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Olivia Newton-John's troubled daughter
IT'S easy to imagine that growing up with a rich and famous parent must provide a cushy and carefree existence, where privileges and luxuries are the oh-so-wonderful norm.
Yet the reality can be anything but. Just ask Olivia Newton-John's daughter Chloe Lattanzi, who has this week revealed that she is battling drug and alcohol abuse, which she blames on the pressure of growing up with a high-profile mum.
The 27-year-old singer and actress - Newton-John's child by actor Matt Lattanzi to whom she was married from 1984 to 1995 - has spent the past seven months in rehab in Los Angeles undergoing five hours' of therapy a day to try to overcome her addictions.
Tragically, Chloe has long been a troubled soul, openly talking about her struggle with the eating disorder anorexia in 2007.
Now in a candid interview she admits she has been fighting a four-year battle with depression and anxiety that led to her becoming hooked on alcohol and cocaine.
"Growing up I was under immense pressure being the daughter of such a famous woman," she says.
"You don't have a normal childhood and you don't have that space to make mistakes and find your feet as everyone is watching you.
"I started to get into the [LA] party scene, drinking every night, and then before long I got introduced to cocaine and all of a sudden the combination of those things took away all the fear and depression and that is when the cycle began."
At her lowest point Chloe says she was drinking vodka on a daily basis - often to the point where she would have blackouts - and using cocaine "most days and nights".
She added: "By this point I had a severe panic disorder where out of the blue my heart rate would jack up and you would be shaky and dizzy and you would think you were going to die. I was so out of it during this time I don't even remember waking up most mornings. I'm honestly surprised I did not have a heart attack."
Chloe surreptitiously checked into rehab in 2011 but after her 30-day treatment she fell back into her old ways.
EVENTUALLY she admitted all to her mother after a night of heavy drinking earlier this year, prompting Olivia to call on the help of celebrity rehab expert Dr Drew Pinsky.
"Telling your mum you have a problem with alcohol and cocaine is not easy," she admitted. "But I honestly felt that for the first time in my life there was hope."
It was Dr Pinsky who helped Olivia to get Chloe first into rehab and then into the sober living community where she has been for most of this year.
It's a desperate situation that will breathe fear into any parent. As for Olivia, she must agonise endlessly over what she could have done differently to protect Chloe from the demons that haunt her.
Mandy Saligari is founder and clinical director of leading London addiction treatment centre Charter Harley Street (charterdaycare.com) and says that there is a variety of reasons why Chloe may have fallen foul of addiction.
"They include family predisposition, although no gene has yet been identified, plus neurological influences such as the shape of brain at birth. But growing up with a famous mother it may also be down to her mum undergoing some sort of change in identity due to that fame," she explains.
"Can we ever distinguish Olivia Newton-John from her character of Sandy in Grease and did she herself ever make that distinction and switch off from the stardom to fulfil the role of pure parent with Chloe?
I had a conversation with my mum about all I had been through and she told me she was really proud of me for not having secrets any more
"A child's own sense of identity or lack of it is also a crucial factor in addiction and in Chloe's case she may never have felt able to distinguish herself from being Olivia Newton-John's daughter.
"I don't think we can blame Newton-John but I do think she has some accountability in terms of how she combined her fame with parenthood."
Chloe, who is engaged to fitness instructor James Driskill, appeared to allude to this in a previous interview during which she said: "My mum travelled a lot so I think I missed out when I was younger. I've spent a lot of time alone in big houses. That was hard."
Dr Jessamy Hibberd is a clinical psychologist and says all children, whether they have a famous parent or not, simply want to feel like they are the most important person in their mum's and dad's lives.
"If a parent is away a lot due to their career you may feel like you're second best and the boundaries that tend to be in place if mum and dad are around all the time don't exist so it can be easier to feel lost and fall into trouble," she says. "This can be the same for lots of children, not just those with famous parents.
"But if they are famous, it's going to be extra tough. How do you know who your true friends are? Are they interested in you or your parent's fame? The same applies when you reach working age. Are you getting job opportunities because you're talented in your own right or because there's an expectation on you because of who you are? It's a confusing existence with all sorts of pressures."
It's a sentiment echoed by Olivia in a recent interview in which she said: "It's hard for children of famous people. They think they should live up to their parents."
For now, though, she must simply be relieved that Chloe appears to be overcoming her troubles.
"I am really proud of how far I've come and so are all of my family and James," Chloe said this week. "Just recently I had a conversation with my mum about all I had been through and she told me she was really proud of me for not having secrets any more, for being open and honest about what I was going through."
In her 2009 autobiography Kelly revealed what it was like growing up with famous parents. Babysitters were heavy metal band Motley Crue and her father entertained his children's friends by drunkenly chasing them in his underwear.
Kelly became addicted to the opiate-based drug Vicodin at 16 and after her parents discovered more than 500 pills stashed in her bedroom she began the first of three stints in rehab. Jack voluntarily checked into the Las Encinas clinic in Pasadena, California, in spring 2003 aged just 17 after "getting carried away with drink and drugs" and has been clean ever since.
The actor's 34-year-old son is currently serving a 10-year sentence in a Pennsylvania jail for drug dealing and possession. Cameron - Douglas's son with first wife Diandra - was jailed in 2009 after being arrested in a luxury New York hotel for allegedly possessing crystal meth with intent to distribute it. He has also had numerous spells in rehab.
Sean, 32, Rod's son by former wife Alana, has had numerous brushes with the law for driving offences and was jailed for 90 days for attacking a man outside a club in 2002. He has battled drug addictions, appearing on the US reality TV show Celebrity Rehab, which Chloe Lattanzi's doctor Drew Pinsky co-presented.
The 19-year-old daughter of the rock star overdosed on heroin in November 2012, an episode Bon Jovi has since described as "my worst moment as a father".
Police were called to Stephanie's dormitory at the £40,000-a-year Hamilton College, New York, after she had been found unconscious with a small amount of heroin. She later recovered in hospital.
Last October the son of Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett was released from a year's court-ordered rehab programme after being charged with possession of heroin and firearms in 2011. Ryan has four children from three women: Tatum, 49, Griffin, 48, Patrick, 45, and Redmond, 28. Tatum, Griffin and Redmond have all struggled with substance abuse.


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Not sure if this is the right place to post but here goes.
A while back my girlfriend bought a game "my body coach".
When I tried to start it through the official disk channel it prompted for an update but since my wii is softmodded I cancelled.
Next I tried running it through Neogamma which worked fine but I was a bit annoyed with the slow loading speeds and also a bit afraid that my GF would accidentally run it throug the official disk channel and do an update. (no problem anymore I have priloader now)
But comes the question!
After that, I don't know why but I tried to run the game through Gecko. Gecko clearly stated which IOS was needed to install (don't remember which).
I assumed it would just install the IOS from disk and I pressed A to confirm.
the IOS was installed and the game is running fine now thorugh the official disk channel.
Now I was wondering if this is a safe way to get missing IOS installed for official games on my Wii. For example I would like to buy Metroid 3 but I see it's using IOS28 which I don't have on my Wii. is it safe to just let Gecko take care of bussiness and install it from the official disk?

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My family loves Mexican food and last night I did not want to make tacos or enchiladas so I came up with a baked chimichanga recipe. I had found a recipe that I thought I'd like online and then realized that I pretty much had none of the ingredients at all so I had some kitchen fun with it...
Here's my result - which was a huge hit last night! Next time I'll add a can of rinsed black beans since I really love my Mexican with black beans in it...
I posted it on my personal website but thought I'd post it here for you guys as well...
Little Bit Spicy Shredded Beef Baked Chimichangas Recipe
1 medium onion, chopped
3 cloves minced garlic
Small amount of oil or nonstick spray
1 1/2 lbs cooked then shredded beef
1 can of black beans drained and rinsed *optional
1 can Rotel tomatoes with green chiles
1 tsp oregano
2 tsp cumin
1 tsp chili powder
shredded Mexican cheese blend
8" flour tortillas
Serves 6-8
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Saute the onions and garlic in oil or with nonstick spray until the onions are soft. Add the shredded beef, Rotel tomatoes, oregano, cumin and chili powder. Cook until the liquid is gone.
Microwave 6 tortillas until they are soft, about 40 seconds on high.
Lightly oil or spray a cookie sheet with non stick spray. Lay a tortilla on the cookie sheet. Add cheese as desired. Put about 1/2 cup of the meat on top of the tortilla down the center of the tortilla, leaving about 3" on the top and bottom of the tortilla. Remember that you must be able to fold the sides over each other to completely enclose the meat so do not add too much meat mixture. Fold the bottom and top of the tortilla down over the meat. Fold the sides over the meat. The sides of the tortilla will overlap. Place on the cookie sheet with the folded sides down. Repeat for remaining tortillas. Lightly oil or spray the tops and sides of the chimichangas.
Bake for 15-20 minutes until they are golden brown. Serve with rice and veggies. I do not make a sauce for these however you can add salsa, queso, etc as you like.
***These are a bit spicy - I think they are pretty mild but others might think they have a good kick. If you prefer milder foods, replace the Rotel with diced tomatoes instead or replace the spices and rotel with a taco seasoning packet. We also use a lot of black beans. You can use any kind you like or no beans at all.


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IPL 9: SC asks: Should politicians be only your advisors?
New Delhi: Persistent efforts by BCCI and its full members to block implementation of some crucial recommendations of the Justice RM Lodha committee yesterday provoked the Supreme Court to observe that public functions relating to cricket can be taken over by the government with the enactment of a law in Parliament.
"Why can't the public function of BCCI be taken up by Parliament? The question is if the activity of organising cricket matches, sending and picking up national team, can be taken up by the Parliament. Suppose a law, by which Indian team can be selected by Indian Parliament," a bench comprising Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice FMI Kalifulla said.
he remarks by the bench came when Kapil Sibal, appearing for Baroda Cricket Association opposed the Lodha Commission recommendation of one-state, one-vote. Sibal said there is no restriction on the state to take over activities of the game but it will require change in bylaws and mentioned Article 19(4) of the Constitution.
The same issue was also raised by the bench when Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) was making its submission against the recommendation of one-state, one-vote policy. The senior advocate appearing for MCA also responded to the query on the recommendation prohibiting ministers and government officials in the cricket board. He said there should not be anything to demonstrate that a particular class is an outcaste.
MCA, headed by Sharad Pawar, favoured involvement of politicians in sporting bodies, saying presence of eminent people helps in getting work done for organising big sporting events which require police bandobast and other such things. "That is the reality," he said, answering the bench's specific query: "Can we only have politicians as advisors? Shouldn't the system also function without any politician?"
Sibal also faced some sharp questions about lack of initiative by BCCI on the development of the game states like Manipur and Mizoram, as also about the discrimination in allocation of funds to cricket associations of states like Bihar. — PTI


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Legal Question in Bankruptcy in Georgia
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Filed bankruptcy in 2000, included IRS, received discharge, IRS filed no claim or dispute of discharge, IRS notified of discharge. Collection letter came 2 years later. Sent them copy of discharge. They ignored and filed Notice of Federal Tax Lien for a 1998 Assessment on years 94, 95, 96. They sent notice of Levy to employer. Don't I have any recourse? Shouldn't I be able to send my employer notice of Bankruptcy discharge and have them refuse the levy? Isn't it illegal what they are doing? How do I stop them and get the Notice of Federal Tax Lien removed? It is fraudulent isn't it? If they pay the levy, haven't I been damaged? Who do I go after employer or IRS? Isn't there something I can do? Isn't the burden on them? Please help with any suggestion. I am willing to do my own legal research. Just need some direction. thanks so much, signed - Desperate
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Robinson on course to return
Derby's top-scorer Theo Robinson is on course to make his comeback from injury against Ipswich at Portman Road next weekend.
Last Updated: 08/12/11 11:04am
Derby's top-scorer Theo Robinson is on course to make his comeback from injury against Ipswich at Portman Road next weekend.
Robinson, who has netted six times this season, has been out since the middle of November with a hamstring injury along with fellow forwards Steven Davies and Nathan Tyson but he is making good progress in his rehabilitation.
On-loan striker Tamas Priskin is ineligible to face his parent club Ipswich on December 17th, so Robinson is being earmarked for a comeback in Suffolk.
"Theo is probably the closest of the three to making a return in reality because he has only been out for around three weeks," boss Nigel Clough told the club's official website.
"He is coming along well and if he progresses in the same manner then he will be in contention for the Ipswich game."
Media reports on Wednesday suggested Davies could make a dramatic return to the squad against Bristol City on Saturday after fracturing his skull in October but Clough added: "Until the specialist and surgeons give him the all clear we won't be taking any risks."
Clough also said Tyson is set to resume training next week. The summer signing from Nottingham Forest was due to train this week and take part in a practice match but he felt some discomfort in his groin and was not risked.


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George Avakian: That Rhythm Man! Page 2
"I've told this story before, but the night I went backstage at the Apollo Theater and Pops said, 'Let's go get some ice cream and go over to my darling's,' I didn't know who his darling was. It turned out to be Lucille [Wilson, whom Armstrong married in October 1942]. We went to Lucille's mother's apartment, in Harlem. I parked my roommate's car out front. It was a gorgeous night, moonlit, not a cloud in the sky. As we left, he stopped on the steps of the apartment building. I wondered, 'What happened to Pops? He's not next to me.' I looked back, and there he is, standing on the steps, with his arms raised, looking at the moon and doing a pirouette, and saying, 'My darling, my darling, isn't she wonderful?' And I thought, 'My God, Louis Armstrong, my hero, is exposing his innermost soul to me!' I felt the relationship was at a new level, and so it wasbecause from that time on, whenever Pops had some time off, he'd call me up and say, 'Come on over to the house and just sit around and talk.' And these albums grew out of those conversations."
Which of the two does Avakian think works best? "I think the Handy; the material is better because it's not just pop songs. And yet, two or three of the songs that [Fats] Waller and [Andy] Razaf did are magnificent. And with Waller, he and Pops, they were the two bad boys of the period. They tore up Harlem something badly."
In 1990, Columbia, as part of its Jazz Masterpieces reissue series, reissued Satch Plays Fats and Satch Plays W.C. Handy in radically altered forms, with new cover art, and substituting previously unreleased alternate takes for the master takes chosen for the original editions. In many casessuch as "Ain't Misbehavin,'" from Satch Plays Fats, in which the lightning-fast issued original take features Armstrong singing so fast that his words literally run together, the alternate is clearly inferior.
"I never talked to the producers, but they were nice people, I think," Avakian says. "I think they got carried away with hearing the unreleased material. That's something you have to treat with great care. Just being able to put out an alternate take is not the answer to wanting to put it out. I don't think they played around that much with the sound, but I still like the original sound best. One of the problems I've found is that, with younger engineers, they're dying to show what they know, and . . .
"When I was recording Keith Jarrett [whom Avakian managed in the early 1970s] at the newer Columbia studios, on 52nd Street [CBS Studio Building, 49 E. 52nd, Manhattan], a young engineer came in from next door and listened to the playbacks [for the 1972 album, Expectations]. I was sitting down at the bottom and Keith was up on top with the engineer, and I said, 'Keith, I think that's okay; should we continue?' He said, 'Sure,' and he walked out. The young engineer looked at mean old man, of course [points at himself]and said, 'Are you producing this session?' And I said, 'Yes, I am.' He said, 'Well, how many tracks are you using?' I said, 'Gee, I don't know, I think maybe four or five.' He said, 'How come you don't use more?' And I said, 'Well, I don't need them. I don't even need those. I only have eight or nine musicians out there.' And he made some kind of remark about that being extraordinary, so I thought I'd lay something on him: 'Well, what if you had to produce the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Philadelphia Orchestra with [Eugene] Ormandy conductingthat's about 200 peopleand you weren't allowed to make any splices?' He laughed, and then he stopped and looked at me and [said], 'You mean mono?' And I said, 'Yes.' He said, 'You mean you did that?' And I said, 'No, I never did use that many musicians, but that's the way we worked: no splicing, no nothing.' He shook his head and walked out, saying, 'Man, you cats was braaavvve!' What a line!"
Another trumpeter, whom Avakian signed to a recording contract at Columbia and then, as with Armstrong, grew personally close to, was Miles Davis. "Miles was a very layered person. He put up walls between you, and then he invented himself this way and that."
Does it surprise Avakian that Miles has become one of the most toweringly influential figures in jazz history?
"It does indeed, because I thought Miles's greatest potential, outside being recognized as a jazz performer, was as a ballad performer. I thought he was the greatest ballad interpreter since Louis Armstrong, and he is. People ignore the beauty of [Davis's versions of] Gershwin and the American Songbook performances: 'But Not for Me,' stuff like that, it's gorgeous, terrific. And I didn't realize that he would have the appeal on the so-called avant-garde jazz level. And I think it's a pity, in a way, because it took away from the other qualities he had. By the time he was in his electric period, I thought the music was pretty stagnant and uninteresting. I don't enjoy those long endless thingswhich Miles complained to [John] Coltrane about. Coltrane said, 'I can't find a way to stop,' and Miles said, 'Did you ever think about taking the horn out of your mouth?' Greatest remark of all time.
"The biggest surprise to me was Kind of Blue [1959]. That grew out of a conversation that I had with him once . . . I was very close, through my wife and her sister, with the avant-garde composers, so-called, like John Cage. I told Miles about taking Cage and [choreographer] Merce Cunningham to hear the Bunk Johnson Band when they were appearing at Stuyvesant Casino [at 140 Second Avenue in Manhattan; now defunct]. Cage's reaction was, 'My God, these musicians are marvelous, but why do they bother with the bass, drums, and piano? They should be three horns improvising with no accompaniment.' I think that was the starting point of conversations with Miles that led to the, how should we say, 'no theme' aspect of Kind of Blue. He didn't express it that way, but when I heard the first takes of what he was doingwhich was after I left, but he played it for me at his houseI realized that that's what began the thinking. And he even said that he could have done it without a rhythm sectionmaybe. He wouldn't say that they could have, but the thread was there."
As so often in our conversation, this story triggered another.
"When Gunther Schuller recorded his Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op.16 [on the Columbia album Music for Brass, 1957], and on the other side of the record were three compositions by jazz players [John Lewis, J.J. Johnson, and Jimmy Giuffre], he asked me if I thought Miles would be willing to play the flugelhorn solos that were in the [other] scores. I asked Miles, and he said he would. He borrowed a flugelhorn from Clark Terry, his mentor. I thought it would be interesting for Miles to come and see, hear what was being done on the symphony side of the record with [Dimitri] Mitropoulos conducting [the New York Philharmonic]. At the end of the first take, Miles tugged at me and said [in a dead-on impression of Davis's gravelly voice], 'You think he'll let me play with this band some time?' I said, 'I'll ask him.'
"At the next break, Miles is sitting there in the control room, and at the end of listening to it I said to Mitropoulos, 'Maestro, this young man is going to play trumpet on the other side of the record, and he's very, very good, and he hopes some time he might play with the Philharmonic.' Mitropoulos was terrific. What a man! He bowed to Miles. He bowed to me. And said, 'Yes, perhaps,' and walked out. Miles was smart enough to never say a single word [about it] ever again. That was part of Miles's astuteness. He was a hell of a lot smarter than all of us put together. Creating his personawhich was not real, and yet it was, in a wayit was just an exaggeration of a minor side of Miles. Miles was a very mild-mannered, nice young man, a very straightforward ordinary person deep insideand then came the huge success."
Crusty, and yet still able to discuss the music of Lady Gaga ("It's totally ludicrous!"), Avakian has found that one of the advantages of longevity is having the last word. Ever the renaissance man, Avakian, in remembering his days at Columbia, even manages to slip in a quote from a famous speech by Orson Welles in the 1949 film The Third Man.
"Goddard [Lieberson] was not a nice personyou've heard that, I'm sure, from many people. Self-centered. His idea of being the president of Columbia was mainly inviting Noâl Coward to lunch. But he sure had a great staff under him. There were about six people who did everything. And now they have a whole building full of people, and they've had that for 30 years, and what came out? The cuckoo clock!"


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Three new restaurants could be added to the growing list of food establishments coming to Oconee County's Epps Bridge Parkway, which has this year witnessed a surge in interest from food-service companies.
Atlanta-based Restaurant Development Inc., which owns a 4.8-acre tract on Epps Bridge Parkway, has plans for one 3,700-square-foot building that will contain a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop, a Dunkin Donuts and a Togo's Great Sandwiches -- three corporations owned by London-based Allied Domecq PLC that are currently franchising similar joint facilities around the country.
Plans call for the building to occupy about 20 percent of the 4.8-acre tract at Epps Bridge Parkway and Dowdy Road. Most likely, other restaurants will locate on the property's remaining two to three lots, according to Matt Forshee of the Oconee County Planning Department.
Unlike a traditional strip mall, where businesses have separate access points in a single building, the three restaurants will share common entry points, parking, eating space and a single drive-through window, according to plans submitted to the Oconee Planning Department by Restaurant Development Inc.
The restaurants still must have their site plan approved by the Oconee County government. But the franchising Web site -- www.dunkin-baskin-togos.com -- already has the property advertised as a franchising option. It is uncertain when the building's construction will begin or when the restaurants will open for business.
The proposal for the three shops comes in an area where several developments will soon open.
A Wal-Mart ''Supercenter'' is expected to open early this summer across the road from the newly proposed restaurants. On parcels in front of the Wal-Mart building will be a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant, a Wendy's fast-food restaurant and a Murphy Oil gas station.
Cracker Barrel executives have said they hope to have their facility open by Oct. 1 and Oconee County planners said construction of the Wendy's could begin at any time.
Restaurant Development Inc. purchased the 4.8-acre site last year for $900,000. The Cracker Barrel company purchased its 2.68-acre site this month for $1,025,000, according to Todd Paschal, Oconee County's chief tax appraiser.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Tuesday, May 21, 2002.
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Hi, my ds is now about 6 months and i can identify with your post- I felt permanently knackered for weeks and it was all such a blur! Anyway just wanted to say hang in there you're doing great. I found it got a lot easier about the 10/11 week mark hopefully similar or sooner will be the case for you
How are you going today OP?
That sounds good.
It's hard readjusting to being a couple when you become parents. OH and I both tried to touch each over everyday. A kiss, a hand hold, a cuddle as someone is doing the dishes.
Baby groups can be great if you find one you like. It took me quite a few different ones to find people I liked hanging out with.
My sister is coming to visit tomorrow and I live with my partner so I won't be alone. I do know what you mean though. Since the visiting of friends and family has died down I have been feeling a little bit isolated. Me and my partner (understandably) don't get much quality time now and it can feel a bit lonely during the day. That's why I made the effort to go to the baby group today (also 30 mins walk) even though I was tired. Thanks again all for replying. I know it's not a huge issue but maybe I'm just projecting my feelings of stress onto this. It's nice to feel supported here, so glad to have found mumsnet.
Opps took me so long to type I can see you have a partner.
This will sound a bit weird but are you talking to another adult at all tomorrow? It's just for me the spiral into the blueness starts with not wanting to leave the house, not seeing anyone. So if Doctor is the only adult contact planned for the next day or so I'd go. Catch a taxi if you can afford it to make the journey quicker.
If you have lots of support and contact in RL. Stay at home, get into bed and snuggle with baby for skin to skin to help get the milk flowing.
My partner is working. Plus the check is also for me so I'd need to go back anyway!
Thanks all . I didn't realise how hard sleep deprivation would be! I've sent the text and will call in the morning if I'm awake (hopefully not!) DD has gone to sleep in my arms, fingers crossed she stays down when I put her into the Moses basket!
Do you have a partner who could take the baby? I have never attended any of these appointments, DH has taken the DC to all of them as I don't drive and he does. Its an option perhaps if you are nervous of cancelling the app... not that I think you need to be nervous of course, theres nothing wrong with not going/changing the app/sending someone else, its totally up to you!
I'm on MN because I'm in too much pain to sleep. DS2 has a rheumatology appointment tomorrow. I can't cancel as I've been trying to get this appointment for him for 7 years. (!)
I bloody wish I could though. A 6 week check, if you have no major concerns, is not going to matter if you ring them in the morning when they open (so they can release the slots for an emergency patient) to rearrange.
Also, if it's that busy a surgery then someone else will get your appointment, they would at mine. And if it's not that busy a surgery well then it doesn't matter ;)
Also, breastfeeding is hard. Hard to get a balance right with mix feeding, hard work pumping, hard doing so much of it early on... If you want some quality bf time then that is a very good reason for cuddling up and not leaving the house. Take your duvet to the sofa tomorrow (just for you not for your DC obviously) and get all your snacks and drinks handy and make yourself a nest. Alternate baby cuddles and then curling up and sleeping yourself every time she goes down for a nap. Don't move except to pee or get more supplies.
Cancel it and don't worry. I have yet to have mine and the baby is 14 months old now! ;-)
You would not be unreasonable at all. Your priority at the moment is for you to be both well rested and happy. I would highly recommend a pj day in bed. Lots of skin to skin and regular feeds during the day. Will hopefully lead to you having a better sleep tomorrow night.
I was in a similar boat for mine. Can't actually remember the appointment details as the first two months are a fog (and my dc2 slept well).
When you do go out. Get showered the night before and lay out clothes and changing bag ready to go. It is fine for dc to be in a baby grow. A sling can be better for such a distance. Are you on one of the post baby support threads?
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Don't feel guilty about cancelling the appointment, if you let them know first thing someone else will take it.
No of course yanbu. Does your gp have an answer phone? Would you feel better about leaving a message to say that you want to reschedule for another appointment ASAP, so that you know they know you're not trying to avoid it?
I doubt they will be at all concerned, people have to reschedule for all sorts of reasons. I'm saying the above more for your reassurance than theirs
It sounds as though you are having a hard time of it at the moment and consequently you've been over-worrying about this. Everything feels ten times worse when you're sleep deprived. It is normal to lose sleep- but that's not to say it's easy.
My 6 week post natal check for me and my DD is scheduled for tomorrow at 10am.
I'm still up with DD with no signs of her going to sleep any time soon. She's not crying, just awake! I'm not able to sleep when she's awake though because she's quite noisy with grunting and making little noises.
I'm sitting with her in the living room with the lights dimmed and everything is calm. She just won't sleep though. I know this is to be expected with a 6 week old baby so I suspect I may be told just to suck it up!
I'm absolutely shattered because I only got about 3 hours broken sleep last night too.
I know 10am isn't that early but I will need to be up way earlier because it's a 30 minute walk and it takes me a long time to get myself and DD ready in the morning.
I am almost in tears because I'm so tired. I think I am stressing out even more because I know I can't just catch up on sleep in the morning when DD is sleeping.
It would be possible for me to send a text now which cancels my appointment (automated system) so they would know first thing, but I do know a 10am appointment may be unlikely to be filled.
I really want to cancel it but I am concerned that (1) it is really bad form to cancel the appointment at such short notice (2) I am worried it will make the doctor think I don't care about my baby. I already have 2 vulnerable person reports on my file from domestic disputes that happened when I was pregnant (all resolved now).
I would be planning to rearrange the appointment for another day this week or next week and I would request an afternoon appointment.
I feel like I have been putting too much pressure on myself to get housework etc done and I am feeling like a bit of a failure because I have let breastfeeding slide quite a bit. it has been easier a lot of the time (especially at night) to give a bottle and this has really affected my supply. I know the appointment is quite a silly thing to be worried about and I could just go and get it over with. Right now though, I feel like I need a few days in the house of feeding and pumping as much as possible to get my supply back up.
Btw I'm not nervous about seeing the doctor for any reason. She is lovely and I have no concerns about mine or my baby's health. She was seen by the health visitor last week for a full check and again today at baby group.
I was extremely depressed in the later stages of my pregnancy (got on top of it to a certain extent in the last couple of weeks) and I have been very conscious that I am at risk of developing PND. Since I've had DD I have felt so much happier overall.
Sorry this has turned into a bit of a self pitying rant, just want to explain why I feel this is such a big deal, when really I know it isn't.
So, WIBU to cancel the appointment?
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Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, vol. 11, issue 12 (2011) pp. 5931-5944
Fourteen years of meteorological parameters, aerosol variables (absorption and scattering coefficients, aerosol number concentration) and trace gases (CO, NOx, SO2) measured at the Jungfraujoch (JFJ, 3580m a.s.l.) have been analyzed as a function of different synoptic weather types. The Sch¨ uepp synoptic weather type of the Alps (SYNALP) classification from the AlpineWeather Statistics (AWS) was used to define the synoptic meteorology over the whole Swiss region. The seasonal contribution of each syn- optic weather type to the aerosol concentration was deduced from the aerosol annual cycles while the planetary bound- ary layer (PBL) influence was estimated by means of the diurnal cycles. Since aerosols are scavenged by precipita- tion, the diurnal cycle of the CO concentration was also used to identify polluted air masses. SO2 and NOx concentra- tions were used as precursor tracers for new particle forma- tion and growth, respectively. The aerosol optical parame- ters and number concentration showelevated loadings during advective weather types during the December–March period and for the convective anticyclonic and convective indiffer- ent weather types during the April–September period. This study confirms the consensus view that the JFJ is mainly in- fluenced by the free troposphere during winter and by injec- tion of air parcels from the PBL during summer. A more detailed picture is, however, drawn where the JFJ is com- pletely influenced by free tropospheric air masses in winter during advective weather types and largely influenced by the PBL also during the night in summer during the subsidence weather type. Between these two extreme situations, the PBL influence at the JFJ depends on both the time of year and the synoptic weather type. The fraction of PBL air transported to the JFJ was estimated by the relative increase of the specific humidity and CO.
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Carlo d'Angiò and his Frenchmen arrived in Sicily, and conquered it, at or about the year 1266, chasing away the Hohenstaufen after a series of horrendous massacres. Aside from a few linguistic terms adopted by the Sicilians, the French did not leave too deep of an imprint on the already-rich Sicilian gastronomy. One interesting example of how French language was assimilated with Sicilian is the French term for "meat market": boucherie.
Over time, the word became vucciria, and was used in reference to outdoor markets. The famous "La Vucciria" in the center of Palermo is still an authentic market operating today, and has become a tourist attraction, as well as memorialized by Sicilian modern artist, Renato Guttuso.
"The Sicilians saw themselves now being ruled to enable an alien tyrant make conquests from which they would have no benefit"
The first European revolution exploded in Palermo in 1282, in the form of a popular uprising against the French usurpers. The event takes its name from an insurrection which began at the start of Vespers, the sunset prayer marking the beginning of the night vigil on Easter Monday, March 30, 1282, at the Church of the Holy Spirit just outside Palermo (at that time) now is part of the monumental cemetery. According to Steven Runciman, the Sicilians at the church were engaged in holiday festivities and a group of French officials came by to join in and began to drink. A sergeant named Drouet dragged a young married woman from the crowd, pestering her with his advances. Her husband then attacked Drouet with a knife, killing him. When the other Frenchmen tried to avenge their comrade the Sicilian crowd fell upon them, killing them all. At that moment all the church bells in Palermo began to ring for Vespers. Runciman best describes the mood of the night:
To the sound of the bells messengers ran through the city calling on the men of Palermo to rise against the oppressor. At once the streets were filled with angry armed men, crying "Death to the French" ('Moranu tutti li Francisi' in the Sicilian language). Every Frenchman they met was struck down. They poured into the inns frequented by the French and the houses where they dwelt, sparing neither man, woman nor child. Sicilian girls who had married Frenchmen perished with their husbands. The rioters broke into the Dominican and Franciscan convents; and all the foreign friars were dragged out and told to pronounce the word 'ciciri', meaning chickpeas (chee-chee-ree) whose sound the French tongue could never accurately reproduce, (they would pronounce see-see-ree) . Anyone who failed the test was slain… By the next morning some two thousand French men and women lay dead; and the rebels were in complete control of the city. Chickpeas flower is the main ingredient of the "panelle" a must of the Sicilian street food!
Ninety years later, in 1372, the House of Aragon established itself as the definitive ruler of the entire Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which at that time included all of the regions from Abruzzo and Molise down, comprising what is referred to as "Southern Italy" today. The capital of the Kingdom was settled at Napoli, indicating a historical detachment from Sicily.
The Spanish-Aragonese dominion represents an important period for regional enogastronomy, considering vastness of the territory, and Sicilian wine thereby began to enjoy international fame on a new level.


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David Allen Imrie, Jr., 56, from New Richmond, died on Saturday, April 11, 2009, at his home.
David was preceded in death by his father, David Sr.
He is survived by his significant other, Jill McDowell; children: Heather Johnson, Sawyer Imrie, Payton Imrie; mother, Alnora Imrie; sister, Debra (John) Molstead; nephew, Matthew; niece, Carolyn; and grandchildren, Blake and Keisha Johnson.
A gathering of David's friends will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at the Cullen Crea Funeral Home in New Richmond.
His burial will take place at the New Richmond Cemetery.
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Tales of sun and Pluto run hot and cold
In 1951, six sixth-graders asked Albert Einstein to solve a class dispute about "whether there would be living things on earth if the sun burnt out."
"Dear Children,'' Einstein replied, ". . . Without sunlight there is: no wheat, no bread, no grass, no cattle, no meat, no milk, and everything would be frozen. No LIFE.''
The sun is everything to us: our lifeline, our energy source, our tether to the Milky Way. It "so obviously embraces us . . .,'' argues Richard Cohen in a prodigious new book, "Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star that Gives Us Life,'' "that we must accept that our presiding star remains by far the major influence on our lives, and on our climate.''
Clearly the sun has been a major influence on Cohen. "Chasing the Sun'' brought him to 18 countries and took him eight years to write. Reading it, one gets the sense that Cohen has squashed every ounce of his considerable literary, historical, and scientific learning into its 574 pages.
The book opens with a first-person account of climbing Mount Fuji on the summer solstice, slides into descriptions of sun celebrations across world cultures, and is soon offering thumbnails of solar-oriented monuments like Stonehenge. Cohen quotes Sophocles on astronomy ("Impossible to understand and madness to investigate''), Virginia Woolf on eclipses ("I had very strongly the feeling as the light went out of some vast obeisance" ), and C.S. Lewis on the explosion of the sun ("It was three times — twenty times — as big as it ought to be, and very dark red'').
As one might expect, "Chasing the Sun'' dips into subjects familiar to any general-interest survey of our star — telescopes, photosynthesis, sunspots, ocean currents. But it also strolls through scores of topics much less expected: shadows, gold, vampires, the Nazi appropriation of sun imagery, and the sounds made by auroras crackling and whistling over the poles.
Unfortunately, as a result, "Chasing the Sun'' begins to feel as massive as its subject: One can almost imagine smaller books about planets orbiting distantly around it.
Cohen's sprint through photosynthesis, for example, hardly illuminates the exquisite symphony of biochemistry going on in the leaves around us. Ten pages in, he's flashing past plants on his way to marveling at how certain insects use polarized light as an optical compass. Fifteen pages after a chapter on the history of solar power, he presents a chapter on the centrality of the sun in the history of Western painting.
Likewise, while Cohen's descriptions of conditions on the sun are unfailingly riveting — "its whole surface surges up and down about two and half miles every 160 minutes,'' he writes, "although even to talk about the Sun's 'surface' is misleading since, being largely a collection of gases, it has none'' — the sporadic nature of these moments means the book lacks the succinct poetry of, say, Dava Sobel's chapter on the sun in "The Planets.''
The American writer Eleanor Clark, upon moving to Rome in the late 1940s, found herself swamped by the city's "mess and the blazing sun, the incongruities, the too-muchness of everything.'' That's a pretty fair analogy for how one feels reading "Chasing the Sun'': It's fascinating, but the "too-muchness'' of the experience gradually overwhelms. One feels as if Cohen's ravenous curiosity is pulsing, flaring, and buffeting you with its solar winds; his subjects are too multiple, and one begins to pine for something more contained.
Smaller, then, we shall get. Consider for a moment the infinitely colder and more distant object we call Pluto. In "Pluto: Sentinel of the Outer Solar System,'' Barrie W. Jones, an astronomy professor at the Open University in London, writes a programmatic inquiry into what we currently know about, in his words, "such a tiddler among the planets.''
"Pluto'' is a rigidly organized book written in utilitarian prose. Each section is carefully numbered and self-consciously introduced. At the end of Chapter 1, for example, Barrie actually takes the time to type, "That concludes Chapter 1 . . . much of what you have learned will support and enhance your understanding of subsequent chapters.'' In short, Pluto lacks the playfulness and jam-packed lyricism of Cohen's "Chasing the Sun.''
But it is worthwhile on several points. It offers a readable history of the discovery of Pluto and a good primer on the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, that distant swarm of ice and rocks at the very edge of our solar system.
Jones's book also includes a short but fascinating chapter about Pluto's demotion to a "dwarf planet'' in 2006. What is classification, Jones wonders, and how do we structure and systematize knowledge? "[T]here are always hard cases at the boundaries,'' writes Jones, and clearly Pluto, which is only one of many large, nearly spherical objects in the Kuiper belt, presents a hard case.
Both Cohen and Jones are careful to remind their readers of the hazards of writing books about subjects for which many unanswered questions may soon be resolved. Cohen interviews scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who hope to launch a probe in 2015 that will pass within 4.3 million miles of the sun, basically as close as anything can get without incinerating. And in that same year, if all goes well, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration spacecraft called New Horizons will be scrutinizing Pluto and sending back information about the Kuiper belt.
In the meantime we can read, and stare up at the sky, and wonder.
Anthony Doerr is the author, most recently, of a collection of stories titled "Memory Wall.'' He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Income Distribution, Spillover Effects And Choice Of Product Quality
We consider an MNC that is originated from a developed country where income is more or less evenly distributed and serves there a high quality product with the help of sophisticated technology of production. Under liberalized policy this MNC enters into a developing economy where income distribution is highly unequal. Due to prior experience of production it possesses a cost advantage in producing appropriate product quality in the developing country described by the spillover effect. It is shown that this discriminating monopolist serves a lower quality product in the developing country without any cost advantage. This happens due to its uneven income distribution. As spillover effect starts to rise, the product qualities between the countries differentiate more. At the same time profit of MNC rises. This may provide an explanation why MNCs are so eager to enter into a developing country. The developing country also gains in terms of welfare.
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Alex Tagliani has been around long enough to know the deal in racing: You don't have one until it's sealed. And, even then ...
Moral of story: Have a Plan B.
"The reality was, we were setting up to go race in ChampCar." Tagliani said yesterday. "Then the merger happened between the two series and caused a lot of a little issues with teams and drivers."
And left several drivers looking for rides.
"I tested in Sebring. I was second in the overall tests," said the Montrealer who came up in the old Player's driver development program. "Everything was looking good with PKV (Racing, the ChampCar team that has dropped the P in IndyCar). Then somebody came with more money and took the ride."
Tagliani has been there before. It happened to him once just as a season was about to start.
Although he was trumped for the KV ride, Tagliani had backing of his own to consider with the Walmart/Tide deal, one that was primarily focused on a Canadian presence.
"The package was divided in two," Tagliani explained. "I was the open-wheel representative, Andrew (Ranger) was the NASCAR representative. And then we found that the most important thing was to get as close as possible to the one program that was existing, and that was NASCAR (Canadian Tire Series), because ChampCar was dying.
"We decided to focus all our energy into NASCAR as the backup plan. We thought we could build on this. With losing Toronto (as a race), I don't think the sponsor felt they were losing too much (by not pursuing an Indy ride)."
The timing may be right, he said.
"At the end of the day, maybe it's not bad to sit out because the transition for the ChampCar teams has been difficult. Obviously they were not up to pace on the ovals. I think it's going to take to the end of the season and through the winter to get the teams back in business, so they can compete on an equal playing field."
Actually, running the full Canadian Tire series is an expansion of what Tagliani had on the table. He ran a car for longtime Ontario stock car driver turned owner Dave Jacombs, who is providing Tagliani with the No. 7 car.
"I talked to Dave last year, actually. I did a one-off in Montreal and I really enjoyed driving the car and he saw that I was having a lot of fun. I said that is definitely a series I would have my eye on in the future. There's so many things I want to do, but I said if there was was one series where I could do still do the Canadian races - especially the road courses - if there was no conflict, it would be that series. "Next year, the way things are, I could end up in Indy, I could end up in ALMS (American LeMans Series), I could end up in (NASCAR) truck, or I could end up in NASCAR Canada."
For now, driving a NASCAR taxicab has been and up-and-down struggle, he said.
"I blew up last weekend in (Vernon, B.C.). I was running 4th with 50 laps to go. We blew up in St. Eustache, and we had a battery issue in Cayuga (Ont.). The other two races that I finished, I was fifth and sixth.
"So when we're on track, on an oval we are a Top 5 car, on a road course we can definitely win.
"Dave is a good guy, he's passionate about racing. He wants to win. He's not going to race just to own cars. It's just tearing him apart inside to see (this). But we're getting there and I'm willing to be patient."


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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Bloodhawkin' Thursday!
You have to be careful with the bird motif. It took Hawkman a good 50 years before he became badass, which tells you how much tweaking of the bird-themed character has to take place. Otherwise, you look.... well, like a big bird. With arms.
And, I have to point out, that if Thor connects with that hammer shot he's about to deliver, we'll be having roast Bloodhawk with Bloodhawk giblet gravy for dinner.
For no reason, let's have a Random Super-Villain Cackle!(tm!):
Now, getting back to Bloodhawk: He was apparently a reasonably strong guy, and he talked like a parrot:
I don't understand why the cop in the right-hand foreground drops his gun like that. I mean, Bloodhawk is nowhere near him. This is the kind of guy who shot himself in the foot over in 'Nam, I'll betcha!
But Bloodhawk, lame as he was, knew that he could at least defeat the Wasp:
If the Avengers were a video game, the Wasp would be "training mode."
Anyway, I'd send Bloodhawk to the Character Hall of Shame, but he's almost so terrible that he's awesome. We'll give him a pass.
See you tomorrow!
5 comments:
- Elrossiter said...
enjoyed the cackle! late congrats on over a thousand posts there squire!!! ace blog that it is, heres to another thousand! (still in disbelief over that netti pot)
- April 30, 2009 at 5:37:00 PM CDT
- Comixbear said...
Awwk! Polly wanna bitchslap Wasp! Awwk!
- April 30, 2009 at 8:24:00 PM CDT
- ShadowWing Tronix said...
Hey, I created a character like that in high school. He was in the super hero team of the "mind games" competitions my friends and I had. (Sort of a game of oneupmanship. Create your character, set his/her powers and gear, and see if you can outhink the other person. Won most of my fights, I'm happy to say.)
There's also an action figure similar to that guy. I think the story is a really sick kid designed it for a "Make a Wish" style charity group, and they made it into a figure. So that's an extra bias for me in favor of Bloodhawk.
Plus who doesn't like that name? "Bloodhawk"! Not as cool as "Darkhawk", but the 90's had to get SOMETHING right.
- April 30, 2009 at 8:41:00 PM CDT
Actually, there was an Avengers arcade game in the 90s. The Wasp showed up in the sky-cycle stage as a little helper that Captain America could throw at enemies instead of his shield. She trailed pixie dust.
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Spanish Companies Pay Developer To Reduce Greenhouse Gases at Chinese Landfill
BEIJING -- Spanish companies are paying a Chinese developer to cover a landfill site with a plastic cap to collect the greenhouse gases it emits, the World Bank said Monday.
The deal is the latest the World Bank has brokered allowing Europe and Japan to meet their greenhouse gas reduction pledges under the Kyoto Protocol by cutting emissions in China.
About a dozen similar deals have been signed in China, and more than 500 others are in the works, said Andres Liebenthal, the environment coordinator for the World Bank office in Beijing.
The Tianjin Clean Energy and Environmental Engineering Co. will collect the methane and other greenhouse gases emitted by the landfill and use it to generate electricity to sell to the North China Power Grid, a World Bank statement said. Excess gases will be burned.
In addition to electricity revenues, the company will get money from a consortium of Spanish companies for reducing the amount of greenhouse gases the landfill generates, according to the statement and Liebenthal.
The project is slated to start operations in 2008.
China overtook the United States as the world's largest carbon dioxide emitter in 2006, according to a report from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency.
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It's no doubt that Apple re-design rumors are a dime-a-dozen. We all know that they're inevitable, it's just a matter of when they will be released. Apple rumors seem to have quite a large impact on the whole consumer electronics industry, and today, another rumor has squeezed through the cracks.
The latest word on the street is that Apple will be canning the 17-inch version of the iMac and sprucing up the 20 and 24-inch iMacs with a whole new design. It's been over 3 years since the last major update to the iMac has taken place, and people want to see something new (more specifically, the Apple fans). There have been some rumors circulating about thinner iMacs, possibly black iMacs, but as with all Apple rumors, take this information with a grain of salt.
You should expect to see an iMac update, but only time will tell what will be changed and when the new models will be released.


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A Canadian man who tried to drive nearly 200 pounds of the drug Ecstasy, worth an estimated $6.5 million, into the United States has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison.
A federal judge in Detroit sentenced Joseph Bennett of Scarborough, Ontario, on Wednesday. Bennett had pleaded guilty March 9 to charges of importing Ecstasy and possession with intent to deliver.
Authorities say Bennett was arrested last year at a bridge in Port Huron.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimated the street value of the more than 275,000 pills seized from his truck at at least $6.5 million.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider says Bennett's sentence was slightly below federal guidelines because he was a minor figure in the smuggling operation.


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Service dog 'Prancer' reunited with owner
HOUSTON (FOX 26) - A young girl's service dog "Prancer" who went missing Friday has been reunited with her owner.
Everyday when the Beller's get home their beloved jack russell terrier Prancer is there waiting for them. Unfortunately Friday that was not the case, when a family friend accidentally let the dog out, and Prancer went missing
"I don't want to have a seizure where she can't help me", says Sophia Beller, Prancer's owner. Since she was two years old Prancer has notified her parents every time she has a seizure.
"What happens is when Sophia is sleeping and she goes into some kind of state where is a very deep sleep, she can have seizures and so what happens is Prancer will start barking to wake everyone up to let us know what she is having an episode", says her mother Kimberly Beller.
Prancer was adopted eight years ago. "It was something that we learned by having her, that she alerted, so once we found out she did alert we got her registered", says Kimberly Beller.
The Beller's say several people spotted their dog near the Galleria and asked the community for help.
"It's been really sad because I really love her and she's a very close part of the family for all of us", says Sophia Beller.


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Nine Patch Revisited
by, 01-17-2012 at 10:42 PM (658 Views)
I have ooooohed and awed over several recently viewed D9P and marveled at the intricate looking recreations. And then I remembered the passed along blocks from another crafter that have been sitting in a tote gathering energy to become something. Perhaps instead of getting lost in the how to disappear my 9 patches , I should just revisit the simple quilts that I helped my grandmothers make. Simple blocks using whatever we had left drom school clothes or from making over a "hand me down" dress, lights and darks, pastels and primaries. We pieced the blocks and put them together in pleasing quilt tops which were then either tied or quilted before going into the closet or drawer to be brought out and lovingly given to the newest mother with tiny baby in the neighborhood or family. I have decided to make one 9 patch baby quilt for donation and to stockpile 9 patch blocks to be made into tops as I have time. As I recall we used 2 1/2 or 3 inch blocks to make our 9 patches. So I can precut and assemble blocks as I go.I think probably I will do 2 1/2 inch blocks. Sometimes simple is the way to go.


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RE: [textualcriticism] Analogy
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- I'm sorry, but I still don't see how you come up with a percentage (99%, 75%, or any percent). Can you explain how you know how B (the NA27, e.g.) is 99% the same as A (the original text of, say, John) if you have never seen A? I can't help but think this is just wishful thinking, unless you give me some basis for the judgment. To say that the early transmission of the text is pristine is really a blind leap of faith -- blind especially for anyone who has ever collated the early manuscripts! (Which I and many others on this list have done. They are *very* different from one another!)-- Bart EhrmanBart D. EhrmanJames A. Gray ProfessorDepartment of Religious StudiesUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
From: email@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of malcolm robertson
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 5:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [textualcriticism] AnalogyDr Ehrman,Lets suppose St Matthew took notes during Jesus' ministry on earth. After all, this would be in accordance with his own scribal habits as a tax-collector/ notary. This idea was fowarded by the late John H. Skilton. Let's further suppose that St. Luke in investigating and gathering his historical data made notes. After all, he was a physican and doubtless could write quite well as is evidently displayed.Neither individual's notes constitute a draft. They are simply notes. This love/facination/ obsession of some with the hypothetical pre-literary unknown variables amuses and at the same time annoys me. It is a pretext to doubt a priori the testimony of the NT. Just like the OT scholars who doubt the Hebrews could have possessed FIRE (the art of literary composition) prior to the post exilic period is to me ludicrous. The Greeks, we know, could write as early as 3000 B.C., but oh no no never could the Hebrews at the time of David or Solomon, much less the well educated Moses, write.The analogy I prefer, based on a posteriori observation, is that of a mountain stream flowing down. No NT manuscript supports the idea of redacted texts or literary stages of composition by the authors. Only the less erudite and quips of the profane entertain such notions.So what if this stream has a autumnal leaf or two or three floating atop? It hardly warrants such a radical maneuver and shift of posture as to call forth such a grand scheme of doubt and dismay. The nature of the stream remains water - constant, pure, pristine. So too the NT text.Metzger et al are correct. The NT text is 99% pure (restored).Malcolm____________ __
--- On Mon, 11/3/08, Bart Ehrman <behrman@email. unc.edu> wrote:
From: Bart Ehrman <behrman@email. unc.edu>
Subject: [textualcriticism] Analogy
To: textualcriticism@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 1:47 PMThanks to Wieland for stopping us in our former foolishness. I hope the following passes muster with his keen editorial eye!It has to do with the substance of the original query. I thought of an analogy that may be relevant to the claim that we can say with relative certainty that we have faithfully reconstructed the "original" words of the NT 99% of the time.What if somebody told you that one of my books -- say, the Orthodox Corruption of Scripture -- as it was published, was 99% the same as the first draft? And someone else said that no, the printed version was 30% different from the original draft. And supposing neither scholar had actually seen the draft. How could you decide whether either (or neither) scholar is right?Most of us would think it's rather silly to make either claim, without having seen the "original." Mutatis mutandis....(Someone may well reply that the analogy is not exact, because in the case of my own book, I would be the one who changed the later drafts [as opposed to a copyist]; by reply I would say the analogy holds: if we say that product A comes from product B and we want to say that product B is 99% or 70% or any other % exactly like A, without ever having seen A, then we're just making it up!)-- BDEBart D. EhrmanJames A. Gray ProfessorDepartment of Religious StudiesUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
From: textualcriticism@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:textualcrit icism@yahoogroup s.com] On Behalf Of Wieland Willker
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:29 PM
To: textualcriticism@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: [textualcriticism] Re: Question for BART D. EHRMANFolks, please!
Moderation had to be heavy today.
This list is not for the discussion of Ehrman's books
possible audiences and also not for Ehrman bashing and also
not for triviality.
This thread is closed.
Best wishes
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- Bart Ehrman wrote:
Well, I don't find this kind of polemical shotgun back and forth (he said / she said, on multiple fronts) to be all that useful as a mode of discourse.<<
Nor do I and I wish you'd cease from engaging in it. I made 2 points. That's all. In both, you've been quite defensive and even petulant.
Nor is this present a mere "he said/she said" disagreement: its a "Bart said vs. Bart said" disagreement that you keep attempting to slide past. The best thing it seems to me to do would be either clarify the apparent contradiction, or just simply admit that your response to my comment responding to Tommy Wasserman was a bit overstated and in need of qualification. Easily done. In such a format, everyone makes statements that need qualification.
>> But if you have a specific issue you'd like me to address, I'd be happy to.<<
I believe I've already raised them. And let's recall that it was *you* who responded to my response to Tommy Wasserman regarding ancient and medieval scribal practices.
>> I will, though, deal with the final question you raise. Just to recount the conversation up to this point, to make sure we're on the same page. You indicated that I claimed that there had been a "wholesale, seamless rewriting of the original" somewhere in the manuscript tradition; I asked you what gave you the idea that that was something I claimed, and your reply (below) is that you got the idea from me. And you would like me to clarify.<<Good so far.
>> So to clarify: I don't know where you are getting the idea from that I think there was a wholesale seamless rewriting of the original;<<In hind sight, perhaps I overstated it. Are you not introducing the possibility that such happened when you claim that our ignorance is such that we have no inkling what happened after the autograph was made. Further you stated: "If someone can explain to me the logic of appealing to an author's style when you don't think you can get back to his words (hence his style), I'll eat my Westcott and Hort!"
This suggests that it the author's text is unrecoverable in any real sense: i. e. that it was changed, that we can not recover it, and that such change is undetectable since we can not make appeals to the author's style etc. Now you state that "seamless rewriting" is not what you had in mind, ok, fair enough. But it doesn't let you off the hook. Your statements that you can't get back to the author's words and so therefore can't appeal to an author's style suggest that a) the process of reconstructing a text can not get back to the author and b) if we can not get back to the author, its suggests a stage or stages of more than mere interpolation and a few changes. If we take seriously the notion that in the period between author's copy and initial text considerable changes may have taken place that left no trace in the textual tradition, then we have to apply other tools, such as authorial style. If that isn't applicable, however, then we have to posit that those changes between authorial copy and initial copy were so thorough and complete as to be indistinguishable on close study of style, syntax, vocabulary etc. Possible, but given again what we know about ancient scribal practices (and even those making personal copies), is this likely on anything except a theoretical level?
>> I don't recall ever saying such a thing, and don't recall ever thinking such a thing, and so I don't know what you're referring to. If I *did* say this, I guess I'll have to defend it!<<That's illogical. There are many other responses possible besides defense.
>> I just don't remember ever being certain that we know what happened in the early stages of the tradition. So does that clarify it?<<It does somewhat, but not entirely. Certitude, however, was not what I was suggesting or after. Certitude isn't possible. Probabilities however are.
>> I don't *know* what happened in the earliest decades when the text was being copied (I certainly don't know that their was a wholesale seamless rewriting of the autographs; and I equally don't know that there wasn't). And I don't believe you know either! *Do* you think you know? If so, how do you know?<<
Do I know? Of course not. But I don't know that the planet on which I dwell will continue to rotate on its axis in the same motion and the same speed so that the sun will give the appearance of "rising" in the morning over what is to me my eastern horizon. But based on the current evidence available to me, I can make a probable prediction that no appreciable change will occur between now and then as to change the nature of that rotation. Likewise, given what we know, we can speak in probabilities about textual reconstructions too. With Dr. Wasserman, I think the best and simplest explanation is that there is no significant difference between authorial copy and initial copy, and that it is more likely that redactional activity between authorial copy and initial copy are detectable...and hence appeal to an author's style remains a valid tool.
Larry Swain
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Registration O-pun for O. Henry Pun-Off
Contest set for May 18
By Monica Riese,
12:17PM, Tue. Apr. 16, 2013
Confession: I sat working on this post for longer than I'd care to admit. It's a lot of pressure writing about puns, after all! But here's the best I can do from my little cubicle (you might call it a writer's block).
I was a little blind-sided when I realized I had such a tiny window of opportunity to get the news out about the O. Henry Pun-Off registration being open as of today. If I didn't get something up quickly, though, it'd be curtains for me.
OK, so the post was a must, but how to go about it? Do you cater to the folk who'll chuckle at egg-cellent word play or side with those who consider it a fowl use of language? Maybe the post itself is just a farm-ality, and people just need to know where to swine up.
Here's the drill: Head over to the event website, hammer out the entry form, and – the most important bit – hope you're one of the first 32 to sign up. Don't worry if you get bumped to stand-by though; it doesn't mean you're a screw-up. Final event details will be nailed down soon.
Want to Scope out the competition? Brush up on your best material by watching some of the old contestants, then take Aim and get ready to smile for your close-up.
Registration for the O. Henry Pun-Off is open now, though the initial 32 spots are almost full. The event will be held Saturday, May 18, at Brush Square Park (Fourth & Trinity). The author apologizes for any injuries caused by excessive groaning.
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Wenger: Walcott forcing his way in
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admits he soon may have little option but to start Theo Walcott on a regular basis.
The 17-year-old England starlet came off the bench for the second match running in Wednesday night's Champions League qualifying tie.
Walcott's injection of pace helped turned a draw into victory, setting up Mathieu Flamini for a stoppage-time tap-in as the Gunners came from behind to secure a 2-1 victory on the night and book their place in today's draw for the group stages.
It could have been a much worse scenario facing the Arsenal manager heading into the closing stages had Zagreb converted any more of their chances to add to Eduardo's early goal, with Freddie Ljungberg eventually heading in an equaliser before Walcott's late cameo.
Wenger knows it is only a matter of time before the former Southampton trainee forces himself into his first XI.
'When he comes on you see he can make a difference because of his penetrating power and his speed,' Wenger noted.
'However, you also see that sometimes in some movements he is still a bit young so you have to give him time to lose that slowly and of course to come out with his strengths - but in the last two games he brought two goals.'
Wenger declared: 'If he comes every time on and creates a goal I will not leave him out for a long time.
'It is positive as well because I think people believe in me so let's just play how I can and when he comes on with his pace and the team is already tired, it is easier for him to be efficient.'
Wenger was happy enough to have seen his side recover from a 'sloppy start'.
He said: 'When you do not start very well, it is always difficult to come back in a convincing manner.
'We had merit to come back and win the game because in the second half, it was all us.'
The Arsenal boss did, though, accept with his team having already secured a healthy 3-0 advantage from the first leg in Croatia a fortnight ago, last night's match was always going to be a tricky one to approach.
Wenger said: 'It is difficult psychologically when you are 3-0 up to go into a game like mad.'
The Arsenal boss added: 'It is a relief because you know how much implication that game has on the whole season, not only financially but for us as a team to have that extra-special motivation to be part of the best in Europe.'
Wenger declared: 'We are happy to be in the pot. We take now who comes in there because we know we can do well.'
Josep Kuze felt his side had learned a lot from the experience against one of Europe's premier clubs.
He said: 'Although we lost, we will go away having made a good impression and hopefully that can now translate into better form in the league as well.'