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I should get back to doing this...
Nov. 7th, 2005 01:31 pmNaalbinding - lots of links and instructions... Need a better/chunkier needle and thicker wool - good bus and spare momment project. Times like this it seems like a good idea to carry wool and a chuncky needle in your pack... You know you are getting desparate when you are eyeing up the hair pins and wondering if someone has string around.
Weekend was good - a BBQ, a picnic, markets, some cleaning (more to come), tentage, sleep, food, sleep...
And I did my bit to further scientific research by giving some DNA (a small blood sample) to the Christchurch Child Health and Developement Study (interum info website as the formal URL is written on a bit of paper at home). Basically in mid 1977, they approached a bunch of Chch mothers who had just given birth and asked them to participate in a long term study. I was one of those babies, along with about 1264 others who were "studied at birth, four months, 1 year, annual intervals to age 16 and again at 18 and 21". They also did an interview at 25 years, and now apparently have the funding for 6 more years work, so will do a 30 year interview with the ~1000 people still in the survey. It is not the largest study of its kind or the longest going, but they do have a seriously detailed database on social patterns and adjustment, health, education and all sorts of things. And they now have the funding to be able to start investigating how these things are being passed on to the next generation (apparently one of the areas of interest in the 30 year interview). Also they have been able to start an early intervention help groupto keep an eye out for some of the risk factors that they have observed and started to quatify. Seriously good work, and if they can get the funding, I would be happy to be interviewed once every 5 years for the rest of my life. I know the value of a decent database.
*This, being at various times, naalbinding or working out if decreasing the overall Fe abundance does actually remove electrons and hence raise (?change) the continuum flux levels such that all the spectral lines appear stronger...
Weekend was good - a BBQ, a picnic, markets, some cleaning (more to come), tentage, sleep, food, sleep...
And I did my bit to further scientific research by giving some DNA (a small blood sample) to the Christchurch Child Health and Developement Study (interum info website as the formal URL is written on a bit of paper at home). Basically in mid 1977, they approached a bunch of Chch mothers who had just given birth and asked them to participate in a long term study. I was one of those babies, along with about 1264 others who were "studied at birth, four months, 1 year, annual intervals to age 16 and again at 18 and 21". They also did an interview at 25 years, and now apparently have the funding for 6 more years work, so will do a 30 year interview with the ~1000 people still in the survey. It is not the largest study of its kind or the longest going, but they do have a seriously detailed database on social patterns and adjustment, health, education and all sorts of things. And they now have the funding to be able to start investigating how these things are being passed on to the next generation (apparently one of the areas of interest in the 30 year interview). Also they have been able to start an early intervention help groupto keep an eye out for some of the risk factors that they have observed and started to quatify. Seriously good work, and if they can get the funding, I would be happy to be interviewed once every 5 years for the rest of my life. I know the value of a decent database.
*This, being at various times, naalbinding or working out if decreasing the overall Fe abundance does actually remove electrons and hence raise (?change) the continuum flux levels such that all the spectral lines appear stronger...
