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Hey guys, this is some pretty strange news. Multiple sources have stated that Apple is in talks to bring backround processes to the iPhone.
As you may all know, Apple has stated time and time again that they refuse to allow backround processes from 3rd party (App Store) applications due to "battery" issues. Well, it is true that backround processes do take up battery power.
I don't believe this is the only reason, I also believe that it is also due to the iPhone's outragously crappy RAM supply. 116MB really isn't enough to support very many backround processes if you are left with 38-50MB after "system processes".
So why would Apple be in talks to bring backround processes to the iPhone? Well, remember the article I posted on some "leaked" specifications on the next iPhone? Well, the anonymous source stated that there would be 256MB of RAM and a 600MhZ processor in the next iPhone. This would make sense if they wanted to bring backround processes.
The current iPhone 3G has 116MB of RAM and a 412MhZ. I would not expect Apple to allow backround processes on any other device other than the new iPhone. This would be a total Apple thing to do.
So will backround processes finally come to the iPhone? I am not sure. I also don't think that Apple's engineers are either. I believe that we will know at WWDC or at a future iPhone only event. Stay tuned…

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
– Virginia Woolf.
Scattering my digital footprint around the internet was an shaky thought when I began my blog. If you have a blog, you probably know what I mean.
During the first few months I timidly only wrote recipes and about the food itself. These posts where accompanied by horrid food photographs. You can confirm this yourself if you dare to look through my archives. After a while, I found that this was terribly boring. One day I wrote about piano music. Lighting did not strike me, I did not turn into a toad, the world did not end. So I wrote more and more, realising that I was leaving behind that dreaded trail of my digital footprint.
Why was my digital footprint so scary to me?
At that time I was an unexperienced blogger and had no idea in which direction my blog was going to naturally lead itself. It's personal so I wanted it to reflect me. Also, I did not want any of my potential future employers to find it.
It's not so scary now. What changed since then?
With regards to these potential future employers, well I'll probably have a few more of those in my life, though one day I would like to open my own business. Keep waiting though, that day is still very far. Plus, I'm not bothered anymore about the what if these people find my blog part.
With regards to the writing in itself, with the exception of my interview with Garfield, I don't write fiction. My topics can be as vast and strange as, for example, betel nut chewing in Papua New Guinea or my personal thoughts on the Sultan of Brunei and his Sharia laws. The problem here is that when voicing issues like this, if I don't give hints about who I am, you might think I'm a bit bonkers. However, knowing that I've lived in eight countries until now, with Papua New Guinea and Brunei included, helps justify my writing about these topics. It explains why I can drone on about cultural differences. Knowing bits and pieces about me, like I have studied pharmacy, play the piano, which city I live in, the fact that I am a woman and my approximate age all give me the authority to write over my sometimes bizarre points of view.
However, if I were to write about car racing or fishing in Denmark, I would probably fail in the attempt.
I have a friend who has a secret blog. No, I do not know the name of her blog. Not even her husband knows it. Perhaps she writes fiction, I don't know. Sure I toyed with the idea of making a secret blog, but now I realise that it wouldn't be right for me. What would I be able to write about there? Absolutely anything! But it might not make sense to me or anyone else.
This is why I'm not so scared about my digital footprint anymore. Letting you know a bit about me explains the rationale over what I write about. Oh yeah, you also get to see some of my food here.
I am interested in knowing your thoughts on your digital footprint? It would also be interesting to see if our age influences our perceptions. Perhaps the younger generations who naturally grew up with the internet and social media aren't so picky. Or perhaps they are. Please let me know.
Thank you for reading!


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Geherally the best way to solve a complicated inequality, like or, equivalently , is to solve the corresponding equation: .
Multiply the entire equation by x(x+1)(x+2): (x+1)(x+2)+ x(x+1)= x(x+2). Multiplying that out, which reduces to . The discriminant for that is [tex]2^2- 4(1)(2)= -4 so there are NO real number roots.
A function can change from ">" to "<" or vice-versa only at points where it is "=" or where it is discontinuous. Since there are no points where it is "=", it can only change at points where it is not continuous: where one of the denominators is 0, that is at x= -1, x= -2, and x= 0.
You can check a single value in each interval having those endpoints to determine whether every point in that interval satisfies the inequality or not.
For example, -3 is in the interval of all numbers less than -2 and [tex]\frac{1}{-3}+ \frac{1}{-3+ 2}= -\frac{1}{3}-1= -\frac{4}{3} math which < is than [tex]\frac{1}{-3+1}= -\frac{1}{2}[tex] so the inequality is satisified for all x< -2. Try, say, x= -3/2, which is between -2 and -1 to check if that interval works, x= -1/2 for the interval (-1, 0) and x= 1 for the interval of numbers larger than 1.


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My Soul to Take
Reviewed by James Owen
There must have been something on Wes Craven's mind when he chose "My Soul to Take" for his first writer/director's gig since 1994's very funny and self-aware "Wes Craven's New Nightmare." I mean, there's always the need to make a buck—but if you're Wes Craven, that's why you make "Scream 4," right? Still, this is the guy who made "A Nightmare on Elm Street" an allegory for the Cambodian Killing Fields and made "The People Under the Stairs" about Reaganomics. If Wes Craven is going to go through the trouble of putting of the auteur hat again, we should expect some social commentary between blood lettings.
Instead, I am not sure even what's going on in "My Soul to Take." We start out in 1994 with a serial killer dubbed "The Ripper" loose in the sleepy town of Riverton. Inexplicably, the local news knows the killer uses a knife emboldened with the word "vengeance." Suburban dad Abel (uh oh, ham-handed symbolism alert) is working in the basement as his pregnant wife and child sleep upstairs. The knife appears. All of a sudden, the voices in his head tell him to kill his family. In true Craven style, the scene is unnerving, especially when Abel tries to talk himself out of it. Thankfully, Abel has a therapist on speed dial, so what we think is supernatural is actually part of some condition.
So, Abel's problem is psychological, right? But, when all hell breaks loose, it seems awfully tough to kill Abel/Ripper, which again points us to the supernatural conclusion. As every law enforcement officer in Riverton tries to kill this lunatic, we also learn there's an outbreak of child birthing going down at the hospital. Seven kids, which doesn't sound like a baby boom, but (gasp!) this is the same number as The Ripper's victims. I guess we can assume these newborns represent the souls taken by the serial killer. While that is going on, Abel "dies," but Craven leaves lots of ambiguities. Dead, alive, or does it matter because he will live on? Plus, does the knife have anything to do with it or is that just a vessel for something deadlier?
We flash forward to the present. The anniversary is dubbed "Ripper Day" and all the kids born that night are turning sixteen. In a bit of endless exposition, we learn that the legend of The Ripper is that he will return to kill off all the kids who were born the day he died. Why? Because it's the serial killer's soul? Or because it's the force that seemingly had control of the serial killer, as evidenced by the opener? Or did The Ripper really die? And why sixteen? This is where I think I sense Craven's interest. Most of the Ripper Seven (or whatever they are) fit into the typical high-school stereotypes: the Jock, Geek, Mean Girl, Sensitive Type, the Non-Descript Asian are dispatched in the first fifteen minutes. The one thing they all have in common is a brooding seriousness, as if adolescence is a dreaded weight. Quite like "A Nightmare on Elm Street," the children of this generation must pay for the sins of their parents' generation.
Fair enough, but Craven doesn't take that very far: Why do we care about these kids whose only purpose is to die vividly and unpleasantly in the first couple of reels? Their individuality is only matched in vapidity by your average adolescent on ABC Family. The notable exception, I suppose, is Bug (Max Thieriot). Bug has strange hallucinations and is seemingly able to channel the soul of the last kid killed. Has the soul of The Ripper entered into Bug? Does he have some sort of psychic, or genetic, connection? Seemingly not, as we see The Ripper killing his victims and he (or it) looks nothing like our Bug. Then, that pesky knife shows up.
This is almost irrelevant at this point because "My Soul to Take" doesn't ever seem to take a position on WHAT The Ripper is. Of course, Bug also seems to have a thing for condors—a bird, we are reminded through repetitious exposition, the Native Americans believed carried the souls of the bodies it scavenged. Not only do we get this story over and over again, we even see Bug dressed as a condor for a science project. That there bird means death. Thanks, Wes, we got it the first six times.
Craven is still skilled at developing his villains into full character, not simply some moral arbiter as in the typical slasher film. Freddy Krueger, in his inception, was a silent bully designed to scar the mind as much as inflict physical pain. The killers from "The Hills Have Eyes" cleverly literalized the concept of the "nuclear" family. So, what does The Ripper represent? As a metaphor, he's supposed to represent the doubt in an unrepentant soul. At least, that's what the contrived plot twists of "My Soul to Take" point to. But there's no resolution as to who the Ripper REALLY is or what he/it really represents. Craven's uncertainty is maddening—it's like he didn't quite work the whole thing out in his mind before filming.
Plus, is it too much to just want to be scared by a mid-October movie? Other than the spooky, sepia-soaked cinematography and the opening sequence, I was given no one or nothing to worry about. I felt no emotional connection to this series of narrative episodes, so there was never anything at stake for me. If Craven had just lowered his goal to this very elegant if simple goal, I wouldn't have cared about the unanswered question of "My Soul to Take". As it is, my response to the question is: Who cares, Wes? Bring on Scream 4!
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PlayStation 2 to receive MTV Music Generator.
Codemasters recently announced that the company has obtained the global licensing rights to MTV Music Generator. Now that Codemasters has obtained the rights to the music creation system, it will be featured on Sony's PlayStation 2 sometime in 2001. Further implications of the deal are present for MTV, as new marketing opportunities have surfaced as a result for the major brand.
  Jeremy Webster, Codemasters' business affairs manager, had this to say about the announcement, "MTV is one of the world's strongest brands. As a license, it embodies music entertainment, and using it as a headline property in the US last year, the product became a tremendous success." He elaborated, "As our award-winning music music software is enhanced to take advantage of the power offered by the PlayStation 2's hardware, the use of the MTV brand will be a major strength in our global marketing for MTV Music Generator."
  Jester Interactive, the same development firm responsible for the PlayStation version, will be handling MTV Music Generator for the PlayStation 2.
11/21/2000 Bryan Keers
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Walking Trails in Chatham County, North Carolina
Written by Bill Bussey
Note: This article is meant to update or clarify parts of Kelly Evenson's article at "Some Highlights From This List."
Chatham County, with a population of just over 52,000, is located in the geographic center of North Carolina about 20 miles west of the capital city of Raleigh, and thirty miles southwest of Greensboro. The county seat of Chatham County is Pittsboro. Siler City is Chatham's largest city. Chatham County is also home to Jordan Lake, one of the larger man-made lakes in the state. Many of the trails listed on this page are located at or near Jordan Lake.
While most Chatham County residents regard Chatham as being rural and agricultural, it is being encroached with development from the major population centers to the east and lesser extent the northwest. Thus, Chatham County is rapidly changing to a suburban area. Trails advocates and county officials are working hard and quickly to ensure that trails and future trail sites are not gobbled up by development, and are working with developers to incorporate trails and greenways as part of their projects.
Some Highlights From This List:
Trails in or near Pittsboro
1. THANKS (Trail for Health, Art, and Nature for Kids to Seniors)
The length of this recently sealed asphalt fitness loop trail, which encircles the Central Carolina Community College Campus is 4485 feet as measured by this writer in 2002.
2. Pittsboro Jaycee Park Trail
This trail is not a loop. However, local activists are working Town of Pittsboro staff to make it a loop and the centerpiece of a greenway system in Pittsboro.
Trails in Siler City:
These trails are all fitness loop trails.
Siler City has formally begun the process of planning greenways with the establishment of a local Greenway committee. It is hoped that Siler City will construct at least one greenway within five years.
Trails around or in Jordan Lake State Recreation Area:
7. Weaver Creek Trail
There is currently no small hiker sign to indicate the start of the trail. However, the trail entrance is fairly obvious from the parking area. The trail is actually 4 miles in length in a "P" shaped configuration. That is a hiker goes out the leg of the P, where she hikes the loop and then comes back to the trailhead on the leg of the P. This trail was largely rebuilt and is currently maintained by the Chatham Trails Committee.
Add The American Tobacco Trail:
1. The American Tobacco Trail, a 22-mile long rail-trail now under development, traverses 4.5 miles through the extreme northeastern part of Chatham County. Currently, this trail in Chatham County is being cleared and maintained by the Triangle Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (TRTC) www.triangletrails.org in cooperation with the Chatham County Parks and Recreation Department.
About 3 miles of this natural surfaced (grass, clay and gravel) surfaced trail is now open for hikers, off-road and hybrid cyclists and limited equestrian use on a Use at Own Risk basis. Be aware that this trail is very much under construction and repair by TRTC. The trail surface may be very rough in some locations. Parking is available only by pulling off the sides of increasing busy rural roads. The trail ends from all access points at two trestles which still need to be decked. Plans are to deck these trestles and complete the trail by 2008.
Directions to New Hope Church Road ATT Access: From downtown Pittsboro take 64E to Highway 751. Turn left going north on Highway 751. Go 5.6 miles. Turn right onto New Hope Church Road at Citgo gas/convenience store. Go east approximately 3 miles to the crossing of the American Tobacco Trail. See the silver gates on both the north and south side. Park along the shoulder of this increasingly busy road.
Description: Hike or ride at your own risk approximately 1 mile north to currently undecked Panther Creek trestle. Trail has been cleared and cleaned by folks who live on New Hope Church Road and TRTC volunteers so users may see piles of cut wood and brush along trail.
Trail is closed south of New Hope Church Road. Please do not use. It is hoped this portion of the trail will be able to be opened by the summer of 2005.
Directions to O'Kelly Chapel Road ATT Access: Directions: From downtown Pittsboro take 64E to Highway 751. Turn left going north on Highway 751. Go approximately 12 miles. Turn right onto O'Kelly Chapel Road. Go approximately 2.5 miles passing the first phase of Rosemont (a gated community) on your left, Old Chatham Golf Club on your right, and then the trail crossing. See the silver gates on both sides of the road. If you pass the 2nd Rosemont entrance on your left, you've gone too far.
Description: Hike or ride at your own risk on this natural surfaced (grass, clay, gravel) rail-trail approximately 1 mile north to the currently undecked Northeast Creek trestle. The first 1/4 mile of the trail north of O'Kelly is extremely rough in places due to repairs currently in progress by TRTC volunteers of old logging equipment ruts. Some of these holes were 2-3 feet deep, so major improvements have been made!
After the first quarter mile, the trail improves dramatically and is fine all the way to the trestle. This trail has been cleared, cleaned and is managed by TRTC volunteers so users may see piles of cut wood and brush along trail. It is also mowed regularly during the summer months by TRTC volunteers.
Hike or ride south of O'Kelly Chapel Road 8/10 of a mile to the crossing of Pittard Sears Road. The trail is wide at this crossing because it is currently used as a school bus turnaround. Users can continue 4/10 mile south from the Pittard Sears Road crossing to the north side of the Panther Creek trestle. The last 2/10 of this segment of trail is on land
This section had extensive long time storm damage for almost 1/2 mile of its length, and was known then and now as the "war zone". It was cleared by TRTC and REI volunteers in the winter and summer of 2004. It has been cleared, cleaned and is managed by TRTC volunteers so users may see piles of cut wood and brush along trail. It is also mowed regularly during the summer months by TRTC volunteers. The trail may have a very rough surface at road crossings. Again, use at own risk.
The contact for Community Coalition for an Active Chatham, now simply, Active Chatham is: Sarah Worley or by phone at: (919)542-8221
** Special Note for the following organizations too, and we encourage you to visit their websites:
Jordan Lake Trails Conservation Association http://www.jordanlaketrails.org
Purpose: Working to build a network of trails at Jordan Lake and the surrounding vicinity that accommodate equestrians, mountain bike riders, and hikers.
Contact: Richard Berner or phone at: (919) 270-9830
When and Where: Quarterly as needed. Check with contact
Triangle Rails-to-Trails Conservancy www.triangletrails.org
Purpose: To work with local and state government officials to preserve local abandoned railroad corridors for future transportation and other interim uses such as recreational trails. Also, with the cooperation of Durham Parks and Recreation and Chatham County Parks and Recreation, we clear, make safe, maintain, and manage portions of the American Tobacco Trail in southern Durham and Chatham counties so that folks can use the American Tobacco Trail NOW instead of having to wait several years for governments to complete it.
Contact: Bill Bussey
When and Where: First Monday of each Monthat 7:30 PM at the Woodcroft Professional Center at the intersection of Woodcroft Parkway and Fayetteville Road in southern Durham.
Pittsboro-Siler City CVB
Neha M. Shah
Director of Travel & Tourism
118 West St. (street)/POB 87 (Mailing)
Pittsboro, NC 27312
919.542.4716 (fax)
800.316.3829 (Visitor Information)
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Margrethe Grotum Werchmester (1732-1804) had 14 children. This project follows the 14 branches of decendants and the ancestry to Margrethe Grotum and her husband Peder Thøgersen Lassen.
The first 7 lines of decendants have been added to Geni - ending approx. 1950.
Line 8 (Lauritz Lassen) has been added to the tree
Line 9 (Mattice Cecilie Marie Lassen) added
Line 10 (Johan Arent Lassen) added
Line 11 (Ide Kirstine Bjørn Lasen) added
Line 12 (Hedevig Frederikke Lassen) added to the tree
Line 13 (Petrine Margrethe Lassen) added to the tree
Line 14 (Kristian Lassen) adde to tree
ALL decendants from Margrete Grotum Werchmester up to 1955 now added to the tree
/Christmas 2012 - Peder Wiese


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We won't spend too much time to dwell on the following pamphlet of sheer "buy, buy, buy" desperation from Barclays' Sandeep Bordia, suffice it to say that we now know which would be the first European blue light special "rescuer" of Lehman to go under courtesy of a massively wrong bet on PrimeX should the "illiquid" market continue to flounder. Which it will. We will add, however, that it would be damn poetic, not to mention hilarious, if while long and wrong bets on Subprime is what detonated Lehman, then being John Holmes'd in Prime is what leads to Barclays' bankruptcy (and we do already know that Barc is the bank with the second largest capital shortfall in Europe courtesy of that other bank which hopes to pick up the pieces upon blue's implosion, Credit Suisse). It would appear that the vultures are already circling... And where the vultures are, the squid can't be far behind.
The funniest bit from the Barclays' pitchbook:
Technical risk: Will there be forced unwinds of leveraged PrimeX trades in a negative macro event? While this is potentially more credible than other risks, several investors put in more equity in PrimeX trades than required. More importantly, we believe that these indices look fundamentally very cheap at current levels and adequately compensate investors for this additional risk.
Well of course you do. Yet we wonder: just who are these investors who put in "more equity" in PrimeX which is now effectively wiped out?


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If you want to study B.Tech (Electronics and Communication Engineering) in NIT Nagaland, you should have secured a AIEEE rank between 20000 - 30000 (assuming you are from Open Category). NIT Nagaland was established with three important branches of CSE, ECE and EEE. Admission to all these specializations will be conducted through CCB counseling for AIEEE qualified candidates. Following previous cut offs / last ranks will help you get an idea of the chances of getting a seat NIT Nagaland.
These opening and closing ranks of NIT Nagaland are taken after the completion of 5 rounds of AIEEE 2011 counseling. Cut offs also indicate all India and Home State ranks separately. Cut Offs are available for OC, SC, ST and OBC Categories as well. See them below:


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Generous in victory
The Eastern Illinois Foodbank collected more than $2,200 -- and counting -- for the Food for Families drive at Saturday's Illinois-Ohio State game at Memorial Stadium.
It wasn't all from Illini fans. Food bank spokeswoman Cheryl Precious noted that Buckeye fans were "very generous to this community."
About 25 Ohio State volunteers signed up to help collect money during the food bank's first shift Saturday morning, and "they were really into it -- very enthusiastic, very vocal," Precious said.
No one kept an exact tally of donations from Buckeyes vs. Illini. But even the UI volunteers noticed that "from all four collection corners, Ohio State fans were more likely to whip out their wallets," Precious said.
That's probably because Illini fans are already giving to Food for Families in other ways, she allowed.
The food bank's goal is to raise $110,000 and collect 200,000 pounds of food during the two-week drive, which ends Oct. 16.
News-Gazette.com embraces discussion of both community and world issues. We welcome you to contribute your ideas, opinions and comments, but we ask that you avoid personal attacks, vulgarity and hate speech. We reserve the right to remove any comment at our discretion, and we will block repeat offenders' accounts. To post comments, you must first be a registered user, and your username will appear with any comment you post. Happy posting.


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Apple bans competing ads from the iPhone, terms and conditions twicthed
Since Apple is rich in array of its products, including the iPhone and iPod touch lines. But it always lack in the platform for advertisers, to reach its consumers using these devices. But Apple has twitched its developer terms and conditions to openly lock out in-application advertising services that might contend with its own iAd service.
As per, the new terms, picked up by All Things Digital sets the rules that applications may not collect statistical information for advertising, or any other reason, without Apple's written permission. And you can be clear that Google, Microsoft and/or Opera need not apply. Even if the user's approval is obtained Apple won't allow the collection of any demographic information for feeding to logical services such as Flurry, or any purpose that isn't "directly relevant to the use of the Application".
When it comes to advertising, the company doing the gathering should be "an independent advertising service provider whose primary business is serving mobile ads, with proper user's permission- our importance. Just in case there's any doubt the clause continues: "An advertising service provider owned by or affiliated with a developer or distributor of mobile devices, mobile operating systems or development environments other than Apple would not qualify as independent", leaving just about everyone else out in the cold.
However, the largest provider of mobile advertising, and potential competitor to iAd, is AdMob (owned by Google), while AdMarvel is now owed by Opera (arguably in the development environment business). Since Microsoft doesn't have a mobile advertising play till now, but when it does it too will be banned from the iPhone.
Developers can still serve advertisements in iPhone applications, but not if they want to gather the kind of targeting information that makes such advertising so valuable and popular they need to sign up with Apple's iAd. Cupertino has helpfully excluded itself from the new rules, reproduced in full below:
3.3.9 You and Your Applications may not collect, use, or disclose to any third party, user or device data without prior user permission, and then only under the following conditions:
- The collection, use or disclosure is necessary in order to provide a service or function that is directly relevant to the use of the Application. For example, without Apple's prior written approval, You may not use third party analytics software in Your Application to collect and send device data to a third party for aggregation, processing, or analysis.
- The collection, use or disclosure is for the purpose of serving advertising to Your Application; is provided to an independent advertising service provider whose primary business is serving mobile ads (for example, an advertising service provider owned by or affiliated with a developer or distributor of mobile devices, mobile operating systems or development environments other than Apple would not qualify as independent); and the disclosure is limited to UDID, user location data, and other data specifically designated by Apple as available for advertising purposes.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2171776489221716830.post8133678818529098350..comments2017-10-02T08:10:47.633-07:00Comments on Demeur: Why we won't be seeing healthcare reform any time soonDemeurhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2171776489221716830.post-88903821873649268722009-06-22T00:54:48.441-07:002009-06-22T00:54:48.441-07:00"As for whether I'm for being a part of a..."As for whether I'm for being a part of a public or private plan frankly I really don't give a damn as long as I have decent coverage."

The trick is to get "decent coverage" at an affordable price. That's where industry has utterly failed 47 million people. (I think it's more like 50 million because of the recession.) Having a public-sector plan in play offers hope of making decent coverage affordable for many of today's health insurance have nots.S.W. andersonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2171776489221716830.post-42700553147146935652009-06-19T11:11:36.035-07:002009-06-19T11:11:36.035-07:00It's like you said in your post, this health c...It's like you said in your post, this health care crisis is expensive for everybody, including the greedy. Greed is bad enough even when it pays off; but someday the rightwing me-firsters need to grasp the fact that if they'll just suck it up and allow other people to get government-financed health insurance, they themselves will benefit along with everybody else.Tom Harperhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2171776489221716830.post-43974784214595831802009-06-19T07:36:07.563-07:002009-06-19T07:36:07.563-07:00As each day passes on planet earth, I can't he...As each day passes on planet earth, I can't help but recall the words of Kent Brockman: "I said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply doesn't work."Randal Graveshttps://email@example.com


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December 21, 2005
Iran holds tough line as EU nuclear talks resume
By Mark Heinrich
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran reiterated its intention to develop
a fully-fledged nuclear program on Wednesday as Europe's top
three powers revived a dialogue with Tehran over suspicions it
is secretly trying to make nuclear bombs.
declarations from Iran that the Holocaust is a myth and Israel
should be wiped out, and a European Union accusation on Tuesday
that Tehran has systematically violated human rights at home.
The Islamic republic's increasingly vocal hostility toward
the Jewish state and commitment to developing sensitive
technology that could yield ingredients for nuclear weaponry
have stoked Western concern about its atomic program.
Tehran says it aims only to generate more electricity for
an energy-hungry economy. But it dodged U.N. nuclear inspectors
for 18 years until 2003 and the West says its cooperation since
has fallen short of what is needed to regain diplomatic
Wednesday's meeting between Iran and Britain, France and
Germany in Vienna will be "talks about talks" -- exploring
whether any basis exists for resuming negotiations on the
future of Iran's nuclear activity, frozen by the "EU3" last
"We won't reopen negotiations, we will only listen to what
the Iranians have to say, especially about research and
development," said an EU3 diplomat, alluding to centrifuge
machines capable of enriching uranium to arms-grade level.
"We will see whether what they say to us in private is any
different from what they have been declaring in public, to see
if there is wiggle room for resuming negotiations."
A diplomat said the talks had begun mid-morning at the
French embassy in Vienna.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the talks
should be without preconditions and establish a timetable for
Iran to resume uranium enrichment, which it suspended under a
2003 agreement with the EU trio.
"We don't want talks just for the sake of talks," he told
reporters in Tehran.
EU diplomats said the likely outcome would be a decision,
taken back in EU capitals, on whether to meet again in January.
Tehran's unswerving rejection of compromise proposals to
have its uranium purified by others abroad, to minimize chances
of it grasping the complex technology needed to make bombs, has
depressed prospects for a diplomatic solution.
"When we talk about (wanting) nuclear technology it means
that enrichment to produce fuel for our reactors should be done
inside Iran and it means having the complete nuclear fuel
cycle," Mottaki said.
He added that Iran would not again suspend uranium ore
processing at its Isfahan plant, the resumption of which in
August led to the breakdown of the EU-Iran talks, and intended
to restart preliminary work on enrichment technology.
"Isfahan is a done deal," he said. "The research and
building parts for (enrichment) centrifuges is not the same as
enriching uranium. When the time comes we will announce the
resumption of these activities," he added.
Diplomats said recent public statements by Iranian
officials gave little cause for optimism.
"The problem is, Iran's hardliners were encouraged to
believe they could inch forward toward enrichment when they
managed to restart uranium processing without provoking a
referral to the U.N. Security Council," one diplomat said.
U.S.-EU moves to send Iran's case to the Security Council
for possible sanctions have stumbled on resistance by Russia,
China and developing nations on the board of the watchdog
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The IAEA board opted in November to put off any referral to
give time for promoting an EU-backed proposal for Russia to
enrich Iran's uranium under a joint venture.
But Tehran has rebuffed the idea and interest in it seems
to have waned in Moscow, which has major energy and arms links
with Iran, including a $1 billion nuclear reactor under
construction and a $1 billion package of missiles and other
Some analysts believe that if dialogue runs aground again,
the way would be cleared to an emergency IAEA board session and
vote to put Iran in Security Council hands. But Russia and
China could veto sanctions as permanent powers on the Council.
(Additional reporting by Parisa Hafezi and Paul Hughes in
Tehran and Jon Boyle in Paris)


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Sunday, December 19, 2010; 12:03 AM
IRVING, TEX. - With little practice and even less notice, the Redskins have given Rex Grossman the tallest of tasks when he takes the field Sunday at Cowboys Stadium. Starting his first game since 2008, he'll try to show that he can upgrade a quarterback position that had been previously filled by a six-time Pro Bowler, even as coaches count on him to produce improvement at the other 10 offensive positions as well.
"We've been struggling," said offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan. "We've definitely been struggling to score points, and we got to give someone else an opportunity. I'm excited to see what Rex can do. I have no idea what he'll do. This will be my first game with him as starter."
After only five wins in 13 games, coaches feel they know what they would've gotten out of Donovan McNabb, which is precisely why they've benched him for the remainder of the season. Grossman is an unknown quantity, but those familiar with the controversial decision say coaches felt it was essential to switch quarterbacks for the team to salvage what is left of the season.
Among the explanations Redskins Coach Mike Shanahan gave for benching McNabb on Oct. 31 in Detroit: He felt Grossman gave the Redskins a better chance of winning. Turning to Grossman now, though, isn't as much about winning. Coaches feel Grossman will give them a better opportunity to evaluate all the players around him.
"I think it's pretty obvious what's at stake. I'm very excited about it," Grossman said. "It's an unbelievable opportunity to go down to Dallas in this rivalry game and show what I can do with this offense and this team."
The Redskins certainly want the win, but once the team was mathematically eliminated from playoff contention last weekend, the organizational focus shifted to deciding which pieces to bring back in 2011. McNabb and his limitations apparently made it difficult for the organization's talent evaluators to assess the roster.
For years, McNabb relied on his play-making ability to win games, but for one reason or another - his fading skills or the coaches' refusal to turn him loose? - he hasn't been turning broken plays into highlights this season. In fact, he's only run the ball six times in the past five games. Many of his most impressive plays this year have come on deep passes.
For coaches, the problems with McNabb can't all be measured in statistics. Those familiar with the decision to bench him say the 12-year veteran didn't understand the playbook, didn't work through his progressions, struggled to read coverages and couldn't manage the game, which resulted in costly delay-of-game penalties and bad timeouts.
Those weaknesses have made it difficult for coaches to assess the other players on the field, according to some in the organization. They can't see what pass catchers are capable of because McNabb might not look their way. McNabb has taken some sacks by failing to step up in the pocket, which has forced offensive tackles at times to change their technique. He's dug the team some early holes and the Redskins have had to abandon the running game in the second half, which makes evaluating tailbacks difficult.
"Every quarterback's different," Grossman said. "I can't really speak on what he does, but this is my second year in this system. . . . I feel like it does what I do well: chances to go deep, and then intermediate patterns and then down to the check downs. It gives you an opportunity to make big plays without trying to create your own big plays. I just want to run the offense and not try to do anything special."
Grossman, 30, has little game experience in recent years, but those who've watched the two quarterbacks at practice say Grossman has a better understanding of the offense, if not a better ability to execute. Grossman played under Kyle Shanahan in 2009 in Houston, and though he essentially held a clipboard for 16 games, the Texans ran a nearly identical system.
Grossman earned his spot on the Texans' roster in the final preseason game, in which he was 9-of-16 passing for 197 yards and a pair of touchdowns. During the regular season, he saw action in just one game, completing 3 of 9 passes for 33 yards and an interception against Jacksonville.


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A Juneau School District complaint panel found the district needs to improve its management and oversight of grants and increase board training following a complaint filed by the Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 70.
The school board unanimously approved the complaint, and thereby its recommendations this week at its meeting.
ANS filed a complaint against the district, alleging improper use of federal Transitions II grant funds. Those funds are to be spent on enhancing education primarily for Alaska Native students. The group took issue with the district changing what they would spend the grant funds on after it received the grant, specifically on the Advancement Via Individual Determination program. The group said a large number of Native students would not be served by this program. ANS was one of the key partners in applying for the grant with the district.
ANS expressed concerns the district doesn't have adequate oversight of grants and requested an external audit over the use of Transitions II funds and recommended the board receive more training on equity and oversight in grant fund usage.
The district board of education has a panel that deals with complaints, which consists of board members Ed Flanagan, Sally Saddler and Andi Story.
The panel found that AVID is a program that can make a difference for Alaska Native students, even though the original intent of the program was not targeted primarily toward those students. The results of the program, however, have been an effective tool in helping Alaska Native students and others improve academic success. The panel believes the use of the year two grant funds for training and startup costs are valid because they believe it will assure "long-term positive gains and success for Alaska Native Students," the report said.
"The panel further finds the training for staff was done in a way that will be embedded in the district's on-going operations beyond the scope of grant funds," it said.
The panel stated while about half of the grant funds in year two have been invested in AVID, the district also contributed $50,000 toward the program. It also states to date, 60 percent of the 88 students in the program are Alaska Native.
It also found most of the services outlined in the grant application are being provided, despite the fact the grant was awarded after the beginning of the school year - making a fully faithful implementation impossible, the report states. It also states the funds received were less than expected, increased personnel costs were higher than requested in the grant, and some staff identified to be hired with the grant had resigned.
Assistant Superintendent Laury Scandling said the district spoke with the federal grant authority to make sure their changes would be appropriate for the grant dollars and changes were approved by the federal grant authority.
Saddler said many of the issues that caused the change in implementation were caused by factors outside the district's control.
The panel found the district "failed to implement the grant advisory committee outlined in the original grant and did not communicate grant changes in a timely manner with local grant partners who helped develop the grant."
"The district needs to improve the management and oversight of grants in support of Native student achievement, to ensure accountability and fidelity to the purpose and intent of grants," the report states.
The panel did not recommend an external evaluation, but instead recommended internal management controls be developed and implemented.
The panel recommended the board to direct the superintendent to work on six areas in grant oversight, largely to do with communication and grant effectiveness. The comments reflect earlier statements made by the panel.
It also recommends the board get more training, put in internal management steps and working on reviews for other areas that use grant funds.
The panel's final recommendation was to evaluate the end of year two of the grant before year three begins. If the number of Alaska Native students being served by the program is not the majority, then the board would need to have the superintendent reallocate the percentage of funds used for AVID and get more money from other funding sources.
Scandling said funds like this have never been targeted exclusively toward Alaska Native students. At Yaakoosge Daakahidi Alternative High School, grant funds are used for Tlingit language classes, employability skills and other programs, which never have all-Native participants. They also host a summer camp, which had about 60 percent Alaska Native participants. Scandling expects that to be fairly common since the proportion of Alaska Native students in the district is about 63 percent.
Board member Mark Chaote said he's pleased and excited about AVID's implementation.
"On the one hand it's important to identify populations who need support and help," he said. "We also have to pick up the kids in the middle."
Superintendent Glenn Gelbrich said the most important lesson learned here is to communicate with the stakeholders right away.
"There were some mistakes made, and we can fix them," Gelbrich said. "AVID doesn't need advocacy, it speaks for itself. One of the clear things that we know is that we have had limited success in our work with way too many Alaska Native children for way too long. At some point, we have to decide we have to do something different than what we're doing and AVID is that. We have to implement this program with absolute fidelity. Period. The focus here is as many Alaska Native children as possible in the program."
Contact reporter Sarah Day at 523-2279 or at sarah.day@ juneauempire.com.
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In an 1856 article entitles "Litchfield Revisited," Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, describes a return visit to the town where he grew up. Many of the things he described are still there:
The morning after our arrival in Litchfield we sallied forth alone. The day was high and wide, full of stillness and serenely radiant. As we carried our present life up the North Street, we met at every step our boyhood life coming down. There were the old trees, but looking not so large as to our young eyes. The stately road had, however, been bereaved of the buttonball trees, which had been crippled by disease. But the old elms retained a habit peculiar to Litchfield. There seemed to be a current of wind which at times passes high up in the air over the town, and which moves the tops of the trees, while on the ground there is no movement of wind. How vividly did that sound from above bring back early days, when for hours we lay upon the windless grass and watched the top leaves flutter, and marked how still were the under leaves of the same tree!


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This week, LJ and School Library Journal staff springs forward into books about rulers (queens of fantasy worlds, Snow Queens, kings of horror, popularity queens), coming back home, parking spaces, and how to conduct better business.
Mahnaz Dar, Associate Editor, Reviews, SLJ
This week finds me not just reading but rereading! William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist is one of my all-time favorite horror novels. I managed to unearth the 1997 25th-anniversary copy published by Gauntlet that I bought back in 1998 (my first amazon.com purchase, incidentally), and so far, it's still holding up. An excellent day for an exorcism indeed.
Liz French, Associate Editor, Reviews, LJ
Thanks to my colleague Mahnaz Dar, now at SLJ, I've been on a youth kick. Last week she and I attended a Harriet the Spy lovefest (see Mahnaz's WWR post about it here), and since then we've been immersing ourselves in all things Louise Fitzhugh (who, by the way, shares a birthday with moi.)
Then Mahnaz gave me a new title coming out next month, 15-year-old Maya Van Wagenen's Popular: A Memoir; Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (Dutton). Van Wagenen utilizes a popular trope—applying an old etiquette/self-help guide to one's modern-day life. In this case, she uses the tips and wisdom of a 1951 "popularity guide" to boost her basement-level popularity in middle school. Former teen model Betty Cornell, the author of Betty Cornell's Teen-Age Popularity Guide, contributes a foreword. It's lots of fun, though Van Wagenen sometimes seems too good to be true. But her trials and tribulations in school and beyond are funny and often poignant. Plus, alert to all you school librarians: there's a very sympathetic member of your gang in the book. I'll let Van Wagenen tell you about her:
Kenzie and I walk to the library—"the Fishbowl" as we call it—in the morning. The library gets its nickname from its three glass walls. We volunteer there in the mornings and during lunch as an escape from the cruelty of the outside world. Our librarian, Ms. Corbeil, is one of a kind. She welcomes all Social Outcasts and talks to us like we're adults and worthy of her attention, something many of us don't get very often. She's funny, smart, and rides a motorcycle. Teachers come to her to talk about anything from faulty technology equipment to a midlife crisis. And she buys new books with her own money because the school cut almost all of her budget. So it's no wonder that the Fishbowl is an oasis, a home away from home.
Kathy Ishizuka, Executive Editor, SLJ
Long on my to-read list, Rework (Crown Business) is a distillation of practical business philosophy from Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, founders of Basecamp (formerly 37signals), a popular project management software. I'm among the many fans of the company blog Signal vs. Noise, which despite its pedigree, is not so much about technology, writing code, or the peculiarities of startup culture. So don't be turned off. If you work and create stuff—notably, with other people—and want to do it better, this blog's for you. Same goes for Rework.
Distillation is an understatement, actually—the writing is spare as can be (concision in communication is itself one of their recommendations). "Don't confuse enthusiasm with priority." "Emulate drug dealers [give some of your stuff away]." "Hire great writers."
How to be more productive? Fight interruptions tooth and nail; we all need several-hour stretches of alone time to do quality work, according to the authors, who suggest, "Instead of casual Fridays, how about no-talk Thursdays?"
While I'm not a big audiobook user, I wanted to try Whispersync for Voice, which allows you to switch back and forth from the Kindle version to the audiobook. That worked well, aside from a few initial hiccups with the Audible app, which curiously does not allow purchases via the app. The experience of the book was a bit fragmented—I'm going to try another title.
Rebecca Miller, Editor-in-Chief, LJ/Editorial Director, LJS
With equal parts enthusiasm and envy, last night I passed my copy of Karen Foxlee's Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy (Knopf) to a friend. This, after lingering my way through it in late-night stints—enjoying the emotional depth and funny quirks of protagonist Ophelia, who races her way through the mysteries of a fantastical (and often frightening) museum in a city that is in the grip of the Snow Queen. I envy my friend's discovery of this brave girl, as it was so rich for me, but can't wait to talk about her. The book itself came to me from the publisher, but rose through the stack of promotional copies. In the meantime, SLJ starred it in the March 2014 issue, noting: "While Ophelia is contemporary in her ordinariness, her courage and determination to save the people she cares about harkens back to archetypal fairy-tale heroes and heroines."
Meredith Schwartz, Senior Editor, News & Features, LJ
I am reading The Broken Crown, by Michelle West (Daw). It is book 1 of the Sun Sword series, but I came to it backwards. I first read the House War series, which spun off from the Sun Sword, and actually reread it several times before I finally gave in and said okay, I guess I need to know what the heck happened between books three and four. The funny thing is, it wasn't what happened to the main character that led me to it, it's the sudden appearance of a tertiary character out of (from my perspective) nowhere.
It's too early to say how the Sun Sword books will be. I know it will eventually lead to adventures for the House War heroine, but she hasn't appeared yet. In the meantime I'm mostly muttering about the social dynamics of the Dominion, which combines serfs (called serafs), infanticide of the different, largely cloistered and powerless women, and men who are taught to place power above all else and fear emotions, into one fun package. But the love and loyalty among the women of the harem is not at all what I expected, and complicates and makes interesting the worldbuilding, as well as the male/female duos that manage to find love and/or respect between husband and wife, father and daughter, or brother and sister despite the social pressures against it.
I will almost certainly stick with this series until I find out what happens that bears on life back in the Essalieyan Empire, but so far I have not found a character I like enough to follow for their own sake.
Carolyn Sun, News Editor, SLJ
I've just started reading Calvin Trillin's Tepper Isn't Going Out (Random). I'm not that far into it, but I trust it will be good. I was introduced to Trillin's work through his food writing for the New Yorker and New York magazine, and I particularly remember his witty 2009 New Yorker article about poutine being Canada's national dish – and punchline.
The book's storyline is centered around Murray Tepper, a New Yorker who has found a coveted parking spot and has made it his business to conduct his life from the parking spot. Such ordinary absurdity is part of the book's draw.
Etta Verma, Editor, Reviews, LJ
I've started Tawni O'Dell's One of Us (Gallery), which features a storyline I'm tired of—a small-town boy who couldn't get out fast enough goes back home and confronts ghosts—but O'Dell breathes new life into it. The protagonist is a forensic pathologist who has plenty of ghosts to confront. Returning home, he finds the town still grappling with the fallout of a 19th-century mass hanging of rabble-rousing mine workers. The story and the writing are like more literary John Grisham or Patricia Cornwell—in other words, right up my alley.
Wilda Williams, Senior Editor, Reviews, LJ
I don't read poetry often, but I bought Charlie Bondhus's All the Heat We Could Carry (Main Street Rag) after hearing this talented young poet read at the New York University Bookstore last week. I devoured his searing collection in an evening. Although a slim 68 pages, this volume packs a mighty emotional punch in its depiction of war's impact on gay soldiers and their partners. From the dusty battlefields and villages of Afghanistan to Memorial Day barbecues and quiet backyard gardens, Bondhus's lean but emotionally eloquent verses shine a clear light on the horrors and losses endured by his poetic narrators. Even readers who think poetry is difficult will immediately grasp the psychic wounds suffered in the poem "Trauma":
I can't make you understand
that everything is dangerous now;
that you can't slip your arms around my chest
and pull me to the carpet any more.
that sex feels like crossing
the Korengal Valley without body armor;
that when you try to pin my arms
my instinct is to kill you.
This volume deservedly won the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, and it is an excellent addition to the growing body of fine literature about the Iraq/Afghanistan wars.


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Title: Rise of the Guardians (Official site)
Tag Line: Legends Unite // When darkness falls, the Guardians will rise.
Release Date: 21 November 2012
Rating: PG
Runtime: 97 min
Genres: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Series or Standalone: Standalone
Where Seen: Movie Theater (screening)
Production Company: DreamWorks Animation
Distributed By: Paramount Pictures
Director(s): Peter Ramsey
Writer(s): David Lindsay-Abaire (screenplay), William Joyce (book)
Stars: Chris Pine (Jack Frost), Hugh Jackman (Bunny), Alec Baldwin (North), Jude Law (Pitch), Isla Fisher (Tooth), and Dakota Goyo (Jaime Bennet)
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
This weekend I was lucky enjoy to win screening tickets to see Rise of the Guardians which is the newest release from DreamWorks Studios. This was a film that I was looking forward watching just based on a movie poster. I'm a sucker for stories based on fairy tales and legends so this one was right up my alley.
The screening we saw was in 3D and it just really made this movie so much better. Everything really popped off the screen and the 3D effects just enhanced the stunning animation. This movie had some of the best animation that I've ever seen. All the snow glistened and you could see every hair and every grain of sand. Everything just had so much movement and seemed so life like. This movie was a real treat for the eyes and is sure to thrill both adults and children.
But what makes this story is the plot. As with most movies it could have gone either way in terms of epicness and so I'm pleased to report just how amazing this movie was. There was a lot going on with this film and it was filled with so many layers that I'm sure repeated watchings will reveal more and more details. There is also plenty of meat to the plot to entertain and delight adults but also lots of silly details and actions that will please the littlest of viewers. The 4 year old that sat next to my friend I and I spent opening scene trying to "catch" the snowflakes.
This is a movie that has something for everyone and adults, teens, and children will all be entertained. There are some violent scenes but nothing that hasn't been seen before in an animated film. In fact there was actually laughter from some young kids during some of the scarier moments of the movie. And at the end of the audience everyone clapped and seemed really thrilled with the whole things.
I also really enjoyed the voice performances of all the actors. Jude Law's British accent was absolutely perfect for the villain Pitch. It was just the right amount of mellow smoothness that added just made Pitch a little more scary because it was so sophisticated I loved that Santa was a sword wielding Russian and adored his crew of elves and yeti's. Though the elves do remind me a lot of the minions from Despicable Me. Hugh Jackman as the Easter Bunny made that character fierce and a force to be reckoned with and it wasn't like any Easter Bunny that I've ever seen. The best bits though with this character were towards the end.
Chris Pine also does a good job as Jack Frost. There are times when he comes across as old but it is fitting with his character as Jack is a teen that has been around for hundreds of years. But despite being old in years he is young at heart and has several comedic lines that break the tension. The character of Sandy is silent but he really steals the show as do the elves and yeti's and I hope that if there are future films in this series that they all get more screen time.
I really enjoyed this movie and I love that its based on a series of picture and middle grade books. I know that after watching this movie I wanted to stay in the world and so am looking forward to tracking down the books to read. I think that parents can help bring reading into the home by bringing their kids to see and then buying them the books to get to know all of these characters better. This is a movie that I look forward to buying beause I really want to see it again and again. I highly recommend watching it in 3D in he movie theatre. The 3D was a wonderful experience and I can't recommend this movie enough. Watch it. You will love it.


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Can you adopt if you previously had minor mental health issues?(8 Posts)
We are talking a year into the future at least though before we would apply to adopt. We still have to grieve for our infertility issues. Things are still very raw and counselling would be good for us. Plus next February/March time I will be going through a massive upheaval at work. We are due to move into a new building and merge with another department. Also they need to discuss staffing levels/grades and hours which may include compulsory evening and/or weekend/bank holiday work! Eeeeeek! How they can put us all through this uncertainty is just not ethical and morale is crap in both departments! So a year or so we will know exactly where our lives are. Not that I'm wishing my life away but roll on normality :-)
Thanks for the advice everyone. I feel much happier that our lives may not have to be childless and empty.
Life is very complicated. You are right!
There was someone on my course who had battled with alcoholism 20 years ago - and he and his partner were approved.
Support network is very important - look at your friends as well as family. You do need some close (proximity) people but if your parents are a reasonable distance but would be prepared to come and help if necessary - then that will work. You need to think about who you would call if you were suddenly struck down with e.g. a bad dose of 'flu when you can't get out of bed...would your parents come and stay with you? Who would you call if you felt utterly exhausted and drained and just needed a couple of hours of relief/help?
As for you being the main breadwinner - and your DH being stay at home - that is our plan in 4 or 5 years time. Remember, you can always say what your "intention" was - and that intention might change because of different circumstances. You have to look at what is best for your family - and if that is your DH being the Stay at home parent then that should be fine.
Wow, thanks for the replies. I feel much happier now! I really thought I'd be a write off!
I had been watching all those tv shows that have been on lately and all the adopters seemed like 100% perfect number 1 citizens, if you know what I mean!
I also worry about me and dh's work situation. We both work full time, with me earning more money. We always said that if we had our own baby it might have been him that would give up work to be a full time house husband. How would they look upon that? Do the sw give advice on how money can be managed with a child and things like that? Maybe there are ways of us both being part time to parent more equally that I haven't thought of? But we need to find a way to be the best parents we can whilst still paying the bills. After 8/9 years together I'm used to budgeting with 2 full time incomes, can't imagine getting less money to play with and affording child things!
With regards to my past. Yes its been 10+ years since my last battle with depression. It all coincided mostly with university and leaving home and stresses of exams etc. I think drinking too much actually caused the depressive moods. And yes I used to turn to booze to cope which made for a viscious circle! I don't drink like that now and get horrendous hangovers from 2 glasses of wine! Urgh. I always sought help though and have been to mood management courses and now cope with disappointment in new ways like mindfulness and thought processes. I've turned into a right old hippie :-)
Oh yet another thing that worries me! A support network! Both sets of parents are not terribly local. They are both around an hour's motorway drive so not massively distant but still cannot be called upon in a moments notice. I'm sure if we needed help they could come and stay for a few days and that kind of thing. Our siblings are also an hour's drive.
I wish we still lived in a different decade where the husband went to work and the wife stayed at home and had all the time in the world for children. Life is full of complications these days huh?
Lilka is talking a lot of sense as ever
You may find it reassuring to know that the agency doesn't sit there with full access to all your medical records. You have to attend for a medical with your GP where they fill out a standard form. It's for the GP to decide how to phrase your past experiences and while they will be honest in their assessment it's not quite the same as social workers poring over every A and E attendance.
I can't see from what you've said any reason at all not to give it a go. I had minor depressive episodes and one quite entertaining severe depressive episode following a bereavement - seen by psychiatrist and all - and now have two adopted DCs. And despite some fairly testing times with DC1 my mental health has withstood the challenge!
Re the alcohol I would expect them to ask about your drinking behaviour now and to be clear that you are well past any concerns - adoption is likely to have some pretty stressful moments and turning to drink as a coping mechanism would not be a good plan. As long as you can show that you drink moderately and sensibly these days and don't see it as a way of coping -much- then I think that should be fine.
I barely drink these days due to the sad fact that small children are no respecter of hangovers
Good luck - hope you go for it!
Also - welcome to the board I hope you find it helpful and supportive, we'll do our best to answer any questions you have!
Mental health issues should not be an automatic barrier. Many foster carers and adopters have histories of MH difficulties, and many have physical health issues also. Any physical or MH issues should be looked at
With a prior issue like alcohol addiction, an agency should be looking at:
- How long ago was it? (you need a reasonable distance between alcohol/drug issues and adoption, it seems you have 10+ years which is good)
- Did you seek help with it? (seeking professional help and engaging with medical treatment/counselling is seen as a positive)
- What insight you have into the issues you had? (having insightful into why you may have had these issues etc, is very good)
- What has changed in your life since then?
- How likely are you to have struggles with this again?
With a current/ongoing MH issue like depression (you can adopt if you have had depression, or are currently taking AD's etc):
- Again, they want to know how you manage your own health, whether you have sought treatment?
- How does it affect your life?
- How would it affect your parenting, and how would you manage that? (an issue which might affect your parenting is also not an automatic barrier, for instance people with chronic pain, or who need a wheelchair, can be approved)
- What supports have you got to help you?
Everything should be looked at in the context of you - not about the condition/past issues itself, but how it affects you. Or with a past issue like addiction, how you sought help and what insight you have and whether it is likely to happen again. To refuse you, they should be able to to justify based on current concerns.
Some agencies are more cautious than others, and whilst I hope that any agency would consider you, you may need to contact multiple agencies to find an agency who are positive about what you can offer (which I recommend doing anyway, so you can find the best 'fit' for you in an agency)
I would think, and hope, they would certainly take a very good look at you and take your application very seriously. I would think they would want to know how you deal with stress, disappointment and sadness now and to see that way is healthy. They will want to know your support network and your relationship would be scrutinised you would need a medical and in our LA the GP writes to some medical person who gets a summary of your past medical history and he/she makes a recommendation so it is not up to the GP.
Don't forget a large proportion of the population have MH issues. Good luck
After finding out me and hubby are infertile we've been discussing adoption. However, I don't think they would consider me as a mum due to my past. In my doctors records it will say I was referred to counselling for a minor alcohol addiction at age 18. Also I have had 2 episodes of being admitted to A&E drunk and a bit disruptive in my early 20's. And the worst one of all is 'attempted suicide' aged approx 22/23. Which I do not even class as such. I took about 10 antidepressants to try and stop a boyfriend from leaving me, I didn't want to die.
I realize this all sounds really bad and I was the type of person they are removing children from. The thing is that that was a person I don't even associate as being me! Today I am a well balanced 34 year old. I have a degree and registered as a health professional. We are home owners and have a good joint income. Will they even take a second look at us or just see my records from a lifetime ago?
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In Monet's day, nasturtiums were still relatively new on the European garden scene. The conquistadors had brought them, along with chocolate, back to Spain from the New World. Admittedly they didn't make quite the same splash as chocolate, but King Louis XIV created a demand for them when he included nasturtiums in the flowerbeds at Versailles.
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I also prepare nasturtium-chive vinegar to use in vinaigrettes and in cooking all winter long, as well as to give as holiday gifts to culinary friends. ("Gourmets" who are also dieters are particularly happy with my seasoned vinegar gifts.) Somehow, I never seem make enough though; my supply invariably runs out before nasturtiums are back in season again.
The reddish nasturtiums in the bottle at right are already starting to give the rice vinegar a pink tinge. Over a day or so the flowers gradually fade as their color pigments leach out and turn the mixture an eye-catching orange-red. And their flavor, along with that of the chives, lends the vinegar a full-bodied herbal character that makes it perfect for vinaigrettes. For a nasturtium vinaigrette recipe, go here.
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The pic here and below show the nasturtium-chive vinegar during preparation. As you can see, an old fondue fork is an especially handy tool for tucking both nasturtiums and chives into long-necked bottles.
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Republican candidate Rick Santorum's attack on President Barack Obama's promotion of a college education conflicts with the broad appeal and economic value that higher education holds for young Americans.
With the economy still struggling after emerging from a recession, more than two-thirds of U.S. adults view a college degree as essential for getting a good job, according to a Gallup Poll published in August. And 94 percent of parents with children under 18 expect them to go to college, said Paul Taylor, executive vice president at the Pew Research Center in Washington.
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It pays off: The median annual pay of those 25 or older with a bachelor's degree was $56,472 in 2009, 70 percent more than those with a high school diploma, Census Bureau figures for 2009 show. A record 30 percent of adults have a four-year degree, the Census shows.
Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who has made social issues -- such as his long-standing opposition to abortion rights -- a centerpiece of his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, knocked Obama for seeking to have more Americans attend college.
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That's a turnabout from Santorum's re-election campaign in 2006, when he supported boosting grants for college students and was "committed to ensuring that every Pennsylvanian has access to higher education," according to his website.
Obama has announced a goal of making the U.S. the country with the highest percentage of college graduates in the world by 2020.
"He wants everybody in America to go to college," Santorum told supporters in Troy, Michigan, on Feb. 25, in a speech promoting manufacturing jobs and warning that "some liberal college professor" would be "trying to indoctrinate them."
"What a snob," Santorum said of the president. "He wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his."
Santorum, 53, has an undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University, a master's in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh and a law degree from Dickinson School of Law.
A father of seven who with his wife has home-schooled their children, Santorum has reported having five so-called 529 college-savings accounts for his children. Combined, they held between $25,000 and $375,000, according to his financial disclosure filing, which requires that holdings be listed only in ranges.
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Appearing Feb. 26 on ABC's "This Week," Santorum said that to lay out four-year college as a goal devalues the role of jobs that require vocational training.
Santorum's comment during the last weekend before yesterday's primaries in Michigan and Arizona was "probably over the line," said New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a supporter of Santorum rival Mitt Romney.
"Every kid doesn't want to go to college, but I think we should aspire to let every child reach his maximum or her maximum potential," Christie, who earlier this year was viewed as a potential presidential contender, said on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Feb. 26. "I don't think the president is a snob for saying that."
Santorum lost the Arizona primary to Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, by 20 percentage points and the Michigan race by three points. In Michigan, 44 percent of voters with college degrees supported Romney and 36 percent backed Santorum, according to exit polling.
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Competitiveness is the real issue, say Silicon Valley executives who long have complained that U.S. education policies aren't producing workers with the necessary skills.
"Every other country is pouring money and time into educating their workforces to compete with ours," said Dan Rosensweig, former operating chief of Yahoo! Inc. and now chief executive officer of the online education company Chegg Inc. in Santa Clara, California.
"I hardly consider it a snob to ask people of this country to prepare themselves and educate themselves for the kinds of jobs that will be available," he said.
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U.S. colleges have been the target of Republicans in the so-called culture wars since the 1960s, when then-California Governor Ronald Reagan clashed with protesters at the University of California, Berkeley, demonstrating against the Vietnam War. In 2006, Santorum complained that academia was in thrall to the left, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Santorum has a point, said Andrew Hacker, a political scientist at Queens College in New York City who has written about higher education.
"Colleges are, shall we say, a warm bed of fervent liberalism," Hacker said. Still, he said the economic benefits are clear and Santorum probably won't score much with voters by challenging it.
"There's no question that a college degree gets you a higher salary for the rest of your life," he said. "There's no votes in trying to gang up on the colleges."
The unemployment rate for high-school graduates who didn't go to college was 8.4 percent in January, twice the 4.2 percent rate for those with bachelor's degrees or higher, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Walter Howard, who works evenings stocking shelves at a Wal-Mart in Clay, New York, spends days in class at community college. He sees it as a way to a better life in that Rust Belt town where good jobs seem few and far between.
A 40-year-old Republican, Howard sees no merit to Santorum's complaint.
"He's wrong," Howard said. "The economy's not getting better. The economy's not shifting and college just seems like the only real alternative to try and better yourself."
Scott DeRuischer, 38, a Republican from Ionia, Michigan, said he didn't recognize the importance of college when he was in high school and plans to encourage his three children to pursue degrees. The self-employed homebuilder wants to become an architect and is studying now at the community college in Lansing.
"I don't see it as snobbish," he said. "It makes sense, if you have the ability to do it."
At a conference at the White House on Feb. 27, Obama urged visiting governors to avoid cutting resources for public education as they look for ways to trim their budgets, saying the economic growth of the U.S. will depend on a skilled workforce.
Obama's 'Strong Message'
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican who drew attention for her pointed exchange with Obama when he visited her state in January, praised the speech.
Obama "has a good, strong message on education," she told reporters. "That is one area on which we agree."
At a polling place in Phoenix yesterday, Regan Widdifield, a 37-year-old IT project manager at Apollo Group, the parent company of the private online college University of Phoenix, criticized Santorum's comments.
"I may not agree with Obama about many things, but getting smarter never hurt anyone," Widdifield said after casting her ballot for Romney.
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