Tags: big family, breastfeeding, Down syndrome, grief, home education, pain, pics, special needs, value of human life, video
So much has happened since I last brought you up to date, my friends, and there are big, thrilling plans on our horizon.
As you will observe in the photos, videos, and commentary to come, with the exception of one very sad day, spirits have been running high around here over the past weeks.
We’re identifying areas of life that need remedial work and tackling them with a will.
We’re learning how to be a happy and flourishing family of a growing child with severe physical, cognitive and behavioral disabilities.  Learning which supports we need to enable the flourishing to happen.
We are more nurturing of one another and more of a cohesive team than we have ever been before.
We’ve had little glimpses of incredible maturity developing among our older children, and that is so good to see.
We’re not all the way there yet, friends.  We haven’t yet solved the problem of Sundays, or of Sleep and Exercise for Mom.  It can take a long time to put adequate supports in place for families living with special needs.  But overall, we’re well on our way, and it is a joyous thing.
One of our older children summed it up recently by stating simply, “I like being the family we are now.”
All praise to God, who gives His people…
Without further ado, some favorite photos from the past several months~
Going back to the last day of February, which you will recall was the day of Joseph and Lindsay’s wedding rehearsal, behold, the parents of the groom…
…with their little baby bean.
A few favorite shots from the auspicious day~
Leftover wedding bouquets graced our home for a few days.
An inspiration from the time I spent in the hospital with Tommy~
Caregiver cheat sheets, ever changing~
The line-up looks a bit different now than it did back then~
This video is a long one, but it will be fun to watch if you are interested in seeing Tommy and Katie during a quiet Sunday supper at home.
John Michael, eight years old, wanted to work straight through lunch.
We haven’t been able to find a dental surgeon who’s willing to do as much of Tommy’s dental work as possible while he has severe osteoporosis.  Waiting for oral surgery hasn’t been a problem for Katie, since her issues are all cosmetic, but Tommy’s disaster-area mouth is another story.  We’re pushing for this as hard as we can, and our family dentist is helping as best he can.
Did you know that I can read to my little ones and wipe off board books at the same time?  Oh the multi-tasking I’ve learned to do as the mother of many small people!
My creative husband came up with yet another space-saving solution when it was time for Ben to move in with his big brothers.
Talking with Katie about her upcoming birthday party as I get her ready for school~
Priceless reaction upon finding out that she now has her own keyboard!
Clear plastic shower curtain liner, the glorious invention that allows me to keep an eye on the children while preventing them from chucking water and toys across the room.
Tommy is awakened early from a sound sleep, washed, dressed, and waiting for his new nurse so he can attend his first day of school.  Hmmm, doesn’t look too thrilled so far!
What’s this all about, Mom?
Within the first thirty seconds of meeting Tommy’s teacher for the first time, I could see that she was perfect for him.
And I do mean PERFECT.
His teacher and I like each other.  His nurse and I like each other.  His teacher and his nurse like each other.  We all love Tommy…
…and Tommy loves school.  It’s working, friends!
Bye-bye, Tom-Tom!  I love you!
Everyone loves working with our happy boy!
Katie is beginning to use gentle hands with Tikky-Tac instead of shoving her away automatically as soon as she comes within range.
I sent the camera to school with Tommy’s nurse several times.  She also gives me a thorough run-down of his day after they get back off the bus.
He’s gone from home for six hours each school day, and so far he has not had a full school week due to staffing problems with the nursing agency.
I miss him when he’s gone, and keep thinking I hear him at home, like an amputee experiencing phantom feelings in the missing limb.
I’ve taught him, like I taught all my babies, to place an object into my hand when I hold it out, palm upright, and ask, “May I have it, please?”  It took about nine months, but he got it!
Katie wasn’t so sure she wanted to share her bus with Tommy at first, but now I can explain the routine to her as I get her ready to go, and she understands when I tell her it’s a day…
…that Tommy will get on his coat, and go outside, and get on the bus, and go to school…
…and that she will wait on the rocking chair for Mama while Mama carries Tommy to the bus, until it’s KATIE’S TURN!!
Meanwhile, a bleary-eyed, pajama-clad Verity eats her breakfast and drinks her ginkgo juice.
More practice using gentle hands~
To give you a visual of how much Katie has grown during this past year…the photo below was taken almost exactly a year before those above.
Stephen’s turn to accompany me on the monthly run to duPont for Tommy’s meds.
I try to feed my traveling companions well.
Verity is so fun to teach.
Stephen, age five, is progressing nicely with reading.
Doodle likes to sing along with the alphabet song.
She has a deep and abiding love for Tikky-Tac, and Tikky-Tac has come to trust her in return.
We want her to continue to gain strength and endurance as well as gross motor skills.
Living on the side of a hill is good for Verity; it makes her work all the harder to get where she needs to go.
Oops!  You took a tumble!  Say, “I’m okay!”  Stand up and keep walking, Verity!
Only another parent with a child who spent the first three years in physical therapy will truly appreciate how I feel when I see all Verity has learned to do by herself!  She has worked so hard and come so far just within the past year!
Back up the hill she trudges.
Work so hard, Verity!  You can do it!
“I can do it!” says Verity.
Back down the hill again, this time to the swingset.
Because Mama is going to give you a lesson in pumping your legs when you swing!
Sand table time!  Yay hurray!
Tommy loves his Mama-squeezes, and in return he giggles, croons, and pats my back.
What a sweet boy, Tom-Tom.  Mama loooooves you.
I finally got my act together to try a nifty idea I read a long time ago on the blog of another T21 mom.
And commenced to give Verity her first real reading lesson.  She loved it, although a good part of the time you might have thought she wasn’t paying very close attention.
After half an hour or forty-five minutes or so, it occurred to me to grab the camera and videotape, and am I ever glad I did!  I would have doubted my eyes and ears and memory if it hadn’t been captured for posterity.
Over the past couple of months, Tommy has made incredible progress with speech.
During all his years of neglect, no sound he made had any impact on his environment; his brain stopped connecting his own vocalizations with the outside world.  He came home with a variety of vocal expressions that gave us a clue as to how he was feeling, but were not purposeful communications, and in fact, he showed no sign that he was aware that he was making any sounds at all.  When we copied him, for instance, we received a blank, uncomprehending stare in return.
He has attempted to purposefully communicate with us in several ways recently.
When he receives lots of prompting and is focused, he can now sign “all done” when he’s finished eating.  He’s demonstrated this a couple of dozen times now, not consistently.
He has begun to purposefully mimic sounds, from me saying, “Uh huh,” to his own fussing sounds (with a big smile on his face), to noises the other children in his classroom make.  This is a big step toward vocal awareness, so exciting to see!
He now fusses when he wants me to get him down from standing.  He waits patiently until he hears or sees me coming, then fusses to let me know he is d.o.n.e.
He has begun to say, “Mama,” and most of the time, it seems that he is saying it in connection with me.  For instance, when I check in on him before I go to bed, if he wakes up, he’ll give his infectious giggle and say, “Mama.”
He passed the ten pound weight gain mark in March, and seems to be growing again right now, despite a doctor-recommended two week break from anti-nausea meds, which means some vomiting again.
He got home from school before we were finished with our BiblioPlan map activity, so he joined us at the table.
Stephen and Tommy are friends.
Feeding her dolly breakfast and ginkgo juice.
Little boys, sunshine, bare feet, a sandbox~
Tommy had to get used to the seesaw before he relaxed and felt sure he would not fall.
Now it’s one of his favorite outdoor activities!
Mama went a little crazy with the Sharpie again, this time to label, label, label for Verity.  It was a delight to see how thrilled she was to find the names of everything appearing before her eyes!
Watch Tommy copy Ben.
My boy has a million-dollar smile.
Benjamin turns one year old.
We can’t imagine our family without this funny, determined, precocious, confident, affectionate, loud miniature being in it.
These bird’s nests fell out of their respective trees during a hard rainstorm.
Laura rigged up this cute piggyback swing.
We have a temporary moat in front of our castle when the water table is high.  Oh, those children?  Just some local urchins…
Joshua’s asparagus planting has provided us with tender, juicy, sweet stalks this year.  He is working full time for a local landscaping business when the weather permits, and has a temporary fulltime position on the table from another local employer, so he fits in his outdoor work here in the evenings now.
This is what our lunch table looked like a couple of Fridays ago.  The place was deserted, but Verity and I loved having each other all to ourselves for a little while.  Well, other than the 1 1/2 hours’ worth of phone calls making medical and other appointments…
Katie and Tommy were in school, Jane and Laura were off reading somewhere, Ben was sleeping, the older guys were all at work, and the four little boys were with some friends at the park for Fun Friday!
Our beloved pastor was married for the first time in a simple Sunday evening ceremony.
What a privilege to witness that special occasion…
…along with other friends and family who love him and his beautiful bride.
We learned the hard way that it would have been a better idea to plan for Tommy to stay home with a sitter.
Small and crowded venue…very overstimulated and shrieking child…chilly and windy outdoors…
Joe ended up running Tommy and my younger sister back home to stay for the remainder of the evening.
If the weather and schedule permit, we like to go for a walk when Tommy gets off the bus.  He arrives home an hour earlier than Katie does.
This photo and the next one were taken by Mindy Walls, a starving college student and temporarily adopted daughter who’s living with us this summer.  We’re loving having her with us–she tolerates our crazy family with amazing aplomb–and hope to fatten her up a bit before she leaves us in the fall.  And we’re already benefitting from having a student from a photography school living here!  I’m going to identify her photos with her name from here on out.
Note:  Mindy is not the young woman who offered to come and help us; she’s a local girl who is part of our church.  After Tommy started school, we would have had a bad conscience asking someone to invest that much in us when we were no longer desperate for help.  A couple of weeks before Mindy arrived, we heard that she had no place to stay for the summer and we knew she’d be a good fit.  Our sis-in-law helped turn the downstairs of our playroom into a temporary bedroom.
I wasn’t able to get him to focus on the horse.  Hmmmm, there’s a goal to work toward…
It’s become obvious to us that it’s time to move forward with plans to add on to the house, primarily to provide a first floor bedroom for Tommy.  We plan to go ahead and make it a full addition, with basement and second floor.  We’ll have to cut back into the hill behind the house.
This photo shows you the view where I carry first Tommy, then Katie, down the front stairs, across the yard and down the little hill to the spot where the bus stops, right there in front of Daniel’s car.  And then back up again when they come home.  And then sometimes there are other trips up and down the hill, either in front of or behind the house.  Rain or shine, slippery or dry.
Our whole current plan hinges on my physical ability to continue to do this lifting and carrying.  A recent wrist injury alerted us to the urgency of moving ahead with our big plans rather than hoping I’m able to continue throughout the next school year as Tommy continues to grow heavier and more active.
As you can imagine, we’re thrilled about this project, and ideas are flying every which way!
As the end of the homeschooling year came in sight, we all gravitated outdoors more and more.
Now we can tell which is which, if we want to.
These two guys were the same size last summer.  Tommy’s growing faster than Stephen is.
This little table is just the right size for them this summer, and they’re so delighted with it!
Many of the children pitched in to help spread the mulch.  Ellie, Joshua’s gorgeous, laughing Golden Retriever puppy, is right in on the action as usual.
The girlies are waiting for their annual Down syndrome bloodwork.  Both of them did so well, and were both smiling again shortly after their little ouches.
Meanwhile, Mindy stayed with the rest of the children out in duPont’s playground.  No, she’s not our new household slave–she had a free choice about whether to come along with us that day–but what a tremendous help it was to be able to allow the children to play outside rather than tagging along to the appointments.
Seeing this platform swing put it to the top of my wish list for Tom-Tom.  Actually, the wish list had only one thing on it–an adaptive swing seat.  But one of these platform swings would stay useful no matter how heavy he grows in the future.  Right now, the way he gets to swing at home is on my lap, which we both enjoy, but of course that situation won’t last, either.
An online friend blessed us with this fancy feeding chair when we brought Katie home, and it’s been perfect for Tommy’s needs!  It tilts, folds up, swivels on a dime…he can even sit down near the toys while getting his tube feeding.
We’re going to try to find little Doodle a broom the right size for her by the time her birthday gets here.  She loves that old thing, but it can be a weapon in her hands!
James is getting over his shyness with Tommy, little by little.
Mindy Walls herself.  We love you, Mindy!
…to the finish line!
Jane’s taking video with a camera inside a ziplock bag.  It worked better than you might guess.
Ellie, get off the road!
Ellie, AKA swamp monster, wouldn’t stop going on the road, so Joshua had to tie her back up.
It was another fine day for a walk when Tommy got home from school last Friday.  Beautiful day, last day of the Mussers’ homeschooling year 2013-2014.
Hey kids, let’s go up to the bridge and back before Katie gets home!
We arrived home in time to get Katie off the bus.  I pushed her on the swing for about forty-five minutes and was walking her up the front steps to the porch when a tractor trailer turned into our road.  Peter, Stephen, Joshua and I all watched in helpless horror as Ellie ran into the road just in front of it.  I hope never again to witness traumatic scenes like those that followed as if in slow motion.  My yelling to Joshua, the truck driver pulling over, great sobs forcing their way out of me at the sight of Ellie’s injuries, my son bending by my side over his beloved pet, the neighbors gathering around us to be of help, the drive to the vet, praying all the way that she would be in shock and not feel pain, the words of the vet, euthanasia…
Joshua dug a deep hole in a special spot up in the woods and placed a three hundred pound stone over her grave.  It was a hard day, friends, and there’s an empty place here now where there used to be a happy dog surrounded by happy children.
Ben’s still nursing full speed ahead as he enters his second year.  As I contemplate his first year, I think this surely must go down as one of the most marvelous, inexplicable mysteries of my life.
This is progress.  She still removes pillowcases, but she no longer throws the pillows out of her bed and she now puts her head on them to sleep!
Tommy, I’m going to have to put you down and give Katie a push!
Katie, give me ten!
Thank you for reading, friends, and for continuing to care about our family!  Please stay tuned over the next weeks as I share how the Pleven orphanage is in urgent need of financial help in order to provide babas and therapists for the children, who currently have none.  Dr. Georgieva has come to us for help, and I’m praying that we can rise up together and get the job done.
34 Responses to “Building…rebuilding…”
May 12, 2014 at 4:11 pm
Wow!!  What a wonderful post.  Thank you for sharing so much with us.  I was going to comment on a picture I loved, but then there was another, and then another…!  :)
What a treat to watch Katie loving the music in the video; so precious.  She listens so intently.   (I am wondering about her cup – why the cutout in the side?  Is that to provide an opportunity for her to strengthen her thinking skills and practice careful dexterity in holding the cup a certain way?
Praise the Lord about Tommy and school!  I’m so glad to hear he is loving it.
And Verity in the bathtub – how very sweet!  What a great job she did, picking out her name and saying the correct words.  Obviously, you are providing a wonderful opportunity for her to be thinking and learning, but I am feeling – ignorant – and would love to learn from you.  That exercise and all the labeling – what are you teaching?  Because I know she can’t be reading…  is this a visual aid to help her understand that objects have names? Or…??  (Sorry to be clueless…)  At any rate, you are doing a FANTASTIC job!!!!  Your children are so blessed to have such a diligent, caring, patient mama.
Much much love & prayers!
May 12, 2014 at 4:13 pm
You are the epitome of  Proverbs 31, Susanna. I am so blessed seeing your beautiful family and hearing you on the video – always teaching, always pouring love into your babies. You are such an inspiration to me. May the Lord strengthen you and rest you and provide your every need as you do His work in these precious lives. I love you and miss you!
Great post, but one security concern-  take out the picture of Verity with your license plate number in it, that is something one with bad intentions could use to find you.
Thank you, Lauren, but we do have our home address listed on the sidebar of the blog, and even were we to take that down, it’s easy enough to find an old page cached, so we’re continuing to trust God concerning those with evil intentions. I don’t say this casually, and I’m not writing off your kind concern for us casually, because we have experienced serious threats and been protected by God in very big ways behind the scenes. He’s bigger than the enemy and we’re trusting in Him. Reading about David’s trust in Him has been so strengthening to me at those times, and so has this verse: I Peter 3:14 “But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. ‘And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.'”
Miss you, too, Joy! I actually published this accidentally and am making it private now until I can finish it! xoxoxox
Tami, she’s at the beginning of the process of learning to read. Children with Down syndrome can learn to read, and as visual learners they learn first by memorizing sight words, and then later on, they may or may not learn phonics.
The “nosey” cup provides a way for the parent or teacher to see what’s going on while the child is learning to drink correctly.
We were heartbroken getting Joshua’s text messages.  We are praying.
I am so happy about Mindy staying with you all this summer!  It is going to be life changing for her!  I love her photos of the children!  God is good.
Miss seeing you regularly – hope to see you Thursday!
Love this update and how hope-filled you all seem to be these days.  Thanks be to God!
Susanna, thanks for answering my questions!  I am so happy to pick up little tidbits like that that might be useful around here someday.  I had to laugh though, because when I said Verity “couldn’t be reading”, I wasn’t thinking about DS at all!  I was thinking that she was so young that of course you wouldn’t be teaching her to read yet!  :D   I guess if I’m remembering correctly she is closing in on 5, though, isn’t she?  She just looks so tiny and sweet!  I have no doubt that you will have her reading the encyclopedia some day.  I was just under the impression that it would be later rather than sooner!  (You put me to shame, dear friend….)
So very sorry about Ellie.  I’ll be praying for comfort for your kiddos.
Susanna, I LOVE your posts! Especially the really long detailed ones!  :-D  Your children are beautiful and obviously thriving. I am encouraged and motivated by the things you’ve shared… even though my family is in a different season of life (with all young children) your post encourage me to “excel still more” in faithfulness. Thank you so much! I’m glad that your family is doing so well and finding yourselves in a season of joy and blossoming instead of painful trials… those times are necessary, but thankfully temporary.
My condolences to all of you on the loss of Ellie. When Joshua heals a bit and wants another, there are wireless electric fences that will train a dog to stay in the yard.
Oh my Katie! I was so tickled to watch her. Her chewing is really good and I love watching her interact with you and Tommy and the MUSIC. When she heard the piano parts her little body just quivered. She could tell that sound from all the others. I couldn’t do that until I was grown up!
Tommy is also very interactive and not in a random way. I was impressed with his looking at you and trying to get in on the attention, even if he had to bug Katie to get it.
I am excited that you may be extending your house. I can imagine that planning and thinking about it is great fun. What one thing do you want most, besides a bedroom on the first floor? And don’t forget the hot tub! :)
Missy, the addition would be a modest size and be planned to solve some ongoing logistical problems with laundry, trash and storage. We’re thinking a small mudroom off the back of the kitchen to hold the trash receptacles, coats, and shoes, and possibly a small bedroom upstairs, but the main additional upstairs space would be the laundry/family clothing room idea I’ve been talking about and refining for years–moving all the clothing out of the bedrooms and hall closet and into one room with all the laundering facilities. Right now, we have no mudroom, no buffer between country outdoor dirt and our living space, our coats and shoes are in a tiny unfinished storage area you can only get to by going through the downstairs bathroom, our laundry machines are in our unfinished basement with dirty stone walls and part dirt floor that has water trickling through it whenever it rains. No stain-treating/laundry-folding counter, no hanging area, no utility sink, no ironing area. All these tools permanently set up in one place on the level where we dress ourselves would enable us to streamline the process *considerably,* which for us means more time for the people who live here and less time spent on logistics. All the rooms but Tommy’s bedroom will probably remain unfinished for a while, though.
Thanks for asking! It’s fun to dream about, but I don’t have my heart set on it! We’ve been managing! I’m not complaining! It’s better than a stream to wash clothes in and bushes to dry them on!
Tami, no worries, my friend! Verity turns four years old next month, and is so ready to learn to sight-read!
I am a long time reader, but I don’t think I have commented before.  This post was so heartwarming to see the progress that Tommy and Katie are making.  I just wanted to mention that I bought a real broom, not a child’s broom, that is little at Ace Hardware.  I realize that they all carry different items but it might be a good place to check for a little broom for Verity.  I bought it for my grandchildren’s playhouse and needed something small for them, but one that could really sweep.
My little niece has DS and is a great reader {age 9}  I think she is at a nice middle first grade level.  Verity looks well on her way!
I love the video of Katie eating.  What a huge huge deal to see that big girl eating all by herself and drinking. I am amazed at how far she has come and she looks so happy and is definitely learning. You can tell she is listening intently to the music and to you, and taking it all in. She is so precious eating those strawberries.  Thank you so much for my privilege of seeing her in that video.  The way she and Tommy “calm” down when you tell them is also evident. They are “learning.”  I hope that you still intend to one day do the full Katie Bday update or what you talked about a while ago. I cannot get enough of that kid :)  Not sure if you’re on facebook, but wondering if you would consider it.  If you sign up for facebook and add your friends, family, blog readers, you could actually have private posts just for certain groups of friends, or family, or you can make everything public.  The reason I want you to sign up is because there is a site called http://www.gofundme.com.  You, or anyone else, can sign up for this for FREE. Then anyone who feels led can contribute toward your “cause” through a secured paypal link.  It would be “easy” for peope to donate.  I would volunteer to do your write up, which I would approve through you first, and then we can get you set up for this.  I think this should be your “home addition funding site.” You have to have facebook to do this, I believe.  Readers can then share the button on their own facebook accounts and you could get even more donations.  I think we blog readers should take a vote on this.  Please comment on this blog readers as to whether you think this is a good idea and whether you would donate for the home addition cause.
Enjoyed catching up with your family. Everyone is growing so beautifully. Baby Ben…so handsome! I am sorry about your beloved dog…so sad.
I enjoyed this update tremendously!  I am so grateful that you still carve out time to post every month, even if you have to lose sleep to do so.  I love those foam tub sight word shapes!  I am going to make some!  I am glad Tommy and Katie are enjoying school, and my hat is off to you for finishing the home school year well in spite of all obstacles!  I know how hard that must be.  (We will be schooling all summer due to delays because of surgery I had in November–I cannot imagine how in the world your family persevered with multiple factors that could have caused delays!  But I am all admiration.)  How sweet to see your beautiful Verity growing and learning so well.  She makes me smile!  I am so sorry about Ellie.  How sad!
This is completely off topic, and I don’t usually do things like this, since it was not the point of your post, but…where did you get the wonderful swing set?  My children gather around the computer whenever there is a Musser family update, and we all admired the swing set greatly!!
I hope that Joshua gets a new dog when he feels it is the right time. A dog is a wonderful addition to the house.
Merechel, here is where we purchased it: http://www.aaastateofplay.com/heavy-duty-modern-tripod-swing-12-foot/
We got the model with four bays, the biggest, tallest, strongest swing we could find. We love it. The kids are outside right now swinging in and out of the sprinkler spray and whooping and hollering. Our poor neighbors; we are definitely THAT family. Haha.
Oh, wonderful update! I just love your posts. Every single one of your children is so beautiful!
And I’m so sorry about Ellie. That is so painful, I know. Whoever says, “It’s just a dog” never had the right kind of dog!
I’ll betcha many years from now, this summer will be a huge highlight in your young friend Mindy’s memories. What a great experience!
Thanks for the full post! I enjoy following your blog – am absolutely amazed with your talents! Oh, as you talk about your addition – we had privilege to rent a home for a while which had the greatest setup as far as mud/laundry room. As you walk in from the ‘back door’ (which had an overhang outside the door, so really muddy boots could even be removed there, temporarily) there was mudroom with lots of organized hooks and some shelves on the right side; there was a small bathroom on the left (right by the outside door- so handy for kids coming in for a quick potty stop!) Then as you continue in was laundry with lots of cupboards, and a shower off the left side of the laundry room. All kids showers were taken there- so, so handy to be able to handle all laundry needs from the same room. You’ll love your addition! I’m so happy for you!
So grateful for this update. There tends to be two reasons blogs go quiet….one: your living life large and loving it….or two: things are really, really tough and its hard to find the words to share what’s really going on…So glad to hear its the former for your family! Why does Katie take her pillowcase off? Because its a puzzle SHE can solve! Great job, Katie!
Love all of the pictures!  So fun to see the joy and fun you’ve been able to have after the long, hard months.  And I’m so excited about your addition…..that will be so nice
Nice to see all the pictures.  Just curious – what is in Verity’s “ginko juice”?  I’d be interested in giving my daughter ginko biloba, but haven’t found any that doesn’t taste horrible.  And what do they have checked on their annual bloodwork?  My daughter gets her thyroid checked a few times a year (she takes medication), but is there something else that gets looked at?
Does having Katie and Tommy go to school (with their wonderful teachers) interfere with their bonding with you and your husband? I know you have worked so hard on that with them.
Hello Sigrun! Verity’s ginkgo juice does taste terrible, but I guess she’s used to the bitter flavor since we’ve been giving it to her since she was an infant. We’ve increased it slowly, so she’s getting two capsules daily in that breakfast drink. It’s just water flavored with a little juice smoothie and has her ginkgo in it. She gets her other supplements in child-friendly forms.
Verity’s RX for her bloodwork says CBCD, CMP, vit. D, thyroid–T4, TSH. Katie’s has a few additional items because of her other health conditions.
Thanks for this very good question, T.J. Tommy seems to be bonding well with me and Joe is continuing to work on it. He has the unenviable and unrewarding job of doing Tommy’s first-morning care and late-night care, when Tommy is super grouchy at being disturbed from his sleep, so he tries to make up for it when he can in the few hours he has with him in the evenings after he gets home from work. We weren’t concerned about school interrupting the bonding process for several reasons. In fact, our primary concern was actually that he would be liked, for many reasons we haven’t listed in one place on the blog,
Bonding is the number one concern we have for Katie, with her mild but real RAD issues, and her entire school team is very aware of this. We have strict guidelines regarding staff interactions with her written right into her IEP with other program modifications. Her teacher has taken this very seriously and it is an ongoing concern for him as he cares about her well-being. Because of Katie coming into his classroom, he began educating himself about post-adoption mental health issues. He went to a local seminar series to learn more about bonding and attachment issues in adoption, and educated his staff and anyone else who comes in contact with Katie. He’s really an unusual human being. Perfect for Katie. So we haven’t seen regression due to school as we actually have seen after other social situations where I wasn’t being vigilant enough and people unknowing crossed barriers that are major triggers for her.
K and Holly D, words fail me as I marvel again at the kindness of people whom we have never even met.  I don’t want you to think I’m ignoring your offers or suggestions, as we’re thinking over how to best respond.  Thank you so much for caring about us and our children!
What a mighty God we serve! Many answers to prayer were shared it this post! I believe I will read it again tomorrow, videos and all!
I am sorry for the loss of your sweet pup. Thank you so much for sharing and I will continue to pray for you, adding the addition to the list. The Lord uses your blog to challenge, convict, and encourage me. I am so grateful to have you as a sister in Christ. Much love to you all.
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I am so very sorry to hear about precious Ellie. May your family be comforted by their memories of her in the days and weeks to come.
On happier notes, I said “Wow!” aloud when I saw how much Katie has grown. Incredible!! She looks so adorable all dressed up. That’s what prospective adoptive parents should see in their minds eye–looking past a person that the world wouldn’t take a second look at to who they can be! Not in an unrealistic way, but that everyone has potential.  Tommy is an incredible example of that as well–he’s beginning to speak! WOW!! Perhaps his bodily needs are being so lovingly looked after that he’s finally able to concentrate on more than just surviving…which is the whole point, isn’t it?
Ben is just a little younger than my son. We celebrated my guy’s first birthday recently too, and it was a great, great day. Happy Birthday Ben! And you too, big girl Katie!
I love love love the daisies in the bathtub! So proud of you Miss Verity! Like I said, my guy is just over a year, but we are encouraging a lot of reading, letters, etc. already.  Not that I’m pushing him to be a genius or anything (LOL) but I just want him to be comfortable with reading. I read at an early age and my folks tell me they didn’t really have a strategy, they just read to me constantly. I don’t remember learning to read so I’m just introducing words as much as I can (I love the Sharpie craziness; I might do that too ).
How exciting, a new addition to the house (to the house itself for once! hee hee)! Hope it all goes smoothly.
I’m alarmed by your words about Pl#v#n. A boy that I keep thinking about lives there.  Praying!!
I love this post! And can I just say how absolutely BEAUTIFUL and YOUNG you look in that profile picture of you with your husband and Ben?! Wow, you look 20! So great to see how well things are going, would you attribute that mainly to Katie and Tommy being in school, or…? God bless you!
*by “profile picture” I mean the picture of YOUR profile, the side of your face!
I think Holly D’s suggestion of a GoFundMe project is a great idea.  I hope there would be a lot of blog readers who would contribute!
Lovely pictures as always and loved “catching” up with you!!  Jacob LOVES our broom and swiffer vac, I purchased a broom his size off of Amazon…love seeing Verity walk up and down the hill…everyone is growing so nicely…((Hugs)), prayers and love to you and yours dearest Susanna!!


In a piece for Spurs’ official match-day programme and later published on the club’s website, Levy not only spoke about this season, the job manager Mauricio Pochettino has done and the plans for the new stadium, he also wished the departing stopper all the best for the future.
As reported by the BBC last week, Friedel will retire at the end of this campaign, after a glittering campaign that includes 67 appearances for Tottenham, 27 for Liverpool, 130 for Aston Villa and 300 for Blackburn Rovers.
Alongside that he has won 82 caps for his country and he will go down as one of the all-time great Premier League ‘keepers.
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Friedel still has the chance to become the oldest player in Premier League history if he turns out at any time for Tottenham in their final match of the season against Everton next Sunday.


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Warden of women’s prison charged with sexually abusing inmate
Federal prosecutors unveiled charges on Wednesday accusing Ray J. Garcia of repeatedly sexually assaultingsexually harassing another inmate and storing photos on his Bureau of Prisons work computer. which showed the assault victim naked in his cell.
Garcia, 54, is accused of digitally penetrating an inmate multiple times while he was associate director. As such, Garcia had disciplinary power over women inside the prison, one of the few all-female facilities in the federal correctional system.
According to the complaint, Garcia physically assaulted the woman, and when she pushed his hand away, he placed his hand on her genitals.
Prosecutors say that to prevent the inmate from reporting his behavior, Garcia told him he was a ‘close friend’ of the person investigating the alleged inmate misconduct and that he could not be fired .
A search of Garcia’s cellphone and work computer yielded hundreds of sexually graphic photographs, including images of male and female genitalia and nude photographs of Garcia, according to court records.
Garcia was p. He is being held without bond in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin’s Alameda County, according to prison recor000.
Garcia is the second Dublin prison official charged with sexual abuse. In June, correctional guard Ross Klinger, 36, was accused of sexually abusing two inmates.
According to federal prosecutors, Klinger had sex with at least one inmate between April and October 2020, continuing after he was transferred to a halfway house in San Diego, and also had sex with a second inmate. .
Prosecutors allege Klinger told the two inmates that he wanted to father their children and planned to marry them. He also allegedly gave the women and their families money and gifts.
In 2019, an inmate sued the prison alleging that a male correctional officer sexually assaulted her and that two of his colleagues helped cover it up for a year before finally reporting it.
The woman said she was in a prison labor camp when a guard took her to isolated areas to sexually assault her. The people named in the lawsuit have not been charged.
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Some autumn foliage as seen from around Riverdale Park. I’ve always wanted to take photos like this and I’m glad I was able to this year before the season is over.
Autumn Leaves on October 21st, 2018.
Some autumn foliage in the cemetery. These shots are some of my favourite I’ve taken of autumn leaves. Orange skies and orange leaves truly seem to be the way to my heart.
Autumn Foliage on November 4th, 2017.
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Now that you have identified what you should include and what you should avoid when creating your webpages, the next step is assessing other web pages. Below is a link to three rubrics designed for different student age groups, that you and your students can use to assess websites. You can download and use these rubrics to teach your students how to evaluate the design of web pages.
These rubrics should not be used everytime students are using Internet resources. Instead, they should only be used as a tool to teach students what qualifies as good web page design, then as they use Internet resources they can begin to identify why some web pages/web sites are better than others.


Government all set to...
Government all set to withdraw ‘frivolous and ineffective cases' to reduce pendency of cases in courts
21 Jan 2015 7:17 AM GMT
The biggest litigant in the country, i.e. the government is all set to take steps that will reduce the number of pending cases in various courts of the country. Reportedly, the Ministry of Law and Justice has drafted a 10 point litigation policy and has even shared it with states. The Ministry has asked the states to review all the pending litigations.
The policy is set to promote arbitration and mediation as methods of dispute resolution, with government introducing mandatory arbitration and mediation clause in work contracts and also its contracts with public sector employees.
Reportedly, the Union Law Ministry has also sent a letter to Chief Justices of all the High courts and has asked them to invoke Section 258 of Code of Criminal Procedure by virtue of which court has “Power to stop proceedings in certain cases.” Meanwhile, some states have already started working on reducing pendency, as Himachal Pradesh has framed guidelines to remove ‘stale’ and ‘ineffective’ criminal cases.
The Government has asked the states to take reducing pendency as a mission as more than 3.2 crore cases are pending before Indian courts. Of the 3.2 crore, around 44 lakh are pending before the various High courts while the lower judiciary is dealing with 2.8 crore cases. Allahabad High Court, working at half its sanctioned strength tops the list with a pendency of 60 percent.
Governments are the biggest litigants in the country, with most cases being trivial ones. The National Lok Adalat, organized on December 6, 2014 was another step that helped in reducing the number of pending cases.
You may read more of our coverage on backlog of pending cases here.


Scottish Muslim Council Member Suspended Over His Family's Participation In Pakistani Jihad Training
Father And Children Fires Assault Weapons, Visit "Hand Grenade Store"
August 11Muslim member of the Glasgow city council has been suspended after it became known that he took his family to Pakistan in 2005, where they participated in weapons training.
Jahangir Hanif, a multi-millionaire slumlord, and five of his six children traveled to the Pakistani/Kashmir border area in a van with "blacked out" windows. Hanif's 17 year old daughter related the story to the Evening Times, which wrote:
"A chilling video, seen by the Evening Times, shows Mr Hanif shooting the powerful weapon, which is capable of firing 600 rounds a minute.Noor says she fired the gun, while her sisters and brothers were also encouraged to use the weapon.Mr Hanif's youngest daughter Sana, just five at the time, is seen being helped to fire the gun...His son Ameer, now 14, also shot with the Russian-made AK-47 as did daughters Zainab, 13, and Amina, 10. Ameer also claims he was taken to a shop which sold grenades, guns and knives during the trip.The councillor says his children were interested in learning how to use the weapon." [source, http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2419790.0.councillor_kalashnikov.php]
As a result of the expose, Councillor Hanif was suspended and will face a disciplinary hearing.
A spokeman for the Scottish National Party said that his actions were "foolish" and "inappropriate."
Hanif has issued a statement, pleading his case:
Hanif's wife of 18 years [in an arranged marriage] filed divorce proceedings shortly after the trip. http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=councillorid=8.11.08%2Ehtm

THIS is Glasgow councillor Jahangir Hanif caught on camera firing a deadly Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle at a military-style camp in Pakistan.
The 46-year-old SNP councillor, who was last month reported to be a slum landlord, took five of his six children - including his five-year-old daughter - to learn how to fire the weapon in mountains in the Kashmir border.
In the light of our exclusive revelations today, should gun-toting SNP councillor Jahangir Hanif resign from Glasgow City Council.
Councillor Hanif's 17-year-old daughter, Noor, told the Evening Times how she and her siblings were taken in a blacked-out van to a training base by the millionaire councillor for Govanhill who has campaigned against crime in the community.

Hanif suspended by SNP
SNP councillor Jahangir Hanif was suspended today after the Evening Times revealed he was caught on video firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle in Pakistan.
Mr Hanif, 46, a businessman in Glasgow, will now face a disciplinary hearing.
Today, the party described his actions as "foolish and inappropriate".
Mr Hanif made the trip in 2005 along with five of his children.
An SNP spokesman said the councillor would be given the chance to explain his actions.
He added: "Cllr Hanif is currently in Pakistan, and has not had the opportunity to put his side of the story.
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"Nevertheless, this was very foolish and inappropriate conduct.
"Cllr Hanif has this afternoon been suspended from the party, and therefore the council group, pending a disciplinary hearing where hethis incident from 2005.
"Given this aca statement issued by the party, Mr Hanif said: "I regret that this happened and apologise - it was foolish and inappropriate.
"I accept the actions of the party, and will wish to take part in the formal hearing on my return to Scotland." said he hasthat he take action against Mr Hanif whose behaviour he describes as "absolutely appalling".
He said: "At a time when every right thinking politician is concerned about the levels of violence and gun crime this man is training his children in how to use a deadly assault rifle.
"Why was he doing this? This sends out the worst possible message and to my mi.

Noor, a grade A student hoping to study medicine at Cambridge, said the gun trip took place during a family holiday to Pakistan to visit relatives.
The children were told they were going on a day trip near Peshwar, while their mother Naushin went shopping with another daughter Huma, now 15.
Noor, of Newton Mearns, said: "We were taken in a van with blacked-out windows.
"We were shown how to use the gun. We were shooting into the mountains.
"We all shot the gun. Someone helped Sana.
She added: "We didn't know why we were being taken there.
The children's mother, Naushin, was said to be furious when she discovered that her husband had taken the children to the camp, shortly before Christmas in 2005.
The 38-year-old is in the middle of divorce proceedings from Hanif after being in the arranged marriage for 18 years. The couple split not long after the trip.
Noor said she, Huma, Ameer and Zainab hadn't seen their father for two years.
The youngest children, Amina and Sana, now eight, see their father through a mediation service.
The family say they are being forced to sell their luxury home in Newton Mearns because they can't afford to pay the bills.
Mr Hanif rakes in thousands of pounds from dozens of flats he owns in Glasgow and overseas.
His wife says that he has aspirations to rise through the ranks of the SNP which has 22 councillors on Glasgow City Council.
The councillor lives above his constituency offices in Cathcart.
The disturbing gun images will come as a huge embarrassment to the SNP, which has been riding high following its victory in the Glasgow East by-election.
A spokeswoman for the party said: "We are making urgent inquiries of Councillor Hanif about the authenticity, background and context of the video."
When contacted by the Evening Times in Pakistan about the video, Councillor's Hanif's first reaction was "What?" and the line went dead.
When we called him back, he said: "The children were interested in it. I took them to a place in the mountains where you can fire AK-47s.
"It's not illegal in Pakistan. People in Glasgow have shotguns. I wouldn't give them (the children) a pistol. I don't think all the children fired it."
Last month, it was claimed Mr Hanif was renting out flats kept in slum-like conditions - despite campaigning against rogue landlords in his ward.
It was alleged he pocketed £500-a-month for a two-bedroomed flat from a family of Romanians in Westmore-land Street, Govanhill, an area considered so bad that locals have nicknamed it "Ground Zero".
The Evening Times revealed Mr Hanif is also facing court action over a flood hit-flat.
Stewart Daniels has launched a legal fight against the SNP councillor to claw back thousands of pounds he has spent repairing water damage to his home.
Mr Daniels, 61, lives below a flat the councillor rents out in Pollokshields.
THE AK-47 is the world's most popular assault rifle. It is known as the Kalashnikov, after its Russian inventor, Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov. The weapon is known for its ease of use and is renowned for working as well in sub-zero conditions as in the deserts and jungles of Africa, where its use has been highlighted by shocking pictures of children using the gun in numerous civil wars. It is estimated there are 50million to 70m of the weapons worldwide. AKs, alsod, are used by half the world's armies, but a recent report showed it is the world's worst regulated weapon. the weapons often fall into the wrong hands. The worst abuse has been in Afghanistan, where the weapons have been supplied over the past 30 years in their hundreds of thousands by the former Soviet Union, America, Pakistan, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia and others, to militias and warlords.
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His 17-year-old daughter, Noor, described how she and four of her siblings were driven in a blacked-out vehicle to an alleged training base in mountains near the Kashmir border and encouraged to fire the powerful weapon.
In a statement released through the SNP, Mr Hanif said yesterday: "I regret that this happened and apologise — it was foolish and inappropriate.
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The children were told that they were being taken on a day trip to a nearby city, while their mother, Naushin, went shopping with another daughter, Huma, now 15.
Mrs Hanif, 38, was said to be furious when she learnt that her husband had taken them to the camp.
The couple are believed to have separated — after an arranged marriage that lasted 18 years — not long afterwards.
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“We need to leverage technology a lot more. The industry has done a very good job amid the pandemic, in terms of upping the game. We need to leverage it better,” he told viewers in the virtual event.
The number of investment accounts registered with CDSL and NSDL rose to 455 lakhs at the end of September, from 393 lakh a year agoMost of these new investors entered the stock market amid the lockdown and had their first taste of lucrative profits as the stock market rallied since its March lows, on the back of easy central bank policies across the globe, despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
Benchmark Sensex has jumped nearly 74 per cent from its lows seen in March, and hit an all-time high of 44,571.96 earlier in the day.
The entry of discount brokerages and app-based trading and investment has also helped up the game, making it easier and lucrative for Gen Z investors.
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Physics in Croatian Elementary Schools in the Mid-19th Century
Vukelja, Tihomir (2011) .29. pp. 273-310. ISSN 1330-7134
Official URL: http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/112686
This article is conceivedhysics as an element of the common culture of Croatian society, and is spurred by the view that contemporary society cannophysics as an element of material and spiritual culture, and that the present-day position and role of physics in society cannot be properly understood without historical analysis. In the article, an attempt has been made at the evaluation of the position of physics as a component of education in the public Catholic elementary schools of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia at the end of the period of absolutism, when the Croatian school system was governed by the Viennese Ministry of Religion and Education. At that time, the status of physics was considered to be “inchoative,” since with the end of absolutism the care over organising the Croatian school system and the management of it was taken over by the Croatian legislative and executive authorities. Because of that, the position of physics at that time may be used as the initial point of discussion and evaluation of those changes that followed and finally led to the present-day situation. The estimation of the position of physics is made based on the analysis of essential components of the system of elementary schooling, in which the status of each element of education may be mirrored: a) the structure and goals of elementary school education (defined by the decree Systema scholarum elementarium of 1845 and by the regulations from the period of absolutism); b) the curriculum and programme (for “main” elementary schools with a four-year-long programme decreed in 1855, and for “trivial” or lower elementary schools in 1858); c) prescribed textbooks (three “grammatical lectionaries” prepared and introduced in Croatian schools within the period from 1851 to 1862); d) education of teachers (defined by regulations on the organisation of “preparatory” or teachers’ colleges from 1853 to 1857 and by the curriculum and programme from 1860). The influence of the characteristics of each of these components on the position of physics in elementary school has been discussed in detail. From the discussion, it follows that the favourable influence that the curriculum of “main” elementary schools had on the position of physics, and by means of which school material, rather comprehensive but also appropriate for the age of pupils, was designed, was to a great extent muted by the insufficient education of teachers and the structure of schools, particularly because of the aforementioned division of elementary schools into “main” and “trivial” and by the attitude that “real teaching” (initial introduction to selected themes from history and natural history) would not be treated as a particular teaching subject, but should be included in “language teaching.”
Civil Croatia, 19th century, elementary school, physics
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How is the pandemic affecting your skin?
Let’s take for example the mandatory use of face masks. We’ve already known that wearing one can reduce up to 50% of our exposure to certain infectious agents, but what about its impact on our facial skin? I’m sure you must have tried wearing a mask sometimes in these last couple of months. And I’m sure it’s not always been an easy task, especially seeing how annoying they are when worn.
Some people are allergic to certain fabrics or materials in their masks, which can cause severe irritations. Others might be more susceptible to bacteria and mold, given the fact that the mask doesn’t fit very well on their face. In either case, this can be quite harmful to our facial skin, which was already dealing with reduced hygiene practices and a compromised immune system.
Therefore, it is very important that you give your face a rest from the mask every once in a while. Even if it’s just for an hour or so of walking around your neighborhood without it.
Remember that your skin is the only organ that’s exposed 24/7 to the environment, so it must be taken care of, no matter how bad things might get. After all, pandemics are by definition temporary and eventually subside.
Pandemic skin problems are usually caused by the following factors:
* More exposure to infectious agents
* Increased breathing rate, which can dry out our facial skin
* Less frequent cleansing of our faces, leading to dirt accumulation
* Use of surgical masks, which may lead to skin irritations and allergies
There are ways for you to cleanse your skin and solve your skin problems during pandemics.
Here are some easy but effective tips on how you can protect yourself from infection while also improving your facial skin.
1) Washing hands frequently is the most significant thing you need to do to keep yourself safe from germs that can cause diseases. In addition, this will also help you avoid skin problems, which are often the first signs of an infection.
2) Drinking lots of water is one way to assure that your skin stays hydrated and moisturized. Remember that it’s not only about drinking water; make sure you eat fresh fruits and vegetables as well!
3) Keeping a balanced diet is a great way to keep your skin fresh and glowing, so make sure you start eating healthy today to avoid pandemic acne or other future skin issues.
4) Take care of your facial pores by removing dead cells from their surface regularly. Exfoliate gently at least once a week, and stay away from harsh chemicals that can damage your skin.
5) You have to take a break from wearing your mask every once in a while, so you can let your facial skin breathe and return to its normal state. Make sure it doesn’t get too dry or else you will start experiencing pandemic skin problems.
6) Avoid using any type of chemical-based cleansers on your face. Instead, use warm water to cleanse it and pat dry with a soft towel after every session.
7) It’s best if you can visit a dermatologist that can give you recommendations about facial products like moisturizers and anti-aging products that will help you fight skin concerns during pandemics.
8) Facial masks can sometimes be a good alternative, but they must be made of soft and natural ingredients. Stay away from abrasive scrubs that can damage your facial skin during pandemics.
9) If you suffer from frequent pandemic breakouts, try using a disinfectant wipe on your face several times a day to cleanse dirt and bacteria.
10) If your pandemic is causing you concerns with your eyes, make sure you use a special kind of cleanser for this area and avoid using contact lenses as much as possible.
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Sine then, psychologists have discovered that the human brain is remarkably good at perceiving complete pictures on the basis of fragmentary information. A good example is the figure shown here. The brain perceives two-dimensional shapes such as a triangle and a square, and even a three-dimensional sphere. B’s a fascinating result. And not just because it shows how neural networks mimic the brain to make sense of the world.
The bigger picture is that the team’s approach opens the door to an entirely new way of studying neural networks using the tools of experimental psychology. “We believe that exploring other Gestalt laws——inh,” say Kim and co.


IRISH ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT TO PROTEST TOMORROW OVER GOVERNMENT PLANS TO SEND IRISH TROOPS TO CHAD.
Press Release – March 19th
The Irish Anti-War Movement will hold a protest picket tomorrow (Wednesday February 20th) at 1pm outside the Dail in protest against government plans to send Irish troops to Chad.
50 Irish Rangers are due to be deployed to Chad this Thursday as part of a total of a total deployment of 400 Irish troops for the Eufor mission.
The IAWM reject government claims that the Eufor mission to Chad is simply a humanitarian mission. The IAWM says that Irish troops will be getting involved in a French colonial adventure to prop up the corrupt undemocratic regime of Chad’s President Idriss Deby.
The IAWM say the sending troops to the mission also amounts to taking sides in a proxy war that is raging between Sudan and Chad in Darfur and in Chad itself.
“The Irish soldiers that are being sent to Chad and the Irish public are being misled as to real nature of this military intervention. Irish troops are being used to provide a humanitarian gloss and legitimacy for what is, in reality, a French colonial intervention to prop a rotten and corrupt regime that is engaged in a proxy war with Sudan.
The French have a long colonial history in this area and continue to have interests in this oil rich country, as do the United States. They are backing the Deby regime and by extension the rebels in Darfur that have been part of a conflict that has claimed the lives of 200,000 people. The French involvement is part of an escalating rivalry with China for influence in this region, which is de-stabilising the area.
The Deby regime has called repeatedly for the Eufor force to come in and has made it clear that this will assist him in the battle that is raging with the rebels that oppose him. The Deby regime has just introduced curfews on the civilian population and media censorship. Human rights groups report that political opponents of the regime are being arrested and disappearing. The French military that will dominate the Eufor force has admitted arming the Deby regime and Chad’s rebels claim that they have been fired upon directly by French forces. Chad’s rebels have also made clear that they will view Irish troops as part of a French expedition to prop up Deby’s regime.
The fact that the Irish troops have been briefed by a leading figure in one of the rebel groups in Darfur, that is at the centre of the bloodshed there, is further evidence that Ireland is becoming embroiled in something that goes way beyond humanitarianism or peace-keeping.
It is utterly wrong and contrary to Ireland’s tradition of military neutrality to put Irish troops in harms way by sending them into this situation. The government are putting the lives of Irish troops at risk to serve the interests of French colonialism and a corrupt and undemocratic regime.”


Help Me: Need Info About This Car.
I've found a good car advert in an online car shop called "Rosario Garage" of a good old Volkswagen Passat B5 1.9 TDI, year 2001, with 200.000 kms. The price of the car is US$8.412,71 and it has "climate control, ABS, 2 airbags, electric roof, etc." It's too cheap, considering that a 2003 Fiat Palio base trim level (without air conditioning, without coloured bumpers and with an old AM/FM cassete player radio with 2 speakers) with 150.000 kms. costs about US$8.250 or more (depending if the car doesn't have mechanical or bodywork problems). My questions are: The 1.9 TDI 130 HP is a good engine? And the Passat with that engine is a good car? Please help me, I'm waiting for their answers.
PD: I need opinions. Please.
By the way, have you considered the VWvortex Forums?
Thanks, dmitra. I'll check it soon, because I'm outside Argentina and the Internet connection (I only use the 3G connection) it's very bad. Chau, buena suerte.


This quoting of the Shema as a starting point is described by Sabin295: “I think the incident fits coherently into Mark’s narrative if one sees him as presenting Jesus as himself a righteous Jew, desirous not of destroying the Temple but of restoring it to its first principles.”
What is the one ring to rule them all?This question has been around since at least Cain?
The shaping of this question grows out of an ambiguity in the Greek. Is the overheard dispute between Jesus and the Sadducees or only between the Sadducees as they reacted to the way Jesus reframed their question?


]. Note that the vector math library libacml_mv may not be required for all programs. The instructions here include it in the linked libraries, but if it is not required for your program you can safely omit it.
By default [INSTALL_DIR] (see Installer's Note (in.html)) is /opt/NAG/cll6a09dgl or /usr/local/NAG/cll6a09dgl to the static ACML library supplied with this software, you will need to re-link against libnagc_acml.a afterwards (as shown above), as libacml.a is dependent upon some runtime libraries from it.
Alternatively, you may link like this:
gcc driver.c -I[INSTALL_DIR]/include [INSTALL_DIR]/lib/libnagc_acml.so \ [INSTALL_DIR]/acml/libacml.so [INSTALL_DIR]/acml/libacml_mv.so \ -lpthread -lmif the shareable library is required. Please note that the shareable library is fully resolved so that, as long as the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set correctly at link time (see below), you need not link against other run-time libraries explicitly.
However, if you prefer to link to a version of the NAG C Library which does not require the use ofv -lpthread -lmThis will usually link to the shareable library in preference to the static library if both the libraries are at the same location. Please notegcc -Wl,-Bstatic driver.c -lnagc_nag -Wl,:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} export LD_LIBRARY_PATHto extend LD_LIBRARY_PATH if you already have it set.
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"It was an honour to represent Brock," said Verhoef. "The process of going through the competition gave us so much confidence to actually go forward with the project. We would like to sincerely thank Mr. Nicol for his inspiration and for providing this amazing opportunity."
"After 13 years, I'm still excited by the innovative concepts and projects generated by the students," said the award's founder, Wes Nicol. "It is very rewarding to see the development and maturity of their ideas over the course of the competition. We wish Nico and Marty every success in bringing Perfect Patch to fruition."


Health Econ. 2010 Sep;19(9):1010-28. doi: 10.1002/hec.1640.
Basu A1, Manning WG.
Health Econ. 2011 Jan;20(1):125-6.
Many analyses of healthcare costs involve use of data with varying periods of observation and right censoring of cases before death or at the end of the episode of illness. The prominence of observations with no expenditure for some short periods of observation and the extreme skewness typical of these data raise concerns about the robustness of (IPW) with the survival from censoring probabilities. These estimators also cannot distinguish between the effects of covariates on survival and intensity of utilization, which jointly determine cost. Our model also addresses issues about the time to death in these analyses and separates the survival effects from the intensity effects. Using simulations, we compare our proposed estimator to the inverse probability estimator, which shows bias when censoring is large and covariates affect survival. We apply our method and compare it with the IPW method using data from the Medicare-SEER files on prostate cancer.


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Silicon Dioxide (SiO2), useful in microelectronics and microfabrication, is often deposited via low pressure CVD (LPCVD). One method is to use dichlorosilane (DCS) and an oxidizer such as N2O:SiH2Cl2+2N2O->SiO2+2N2+2HCl. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is isoelectric and should be able to replace N2O as an oxidizer. Little work has been done with CO2 and DCS at low pressure. We deposited rich SiO2 on silicon wafers using CO2 and DCS over the ranges of .6 to 5 Torr and 800 to 950ºC. We used ellipsometry and SEM-EDX to measure the thickness, refractive index, and chemical composition of each sample. We found that most of the films were hazy, i.e. light scattering off the surface was obvious to the eye. So little SiO2 formed at .6 Torr and 800ºC that we concluded substrate oxidation rather than deposition occurred. It was the least silicon rich and least hazy. Around 5 Torr we achieved SiO2 deposition with a refractive index of 1.6, atomic ratio of Si to O of 40:60, and the haziest surface.


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Analysis of the year’s civilian death toll from Iraq Body Count
Of these deaths caused by US-coalition and Iraqi state forces, the number killed in joint actions was also almost the same in 2009 (16) as in 2010 (15); the overall number of civilians killed by state forces (US-coalition, Iraqi, or both) was 193 in 2009 and 115 in 2010. armed conflict (with the exception of uniformed forces) means that most of the deaths recorded by IBC are assigned to the Unknown agent category. However even from the minority of incidents where perpetrators could be positively identified, it is apparent that 2010's violence profile remains one where “anti-occupation” activity continues to play a central part in the deaths of Iraqi civilians and, most obviously, police or Government-allied targets (police forces members accounting for 1,083 (26.0%) of the deaths recorded by IBC in 2010). 1 Show graphs Hide graphs
Largest-scale bombings
Large-scale bombings killing more than 50 civilians per attack continue to have a severe impact, claiming 567 lives in 9 such incidents during 2010 (compared to 758 deaths in 8 attacks during 2009). Particularly devastating about these attacks is that they also produce 3 or more times as many wounded: 1,633 this year. Show graph Hide graph
After nearly 8 ye: 91 explosions killing 2,677). A10‘s attacks occurring in 13 of Iraq's 18 governorates (administrative regions). Such non-state bombings were responsible for 64% of all Iraqi civilian deaths in 2010. Show graphs Hide graphs
For Iraqi military and other combatant deaths in 2010, the Ministry figures remain the best available at the current time. Using these figures (408 Iraqi soldiers + 676 “insurgents”), adding in the 60 US forces killed in 2010, and adding these to the IBC civilian figure of 4,167 provides a total of 5,311 documented violent deaths for the year 2010, of which 78% were civilian. This civilian/combatant ratio corresponds very closely to our finding of 80% for the entire period of the war (largely based on the WikiLeaks data). Show graph Hide graph


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Weird … plays on mine. I live in Canada though?
I like this song but the production of the whole album was a little muddy.


Last week, the Kentucky Mesonet post in Trigg County recorded a high of 102.7 degrees and a high humidity of 98 percent. Meanwhile the high temperature recorded in western Kentucky last week 107.8 degrees, in nearby Hopkins County, where a maximum humidity of 101 percent was also recorded.
As a result of the high heat and humidity, the county has decided to have a temporary cooling center at the John L. Street Library from about 10 a.m. to about 6 p.m. this week and for as long as it is as hot as it is currently,
The center is for pe or who otherwise have no access to air conditioning, said Humphries, who added that the American Red Cross is also on standby in case.
“We’ve seen some record highs and record humidity,” Humphries said.
Even with the drought, water use has been at well below capacity in Cadiz, Fowler. On the day of highest usage, Cadiz residents used 685,000 gallons, or 76 percent of the city’s capacity, he added.
While levels on Lake Barkley have probably gone down slightly, they haven’t affected the ability of people to go boating or to do other activities on the lake, Jordan said.
The local Pennyrile Electric branch has been “running fine” and infrastructure will probably continue to work through the heat, said Pennyrile Electric District Manager Ricky Turner, who noted that there have been no outages so far.
Like many workers who have to work outside, county workers have been starting at 6 a.m. and have been trying to finish before it gets too hot, said Humphries. He also said that county workers have been given extra water and Gatorade and more breaks.


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BFPG006 Master Chump.
The lead character is an arrogant little shit, and I think many of you can identify with him, or identify someone like him. Much like Thomas he’s maybe not as smart as he thinks he is, and got a double helping of arrogance at the buffet of personality. His dialogue sounds so much like people I hung out with in school I could imagine him being someone I grew up with and forgot about.
The artist is @therafalee on twitter and he very kindly put this as a priority to help me out. The writer is @izumi_ryu and hcrossover. I was in no fit state to offer much help by way of scripting, so my contribution was very limited. Other than some dialogue suggestions to help match my characters voices Chris did this all on his lonesome, which I appreciate. I was actually in the hospital on various medications while much of the groundwork was laid, which was probabl;y for the best because I would likely have tried to micromanage him into the dirt otherwise.
I’m in the debt of these two creators, as well as those who helped out last week. I hope you enjoy the content for the week. I’ll be back on next Monday, where the scene with Ed and Nina will continue where I left off. I very much appreciate your patience and support. You’ve all made this very stressful time a lot easier to cope with.
I’m basically stuck at home right now. My body isn’t capable of regulating its temperature properly right now, so if I get hot I instantly begin falling apart. I was only able to keep myself together by force of will the morning we picked up the c-pap machine. As the temperature rose I became less and less coherent. I was in line at Wal-Mart when my body began threatening me with the signs of passing out. Since then I’ve only been able to travel short distances in vehicles with functioning air conditioning. Once I’m out of the cool I have minutes to accomplish any goal before my body begins rebelling against me. The blood vessels in my leg aren’t healed enough yet to keep blood flowing back up to my body so the longer I’m on it the more swollen it becomes. Even wrapped I’m on a pretty short timer. The other side of that is that as soon as I lift the leg higher than my torso the fluid rushes back down and the swelling abates quickly. I’m trying to keep it elevated as much as possible so that the tissue can heal. It’s been much harder than the first time because the damage is more extensive this time, so I’m not healing nearly as fast.
The lack of rest caused by not being adapted to the breathing mask isn’t helping anything. My body seems to be protesting the whole affair by making me tired, but not sleepy. I’m wide awake but incapable of activity.
To top all of this off the Teen is still using my mother as a travel service, so I’m all alone for most of the day. Since I can’t go places for myself it’s very frustrating. She has badgered mom into letting her have a tattoo for her birthday.  No point crying over spilled ink. This has caused no end of inconvenience for everyone. Hopefully it’ll be done this evening and that will be an end of it, but I suspect the saga of the tattoo will draw itself out exponentially and continue causing strife.  This is frustrating for her because it robs her of the attention she so desperately desires.
I’m not altogether anti tattoo. What I dislike is lack of cohesion. Random images on a body that don’t go together annoy me on a very manic level. Also text. I can’t stand text on a person because I’m compelled to read it over and over. Eventually all I can thing of is peeling it off layer upon layer with a wood plane while playing “stuck in the middle with you” at a very high volume.
 Whatever. I’m going to die alone and childless. This is the hand I was dealt, and the path I chose. Drawing weird pictures in a dark room until I die. It was either that or tongue kiss the loud end of a shotgun.
Thanks again, and I’ll see you in the comments and whatnot.
I howeverwith a shotgun.
Awesome! I know izumi_ryu personally… Judson Rockets woot woot and all that. Glad you could help each other out!
And I’m definitely glad you’re enjoying the page.
He just got assassinated.
Why yes, yes I have known snots like that self-important idiot/antagonist/jock. Hey, I worked Retail for four years, Security for twelve and IT for twenty-five. They’re always around.
As much as I try to branch out when it comes to literature, I was actually surprised to find that the Halo novels were actually quite nice. Brand expansion does have its rare examples of success, just by the laws of probability, I guess. Tattoos, on the other hand, I find to have a pretty consistent record of “hit-miss-or-miss”. Pretty lines and sweet words loose their magic quick enough on paper, and etching it to skin rarely solves that issue. However, I dare say that, with the right metaphorical and physical light, anything can be seen by for its better qualities, no matter the situation. Take that as you will.
I remember picking up this comic about a year ago. I was in the middle of an American Survey class, and I was looking for something humorous to pass away the hour amongst the dronings of my teacher. I reached the then “current” comic a day later, my mind awash with amusement, anticipation, and, dare I say, empathy. Your work has done something that I feel is very much overlooked by the world today: How to find the good moments in the span of the day.
Thank you for your work, and if you will take a simple gesture, I wish you good moments, wherever you might find them.
Chuck – Your father’s advice was rather deep. For the most part I would agree with it.
Your Father’s words were wise, indeed.
I appreciate the well wishes, and your story.
Not necessarily childless as there donor clinics.
I’m not terribly fond of fad tattoos (tramp stamps, random Japanese/Chinese word, culturally-appropriated tribal face tattoos, etc) and words are a bit iffy. Random names or words are just tacky. If it’s a passage from something or a significant quote done well, I’ve no problem with it.


I am in the middle of a Scifi novel in which a Jupiter Mass primordial Black Hole is to collide with the sun from north of the ecliptic plane. I already read a novel later in the series (I didn't know at the time they were in sequence) so I know there will be some kind of deus ex machina in the novel.
What would the details of The End Of The World be like in such a scenario?
Nothing--the World wouldn't End at all.
Stars are transparent to the passage of primordial black holes ...
If a PBH hit a neutron star, something would happen, but it might just be a weak GRB and detected as strangely shaped gravitational waves.
Try the 2003 (Dec) Bulletin of the seismological society of America.
In 1984 Edward Witten proposed a passage of a quark nugget.
I’m thinking it could as easily have been a PBH at speed, so no Niven Hole Man disaster there either.
Come to think of it, what if an asteroidal PBH (minimum mass) collides with ME?
So, an asteroid mass black hole (let's use the size from the paper grant linked, at 1018kg) is on the order of a nanometer in size. It won't collide in a traditional sense; just like a star, you're largely transparent to such a tiny, dense object. So it will pass through you. You'll have two problems. One is that the gravitational force is about 1024 g, with some pretty severe tidal stresses. That gravitational force won't extend beyond a half meter or so, but that kind of stress seems like it could cause problems. The other issue is that it has a temperature of about 120,000 K, so you'd get hit with a pretty strong dose of radiation as it passed through.
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Stars being transparent to them only means the stars don't pose much of an obstacle to them, not that the stars are unaffected. In fact, that paper is about effects of such passage that should be detectable for large enough PBHs. Larger PBHs would have more severe effects, and at some point those effects would be TEOTWAWKI.
Fortunately, while smaller PBHs might have effects subtle enough that we would only see them with our own sun, ones big enough to have world-ending effects would be noticeable from a distance, and we haven't seen a lot of stars putting on weird world-ending displays with no apparent cause
Sure. Just as Tom is transparent to a primordial black hole.
Indeed it is. I missed the "Jupiter mass" in the OP. Sorry. If the "fractional loss of energy" approximation given in the paper is valid for that high a mass, then the Jupiter-mass PBH will deposit about a thousandth of its kinetic energy as it passes through the Sun.
So we need to know the velocity to get an idea of what might happen.
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Assume solar escape velocity, for the sake of argument. A thousandth of the associated kinetic energy then comes out to be ~3.6x1035J (I've used rounded numbers, so I wouldn't invested any faith beyond OOM). That's about 30 years' worth of solar energy output, deposited in a time period on the order of an hour. I'd assume most of it in the core, where frictional losses will be highest.
Of course, if we assume solar escape velocity, then the PBH has now aerobraked into a long elliptical orbit and will be back later.
The PBH was faster than that, but I don't want to give any details because it is too involved (and would be spoilers).
Yikes—the “Oh, My God” particle meets the Ice Warrior/Master’s tissue compression gun.
In one of James P. Hogan's novels, nanoscopic black holes or worm holes were created by a scientific experiment and began "orbiting" the Earth and its core. They would occasionally injure people. I remember they got called "bugaphants" because they were the size of viruses with the mass of an elephant. IIRC they had to change history because they would accumulate at the Earth's center, coalesce and start eating the Earth.
Thrice Upon A Time. I read that in July 1980, just after I graduated and before I started work. My copy looks like a brick of puff pastry, because I took it on a very wet camping trip.


Police are attempting to trace a drug dealer after finding a bag in Norwich on Wednesday afternoon with cannabis and the ID card of the owner inside.
Police were carrying out patrols in Globe Place after getting a tip-off. The bag, containing a large amount of cannabis and cash, along with a scale was found at about 3pm.


In a press release issued today, Sun Life said 77 per cent of respondents “feel ” Of these respondents, 49 per cent strongly agreed that employees are entitled to these benefits, while 27 per cent “somewhat” agreed
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2015: (Game-by-game) Made nine appearances on the mound, all in relief …Finished with a 1-1 overall record and 5.40 ERA in 8.1 innings pitched, with seven strikeouts …Picked up the win in game one at Cornell (4/11), throwing 0.2 of an inning …
2014: (Game-by-game) Made two appearances out of the bullpen …At Delaware State (3/11), threw 0a batter …
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Prior to your cardiovascular procedure you will receive a phone call from the St. Mary Access Department to gather health insurance and registration information. At that time you will schedule an appointment for Pre-Admission Test (PAT).During your PAT appointment, our Clinical Staff will obtain a healtan EKG, a chest X-ray, and blood work. Please allow for two hours to complete your PAT visit.
You may take your regular medications on the day of your pre-admission testing.Exception: Diabetic patients who are fasting should no take their anti-hyperglycemic medications.
For Pre-Admission Testing you will need to bring:
Reminder: Bring this list with you on the day of Pre-Admission Testing and when you report to the Cardiology department.
You will receive a phone call from your designated cardiology testing area (either Cardiac Cath Lab or EP Lab) between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. one working day before your scheduled procedure date. Phone calls for Monday procedures will be made on Friday.
During this phone call, the nurse will instruct you where and when you are to report for your procedure. The nurse will review with you what medicines to take the morning of your procedure and will answer any question that you may have. If you will not be ;home during this time period, Please call our scheduling coordinator before 4 p.m. at 215-710-2234. Your call will be directed to the Charge Nurse in the area ofe attempt to run a prompt and efficient schedule, but unforeseen circumstances can affect Cardiovascular Procedure schedules, which may cause delays in procedure times..
You will not be permitted to drive for 24 to 48 hours after your procedure. You will need to have a designated driver to take you home from the hospital.
P procedure. The parent or guardian is required to stay on the hospital grounds during the procedure.
Please leave all valuables at home. Bring an overnight bag and be prepared to stay overnight.
If you wear glasses or hearing aides, please bring them with you.
Report to the Registration area as instructed during your pre-procedure phone call. You will then be escorted to the Pre-Procedure Unit, where you will meet with a Nurse Practitioner who will review the procedure with you, a During this preparation time, you will meet with multiple members of the Cardiovascular Team who are responsible for your comfort and care.


Mrs. Caldrone is a Learning Resource teacher and is excited to be returning to PVHS this school year. Mrs. Caldrone teaches Functional Skills and Community Based Instruction. She will also be co-teaching Economics with Mr. Bailey. Mrs. Caldrone is also co-sponsor of the Freshman Class alongside Ms. Grapes.
Mrs. Caldrone is originally from Mount Laurel, New Jersey and enjoys the regional foods the area offers. Mrs. Caldrone attended) for her bachelor's degree and George Mason University for her masters degree in Special Education.
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by RJ on April 30, 2012
Is there a set of rules or guidelines?
There seems to be different standardthe Boston area it seemed that you were judged by how many bedrooms your house had and the square footage of your lot. Cars were not as important as they are in the west coast but that is changing. It seemed that people in the suburbs were more interested in SUV’s and how big was your tractor. I had a house in the suburbs that was in an apple orchard at one time and many of us built customs homes on large lots surrounded by hundreds of apple trees. Many of us had no idea what to do with these trees. The local farmer who owned the land used to chuckle when we had rotting apples surrounded by bees. We didn’t know that these trees had to be pruned and sprayed multiple times each year in order to have healthy apples. Of course after we spent hours pruning one tree he offered his services with his heavy tractors and machinery designed to do the job in minutes. Now what do you do with acres of apples ready to be picked? Of course call the local Boy Scout troop who sells the apples by the bag to raise money for the troop. Have you ever seen hundreds of boy scouts running around your yard climbing trees to pick these apples? Seemed like a law suit waiting to happen. Luckily no one was hurt.
After a move to Southern California there was a different climate. Houses were judged by square footage and views of the hills or ocean. Cars now were very important and you had to have a Mercedes or a BMW. Since the weather was better cars were an important status symbol. There seemed to be valet service at every restaurant and you wanted your car parked up front looking like it was just detailed. Trips to Hawaii were the family vacation norm and horseback riding lessons for your daughters were expected. I envied the surfers who seemed to live on the beach and somehow ate at fast food restaurants or someone else’s BBQ. They lived several to an apartment with no regard for the next day except if the surf is up. They were tanned and buff with a very carefree attitude. Some of course came from affluent families and some just decided that this was a way of life. On the water everyone was equal.
Back to reality. I heard someone say on the news that if we don’t get more successful by the year 2014 the US will fall from world dominance. I’m not sure if this is already happening. Everyone has a different view of success. In a survey done several years ago many rated success in this order; money, power, health, happiness, emotional and spiritual success in different levels in their life. Where do you fit in this scheme of feeling successful? I think it changes as you grow older and take on more responsibilities in life. There has to be a happy mix to make everyone feel successful without the pressures of keeping up with the Joneses. Find your happy mix and don’t be influenced by others. Not everyone can be judged the same. I believe that if you do what you love the money, power, influence, spiritual and emotional success will follow.
Have fun out there and be successful.
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Human physiotherapy can hurt, can my dog cope with that?
Probably not, no. We go out of our way NOT to hurt your animal. If we did this we would not have their trust and would never be able to work with them enough to help them. Veterinary physiotherapy should not be painful and if it is then something needs to be done differently! We use very gentle methods to ease their discomfort and enable their continued recovery.
I think my dog may benefit from physiotherapy - what do I do next?
It depends on the individual animal as to how many times they need treatment. Some things can be resolved with three to four sessions and others, such as an older dog with arthritis, may need a few weekly or fortnightly sessions at first then regular maintenance sessions for as long as needed. Its probably best to assume that at least four sessions may be needed. For the cost of sessions see the Prices pag.