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Nut-free school spurs education campaign By George Brennan / Cape Cod Times Friday, March 26, 2010 - Added 9h ago EAST SANDWICH — Protecting a child with peanut and tree nut allergies takes vigilance, education and becoming a "label-reading machine," a pediatric allergist told local parents last night. Dr. Michael Pistiner, a Leominster-based allergist and a clinical instructor at Children’s Hospital Boston, met yesterday with teachers, nurses, bus drivers, administrators and families at Oak Ridge School about severe food allergies, reports the Cape Cod Times. Last night, he finished his day-long visit speaking to a gathering of about three dozen...

This page presents a summary narrative of and links to geological and paleoclimatalogical data bearing on the remarkable events of 3000 BCE (calendar years BC), when urban/technological society began. Most of ouromes from referenced scientific literature, although some of the studies, such as of the Mesopotamian delta,and certain sea level interpretations, are the author's. You will also find a handy chronological index HERE. A summary graph of events around 3200 BC will be found here.

The Egtved Girl In 1921 a burial mound at Egtved was excavated. In it was found a completely preserved coffin, and inside it lay a 16-18 year old girl about 160cm (5’4”) tall, slim, with long, loose blonde hair and carefully trimmed nails. For burial she had been laid in the coffin, fully dressed, on top of a cow-skin. Her upper body was clad in a loose bodice with elbow length sleeves and around her hips she wore a knee length skirt of string. On her braided woollen belt were a large, spiral-decorated bronze disk with a spike and a...

My daughter has never heard of "Hot Cross" Buns. In my youth they would be available during Easter Tide. I need some history and hopefully a couple of rescipes, she is a Chef and a Baker, got the degrees to prove it. (Bills also.)

I just returned from the Che-Porter Town Hall In Portsmouth, NH. I arrived at 12:15 and there were about 85 Moonbats and 30 or so Patriots in line for one hunred seats. The weather was Horrible, the location even worse, think the North End in Boston or parts of Back Bay. The Federal Buidding on 80 Daniel Street is about the size of a High School in a small town, real SMALL and located in a dead end area that two F-250's would have trouble passing each other. The moonbats had front loaded the line with the usual preprinted signs,...

Last week I wrote Carol Che-Porter, Rat New Hampshire, if she was going to drop the Congressional Health plan and join the peons if the Goverment Takeover passed. After waithing a week and getting no answer I wrote this follow up letter Dear Congressman: I wrote you over a week ago on the issue of whether you were going to foregoe the Congressional health plan and accept coverage under the Obamma plan if it is voted in. I have not heard from you, so I think that you are going with the former rather than the latter. I am going...

Post your memories of Jim Thompson here for all eternity.

Lectures in Medieval History -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Great Famine (1315-1317) and the Black Death (1346-1351) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th century was an era of catastrophes. Some of them man-made, such as the Hundred Years' War, the Avignon Papacy, and the Great Schism. These were caused by human beings, and we shall consider them a bit later. There were two more or less natural disasters either of which one would think would have been sufficient to throw medieval Europe into a real "Dark Ages": the Great Famine and the Black Death. Each caused millions of deaths, and each in its way demonstrated in...

July 1, 2009 Dear William, Thank you for contacting my office about cap and trade legislation. I appreciate hearing from you about this important issue. I certainly appreciate the importance of keeping consumer energy rates as low as possible during these difficult economic times. I worked with my colleagues to include weatherization assistance funding and homeowner tax credits for efficiency and renewable energy projects in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. However, I feel strongly that Congress must act swiftly to curb the greenhouse gas emissions driving global climate change. In New Hampshire climate change is already altering the beautiful...

HB 436-FN-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED2009 SESSION09-0008 09/10HOUSE BILL 436-FN-L0CALAN ACT relative to civil marriage and civil unions. SPONSORS: Rep. Splaine, Rock 16; Rep. McEachern, Rock 16; Rep. Butler, Carr 1; Rep. B. Richardson, Ches 5COMMITTEE: JudiciaryANALYSISThis bill eliminates the exclusion of same gender couples from marriage, affirms religious freedom protections of clergy with regard to the solemnization of marriage, and provides a mechanism by which same gender couples who have entered into a civil union prior to the enactment of this bill may obtain the legal status of marriage. - - - - - - - - - - -...

I just returned from a Sununu gathering of "Veterans for Sununu", the alternative is to dreadful to contemplate. John almost lost me when he joined the "Gang of Ten" but he came across very stongly on veterans issues, education, health, and family assitance. When you think of Queen Jean Shaheen being returned to power, I think that John is the way to go. All of the powers that be from the VFW, The Legion, and the DAV's where there. For those of you that recieved the VFW Mag endorsing Carol Che Porter in the NH First District, the State Commander...

I voted today at 8:37, the page on the check book was missing, #99, so there was a delay, but since I was on the ballot as a deligate to the pubbie Convention and there are a lot of Little Bills in my town it was corrected. I Voted for Stephan and Sununu and myself.

I have been cultivating a Rose Hedge, the roses are doing well but I need some advice on training and pruning.

We are looking for FReeping material. In the Gore run for the Prez., a Tree Gruws in Nashville, He had a photo taken on the Conn River with Jean Shaheen, then Gov. They released a ton of water, from dams up river to make the boat float.

I meet up with FReeper T_Skoz and five other FReedom Fighters in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn in Portmouth, NH. The weather was rainy and overcast but the This is New Engalnd. The reason for the FReep was the "Card Check" bill that is up in the House. This bill would allow Unions to by pass an NRLB election on the basis of signed organizing Cards and negotiate with the employer as if an election had happened. Sounds Like Detroit On Election Day.. The real reason is that Che is a 100% Rat Political Hack and we want...

SEACOAST FREEPERS!!! FREEP of Jeanne Shaheen THIS FRIDAY, 5:00 PM at the Holiday Inn, Portsmouth NH. The NH Dems are having an event that will feature Jeanne Shaheen. We are organizing a fake picket line outside to protest her support of the new “card-check” union rules which would use fear and intimidation on employees who don’t want to join a union in their workplace by making their anti-union vote public! Feel free to bring signs targeting Shaheen on other issues, however our main focus will be hitting her on this labor issue. In true union, picket-line fashion, I will be...

I meet up with Snow Eagle and her hubby at the Walmart in North Conway, NH, we intended to do a roadside protest in support of drilling in the good old US of A. They were then going to attend the presentation Che was putting on about how not to freeze to death, in a very cold part of the US, when you can't afford to buy heating oil, and ask some pointed questions. We set up across the street from the Walmart with signs, I will post pics, stating the Congress was not doing its job and to DRILL...

Snow Eagle and I, Little Bill, would like all New Hamshire FReepers to FReep our local, 1st District Commissar, Carol Che-Porter, in North Conway on 6/14/2008, over Gas Prices and the Rat refusal to make us Energy Independant. Bring Signs and you to North Conway, vent your dspleasure.

I was dealing with my Mother, who is Canadian Irish Mystic, with maybe a Scots Injection along the line, about her Will of which I am executor, according to her, though I have never seen the Will and she will not show it to me until the "Time is Right". Now I the product of a mixed marrage English Protastant (Yankee)/Irish Catholic, with a few Scots Presbeterians along the way. It seems that the Left Hand Does Not Let The Right Hand Know What Is Going On. I asked her one time why she married my Father, she said he...

Since I have retired I have discovered that I have a fair amount of money. I also have a fair amount of assets in property but that is outside of the issue I need advice about. I am dealing with a small bank and I would like to crank up the interest rate on the IRA's, now and near future say 6/1/08. What arguement am I going to use to twist the Board of Directors collective arms to get an acceptable return.