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In the case of our son with DS the greatest effect was low muscle tone which was what was delaying him from sitting up on his own at 15 months. The doctor who diagnosed his DS told us that 1) this is addressed by increasing muscle strength, hence the physical therapy that he had for about 5...

Indeed it can. Our youngest can throw a ball farther and better then his brother and sister could at his age because it was part of his PT. He still has the low muscle tone, but the strength has countered it. All it means now is that he is still incredibly flexible; he can fall asleep with his...

Unfortunately not, and it's not limited to persons of a muslim background. The book Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family by Karen Tintori is a book about a case in the Chicago area in the earlier 20th Century. And there was a news report in early...

You do *not* need this when things are going on with diagnosing your child. :sigh: I apologize for my impertinence; could this be something that is a kind of 'distraction' from your daughter's health? Do you know why he was doing this research? I'm sorry that you're having more stress. Ebor

Almost exactly 8 years ago we were in the same place you are with our youngest child, a boy who was not sitting up on his own at 16 months and who had only gained a pound or so since his 1 year check up. The AFP test had shown the results for *possible* Downs, but we did not have the next level...

If one reads/hears enough of Phelps-Roper and the other Westboro people, one finds the same things, insults, phrases repeated over and over. They do not engage others as real Human Beings, they only parrot their reponses to others. They are assured of their own Righteousness and that they are...

The Westboro/Phelps group *threatened* to picket the Amish girls funeral in 2006. A person with a radio program named Mike Gallagher offered them air time if they would not do so and they accepted the offer. So at least the Amish were spared such a vile and cruel act and display. Ebor

Thank you. I don't mean to give you extra work or trouble. Ebor

For some, and I'm NOT saying it applies to anyone here, such news could be posted with an air of "We're not like those Anglicans over there." Not all uses and motives are equal. Self examination as to why one wants to do something can be helpful in many aspects of life. With Respect, Ebor

I'm sorry, but I've seen too many posts in places where the troubles of the Anglican Communion were written of along the lines of "That means more people converting to our Church"/ "Now that they know how wrong and awful their church is the Only place for them to come is my Church"... :( and...

Oh, and the reason Henry VIII asked the Pope for an annullment was because there had been a dispensation for him to marry Catherine of Aragon in the first place. She was betrothed to Henry's brother, Arthur, when they were small children (political alliance time) she married him in 1501. He...

May I ask please, what is your source material for this? Thank you in advance. Have you read Bede's "Ecclesiastical History"? The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is also available in translation from the Old English and is very important as a historical document from the period. St. Patrick was...

It was the phrase "apostolic times" that suggested to me the presence of Christianity in the British Isles in the mid to later 1st century (considering that the Roman Empire did not seriously get to Britain until after the invasion of 43 AD). I am not suspicious, but looking for historical...

One wonders the same and hopes that it isn't partly due to some sense of 'schadenfreude' :| Meaning no disrespect. Ebor

There are legends of Joseph of Arimathea coming to Britain, but no solid evidence. The Proto-Martyr of England is St. Alban who was in the Roman army and was martyred about 304 AD. Well, what do you mean by "independent" here please? Bishops got their pallium from Rome (this is attested to...

The lady in question was *canonically resident* that is to say under the Bishop of Rhode Island. That was where she had been ordained irrc a good number of years ago, long before the current Bishop was elected. In the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion a priest is canonically resident in...

I've seen lots of pictures of how things are built up in Japan. People move to the cities and from things I've read, will just leave perfectly nice places in the country, abandoning them. (for example in Alex Kerr's "Lost Japan" he finds the house in the Iya Valley on Shikoku). Are you in...

You're in Tokyo? I know from pictures and reading how that city has spread and consumed so much area and that other Japanese cities are like that, too: Kyoto, Kobe/Osaka etc. Fuji-san is beautiful as a stand alone and all, but that's nice that she can appreciate the Missions. There are alot...

I dunno. Coming into Great Falls from the NE you have the Highwoods on the left hand and a good long view. 8-) Back here in MD there's too much, too close in, no far horizons. Ebor

A Montanan-in-exile back east. I grew up in Great Falls and my parents still live there. I miss it so much. Ebor