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Certain members of the Calgary Stampeders have been known to exhibit a sense of humour, mixed in with a little gamesmanship.
It's Labour Day weekend, so that means Dimitri Tsoumpas is strapping on his uniform, muscling up and throwing around some heavy objects. However, for the first time since 2007, Tsoumpas won't be pushing around Edmonton Eskimos defenders on this holiday.
When held to the gold standard, Rene Paredes circa 2013, the numbers seem out of place. In context, under further evaluation, there is nobody sweating any bullets about Rene Paredes 2014.
The pass-gobbling, bone-rattling Nik Lewis appears to be back.
The touchdowns were dazzling, perfect to put on the resume for future reference about his abilities. Now Sederrik Cunningham is waiting, hoping for the next chance with the Calgary Stampeders. He's not worried, though. He did his part in building the resume.
This is it. The weekend everyone's been waiting for.
OTTAWA — The game, in the end, is just a game. But for Joe West, it was a chance to — for a few hours anyway — think about something else. Something other than the fact that his younger brother, Brandon Hobdy, had been shot and killed early Sunday morning.
OTTAWA — Sederrik Cunningham wasn't about to let those two footballs out of his sight. "I just took them," he said with a grin. "There's no way I was going to give those back."
No one is ever going to mistake them for the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, but there is a certain symmetry which the Calgary Stampeders' defensive line adheres to each game. And that is why plugging people well-versed in that symmetry into the battered and bruised line is most important.
After some imposed work stoppages, it was back to business for a handful of Calgary Stampeders on Wednesday.
Keon Raymond plays defence for a living as a linebacker for the Calgary Stampeders. No matter the offensive arsenal, no matter the talent and skill possessed by the other team, Raymond always believes his side can prevail.
Charleston Hughes claims he's not the least bit interested in turning on the TV to check out the hot Chick everyone is talking about.
For someone who aspires to be a head coach someday, it's always good to be well versed on the business side of football. If Nik Lewis is ever hired to run a CFL team, he could certainly point to the past month as a lesson in the Canadian player ratio.
Quite often the same word is used to describe both Jeff Fuller and Micah Johnson: Beast. In the foreseeable future, a different word will be used when discussing the two Calgary Stampeders players: Injured.
The Calgary Stampeders talk ad nauseam about their ability to plug in holes, replace an injured player and not miss a beat. There was probably no better indicator of that in Saturday afternoon's 30-20 win in Hamilton than the play of a couple of guys making their first starts in Red and White: running back Hugh Charles and kick returner Sederrik Cunningham.
When Josh Bell watches Hamilton game film, he sees a team of angry felines ready to pounce.
It's bordering on epidemic. More hankies in use than at an all-girls-school screening of The Notebook. More flags flapping softly in the breeze than can be counted outside U.N. headquarters in Manhattan.
There have been penalties galore in the Canadian Football League this season but one that is stunning in its frequency in 2014 has been the 'roughing the passer' call. Or, as some have scathingly referred to it as, 'touching the passer'.
Rene Paredes served notice of his humanity early in the 2014 Canadian Football League season. After two years of robotic performance, the Calgary Stampeders kicker actually missed more than once in his chosen craft of booting the football through the uprights.


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Sam Whitelock is not the 'young boy' of the All Blacks squad any more. Liam Napier reports from Cardiff.
Sam Whitelock is edging closer to the back seat of the All Blacks bus.
Not so long ago, the gangly greenhorn struggled to keep weight on at Feilding High School.
Now, with 37 tests under his belt, Whitelock's seating allocation is symbolic of his growing seniority.
In the All Blacks, management take the front seats of the tour bus with newer players filtering behind them.
Whitelock is stationed in the middle, a place the rangy second-rower is familiar with at scrum time.
"I'm actually not the young boy any more. That's something new," he said, referring to 20-year-old openside flanker Sam Cane.
"I'm starting to get to the age now where I'm probably becoming a bit more of a man."
Whitelock's progression on the bus, for a bloke who turned 24 last month, is not something to be scoffed at given veterans like Keven Mealamu, Tony Woodcock, Dan Carter, Andrew Hore and Richie McCaw occupy the coveted back-row positions.
Heavy-drinking court sessions might now be outlawed but some traditions remain entrenched in the All Blacks.
As a cheeky rookie, Marc Ellis once made the fatal mistake of gunning for the back seat, only to be flattened by a coathanger in the years when Richard Loe took great pride in enforcing the strict seating-status rules - or so the story goes. Whitelock respects those traditions.
He was initially a tad dismissive, possibly wary, of the media but on this European tour he has revealed a sharp sense of humour and a new willingness to talk openly about his rugby - and budding Harley handle moustache.
This week, his new-found relaxed manner gave an insight into his off-field adjustments.
He's added nine kilograms of bulk in the past two years, to now tip the scales at 117kg.
"I've definitely put on a bit of size since then and trimmed up a bit as well. When I was younger, especially at school, I was a bit of a beanpole or a rake as I was called. I'm starting to maintain my weight a lot easier."
One of the more athletically gifted locks in world rugby, Whitelock was cut down to size by coach Steve Hansen early this year. There was no dancing around the subject; Whitelock was out of form and demotion was necessary to regain his spark.
"Honest feedback is great," Whitelock said.
He was dropped to the bench, where he started the first nine games of his test career, against the Pumas in Wellington.
Hansen's well-timed kick up the rear hit the spot - Whitelock dusted himself off and quickly returned to form. Since then, his nicely balanced partnership with Crusaders team-mate Luke Romano has started to flourish.
The fact Whitelock has started 10 of the other 11 tests this year shows his increasing importance.
It's only a matter of time before he joins the back-seat brigade.
Unlike Ellis, the first-choice lock won't be knocked back.
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Tonight from 7-10 p.m. the Woody Guthrie Center in the Brady district downtown will feature performances from several talented Oklahoma folk musicians looking to raise funds to go to the Folk Alliance International in Kansas City Feb. 19-23.
The performance tonight is one of three scheduled to help raise money for the artists.
The first took place Jan. 18, and the final performance after tonight will be Feb. 8 at Fassler Hall.
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When the New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup 20 years ago, the clinching game aired not just nationally on ESPN, but on the MSG Network, a regional cable channel. And so New York fans watching at home got to hear long-time announcers Sam Rosen and John Davidson call the climactic final seconds and describe the scene once the celebration begun. Listen to the clip if you have a moment, and pay particular attention to Davidson. A former Rangers player who would go on to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a broadcaster, he literally shouts "Yes!" at one point after the Rangers clear the puck out of their zone in the final seconds. Once the final buzzer sounds, Davidson, like the Rangers fans watching at home, is downright giddy anticipating the presentation of the Stanley Cup.
That sort of thing is unheard of now: The championships of major sports leagues (and most playoff games in earlier rounds) air exclusively on national networks, which strive to present neutral broadcasts for a general audience. The thing is, fans with a rooting interest in these big games aren't neutral. But even if national networks will forever hold the rights to such games, there might be a way to inject a local flavor -- and we're about to witness the trial run.
Next week, Turner Sports will experiment with multiple broadcasts of the NCAA tournament semifinals: In addition to the familiar, main broadcast on TBS (called by Jim Nantz, Greg Anthony and Steve Kerr), they'll air four team-specific ones on TNT and TruTV. The announcers in those games won't be aiming for balance or neutrality: They'll be selected because of their affiliation with one of the teams, and they'll be encouraged to call the game from that team's perspective.
Turner says it's prepared a long list of potential names to call the semifinals on these broadcasts depending on which teams advance to the Final Four. If it's Florida versus Virginia on one side of the bracket, they'll be ready. But they're prepared, too, for Dayton versus UConn, or any other combination. The broadcasters they use might include a team's regular radio announcer, or someone who covers them regularly on regional television, or perhaps even celebrities affiliated with the school. The rest of us, meanwhile, aren't affected in the least: We can still watch the neutral broadcast on TBS.
The time is right for this sort of experiment. From a logistical standpoint, it's made possible by huge media companies owning the rights to major sporting events. Turner can air games across multiple cable properties, and if other rights-holders wanted to try it, ESPN, Fox, and NBC could easily do the same. And as streaming technology becomes increasingly mainstream, networks also have the option of broadcasting these alternate, team-specific feeds online. What might have seemed futuristic in 1994 is our reality today.
But sports broadcasting has been evolving, too -- and in ways that set the stage for something like this. For local broadcasters, the line between journalist and partisan observer has never felt more blurred. This isn't to say that homerism is a new concept -- it's not, obviously -- but as more and more teams own at least a slice of the network airing their games, there's less of an expectation of a perfectly objective broadcast. And most of the time, fans of a given team don't really care if their home announcers are neutral. Biased coverage is no good when it goes easy on the home team. But a fair, honest broadcast in which the announcers care which team wins can be fun. It makes sense: Fans like broadcasts that focus on their team, and they get attached to announcers who seem to live and die with the games just like they do.
But then, just as the games get really important, those local TV announcers go away, in favor of the national broadcast teams. And even if they pop up in the national booth, they're forced to at least try to play it neutral. Ever see those videos on YouTube in which a local team's radio call is synched up to the TV feed of some nationally televised sporting event? Those calls are reliably more fun that the TV calls.
Local TV announcers are so established as the voices of the teams they call that it feels wrong to have someone else describing such important moments. Consider what happened in 2012, when the Los Angeles Kings were on the verge of their first Stanley Cup championship. The clinching game aired on NBC, but arrangements were made for Kings announcers Bob Miller and John Fox to call the game, as well. That call wouldn't be broadcast live anywhere, but rather recorded so that Kings fans could, eventually, hear him call the final game, and the final moments especially.
What Turner Sports is doing, of course, is far more complicated (and far more expensive). But it's also more likely to be copied.
In fact, the Final Four isn't even the perfect venue for this: College fans often don't form the sorts of connection to local announcers that fans of pro teams do. And so while the team-specific semifinal broadcasts will be fun for fans of the schools involved, it's even more exciting to imagine Vin Scully call nine innings of a Dodgers World Series game on Fox Sports 1 while Joe Buck calls it on Fox from the next booth over. (Scully, when asked last year if he would consider calling upcoming Dodgers playoff games on TV for a national outlet, said he wouldn't "intrude on the fellas who have been working TV." But multiple broadcasts would allow everyone to do their thing on separate channels.)
Other networks might never go for such a thing. To use Fox as an example, they may not want to take eyeballs away from Buck, their star play-by-play man. But for fans, at least, it would be a win-win: Neutral fans could watch the same telecast as always, as could fans that prefer the national broadcasters to their own team's booth. (Mike Breen and Doc Emrick, for example, both do a great job on national NBA and NHL broadcasts, respectively.) But fans who want a broadcast devoted to their team could get that opportunity, too. Turner Sports, with its experiment next week, might just be onto something.


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Big entry tonight...Sunday night we ended up walking 7000 steps (according to mums pedometer) looking for somewhere to eat. We ended up at a restaurant where there was a mixture of good and average meals! After dinner the slack ones (Mum, Aunty Maree and Abbey) caught a taxi home. Morgan, Daniel, Rhett and I walked back again...another 7000 steps! All up we figured out we walked about 24km!!! Yesterday started off with breakfast and ...
... We then went to Plaza Reial which was full of people. We tried one bar but didn't like it too much. Then we went to a bar called "el rei de copas." It played a very wide range of music. We had fun dancing all night. When we finally went back to the place, the street shops were still open. I think they stay open all night. On Saturdays, the metro also stays running all night.
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Our flight to Rome was scheduled for 6:45pm and we finally boarded at around 6:30pm. Once all on board the pilot announced that we would remain on the tarmac in Barcelona for around an hour due to bad weather in Rome. We finally arrived into Rome in pouring rain at around 9:30pm, running an hour late and made ...
... Germany). There was seriously no room to move! A couple came in with year old twins and were going to sleep on the two bottoms bunks. As soon as they came in we were all exchanged looks and were like, 'crapppp...'. The babies were crying and moving around and the stroller wouldn't fit inside the room. By grace, they moved to another room. In the end it was us four. Whew! I slept surprisingly well. I think my living standards have slowly been compromised since becoming a ...
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Average hotel
We stayed for 5 nights at the end of February. Our first room was the size of a match box! When i went to reception they offered me a bigger room, so we moved. The second room was huge - its pot luck what size room you end up with! But the sink was broken. The third room was also large and at the front with a balcony which was nice. But the rooms lacked attention to detail - bulbs not working and wallpaper hanging off. There is no bath or iron as stated on the hotels web site. However, the location is fantastic (5 minutes walk to las Ramblas), the level of cleanliness exceptional and the free internet access useful. The staff were ok, but the cleaners woke us up several mornings and then one morning we received a non-requested wake up phone call - at 0645! Overall, for cleanliness, location and a bed to sleep in this hotel is fine, but not reccommended for anything more than that.
Excellent choice
My girlfriend and I stayed in Gran Ronda at the beginning of February for 2 nights. The Hotel is very modern, with glass and timber decoration on the inside. The glass lift where you can see the atrium is brilliant as well as the centre of the reception where you can see the glass painted roof 6 stories up. Very impressive.
The bedroom was a bit small but you get used to it as the Flat TV, the spotless bathroom and the contemporary design of the room and its location [10 mins walk from the centre square] cover for that.
The hotel was an excellent value for money and I surely recommend it to everyone.
Lovely hotel in ideal location
I stayed here with my girlfriend at the end of january for four nights and i have to say i have no faults with it at all. As mentioned on other reviews its a short walk from la ramblas with the university at the top of the road. On the day we arrived at 12 we booked in and were told our room was not ready which is not surrising seeming like it was quite early but were allowed to leave our luggage in a locked cupboard which was very handy. The room was tastefully furnished (flat screen TV!!)and the bathroom was spotless and the shower was nice and strong which i like. We didnt eat in the hotel as there were so many cafes and restaurants around and we spent most of our time checking out the fantastic sights barcelona has to offer. the staff were a small bit firm but every time i talked to them they were curtious and mannerly and when we left they were very accommodating on booking taxi's and helping us with our luggage. There was just one thing but its a problem with all hotels in spain, the walls are quite thin so sounds from surrounding rooms can be heard quite clearly, so if you are offended by certain 'sounds' then best bring some ear plugs. It only happened one night and last only 10 or 15 minutes but was quite clear. I would recommended this hotel to all my friends.
Modern, trendy and great location
We stayed at the Apsis Gran Ronda for 3 nights in January 2006. The hotel is a very nice modern hotel wih a traditional facade. It is located approx 5 minutes walk from La Rambla and Place de Catalonia on a quiet street. We only had breakfast in the hotel on the last day as this was €11pp...it was basic enough and for some reason the dining room was roasting....the breakfast is not very good value compared to the miriad little restaurants/cafes when you venture out into the streets of barcelona. The room we stayed in was very tastefully decorated with a modern twist. We had a room at the front of the building looking out onto the street, we had a small wrought iron balcony and double doors which was nice too. Everything in the room was perfect and very comfortable, no problems at all - and the bathroom was brand new and very trendy! The staff weren't overly gushingly friendly but were helpful if needed so that was fine by us - there's a tiny bar at the hotel but we didn't venture down as each time we walked by there wan't anyone sitting at it or serving. There's too much to do in Barcelona to be sitting in your hotel bar anyway! This is a fab hotel if you want a nice comfy room and a lovely central safe location to base yourself... Do the bus tour, it's fun and great to see everything at once - especially the Segradia Familia. Also the restaurants in the Barri Gothic are FAB and very cheap so go exploring - don't just stick to Rambla - or if ya do then have a late nite digestif in Cafe de L'Opera
Nice modern hotel
I stayed here only one night in January 2006 and
it was satisfactory. My room was also clean, modern and with flat screen (only on german channel DSF)
The staff was friendly.
The location is ok, but there are better locations.
The rate was also very good (but it was January), so if it is like this again, I will come back.
Nice rooms..unhelpful staff
my room was great. clean, modern, with flat screen tv. location of hotel is great. you are close to Las Ramblas, the metro, all the shopping and restaurants you could ever want. I got a great rate (50-60 euro per night). However I found the staff extremely unhelpful. They could not give me costs for incidentals and there were no tourist materials in the lobby. I would recommend this hotel for a very independent budget traveler who does not need much help from the hotel staff.
A brand new hotel
This hotel is a little gem that's situated very close to Universitat, Plaza Catalunya and Ramblas. But this street is not as busy as those around Catalunya or Ramblas so you can get a good night's sleep and be refreshed for another day of exploring. Rooms are very tastefully furnished. Wooden floors. Very nice fittings in the bathroom. And you must see that flat screen tv! We had a good-sized shower. They have free internet access in the lobby. And are close to Metros and buses. We did not have breakfast included but there are many Starbucks, Dunking Donuts, McDonalds, and smaller coffee shops close by. Staff was helpful in providing us with maps and information on places to go and how to get there. I'll definitely stay here again.


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LinnieB: The head planter is a "lola planter" she was popular a few years back but terribly expensive online. I found her last year at Meijers for a much more reasonable price, but you could probably make her too fairly easily. I had so much fun making her, just finding the right parts was fun. Thanks so much to all for voting for this. :)
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South Arkansas Historical Journal
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The geographical area of South Arkansas has been inhabited continuously for centuries by peoples descended from Native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and numerous others. This journal hopes to tell the continuing stories of the great, the mighty, the strong, and the weak who have lived here either by choice or by chance. Family and occupational history can help the reader understand the great chain of events that has built our region though the recounting of old stories and reexamining past documents.
This third issue of the journal covers only a small part of the history of southern Arkansas. Witnesses to past events write of their experiences, hopes, and tragedies on the South Arkansas march through time. In recognition of the bicentennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, El Dorado writer Sara Teague reports on the French administration of Arkansas in the years prior to its annexation to the United States. John G. Ragsdale writes on the development of oil in the region, events which completely transformed the economy and society of the area. Three other Union County writers have added tender reminiscences of loved ones in their struggles to build a life for their families and communities in the early 1900s. Enjoy this journey of "historical imagination" of the world our predecessors built and whose memories and monuments we preserve for the future.
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Low weight gain from 4m to 6m. Help!
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|Sun, 04-18-2010 - 8:56pm
I took my DS for his 6m appt and he had only gained 3oz in 2 months. He grew 1" and his head circ remained the same. I have been exclusively BFing until the day he hit 6m, when I introduced rice cereal 1x/day (with 1oz of BM and however much cereal made the right consistency). His ped didn't seem too concerned, but wanted me to start feeding him fruits/veggies asap twice per day and cereal twice per day. He gave me a sample schedule that was something like:
Breakfast: toast (what??), cereal, breast
Lunch: 2oz fruit, 2oz veggie, breast
Snack: banana (what??), breast
Dinner: 2oz fruit, 2oz veggie, breast
Snack: cereal, breast
There is more than one problem with that schedule IMO...my baby can't eat toast or a whole banana, and for someone who has been eating a tiny bit of rice cereal for 4 days (at that time), eating 2 servings of cereal plus 8oz of fruits/veggies just seems like way too much.
I have been doing it in a way that seems to be working for us. I feed him rice cereal and 2oz veggies for "lunch" and oatmeal cereal and 2oz fruit for "dinner." He loves his food and still maintains interest in the breast, but I feel like my supply is suffering. I usually pump around 4 hours after he goes to bed, and instead of getting 3.5oz (4 if I'm lucky) I get 2.5oz. This is the same thing that happens when I pump at work in place of a feeding. It has really been worrying me a lot.
What should I do? Part of me thinks he shouldn't be getting so much solids, but another part of me believes he can eat all that food AND still nurse as much as he used to. I think I really need to get to the bottom of WHY he wasn't gaining in the first place.
He started STTN about a month ago, started sitting unassisted about 2 weeks ago, and has started rolling all over the place about a week ago. I know these things could all be factors, but I don't know if my supply is still adjusting to the changes or if I need to be doing something to increase it.
|Sun, 04-18-2010 - 10:13pm
I'm sorry I'm just passing through right now but I really strongly disagree with the dr. on this one. That is just a crazy nuts amount of solids to offer to a 6 month old and offering that amount of solids not only won't help weight gain, it will likely lessen your supply and cause early weaning.
I really
|Mon, 04-19-2010 - 12:37am
I'm off to bed ... but I agree w/ others that TOO MANY solids for a 6 mos old baby. But even more strangely is that he has you feeding those solids BEFORE the breast. You should always nurse BEFORE solids through the first birthday, as breastmilk or formula should be the primary source of calories for baby through the first birthday.
Also, avocado is a very good solid for baby, as it is both calorie and nutrient dense.
To be perfectly honest, I didn't feed my children solids more than once a day until they were closer to 8 mos old.
How many times a day is baby nursing? Are you using breast compressions while nursing at all?
Babies do tend to grow in spurts (it's not linear, like we talk about). So it's entirely possible that baby will have a growth spurt in the next few weeks and weight gain won't seem so far off. But it's clearly something that needs to be watched closely when baby isn't gaining much weight at all.
Which leads to the next questions: same scale? naked baby? roughly same time of day as other weight checks? (at this age, whether or not baby just ate, pooped, peed, etc., actually can really affect weight gain. For example if baby had just eaten and hadn't peed / pooped before last weight and then this time had peed / pooped and not eaten before weight check, you could actually see a several ounce swing that has absolutely nothing to do with growth). Also, might just ask doc to recheck weight in a week. Sometimes they don't get the scale zeroed out perfectly and that affects things too (even if same scale was used ... different scales might be a pound or more off from each other - even the digital ones).
I personally had an experience w/ my youngest daughter who had been sick and was losing weight. But we never knew exactly how bad the situation was. The week we'd taken my DD in, she'd appeared to have lost 2+ lbs, but then doc discovered during the week that her scale was not zeroing and couldnt' even be fixed. They had to buy a new scale. Next weight check showed more weight loss (but a different scale and now we don't even know how accurate the first weight was). A week later, baby gained 8 oz. in a week (which is a lot at 12 mos).
As you can see there are a lot of variables. Let's start w/ nursing frequency, and go from there.
|Mon, 04-19-2010 - 1:11am
We nurse at least 7 times per day. We pretty much nurse every 2 hours still, even with solids--I nurse, feed solids 1hr later, then nurse 1hr after that (unless he wants to nurse immediately after). He was STTN but started waking up around 5am for a feeding and going back down until 7ish (which is still considered STTN, as he's usually down by 8pm). I don't schedule his feeds so sometimes he eats more often, sometimes less. He'll go longer in between feeds if we're out and about, because he falls asleep in the car seat or stroller. It's never been more than 4 hours though. I don't do breast compressions while nursing. I've never been fully sure how to do them properly.
He was weighed with the same scale and in a diaper both times, right around the same time of day. He hadn't pooped in a whole week at the time he was weighed this time, and he had already started rice cereal. I'm guessing if he HAD pooped, he would have gained nothing or maybe even lost. I always feed him before leaving the house, and the ped's office is only 5 minutes away.
|Mon, 04-19-2010 - 11:43am
Sorry for the delay in responding.
Yes, your gut is correct that this is WAY WAY too much solids for any 6 month old. You did perfect in waiting to intro solids until the 6 month mark and starting really slow. Breastmilk (or formula) should be the primary source of nutrition until at least the 12 month mark and the breast should always be offered first and solids second. It sounds like you know all this stuff but I'm just reiterating for the sake of lurkers.
When you increase solids, the amount of breastmilk taken will decrease. Even if he's nursing the same frequency, the amount of milk he takes at each feeding will decrease which will decrease your supply. I think you're starting to see that already with your pump output. I would recommend keeping solids to once per day but possibly skipping the rice cereal and sticking with foods that are calorically dense like avocado, banana or sweet potato. Avocado can be mushed up and fed by spoon.
If you look at this chart: http://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/vitamins/babyfoodcalories.html
|Mon, 04-19-2010 - 12:21pm
The baby food link was very informative! I knew avocado was very nutrient-dense but I had no idea about the bananas or sweet potatoes. Unfortunately all these solids have overloaded Jack's system and he is officially constipated (passed a hard pellet this morning), so I have THAT to consider in addition to this milk mess. He has been introduced to all those 3 foods but did not like avocado. I had been mixing it with banana but I'm pretty sure the banana probably contributed to his constipation, so if he will still not take it next time I might try mixing with sweet potatoes.
I have decided to drop down to one solids meal per day with 2oz of fruit or veggie and oatmeal cereal. I mix my cereal with EBM and the only reason I offer is for the iron-fortification. For now, though, I plan on only giving him prunes until he's relieved (maybe oatmeal, if that will help).
No AF yet, no hormonal bc, and no health issues. I've even taken an hpt just to make sure that wasn't the issue (it's not). I just wonder if all the new milestones coupled with his increasing distractibility led to the low weight gain. I've also been waiting on a growth spurt...he hasn't had one between his 2 doctor visits. He seems perfectly healthy and "they" always say to "look at the baby" ....
I do plan to get the fenugreek--can't hurt! The link you listed answered every single one of the questions I was about to ask about it. Thank you so much for your help! I really hope I can get some weight on this guy soon and rescue my diminishing supply!
|Mon, 04-19-2010 - 12:27pm
Ugh, I'm so sorry he's dealing with constipation. THat's the pits. In that case, sweet potatoes would definitely be a better choice than banana.
I'm glad that information was helpful. Let us know how your'e going and if we can help more in any way.
|Tue, 04-20-2010 - 2:11pm
Hi Jill,
I'm glad that you got such great info already. I just wanted to add that I would consider calling your ped to see if they will do a weight check for you sometime in the next month. That way you can put your mind at ease if he starts gaining and if he doesn't, you can look into what else might be causing the low weight gain. I just know if it were me, I would not want to wait 3 more months before seeing his "official weight."
I know you have a good head on your shoulders and will do what is best for your little boy. Good luck.
|Tue, 04-20-2010 - 10:40pm
Hi there,
I am a mom of a kiddo who has never been on chart until he was 6 month old. he has a good weight gain from 4 to 6 month (and again, he is off the chart).
|Sun, 05-02-2010 - 1:46am
Just an update, for anyone who might care...
I weighed Jack on my dad's baby scale last week and he was up to 15lbs, 4oz. I don't know whether or not that's accurate compared to the scale at the dr's office (where he was 14lbs, 7oz), but MORE importantly, I weighed him today on my dad's scale again and he was up to 15lbs, 9oz! That's a great weight gain for a week and I have officially stopped worrying ;-)
The changes I've made that could have helped:
- Feeding from BOTH sides at each feeding (He used to take just 1 side)
- Feeding only 1 solids meal/day, with the breast w/in an hour before and after
- Doing breast compressions during feedings
- Adding a pump consistently each night before bed
- Occasional dream feeds
Honestly, it seems that he is just late on his 6m growth spurt. He's spent the past couple of days eating non-stop, and I'm pretty sure it's not a supply issue due to the fact that I'm pumping my normal volume again. I tried fenugreek for a week but it gave me AND Jack horrible gas and interrupted his (and my) sleep. I had no idea that was even a possible side effect!
Thanks again for all the help!


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Police said Coleman was the driver of a car that hit a motorcycle, killing the driver and injuring the passenger.
Coleman allegedly crossed the center lane on N. Knoxville Avenue and hit another vehicle head on.
When officers arrived at the scene they found Daniel Cantrall, 58, and Jennifer Schmitt, 56, in the roadway. Cantrall was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Coleman fled the scene but was followed by a witness who called police. He was arrested a short time later.
In addition to Aggravated DUI, Coleman also faces charges of improper lane usage, being an unlicensed driver, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, failure to report an accident, and failure to reduce speed.
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Is competition between women a bad thing?
SALT LAKE CITY — Women can be aggressive toward those they see as competition.
While this idea may not be new, a new study published in the journal Aggressive Behavior says this behavior can be subversive and is prevalent.
Researchers Tracy Vaillancourt, a professor in the University of Ottawa school of psychology, and Aanchal Sharma, with the McMaster University department of psychology, neuroscience and behavior, conducted a series of studies to measure how women respond to those whom they see as competition.
Vaillancourt calls this sort of behavior "indirect aggression." It includes spreading rumors, ignoring, excluding or making "derisive body and facial gestures to make the rival feel badly about herself and thus less willing to compete," the study says.
Among other things, this research shows that "women do not hesitate to engage in relational or indirect aggression toward those who they perceive as either competition or those they perceive as well outside the norms," said David Nelson, an associate professor in the BYU School of Family Life.
Vaillancourt and Sharma point out the indirect aggression tends to seem safer for the aggressor because it is not as blatant as physical aggression.
"There's a tremendous amount of damage you can inflict at very little social cost or risk," Nelson said. "That's very safe of course because she's not there to respond. She's not there to even know that you're aggressing against her."
The study's authors noted that one of the study's limitations was it does not address the idea that the negative reactions could have been spurred because the woman was violating a societal norm, rather than that the woman was competition.
Nelson said the study shows that those who do violate societal norms could expect negative reactions from those around them.
This study builds on what researchers have talked about for roughly 20 years, Nelson said: "That aggressive behavior is certainly not something that is the sole domain of men. There's a lot of pressure that girls receive just from each other."
Nelson studies indirect, or what he calls "relational aggression." Most of his research focuses on preschool and middle-childhood-age children. In 2005, he and other researchers conducted a study that measured the ways in which preschoolers show this type of aggression, "sometimes at the expense of others," he said.
"It's more focusing on trying to manipulate the social acceptance and self-esteem of others and a lot of those behaviors, too, can happen behind the scenes."
"That just continues on into these later years and it becomes much more charged, I guess you would say, because of the whole sexual competition idea that is being promoted in (Vaillancourt's study)," Nelson said.
The main focus of the study revolved around the idea that from an evolutionary perspective, women feel compelled to compete for a man's attention by mocking those who they feel threaten their likelihood of securing or retaining their mate, because how they dress implies they may be more promiscuous.
It was conducted in two segments using college-age women. The first used subjects who were told they were being tested on the ways women handle conflict in friendships. The women were split into groups of friends and strangers, and secretly, through video and audio recordings, measured on their reactions to an evolutionarily attractive woman entering the room.
Experimenters ran the test with groups they termed to be "conservative" and "provocative." For the first, the woman was dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, with her hair in a bun. In the provocative group, the same woman wore a short skirt, a low-cut blouse and knee-high boots.
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Winter weather chills regional manufacturing activity
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Frigid temperatures, layers of ice and lots of snow in February were the main culprits behind the tepid growth in manufacturing activity in a seven-state area that includes Kansas and the northern half of Missouri, according to a report Thursday from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
The Fed's monthly manufacturing index had a reading of 4 in February, down from 5 in January and up from -3 in December. The index measures production, new orders, employment, supplier delivery time and raw material inventories.
While the monthly gauge was in positive territory, many businesses reported delays and slowdowns because of severe winter weather.
"The story in February was similar to January," said Chad Wilkerson, a vice president and economist at the Kansas City Fed. "Regional factory activity was held back somewhat by unusually harsh weather but still managed to grow modestly."
Wilkerson also said the outlook for manufacturing growth in the region over the next several months "moderated somewhat (but) remained at solid levels overall."
The other states in the Kansas City Fed's district are Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and the northern part of New Mexico.
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A 90th birthday celebration for the venerable Ann Arbor Farmers' Market is Saturday Aug. 8. Stop by for gelato, music, birthday cake, and kids' activities. Vendors and market goers will tell stories at the Oral History Booth from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. To get excited about market history, see The Farmers' Market Bounces Back and Reinventing the Farmers' Market in Ann Arbor Observer: Then and Now, a rich collection of more than 100 articles recently archived by AADL.
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In celebration of the 50th Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, AADL brings you an interview with the only artist whose art has appeared in every fair, JT Abernathy. Fresh off a recent successful show at the Clay Gallery, JT sat down with us and Stan Baker, another Ann Arbor pottery great and former student of JT's, to talk about his career and how pottery is different from half a century ago. Stan and JT gives us a good look at how they think about their work and how their 30-year relationship has shaped them as artists.
To learn more about the history of the event that defines Ann Arbor in the summertime, visit the new online exhibit 50 Years of Originality: A History of the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair.
Mr. B
Local musician Mark Lincoln Braun, aka Mr. B, is celebrating his 30th year playing street boogie-woogie piano as part of the original Ann Arbor Street Art Fair. We talked recently with Mr. B about his memories of art fairs past; his musical influences; and his most recent venture, Mr. B's Joybox Express, a 125-mile bike ride he began July 13 for charity, riding a special bike designed to haul his piano. You'll find Mr. B playing every day during the art fair, Wednesday, July 15 through Saturday, July 18, on North University near Ingalls Mall.
AADL is also happy to help the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair celebrate another milestone with 50 Years of Originality: A History of the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, a website of images, text, audio and video from the past half century of Ann Arbor's first fair.
While testing the recipes in Ann Arbor Cooks you can savor an extra slice of Ann Arbor history: Several recipes, particularly within the 1899 Ann Arbor Cookbook, bear the names of prominent Ann Arbor citizens. On your next visit to Allmendinger Park you can take along Miss E. C. Allmendinger's Quince Tents; or you can enjoy Mrs. W. B. Hinsdale's Cream Puffs at the Broadway Park near the former intersection of 19th century Indian trails mentioned in her husband's book, The Indians of Washtenaw County. Mrs. Junius Beal probably whipped up her Marguerites at her home on the corner of 5th Avenue and William St., now the site of the Downtown library. Mrs. Samuel W. Beakes, whose husband wrote The Past and Present of Washtenaw County, baked Excellent Cocoanut Cookies, and Mrs. Frank Kelsey actually makes Prune Pudding sound...ok.
The names Allmendinger, Hinsdale, Beal, Beakes and Kelsey are frequently cited within the text and image collections of The Ann Arbor Observer: Then & Now, Ann Arbor Founders, The Downtown Ann Arbor Historical Street Exhibit and The Making of Ann Arbor.
Last week we had the opportunity to talk with local historian, author and teacher, Grace Shackman, about how Ann Arbor has changed over the years. Throughout the discussion, Grace looks back at articles she's written; how she got her start writing about Ann Arbor history; the importance of preserving local landmarks; and her memories of early Ann Arbor art fairs. Over 130 of Grace's articles are featured in Ann Arbor Observer: Then & Now, a new website with full text searching and browsing access to articles on local history from the Ann Arbor Observer.
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This Wednesday, June 24, we'll be launching Ann Arbor Observer: Then & Now, a new site with searching and browsing access to over 130 full-text articles on local history written for the Ann Arbor Observer over the past three decades by local historian and author, Grace Shackman. Stop by for a demonstration of the site, refreshments, and a lively discussion by Grace and Observer editor, John Hilton, at 7:00 p.m. in the Downtown lower level Multi-Purpose Room.
Since about 1958, a lively local book group -- under the umbrella of the U-M Faculty Women's Club -- has been reading favorite books and meeting to discuss them. Several years ago members hosted Peter Ho Davies, and last night, Michael Byers, author of Long for this World, who even received a copy of the group's 1958-2009 reading list to take home with him. For an idea of this group's tastes, visit LibraryThing.
I'm sure many aadl.org visitors are familiar with the staff written blogs that show up on the main catalog page. If you don't wish to read through them all and just want to read ones on music, magazines, or perhaps movies, with a few clicks you can. Blogs are accessible on various pages of aadl.org, under Services, Events, Research, etc. (You can also see a refined list by clicking on the blog's categories.) Did you know there is a Local History blog and a Developer's blog? Have a peek! Here is a quick list of the blogs, with a quick link so you can easily RSS them and stay on top of AADL and community happenings.
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Beloved historian Sidney Fine, who taught at the University of Michigan for 53 years, died Tuesday at the age of 88. Professor Fine is thought to have held the longest active teaching career in UM history, teaching over 26,000 over the course of his career before he retired in 2001. Read more about Mr. Fine on wikipedia and his obituary in the Detroit Free Press.
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This is the house where little Lucy Ann Clark (later Mrs. Judge James Kingsley) played the piano that made the Potawatomi Indians dance. (Her instrument was the first piano in Ann Arbor, and the first west of Detroit in Michigan Territory.) The site of this house is now the outdoor area of the Downtown Home and Garden store, on Ashley at Liberty. In the left background of the photo is a building on First Street with a lot of lettering on its walls. Can anyone make out what the lettering says. (Click on the photo for a larger view.)
"Sometimes when Miss Clark played, the Indians would lurk around the door and windows and some would dance on the strip of bare floor at the edge of the room that the carpet was not wide enough to cover." (From the Cornelia Corselius papers).
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DOT Closes Down Everett Turnpike Toll Collection in Merrimack, N.H.
WMUR Manchester – July 19, 2014
MERRIMACK, N.H. – Vehicles traveling on the Everett Turnpike are passing by Exit 12 in Merrimack free of charge. After over two decades, New Hampshire Department of Transportation officials shut down the toll booths at 9 p.m. Friday. Crews spent the day removing signs, E-ZPass systems, and other parts of the tolling establishment.
In 2007, protestors of the tolls demonstrated their opposition by paying the fees in pennies. The N.H. Department of Transportation pushed to keep the tolls in place, saying the town of Merrimack is still repaying bonds that funded its three exits on the Everett.
The closure of the area tolls is part of the gas tax increase compromise passed by the Legislature earlier this year.
Louisiana Restructures DOTD, Creates Multimodal Agency
Land Line Magazine – July 18, 2014
Louisiana – The state Department of Transportation and Development in Louisiana is going to be restructured under a bill signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal. It will also create a new state sub-agency to maximize the state's multimodal transportation infrastructure. The new law, which takes effect July 1, 2016, establishes the Office of Multimodal Commerce inside the Department of Economic Development. The office will be directly supervised and directed by the commissioner of multimodal commerce, appointed by the governor and approved by the Louisiana Senate.
When the new law is implemented, the authority of powers, duties, and responsibilities for ports, terminals, railroads and aviation, and all corresponding facilities, employees, funding and equipment will be transferred from the state DOTD to the Office of Multimodal Commerce.
Sen. NorbyChabert, R-Houma, said the measure represents "a major policy change" in the functions of the DOTD relative to the ports and harbors, maritime and water transportation systems, railroads, commercial trucking, aviation, and intercity public transit.
"Louisiana's multimodal transportation system impacts almost every element of our lives," Chabert said in a news release. "The difference between commerce infrastructure and basic transportation needs must be better defined in order to support the state's most valuable economic engines. DOTD's main focus should be on building and maintaining roads to address the massive backlog of transportation projects in Louisiana."
Texas' Flagship Toll Road Faces Financial Trouble
Texas – Eight years after opening, the SH 130 public-private toll road between Austin and San Antonio is facing financial hardship, as a result of low traffic volume and a low bond rating from financial analysts.
Moody's Investor Service downgraded SH 130's bond rating twice in 2013, and earlier this month announced the SH 130 Concession Co. had failed to make a full debt-service payment to lenders on the money borrowed to construct Segments 5 and 6 of the roadway.
The SH 130 Concession Co. has a 50-year contract with the Texas Department of Transportation, in which the builder-operator carries the financial risk and the roadway remains under ownership by the state of Texas. An actual default could result in a termination of the contract and TxDOT would be forced to decide whether to operate the roadway itself or lease it to another operator.
A spokesperson for the SH 130 Concession Co. said new terms have been negotiated with its lenders.
"The SH 130 is not in default," spokeswoman Megan Compton told Land Line. "It has reached an agreement with lenders that modifies the payment date such that no failure to pay occurred. A portion of the payment was made recently and the remainder is due in the future. As a result of the modification, as a matter of fact, and a matter of law, there is no default."
Sales Tax Boost in Missouri would Pay for Road, Bridge Repair
JEFFERSON CITY – One of the debated issues on Missouri's Aug. 5 statewide ballot is how the state should pay for road and bridge repairs. The ballot will ask voters whether to amend the state's constitution to increase the sales tax by three-fourths of a cent in order to pay for transportation repairs. If approved, the tax increase would last for ten years and be the largest in the state's history. Over the ten-year period, the gasoline tax would be frozen and new toll roads would not be allowed.
The campaign for the proposal has been funded by the businesses and groups that would benefit from the $5.4 billion expected to be raised over the life of the tax. These organizations include highway construction contractors, labor unions, engineering firms, and concrete and asphalt producers.
"Missourians understand that our roads and bridges are deteriorating," said Jewell Patek, campaign manager for the group supporting the amendment, Missourians for Safe Transportation and New Jobs. "We need to make our roads and bridges as safe as possible, and we don't have the revenue to do that."
The opponents to the issue include a variety of groups with varying political backgrounds, who say the impact of a sales tax increase unfairly affects the lower-income classes. In some parts of the state, the overall sales tax would increase to more than 11 cents when local taxes are added in.
Ninety percent of the funding raised by the tax increase – an estimated $480 million per year – would be dedicated to transportation initiatives. Ten percent, or $54 million annually, would be divided between cities and counties for transportation work.


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Josh Earnest, who grew up in Kansas City, was named Friday as the chief White House spokesman.
He replaces Jay Carney, under whom he served as chief deputy.
President Barack Obama made the announcement personally on Friday, drawing an audible gasp from journalists in the White House briefing room.
You cant find a nicer individual even outside Washington than Earnest, Obama said.
The news of Carneys resignation brought praise for the outgoing aid from the president.
Jay has become one of my closest friends, he said.
Earnest grew up in the Red Bridge neighborhood with two younger brothers. His mother, Jeanne, is a psychologist, and his father, Don, is the athletic director at Pembroke Hill School.
Josh Earnest attended the Barstow School, a private secondary school, on a scholarship, where he played baseball and basketball.
Earnest graduated from Rice University in 1997 with a degree in political science. He worked in a Houston mayoral campaign, on former New York Mayor Michael Bloombergs first campaign, as a congressional aide, as spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, on a governors race in Florida and later on Barack Obamas presidential campaign.
Hes indispensable, Carney said in a Star story in 2012. I depend on his judgment all the time. His time in politics has made him smart, but not cynical. Maybe thats because of his KC roots.
As Carneys main deputy, Earnest occasionally subbed for the chief spokesman at the daily briefing for the White House press corps.
In the 2012 story, Earnest said part of the job is ensuring that the presidents point of view is being communicated. Sometimes its important for that message to be delivered forcefully, but professionally.


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Erlin, who will be taking the spot of the recently released Edinson Volquez, hasn't pitched for the Padres since getting rocked by Washington to the tune of nine runs in four innings back on July 7.
The 22-year-old Erlin is 1-2 with a 7.15 ERA in six games (four starts) for the Padres this season.
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Just got back from an exhilarating, exhausting week in Costa Rica. As many know, a lifetime is not enough to experience its many wondrous ecosystems — covering a mere 0.25% of the planet and yet home to an impressive 5% of the world's flora and fauna in a country with one of the highest percentages of state-protected land — but we tried to make tiny inroads into a few, including the tropical rainforests surrounding the Volcán Arenal (one of Costa Rica's several active volcanoes) and the beaches and tropical dry forests of Guanacaste in the west. The lush rainforests are so dense with moisture and life that, as C. described it, for miles all you can see are "plants growing on plants growing on plants." (And apparently algae growing on tree sloths, which, sadly, we couldn't see up close since the lazy critters were all passed out way above our heads.)
Since we wanted to take in the landscape at a slower pace, we sidestepped the ziplines and tram tours and decided to hike around. One of our first tourist stops was the Arenal Hanging Bridges, which took us over the tops of the rainforest canopy and gave us our first unobstructed view of the volcano itself — a miracle in the rainy winter season, when the volcano is typically clouded over for much of the day.
At the base of the volcano is the beautiful, mysterious, and (surprisingly) man-made Lake Arenal, shrouded in mist and surrounded by forests, farmland, hot spring resorts, sodas (food stalls), and the occasional fishing pier.
When we stopped for lunch at a soda, the waiter pointed out a family of monkeys swinging in the trees over the kitchen. Along with the stray chihuahua who had claimed this as her spot, as well as the tiny bird that had made her nest inside the TV speaker (bad idea, mama bird — especially during the fútbol game), the monkeys had joined the club of wildlife that had figured out a symbiotic way of living with the folks at Restaurante Cascajos.
Later in the afternoon, C. and I hiked up closer to the volcano to check out the lava fields from the massive explosion of 1968 that wiped out three villages and decimated crops, livestock, and people's lives and livelihoods. Today, of course, the livelihoods of people around here center on the countless tourists that the volcano itself now draws in.
The signs everywhere were ominous, and we were constantly ordered to park our cars facing outward for a quick getaway at the first sign of a rumbling. All I can say is, my respect for volcanoes — and the townsfolk, animals, and plants that thrive around them — knows no bounds after our encounter with the silently smoking Arenal.
Day 3: waking up to Arenal outside our cabin; rescuing a stick bug from the clutches of an over-excited boy; following horseback riders to La Fortuna waterfall, where we climbed down some hefty steps to get to the base and splash around for a while.
We stopped for lunch at Toad Hall, whose relentless road-side advertising was no doubt inspired by the likes of Wall Drug. To my slight dismay, the kitschy restaurant/B&B/store/art gallery had nothing whatsoever to do with Wind in the Willows. It did, however, have great views of Lake Arenal, as well as a tiny, whacked out orphan baby toucan named (what else?) Sam. We did feel a little sorry for Sam, though. He just looked so damn lonely.
We then got in the car and followed this horse, who was blandly chewing on his hay during the long, bumpy ride. Eventually we ended up on the west coast, where we stayed for a few days on Playa Arenilla in the Gulf of Papagayo.
Everywhere — from the beaches to the forests, the town markets to Zoo Ave — was awash in color.
From the fauna to the flora (jungles and forests bursting with croton, heliconia, and maracas that looked like Tequila Sunrises)…
…to the fruit stands packed with bananas, pineapples, mangoes, jocotes, guayabas, and maracuyás.
Of course, not everything on our trip was so colorful. (Not depicted here: C. driving in torrential downpours around white-knuckle cliffs with zero visibility, turned back at a key junction by a large tree uprooted by floods that was threatening to fall across the one bridge through town, adding three more hours to the journey. Etc.)
Most of all, though, not depicted here is the kindness of strangers who helped dig our sod-trapped car and otherwise went out of their way to help us out when we were miserably lost. And the constant refrain of "pura vida" — literally, "pure life," but also hello, goodbye, thank you, what's going on, you're welcome, fantastic, everything's great, and may you have a wonderful life.