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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Philosophy's Biggest Losers
We initially thought of A. N. Whitehead. A towering figure in his day; no one cares about him now. But then we were reminded of the "process philosophy" hangers-on. So Whitehead isn't the biggest loser after all.
Norman Malcolm then came to mind. Seriously. Does any other 20th C philosopher match him? He was a major force in his day. But now nobody reads a word. Not one essay is considered essential. Not one essay is even regarded as historically significant in the development of subsequent philosophy. Malcolm is Philosophy's biggest loser.
Other views?
50 comments:
Bernard Lonergan: big loser or biggest loser?
- October 28, 2010 at 5:31 PM
Rush Rhees
- October 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM
as per Lonergan (always a niche guy anyway, never a Whitehead sort of prominence), check out this peculiar requirement for a recent ad for a t-t position: "A working familiarity with the critical realism of Bernard Lonergan is essential for participation in the department's mission."
- October 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM
This would be more fun if we were making predictions.
- October 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Some of Malcolm's stuff in the philosophy of religion is given a bit of attention.
- October 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM
@ 5:38:
Then make some!
- October 28, 2010 at 5:46 PM
Prediction: Gettier, Williams and everyone who has ever written about 'testimony'.
- October 28, 2010 at 5:59 PM
C.I. Lewis; no doubt.
- October 28, 2010 at 5:59 PM
Morris Cohen: in the philosophy of law many act like the discipline started with Hart.
- October 28, 2010 at 6:45 PM
It's tough to beat someone who's only been dead 20 years, and is completely forgotten already
- October 28, 2010 at 6:55 PM
Yeah, Malcolm is good.
I had a professor who knew him, and said that he was the only philosopher she'd ever met who was below average in intelligence.
I don't think anyone is going to come close to Malcolm if the metric is Contemporary Prominence X 2010 unreadness.
- October 28, 2010 at 7:40 PM
I don't think that Will Durant was ever seen as a serious philosopher, but he was read by pretty much every educated person of the generations two or so before me, I think. So, that's a big fall, sort of.
Also, if you took a poll about the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, say, fifty years ago, wouldn't Russell have come out by far in the lead? But now, there are a couple of papers about descriptions that people read, and this logic book that almost no one ever read, but which people still think about. He's not as ignored as Malcolm or Whitehead now, but his fall was farther, no?
- October 28, 2010 at 8:07 PM
G.H. Von Wright
- October 28, 2010 at 9:01 PM
When I was an undergrad in a Continentally oriented program, I heard a few people describe Karl Jaspers as someone who was very influential long ago but not so widely read today.
- October 28, 2010 at 9:35 PM
Jesus Christ (talk about unearned influence beyond lifespan) Russell and Whitehead's Principia will always stand as a watershed work--against Godel of course--as something of lasting significance. Please exclude both names from this ignominious list unless you want to exclude Godel as well. Did you ever hear of the phrase, "standing on the shoulders of giants?" Let's get history of philosophy back into the picture in front of say, presentist (in every sense of the term) navel-gazing.
Shall we not estimate everyone by his or her weakest work?
Shit my Dada says.
- October 28, 2010 at 11:51 PM
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- October 29, 2010 at 1:10 AM
Whitehead is probably not a good case of loser because he is still discussed in recent conferences and books in France.
- October 29, 2010 at 1:12 AM
- Simon said...
Max Scheler: read Gadamer or Löwith's memoirs and you'll see that he was once amongst the most influential and widely-read continental philosophers, the rival of Husserl, Heidegger, etc. Now, nothing.
- October 29, 2010 at 2:30 AM
- M said...
I'd say a lot of Germans who due to the war, and the greater name of Carnap, who've fallen by the wayside.
Ernst Cassirer for instance. Who even remembers the Marburg group of philosophers? It's all Vienna during the 1920s 20thC
My personal recommendation is Stephan Korner. But that's just me being weird. Korner wrote on logic, and a bit of metaphysics and for me was an influential Kantian, and its not to say by any stretch that he wasn't writing on the mainstream issues of the day.
I think also, people who get remembered for only one thing where the rest of their work is good: like McTaggart being the 'Time guy' only.
Good post.
Perhaps I might also say, to be topical: women. Female philosophers pace the WILTBAWIP [sic] site are getting a bad deal out of academic philosophy. How many in this list are all men, for instance? We remember the male losers even in some historical context. I am not sure (unfortunately) the women may fare as well. I can't think of any woman before Anscombe for instance.
- October 29, 2010 at 5:10 AM
CD Broad?
Sure you have to mention 'five types of ethical theory' in a comprehensive history of the subject, but I don't think anyone reads his stuff anymore.
- October 29, 2010 at 5:55 AM
Bergson beats most contestants, I think.
Davidson is also fading faster than anyone would have thought.
My controversial pick for major future fader? Marx. His fame is mainly due to those who 'acted in his name'. On purely intellectual grounds history has not been kind to his ideas. The theory of history is a wash and the people who take the economics seriously are almost all (humanities) non-experts (always a bad sign). Most of what has stood up well is not terribly original. So I expect him to keep losing support steadily and ultimately fade from view.
- October 29, 2010 at 7:51 AM
Yeah, but Davidson will be rediscovered in a generation or so - his program is out of fashion right now, but he had a program.
Gettier would win, as usual, if it was 'loss of influence over time per pages published' - but I don't see him being forgotten any time soon. Gettier examples are so easy to discuss - either positively or negatively - that they'll be around for a while, though maybe just as examples of how not to aproach epistemology.
I say Dennett. Big in the 90s, still significant in the 00s, but nothing really juicy.
- October 29, 2010 at 8:37 AM
Santayana; RW Sellars. These guys were bigger than Malcolm in their day and are now more forgotten.
- October 29, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Jon Cogburn said...
Susanne Langer and Nelson Goodman were both (I think justifiably) gigantic in their time, but not many people write about their work now. Perhaps there might be a resurgence.
While I've spent innumerable hours going over Davidson, and strongly consider him one of the deeper philosophers of the previous century (anomalous monism, principle of charity, justification for neo-Cartesian views about animal mentality, etc.), I'm not sure the fact that he had a program is going to help his resurgence. Anyone who really works in formal semantics finds his programmatic suggestions to be insufferably and really irritatingly vague (me and a linguist once calculated how many different kinds of things are on each side of the T sentence in his various papers and we came up with something like 16 permutations; the only time Davidson was really clear about it to mean something to a linguist, he tied his fortunes to Generative Semantics, where transformations got you from a logical form to the actual sentence; this approach was empirically disconfirmed though).
Lewis and Stalnaker and Montague are just giants by comparison. All of their programmatic pronouncements are empirically informative enough to be incredibly helpful to people involved in actual research programs. If you read Lappin's edited Blackwell companion to formal semantics you see that everything rests on Montague's shoulders to some extent, that Lewis and Stalnaker are incredibly important, and that the only thing that rests on Davidson's is are two inconsistent ways that linguists read his suggestions about the logical forms of sentences referencing events (see Baver's really excellent "Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian" http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Lapsed-Neo-Davidsonian-Compositional-Dissertations/dp/081532846X ).
I worry that Fodor is going to disappear pretty quickly for similar reasons. He just tied way too much of his substantive views to whatever eructations Chomsky happened to produce the previous week (this explains the genuinely weird attempts over and over again to provide a priori critiques the entire program of lexical semantics, the bizarre anti-evolutionary theory stuff, as well as the suggestion that we have an innate concept of carburetor). This is harder to say though. He's such a clearer writer than Davidson, that I hope he fairs better. And it's very hard for me to see people not needing to at least take into account the Language of Thought Hypothesis to contrast their own views to it.
On the other hand, his prose is infuriatingly dismissive of really important philosophers, linguists, and psychologists (read his piece on Brandom, for example). I don't predict this will age well.
Finally, I predict that Quine will continue to lose pre-eminence. He's already on his way to being treated as a historical figure more than someone whose philosophy we grapple with on its own terms.
More significantly, better arguments in the same neighborhood have always been on offer from Putnam. But currently Mark Wilson and and Stephen Stich make much, much better arguments in the same neighborhood and go on to draw much more compelling and interesting conclusions from those arguments. To be fair, Wilson was Quine's student, but his fascinating arguments are completely independent.
- October 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Rorty will be utterly forgotten. As he should have been from the beginning, of course.
- October 29, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Russell's theory of types will keep him "current" for a long time: there are all sorts of type-theoretic approaches to logic, computer science, and other areas of math.
Ditto for Russell's Paradox - no discussion of philosophy of infinity will ever ignore it.
Ditto for Russell's "regressive method" of justification of mathematical axioms. With all those super-duper large cardinal axioms introduced in set theory, much of their justification seems to be derived from results which can be obtained with their help
Ditto for Russell's "if-thenism" view of mathematics. With ever more abstract axioms in many fields, the issue of "truth" of such axioms becomes more and more diluted (it seems), and so is the truth of theorems derived from them. But the facts of entailment established by valid proofs remain quite transparent as the subject matter of mathematical investigations.
Whether or not one accepts any of the above Russell's proposals, I think they continue to maintain their relevance to contemporary philosophy of mathematics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of language.
- October 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Oakeshott would get my vote.
- October 29, 2010 at 1:19 PM
I'm excited about this one: Herbert Spencer.
Spencer was absolutely huge in his day, and now he's not only unread and ignored, but (when anyone bothers to mention him) positively reviled as a monster out to starve the poor.
- October 29, 2010 at 1:33 PM
Josiah Royce.
- October 29, 2010 at 1:52 PM
Would R. M. Hare fit the bill? While 'prescriptivism' was for some decades perhaps the most-discussed topic in (meta-)ethics, no one has done any serious work on Hare in a long time.
verification: 'ribil', as in 'rub my ribil'
- October 29, 2010 at 2:06 PM
Two philosophers not yet mentioned come to mind: Roderick Chisholm and Gustav Bergmann
- October 29, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- Simon said...
Re M's comment about Cassirer, he's actually enjoying something of a rebirth of interest at the moment: Peter Gordon's new book "Continental Divide," about Heidegger and Cassirer's Davos debate, is a serious engagement with Cassirer's philosophy, and Emily Levine's recent dissertation (forthcoming book) on interwar Hamburg features Cassirer prominently.
Re 1:19, isn't Oakeshott also making something of a comeback at the moment? Was he ever really that well known in the first place?
Beyond my original suggestion of Scheler, how about R. G. Collingwood? Or Karl Löwith?
- October 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM
Oakeshott is seeing a minor resurgence, although I've never heard anyone say anything about him in the academy, or seen a paper about him at a conference. Might be the circles I run in.
All of these figures will have some recent books out on them, probably, if only because the philosophy has sort of peaked, or overfilled, or some such, and the publishing must go on! Tenure or death!
- October 29, 2010 at 5:02 PM
Virtually all 20th-century philosophers will not be read. Funding for academic departments will dry up and most philosophy departments will disappear. Very few philosophers wrote well enough to thrive outside of the institutional structure characteristic of that century.
- October 29, 2010 at 5:23 PM
It would be good to remember here that Samuel Johnson once remarked somewhere that the influence of Locke would be relegated to the history books while the influence of Joseph Addison would endure.
- October 29, 2010 at 6:37 PM
Just in terms of the size of the fall, Wittgenstein has to win. Of course he still has his acolytes, but he is essentially gone from mainstream philosophy.
- October 29, 2010 at 7:10 PM
That's not from Johnson, it's from Hume. He's talking about the durability and wide appeal of easy and popular philosophy as opposed to really difficult and careful philosophy:
"The fame of Cicero flourishes at present; but that of Aristotle is utterly decayed. La Bruyere passes the seas, and still maintains his reputation: but the glory of Malebranche is confined to his own nation, and to his own age. And Addison, perhaps, will be read with pleasure, when Locke shall be entirely forgotten."
- October 29, 2010 at 7:11 PM
- Jon Cogburn said...
I second Gustav Bergman. We all kind of tell a story about how Kripke made it safe to do metaphysics again after the depredations of positivism, but Bergman was keeping the flame alive in Iowa during the whole time. I think as a historical fact, his influence had just as much to do with what now constitutes modern analytic metaphysics (do some research on bare particulars versus bundle theory for example and look at the dates of the relevant articles) as anybody else. But, as far as I can tell nobody reads him anymore, and his main conceit of "ideal language philosophy" is not one that anybody now engages in (though Quine repeated the conceit in a different idiom that "to be is to be the value of a bound variable" people still share).
As far as Collingwood, I don't think that's quite right, as there is a relevant performative contradiction concerning him. At this point so many Aestheticians feel strongly that he is underappreciated that in virtue of that fact alone he is not underappreciated.
- October 29, 2010 at 7:24 PM
J.O. Wisdom
- October 30, 2010 at 10:08 AM
Anonymous 1.12
Whitehead is probably not a good case of loser because he is still discussed in recent conferences and books in France.
I suspect that in the opinion of at least some contributors here, that's evidence for, rather than evidence against the claim that he's a big loser.
- November 1, 2010 at 5:31 AM
Leiter should run a poll for this.
- November 1, 2010 at 11:46 AM
- M said...
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- November 1, 2010 at 12:53 PM
losers who understand the difference between a semicolon and a comma
- November 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM
Well, at least we've established that no one on this thread is deserving of being durably temporally memorable, whether prehended (actual occasions), unprehended (negatively prehended actual occasions), or even appreciably and reflectively unprehended (as mere eternal objects of negation). And that includes posters like me. Except of course in the consequent prehensive nature of God, where all is retained.
Yeah, got my PhD in Whitehead, and published some stuff in that, but moved on. But I learned from him and still managed to publish in (gasp) Analysis and the like. He ain't dead yet, and he ain't stupid except for his disagreement with Einstein and lack of understanding of quantum theory. (Ok, so he may be really stupid in all that.) But in ways that he tried to integrate classic philosophy with the development of modern science, Whitehead is a study in the good, bad, and ugly of transitional ideas that we all can learn from. His idiosyncratic place in the movement from something like Bradleyan idealism to more Putnamesque pragmatism is worthy of note in the history of philosophy. Don't count that sucker out.
- November 2, 2010 at 12:30 AM
Ralph Barton Perry.
- November 3, 2010 at 9:51 AM
But at least all the serious contenders for biggest loser listed above are still reasonably well known nowadays.
You cannot say that for Bernard Bosanquet. Or so I thought. Then I found he has his own Stanford Encyclopaedia entry. Though I suppose this might be someone who is interested with him is friends with the editor, or because he was once so influential, though he no longer is.
The entry says 'Although F.H. Bradley is today far better known in philosophical circles, in his obituary in the Times, Bosanquet was said to have been "the central figure of British philosophy for an entire generation." '
- November 4, 2010 at 9:07 PM
As a follow-up to an earlier post, let me mention the names of a few of the many women who were publishing in leading philosophy journals at the beginning of the twentieth century, often honored by professional associations and the like but who are totally forgotten today: Mary Whiton Calkins, Grace Neal Dolson, Katherine Everett Gilbert, Kate Gordon,Grace Andres deLaguna,Hilda oakeley, Helen Huss arkhurst, Susan Stebbing, Ellen Bliss Talbot....I could go on and on
- November 6, 2010 at 10:16 AM
There's no trash basket in philosophy: think about Aristotelian essentialism, atomism, value ethics, ontological argument(s), descriptivism on proper names, Meinongianism, German idealism, mereological nihilism, bundle theories... It's not that sometimes they come back - they *always* come back.
- November 6, 2010 at 10:28 AM
Goodman is actually still going reasonably strong in aesthetics, but Collingwood, not so much. Talk about specific programs and theories, even discredited ones, may not go away, but not everyone who worked in any one area will be carried forth into the next cycle of discussion. At least, that's my speculation...
Verification" "kaytic"
- November 6, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- praymont said...
In addition to process philosophers, Whitehead still inspires some academics outside philosophy, e.g., the physicist Henry Pierce Stapp. Collingwood is still cited in works on the philosophy of history (though often by historians). C. D. Broad is increasingly read by people who write about emergence. Karl Jaspers still gets cited a lot in psychiatry (and in philosophy of psychiatry).
- November 10, 2010 at 6:53 AM

subset: commoncrawl


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Pix shows standard Eliminator butt colors (and some of my other machine spliced cues inklooding a dufferin). Colors are....
Rare brown (tropical hardwood).
Illegal brown (logged at night -- Asia).
Endangered brown (Africa).
Corrupt brown (Americas -- favorit of politicians).
Extinct brown (not found anywhere).
Last edited by cushioncrawler; 12-05-2013 at 07:03 PM.
My team lost 6/0 in the final of the Melbourne billiards Wednesday nite. Me myself I woz ahead with 20seconds to go in my 80minute game (at No2) with james, but james hit the lead on the bell. The other team didn't hav their No1 player koz he woz playing snooker for Ozz in Latvia. My team didn't hav our No5 koz he woz playing snooker for Indonesia in Myanmar. James missed the billiards final in 2012 koz he woz snookering for Ozz in Bulgaria, but hiz Ozz ranking slipped this year.
Anyhow I uzed the 9.0mm Eliminator shaft that I made the nite before. I had kut 2-7/8" off a 13.2mm shaft, and thinned it down to 9.0mm uzing a bottle-taper -- stuck on an elk tip (haz zero ferrule, i uze the bakelite backing off a triumph tip) -- and I skrewed a 4" mini-butt onto the butt (this makes the cue 1-1/8" longer = 59-1/8")(and adds 1.70oz).
Shortening the (29") shaft by 2-7/8" in effect inkreeced the cue's joint dia from 0.850" to 0.889" -- what I meen iz, the dia of the butt 2-7/8" down from the joint (ie 29" from the new qtip) iz 0.889".
If I asked Mr Eliminator to interrupt hiz production-line to make me a cue with a thicker than standard joint he would tell me to jump in the rake -- but here I hav outsmarted him.
Re adding the mini-butt, there iznt any drastic need, the shaft plays allmost az well with an ordinary butt and no mini-butt (L = 55-1/8").
Anyhow, the shortened 9.0mm shaft with bottle-taper and mini-butt iz the nuts. I kan stop right here and feel happy with my decision to buy the 12 Eliminators. Other players will hav their expensive big-name handmade cues -- and mac will be using a kut-down Eliminator sneaky-pete pool cue ($22 plus $11 postage -- beware of cheap imitations).
Last edited by cushioncrawler; 12-06-2013 at 03:04 PM.
I remember Colin on my home table showing me hiz method of testing a cue's pivot. Colin woz playing straight pots into a corner pocket. What I especially remember woz that, every shot, the red (the objektball) ended up on the floor -- ie leeving a ballmark on my nice new hardwood floor. What with Colin being a champion shotputter.
Anyhow what I luvv about my bottle-taper shortened Eliminator shaft iz that it iz haz a very uzer-friendly backhandpivot and likewize fronthandpivot. I luvv uzing pivot to modyfy my angles -- and a bit of outside-English helps the shot (talking about pots here, not inoffs, not cannons).
Every time I run down next door to my brother's wood lathe and modyfy a shaft, the first thing I do iz test it for skrews and then for pivots -- and eech time, I think of Colin's pivot tests. And I remember playing English-billiards league with Colin's dad -- hope he iz well.
Colin played in the 3 richest pool tourneys of all time. Colin recommends that u test a table to see what bridge length iz needed for your favourit english for your favourit pace for your favourit range for your favourit cue.
A new (slippery) bedkloth needs a shorter bridge L (or at least it needs some sort of compensation).
Praps Colin iz happy to change hiz bridge L from hiz standard 12" (??) down to praps 10" or up to 14" (or duzz Colin mostly compensate??).
But rather than changing bridge L -- do any players change their cue to suite the table?????
In theory one kood hav 13 Eliminators spanning the full range from 11.00mm to 14.00mm in 0.25mm increments -- and one of theze hazta suit your favourit L. I think Colin had a HongKong-made 12.75mm cue (I woz amazed at how well it played with 2-1/15" balls).
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Nice, Mac! Thanks for posting!
Finally got my new eliminator, thanks Mac. I have to agree, great cue for $35. I still like my Lucky McDermott for around the same price, but great find, thanks!
Just one cue????
What wt (18oz or 19oz or 20oz or 21oz)?? (wts aint az marked I find).
Iz shaft grain narrow or wide?? (wide iz better I reckon).
Straight grain or ?? (straight iz better).
If u are lucky it duznt hav a wt-bolt (just pure wood). Praps one kan order an Eliminator with zero wt-bolt (dunno), at least in the 18oz or 19oz sizes.
I make them into a 3pce koz they are too whippy for me -- midjoint iz too thin (and I uze 2-1/15" balls, must be worse for 2-1/4").
Originally I made them thicker (stiffer) by cutting 4" off the tip and adding 4" to the butt (uzing a minibutt extn)(this moovs the joint 4" up).
But now (for my 3pce cues) I cut 9" off the tip, much much stiffer (koz this moovs the joint 9" up).
I kood simply uze a 9" minibutt, but i went one step further -- i kut 9" off the butt allso -- and then I made an 20" buttpce -- this gave me three 20" pieces for eezy toting.
I sayd that wide grain iz better, but it aint, koz midjoints are too thin.
And, koz midjoints are too thin, everyone adores narrow grain. Narrow grain iz heavy and stiffer (for the same dia).
But, if midjoints were thicker (say 15/16"), then I am sure that everyone would adore wide grain (like me).
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I wanted to check them out first, so I only ordered one. Its also tough to beat that Lucky McDermott on price, so I prefer to mix what I have on my wall. Mine is 18 oz. with no weight bolt. I would take a pic but my camera started acting up on me. I would say all the grain is on the wide side. To me the hit feels solid, though I am used to a whippy Z-2 anyway.


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Mother files medical malpractice suit against LMC in death of baby
Published: Monday, November 18, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
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A mother who lost her baby during delivery in November 2011 at Wake Forest Baptist Health – Lexington Medical Center has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital and several local medical care providers.
Jamestown attorney Donald S. Higley II filed the suit this past week in Davidson County Superior Court on behalf of Krystal Huffman, the mother of Braylyn Evans. The defendants listed in the suit include Drs. Martin A. Allen, Puja Kalidas and certified nurse midwife Barbara Evans, as well as Piedmont Women's Healthcare and Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center.
Huffman, who was 30 years old at the time, entered LMC at 40 weeks and two days gestation with baby Braylyn to be induced in the early morning hours of Nov. 15, 2011, according to a lawsuit. Her pregnancy was complicated by a medical history, which included gestational diabetes controlled by diet and an issue with prior delivery, Higley wrote in the suit.
Huffman, according to the lawsuit, was admitted into labor and delivery, and Pitocin/Oxycotin was started at approximately 4:55 a.m. The lawsuit claimed there were indications of fetal distress multiple times throughout the day with no action taken on the part of the medical staff. At 6:34 p.m., Braylyn was delivered but not breathing, had no heartbeat and was unresponsive. The baby never took a breath and was pronounced dead at 7:29 p.m., the suit stated.
"Upon information and belief, during the hospitalization, well prior to Braylyn's birth, fetal monitoring indicated ominous signs of fetal distress, all of which were ignored by defendants," the lawsuit reads. "Braylyn was not issued a death certificate since she was not considered a live birth, but an autopsy was performed … that indicated increased fetal distress due to hypoxic conditions. Braylyn's cause of death was asphyxia."
Higley said in essence if the doctors would have acted sooner and performed a cesarean section the child would have survived. He said his main argument is that during various stages of the labor the monitoring of the child was not adequate, and the failure to properly monitor Braylyn led to the baby's death.
Higley is seeking compensatory damages in an amount in excess of $10,000. The attorney claims his client has suffered severe emotional distress as a result of the defendants' conduct.
A spokesman for Piedmont Women's Healthcare could not be reached for comment. Kathy Sushereba, a spokeswoman with Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center, said hospital officials could not comment on pending litigation.
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Jacksonville, FL (Sports Network) - Christen Press is sure to remember her
first cap for the United States national team.
The 24-year-old scored twice on her debut as the U.S. earned a 4-1 victory
over Scotland in a friendly match at EverBank Field on Saturday, its first
contest of 2013.
It took Press just 13 minutes to open the scoring as she collected a half-
clearance at the edge of the penalty area and fired a shot into the back of
the net.
Press doubled the advantage and completed her brace in the 32nd minute,
getting on the end of a cross from Tobin Heath and heading the delivery home
at the back post.
Shannon Boxx made it 3-0 for the U.S. when she buried a half-volley into the
upper corner from 25 yards out, but that wonderstrike was canceled out a
minute later by Kim Little's shot from 18 yards out.
The Americans continued to dictate play and eventually added a fourth goal in
the dying moments as Sydney Leroux latched on to a long ball from Carli Lloyd,
rounded the goalkeeper and slipped a shot into the empty net.
The U.S. will return to action in another friendly match against Scotland on
Wednesday before Algarve Cup play begins on March 6 against Iceland.
The Sports Network


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Comeback candidates
Elections | Off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey test the potential for GOP revival in 2010
"Comeback candidates" Continued...
RICHMOND, Va., and ORANGE, N.J.-Bob McDonnell had barely warmed up his worn-out vocal cords at the swank Richmond Convention Center when the lights went out. The laid-back Republican gubernatorial candidate paused for the audience's nervous laughter before plowing ahead. But the lights kept blinking. On and off. Finally, the 55-year-old former state attorney general asked: "Is somebody trying to tell me something? If I say something you like, the lights go on? I'm trying to break the code here."
Republicans around the country are hoping McDonnell, who leads in the polls, doesn't let the lights go out on a much-needed victory for the GOP. When Barack Obama became the first presidential candidate to win Virginia since 1964, state Republicans were on their heels. But just a year later, Republicans here sense a comeback in the making.
Or make that two: New Jersey joins Virginia as the only states holding off-year gubernatorial elections in 2009, and like Virginia, Republican candidate Chris Christie also has maintained a polling lead for most of the year in the Garden State.
National party organizations have spent more than $5 million in New Jersey and $13 million in Virginia. Labor unions have pumped $1.4 million into Virginia's campaign, hoping to open a battleground for the future of right-to-work laws in the non-union South.
Attention has followed the money: McDonnell and Christie represent a vanguard, Republicans trying to crack the code on Democratic gains at both the state and national level. "Last year the political climate was dreadful, ghastly," said former Gov. Jim Gilmore at the Richmond event. A Republican, Gilmore ran for the Senate in 2008, winning only 34 percent of the vote against Democratic Sen. Mark Warner. "I think a lot of that was President Bush. Now he's gone."
In the Obama era Republicans are turning back to the "all politics is local" axiom, as the campaigns have emphasized the role of the White House in affairs of the state.
Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds, 51, is a folksy state senator from rural Virginia who recently compared education cuts to "eating your seed corn, it threatens next year's crop." He has taken a two-prong attack against McDonnell: tying him to George W. Bush and criticizing McDonnell's conservative social views. Deeds runs ads saying McDonnell is bad for working women, citing his pro-life stance and a controversial graduate school thesis McDonnell wrote 20 years ago asserting that feminists were "detrimental to the family."
For his part, McDonnell, who beat Deeds by 332 votes four years ago in the state attorney general race, has used his 18-year government career to paint himself as more in touch with Virginians' conservative roots: "The other side is going to be talking about more spending and more taxes and more regulation," he told me during a tour of Virginia's newest charter school. "I want to talk to them about more innovation and more privatization."
McDonnell is turning the election into a referendum on Obama. When I asked him why the political winds are favoring his candidacy this year, he didn't hesitate to blame Washington: "There is a real concern about some of the things that this Congress is doing on spending, on the deficit, on unfunded mandates that people are concerned about . . . this election for governor is their first chance to say something about it."
Forcing Deeds to stand with or against federal policies has so far been successful. Deeds is keeping his distance from Obama's agenda, not appearing at two recent Obama events in Virginia to promote healthcare. "I'm a Creigh Deeds Democrat," was his comeback at a recent debate when asked if he considered himself an Obama Democrat.
If Virginia is a guide, congressional candidates and others in 2010 can expect similar questions for Democratic candidates in former red states that went for Obama in 2008. "Obama is turning out to be much more liberal and divisive than people thought," said Peter Wehner with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "It may soon dawn on a few moderate Democrats that following Obama could be a death sentence for your political career. He's making the country more conservative."
While that might be true in Virginia, the Obama factor seems to be having different results in a deep-blue state like New Jersey, where Christie is vying to become the first Republican to get more than 50 percent of the vote since George H.W. Bush in 1988.
Motorists along the streets leading to the St. Matthew AME Church in Orange, N.J., see clear signs that Obama remains popular: Billboards and posters tacked to telephone polls show incumbent Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine posing with Obama above the words, "Keep it going." Inside the church, where both candidates spoke Sept. 30, enlarged photos of Obama and his family decorate the entryway. "Our time has come," read one caption.
Corzine, a multimillionaire former Wall Street executive who spent $40 million of his own money to win the statehouse four years ago, has hitched himself to the Obama train. While Obama garnered 57 percent of the vote here last year, Corzine's job approval rating has dipped into the low 30s, largely due to state tax increases that totaled $1 billion last year alone.
Voter discontent is one reason that Christie, like McDonnell a former state attorney general, held a surprising lead in 40 straight polls this year. This despite the fact that Christie hasn't hidden his pro-life, conservative roots-a rarity in Northeastern states where successful Republicans are usually moderates in disguise.
Christie has not targeted Obama specifically but rather the big government push that created a punishing tax and regulatory climate for the Garden State. With the highest tax burden in America, the state suffers from a nearly 10 percent unemployment rate-its highest in 33 years-and faces an $8 billion budget deficit next year.
"The kind of economic policies people fear are coming out of the Obama administration have already played out here in New Jersey over the last eight years," said Christie's campaign chairman, state Sen. Joe Kyrillos.
But to win states like New Jersey, Republicans must better reach newly energized voting blocs like the African-American community; non-white voters increased in 2008 by 19 percent nationwide compared to 2004. This is proving to be a steep climb for Christie in New Jersey. Recently I joined Christie as he took his tax-cut message to the statewide conference of black ministers at the St. Matthew Church in Orange. Under a banner that read, "Go therefore and make disciples," Christie contrasted his modest, working-class roots with Corzine's wealth and preached about why the ministers should support a Republican.
"I feel like we have common interests in many areas," he told black pastors. But here he wasn't making many disciples.
"You're lying now," shouted 73-year-old attendant Delores Lewis, having her own Joe Wilson moment after Christie began talking about the importance of charter schools. The stout, hard-charging 47-year-old, who has won accolades for prosecuting political corruption cases, was undeterred. "There are some things I've said that you don't agree with," Christie concluded. "I've seen the look on your faces. But I'm a different kind of candidate because I'm here."
"Amen," an audience member replied.
But Lewis, the community organizer who interrupted Christie's speech, was no convert: "I will be fighting the Republicans. Obama has a tough job, and we Democrats need to stand behind him."
A few hours later, at the same church, participants-more than double the number of Christie's appearance-stood up and applauded as Corzine entered the sanctuary. His speech began with the story of Obama's election. No one interrupted.
Many think that independent voters, who went for Obama in droves last year, may determine the outcome of upcoming elections. This will test the transferability of Obama's political superstructure. "Are they going to show up a year later when Obama is not on the ticket?" wonders Tom Schaller, political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Already there has been a swing: Last year Democrats enjoyed a 14-point advantage when pollsters asked registered independents which party they preferred. But a new Gallup poll shows that independents now favor Republicans over Democratic candidates by 45 percent to 36 percent. In New Jersey, where 46 percent of registered voters are unaffiliated, independents are leaning Republican by a 2-to-1 margin.
The swing is reflected in fundraising: In August, during the heat of the healthcare debate, Republican congressional campaign committees brought in $1.7 million more than corresponding committees for Democrats, which have seen donations this year drop by 20 percent compared to last year. Democrats began the year with loads of goodwill among independents but have expended an enormous amount of political capital in a short period of time. They've asked Americans to accept a $787 billion economic stimulus and governmental takeovers of the banks and the automobile industry. And soon Congress may pass a healthcare overhaul that would put federal hands all over one-sixth of the nation's economy.
The early success of both McDonnell and Christie suggests that their strategy of embracing their conservative bona fides has tapped into the grassroots energy that has been unleashed in the growing Tea Party movement, which favors the limited-government views of Republicans. GOP volunteers have knocked on more doors already around Virginia than in the entire 2008 presidential election.
Republican wins in a Democratic stronghold like New Jersey and in a purple state like Virginia would boost both GOP fundraising and recruiting efforts, giving more qualified conservative candidates the confidence to toss their hats into 2010 races. Then the stakes will be higher: 37 governors' races, 38 U.S. Senate seats, and the entire U.S. House are up for grabs.
Hopeful conservatives are even starting to whisper the date 1993. Then, one year after the nation sent Bill Clinton to the White House, Republicans won governors' races in both New Jersey and Virginia. The next year came the historic Republican revolution when Republicans won 54 seats in the House and eight Senate seats to take over the majority, the first time they led the House in over 40 years.
Newt Gingrich, the architect behind the 1994 takeover who became Speaker of the House in 1995, predicts that "if the economy stays as bad as it, and unemployment maintains its numbers or drops, odds are good that (House Minority Leader John) Boehner is the next Speaker of the House."
While that may be premature, nonpartisan political pundits like Jennifer Duffy with the Cook Political Report are predicting Democratic losses in 2010: "In the House, the average midterm shift is 16 seats. We're probably talking more than that."
This year should have meant two home games for Democrats in New Jersey and Virginia. Indeed, both states would have been Democratic slam-dunks a year ago. But Nov. 3 can be a long time coming: McDonnell has begun to pull way in Virginia but Corzine, the Democratic incumbent in New Jersey, rose to a statistical dead heat with Christie after launching a fall flurry of attack ads worth $20 million. Once voters in Virginia and New Jersey cast their ballots, Republicans have 365 days to wait and see which direction the electorate is moving.
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NEW MARTINSVILLE - Wins don't always have to be pretty. Even in girls basketball.
''For some reason we never win pretty,'' Magnolia coach Mark Blair said after the Blue Eagles 47-44 victory against Madonna in a West Virginia Class A Region One, Section One semifinal on Tuesday night.
''It's always ugly.''
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Magnolia's Grace Barisford, left, and Madonna's Monica Bragg struggle to gain possession.
The game was just that after Madonna took an 8-4 lead after the first quarter.
''We couldn't shoot the ball,'' Blair said. ''The one thing is our girls never gave up. I told them just keep plugging away and keep working. Those shots have got to fall sometime.''
Those shots, however, still weren't falling to begin the second as the Blue Dons (11-12) used a 10-3 run in the middle of the quarter to build a 21-12 lead.
Then the ball decided to fall through the net for the Blue Eagles.
A Cierra Fowler layup followed by a 3-pointer from freshman Grace Berisford cut Madonna's advantage to four at 21-17 as the tide began to turn with the teams heading into halftime.
The waves really began to crash down on the Blue Dons in the third as Berisford opened the quarter with a jumper followed by a conventional 3-point play by Mallory Chapman that gave Magnolia (11-11) its first lead of the night - a lead the team would never relinquish.
''The beginning of third quarter is what really hurt us,'' Madonna coach Don Ogden said. ''We went a little bit cold. We were real hot in the second quarter once we got accumulated to the gym, the crowd and the student section. The student section was great. (Blair) did a good job with some defensive adjustments.''
The Blue Eagles stretched their lead to eight at 32-24, but Madonna closed out the quarter with six straight points from Monica Bragg, who finished tied for a game-high 17 points, to trim the deficit to 32-30.
However, Chapman and Kiera Standiford closed out the game for Magnolia as the duo combined for all 15 of the Blue Eagles' fourth-quarter points.
Chapman ended her night with 14 points despite not hitting a shot in the first half.
''Mallory had a bad first half,'' Blair said. ''We kept talking to her, trying to get her focused. I knew she was going to score, it was just a matter of time. Mallory is a great kid, she just got a little down on herself. I think that was some of her problem, but once she got into it, she started knocking down her shots.''
Standiford added eight to Magnolia's total, while Berisford cashed in on five 3-pointers on the way to 17 points.
Nicolette Sellitti backed Bragg with 13 points as the two combined for five treys of their own.
The Blue Dons would finish with more 3s (eight) than 2s (seven).
''We like the 3,'' Ogden said. ''We're capable of shooting the 3. During pregame, we pretty much told our 3-point shooters, if you got it, take it. I have total confidence in those girls to take that shot. For the most part we made a lot of them and that is why we were in the game to begin with.''
With the victory, Magnolia will move on in the sectional tournament and will face Wheeling Central on Friday at Brooke High School.
''We have an uphill battle now,'' Blair said. ''We have to face Wheeling Central and they're really good. We have our work cut out for us.''


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2001 Hot Rod Virtual Power Tour--Day Two, May 4Written by on May 1, 2001 Exclusive Daily Updates From The Road. Tasty Tacos, Hot Drags, Cool Pastures, and Escaping Joliet's Jaws of Death
We're off! The 7th Annual Hot Rod Power Tour got underway on Friday morning, May 4, with a convoy making its way south through Detroit's bumpy city streets and onto I-94 West, toward Joliet, Illinois. Throngs of well-wishers lining the route to the highway waved and photographed the hundreds of rods on the first leg of the trip, likely due to all the local publicity the Tour has been receiving, including front-page newspaper stories two days in a row! Even after we hit the interstate, we spotted more thumbs-up spectators on the overheads encouraging us on, and likely hoping to be Long Haulers themselves some day.
The highlight of the traveling portion of Day Two was our stop at Motor State Distributing (part of Lane Automotive) in Watervliet, Michigan. In addition to providing free tacos and sodas, the company also gave out special-edition Hot Wheels Mustang model cars with a Hot Rod Power Tour logo on the packaging--cool swag, man! (Our warm thanks to the Lane family for their generous hospitality.)
Arriving at the Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois was a delight as well. The pristine facility has spacious grassy areas for our mammoth mingling of machines, along with a first-rate dragstrip. Some really quick rods making test-and-tune runs provided some extra spectacle to the event.
Another sort of thrill-ride took place in downtown Joliet, when one of emaps editors (the irrepressible Jim Youngs of Kit Car with wife Carolyn), took a wrong turn on a drawbridge in their freshly-painted Rodster. Pinned between the gate and the rising ramp of the bridge, they didnt realize a concrete counterweight was descending from above, and was about to add a whole new graphic treatment to the hood and roof (not to mention the Youngs and your Online Editor as well). Jim beat a hasty retreat by pulling a bat-turn, and we decided never again to risk life and limb on the "Jaws of Death" in Joliet. The towns dragstrip is a much safer place to play. After all, theres nothing overhead to worry about.
Next stop: Effingham, Illinois and Mid America Designs, Inc.
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The turnout of rods and customs in Joliet was phenomenal, with row and after row lining up to the horizon.Just as in Pontiac, the quality of rods on display at the Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Illinois was outstanding.First a wedding proposal in Pontiac, now a honeymoon in Joliet? Is this becoming the Romance Tour instead? (Please, no personal ads on the bulletin boards.) Dave and Michelle DiBartolomeo got hitched just a few days before the start of the Power Tour, and decided to spend their honeymoon with fellow participants in their '84 Grand Prix. Their wedding limo was a stretched '57 Chevy.Even after the first day of driving, some of the Power Tourers were showing signs of fatigue (the Hotrod.com staff included, after pulling an all-nighter to upload material to the Web site). And we still have nine more days to go!Test and tune runs at the adjacent Route 66 Raceway added to the high-performance level of excitement.Things got a little hairy on one run, but this rod still nailed it the nines even after the driver had to back off the throttle to stay on the track."Small Time Dave and the Windy City Band" laid down some really tasty licks for the show car area.
Our first gas stop of the Tour was at the colorfully-named, "115 Truck Stop," no doubt inspired by the illustrious exit number off I-94. The highway robbers in the convenience store charged us 33 cents for an empty foam cup.One consolation at the 115 Truck Stick-Up was this enterprising local's use of a "Burnout Area" sign. We hightailed it out of there before the highway patrol caught on to us.The friendly folks at Motor State Distributing (www.motorstate.com, a division of Lane Automotive) in Watervliet, MI supplied a Taco Bell lunch to the hungry tourers.At the entrance to Lane's showroom and speed shop (located on the same premises as Motor State's 153,000 square-foot warehouse/shipping complex of high-performance parts), sits Mike and Jeanne Kunzman's pretty '32.Inside the Lane's showroom we encountered an impressive display of hardware. Note the Hot Rod TV crew at left filming the interior.
Lane Automotive was founded by George Lane (center), who started out in the 1960s as a weekend warrior, selling parts out of his garage to his racer friends. His decades of high-performance enthusiasm is shared by sons Dave (left) and Doug (right). Today, most of the company's business focuses on supplying parts and collectible models to speed shops."Hey, what's this thing for?" Hotrod.com's Online Editor Steve Temple struggles to keep up with the veteran Long Haulers by covering the Power Tour with, fittingly, a PowerBook G4 laptop from the cockpit of the Power Tour's Chevy van.Peformance Exhaust, a cruise night sponsor for this portion of the Tour, displayed a cutaway hot-rod muffler with Z-Wave Technology that features a free-flow design for more power and torque and lower-frequency sound.At the Bow Tie balloon, Bill Jacocbs Chevrolet rolled out several Corvettes. His dealership also provided the iCan hand-control car, which made a run on the dragstrip with Hot Rod publisher Ira Gabriel and iCan CEO Heidi Van Arnem in the cockpit.When smilin' Butch Bass of Holley began handing out raffle tickets for a speed parts, a long line quickly formed.A couple dozen PT Cruisers joined the first leg of the Tour, with more on the way, thanks to DaimlerChrysler's support. This particular concept is the Indian PT, obviously named for the motorcycle of the same name in the matching woodie-style trailer.The convertible PT is supposedly just a concept, but given tremendous popularity of PT mods, do you really think DC will pass up this sporty rendition?


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Arcain - just do whatever you want. Obviously your LO won't be the only one missing the one year "deadline" if the other kids at daycare are doing the same! Personally, I would be more inclined to give him 2 bottles for daycare. Your pediatrician does not have authority to arrest you for this. :)
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February Infants & Toddlers
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posted at 2/14/2013 1:06 PM EST
Arcain - just give him the bottles. I'm sure you don't want him upset every day at daycare. My pedi wanted us off bottles at 12 months too. My kids are at home so it was easy for me to ditch the bottles and push the sippy cup- they didn't have to look at other kids still drinking out of bottles.
You can switch him when he moves to the toddler room or something.
We decided to do the cows milk transition and then the bottle transition. By 13 months we were done with both.
My pedi did say that the longer you wait the harder it is. But he was using a two year old as an example- you've got a way to go before you're fighting with a two year old over a bottle. :)
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posted at 2/14/2013 2:38 PM EST
I agree with others to not stress over the 1 year cutoff. Especially if he is seeing other kids around his age still using bottles.
It is amazing to see how the peer group and what they do affect the kids, even at a year or two old. When we moved DS at 18 months to a new daycare, where the kids wash their hands before and after meals and use little cups, it was interesting to see how he quickly picked up on those changes. And he is 2 and moved to the 2 year old room just a month ago where potty training is going on in school, and we can see how watching the other kids are really driving his views and interest in potty training. And since the slightly older kids in his room are able to take on and off clothes, he suddenly got this rage to master taking his on and off all by himself (caught us by complete surprise).
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posted at 2/14/2013 4:06 PM EST
KAM - you are so funny to think of me while brushing your teeth! I'm honored.
We took DS to the pedi yesterday. Ready to label me mother-of-the-year? He has an ear infection. Possibly has had for some time. Aside from that, she suggested upping his food intake to 3 meals a day, making the breastmilk more supplementary, and starting him on sippy cups of water (like you said, KAM). So we'll try that, and once the infection is cleared up we will try sleep training. She said he doesn't NEED to eat twice per night after bedtime. She said it's somewhat uncommon for babies of this age to wake up like that. So, that's what I needed to hear. Bring on Ferber. Or Weissbluth. Or whichever book I can locate first.
Arcain - we totally ignored pedi's advice and DD had a morning and night bottle until 2. That said, if you are interested in giving it up (especially if you're already on a reduced schedule at home) coudl you try, as someone said, just having them put water in the bottles? He may just decide he doesn't want it if he's just getting water, but will not feel he is being singled out to not get what the other kids are getting.
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posted at 2/14/2013 4:23 PM EST
Poppy, once his ear feels better maybe he'll automatically settle himself down if he wakes up and he might not even wake up if it was pain that was doing it. As for not knowing or figuring it out - how would you know?! You talked to everyone here and people who know you and DS in person and no one suggested his ears, and it's not like the symptoms are always observable without a scope.
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posted at 2/14/2013 4:59 PM EST
It is hard to know. DS was easy to tell when he had ear infections since he would get fussy, feverish, tugging at his ear all the time and super clingy especially at night, while DD is impossible to tell so far (we brought her in for a different issue, and then our pedi looked in both ears and said she had double ear infections - but we never knew and she did not show any of the usual signs that our pedi said usually indicates ear infections).
But if it has been a while with the infection, it may have been pain that driven those bad night spells - because I have been having ear infections myself this winter and while one was not too bad, one was so horribly painful - and worst at night - that I could not sleep or do much and then in the morning, it would ease for a while. And when I went to the doctor, it was not hurting that bad anymore, and he still said it looked awful. It definitely was a good reminder for me to sympathize why some babies get so fussy until they are gone or taking medication for it.
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posted at 2/14/2013 7:02 PM EST
And when you're in bed, you feel the aches and pains of ear infections, or foot pain (that's me) or whatever much more than during the day when you are busy and thinking of other things. Plus, being in a prone position might aggravate the ear infection pain, and when he's sitting up, crawling and whatever it hurts less.
Actually, I think you ARE mother of the year, because instead of just insisting on sleep training, you realized that there was something else going on, and you acted on it. You listened to your instincts that he wasn't being difficult, but that something else was wrong.
Good job!
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posted at 2/14/2013 8:17 PM EST
Oh Poppy - that's why he's waking up so much. Ear infections hurt much more when they lie down. Poor little guy. Once you get a few days of meds in him, he'll start to settle down.
Good luck!
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posted at 2/15/2013 9:58 AM EST
Oh Poppy, I've got you beat for mother of the year-DS had a fever of 102 for days-I kept treating the fever without thinking to much about it...until in the middle of the blizzard DS said "my ear hurts." Okay, no biggie. Then about an hour later blood & goop dripping from his ear-he burst an ear drum. Now he's on the same dose of antibiotics as a horse would be on. it happens! :)
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posted at 2/15/2013 10:47 AM EST
Poppy - similar to KAM's story, my best friend was upset because she hadn't known her LO had a double ear infection, and her *pediatrician* told her that she hadn't noticed her own son's ear infection until his ear drum burst. If even a pediatrician can't know for sure, how can we? :)
cwag - I'm laughing at the peer group at daycare thing. This morning DD picked a booger and ate it (SO disgusting) - I told her not to do that, and she said "(name) at daycare picks her nose and eats it". Super. ;) On the cuter side, DD was pretending a block with a window was a camera when I picked her up yesterday, and then as I was getting her ready to go, another little girl picked up the block and started doing it the same way. I freaking love kids!
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posted at 2/15/2013 1:27 PM EST
ugh, med, it was probably MY daughter who was modeling that lovely habit. I have no idea HOW to get her to stop picking her nose and eating it! Oh well. I guess eventually she'll get old enough for humiliating peer pressure to get her to stop? sigh.
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posted at 2/15/2013 1:29 PM EST
The peer pressure thing at daycare can be intense, for both good and bad.... DD wanted to potty train at 18 months because all the big kids at daycare used the potty, so she wanted to as well. And I know she eats way more fruits and vegetables there, since she will tell me she likes X food at daycare, but not at home. I have been very lucky that we've gotten the benefits of peer pressure as well as some of the downsides (nose picking-yuck!).
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posted at 2/15/2013 4:55 PM EST
CT - you are very sweet, but I can't take credit for an intuition-driven pedi appointment: it was his 6 month checkup, LOL! But I am relived to know that there was something going on, and to be treating it. Now when he wakes up at 10:30, 12:45, 2:00 and 4:00, I don't get mad. Of course, when the ears are better it will be a different story! KAM - the pedi said, "He has an ear infection... and a fever!" D'oh! I felt like an a$s. Medford, your story is comforting. Kids, like animals, can hide ailments almost too well. I always think of the time my baby cousin, I think he was 5 or 6 at the time, was tugging at his ear for a few days, so his mom finally took him to the pedi - and there was a bee lodged in his ear! Yikes!! (sorry to give you all nightmares)
Medford, Lissa - ack! My DD does that too! She does it with PRIDE! I swear, the more I tell her to stop, it's gross, people don't like that, the more defiantly she does it.
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posted at 2/15/2013 5:07 PM EST
Arcain - I agree with the others that you can smile and nod at the pedi IF that's what you prefer to do. You are doing a great job cutting back on the bottles! But I do think it's worth a conversation with the daycare about when they generally cut back or cut out bottles all together. If they don't do it until 2, for example, and you're not comfortable with that, you might as well rip the bandaid off now.
Poppy - Hope he feels better and you get some more sleep very soon!!
You poor mamas with all these ailments and ear infections!! DD has not had an ear infection yet (knock on wood!!), but I can absolutely imagine not knowing because she is so low-key. Really looking forward to a three day weekend with her. I am noticing that I can now reason with her a bit, which is so cool. She'll be 2 this month. The other day at bedtime she was whining that she wanted to lie in bed with me and I calmly repeated, You can come rock with mommy or you can go in the crib. She thought about it and of course chose to rock with mommy ;o)
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posted at 2/17/2013 9:06 PM EST
Poppy, that stinks about the ear infection, but don't feel guilty! I'm lucky that DS has never had one (that I know of!) but I know soooo many people who have taken a long time to figure it out. It's so hard when they can't tell you! In any case, hope clearing that up resolves some of the sleep issues!
Glad to know the peer pressure only gets worse :). I'm sure my DS will be picking his nose and eating it as soon as he's coordinated enough to. I think I'll just be grateful I don't have to pick it for him anymore -- he fights having his nose wiped sooooo much! Right now his thing is putting his mouth on everything: doors, windows, the floor, shoes...I've tried working on my stern "No!" when he does it but all I get back is a grin. Ahhh, I can see toddlerhood staring me down!
Thanks for the bottle advice. I do feel good that we're down to 3, and DH's solution of giving him 2 smaller ones for daycare has worked. We've been giving him a little more in bottles lately anyways. Poor kiddo has either had a stomach bug, been teething, or both. He threw up all over me on Valentine's Day and has been fussy at meals/ not eating much since. Moods have been good although today he was easily set off. Hoping he gets over whatever it is soon, but if not, we're seeing the pedi this week anyway.
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posted at 2/18/2013 1:31 PM EST
Hey again, ladies! I need some advice for DS's 1st birthday (tomorrow, yikes!). I took the day off so we could do something fun together, and I'd been planning to take him to Imajine That in Lawrence. But I just called them to make sure they had stuff for really little ones and they reminded me that it's school vacation week and they'll be slammed. DS would definitely be overwhelmed by a big crowd, so now I'm stuck trying to think of something fun for a 1 year old that won't be mobbed this week! Any suggestions?
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posted at 2/18/2013 3:15 PM EST
Hi Arcain - You could do someplace like that first thing in the morning if that works w/ your schedule. I've had good luck taking DD to the aquarium as soon as it opens. Also, I'm not literally suggesting you take DS to the Disney Store, but you could do something simple like that. DD was in HEAVEN when we went to the Disney Store a few weeks ago (and luckily she's too young to know that actually buying something is an option lol).
Has anyone converted their crib to a bed solely because it's difficult to get a LO in there? I don't want to make the switch too soon, but I'm 5'1" and DD is around 30 lbs and it's getting difficult to put her down without waking her up! I guess she usually goes down awake, so it doesn't really matter... I think I've talked myself out of it already LOL. It's been a pain this week because she has a cold and there is a lot more rocking to sleep going on.
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posted at 2/19/2013 10:54 AM EST
Lots of adjustments going on in our house...we moved last week, so there's been a lot of craziness going on in the last two weeks, between packing, moving, unpacking. We spent a couple of nights at my parents' as a way to transition between the old and new house through something familiar, which I think was a good idea, but bedtime for the last 2 nights has been tough on DD (2yrs,4mos). Generally, she does stories and bedtime with daddy and heads off to bed all smiles. Last night she wanted her brother (5 mos) and I to go too, and then held on to me for dear life, crying so hard I thought she'd make herself sick. I laid down with her and within a few minutes she was out, but it was tough. I was telling her how it's hard for everyone, but we're going to be here for a long time, and as long as the 4 of us are together, that's the most important thing. Of course, it's been a hard transition for me too...I hate change and I really hate disorder...and our move was delayed because of the storm, which had all of us even more off kilter!
Any suggestions for the transition? During the day she's so excited about her room and her bed and the house, but at bedtime it's like her anxiety comes out.
And happy birthday to baby arcain!!!
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posted at 2/19/2013 12:07 PM EST
ooh, luv, that's tough. I wonder if you could think of some sort of nighttime ritual that you could implement that would help her feel like this new place has some routines attached to it too? Nothing too complicated, since you'd be continuing it indefinitely. Maybe get a new book to read right before bed or sing a new song. Maybe something like taking her out to pick a new toothbrush for the new house? It sounds silly but to a 2 year old with a new baby in the house a chance to go out and pick herself a toothbrush might be brighter than diamonds. Maybe a new stuffed animal or something.
Eventually she'll get used to the change but maybe instituting some sort of new little routine will make her feel comfortable faster.
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posted at 2/19/2013 12:09 PM EST
adding as an afterthought/clarification:
I'm not suggesting you stop doing the things you used to do, that would just be more disorder. I just thought an additional little thing might help ease her in.
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posted at 2/19/2013 1:07 PM EST
When my kids were about 20 months old we all went to Canada for 3 months so my DH could do some research. I ended up lying down with my twins for nap and bed. I'd creep out once they were asleep, It took a few weeks, but after that they were settled and I didn't need to stay in their room anymore.
Maybe your DH can stay in her room until she falls asleep? I did this again when my twins transitioned from cribs to a bed.
We recently got our twins a dream light - thanks to the incessant advertising on Sprout. They love it. We put it on at lights out and they are asleep in about 3 or 4 minutes. It shuts off by itself after 20 minutes.
Hang in there Luv - you'll be all unpacked in a week or so and the kids will get used to their new house. Congrats on the move. Once you're all settled I'm sure everyone will love their new surroundings.
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posted at 2/19/2013 2:51 PM EST
In response to luvRIboy's comment:
Lots of adjustments going on in our house...we moved last week, so there's been a lot of craziness going on in the last two weeks, between packing, moving, unpacking. We spent a couple of nights at my parents' as a way to transition between the old and new house through something familiar, which I think was a good idea, but bedtime for the last 2 nights has been tough on DD (2yrs,4mos). Generally, she does stories and bedtime with daddy and heads off to bed all smiles. Last night she wanted her brother (5 mos) and I to go too, and then held on to me for dear life, crying so hard I thought she'd make herself sick. I laid down with her and within a few minutes she was out, but it was tough. I was telling her how it's hard for everyone, but we're going to be here for a long time, and as long as the 4 of us are together, that's the most important thing. Of course, it's been a hard transition for me too...I hate change and I really hate disorder...and our move was delayed because of the storm, which had all of us even more off kilter!
Any suggestions for the transition? During the day she's so excited about her room and her bed and the house, but at bedtime it's like her anxiety comes out.
And happy birthday to baby arcain!!!
I'm looking forward to moving advice, too Luv. We are moving in just about a month, and while my DD is much younger than yours (8months), she'll still notice she's in a new house and I'm sure bedtime will be a disaster for a while.
I remember as a child I was always anxious at night time, too. Maybe it's a combo of being alone, and in the dark. Add in being alone in a new house and I'm sure it'd be worsened. Hoping it improves soon for you!
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posted at 2/19/2013 3:42 PM EST
awww, Luv, I feel for you and your DD. What about a routine that involves saying goodnight to the familiar things in her room, like emphasizing what's the same? Does she have any books about moving? I wish I had specific recommendations... my DD usually does a lot better if she's seen it laid out in a book.
Re: nose picking - I think it's a pretty normal kid habit, I just think it's funny that DD is able to pin the rap on other kids at daycare now! Speaking of: the other night at bedtime, she gave me a run down of which daycare teachers she loved "all the time", which ones she just loved "just a little", and which ones she didn't love, but "they do a good job". Oy. Really hoping she does NOT repeat that routine at day care. I'm having a hard time at this age balancing validating her feelings and yet teaching her not to say certain things... she's only 2.5... similar situation where she classifies many of her relatives as "scary", and points out characters in books that look like them (very unflattering but generally quite accurate!!)
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posted at 2/19/2013 4:04 PM EST
Med, that is hysterical, and don't worry, they are used to extreme candidness, lol.
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posted at 2/20/2013 8:36 AM EST
med-you'll appreciate that candidness when you want to say something, but you can't and DD dose. :) My sister picked the kids up from day care last week while I took DH for surgery, she took the long way home turning a 30 min trip into 1 hr 15 min. DD fell asleep, and DS was bored out of his mind. At dinner, DS kept commenting infront of my sister how she took the long way. :) We're finally recovering DD from that ill-timed nap!


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Vonnie Flores was murdered by her next door neighbor in July 2010 in Leadville, Colorado. Flores' neighbor, Anthony Medina, had an unhealthy obsession with her.
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"You can be arrested for walking down the street intoxicated in Casper. But you can stalk and not get a citation for it," Kadlick said.
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