March 2011
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Warning for Food Colorings to Be Considered by... →
Finally!! If I were to give my son barbecue chips to eat, he would go from angel to nightmare in about 30 seconds. Same goes for McDonald’s ketchup. This info has been out there for a while, but then food companies are lobbying against having to produce food that doesn’t harm you.
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Thank You Advil
Horrible cold with sinus headache all day. My son’s first Glee concert was tonight at another school, and I had to parallel park, kind of, right before a driveway so at least I could get out with some dignity. He was in the front row of performers, a first for him. I had a camera, but the stage was a blurry glowy oval in the middle of pitch black when I looked in the finder so I just...
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Bilerate: new word of the day →
As part of our condo search, I was researching elementary schools yesterday. I stumbled upon one that gave me a panic attack:
Did you read the last line? “to be bilerate and bicultural,”? Bilerate?? I think she was trying to say ‘biliterate’, as in literate in 2 languages. Biliterate is not actually a word either, so I guess that’s where the spell check let her...
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“Well, if God doesn’t exist, who’s laughing at us?”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (Submitted by saber-y-conocer)
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Member of Original 29 Code Talkers Dies in Arizona →
nightline:
CAMP VERDE, Ariz. (AP) — Lloyd Oliver wasn’t much of a talker, but it was clear that he was proud to have his native language serve as a key weapon during World War II. As part of an elite group of Marines, he helped develop and implement a code based on the Navajo language that helped win the war.
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In Japan, No Time Yet for Grief - NYTimes.com →
First person account by a Japanese novelist.
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ABC News - Japan Earthquake: before and after →
Shocking. Horrifying. Before and After.
From Australian Broadcasting Co.
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What China Needs Next: Constitutional Change →
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Congressman Peter King's strange journey from... →
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School worries
My five-year-old son is having a lot of difficulty at school. His major problem is with fine motor skills; he has a lot of trouble drawing / writing the small movements that are necessary form letters. He can write one letter at a time, each letter taking up an entire A4 page, and to be perfectly honest, horribly unclear. His letters look like shaky circles and / or spirals that often descend into...
