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This taxon is Not Recognised as a species by BirdLife International.
Taxonomic source(s)
Turbott, E. G. 1990. Checklist of the birds of New Zealand. Ornithological Society of New Zealand, Wellington.
Taxonomic note
Charadrius obscurus and C. aquilonius (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) were previously lumped as C. obscurus following Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993).
25 cm. Largest Charadrius plover. Sexes similar in eclipse. Brown upperparts. Feathers with paler edges. White forehead. Whitish underparts. Dark line through eye. Breeding adult, reddish underparts. Male, slightly redder on breast for much of year. Heavy black bill. Legs pale/mid grey. Iris dark brown. Voice Sharp chip most common call, long, loud churring call used in aggressive interactions.
Distribution and population
Charadrius obscurus is endemic to New Zealand. Subspecies obscurus is now restricted when breeding to Stewart Island, but formerly occurred on the South Island (Dowding 1999). On Stewart Island, it declined by as much as 80% in c.40 years, numbering 62 birds (including only 18 pairs) in 1991-1992 (Dowding and Murphy 1993), but thanks to the poisoning of feral cats it recovered to 111 birds in 1997, 150 in 1999 and 250 in 2005 (J. E. Dowding in litt. 1999, Wilson 2005, Dowding 2006). Subspecies aquilonius breeds in northern North Island. The population was estimated at 1,313 birds in 1989, 1,452 in 1996 and 1,701 in 2004. The current population status is management-dependent, and significant declines would begin immediately if intensive management stopped (R. Hitchmough in litt. 2005). Management at some sites is funded by programmes for other species, and there is no guarantee that the current level of management will continue. The east coast of the North Island holds 83% of the northern subspecies's population including all managed subpopulations. It has been declining rapidly at Wiakato and elsewhere along the west coast and local extinction and a consequent reduction in its range size are likely.
On the North Island, it usually breeds on wide ocean beaches, estuaries and harbours with tidal mudflats (Heather and Robertson 1997). On Stewart Island, it breeds inland, usually at high altitudes on bare hilltops and open bog or tussock-grasslands (J. E. Dowding in litt. 1999). It lays three eggs. It feeds mostly on terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates. Young generally begin to breed in their second year. The oldest recorded bird lived to at least 31 years of age (Heather and Robertson 1997).
Introduced predators were the primary cause of extinction on the South Island (Dowding 1999). They remain the greatest threat on the North Island - one study indicated that at unmanaged sites 60% of nests were lost to predators (Dowding 1998). Feral cats caused the rapid decline on Stewart Island (Dowding and Murphy 1993). On the North Island, housing developments and encroachment by dune-stabilising weeds reduce habitat, and disturbance by livestock, humans, dogs and vehicles reduces breeding success (Dowding 1993, Lord et al. 2001). A known breeding site has been bulldozed as part of an attempted storm protection programme (Anon. 2008). Storms and very high tides can cause nest failures (J. E. Dowding in litt. 1999, Wills et al. 2003). Where native avian predators (notably Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus) occur at high densities, they are a significant threat to eggs and chicks.
Conservation Actions Underway
On the North Island, management at important breeding sites includes predator trapping, gull control, advocacy, reduction of nest losses to flooding, and the presence of wardens (Dowding and Davis 2007). This results in local improvements in breeding success - 20% of c.600 breeding pairs were managed in 1998-1999 (Dowding and Murphy 2001). In some areas, there is substantial community involvement in management (Dowding 2006). On Stewart Island, cats and rodents are intensively controlled at four important breeding sites (J. E. Dowding in litt. 1999, Ombler 2006). Captive-breeding trials with aquilonius have been undertaken in case the technique is required for obscurus (Dowding 1998). Chicks have been raised successfully (J. E. Dowding in litt. 1999), but their survival in the wild has been low. A revised species recovery plan was published in 2007 (Dowding and Davis 2007). Conservation Actions Proposed
Complete a full North Island census every seven years. Continue existing protection programmes on North Island. Expand protection to new sites on North Island, with priorities being on the west coast and in the Far North. Increase community involvement and other-agency partnerships in management activities on North Island. Identify and protect important breeding, roosting and flocking habitat on North Island by advocacy and statutory protection. Estimate the population size annually on Stewart Island. Continue current management on Stewart Island. Maintain the mustelid-free status of Stewart Island. Investigate more cost-effective methods of cat control on Stewart Island.
Anon. 2008. Matapouri sandspit bulldozed. Forest and Bird: 8.
Dowding, J. 1993. New Zealand Dotterel recovery plan. Department of Conservation, Wellington.
Dowding, J. E. 1998. The impact of predation on New Zealand Dotterels.
Dowding, J. E. 1999. Past distribution and decline of the New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus) in the South Island of New Zealand. Notornis 46: 167-180.
Dowding, J. E.; Davis, A. M. 2007. New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus) recovery plan, 2004-2014. Department of Conservation, Wellington.
Dowding, J. E.; Murphy, E. C. 1993. Decline of the Stewart Island population of the New Zealand Dotterel. Notornis 40: 1-14.
Dowding, J. E.; Murphy, E. C. 2001. The impact of predation by introduced mammals on endemic shorebirds in New Zealand: a conservation perspective. Biological Conservation 99: 47-64.
Dowding, J.E. 2006. Management of northern New Zealand dotterels on Coromandel Peninsula. Department of Conservation, Wellington.
Heather, B. D.; Robertson, H. A. 1997. The field guide to the birds of New Zealand. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Lord, A.; Waas, J. R.; Innes, J.; Whittingham, M. J. 2001. Effects of human approaches to nests of northern New Zealand Dotterels. Biological Conservation 98: 233-240.
Ombler, K. 2006. Breeding success for southern dotterels. Forest and Bird: 12.
Wills, D. E.; Murray, J.; Powlesland, R. G. 2003. Impact of management on the breeding success of the northern New Zealand dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) on Matakana Island, Bay of Plenty. Notornis 50: 1-10.
Further web sources of information
New Zealand Govt - Dept of Conservation - Recovery Plan
Text account compilers
Benstead, P., Harding, M., Khwaja, N., Mahood, S., McClellan, R., Taylor, J.
Dowding, J., Hitchmough, R., Parrish, R.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2015) Species factsheet: Charadrius obscurus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 07/07/2015. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2015) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 07/07/2015.
This information is based upon, and updates, the information published in BirdLife International (2000) Threatened birds of the world. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, BirdLife International (2004) Threatened birds of the world 2004 CD-ROM and BirdLife International (2008) Threatened birds of the world 2008 CD-ROM. These sources provide the information for species accounts for the birds on the IUCN Red List.
To provide new information to update this factsheet or to correct any errors, please email BirdLife
To contribute to discussions on the evaluation of the IUCN Red List status of Globally Threatened Birds, please visit BirdLife's Globally Threatened Bird Forums.
Additional resources for this species
|Key facts
|Current IUCN Red List category
|Not Recognised
|Charadriidae (Plovers)
|Species name author
|Gmelin, 1789


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I can successfully execute my package via Business Studio but when I schedule it in SQL Agent I get the error message, 'could not get proxy data for proxy id = 2.' I am trying to execute the scheduled job with that proxy (call it abcd_proxy) because I have a logon id (call it abcd) with access to a specific network drive folder, which holds a required source flat file. The abcd logon is defined as a sysadmin account. I am unable to see that the abcd logon id is an added principal within the abcd_proxy, which I think is because the abcd logon principal has a sysadmin role. My proxy id = 2 definition looks to be defined the same way that my first proxy id was.
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The End Result Is Foolishness
With everything else going on in the US, climate change hasn't been high on the political agenda. However Obama is personally going to change that this Tuesday. The White House has confirmed that the President will explain his plan in detail on how to reduce carbon emissions, and prepare for global warming. This afternoon Obama himself tweeted:
"We'll need all of us, as citizens, to do our part to preserve God's creation for future generations — our forests and waterways, our croplands and snow-capped peaks,"Obama said: "There's no single step that can reverse the effects of climate change. But when it comes to the world we leave our children, we owe it to them to do what we can."
However according to Hans von Storch a meteorologist the Climate Change model might have been a mistake. Therefore scientists have gambled away the public's trust.
During an interview with a German news publication, von Stroch said that, scientists are bewildered by the 15-year standstill in global warming if this inclination continues their models could be "fundamentally wrong." He said : "If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models, a 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations."
He explained that: "There are two conceivable explanations — and neither is very pleasant for us," according to Storch. "The first possibility is that less global warming is occurring than expected because greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have less of an effect than we have assumed. This wouldn't mean that there is no man-made greenhouse effect, but simply that our effect on climate events is not as great as we have believed."
If Obama will take these observations of the models being a mistake, and the scientists gambling away the public's trust, in consideration during his speech on Tuesday, is unclear at this moment. He has been talking about this topic numeral times now. For example; during a recent inaugural address, and he wants to add a call to action during his upcoming Georgetown appearance. But first things first.
He said: "This Tuesday, I'll lay out my vision for where I believe we need to go — a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change, and lead global efforts to fight it."
According to Obama climate change is something we all should be concerned with. (Apart from the wire taps, possible terrorist threats, and killer Asteroids, this topic is one we should take serious as well.
According to Obama lots of changes should be made. We should fight as a nation to make it a better world for our children. The situation can't be reversed but it can improve, the scientist might have gambled away the public's trust, but has Obama done so as well?
"It's not a bad thing to make mistakes and have to correct them," Storch stated. "The only thing that was bad was acting beforehand as if we were infallible. By doing so, we have gambled away the most important asset we have as scientists: the public's trust. Certainly the greatest mistake of climate researchers has been giving the impression that they are declaring the definitive truth," explained Storch.
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What do you think? Do you agree with von Storch, that the climate change model is a mistake, and that scientists have gambled away the public's, our, trust? Or do you think there is still some truth to it?
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Obama better get it right because if he bases his policy on faulty scientific models then it will come back to bite him in the future as it is destroying the reputation of the alarmist climate scientists now. One would have thought that if he took note of the evidence from his own satellite data he would spend our money on real climate science before he wastes further billions funding that icon of bureaucratic idiocy and corruption the UN IPCC.
Don't expect independent thinking from a politician.
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It sounds iike you are careful about what your ds eats and he is learning healthy eating habits from you. That's great. It doesn't sound like he has a problem. Unless he develops junk food issues, then I'm not sure what the problem is. You don't know whether those other children are eating well all the other times when you aren't with them.
Keep giving your ds strategies to say "no, thank you" when someone offers him junk, and keep giving him tasty, healthy snacks so he doesn't feel deprived. It sounds like you are doing a good job already.
I honestly suspect its just because you live beside the playgruond that you see it all the time. Chances are those kids are getting them as a treat too. Only you see different kids w/ treats every day so it seems constant, yk??
1) The other day all the neighborhood kids were out and they had Chiclets and Starburst. DD already knew what Starburst were (see below) but now we can add Chiclets to the list of items she begs for now that she knows it exists.
2) Starburst - shared with her last summer by a parent at the playground.
3) We live 3 minutes from a lake with a playground and beach area. There is a lady who I call the Hall Monitor, her job is to monitor the grounds. (She's very hall-monitor-y, she's always in everyone's business). Anyway, she took a shine to DD (sigh) and always gives her marshmallows. If she sees DD and she doesn't have her marshmallows, she will go all the way back to her office (like a 1/3 mile trek) to get them.
And so on and so forth. DD is often with DH, and while DH agrees with me that sugar is very bad for us, he does not feel comfortable interfering - both from the point of view of being rude to the person giving the junk (which I personally have no problem with - "no thank you, she's had enough treats for today" is fine) but also from the point of view of saying no to DD, who has a serious sweet tooth. It's even worse when ALL the kids running around are clutching candy - I myself would have trouble telling DD, who wanted the candy, no.
But it drives me crazy - the reason DD wants the candy is because everyone else introduced it to her (starting with my mother, who made it her PERSONAL MISSION to get DD hooked on sugar by age 2). My plan was to have a sugar-free house, and when DD was 5 or so and naturally starting to explore the world, not have limitations if she got dessert at a friend's or anything. But I had hoped that by then, it would be a non-habit and she could simply appreciate a little treat in moderation. While most parents consider that child abuse (certainly my mother thinks so), I think the general campaign to get as much sugar in our kids as possible is the real problem.
Some kids seem to RUN on sugar - I almost never see my neighbor's kids without some treat (though their mom is also into healthy cooking, go figure). One of DD's friends, I worry about her, it looks like she almost never eats non-sugar foods. I think their idea of health food is a Yoo-Hoo, you know?
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I would never complain to her, but I do get awfully tired of the amount of nutrition-free "food" that's floating around out there.
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dd1 did not know what candy was for a very long time. Then we got her some natural candy at the organic store. dd2 seemed to know what it was from birth. dd1 is 7 in a few days and knows she is not to eat food colorings and things like that. When she is offered a sucker at a bank window I say, "no thank you we don't eat food colorings (or HFCS)" Her father is not so assertive, and he got her one recently at a bank. We were dealing with the effects for days.
If we go anywhere, we take food she is allowed to have. Fruit, raisins, a big bottle of water, if I have any homemade cookies we bring those... I taught her long ago that she was not to accept anything from anyone else because we eat organic anyway (and I am paranoid mom). She has always been really smart and understood things so when I told her other people are eating stuff that was grown with pesticides, she seems to get it. We really don't go that many places though I guess. dd1 goes to the park 3 times a week or so in the summer. dd2 is just now old enough to go too. I have no qualms about saying no and making sure they don't get any of it(even if I look kookie about it). Just because the rest of the world is living under an illusion (IMO)(the illusion being that it is okay to ingest food colorings and HFCS and white sugar...) we don't have to. Remember the adage "If everyone were jumping off a bridge, would you?" Funny enough it is fitting in this situation. With people in power coming to the same conclusions (the Jamie Oliver show was a good start), our way of health and eating will be the norm by the time our children are grown I think. Or I live in my own dreamworld...
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Whether she feels that way or not, surely she's at least aware that sugar isn't good for kids (never mind the chemical dyes/flavours)?
I know some people mystified by that too. I remember when DD was maybe 15 months old we went to a liquor store to pick up a bottle of wine for some guests (this being an extremely rare event, but anyway). We had DD along, and the clerk saw her and pulled out a lollipop. We actually accepted and said thanks but never planned to give it to DD (she was too young to know or care). When we said thanks, he launched into a TIRADE about parents who decline lollipops for their kids - saying stuff like "you would never BELIEVE some parents out there actually don't want to give their kids this stuff!! These kids aren't even having a childhood anymore!!" and so on and so forth, and DH and I are just sorta staring at him and vaguely nodding.
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The prevalance of stuff drives me nuts, too. I let dd1 and ds2 play outside in our complex a lot. They're constantly coming home and announcing that they had a freezie or a "juice" at a friend's house. The latest thing is "juicy drop pops". Ugh. One of the other moms recently commented that they're stopped buying freezies, because of "all the complaints", and she's completely mystified. Her little boy hands freezies out all day - sometimes more than one to the same child. I think she was really offended that people are upset with her and her husband, because she feels that she's being generous. I totally understand why she feels that way, but I don't know why she has so much trouble understanding what other parents are upset about. Whether she feels that way or not, surely she's at least aware that sugar isn't good for kids (never mind the chemical dyes/flavours)?
I would never complain to her, but I do get awfully tired of the amount of nutrition-free "food" that's floating around out there.
Our motto is everything in moderation - including sugar and etc, also if we are handing out treats/snacks we tell the kids to go & ask their moms if they can have xyz treat or not to get the buy-in. It doesn't always work cus lets face what kid is going back to their parents to ask if they know the answer will be NO, but we try.
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I think it's totally up to the parent how the child eats. Mine ask me first about eating something someone gives them and they know alot about good foods and bad foods. I'm all about having junky stuff in moderation. So we don't do alot of junk, but I don't usually mind when they have something.
Among junk foods, freezy pops are pretty innocuous. No fat, not many calories, hydrating and cooling. I really think the happy medium could be that you don't purchase those foods regularly or eat them every day, but he is welcome to enjoy them when shared by friends. They are sometimes-foods. A cookie or juice every few days is not a health concern. You could bring some fruits or cheese or whatever suits you to share, too.
Yes, I can bring fruit and cheese to share but that doesn't excuse everyone else pushing sugar on my kid, especially in situations when I don't at all expect it to happen. (Like the liquor store).
Homeschooling mama to 6 year old DD.
All HFCS in foods on the market in the US is from genetically modified corn. I have been following GMO studies for years and I know this is not the intent of the thread, but the latest study proves that by the third generation, GMO soy causes sterility. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffre..._b_544575.html
Chickens given GMO corn would not eat it. http://current.com/news/90598094_afr...ified-corn.htm
This means to me that it is not food. Please protect yourselves and your children from it.
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I agree, and suggest the same to you. That's why I suggest being gracious and flexible with others and not letting food-correctness get in the way of relationships.
However, I do not value my relationship with the liquor store clerk or the hall monitor lady at the park more than I do my daughter's health.
And there is a critical difference between me doing things the way I want and letting you do things the way you want - versus you pushing your food choices onto my kid and creating a potential relationship rift where there need not be one.
It's the junkfood peddlers that make the issue. If they didn't need to push their junk on other families, there would not be any issue. They can eat all the junk they want, no problem.
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I have to disagree that freezer pops as sold on the market are harmless. Most contain preservatives, High Fructose corn syrup, and artificial colorings. There is a large contingency of scientists asking that food colorings be removed altogether from the food supply. there is ample evidence to support that they cause ADHD type behaviors, and they can easily be replaced with natural colorings. Here is the first link I got when googling it, more info in the articles (some are studies) listed on left.
All HFCS in foods on the market in the US is from genetically modified corn. I have been following GMO studies for years and I know this is not the intent of the thread, but the latest study proves that by the third generation, GMO soy causes sterility. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffre..._b_544575.html
Chickens given GMO corn would not eat it. http://current.com/news/90598094_afr...ified-corn.htm
This means to me that it is not food. Please protect yourselves and your children from it.
I wonder if some of the mom's issue could be wrestling with what we had as kids and how times have changed, new information available etc. I remember as a kid having a summer filled with freezie pops, juice pops, lollipops and etc. But I also had a lot of fruit, and veggies too, and we ran all over the place too.
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I think we would disagree about what constitutes "ample evidence." I think GMOs are pretty amazing and I am in favor of their responsible use. I don't think HFCS is substantially different from plain old sugar. Tons of sugar is obviously not ideal, but we're not talking about tons. Foods that you receive as gifts to be shared from friends are not going to constitute a large enough percentage of your diet to throw off your nutrition in any significant way.
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We do eat healthy but dd has some occasional junkfood. We just got back from my mom's and she was so excited to have poptarts for breakfast.
I would object if my neighbor's were giving my child freezie pop things everyday.
GMOs are great for third world countries that might struggle with adequate water, increase certain vitamins or other things but in the US they are not used responsibly.
No-one said anything about being ungracious.
However, I do not value my relationship with the liquor store clerk or the hall monitor lady at the park more than I do my daughter's health.
And there is a critical difference between me doing things the way I want and letting you do things the way you want - versus you pushing your food choices onto my kid and creating a potential relationship rift where there need not be one.
It's the junkfood peddlers that make the issue. If they didn't need to push their junk on other families, there would not be any issue. They can eat all the junk they want, no problem.
In any case, if you can think of three examples and one of them is from a year ago, it doesn't sound like this is an everyday, seriously health-threatening issue.
How many of us grew up with great grandparents or grandparents who lived through the depression?
We were raised to be grateful for anything we were given. Our parents still say "you were fed junk and you are fine" and things like that.
Our kids generation is proof that we are not fine. There were three peanut, wheat, eggs and all sorts of allergies in my daughter's class. What have we done to ourselves?
We aren't fine and people need to wake up. Junkfood all the time is not good for us, we did not turn out fine.
The rate of food allergies is increasing and fast
It isn't the "grateful for every little thing" times anymore. We are the "do not give my kid anything without asking" generation. I might be more lax with grandparents but I would be mad if another parent was giving my kid tons of junk.
I do see myself as pretty relaxed on the issue but I am sure some parents see me as extremely strict. I know what it is like to have issues with not being able to eat certain foods or reactions from certain foods and I don't want my kids to have those same problems. I was raised on tons of processed foods and now they make me sick. I don't avoid buying Zatarains because it has cooties, I don't buy it because it is full of MSG and makes me sick. I don't like being doubled over in pain.
Some capri suns are 100% juice - its just a glorified juice box. And I do buy them for when we go out as a treat, so I personaly don't see them as all bad. As for the cookies/candy, unless its the same kid there w/ that stuff everyday, you don't really know that its not a special treat for them too. DS1 gets juiceboxes/capris suns once or twice a week at playgroup and theres sometimes a cookie there too.
I honestly suspect its just because you live beside the playgruond that you see it all the time. Chances are those kids are getting them as a treat too. Only you see different kids w/ treats every day so it seems constant, yk??
secondly, i guess i should've been more clear in the fact that if people were bringing out homemade cookies or 100% juice frozen pops i wouldn't mind nearly as much. we NEVER buy cookies, ice cream, juice, etc. to keep in our house. if we want a treat ds helps me make cookies or we have a nice homemade dessert from a restaurant we trust not to put crap.
everyone is entitled to their own opinion and IMO having capri-sun/juice boxes and processed cookies 2-3 times a week is way too much especially when you add that to maybe going to a b-day party or getting a treat as a family. i would call that getting into a habit at that point which is exactly what i'm trying to avoid.
i completely appreciate that people are just trying to be friendly, generous, etc. when they offer stuff, i just wish they'd ask me first before it gets stuck in ds' face, THAT i feel is common courtesy.
I agree, and suggest the same to you. That's why I suggest being gracious and flexible with others and not letting food-correctness get in the way of relationships.
Well, considering other well-intentioned people as "junk peddlers," rather than people who wanted to give something they considered good to your kid, is pretty ungracious by itself. Whether you graciously accept or graciously decline is up to you. It does seem odd at a liquor store since children are not allowed inside liquor stores in my area.
In any case, if you can think of three examples and one of them is from a year ago, it doesn't sound like this is an everyday, seriously health-threatening issue.
I completely agree.
I don't know. I feel you are in a tough position. It shouldn't be up to you to do anything, offer healthier versions, etc., but if you don't like it maybe you could change it. Are there any other parents that feel the same? Maybe band together and write a letter to all of the parents? Try not to sound accusatory or rude in any way. How about hosting a community health fair, focused on children's eating habits? Maybe some of these other parents really DON'T KNOW what is in the food they are feeding their children (if it is all the time.). It is baffling what some parents don't know out there. If it was my neighborhood, and if I had some extra time, I would seriously consider it.
Thankfully, in my town everyone is very healthy in all aspects. Organics, locally grown food, general wellness ideals are very easy to come by here. We def. do have treats though. An occasional one at home, but most of the time we reserve the treats for family parties (which are NOT health oriented!).
I grew up on freezie pops and huggie 'juice' drinks in the summer. IMO, (now) I think they are disgusting. I cringe even thinking of DS ingesting the artificial food coloring and HFCS. That is one thing I just do not want to budge on. If he is going to have a treat, I would much rather it be a good piece of dark chocolate with his Mama...
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I'm only 25, and when I was a kid running around the neighborhood, no one ate anyone's food. Maybe my area was an anomoly, but I don't remember kids bringing out tons of snacks ever 20 min when we were outside. But that seems to be the norm.
And yeah, my kids play outside every day. For hours. The neighborhood kids usually make 4-5 trips inside to get candy, Pringles, bright red fruit punch, etc. That is way more than "every once in a while", and it makes me feel like I can't give them the homemade stuff that I enjoy making.
why do parents give their kids SO much junk food? it drives me crazy! we eat very well and like to have ice cream or a nice dessert sometimes that we share with ds (almost 3). he also gets to eat junk when he goes to b-day parties, halloween, etc. i am proud of him because he really does seem to understand what treats are & that they are for special times. he STILL talks about the one time he's ever had a lollipop, when he went to see santa for the first time. i find this touching. dh & i were both made to feel like outsiders by our parents when it came to food and we decided early on that we did not want to have it be like this for ds. there's got to be a happy medium though!! there's a playground in front on our house and it seems like there's constantly some kid out there with capri-sun, cookies, candy that i'm having to say "no, thank-you" to for ds (which ds honestly doesn't seem to care either way). the other day his little pal brought a capri-sun out for him and he already had it in his hand, so i let him have it because i just couldn't be a total meanie. if this happened once in a while i really wouldn't mind, but when you add it all up it's just too much! i realize that as he gets older i won't be able to control everything he eats outside the house which is why we are trying to give him healthy habits now. i just wish i didn't even have to deal with it at all. ds rarely even wants to eat when he's outside, he's too busy playing!!!
She didn't say she denied treats or junk. She said it needs to be in moderation. She also said she didn't want her kids to feel like outsiders in regard to food
Up until preschool, DD was mostly with me and she always had healthy food. About the only "treats" up until then were the first few birthday parties within our various social circles at that time. She didn't care for any of those treats, so we kept on feeding her as usual and introducing more and more healthy foods, building up her taste buds for these types of foods. She did go to daycare part-time and I just made sure she had a healthy breakfast and dinner and didn't worry about the rest on those days (2-3 days a week). The bulk of her food was coming from us.
In preschool, they fed all the kids a hot lunch as part of the curriculum (social skills) and it was pretty healthy considering the state laws of serving food, etc. She went three days a week and again, I made sure she was fed a healthy breakfast and dinner those days and didn't worry about the rest.
In school, she takes her lunch nearly every day by choice. She much prefers our food to school lunch. She buys lunch roughly once a month and it is totally up to her. When packing her lunch/snacks for school, she chooses one item (or more) from each of our categories. When choosing a snack after school, she makes choices based on what she ate already that day. Our dinners almost always consist of a little bit of meat protein and plenty of vegetables (raw and cooked), so we keep that in mind in our daily choices.
I am all about teaching her to handle these things herself. I'm not with her at school and she is offered all kinds of junk. In Kindergarten, the kids used to swap snacks and lunches, etc. She quickly learned she didn't care for too much junk food (made her feel icky) and she learned who else ate healthy like her (supported her tastes and traded new foods she liked). It was a good learning tool for all of us. I learned new foods to get for her lunches and she learned who to hang out with and share food with. She's in third grade now and I don't hear any more swapping food stories, but I do know who she sits with at lunch and I've been on field trips and see who brings what for lunch/snacks. Our area has a large percentage of "healthy eaters", so she isn't "that kid" around here.
At home, we've loosened up over time. I felt it was most important to develop the tastes for healthy food early on and then gradually introduce "treats". We mostly prepare our treats from scratch anyway, which still fits into my health goals. This calendar year (since Christmas), I loosened up a lot and let her learn for herself how much junk food effects her body and mood. I made mental notes first on when she ate a lot of sugary foods what her behavior was. Then, on vacation in April, DH & I purposely talked about how food made us feel and what we could eat to feel better in a place we didn't know well, etc. She got into the concept. When we got home, she wanted more junk food snacks than usual and I went ahead and bought them. Then, I helped her make the connection between her moods/behavior/choices and the food she was eating. I encouraged her to keep a food journal for over a month and to add her feelings to it. She didn't want to and then she did. She figured it out on her own at that point. Her choices have been reflecting this newfound understanding and she has been expressing her new understanding in the grocery store, which is avoiding bringing the junk home in the first place (like it used to be).
I wanted to give her this experience much, much younger than I got it. I was in my twenties before I figured it out and that made it really, really hard to retrain my taste buds. I grew up on junk food and fast food and soda. Changing my tastes has been a long, hard road. I felt she needed some of the lessons, but also felt guidance would benefit her greatly and the earlier the better....ONCE we had established her baseline tastes. For me (based on reading and intuition), I felt the first five years were important to keep her food intake as healthy as possible while teaching when we have more control and when we don't. After that, it was time.
DD accepts some treats offered, but also knows how to politely say, "no thanks". She judges for herself each day what will make her feel good and what will potentially make her feel bad. This goes beyond "healthy foods" and "junk foods". At age 8, she ended up getting food poisoning three times from "healthy foods". That is when I realized she needed more autonomy in her choices. Only part of the lesson had sunk in over time. I point blank told her she didn't have to eat ANYTHING (even healthy food) she felt was not good for her. We've been working on distinguishing "off" smells and looks from "odd" smells and looks of foods.
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So, they should do what? Go hide behind a tree while they eat their food so's your kid doesn't see it? Honestly, I was *that kid* who only ate healthy and wasn't allowed to eat "junk food", and I have *zero* interest in making my kids be 'those kids'. Because it sucked. It really did. We weren't allowed pop or chips or juice boxes or anything of the sort growing up, and it sucked, and I know it did and I, as a result, have zero interest in making my kids be 'those kids'. So, when its offered, we accept. When we're at storytime or playgroup or friends' and theres a special snack or a juice box or whatever, they get it. Because its not everyday, and its not going to hurt. But whatever.
We make cookies and ice cream and other yummy treats, but feel very strongly about not eating food created by the industrial food complex. that includes food that contains refined sugar (which is overly subsidized by our government).
we have ongoing discussions about our food choices and as she gets older she will be more involved in our family's food choices. For now, however, dh and i are her voice on this subject.
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There is nothing to lose by signing up for a Mint.com account. All of the software is free and there is no charge to use it. Mint is the best free money management software on the web. Mint is the reason that a number of the old money management software companies like Microsoft Money have stopped creating software. There is absolutely no reason to pay for money management software when companies like Mint offer it for free. Mint is able to generate revenue by earning commissions off of products that it recommends. Whenever a customer signs up for a service(new bank account, credit card account, loan account) Mint gets a fee.
Being able to track multiple accounts through a single user interface is a really novel concept. That is something that any household can benefit from.
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I tried Mint about 2 years ago, when it was very new. After years with MS Money, I was underwhelmed.
I tried it again last year, and it was vastly improved. Still, I preferred Quicken (MS Money was discontinued) and choose to use that today. I'll probably try Mint again in a year or so. I like the idea of remote cloud access to my financial data. I use several computers for home and work, and it would be nice to always have access.
Can "Mint" can be used for Canadian applications?
I just recommended this to someone else–great blog post. I love it and use it. It is a great resource especially since no fees are involved. Free=awesome.
Try yodliee.com as well; does similar stuff.
Sweet! I might try it out. Do you know if I can use mint without connecting my bank accounts (manually input)?
I've been hearing/reading many good things about mint.com. I think it's about time to try it out for my self!
This article pretty much convinced me to give it a go thanks for the tip!
I wonder if Mint will make its way to the UK? I hope so because it looks great, and free too? Bonus.
What a great free financial tool. It's quite helpful to use a pre-designed tool rather than formulating the budget concepts or assessing how items shall be computed manually all by yourself. Thanks.


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by Mel cross posted from her blog When Cows and Kids CollideTo be clear, Debi and Michael's story is NOT a love story. There is precious little love involved and a whole heap of red flags.I had just turned thirteen when I first saw him and knew, just simply knew, he was my man. If he had glanced over and been able to read my mind he would have surely laughed. (...)The whole community had been talking about the famous, young preacher who had been invited to speak at First Baptist Church's Teen Retreat. (...) My young mind quickly assessed him. He seemed bigger than life, a super, in charge type of man. I guessed he must have been at least 21 years old. (...) … [Read more...]
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Quoting Quiverfull: Don't Divorce Your Abuser?
from Ladies Against Feminism and Christian Worldview - What Should an Abused Spouse Do?Trigger warning for harmful advice. The posting at Ladies Against Feminism and Christian Worldview has a very triggering photograph of abuse.My suggestion is that you tell your husband that you want to be married to him, and that your goal is reconciliation, but that you are no longer willing to live under abuse. He has a choice to make. He needs to seek help, counseling and accountability through a local … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Stay At Home Daughters Are Slaves?
by Suzannah Rowntree at Ladies Against Feminism - Is Stay-At-Home Daughterhood Biblical? But there was one thing missing from my convictions on "stay-at-home" daughterhood. Folks—particularly Christian peers—would remind me that the Bible doesn't specifically command, describe, or endorse the concept, and therefore one could not make it a rule for everyone. Up until recently, I found this reasoning pretty fair. None of the books I read on the subject of daughterhood and the family made more than a persuasive argument from Scripture—certainly nothing I found convincing. Most of the factors in my own decision had been personal, and while I loved the life so much, I couldn't recommend it to oth … [Read more...]
Church Statistics and Abuse
by Samantha Field cross posted from her blog Defeating The Dragons [trigger warning for child sexual abuse, rape, domestic violence] I'm not entirely sure when it happened, but from the reading I've been doing, sometime in the last 30 or so years there's been a subtle shift in how churches talk about growth. What my reading tells me is that this is at least somewhat connected to the rise of the "mega church," with it becoming impossible for pastoral staffs to simply look around their churches and understand who their congregation is. … [Read more...]
ATI's Bill Gothard Sexually Harrassed ATI Workers?
by CaluluFor the past few days I've been reading through the accounts by ladies who'd worked with Bill Gothard, ATI's founder and venerated head, over at Recovered Grace. They all give very similar versions of their time with Bill, being inappropriately touched, and treated with a creepy flirtatiousness. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Defending The Pearls and "To Train Up a Child"?
by Paige Coleman of Delivering Women From the Snares of Death blog - Pearls Before SwineFor those of you who left nasty comments online, please be adequately informed before you raise your voice in protest. Humbly consider what you say to your children and what you say to others. If you call for the banning of "To Train up a Child" because of the actions of those who read it, then by following your own logic, I could call for the banning of the examiner's website. After all, the author of the article clearly provoked you to anger. Let's blame him instead of you! If Michael Pearl is responsible for Carri Williams' anger, then the examiner (sic) is responsible for yours. … [Read more...]
CTBHHM: Pick a Girl with Low Self-Esteem (Yes Really)
by Libby Anne cross posted from her blog Love Joy FeminismCreated To Be His Help Meet, pp. 140-141 In the coming pages, we will discuss how we need to cook, clean, take care of your children, etc. These are important and necessary, but the buck always stops right here at the action word reverence. A man will allow his woman many, many faults, as long as he knows that she thinks he is great. If she will just look into his face with adoration, if she is thankful to him for loving her, he will adore her. She can dress awful, be grossly overweight, have terrible hair, not cook so well, be a little lazy and dumb, and not be one bit pretty, but if she will just think and show that he is w … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Mental Illness is Self Focus?
by John Piper from desiring God - 10 Resolutions for Mental Health That night Dr. Kilby had a pastoral heart and a poet's eye. He pled with us to stop seeking mental health in the mirror of self-analysis, but instead to drink in the remedies of God in nature. He was not naïve. He knew of sin. He knew of the necessity of redemption in Christ. But he would have said that Christ purchased new eyes for us as well as new hearts. His plea was that we stop being unamazed by the strange glory of ordinary things. He ended that lecture in 1976 with a list of resolutions. As a tribute to my teacher and a blessing to your soul, I offer them for your joy. … [Read more...]
CTBHHM: Don't Resist, Confront or Challenge
by Libby Anne cross posted from her blog Love Joy FeminismCreated To Be His Help Meet, pp. 100-104 A wise woman does not dream of what "could have been." … Therefore, she is joyful and content in her present circumstances. In this section, Debi will argue that you need to impose a sort of thought policing on yourself, and that discontentment stems not from bad … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Low Self-Esteem Is Healthy?
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By ANNIE ZELM
Crystal Bowersox left Elliston and Toledo a few months ago as a singer whose exposure was mostly limited to the local performing circuit.
She came back Friday a national celebrity, with all of northern Ohio anxiously awaiting her arrival and paying homage to their own American Idol.
Banners lined the streets of Oak Harbor, and signs wishing her luck were plastered across the windows of businesses from the Chop Shop to the local McDonalds.
At least 6,000 people packed into the Ottawa County fairgrounds before Crystal made her grand entrance in a Ford Mustang, trailing a parade that marched through Oak Harbor.
Taking the stage with her longtime bass player, Frank May, she opened with a cover of Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby McGee."
Her half-hour performance also included two original songs, "Holy Toledo" and "Speak Now," one of her personal favorites she wrote before moving back to Ohio after chasing her dreams in Chicago.
"I wasn't sure how my life was going to go, but I'm kinda liking how it's turning out," she said with a grin.
Offering a peace sign, she thanked the crowd for their support and promised to return.
"Really, the only way I'm going to get to the top is you guys," she said. "God bless you for carrying me this far."
People arrived as early as noon to snag seats close to the grandstand for "Bower-stock," a celebration organized largely by the Trinity United Church of Christ in Elliston.
Church parishioners and others sold T-shirts to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Diabetes Youth Services, a Toledo-area agency that hosts an annual camp Crystal attended as a child.
"The exposure's been a godsend," DYS operations coordinator Terry Rudes said. "We've been in existence since 1984 and we haven't had this much publicity, ever."
Proceeds from the shirt sales and donations have already allowed the agency to send 22 children to a summer camp for free, she said. The camp normally costs $1,000 per child.
Chris Bury, 50, a construction worker from Genoa, doesn't usually take the day off when the weather's nice but couldn't pass up the chance to see Crystal.
"How often is this gonna happen?" he asked. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing."
Eight-year-old Cierra Stotridge hopes to be a singer like Crystal someday and practices at home on her karaoke set.
The third-grade student at Hayes Elementary in Fremont came out to see her with her parents, Dan and Sara Stotridge, and her 11-year-old brother Caleb. She's gotten her whole family hooked on the show, she said.
Fans of all ages held up homemade signs and wore mismatched knee-highs known as "Bower socks."
"I voted for her like a thousand times on my cell phone," said Courtney Hunter, 11, a fifth-grader at Rocky Ridge Elementary School and distant cousin of Crystal.
Those who met Crystal before she became a household name say they're not at all surprised by her success.
Barb Rhodes, a teacher at Kersten's Korner Nursery School in Oak Harbor, taught Crystal more than 20 years ago. She held up a sign with a photo of a blonde 3-year-old singing a song about a Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween.
"She was already a spitfire then," Rhodes said as she stood with two fellow teachers. "One of those kids you couldn't help but love."
At the preschool graduation, Crystal's teachers asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. She told them she wanted to be a teacher just like Mrs. Rhodes.
"She was just a child you wouldn't forget," said Bonnie Adkins, 59, a custodian who remembers her as a student at Rocky Ridge Elementary School. "She made an impression on everyone."
Sylvania resident Don Goins, a friend of Crystal's mother, jokes about proposing to a 13-year-old Crystal the first time he heard her sing. He was in his mid-40s at the time.
"I always knew she was going places," he said.
At Oak Harbor High School, where Crystal attended, many of the students were granted an early dismissal to join in the festivities.
"There's quite a bit of buzz," Oak Harbor High School principal Keith Thorbahn said. "It's fun to watch, to see somebody this close."
Meanwhile, officials blocked off streets through the tiny town of Elliston, a few miles from the fairgrounds. A few sheriff's cruisers parked in front of the home of Crystal's father, Bill Bowersox, so she could visit her family in the midst of a tight schedule that included radio and TV interviews, a few surprise stops in Toledo and singing the national anthem at the Toledo Mud Hens game.
The baseball team broke a single-game record for attendance, with 13,200 fans flocking to the field to hear her.
Toledo resident Vickie Linke, 51, said she's been following Crystal on the show and was even more impressed by her live performance.
"She rocks all the time," Linke said. "It's a pretty good thing when the crowd asks for her original stuff over the stuff they know. It's a true testament to her talent."


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This is one fast food chain that I wish they would put in more places. I come from Ohio and we have none of these. The food is always made to order, hot and fresh. There is no such thing as cold fries in this place. The restaurant is kept very, very clean, the walls are painted, bathrooms are clean....
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- As the largest food advertiser in Spanish-language media, McDonald's showed the strongest skew among Hispanic customers compared to Burger King, Wendy's and Taco Bell.
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David Perdue "opposes laws that provide equal pay protections for women."
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Wendy I bought the hats from Oriental Trading!
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Surf Life Saving Australia – Australia's major water safety and rescue authority, including a volunteer club network of 310 clubs and 55 support operations.
Australian Water Safety Council - acts as a consultative forum comprising the major water safety and related government agencies and focuses on the presentation of key water safety issues to governments, industry and the community.
International Life Saving Federation – the world authority in the global effort to prevent drowning and regroups national life saving organisations aiming at improving water safety, water rescue, lifesaving and lifeguarding and lifesaving sport.
Government Skills Council - the industry skills council for government and community safety.
Australian Resuscitation Council - a voluntary co-ordinating body which represents all major groups involved in the teaching and practice of resuscitation.
Emergency Management Australia - an Australian Federal Government Agency tasked with coordinating governmental responses to emergency incidents.
Australian Local Government Association - the national voice of local government, representing more than 609 councils across the country.
Australian Tourism Commission - a statutory authority of the Australian Government, which promotes Australia as a tourism destination internationally and domestically and delivers research and forecasts for the sector.
Australian Coastsafe – the intelligence and strategic national coastal safety management service of SLSA which gathers data on all beaches around Australia and establishes systems, and programs to deliver a safer aquatic environment.
Australian Lifesaving Academy – the fully accredited educational arm of SLSA that delivers member and community education training.
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