New pope's first tweet: 'HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM'

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The new pope wasted little time in issuing his first tweet: "HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM," which translates to: "We have Pope Francis."

The message on Twitter came within 30 minutes or so of Pope Francis I being named, and to show the power of social media, it was retweeted 25,000 times within 10 minutes.

"The Twitter account @pontifex was created for the exclusive use of the pope," Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, previously stated on the Vatican Radio, as the world wondered what would happen to the Twitter account once Pope Benedict XVI left the Vatican.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi had said that it would be up to the next leader of the Catholic Church whether or not he would use the @Pontifex Twitter account.

The pope emeritus was the first to use the account, starting last December. The word "pontifex" not only means pope in Latin, but traces its roots back to Roman times and also means "bridge builder," suggesting unity, a Vatican official told the AP at that time.

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, of Buenos Aires was named leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics on Wednesday. His introduction via social media followed his stepping out onto the balcony of St. Peter?s Basilica to greet the tens of thousands gathered in the square below.

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Pilot lights may be culprit in deadly Kansas City blast

By Kevin Murphy

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - An investigation into a deadly natural gas explosion that flattened a Kansas City restaurant last month found the blast was set off in the kitchen, where pilot lights on a stove and hot water heater were still burning, according to a report released on Wednesday.

The Kansas City Fire Department's investigation into the February 19 blast that killed a server and injured 15 others concluded that the fire and explosion were both accidental.

While it found the fire originated in the cooking area of the kitchen, it stopped short of blaming the pilot lights as the certain cause for the blast.

The explosion came about an hour after a construction crew severed an underground natural gas line near the restaurant, creating a strong smell of gas. The report listed that as the cause of the leak that led to the explosion.

The explosion killed Megan Cramer, a server at the well-known restaurant. Other employees as well as Missouri Gas Energy workers were hurt, some seriously. The explosion and fire destroyed the restaurant and damaged surrounding buildings.

Firefighters arriving at the restaurant after the odor was detected warned management about the leak and advised them to have all ignition sources in the building extinguished, the report said.

Restaurant staff put out candles at tables and began shutting down other ignition sources in the kitchen, the report said.

But after the explosion, a restaurant manager told a fire investigator that staff did not put out pilot lights on the stove or hot water heater, the report said.

Fire Department spokesman James Garrett declined comment on Wednesday on whether investigators believed the lit pilot lights caused the explosion, but he said the department would have more comment on Thursday.

The report was conducted by the fire department, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

(Editing by James B. Kelleher and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pilot-lights-possible-culprit-deadly-kansas-city-explosion-004652714.html

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Update March 12th: Communications meltdown, energetic upswing

Hey everyone!! ?Sorry I've been offline running insanely all day (as per usual, only more so) so I haven't been able to actually sit and write any updates. ?Soooooo..... here it comes all at once. ?Ready?

First off I have to thank Caleb from the top and bottom of my heart for his comments last night on the OPPT-IN Radio Show on Freedom Reigns- you can listen to the archive of the show HERE

Caleb held the contrast beautifully and opened a can of worms that needed to be opened- said words that needed to be said. A lot of people had expectations of what Caleb would sound like and were rather shocked when he wasn't just a male version of Heather, lol! A lot of people listened to him with only half an ear it seems and put a lot of words into his mouth that he didn't say. A lot of people created assumptions in their minds that had no basis in reality.

A lot of that will be addressed tonight on The Collective Imagination Radio show- you can listen in HERE at 8pm est. We will get Heather on tonight come hell or high water, lol.

I want to talk about communications, which of course leads into the first article I'm posting, but first I need to ask a favour.

I realize that people are on edge and wound pretty tightly right now. There are a lot of us hurting financially and struggling in daily life. ?BUT..... I ask people to please use discernment. Please read things carefully. ?The article I posted yesterday "From This Moment On" starts with a huge heading that states:

PLEASE NOTE! THIS IS ONE PERSONS VISION OF WHAT MAY, POSSIBLY, BE ACCOMPLISHED BY WIDE SPREAD ACCEPTANCE AND UTILIZATION OF THE ONE PEOPLE'S PUBLIC TRUST!

It is a work of Fiction. ?A visualization and motivation, if you will. ?IT IS NOT REAL. ? I received texts in the middle of the night asking about when they would get their Liberty Cards. ?One of my sources who's highly involved in all aspects of the new financial system that the PTW have been trying to push, received calls all night (including at 2:30 in the morning) from people claiming that the OPPT has released Liberty cards and wanting him to tell them if these cards were part of the Prosperity Packages or part of the St. Germaine Trust........

.......Seriously people?! ?Please read things carefully.

Back to the communications topic.

There are days when we laugh our asses off because of the blatant interference going on in our daily communications. ?Emails regularly go missing, skype rooms/conversations don't update for hours and some messages don't appear until sometimes a full day later. Computer files go missing- several times I've recorded important conversations (and KNOW that it's recording) and the file mysteriously vanishes..... and of course the famous "drop off line as soon as a buzz word is mentioned". ?Heather and I can talk about family stuff no problem, then as soon as we start seriously talking.... she drops offline. ?Or, AK will drop offline and Heather suddenly can't hear me, or vice versa. ?Hell, last week Heather mentioned "Rothchilds" on the TCL radio show and immediately no one in the radio audience could hear her.... until she said "Ok, no more mention of the Rothchilds".....

.... it seriously is getting laughably ridiculous.

Hence AK's letter below. ?I laughed my ass off when I read it last night.

The last two articles tie in together nicely..... hot topics on my brain and heart right now.

Open Letter to The Galactics

Dear Galactics,

We know you are there and have been there for many years. ?We know you got a Star Trek "Prime Directive" non-interference thing unless you get a request from this planet. ?We get that. And we thank you for your courtesy and consideration. ?Its a good deal more polite than the buggers that were here for the last 6000 years who have been running the show much to our detriment.

However, our governments have had 60 years to get the people up to speed on you guys and they have utterly failed and sand bag even now to give the people the straight scoop. ?See they lied for 60 years, and they don't know how to admit they lied. ?So that's a bit of a Catch 22 you and us have to work around.

80% of Americans believe UFOs are a reality. ?Sure our corporate owned TV news people still ridicule such things, but since the Iraq war, none of us believe TV news anymore anyway. They blew their credibility long ago. We thank them for showing us very clearly who they really work for, the contrast is complete and utterly clear, its bankers, defense companies and pharmaceutical companies. ?None of which really have our health and well being upper most in mind.

I propose that you can do something for us, to help us do our thing, The One People, and it will speed things along.

One of the issues we face is constant meddling with our emails, delaying them for hours sometimes, intercepting and jamming our chat, voice and video conferencing, especially internationally. This costs us countless hours of delay and frustration. ?Those who claim to rule to preserve freedom are actively trying to stop freedom.

The Czechoslovakian peaceful "Velvet Revolution" overthrow of communism led by V?clav Havel was quite a remarkable event in 1989, and might be a model of how we can proceed. Initially a low tech affair, copies of playwright V?clav Havel writings on freedom and human rights were photocopied and mimeographed covertly and passed person to person and was quite effective in organizing a ground base of popular support for what need to be done to free the country from communist tyranny. ?Yet, it was a slow process and involved much manual labor.

The Internet as we have it now was not in place 1989, hard to imagine I know, but being an older computer user, that's the way it was back then. Sheesh... I am really dating myself as an old fart now aren't I?

I remember reading in one of the computer trade magazines of that time that some mysterious gentlemen from Japan showed up in Prague with suitcases of computer modems which they distributed freely. ?It was a simple move, and not that expensive really, and they plugged into already existing computers. ?Ad-hoc networks were quickly established using computer bulletin board systems over existing telephone lines and that greatly sped up the pace of change during the Velvet Revolution. ?It was one of the most peaceful changes in government the world has ever seen.

Our task is similar, but its not so much governments that we have a beef with, its private corporations operating under the guise of the people's governments. And they are as corrupt as the communists were.

Here's what we need, and we know you have the technical expertise, I've already received Galactic emails and I know you interface to our Internet. ?You can reply through our GFL liaison person who you already put in contact with us. ?We know who they are.

Our Internet is just a bastardization of what exists in the Galaxy, just not as fancy. ?But still pretty useful. ? ?Here's a few items that I think you could provide that would help in the interim:

1) ?WIFI adapters that interface through your etheric networks to your high speed backbone connections into our Internet (yes I know our RF based WIFI stuff is not all that healthy, but for now its ?a temporary solution until we have better alternatives built into our computers, smart phones and tablet devices. ?These adapters should use class B, C, N and AC wireless ethernet protocols, universally accepted by this planet's computing devices. ?We'd like to bypass some Rothschild owned middle men.

2) Point to Point Personal communication devices that bypass terrestrial phone systems. ?Surely you must have some sort of quantum phone thingy right? ?The capability to act as terrestial WIFI hot spot would be useful, so perhaps item 1) above can be folded into Item 2). ?HBO is optional. ?:)

3) Reliable video conferencing and voice chat capability, hosted on your servers and secured by you, connected to our Internet and accessible from our Internet. ?Un-hackable and uncrackable. Face it, Facebook sucks. ?And they censor.

4) Short notice point to point earth transportation. ?Just let us know what protocol to use with you.

Now if this violates any Galactic non-interference thing, we can have Heather write up a little UCC waiver for all applicable dimensions that free you from any liability and karmic consequences of this request. ?We promise we won't sue in Galactic court.

Sincerely
Your friendly Galactic little brothers and sisters on earth.

http://americankabuki.blogspot.ca/2013/03/open-letter-to-galactics.html

First, the kitties got me up, as I heard the ?I?ve caught a rodent and I want you to see it but don?t you dare try to take it away? growl. So the rodent was hiding under the refrigerator, there were three cats watching underside, and I knew no more resting would be had. I chose to leave the rodent team on their own, as they are experts at catching those sorts of beings.

The deal is, I got this message as I drove here, that, you know, if you have allowed your telepathic communication abilities to open up,?that?s?how the ?Galactics? are going to talk to you. So that will be ?Disclosure?? Telepathically? For?you.

Now maybe a more ?3D-oriented? human would be ?disclosed to? by a more 3D encounter. And that appears to have been occurring for a number of years. [wow... right now my vision has gone way out of focus... like I'm not here anymore]

We?re back. After about 5 minutes out of focus.

The other thing is, from my view, the ?Galactics? sometimes speak very directly, and it may even ?tick you off?. Although some I?m sure have infinite patience, others will just tell it like it is, and ?tough bull burgers if you don?t ?like? it. Grow up and listen up and stop whining and follow our Guidance. Or not.?

At this phase in Gaia?s development, there seems to be a sort of ?less and less patience? with delaying tactics, or whining, or pataleta c?smica (Cosmic Tantrums). Perhaps it?s because it?s time to ?grow up?. ?Grow up? and put on the clothing of our?Higher?Self. Or even better said, our ?Galactic?Garments?.

So I guess that?s my Galactic Rant for the day!

12MAR

Many will feel a sense of ?falling apart?, or ?blowing up? of individual world views, and, particularly in those who have self-termed ?Light Workers?, the ?Grand Removal of Light-worker Blinders? occurs in these next days.

We of the GaiaPortal ?irePort school would request a continuous open mind to all possibilities of awakening to Higher Expansion.

We also remind you that ?humanity to Hue-manity? evolution involves embracing the process of moving from ?analyzing? to ?knowing?.

Source: http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.com/2013/03/update-march-12th-communications.html

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Suspect sought after four shot, killed in New York

HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) ? Police SWAT teams and a helicopter have converged on a jewelry store in one of two upstate New York villages where four people were killed and at least two others wounded in separate shootings.

The Utica Observer-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/WnbdK0 ) reports that police are focusing on Freddy's Jewelers on Main Street in Herkimer, where two people were fatally shot at a car wash and oil change business.

The newspaper reports that officials in the neighboring village of Mohawk, where two other people were killed in a barbershop, seem to think the suspect is still on foot somewhere. Other reports suggest he may have been picked up by a taxi.

A nearby college describes the gunman as being in his 60s, with a white beard and driving a red Jeep Cherokee.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/4-killed-ny-shops-police-search-suspect-155730840.html

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Polo takes the bait: A better 'mousetrap' discovered in fruit flies might stop a human cancer-driving kinase in its tracks

Mar. 13, 2013 ? A seemingly obscure gene in the female fruit fly that is only active in cells that will become eggs has led researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research to the discovery of a atypical protein that lures, traps, and inactivates the powerful Polo kinase, widely considered the master regulator of cell division. Its human homolog, Polo-like kinase-1 (Plk1), is misregulated in many types of cancer.

Stowers Investigator and senior author R. Scott Hawley, Ph.D., hopes that this highly selective kinase trap might give drug developers, who are working to inhibit Polo's crucial role in driving the multiplication of cancer cells, a new method to inactivate Polo without blocking other vital kinases in normal cells. "Our discovery will give people who do drug discovery a new way of thinking about inhibitors for Polo kinase," says Hawley. "At least that's my hope."

In a paper published in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the Stowers researchers reveal in detail how Matrimony (Mtrm) stops the Polo kinase in its tracks in egg cells in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Hawley calls the most likely method by which Mtrm might bind and repress Polo the "mousetrap model." The Matrimony protein, which is expressed only in developing oocytes or egg cells, offers the Polo kinase "cheese" at its N-terminal end in the form of three phosphorylated amino acids that resemble Polo's favored canonical binding sites: phospho-serine or phospho-threonine residues.

Hawley explains, "The way we think of it, the N-terminal region of Matrimony serves as bait. To Polo, it looks like a canonical binding site with three such residues, saying 'Come look at me. I've got a phosphate and I'm a serine. Or I'm a threonine and I've got a phosphate,' because that's what Polo wants." As soon as Polo takes the bait, the C-terminal end of Matrimony wraps around Polo and represses its function. If the N-terminal phosphates are the cheese in the mousetrap, the C-terminus would be the lever. "It springs, and Polo is trapped and repressed," he says.

"Polo is at the top of the regulatory hierarchy in almost all dividing cells," Hawley continues. "It phosphorylates targets that either phosphorylate or dephosphorylate other targets in every regulatory pathway in cell division. The fact that egg cells need to shut down Polo function to divide is a fascinating exception to this rule."

Hawley discovered the Matrimony gene in 2003. Over time, the Hawley lab learned that Mtrm was a critical player in the cell divisions that occur as an egg is being made. Using fly genetics, the researchers knocked out one and then both copies of the Mtrm gene in female flies. With one functioning Mtrm gene, the oocytes could make it through the two rounds of meiosis absolutely required for haploid reproduction, albeit with a high risk of chromosome defects. With both copies of Mtrm disabled, the oocyte suffered catastrophic destruction of chromosomes and other structures required for cell division. Yet, Mtrm also turned out to be a rare example in Drosophila of a protein that can stably bind (and turn off) Polo kinase.

Mtrm seemed to be facilitating meiotic cell division by shutting down Polo. But how did the Mtrm protein manage to slow Polo and stop its action? Answering that question took seven years. According to Hawley, it required important collaborations with the Stowers Institute's core facility in proteomics to characterize the Mtrm::Polo interaction and with the Stowers imaging facility to use an advanced imaging technology to follow the interaction of the two proteins in living oocytes. The project was initially started by S. Kendall Smith, an M.D.-Ph.D. student from the University of Kansas Medical School. After Smith graduated, Amanda Bonner, a research technician, assumed full responsibility for guiding the project and bringing it to its completion.

The project's success helped Bonner transition from her position as a technician in Hawley's lab to a graduate student in the first class of the new Stowers graduate school. The experimental results speak for themselves, she says. "The important thing was finding a small protein that can inhibit Polo. It provides some real therapeutic possibilities because Polo is misregulated in so many types of cancer. To find something small and specific to Polo that doesn't interact with anything else is pretty exciting."

For a basic researcher like Hawley, making a discovery that might have direct therapeutic impact is doubly exciting. "We are a Drosophila genetics lab, but there are lots of people out there in drug discovery working on Polo. I'm hoping that someone like that will read this and my other papers and think, 'I wonder if I can use this as a means of turning down Polo kinase'." Making a basic discovery about cancer is thrilling in another way for Hawley. "I have been funded by the American Cancer Society for almost 26 years, and I've been an American Cancer Society Research Professor for the last nine years. During that time, I think my contributions to chromosome biology have added to basic research that helps us understand how tumor cells divide. Now, I've actually done something that has a practical application."

Researchers who also contributed to the work include Stacie E. Hughes, Jennifer A. Chisholm, Brian D. Slaughter, Jay R. Unruh, Kimberly A. Collins, Jennifer M. Friederichs, Laurence Florens, Selene K. Swanson, Marissa C. Pelot, Danny E. Miller, Michael P. Washburn, Sue L. Jaspersen, all at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

The work was funded by the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the American Cancer Society.

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Job seekers use Pinterest to showcase 'living resume'

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Amy Craparo, owner of Wow Factor Cakes in Charlotte, N.C., uses Pinterest as a portfolio for her creations.

By Isolde Raftery, TODAY

The social media site Pinterest is known for its eye-appealing recipes, wedding pictures and DIY projects ? and it?s also becoming a place for pinners to market themselves professionally.

Sarah Gubara of Baltimore, Md., describes?her Pinterest boards?as a ?living resume,? a place where she can show off her accomplishments and her interests. One of her boards includes articles she has written, but the rest are mostly personal: wedding ideas and places she'd like to travel.?

?When you?re applying for jobs, no one has the time to listen to people tell their story,? Gubara said. ?I felt that Pinterest displays your personality visually.?

Gubara, 23, works for Maroon PR (she said she ?stalked? her future co-workers on Pinterest to learn more about them) said she has been contacted via Pinterest to speak on a panel and to write an article. She has since created a company page that she can pull up on her phone and at a conference or meeting.?

?When you connect with someone on LinkedIn ? and I like LinkedIn a lot ? there?s not that two-way street. It?s more of a Rolodex,? Gubara said.

Pinterest ? one of the fastest-growing social networks with 28.9 million visitors, according to comScore ??loves that some of its users market themselves on the site.

?Whether it?s a photographer displaying a portfolio, a local wedding planner showcasing event concepts, or a teacher organizing classroom projects and ideas, people use Pinterest in a number of interesting, inspiring ways for their careers,? said spokeswoman Annie Ta.????

Self-branding on Pinterest can be tricky, however, as the site rewards being personal. But branding expert Maria Elena Duron, founder of marketing firm Buzz to Bucks in Midland, Texas, says that allows employers to get a better read on applicants? personalities and whether they would be a good fit.

Duron recommends using a professional profile photo ? similar to one used on LinkedIn ? and writing a short profile in the third-person, using keywords an employer might use in a Google search engine. ?

Duron suggests signing up for LinkedIn?s advanced feature ? free for the first month ? and taking note of which keywords send searchers to your profile. Tweak your LinkedIn profile until you?re happy with who lands on your profile, and then use those words for your Pinterest page. And, of course, list your full name.

?If you?re looking for a marketing position, one of the boards could be greatest marketing books, and you pin every marketing book,? Duron said. Also, she recommends maintaining control of your boards. ?Do not share boards for your personal Pinterest page.?

The Pinterest portfolio is a natural for artists and designers but also works for words-oriented people. Duron posts her blog items on Pinterest, which allows a reader to see a bulletin board of her posts. The trick: Upload an image and attach a URL.?

Balance personal items with pins from other boards, says Melissa Taylor, a teacher from Denver, Colo. and author of?Pinterest Savvy. ?Nobody likes a braggart,? Taylor said.

Some small companies, particularly those in the wedding industry, have also come to rely on Pinterest to display their work. ?Amy Crapero, owner of Wow Factor Cakes in Charlotte, N.C., posts her own cakes and also the gowns and haute-couture that inspire them.

It also helps with clients, she said, who find it hard to ?communicate verbally what they?re thinking visually.?

?If a client says, ?I want my cake to be lacy, I can go to Pinterest and do a search on ?lace cakes? that they have posted and all the lace cakes will pop up and a variety of styles of lace cakes.?

Wow Factor has three employees and one intern, so Pinterest, which is free to use, has helped in a small way. Craparo said several brides a month walk in after spotting her cakes on Pinterest.

?The first time, (the bride) came in with a picture of our cake -- I don?t know if she realized it was our cake,? Craparo said. ?She said, ?I like this one.? It was neat to see it unfold as a tool that they?re using.?

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Kathy Gyngell - Conservative Home

Kathy Gyngell is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies

Last week, Nick Clegg attacked what he defined as the outdated notion that men should go out to work while women stayed at home to look after the children.? He said the idea that the mother should be the primary carer ? even straight after the birth of her child - was frankly absurd.? ?It is the absurd Mr Clegg who is out of date and out of touch.

Next week, a group of highly intelligent and educated young mothers will be lobbying politicians to change such gender-equality driven childcare policies before it is, frankly, too late. They are concerned about the damage already done to children?s psychological welfare and to the institution of the family itself by state-prescribed care in cr?ches and daycare centres.

They abhor the bias against stay-at-home mothers that politicians like Nick Clegg advance and deeply resent their exclusion from the family policy debate ?and their marginalisation as unenlightened and old fashioned. They are neither. They are beleaguered. Understandably, they don?t want to upset working mothers. But they are right to insist that we can no longer ignore the evidence of large-scale studies in the United States and surveys from the UK and also Sweden, a country that has embraced daycare to such an extent that the mother?s right to stay at home has been virtually eliminated.? Sweden is on the brink of taking the family into state ownership.

In our feminist society, such mothers are treated as outcasts by the metropolitan progressive who dominate politics and the media.? As Dr Aric Sigman, an authority on the impact of daycare on young children, has said: ?If women?s rights have been hard won, so too has the ability to publish and discuss openly the inconvenient potential effects of daycare on children.?

The damage done to young minds and hearts has become the new taboo. It is still not discussed at the policy table, because it makes for such uncomfortable reading. If it is uncomfortable for the mothers corralled into work too soon (whether for financial or career reasons), it is even more so for feminists who drive universal childcare policy and for the politicians who?ve pushed childcare as an equal lifestyle alternative to mothercare. It is not. I found that out when I went back to work eleven weeks after the birth of my first baby. I struggled for a year against my maternal instinct before I had the sense and the strength to give into it and to look after my baby myself.?

At that time, back in the late 1980s, I had to resist the reassurances of such child care luminaries as Claire Raynor and Penelope Leach, who I was at the time producing on TV-am. They said I must not feel guilty about my return to work. Yet these were women who understood far better than most the infant?s need for maternal ?attachment?.? Such was the pressure of feminist thought even then.? They did though introduce me to a mass of child development literature, that gave me the confidence to make my mind up for myself and follow my heart.

Feminists said? that the post-war psychologist John Bowlby?s seminal works on attachment and maternal deprivation had been discredited.? I found them revelatory. I began to listen to my instincts, to understand that biological imperative for survival that my baby uniquely needed me.? Sacrificing children?s needs on the altar of feminism was short-sighted and not the route to fulfilment. So against the strongly feminist fashion of the time I opted to give up work become a stay-at-home mum. I was lucky to be able to afford to do so. Other mothers who later wrote to me at the time about their distress and anguish at having to go back to work were not so fortunate.

Since then the push for childcare has been relentless. Between 1990 and 2001, the number of? day nurseries, where children? as young as three months are parked for as many as nine hours a day,? leapt? from 87,500 to 285,100.? Today, thanks to Labour?s childcare subsidies (which now run into billions) and to the working and child tax credits they introduced (ones that discriminate against one-earner families) 57 per cent of 0-2s and 90 per cent of three to 3-4s? are now in some kind of formal childcare, ranging from childminders to day centres and nursery classes.

A disturbing 440,000 of 0-2s spend long hours in day centres ? 17 per cent of that age group. Now the Coalition government plans to have 40 per cent of all two-year-olds in day care by 2014 ? when they deem their ?education? should now start. Society must have an honest framework to review these policies ? policies which ought? be based on choice not dogma.? Mothers at Home Matter are pushing for this at an event at the House of Commons this week. It will be attended by the Swedish sociologist Jonas Himmelstrand.

He warns that Sweden, where 95 per cent of 2-5 year olds are put in day care, has witnessed a severe decline in child development and school performance.? Sweden?s universal childcare is not a model for other countries. Psychological disorders, including anxiety, have tripled since the 1980s, when daycare centres first began to feature heavily in Swedish child development. The childcare economic equation has not added up; as the state is unable to sustain its cost, quality has deteriorated dramatically. Early exposure to large groups of peers has detrimentally effected the psychological maturation of children and young people, learning and the transference of culture between generations. ?It is?, he says, ?at the root of bullying, teenage gangs, promiscuity and the flat-lining of culture.?

We can already see frightening similarities here where even teachers of nursery classes are finding discipline a challenge. Leading UK child psychologist Oliver James explains: ?Early care sets our emotional thermostat. Having a responsive mother who is there for the child in the early years is the best possible care?..Studies show that day care is less good for under three year-olds than child minders, who are less good than nannies, who are less good than close relatives, who are less good than parents.? He knows, as do other child psychologists and sociologists, that these findings are not unique to Sweden.

Professor Jay Belsky was involved for more than fifteen years with the most intensive investigation into the effects of childcare ever which followed some 1,000 American children growing up in 10 locations across the USA, from birth to age 15 (called the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development).? It revealed a clear and definitive association between early and extensive child care experience, especially center-care exposure, with what psychologists describe as ?externalizing behaviour? problems? including aggression, from two years old through to the child?s 11th year, regardless of family background or other factors.

He also reported the contagious effects of childcare later in the classroom: ?The more children there were in kindergarten classrooms that had extensive histories of child care, especially in centers, the more aggressive and disobedient were all the children in the class. ...even children with limited child care experience could end up behaving more like children with lots of child care experience than like other children with limited child care experience if they were in classrooms made up of lots of children with early and extensive child care histories.?

Nor can the effects of childcare on behavior be put down to American culture.? In the UK too, children who spent more time in group care, mainly nursery care are more likely to have behavioural problems, particularly hyperactivity, than home cared children; and? that under-twos who spent long hours in day care were more likely to exhibit anti-social behaviour when they start school. These were the findings of the authoritative Family Children and Childcare Study.

All these findings make it clear that we disregard the feelings and the experiences of our infants at our peril. Nor is it just the children we need to watch out for, but mothers too, who are constantly pressured to relinquish responsibility for their nurturing role.? Swedish mothers who, like here, largely find themselves in low paid jobs often( ironically, looking after other women?s children) take more sick leave than in any other country in Europe, despite the generous 12 month maternity leave they are initially given.?

When asked why they opt for the highly subsidised state childcare they cite the punitive tax system where, like here, a single-earner family pays more in tax than its dual-earner equivalent, taking the childcare subsidy into account. They want to spend more time with their infants and children.

Yet Nick Clegg says; ?It?s heartbreaking to watch women who feel forced to lower their ambitions for themselves. And it?s heartbreaking to see fathers missing out on being with their children.? What is heartbreaking is that he, like so many politicians today, is so blind to children?s real needs ? and that his childcare policies are so dogmatically cast through the prism of adult sexual politics and women?s rights.

Source: http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2013/03/kathy-gyngell-of-cpsthinktank-it-breaks-my-heart-that-nick-clegg-is-so-blind-to-what-mothers-really-.html

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