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Soil deep in a crater dating to some 3.7 billion years ago contains evidence that Mars was once much warmer and wetter, says University of Oregon geologist Gregory Retallack, based on images and data captured by the rover Curiosity.
NASA rovers have shown Martian landscapes littered with loose rocks from impacts or layered by catastrophic floods, rather than the smooth contours of soils that soften landscapes on Earth.
However, recent images from Curiosity from the impact Gale Crater, Retallack said, reveal Earth-like soil profiles with cracked surfaces lined with sulfate, ellipsoidal hollows and concentrations of sulfate comparable with soils in Antarctic Dry Valleys and Chile's Atacama Desert.
His analyses appear in a paper placed online this week by the journal Geology in advance of print in the September issue of the world's top-ranked journal in the field. Retallack, the paper's lone author, studied mineral and chemical data published by researchers closely tied with the Curiosity mission.
Retallack, professor of geological sciences and co-director of paleontology research at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is an internationally known expert on the recognition of paleosols - ancient fossilized soils contained in rocks.
"The pictures were the first clue, but then all the data really nailed it," Retallack said.
"The key to this discovery has been the superb chemical and mineral analytical capability of the Curiosity Rover, which is an order of magnitude improvement over earlier generations of rovers. The new data show clear chemical weathering trends, and clay accumulation at the expense of the mineral olivine, as expected in soils on Earth. Phosphorus depletion within the profiles is especially tantalizing, because it attributed to microbial activity on Earth."
The ancient soils, he said, do not prove that Mars once contained life, but they do add to growing evidence that an early wetter and warmer Mars was more habitable than the planet has been in the past 3 billion years.
Curiosity rover is now exploring topographically higher and geologically younger layers within the crater, where the soils appear less conducive to life. For a record of older life and soils on Mars, Retallack said, new missions will be needed to explore older and more clayey terrains.
Surface cracks in the deeply buried soils suggest typical soil clods. Vesicular hollows, or rounded holes, and sulfate concentrations, he said, are both features of desert soils on Earth.
"None of these features is seen in younger surface soils of Mars," Retallack said. "The exploration of Mars, like that of other planetary bodies, commonly turns up unexpected discoveries, but it is equally unexpected to discover such familiar ground."
The newly discovered soils provide more benign and habitable soil conditions than known before on Mars. Their dating to 3.7 billion years ago, he noted, puts them into a time of transition from "an early benign water cycle on Mars to the acidic and arid Mars of today."
Life on Earth is believed to have emerged and began diversifying about 3.5 billion years ago, but some scientists have theorized that potential evidence that might take life on Earth farther back was destroyed by plate tectonics, which did not occur on Mars.
In an email, Malcolm Walter of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, who was not involved in the research, said the potential discovery of these fossilized soils in the Gale Crater dramatically increases the possibility that Mars has microbes. "There is a real possibility that there is or was life on Mars," he wrote.
Retallack noted that Steven Benner of the Westheimer Institute of Science and Technology in Florida has speculated that life is more likely to have originated on a soil planet like Mars than a water planet like Earth. In an email, Benner wrote that Retallack's paper "shows not only soils that might be direct products of an early Martian life, but also the wet-dry cycles that many models require for the emergence of life."
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Local, state and federal officials attended the groundbreaking for Coulter Grove Intermediate School Friday. After years of planning, construction of the new school in Maryville officially began moving forward this week, thanks to a new funding mechanism authorized by the state legislature last year.
The attendees included Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett; Daniel Tangherlini, the U.S. Treasury Department's Assistant Secretary for Management, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Performance Officer; and numerous other officials representing Maryville and Blount County.
Maryville City Schools purchased property and made plans to begin construction on the new school in the fall of 2008. However, the project was temporarily delayed when economic conditions made the bond market unfavorable.
The project got back on track after the Tennessee State School Bond Authority (TSSBA) approved an $18,720,000 loan to Maryville through the Qualified School Construction Bond program, a new category of tax credit bonds used to provide low-cost financing to local governments.
"This opportunity for Maryville is a credit to the state legislature recognizing and seizing upon an opportunity to create low-cost funding for this much needed project," said Secretary Hargett, who serves on the TSSBA. "It took less than a year to go from the state legislature's authorization to today's groundbreaking celebration. It is refreshing to see government at all levels come together working for the most affordable option, and we owe taxpayers nothing less."
"The road to economic recovery runs right through our state and local communities," said Treasury Assistant Secretary Tangherlini. "Recovery Act school construction bonds provide communities access to the funds they need to build and upgrade schools. And by helping build schools, we're creating jobs today and preparing our kids to compete in the global economy in the future."
The TSSBA has approved $177 million in loans for 25 projects across the state.
When completed, Coulter Grove Intermediate School will provide about 155,000 square feet of floor space and will serve students in grades four through six.

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Robert Hammond was born on 15 April 1867.1 He was the son of John Hammond and Susannah Hall.1 He married Margaret Jane Patrick on 28 October 1891 at St. George, South Dumfries Twp, Brant County, Ontario. (notes: Marriage reg. 001500-91 South Dumfries, Brant Co. Robert Hammond, 24, bachelor, farmer, born and residing Beverly, parents John and Susanna Hammond. Margaret Jane Patrick, 19, spinster, born and residing Beverly, parents John and Margaret Patrick. Witnesses James Drone and Isabella Patrick of Beverly. At St. George on October 28, 1891. Clergyman Rev. W.S. McTavish. The groom was a Methodist and the bride a Presbyterian.).1 He died on 30 October 1947 at age 80.1 He was buried at Mountview Cemetery, Galt, Waterloo County, Ontario.1
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Shalina Healthcare is privately owned and part of the Shalina Group, which has been operating in Africa for nearly thirty years. The Shalina Group is headquartered in Dubai and we have operating offices in London, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Ghana and Central African Republic. We employee over five hundred people worldwide. Aside from healthcare, our major operations are Shalina Resources, a minerals company located in the DRC
Read more about Shalina Resources In the healthcare segment, Shalina Healthcare is a leader in each of its markets and offers a wide basket of over two hundred branded products. We participate in the consumer, prescription and over-the-counter categories, spanning a broad range of therapeutic indexes including anti-malarials, antibiotics and nutrition. Our reputation as reliable manufacturers and distributors of healthcare and personal care products is reinforced every time we launch a new product into the market. It may be the first time the drug has been launched in the remote regions that we serve and we support this with regular continuous medical education campaigns for the doctors. Over the last thirty years, Shalina s reputation as a quality healthcare provider in Africa has been well accepted by the medical community, who has no hesitation in prescribing Shalina products to their patients. We work closely with the local communities to help people live longer and healthier lives. None of this would be possible without the immense contribution of our dedicated employees.
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YOUNGSTERS at Thomas Hardye are celebrating after a trial of achievement led to success in a national competition.
The Dorchester school took two teams of pupils to the National Schools Equestrian Association Horse Trials, with one team scooping first place for their efforts.
The winning team – Jodie Loveday, Kizzie Russell, Anna Elford and Izzy Mears – said they were 'thrilled' with their achievement.
Jodie said: "I am really pleased with the results, especially as I was riding an inexperienced young horse and this was his first one-day event."
The girls, all aged between 13 and 18, competed in dressage, cross country and show jumping rounds to claim the title at the trials, which were held at Aldon in Somerset.
And another team from Thomas Hardye – Stacey Tanswell, Chelsea Loveday, Shannon Rodway and Georgia Harris – came fourth in the competition.
All the girls train independently with their own instructors, and are members of the South Dorset Hunt and Cattistock Hunt pony clubs.
Team manager Sue Russell said: "I am very proud of the time the girls have put into this sport, taking time to care for and train their horses, in order to gain a result like this.
"This sport is really a full-time commitment."
She added: "I'd like to say a big thank you to all the willing parents who transport the horses all over the country, to enable the Thomas Hardye school to compete at the level they do.
"The win was very exciting for all members and supporters of the team, and gave a huge confidence boost."


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Hutchinson, M.R., Shavit, Y., Grace, P.M., Rice, K.C., Maier, S.F., & Watkins, L.R., Exploring the neuroimmunolopharmacology of opioids: an integrative review of mechanisms of central immune signaling and their implicaitons for opioid analgesia, Pharmacological Reviews 63 (2011) 722-810.
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Jack White will release second studio album, Lazaretto, on June 10. The album follows 2012's Blunderbuss.
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That personal characteristic of turning on a dime to doing good, not evil, is the most important factor in this sentencing.
But the network did not pay a dime for the sit-down with Nafissatou Diallo.
To the musicians, the Napster co-founders were outright thieves, providing an avenue to steal music without paying a dime for it.
Then the 1960s came, feminism arrived, and history turned on a dime.
Question: Does a person with a buck in his pocket possess a greater moral compass than those without so much as a dime?
Yes, we shopped at a dime store immediately adjacent, or in the same shopping center as the driver's license bureau.
Then giving his guide a dime, he dismissed him with a courtly bow, and knocked.
He held a dime novel with his other hand, reading; but Pie-Wagon Pete kept an eye on him.
And if everybody brought a dime or maybe a quarter, they could get her such a nice present.
Place a small piece of zinc under the tongue and a dime on top.
chosen 1786 as name for U.S. 10 cent coin, from dime "a tenth, tithe" (late 14c.), from Old French disme (Modern French dîme) "a tenth part," from Latin decima (pars) "tenth (part)," from decem "ten" (see ten).
The verb meaning "to inform" (on someone) is 1960s, from the then-cost of a pay phone call. A dime a dozen "almost worthless" first recorded 1930. Phrase stop on a dime attested by 1954 (a dime being the physically smallest unit of U.S. currency).
(also drop a dime) To inform on someone; sing, squeal: Frankie would have been okay if somebody hadn't dimed on him (1960s+ Underworld & prison)
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Re: Overriding Power
Jeff Hersh wrote:
> I am working on a package that deals with non-communative multiplication
> and I have run into a problem with the Power function. As we know
> Power[a b,n] (where n is an integer) automatically gets converted to
> Power[a,n] Power[b,n]. However, with non-communative multiplication (I
> have removed the Orderless attribute from Times to make it
> non-communative) this isn't valid. Is there any way I can stop
> Mathematica from automatically doing this conversion?
Hi Jeff,
I recommend to avoid overloading the existing algebraic functions with
arguments from a noncommutive algebra. Write your own functions and use
Format for pretty printing the results. Especially for Power, Exp there
are MatrixPower, MatrixExp which have build features you are requiring.
regards, Roland
Roland Franzius
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The Soapbox: On Feminism & Judging Other Women
It was easy to roll one's eyes at Elizabeth Wurtzel's recent piece on TheAtlantic.com, "1 Percent Wives Are Helping To Kill Feminism And Make The War On Women Possible." Although I understand the point Wurtzel was trying to make (educated women who don't advance in the workforce and financially support themselves/their families are bad for feminism) she couched the whole thing in kind of bombastic, linkbait-y statements like, "I am going to smack the next idiot who tells me that raising her children full time — by which she really means going to Jivamukti classes and pedicure appointments while the nanny babysits — is her feminist choice."
But I want to go a little deeper than the eye-rolling. I want to look at the phenomenon of self-described feminists — like Wurtzel — judging other women's choices.
First we need to define our terms. Some might say "judgment" and "having an opinion" are one in the same. But to me, "opinions" are thoughts that aren't meant to influence anyone in any way. It's possible to hold an opinion in a "live and let live" kind of way. To give a conservative example: Abortion is killing an unborn child, so I would never have an abortion. On the other hand, judgment condemns something in a way that's seeks to influence people. Abortion is killing an unborn child, so I'm going to stand outside Planned Parenthood and scream at you that you're a baby killer. When I am referring to feminists being "judgmental," I'm not referring to them merely having opinions — of course people who identify as feminists have lots of opinions. I'm talking about expressly trying to influence other people's actions. There are areas where being judgmental is appropriate, like, say judging people who beat their children or pets: they are causing direct harm. But there are a lot of areas where I think being judgmental is inappropriate, particularly when it comes to people's private choices that do not hurt anyone else and do not affect you.
Feminism to me is the belief that women and girls have the same value in this world as men and boys do and we should all have the same opportunities in life. Fundamentally, I believe our gender and sexuality should not determine our existence and we should be able to make our our choices.
I like the definition put forth by Courtney E. Martin that says feminism is what's good for most of the women most of the time. So, to that end, I don't believe any choice a woman makes therefore makes it a "feminist" choice. That doesn't even make sense. It is so annoying the way that language has been co-opted by, for example, the plastic surgery and weight loss industries. There very well may be lots of women who feel more confident, even empowered, after acquiring a more voluptuous or more youthful appearance, but I'm not sure that we can make the case that prizing a youthful, more conventionally sexy appearance is good for most of the women most of the time.
The "stay-at-home-mom debate," I think, is different. I don't think anyone can conclusively say that it's better for most of the women most of the time if women financially contribute to their families and advance in the workforce. Do I think that's a bad thing? Do I believe there isn't a massive, fucked up glass ceiling that need to be broken through? Do I think a man's role is to be the breadwinner? Of course not. I believe we should have a culture where traditional gender roles in careers and parenting are broken down so people can choose for themselves. But what they choose? I don't personally care.
But I'm not here to rehash the working mom/SAHM debate. I'm here to discuss the judgment people cast on each other, particularly when it's woman-on-woman, particularly when it's feminists-on-women: How people set up their family should be a personal thing. How people choose to contribute to society — whether it is paid employment, volunteer work, raising children, homeschooling — should be a personal thing. I may not love their every individual decision, but I don't have to love their every individual decision. Most people are just trying to get by, day-by-day, in a way that makes themselves and their families happiest, whether it's being a Christian evangelical family or the most feminist, PC-iest, Brooklyn-iest family you've ever seen.
I believe this because I don't want someone coming into my personal life telling me what is and isn't feminist, what is and isn't acceptable. I don't see how it's anyone else's business how my future husband/boyfriend and I conduct our lives, so long as we're not trying to foist it on anyone else. And I'll admit a huge reason that I feel this way is because of my interest in dominance/submission and kink. I realize it's a different topic entirely, yet the "this is who I am" yearning that I feel about D/S is a lot like the "this is who I am" yearning that I feel about having kids and raising them at home some day. A woman can want something with all her mind, body and spirit even if it may seem on its face to be retro or wrong. That woman doesn't care how "correct" other people think it is.
But I also care about this issue because I find it kind of hypocritical. I don't see how someone can logically tell the Westboro Baptist Church to shut the fuck up, don't judge lesbian and gay couples, they should be allowed to get married and adopt kids, and then turn around and judge a woman with a college degree and a good job who decides she would be happier as a stay-at-home-mom. I just plain don't understand.
I'm a feminist and I've long been one. But I dislike that there's this "feminist purity test" in existence that you're only feminist if you make the decisions other people tell you are the best.
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In Logo Parentis
April 3, 2001
by Susan Sigandres
Can somebody tell me what is so bad about getting corporate
executives to pay millions of dollars to have pubic property
named after their companies? This is possibly the only instance
in which the public gets something for nothing from the private
sector. Why should we, the public, allow our buildings, stadiums,
and subways to be named after such non-revenue producers as
war heroes, scientists, Nobel prize winners, and ex-presidents
when we can get paid for having these places logoed?
Listen, the D.C. junta will do its best to sell this country
out to corporations anyway. The public might as well try to
get its fair share. As the Bush regime shrinks our government
down to nothing, our air becomes ever more polluted by CO2,
our water remains suffused with arsenic, our public lands
fall prey to miners, loggers, well-diggers, ditch diggers,
and gold diggers, we will have scant little to leave to our
It is our duty as concerned parents and citizens to at least
try to preserve public areas by selling them out to corporations
before it occurs to the junta to do so. Therefore, we should
absolutely insist that our federal, state, and local legislators
take a lesson from the corporate arena itself: They should
immediately establish a formal nationalized market in which
companies can bid on having almost anything that belongs to
the public named after them.
The Feds can list such things as monuments, interstate highways,
national parks, and buildings on the exchange and corporations
can compete for the right to have their names plastered all
over them. States and counties can list buildings, bridges,
stadiums, arenas, roads, parks, beaches, bike paths, reservoirs,
stretches of sidewalk, etc. There can even be a "small cap"
market for municipalities, villages, and towns to list their
public offerings. And this market must do more than just initial
public offerings, it must also facilitate the efficient trading
of name-stakes between corporations -- for a commission payable
to the public coffers, of course.
Also, it would be short-sighted to only sell permanent name
stakes. Maximizing revenue means offering different ways companies
can purchase a name-stake in property belonging to the public.
So, there must be an options market. Buying a call option
on, let's say a picnic area, gives a corporation the right,
but not the obligation, to post its name on all the trees
for a specific amount of time at a specified price. At the
end of the period, the company can let the option expire or
exercise the call. If the call is left to expire, the picnic
area gets re-listed on the national naming exchange. If the
call is exercised, the company's name remains on the trees
for another specified period at a specified price.
Then there are put options. Let's say a company buys a put
option on a picnic area. This gives the company the right,
but not the obligation, to prevent any corporate names from
being posted on the trees. (Buying a put option is a defensive
strategy that companies can use to prevent competitors from
getting naming access to areas or buildings that would be
advantageous to their businesses. Given the right-wing extremist
disposition of corporate executives, I think the potential
for this put option market is HUGE.)
I would strongly advise against allowing short selling on
the naming exchange as corporations already sell the public
short as a matter of business practice. Big companies spend
billions trying to figure out how to get an edge over each
other for the sole purpose of reaching into our pockets. They
bombard us with brainless, tasteless, classless advertising
all the time. So let's beat them at their own game -- let's
make them pay us to look at them.
And, if it turns out that we don't like the jumble of logos
and insignias and tag lines that will assault us at every
turn, we can tell our federal, state, and local legislators
to pass laws disallowing the sale of corporate name-stakes
in our public property. And then the government can disband
the naming exchange. But not before it makes the corporations
buy their names and logos back off the public areas, charging
them commissions on these buy-back transactions, of course.
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The Wichita State Shockers open their Missouri Valley conference tournament campaign against Evansville, upset winners Thursday night. The Shockers already beat the Purple Aces 81-67 at home and 84-68 on the road in games played last month.
Expect a huge point spread here, but beware the Aces who ride a 10-2 against-the-spread streak in 12 games vs. WSU.
Point spread
Wichita State was expected to open as significant favorites in their conference playoff opener. The line was late because Evansville played late Thursday night. (Line updates and matchup report details).
Why Wichita State can cover the spread
With that 2-0 edge in the regular season, and this being the first game on the docket for Friday's tournament quarterfinals, Wichita State (31-0, 18-0) will be anxious to get its postseason journey underway.
The fact it's the first game on the board is a plus for a well-rested Wichita State team. Wichita State is in on ATS win streaks of 5-0 in conference play, 4-1 against losing teams and a perfect 7-0 on neutral courts.
Why Evansville can cover the spread
Momentum carried over from the night before can be a blessing sometimes. And after the Purple Aces (14-18, 6-12) dispatched No. 8 seed Drake, 69-61, to open the Missouri Valley Conference tournament Thursday night, they could very well shock the Shockers by coming out fired up for this game.
The Aces have now covered four of five, all in conference play.
Power Rankings
Wichita State No. 2, Evansville No. 316 (per Odds Shark Power Ranks)
Smart Pick
Evansville played Thursday night and now has to wake up and take on top-seeded Wichita State? Something doesn't seem right with the timing and while the smart pick might appear to be to lay the points with the No. 2 team in the nation, the Shockers might be overinflated because it's the early game.
The Shockers lost the title game of this event last year to Creighton, so they'll be strategic in wanting to win this tournament. Besides, the Aces have covered six of the last seven meetings.
- Wichita State is 7-1 ATS past eight games as favorites
- Evansville is 8-3 ATS past 11 games as underdogs
- Evansville is 10-2 ATS in past 12 meetings with WSU
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Benjamin Netanyahu was prepared to "rotate" the prime ministership with then-Kadima leader Tzipi Livni after the 2009 elections, Tzachi Hanegbi, who led coalition negotiations with Netanyahyu's Likud on behalf of Kadima, told The Times of Israel.
Kadima won 28 seats in those elections, to the Likud's 27, but Netanyahu was tasked with forming the government as the leader most likely to be able to form a coalition. Hanegbi and the Likud's Gideon Sa'ar oversaw the negotiations on a possible Likud-Kadima parternship.
"Netanyahu was willing to agree to serve as prime minister for 3 years, and then Livni would serve for 1.5 years," Hanegbi said in an interview. "It drew little attention at the time, but it's a fact. I can testify to that because I represented Kadima there."
The talks fell apart, however, on the issue of negotiations with the Palestinians. Livni, who had led the talks as foreign minister in the previous government of Ehud Olmert, "insisted that the government would continue [in talks with the Palestinians] from the point where the previous negotiations, in Annapolis [in 2007], left off.. This is what Bibi [Netanyahu] refused to agree to."
Still, allowed Hanegbi, Livni "was not very upset" about the deadlock with Netanyahu, since "she was also not really interested in forming a government with him." Instead, Livni went into the opposition, lost the leadership of Kadima, set up a new party, Hatnua, ran in the 2013 elections with a campaign that emphasized the imperative to oust the prime minister, won six seats, and was the first party leader to sign a coalition agreement with the again victorious Netanyahu.
Said Hanegbi: "She learned her lesson. She learned from experience that she had made a mistake."
Peace talks, barely held during Netanyahu 2009-13 term, resumed in July, with Livni leading the negotiations — albeit under the prime minister's direction, and certainly not from the point under which they broke off during Olmert's prime ministership.
As for Hanegbi, he bolted Kadima and returned to the Likud prior to January's elections, where he is now regarded as one of Netanyahu's closest confidants.


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December 2011 - they'll soon be one, put away the <haddocks> and bring out the bunting!(997 Posts)
I loved kate's thread name but thought we needed a birthday theme for this one. We'll soon have 6 weeks of birthdays to celebrate!
Figgy Sky will be on Nutramigen AA formula for the next year or so. However, when Darcie turned 1 I put her on moo juice and she has always had multi-vitamins. Upto you but I wouldn't buy follow on milk. Either switch to moo juice or stick to the formula Figgyboy Is on now.
figgy when DS was small and constantly ill (and Freya is following in his footsteps) I was advised to keep him on formula due to the added vitamins in it. I used a mixture of cows milk and follow on formula from one. I am not sure if it helped at all as he was still always ill but heh! I am going to do the same with Freya - she has formula am and before bed (and when she wakes at night so its easy to store) but if she wants a drink in the day eg her 3 o clock milk is now cows milk from her tommee tippee beaker (not that she is very impressed with the cows milk!) I will probably stick with this till the summer when they are generally less ill.
Must buy some more vitamins to try and combat all this illness in my family.
Freya has slept for over 2 hours - wow - have got lots done (well quite a bit anyway!)
In fact DSM is right I think I just used the same formula as before as didnt want to change what he liked so will stick with that.
Nope, won't be home tonight. Temp just spiked back up to 39 and they want to keep her on IV for another night.
Oh (((missree))) - thinking of you and Freya.
Ooh, lost the thread due to some sort of hide button...
Glad Freya is improving a bit misree but shame about the prolongued stay. Still at least she's responding to treatment. Are you feeling any better yourself my dear?
I've always been lazy about vitamins: took them while pregnant and BFing but never got "into" them at other times apart from the odd cod liver oil capsule (good for the mummy joints!) sounds like a good idea for the more motivated of us. I am amused though, by the idea of "watching a childs immune system dip"... Presumably the mum in question hires out her x-ray vision to the local hospital on free days?
(ahem. Being sarcastic. I'm sure she meant they got more colds and was extrapolating. It's surprising how many people bandy about the phrase "low immunity" when anyone who REALLY has low immunity knows it's a whole different ballgame).
In other news, my poor DS has lost his voice to a series of (amusing but plaintive) croaks and whistles. Mustn't laugh <bad mummy>
Big hugs missree and Freya. You're in the best place. Am so glad you persevered and got her checked out again.
dsm glad you solved the intolerance issue and now know what you're dealing with.
Jumper woe sympathies northern, that does not sound like a great day!
I have had a bad day today, but only because, once more, I had a hangover. Too much Vhristmas market Gluhwein last night meant that today was not very productive...
But on a positive note I did sleep for the whole of the plane journey home!
Am on the train now.
That was the last trip of the year. No more nights away from BOi, and I have a few days holiday to take too that I'll try and fit in next week somehow.
And I haven't planned any trips for January yet, so the first 2 weeks should be safely at home. Here's hoping!
Hope Freya's starting to improve again MissRee, and that you get home tomorrow. Hope you're feeling (physically) a bit better yourself, but you must be knackered.
Thinking of you all.
I bet you've had some good BOi snuggles now you're back, and hope the head's a bit better
I need to start getting DS onto the moo juice too figgy. I won't bother with the follow on milk, and
can't be arsed probably won't bother with vitamins. I used to take them but ran out and haven't replaced...
Am going to be off for my long weekend, without internet access, so for the first time since I joined I won't even be able to keep up with the thread whilst I'm away, never mind post !
Work is frankly ridiculous at the moment, but have the programme on about homelessness in the background which is great at making me stop feeling sorry for myself.
Oh crikey missree, I really hope Freya soon feels better (and you of course!) as is home again soon.
Eva has had horrific nappy rash for over a week now, red raw and weeping. I saw HV yesterday who said it could be fungal (yuk!) and prescribed dactarin. However since using it said rash has now spread across her thighs, and up her tummy and back. Managed to get an emergency appt with the head nurse at the surgery this morning, who said its more likely viral so we now have a mild steroid cream to try. She also has very dry cracked skin on her cheeks which I can't shift no matter what I put on it. She's been prescribed a thicker emollient than the last
useless one which DH will pick up later. I'm hoping it works as HV said if not to try the dactarin on it, though I'm not sure whether it will help as it didnt work on her bum.
DS has always had vitamins, though its mostly because he won't eat vegetables.
oi glad you're at home for a while now.
Happy belated birthdays for those I've missed.
I'm doing another street collection for muscular dystrophy tomorrow. My tendonitis is playing up in my wrist again, so holding a bucket of money all day should be fun!
Hope Freya had a peaceful night Ree.
Seven, ouch, that sounds nasty..is she very grumpy with it? Hope she gets better soon.
Good luck raising lots of money tomorrow, hope your tendonitis goes down by tomorrow.
Hurrah for being home now Oi!
Aethel, ha! It's sweet when kids have sore throats, hope he's on the mend soon.
Hope everyone has a good weekend, and all the ill ones are better.
I shall be mostly wrapping presents.
Thanks gary. She has been mostly fine with it, but been more miserable in last 18 hours or so since its started spreading. How are you doing, I take it your worry about mcing again was (thankfully) uneventful. When is your scan booked for, I know you mentioned it last week.
I've wrapped up all of the adults presents, still got a load of the kids ones to wrap though. But not tonight as I have a very hot date... with the iron
seven that sounds horrible poor lo hope she feels better soon.
Its bloody horrid outside the raincover made its 2nd ever appearance. Just back from singing and swimming cheese on toast for me nap for ds then its off shopping with top priority being figgyboys birthday cake for party tomorrow. Already had first drop out for tomorrow grr.
Until ds gets up am watching its a wonderful life on sky never seen it b4 . I should be cleaning up b4 tomorrow the after party is here with food and adult drinks while the actual party is at local soft play, the sofa is really comfy though ............
I have just taken Air to school and im wet thru yuk.
Im going for nap with Hope and then its hot choclate picking Air up food shopping and xmas shopping.
I have tooth ache now as well as ear infection so have dentist appointment tomoro.
Then its baking for school and putting up xmas tree.
Baa humbug!
Hope Freya gets well soon xx
Hope Freya is better this morning. Miserable day here too but managed to drag Freya out (confusing with two Freyas!) to finish off my christmas shopping. Am all done but need to wrap it all now. Have one more parcel to come from Amazon, which will hopefully arrive in time.
Typing this in the bathroom as freya chills out in the bath. She only had a very short sleep (1/2 hour) but woke up coughing lots and just puked up all of her lunch and milk (not that she ate much but there was plenty of puke!) She was rather disgusting and she loves her bath so just popped her in there and she is happy again. I do feel like the only week she has not been ill since September is the week she was on antibiotics!
We're home! The full urine results came back clear so they're pinning the infection on the chest. It explains the nasty "loose" cough even though they couldn't hear it on her lungs. We have a course of oral antibiotics to finish and a much brighter, happier Freya!
Thank you all for your lovely words and support. I became a bit of a sobbing mess this morning when Freya got so overtired (baaaaaaad night due to the severely handicapped girl in the bed opposide having a large poo in her bed and the resultant meltdown and screaming as they tried to clean her up) she was screaming for nearly 2 hours. The play assistant lady came in and said I looked like I needed a break and to go get coffee etc and I just broke down - I think tiredness, sickness and frustration just took over!
Am at Portsmouth Guildhall ready for my Darcie's gig. She's singing a solo tonight. #Proudmummy!
Go Darcie! Have a fabulous time - hope you've taken lots of tissues to cry into!
We all need a good meltdown every so often, and I think you probably needed it most! Glad Freya's on the mend.
Go Darcie!! Proud mummy indeed!!!
I picked up Ali from nursery, the we did a big shop at tescos and he got his hair cut there too (our Tesco has a hair salon).
When we got home, DH was there. He'd taken the day off secretly to tidy up and get the house ready for Christmas. There's still loads more to do, of course, but I'm v v impressed!
MissRee Glad Freya is home. I hope she is better really soon.
Well my Darcie is a superstar (video on FB). She sang 2 solos & backing vocals for another :-) #Veryproudmummy!
Not impressed Not even midday and we've had 5 drop outs for party today so we down to 9 kids I'm really sad for him which is pathetic as he's but going to know a difference
Parties r stressful
Morning all!
I have been lurking all week, but Seb has learnt to do a face melt (complete with trembling lower lip which then moves on to the most eye watering screech) when he sees my phone and I won't let him touch, so I've not had much opportunity to post.
First week at work went well. It's not rocket science, but lots of bits to remember and it sounds as though people either get it or they don't. I'm told I'm a natural. <preen> And I've not yet had to work my full hours, I've already been paid, so all in all I think it suits!
Unless morning sickness kicks in in which case it will be awful
Seb has loved all the fuss this week. Mum took him to see my Gran on Mon, Tuesday we went swimming, Wed was his first full day (although 0730-1430 is not really a full day!) at the CM where he helped decorate a paper tree
and most of the room with green paint and generally charmed everyone, Thu he was with my Mum again, Fri back at the CM this time making party hats for the Xmas party next week and getting glue everywhere, this morining he is with one of his cousins. I really ought to go and collect him.....
Ree I'm so pleased you're back home. And if you can't have a melt down with all that going on.....hope you're all now on the mend.
DSM Darcie is soooo cute!
figgy that is a bit poop, but look on the bright side. There should be more cake leftover.....
Think I'd probably relieved that the numbers were going down rather that up
<wanders through with plate of mince pies and urn of chai latte>
I think Hope is having a growth spurt yay
She had all her breakfast and cup of soya milk then bf and now toast and another full cup of soya milk and a pouch of baby food...
Operation fatten Hope up is underway lol
I have bought 9 - 12 month sleepsuits and they are huge on her
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>Hi Bob: > > Well let me share some good news with you Bob. I wanted to > manifest winning a prize. I got some scratch off ticket (one of > those lottery kind you scratch off with a coin and you see if you > won or not) at my local supermarket. I followed the instructions > and lo and behold, I won a palm pilot organizer! It's valued at > about $100. All I can say is WOW!
Congratulations on that.
> Now, on 1/1/06 I sent out an email and I received a reply. Then, > I asked several follow up questions and I didn't receive a reply > from you Bob. Perhaps you are very busy? Just in case you missed my > follow up questions or maybe you did send me a reply and I > accidently deleted that email here goes another try: 1. Since with > the L.O.A. I can attract/magnetize ANY DESIRE I want, why is it > that in your book you say that "if you want money, don't try to > magnetize a lottery win, but leave that up to the Universe"? I > mean, that is what I desire, I want to win the Mega Millions > Lottery and be instantly wealthy! Oh, I can't even imagine what > that would feeellll like! I mean, to magnetize my lottery win, all > I have to do is feeeellllll that the winning ticket is already > possessed by me, right?
There is certainly no Universal "rule" against trying to manifest a lottery win or attract money, though most of the material in the WBR program does discourage it. The reason is that "large amounts of money" generally generate a great deal of resistance in people. It triggers issues related to deserving, beliefs about "hard work", and a long list of other things. Unless a person is dedicated to releasing their resistance in these areas, their likely to simply have too MUCH resistance to be able to attract these things by going after them directly.
Having said that, one with very little resistance may not have any problem at all - and now that you've had a win, you might be all that much closer to a bigger one. :)
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Federal grant for new hires given to Oakland PD, 38 others
By Lee Romney
Los Angeles Times
OAKLAND — This city's beleaguered Police Department on Tuesday was among more than three dozen law enforcement agencies across the state to receive a combined $19.6 million in grants for new hires from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
For Oakland – which saw its sworn police force shrink by 25% over the last five years – the news marked a high point in the fight against sky-high crime rates.
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Three-on-three, the game played in driveways, on playgrounds and around the country during the annual Gus Macker tournaments, debuted in the 2010 Youth Olympic Games. FIBA wants to create a comprehensive ranking system that would determine the best three-on-three teams in the world. FIBA already has a three-on-three world tour and world championship, but Baumann welcomed all three-on-three tournaments, such as Gus Macker and Hoop It Up, into the fold as long as those tournaments adhered to FIBA rules, including the registration of players in a database to chart wins and losses.
"Like volleyball has beach volleyball, swimming has synchronized swimming, we want three-on-three to be part of it," Baumann said.
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Declan is a funny little lad, a weird amalgam of mini-adult and child, having been thrust into the world of show business way before his time. As he puts it, "I've got a lot of responsibility, really, because I've got to act grown-up and not act like a little kid when I'm on telly."
I ask if he feels he is missing out on his childhood. "Well," he says, thinking hard, "I still play Cowboys and Indians when my cousin comes."
Sometimes he seems breathtakingly precocious - for example, when he talks about "my manager" or "my stylist". The next moment he is like a small child. At one point he takes a yoghurt out of the fridge, then turns to me and asks: "Can I have this?"
Declan is a good-looking boy, with intense eyes and big ears. His singing voice is astonishingly powerful, but he speaks relatively softly.
His bedroom is festooned with posters of Westlife and Robbie Williams. Indeed, he is being touted as a mini-Robbie. "I'd like to be Robbie Williams. And my Dad would certainly like to have his money."
In fact, his parents are a nice, down-to-earth couple who clearly want their son to be happy. "The ultimate thing for him," says his father, "would be a career as a singer, because he loves doing it. But also what's important is that he may become financially secure at a very young age, which has got to be everyone's dream - not to have a mortgage hanging round your neck."
Thanks to an advance from EMI, Alec has been able to give up his job for a year. "Because," explains Declan, "it isn't really fair on my sister if my Dad's out at work and my Mum's taking me to recording studios."
It has never occurred to the youngster to become an electrician himself. "It's just not a very interesting thing to do. No offence, Dad."
"That's okay, son."
"I'd like to have my own radio station and recording studio," says Declan. "That would be good."
"Big ideas," comments his father.
His parents say that Declan is like any other nine-year-old. "We have to tell him off and control him," says Alec. "He does what normal boys do: the ball's always going over into the neighbours' garden, and he goes out there and his Mum has to scream at him because he's getting his best clothes covered in mud."
Declan's parents are striving to maintain some semblance of normal family life amid the sudden turmoil. "We knew that our privacy would be invaded quite a lot," says Alec, "but we came to the decision that it was worth it, for him to try to achieve what he wants to achieve."
"You've got to give them every opportunity, haven't you?" agrees Siobhan. "He does appear to have a talent, so we need really to help him and encourage him - and if he succeeds it will be great, and if he doesn't he's had a great experience."
On the day I'm with Declan, three different television and radio crews arrive to interview him. Occasionally he gets a little nervous and looks to his father for reassurance: "That was a really bad interview, wasn't it?" he says worriedly, after talking to the BBC six o'clock news. "It was okay, son," Alec reassures him. "You were trying to think of complicated answers. You should just say whatever's in your head."
When talking to me, he occasionally turns to his father to whisper: "Am I doing well?"
His confidence comes to the fore, however, when he sings. His favourite song, he tells me, is Danny Boy. He takes a deep breath and launches into it: "Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling . . ." As he sings, his mischievous face takes on an angelic look; a hand is clasped to his chest; and his foot starts tapping. "Declan sings from the heart," says his mother. "He just enjoys every second of it."
Declan's first taste of success came two years ago, during a festival in Rochester, when people were busking on the streets and he badgered his mother to let him sing too. "She said no, but I kept on asking her and got on her nerves, so eventually she said yes." He sang for an hour-and-a-half and earned pounds 500, half of which he handed straight over to his parents. "I gave it to them for the electricity bill. They didn't ask me for it; I just said, 'Here you go.' "
"It's terrible, but it's true," says his Dad sheepishly.
"Then I got my sister some Barbies, and with the rest I bought a mountain bike. It was in a sale. It was pounds 109 instead of pounds 199. It's got really good suspension: you can bounce up and down on it."
An increase in pocket money from 2 pounds to 10 pounds a week is all Declan will see of the pounds 1 million. "Whatever money he gets now," says his father, "will be properly invested until he can enjoy it."
His dream is to buy a big house for his parents. "And I'd like to have a nice house as well, and I'd make sure my sister was all well and healthy, and I'd like to give some money to my cousin Joe, who's my best friend. I'd also like to help out charities and things."
Declan says that he wants to become a singer to follow in the footsteps of his Irish grandfather, Ben, who used to tour the pubs and clubs of Kent with his folk group. Although Declan was only three when Ben died, he remembers his grandfather vividly. "I used to sit on his knee when he was playing the tin whistle. I'd like to think he'd be very proud of me now."
After his impromptu success as a busker, his parents started taking Declan to talent contests. He won several competitions before he was spotted last year at a contest in Rochester by Barry Mason, who wrote the hit songs Delilah and The Last Waltz. Mason contacted his friend Max Clifford, who agreed to take Declan under his wing.
I ask Declan his opinion of the infamous Clifford, nemesis of so many Tory MPs. "He's really nice," says Declan enthusiastically. "Every time I go there he gives me sweets."
It was Clifford who arranged for Declan to sing with Westlife last year on a track for the Telstar album Christmas Hits: 50 Festive Favourites. Immediately, record companies were clamouring to sign him up. Clifford masterminded the process by which EMI was eventually chosen.
The novelty has not yet worn off. "A lot of people say, 'It's like a dream' - but it really is like a dream. I never thought I'd get a recording deal like Westlife. Then you wake up one day and you find a record company is interested in you. It's just amazing."
Declan has never had a formal singing lesson, but a few weeks ago he started going to a voice coach. "He gives me little tips on how to look after my throat. Now I always wear a scarf at school, and a woolly hat, even if it's boiling hot. Some of the boys say I'm like a snowman." On the whole, though, his schoolfriends pay little attention to his sudden fame. "We don't really talk about it much," he says. "Most of the boys in my class are interested in football."
Alec says that Declan has a private tutor to help him make up for missed school. "But we don't want to take him out of school, because we feel he needs to have that contact with other children."
Declan says he is looking forward to being recognised in the street. "Once, when I was in the News of the World, I was coming back from the paper shop and someone in their car beeped their horn and whistled."
The bizarre world in which he now lives means that, even though he is only nine, people often ask if he has a girlfriend. "I haven't got much time for a girl. In fact, I'm not interested in girls at the moment. But I'm sure I probably will be when I'm older."
The family are told that Declan's career will not be over when his voice breaks. "No one can know for sure," says Alec, "but they say he's a natural singer."
"I'm not a choirboy," says Declan. "I sing all kinds: songs that the recording company have written for me - because I've got some writers - and I sing folk, and Irish ballads, and soul . . . Well, I call it soul, but it's like a soul Irish ballad."
"He does pop as well," says his father.
"Yes, but not pop like Britney Spears," Declan adds quickly.
He is intelligent enough to realise that his biggest task is to avoid becoming too full of himself. "People think you're just snotty when you become big-headed, and they start to go off you. But if you're friendly, then they'll like you.
"If someone else isn't a good singer, I don't think they're right at the bottom and I'm up here. I just think they might be good at football or skating or rugby or drawing. I'm terrible at drawing. My sister's much better than me and she's six. She draws something and it looks like Mozart." He frowns. "Not Mozart. I don't know any artists' names. But definitely not Mozart."
Declan is often told that he has "the X factor", which puzzles him. "I don't actually know what it is. It must be something that makes you a pop star."
I ask him what he thinks makes a pop star. "You probably have to have a good personality."
Much as he admires other pop stars, he says he does not want to be compared to anyone. Not even Robbie Williams. "I think we both sing in our own way. We don't copy people's voices. I'd like people to think of me as Declan Galbraith." They will.
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However, their solutions reflect a noncovenantal theology which
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responsibilities of men as covenant heads of families. Without
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. . . Gene Edwards in How to Meet Under the Headship of Jesus
Christ critiques modern churches, analyzes St. Paul's church
methods, offers his own ideas for a 20th century church (each
for several chapters) and throws in one chapter against Calvin.
None of this context made it into your attack on Edwards for attacking
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Re: Doug Wilson "The Nose Under Joe Camel's Tent." I'm
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to make you take them!
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Your recent comments about the Promise Keepers organization and
books reminded me of a recent Bible study I did on the subject
of judging others.
Terry George
Dear Editors,
Thank you for the effort you put in to Credenda Agenda.
I find your publication refreshing. I enjoy the mental and spiritual
challenges you provide. There are issues in which we disagree.
Hang on to your hats, I am not canceling my subscription.
Rather, I am compelled to search the scriptures to see if I adhere
to the truth.
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Of course synagogue can be used to refer to the synagogue
building, in just the same way that church can be used
of the people or of the building. The reason this is so is because
of the close connection between the two. Synagogue is not
used of any building, but rather a particular kind of gathering
place for God's saints. And the fact remains that Christian churches
(James 5:14) called their gathering places synagogues (Jas.
2:2). Why? Because among Christian Jews, their churches were
Dear Editors,
This letter is in response to the article entitled Beating
Wife Beaters written by Doug Jones in the Anvil section of
your Vol. 7 No. 6 magazine . . . . Perhaps, however, you meant
that your Bible Study group would be lawfully deputized by the
civil authorities so that you could monitor and patrol the neighborhood
and tell me, a non-Christian, what I should and should not be
doing based on your particular set of rules (cf. the Bible and
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with my whole being . . . . You meanwhile . . . fail to see historically
that when Christianity has attempted to force itself on people,
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Dear Editors,
I share Doug Wilson's concerns about Promise Keepers as a movement.
That being said, I would like to appeal for more care in your
critique. Your criticism of the movement may not serve as a corrective
for those who identify with it, and may put off from being involved
those who could be of great assistance to the movement . . . .
Historically moves of God have often been messay -- they aren't
cleaned up until later. As a close observer of the movement, I
know there's a mixture in it of flesh and spirit. But the three
key distinctives of the movement are clearly emanating from the
heart of our Father: the call for men to be in small groups where
genuine fellowship can take place; the call for men to be servant
leaders in their homes, and the call for race reconcilliation.
These are all godly answers to crises in the church. . . . We
appreciate your work and teaching so much; we trust you can accept
these criticisms as an effort to get you to be rigorous in applying
your own presuppositions in your criticism. . . .
David Warnick
Kansas City, MO
Dear Editors,
The Enlightenments "debunking" of the pagan gods was
not an innovation developed from its own limited resources; rather,
it was a poor imitation of the Reformation's courageous application
of the cold knife of sola Scriptura to the centuries of
accumulated pagan tumors infecting Christian orthodoxy. The Reformation
took a hard nosed approach towards divinities not found in Scripture
and in so doing were the spoilers of many a theological tea-party
enlivened by the delights of tradition and superstition.
Fritz Hinrichs
Escondido, CA
P.S. The Scriptures you used have not been addressed as I assume
they were quickly submitted to a rather vicious dog-pile.
Dear Editors,
In Doug Wilson's "Husbandry" column in the latest Credenda, he referenced a view which he called "masculinist."
He defined masculinism as the view that all women generally are
subject to all men generally, as opposed to the biblical view
that women are subject only to their God-given authorities (husbands,
fathers, church elders, judges).
Jill Barrett
Dear Editors,
Thank you for proclaiming "The Word." It is not what
you write that is brutal. It is the reality and depth of sin that
is brutal. And all people need to hear it.
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Dick Cheney's new heart hasn't softened his opinions of President Obama.
"I obviously am not a big fan of President Obama," the former vice president told ABC News. "I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically. I'd be hard put to find any Democratic president that I've disagreed with more."
Even Jimmy Carter, Cheney was asked? "Yes," he said.
Of course, the feeling is no doubt mutual; Obama and his backers say the policies of Cheney and President George W. Bush in Iraq and elsewhere lowered U.S. standing in the world.
Cheney did give Obama credit for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, but said the intelligence that led to that action came from programs developed from the Bush administration.
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"We should not be running for the exits. We should not be turning our backs on our friends in that part of the world," he said.
Cheney will not be delivering a critique of Obama at next month's Republican convention; ABC reported that he plans to skip the proceedings.
ABC's Good Morning America played more highlights today from the interview in which, as we reported Sunday, he criticized the 2008 vice presidential selection of Sarah Palin as "a mistake."
In his first interview since his heart transplant in March, Cheney also said his recovery is "nothing short of a miracle" and "I haven't felt this good in years."
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If contact was made, Cheney said he would "express my gratitude for what's a magnificent gift. I can't think of a more magnificent gift than to be given additional years of life."
Healthy again, Cheney has resumed his love of fishing and his frank evaluations of politicians, including himself.
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