan Plateau, within the Banyan Har Mountain Range along the Ganzi-Yushu fault system. The focal mechanism for the main shock indicated left-lateral, strike-slip movement with two pulses of rupture along a WNW-ESE-striking, near-vertical fault causing surface ruptures to occur along several segments of the Yushu fault. In October 2011, a trench (CUG2011-1) was excavated (near the village of Guoqiong, 30km-NW of Jiegu town) across the Guoqiong segment of the Yushu fault which had a maximum of 1̃.8m left-lateral displacement. The trench was excavated perpendicular to the surface rupture across a Late-Pleistocene alluvial-fan surface. A nearby Holocene stream channel, incised 3m into the fan, was deflected left-laterally 6̃m indicating substantial strike-slip displacement since incision. Within the trench, 3 buried A-soil horizons within the downthrown side are regularly-spaced suggesting surface ruptures, associated with similar-sized or larger earthquakes, occurred prior to the 2010 earthquake at fairly regular intervals. Line-length balancing and progressive retro-deformation for the 2010 and 3 previous surface ruptures show 2̃m of horizontal shortening perpendicular to the fault and 1̃m of vertical displacement. If earlier events were of similar magnitude, then about 1.5m left-lateral displacement also occurred during each previous paleoseismic event. Thus these 4 events could account for the total 6m of left-lateral displacement of the incised Holocene stream channel.