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In Ohio, voting machines are changing a vote cast for Mitt Romney to Barack Obama.
Maybe that is what the "progressive" Democratic Party needs to combat lower voter turnout for the Democratic ticket.
For "progressive" Democrats and their much heralded ground game, which in early voting has not been as effective as advertised, perhaps their real problem is that more voters trust Mitt Romney to break gridlock in Washington DC.
Polls have consistently shown that the enthusiasm, which was so strong for "progressive" Democrats in 2008, has switched sides. The Tea Party generated momentum and enthusiasm that appeared in 2010 has carried over into 2012 and is working in favor of Romney/Ryan and the Republicans.
Perhaps that two thirds of the meager number of jobs created during Obama's four years in office having gone to both legal and illegal immigrants is the problem.
Said Steven A. Camarota, research director at The Center for Immigration Studies:
"It's extraordinary that most of the employment growth in the last four years has gone to the foreign-born, but what's even more extraordinary is the issue has not even come up during a presidential election that is so focused on jobs."
Obama's record on the economy is dismal, which is why he and his campaign team have focused so much energy and invested so much money in attempts to distract voters away from the economy and the tens of millions of Americans who cannot find a decent job to much more important matters like big bird, binders and bayonets.
According to Obama, David Axelrod and other "progressive" Democrats, women far less concerned with a lack of jobs, the price of groceries, escalating energy prices and economic uncertainty than they are with receiving $120 a year worth of birth control pills from the government.
There is more news for "progressive" Democrats.
The latest surge in financial support and months of spending restraint means the Republican National Committee is flush with cash- $68 million as of Oct. 17th.
That is nearly seven times what the Democratic National Committee has left.
The cash on hand difference allows Romney to ramp up the scale of his campaign in the final days, spending far more heavily on ads, mailers and telemarketers. This reinforces the momentum Romney has enjoyed since the first presidential debate on October 3rd.
Republicans started making a play for Pennsylvania this week, forcing "progressive" Democrats to spend their dwindling resources in response.
The new Pennsylvania push is a sign that Obama's candidacy is waning and Romney is on the rise.
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Hello everyone. I am new here, and I've read every reference I was able to get my hand on about overflow and still do not have an answer to my question. I'm hoping I can get help here.
My daughter is six months old. I've breastfed her from day 1, and I've also tried to give her expressed milk since early on, but she hates the bottle.
(I used to pump occasionally, about twice a week.)
I've had an overflow problem since the beginning. Nothing I tried helped. I even tried block feeding and various positions. I tried feeding her laying on my back – but my breasts still splashed like a fountain (and she absolutely refuses this position anyway).
Anyway, about a month and a half or two months ago, I completely stopped pumping because I had given up on her taking the bottle. And my breasts became much much better. The overflow problem was minimal.
Recently, I started pumping again. I'm back to work and my daughter has to go to a part time daycare. She has accepted to take about 2-3 oz of expressed milk while I'm gone, but not formula.
My only problem is that my overflow is back, and the fountains my breasts are creating are uncontrollable. Because of pumping (or so I think) for one feeding per day, my daughter is struggling in all other feedings when I breastfeed her.
I have to continue pumping because (1) I prefer that she takes breast milk over formula of course, and (2) she hates formula anyway.
I've shortened the pumping sessions to 6 minutes (including 2 minutes before the let down where the pump isn't really pumping). And I try not to pump more than 1.5 oz per breast. But I still have this problem. I've also tried pumping the same amount over two sessions which are apart, but this has not worked either.
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Paula Deen posts apology for racial slurs on YouTube
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What a crock, this whole we can say it you can't BS. I can only hope people of color will be held to the same standard and will be punished equally for any use of words that people find offensive.Hide replies
BuckHenderson - Jun 21, 2013 10:48 PM - Report Abuse
Sequester J Jones - Jun 22, 2013 1:02 AM - Report Abuse
@Fred Does the same thing go for people of color?? Can they make it through without uttering the word that shall not be spoken. What about any other words that someone else finds offensive? When a person of color uses one of someone's 'protected' words will they be treated with the same way as Paula Deen or will it be called cultural and therefore okay to use?
Melcher, as soon as someone comparable to Deen (Al Roker, perhaps?) becomes known for throwing around slurs and nostalgia for the Jim Crow South, we can deal with it.
And really now -- is it really so threatening that black people are using the word in a totally different context? Am I to believe that is too confusing for us white folks, and that we're the real victims here?
portableremote - Jun 21, 2013 7:05 PM - Report Abuse@Fred - here's the thing though: the context which some black folks use the word is to imply endearment...that makes no sense to me and I am half black, raised in the hood and heard the word tossed around by black people...the use of the "N" word will continue for both black and white folks...overtly by blacks and covertly by some whites....the thing is though, to me it's one of those words that should just be off limits for *everyone*...
PR, I understand -- as a term of endearment, it fails for you.
I thought this was a very readable, brief essay on the use of the word, which I'd recommend to others who are seriously having trouble seeing the difference between Paula Deen using the slur and black people appropriating it. (Also mentioned is that not all black uses of the term are intended to be positive.)
Some of the commenters on the essay share your opinion. I can see the POV that the use of the word is classless or "embarrassing," as one person said.
portableremote - Jun 21, 2013 10:40 PM - Report Abuse@fred - thanks for sharing the link...still a fail for me...over the years, I've had family and friends say similar things...
I know a lot of this has to do with growing up in the 70's and hearing some of my white relatives, including my grandfather, refer to my father as the "N" lover...
my father was a strong supporter of civil rights and he marched in several protests, across the country...growing up, I definitely heard the word in my house (sparingly) but it was always describing a specific type of person: a person with low expectations, lazy...a person who because they didn't know how to behave caused nice business to close...a person who would smile in your face and then turn around and rob your house...that is what a "N" is to me...
and I've found that the folks who use that word the most and our most adamant about how harmless it is, are usually the same folks who epitomize the definition I provided above...and yes, I admit that I am stereotyping...
latino's aren't greeting each other with racial slurs, neither are whites, Jews, or the majority of races/ethnicities...women don't greet each other by saying "what's up my (starts with C rhymes with punt)?"....for me, based on the history of the word, I will never, ever understand the logic behind making it acceptable or why anyone would want to... nor do I accept the "do as I say, not as I do" hypocrisy of punishing Paula and rewarding 100's of hip hop stars who say the same word, which, regardless of how it's sanitized, means the same, regardless whose saying it ...
So is BET going to stop playing Hip-Hop? How many artists have your heard using the the same word.
"[Lawsuit] documents state that [plaintiff Lisa] Jackson became the General Manager of Bubba's Oyster and Seafood House in Savannah, Georgia, which is co-owned by Deen and Bubba, after the previous GM, who was male, was fired for having sexual relations with the servers. Deen allegedly said in a meeting in which Jackson was present, 'If you think I have worked this hard to lose everything because of a piece of p**y, you better think again, and now I'm going to do something I have never done I am going to put a woman in a man's job.'"
It really is too bad that someone as talented, driven and successful as Deen just wouldn't learn that professionals just don't use the N-word anymore -- no matter what their background or upbringing. (They also don't allow their brothers and business partners to look at porn in the office. Just ask the Butler PD.)
portableremote - Jun 21, 2013 5:05 PM - Report Abusefailing to renew Deen's contract still doesn't solve the problem of black people who abuse this word....and there are plenty who do....if it's not acceptable for white people to call a black person the "N" word, then it's also unacceptable for black people to call each other this word as well.... Otherwise, we have a double standard....my mother is black and my father white...I grew up hearing my uncles and grandfather on my fathers side, referring to my father as the "N" lover....
the word is disgusting regarding who says it or how it's spelled...it really s that simple...Hide replies
I suppose so, PR; but I have no doubt whatsoever that the use of the N-word among blacks is often considerably different than the way white people use it against blacks.
I also think it's pretty transparent that other posters brought up the issue here to deflect from, minimize and excuse Deen's behavior.
portableremote - Jun 21, 2013 5:42 PM - Report Abuse@Fred - of course the usual bigot, racialist did that...deflection is their forte...
but to me, after years of brutal slavery and vicious discrimination, that was government sanctioned less than 50 years ago, the coping mechanism for years of suffering is calling each other the very same degrading names that plantation owners once called black people?? the history of the word and all the baggage associated with it, suggests to me that regardless of whose using it and how it's justified, mitigated or approved of, it's a hypocritical double standard to allow black people to use it, carte Blanche, while punishing white people... It just doesn't make any sense... "do as I say and not as I do" is hypocrisy in action....
portableremote - Jun 21, 2013 6:35 PM - Report Abuse
Before youtube's notorious commenters isn't exactly the first place that I would choose to make my case that I am not a bigot...
the "n" word. what a crock. it is a word and only a word. if you don't like it then stop acknowledging "it" and giving "it" any power. enough already.Hide replies
I'm surprised so many in the related poll -- just over 50% at this point -- do not agree with the Food Network's decision to not renew Deen's contract.
Whether you feel the use of racial slurs can be excused or not, why in the world would, or *should*, the FOOD NETWORK want to have anything to do with such a controversy? No matter what, Deen's name is badly tainted, and people aren't going to associate her name with food (or diabetes) anymore.Hide replies
I wasn't raised in a household that used crude language of any type, so hearing stuff like that is fingernails on a blackboard to me.
However, aside from name calling, Paula Deen just isn't that good a chef. The accent and overly "folksy" manner is annoying, and the foods she prepares are uninspiring. Food Network can do a lot better than that. MPTV Channel 36.3 does a lot better than that. I just learned technique for an apricot pistachio soufflé from watching Jacques Pepin last night. Technique makes all the difference and watching a masterful chef prepare a classic is priceless. Why doesn't Food Network try to lure any number of great chefs whose shows are on public TV?Hide replies
Paula is negotiating a contract with the GOP to act as their spokesperson. According to Reince Priebus, "Paula's philosophies are aligned with our party messaging and rebranding. Plus her Uncle Tom's Cabin casserole is to die for."Hide replies


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DECEMBER 13, 2001 -- State Superintendent of Education Glenn W. McGee will conduct research at Northern Illinois University on the achievement gap issue under a 6-month state grant after his contract as superintendent expires December 31, the Illinois State Board of Education announced today.
ISBE will provide funding for the research in the amount of approximately $125,000 -- equal to half of McGee's annual salary and benefits in the state superintendent's job, which he has held for three years, plus costs to NIU for directing the grant.
"The Board has consistently said since last summer that it would reach an agreement with Supt. McGee that would result in his continuing to provide service to the State Board for six months after his departure," ISBE Chairman Ronald J. Gidwitz said at the Board's regular monthly meeting.
McGee was instrumental in bringing the achievement gap issue into public view during his tenure as state superintendent. His expertise in this field, his proven abilities as a researcher and his thorough knowledge of the academic performance of Illinois public school students make him ideally suited to perform these studies, Gidwitz said.
"The project worked out among the NIU Center for Governmental Studies, ISBE and McGee will produce data with great potential for helping to improve achievement in Illinois classrooms. We take pleasure in being able to continue our relationship with Max McGee, and we look forward to the findings and recommendations he will make to the State Board, which will help guide our policy-making on the achievement gap," he said.
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Nalaka Gooneratne, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Gooneratne's research interests are centered around studying the nature of sleep disorders in the elderly. While many older adults complain of difficulties with sleep, it is an area about which modern medicine has only a limited understanding. Funded initially by a National Institute on Aging Mentored Research Career Development Award (K23) and a National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Award (R01), he is pursuing research examining the role of melatonin, a hormone secreted by the pineal gland, in sleep in the elderly. Dr. Gooneratne also has a strong interest in the attitudes of senior citizens towards their sleep problems and how their background/ethnicity informs their decisions. This project has been funded by a Hartford foundation/Penn Center for Excellence pilot grant. Dr. Gooneratne also runs a Sleep Disorders Clinic for Seniors in an effort to address the medical needs of older patients with sleep disorders. In addition, Dr. Gooneratne is the Associate Program Director of the Clinical and Translational Research Center of the University of Pennsylvania's Clinical and Translational Science Award, which assists in the conduct of over 190 clinical research studies. He also helps to coordinate the research activities of the Geriatric fellows in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and mentors research fellows in the Division of Sleep Medicine.
Presently, Dr. Gooneratne and Dr. Perlis are working on a NIH funded pilot study on how insomnia symptoms vary with CPAP and sham-CPAP in individuals with Sleep Disordered Breathing.
Jeffrey Greeson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey M. Greeson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Swarthmore College in 1997, an M.S. in Biomedical Chemistry from Thomas Jefferson University in 2001, and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Miami in 2006. He was on faculty at Duke University Medical Center from 2006-2014, before joining Penn Psychiatry.
Dr. Greeson's research interests include the effects of stress on mental and physical health, and how effectively reducing stress can improve health and potentially prevent disease. His research on stress and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) has been funded by the National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine and the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As a licensed psychologist who specializes in Health Psychology, Dr. Greeson provides psychotherapy to patients at Penn who present with co-morbid mental and medical disorders, many of which are stress-related.
Dr. Greeson is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. He has published nearly 50 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and has given over 100 invited presentations to students, researchers, and health care professionals on the topics of stress, mindfulness, and mind-body health.
Carla Jungquist, NP, PhD
University of Buffalo
Dr. Jungquist's collaboration with Dr. Perlis started in 2003 with the NINR funded study "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for insomnia in Patients with Chronic Pain". She served as a mentored co-investigator during her doctoral program at the University of Rochester School of Nursing. She successfully defended her dissertation in 2008, receiving a PhD in Health Practice Research. This study was one of the first to provide evidence of the important role nurses have in the delivery of CBT-I in clinical practice as well as the effectiveness of CBT-I in patients with chronic pain. Over the course of this study, Dr. Perlis along with Drs. Jungquist, Posner and Smith wrote "Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia: Session by Session Guide", which has now been published in several languages and sold several thousand copies. While working with Dr. Perlis at the University of Rochester, they developed the "Sleep Disorders Symptoms Checklist" (SDS-CL) that continues to be refined and validated. Dr. Jungquist has completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive science and neuroimaging where she is exploring the neural relationship of the effects of sleep loss on the painful experience.
She is currently faculty at the University of Buffalo where she continues her research in the relationship of sleep and pain as funded by the Garmin Endowment. Dr. Jungquist is an active member of the American Pain Society, Association for Pain Management Nurses (ASPMN), Sleep Research Society, Society for Behavioral Sleep Medicine, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Sigma Theta Tau, College of Nurse Practitioners. She is currently serving on the expert panels of ASPMN developing and disseminating guidelines for monitoring patients for opioid induced respiratory depression; and the Association for Nurse Credentialing Certification where she is a content expert in pain and sleep to develop questions for examinations. Dr. Jungquist continues for clinical practice at the Thompson Health Sleep Disorders Center in Canandaigua, NY.
Presently, Dr. Jungquist and Dr. Perlis are working on a validation project of the SDS-CL.
Jacqueline Kloss, PhD
Drexel University
Dr. Jacqueline Kloss, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Drexel University. Dr. Kloss' research is broadly in the area of clinical health psychology, with a special focus on behavioral sleep medicine. She is also a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Director of the Insomnia Program at the Drexel Sleep Center in Manayunk, Drexel University College of Medicine, where she primarily practices cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia.
Dr. Kloss received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Binghamton University and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania in the area of sleep and outpatient psychiatry. Her current research agenda focuses on understanding sleep disturbance and developing remedies to enhance to sleep and quality of life among populations vulnerable to sleep disorders, specifically for women and college students. Her focus on the sleep of women has led to publications in the area of hot flashes, mood, and beliefs and attitudes about sleep among peri-menopausal women. She is also working on the development, implementation, and evaluation of psychoeducational workshops to improve college student sleep. Together with Drs. David Dinges and Martin Szuba, she co-edited a book on Insomnia Principles and Management.
Dr. Kloss is also involved in other health psychology projects that enhance college student and women's health to include investigations of the benefits of written emotional expression exercises and skin cancer prevention strategies. Bridging her interests she is currently co-editing a book on Women's Health Psychology with Drs. Mary Spiers and Pamela Geller.
Presently, Dr. Kloss and Dr. Perlis are working on a project pertaining to insomnia and reproductive capacity.
Donn Posner, PhD
Brown University
Dr. Donn Posner is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He is the Director of Clinical Behavioral Medicine for Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals and he is a certified insomnia specialist and Director of Behavioral Sleep Medicine for the Sleep Disorders Center of Lifespan Hospitals. He has spent the last 24 years treating Sleep and Anxiety Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Rhode Island Hospital, and has contributed considerably to its administrative leadership and research mission.
Over the last 19 years Dr. Posner has served as the primary supervisor for a rotation of the Behavioral Medicine track of the clinical psychology internship at Brown. The rotation focuses on the assessment and treatment of Sleep and Anxiety Disorders, and is one of the few rotations of its kind in the US. He also mentors post-doctoral fellows and lectures on Behavioral Sleep Medicine and Anxiety Disorders to interns, fellows, and residents in internal medicine and psychiatry.
Dr. Posner is also one of the authors of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia: ASession-by-Session Guide (New York: Springer/Verlag). The book is intended for clinical trainees, and non-insomnia sleep specialists, as well as more experienced clinicians from outside the sleep medicine field, who wish to learn how to provide empirically validated cognitive behavioral treatment for insomnia (CBT-I). He has been a consultant on one federally funded grant looking at the effect of CBT-I in patients who suffer from alcohol abuse and is currently consulting on another federally funded grant involving CBT-I in a cohort of veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Both grants used the book as a model for the clinical intervention protocol. He also is a co-investigator on a grant which will attempt to create a protocol to help extend the sleep of insufficient sleepers and examine if such sleep extension aids in weight loss.
Most recently Dr. Posner has been consulting around the country at clinical psychology programs and sleep centers assisting them on how to set up a Behavioral Sleep Medicine program and how to effectively deliver these treatments.
Presently, Dr. Posner are working on a variety of educational related projects including a DnI grant for CBT-I, the annual Penn CBT-I course, a video vignette series on 8 session CBT-I, and on two book projects.
Joseph Roscoe, PhD
University of Rochester
CBT +/- Modafinil for Insomnia and Fatigue following Chemotherapy
Dr. Roscoe received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 2000 from the university of Rochester and is currently a Research Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York. His specialty is the study of symptom relief in patients receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy. He is one of two Co-Principal Investigators on an NCI supported RT25 Cancer Control Research Training Grant and one of three co-investigators on the University of Rochester Cancer Center Community Clinical Oncology Program (URCC CCOP) Research Base that is sponsored by the NCI to conduct large, multi-center, clinical trials investigating symptom management therapies for cancer. He has received five nationally competitive research awards, including an American Cancer Society career development award to examine disturbances of sleep architecture in breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and an NCI-supported R01 testing the efficacy of a combined drug and behavioral intervention in reducing insomnia and fatigue in cancer survivors. Dr. Roscoe has 60 peer-reviewed publications on issues of symptom management, and many examine the effects of behavioral and/or pharmaceutical interventions in cancer patients.
Presently, Dr. Roscoe and Dr. Perlis are working on completing the study above on CBT +/- Modafinil for Insomnia and Fatigue following Chemotherapy.
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Sharna Johnson
Oh yeah, I'm sure the neighbors think I'm odd when they see me trudging around.
Head down, eyes to the ground, I sweep my foot through the few patches of tall grass that have managed to grow — incidentally sprouted near spots on my multi-patched hose where the mends have given out.
Some days I wiggle the toe of my boot up under the bent, long grass and there they are.
Other days I come up empty.
You see, everyday is Easter at my house. At least since I moved the round bale my hen Molly used to lay under.
Now it's anyone's guess where she'll hide her eggs.
Initially she chose a spot and stuck with it for several days, so I tied a bit of bailing twine on the top of the long grass to make it easy to find.
We had a great system going, until I re-situated a horse pen so they could "mow" that area, then all bets were off.
At one point more than a week passed with no eggs, until one night when I was making my way to move a hose in the dark.
I stopped dead in my tracks and bent down, feeling around in the blackness only to have my fingers encounter the slimy mess I should have expected.
I poked around to see if I could find more in the dark, but no luck.
A few days later I found four eggs nestled underneath bent-over weeds.
They all passed the "float test" and got stuck in the fridge, but I haven't seen a single egg since.
By my estimate, there's a dozen eggs out there somewhere, but she refuses to lay her eggs in the predictable or logical places, like the loose pile of cozy hay in the barn, or the nook under the wood pile.
Oh no, not Molly. She has to be creative.
When I was a child I must have scurried around with my bonnet and little pink Easter basket and squealed with glee at the discovery of a brightly colored egg. And at some regretful point — like a moment of Shakespearean foreshadowing I couldn't possible comprehend — I uttered the fateful words, "I wish everyday was Easter Mommy!"
And here I am, years later cursed to hunt for eggs hidden by a hen far more devious than any of the adults that ever orchestrated one of those long-ago moments of childhood fun.
It must be some such convoluted design of fate because such things have happened before.
Like the time I called my mother looking for comfort in some moment of parental frustration and she reminded me that at the wise age of 13 I declared children deserved far more credit than their parents gave them and when the day came that I had my own, I would be more understanding of my little genius spawn.
Oh yeah, I remember that… Ooops…
Yeah those little utterances do have a way of coming back around, don't they?
If Molly is indeed hiding the eggs to be cruel, she is the most two-faced hen I have ever met (not that I have known that many).
Every day when she sees me she runs my direction in a zig-zagging waddle, ducking under fence rails like some basic trainee navigating an obstacle course on an adrenaline high.
And she follows me to the barn at a similar, high-speed bobbing waddle, chit-chatting the whole way like she has so much to tell me.
No, I don't think she hates me, so it must be something else.
Perhaps that cat that hangs out in the barn — the one that just appeared about the time Molly came to live with us — makes her nervous.
Or maybe she just likes variety of scenery when she lays her eggs, kind of like a chicken's version of lavatory reading.
Whatever the answer, the egg hunt is now part of my daily chore routine, as if there wasn't enough to do already.
However this weekend when I take on my other chores and finally get around to mowing down those little patches of sanctuary, I bet I'll end up making some scrambled eggs… just a hunch.


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He loved it. Has no family history of allergies. Was ped. approved. Still BF the same amount, and still does. Was already sleeping well, not giving solids for that reason. He was a very fussy baby and just needed something new to do and loved his solids. It wasn't and still isn't his main source of nutrition. He had rice cereal for a month then I started stage 1, then at 6 months started stage 2. I do what worked for us, and he is a happy and growing baby. I am not saying you should or should not do it. It is a families decision, each individualized. I was being brave to even post on here about this being that I go against the grain. Hold the tar and feathers please. It is a personal decision, way the pros and cons and make your decision accordingly.
And my Christmas Eve baby
I will carry you all my life
And I will praise the one who's chosen me to carry you
W Apr '11
R Nov '11
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. *Helen Kellar*
But - you're correct in that everyone should do what works best for them.
And since the original question was was what do we think, as a colloective... I'll answer that too - I'd wait until he could ist up well on his own and could feed himself. I'll spare you all the details but I waited until 6 mo+ because I didn't find any value to the solids.
I like what this section of the linked page says about solids and readiness.
I also like this page about solid readiness
(hope these links weren't dups other put up )
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Wouldn't it be replacing it only if the nursing decreases? Clayton always nurses like crazy. He is a true boob man. LOL
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And my Christmas Eve baby
I will carry you all my life
And I will praise the one who's chosen me to carry you
W Apr '11
R Nov '11
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No tar and feathers here, mom. Justs and . (Insert peace sign here)It's not always easy to tell what the exact tone is of people's comments. Most mommas are here to share their experience. Opinions are sometimes sought and given. It's all good! I keep thinking about that line: Watch the baby, not the calendar. As much trouble as I see on this forum of moms dealing with their babies' constipation when they start solids (especially with cereal) I don't understand what the rush is aside from adorable Kodak moments.
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**Margaret**(the artist formerly known as mommamags) Mom to red- and curly-headed, blue-eyed, chunky-thighed Michael Thomas, 24 May 2007, 9 lb/22 in. As an infant, he was my little suckling pig. Now he's a total ham!!!
I forgot to mention that I started solids too early, at 4 months. Then a few months later I read a bunch of studies for my schoolwork (I'm studying to be an IBCLC) and realized that the EBF-for-6-full-months group came out on top health-wise every single time. And so I came to regret my decision, which was made basically out of boredom with our old routine, a desire for those goopy pea-face high chair shots, and a secret wild desperate hope that it would in fact improve her night sleep in spite of everything I heard to the contrary...
At any rate I'm a little aggravated that my pedi didn't have up-to-date information to give me when he gave the green light. But is that really a surprise? I swear everything they know is based on FF babies. Mothers way back when HAD to start solids early (like we're talking at 2 weeks ) because the artificial milks were often quite deficient. And the practice seems to want to stick.
So anyway, I'd have to tar and feather myself first. And as much as I hate these grimy old sweatpants it hasn't come to that...yet!
Erin (32), breastfeeding CLW, knitting cloth-diapering crocheting, heirloom tomato-growing philosophizing poker-playing feminist artist mama to my 19 month old daughter! Baby #2 due January 2009.
my son is still nursing as much as before the solids..at this age theyre a complement to bm not a replacement.
Married my man Michael 5/12/2006
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And how old is your son? You don't say. How long ago did you intro solids? How do you know he's getting the same amount of milk? And even if he were getting the same amount as before, don't you think if the solids weren't introduced that he would be getting MORE milk now than before? Otherwise, he would be getting extra calories that he doesn't need, right?
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Modern life is better in many ways. Better food, better healthcare, better education, a better standard of living. But unlike even a half-century ago, it carries more stressful demands.
In the corporate world that can mean long days at the office, eating on the run, little time with loved ones and feeling guilty about it, and trying to fit everything into a 24-hour day. Increasingly, the corporate world is turning to the practice of "mindfulness" to relieve stress and improve both health and productivity.
Mindfulness is associated with meditation. It's a spiritual or psychological faculty believed to be an important step on the road to enlightenment. It's reached by establishing a state of calm through meditation and relaxation exercises.
Mindfulness in the workplace
In recent years businesses have encouraged the practice as a way to reduce tension in the workplace. The more pressure an employee is under, the thinking goes, the more they benefit from a state of mindfulness.
For example, before the start of an important meeting attendees might be asked to participate in a relaxation, or meditation, exercise, to improve their ability to focus and communicate. Studies have found that teams that practice just a few minutes a day of mindfulness report improved team performance.
How do you achieve mindfulness? It can start with something as simple as breathing.
Yes, we all breathe to stay alive but chances are, we're hardly ever conscious of it. A breathing exercise focuses your full attention on this life-preserving function. In this mindfulness exercise you breath from your stomach rather than your chest.
You inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth. Focusing on each breath, its sound and rhythm, can have a calming effect and help you stay focused on the present moment.
Listening to music can also help achieve mindfulness. Some people prefer new-age music, others classical pieces. The important thing is that it be a slow, soothing tempo to enhance a feeling of calm. Listen to and concentrate on just the music, keeping other thoughts and concerns from creeping in.
If you find that your mind is full of pressing thoughts that are simply impossible to ignore, try looking at them as an objective observer. Let your thoughts flow and sit back and observe them, as though they were someone else's problems. As you continue this process you might find that your mind relaxes a bit. You might even come up with some answers.
Trying something different
Corporations have come to mindfulness slowly, usually after finding their expensive "leadership development" programs didn't produce very much and left a lot of participants cold. Polly LaBerre, writing on the Harvard Business Review blog, says these types of programs usually resulted in the wrong people being elevated within an organization.
"What if, instead of stuffing people with curricula, models, and competencies, we focused on deepening their sense of purpose, expanding their capability to navigate difficulty and complexity, and enriching their emotional resilience?" she asked. "What if, instead of trying to fix people, we assumed that they were already full of potential and created an environment that promoted their long-term well-being?"
Beyond the corporate world
The benefits may extend well beyond the corporate world to help individuals cope better in everyday life. The University of Massachusetts Medical School is among the academic institutions that have established a Center for Mindfulness. At UMASS, there's even a mindfulness training program for teens.
Some believe mindfulness may be helpful in treating depression. A study in the February 2013 journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience suggests why.
According to Catherine Kerr, lead author of the new study and director of translational neuroscience at Brown University, when someone is depressed their attention can become consumed by negative thoughts.
Mindfulness allows patients to disengage from this negative thought pattern through the "body scan" technique. Patients are asked to systematically pay attention to each region of the body. As this happens, the alpha rhythms that are responsible for the flow of sensory information to the brain fluctuate.
If you're thinking this all sounds really touchy-feely, you're not alone. But the number of books and CDs on the subject continues to proliferate, suggesting more people are giving it a try. And that includes some of the world's largest corporations who are now using it in an effort to make executives and employees healthier and more productive.


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Yummy scrummy carrot cake
The lightest and most enticingly moist carrot cake you will ever come across - just find a good hiding place for it!
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Dairy-free
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal265
- fat12g
- saturates2g
- carbs39g
- sugars24.8g
- fibre1g
- protein3g
- salt0.41g
- 175g light muscovado sugar
- 175ml sunflower oil
Sunflower oil
A variety of oils can be used for baking. Sunflower is the one we use most often at Good Food as…
- 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 140g grated carrot (about 3 medium)
The carrot, with its distinctive bright orange colour, is one of the most versatile root…
- 100g raisins
- grated zest of 1 large orange
One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…
- 175g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda, or baking soda, is an alkali which is used to raise soda breads and full-…
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp grated nutmeg (freshly grated will give you the best flavour)
For the frosting
- 175g icing sugar
- 1½-2 tbsp orange juice
Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4/fan 160C. Oil and line the base and sides of an 18cm square cake tin with baking parchment. The easiest way to do this is to cut two long strips the width of the tin and put each strip crossways, covering the base and sides of the tin, with a double layer in the base.
Tip the sugar into a large mixing bowl, pour in the oil and add the eggs. Lightly mix with a wooden spoon. Stir in the grated carrots, raisins and orange rind.
Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and spices, then sift into the bowl. Lightly mix all the ingredients – when everything is evenly amalgamated stop mixing. The mixture will be fairly soft and almost runny.
Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40- 45 minutes, until it feels firm and springy when you press it in the centre. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn it out, peel off the paper and cool on a wire rack. (You can freeze the cake at this point.)
Beat together the frosting ingredients in a small bowl until smooth – you want the icing about as runny as single cream. Set the cake on a serving plate and boldly drizzle the icing back and forth in diagonal lines over the top, letting it drip down the sides.
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You might also like to try Angela Nilsen's lighter option, Ultimate makeover: Carrot cake, or try something new with Carrot & cream cheese cupcakes .
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I've always stayed away from carrot cakes because I don't eat walnuts so I was delighted to find a recipe without nuts. It's brilliant! Light, moist, EASY and absolutely delicious! I reduced the amount of oil as has been suggested and didn't even bother with the topping. I made 12 good sized cupcakes...they didn't last long and I got great comments. Definitely my go to carrot cake recipe from now on!
Made this today and for my very first carrot cake, the recipe worked brilliantly. I have also added desiccated walnuts as someone suggested and have oiled a round cake tin directly without using paper and it worked really well. Cake was super moist and all the flavours were there! I will definitely make it again. Thank you!
Baked this cake for our Bake club at work, just a few tweaks as previous comments. I used 115ml oil, 50g chopped walnuts and small tin of drained pineapple (omitted raisins & orange juice) & used a 20cm round cake tin, exactly 45mins to cook. Still very moist and so delicious. For the topping cream frosting with chopped walnuts to decorate, what a fantastic cake, a huge hit with everyone, Definitely recommend
Delicious as cupcakes with a cream cheese frosting. Made a batch of 24, baked for 20. - 25 mins. I added a few chopped walnuts to the cake mix for extra texture and For the cream cheese frosting I added some orange zest and the juice from half an orange. All 24 buns had disappeared by the following day! Next time I'll bake 2 batches and freeze one (without the frosting) which can be made when the cupcakes are taken from the freezer.
I love carrot cake and this is one of my favorite recipes. I have tried reducing the oil and sugar as others have suggested, but I have found for it to make any significant calorific difference, it alters the balance of the recipe and whilst flavour can be boosted the texture is denser. I do add walnuts or pecans sometimes and these work well - I tend to chop them and mix them in rather than putting them on the top as I find they start to burn resulting in a bitter flavour. My children really like it when I put sour cherries and cranberries, usually half and half with the raisins, you get a pop of tartness - which is really quite good. I don't bother with the frosting most of the time, but I do sometimes give it a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar whilst it is still warm. A really good cake, so glad I tried it! Worth every star!
This is a terrific recipe that can withstand a lot of tweaking. To make it a bit healthier I reduced the oil to 100ml and the sugar to 90g, and increased the carrot to 200g and raisins to 130g. I also used a mixture of white and wholemeal self-raising flour and added half a teaspoon of baking powder (as well as the bicarbonate) to compensate for the wholemeal flour. It rose perfectly and was ready in 40 minutes. Since I like the spiciness of carrot cake I added a little ground ginger and a bit more cinnamon than the recipe says. I would definitely recommend trying it and tweaking it to your own preferences. Absolutely delicious.
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Wondering what I did wrong, after all the positive posts it must be my error!
The cooking time was a lot longer as although the scewer came out clean I could see it wasn't cooked. I used a loaf tin instead of the square tin the recipe tells you to use. Do you think this could have been the problem?
Many thanks
Hi there, thanks for getting in touch. We haven't tested this recipe with 100ml of oil so cannot guarantee perfect results. Baking is a bit of a science so it could be that altering the quantities too far could adversely affect the texture of the finished cake but please do let us know how you get on if you do adapt the recipe.
Hi _aore_ thanks for getting in touch. Per piece (the cake some cut into 15 pieces) there are 39g of carbohydrate which is 585g for the whole cake. This information is listed at the top of each of our recipes (below the sharing buttons and above the method and shopping tools) I hope this is helpful.
I made this cake the other week as a practice for a top tier of a Christening cake (obviously I intend not to frost it and will instead be covering it for decoration). Unfortunately as soon as I took it out of the oven it sank a little in the centre, and although it tasted cooked in the middle, it was a bit soggier - yet the rest of the cake was delicious. Is there any way to stop the cake from sinking and to bake evenly?
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I have been using this recipe for quite some time as the basis for large muffins, this recipe will make 8 cafe-sized muffins. Really tasty recipe, but I would cut down on the oil, about 110-115ml is plenty. There is sufficient rising agent to increase the fruit content but care should be taken that too much will lead to poor temperature conduction. Similarly you can increase the number of carrots, I have successfully used up to 4 carrots including large ones. Don't over-stir though as they will break down thereby raising the liquid content
To really give this fantastic recipe some zing, don't use water with the icing sugar mix. Instead grate the zest of 4 limes. Squeeze the limes in to a bowl and use the juice to mix the icing (about 10 tsp) to the mix. Then sprinkle the grated zest on top for decoration. The sugar takes the bite out of the bitterness. This added to the orange in the cake makes a really fresh, zingy taste.
Made this the other day, but with a couple of tiny tweaks. I used 160g light muscovado sugar and added a handful of chopped walnuts to the wet batter.
Baking time was only about 30-40 minutes. I kept checking with a cake thermometer. when it was about to reach the 30 minute mark.
All in all, recipe is quite good. Just like how my mum used to make. I skipped the frosting as eating it in itself is already a treat.
Best carrot cake I have ever had :)
Although, I find that you don't need as much icing sugar as the recipe states to just drizzle over the top as the picture shows. I also made the cake another time with the typical creamy topping from another goodfood carrot cake recipe (Carrot & cream cheese cupcakes), which made it even more delicious and indulgent.
Hope to try it with nuts added next time


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Pain management? Don't make me laugh.
June 23, 2011 —
Last week, after participating in Prayers for World Peace at the Kadampa Meditation Center ( www.kadampanewyork.org ), I was approached by one of the nuns for a favor. Knowing that I drive a pickup, she asked if I could spare some time and help the Temple out with a dump-run, since they had a lot of refuse to dispose of responsibly.
Wanting to help, I ignored that little voice in my head that insisted on reminding me of the weird English idiom: "No good deed goes unpunished" ( www.usingenglish.com ). Casting superstition to the wind, off I went, with a truckload of large items, including an old broken desk that, when push came to shove, somehow backfired on me, and made a crash landing on my left side that left me slightly broken (delicate flower that I am) and suffering a fractured rib.
Unwilling to accept that the voice in my head (can you say Sybil?) created the reality, I pushed on. Taped up and wincing (Attorneys at Law) I put the truck in gear and attempted to move through it. I had been looking forward to seeing Forestburgh Playhouse's ( www.fbplayhouse.org ) perennial favorite Loretta Swit perform her one-woman tour de force, "Shirley Valentine," based on the book by Willy Russell.
Swit's performance was (IMHO) really, really good. I was thrilled to find myself so immersed in the piece that the image of Swit portraying Margaret Houlihan for 11 years on the TV's smash hit M*A*S*H was never even a part of the equation. A great blend of comedy and pathos, it made me laugh—and I also felt the character's pain, literally.
Not wanting to tempt fate, I passed on an invitation to join friends at Friends (in Smallwood, NY) for a "rib-eye special" and drove off screaming as I changed gears, to hear local author Tom Kane read excerpts from his new book, "Bad Church, Good Church" at the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (www.artsalliance
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Help! Do I have an overeater? Abundant supply? Baby with reflux? All or some of the above? Here are the facts:
I have a 2 week old boy. He drank a 4 ounce bottle of my milk at 1 week old! He sleeps for 2-4 hour periods in the daytime, then at night it is a chore to get him calmed to sleep. It goes something like this:
Nurse him.
Hold him upright as long as we can while vigorously patting his back.
Lay him down in Pack n Play next to our bed.
Listen to sputtering/coughing/wheezing/struggling sounds until we can't take it anymore.
Pick him up. Sometimes fall asleep (against our best efforts and desires) with him laying tummy down on top of our tummy. Or next to us in bed.
Repeat next night!
We have tried:
Inclining his crib mattress
Burping him longer
Putting him in vibrating chair before transfer to crib
Putting him in carseat before transfer to crib
Using reflux meds prescribed by his pediatrician (we have a radiology appt tomorrow to look at his upper GI tract)
Now I am reading about oversupply and am also getting conflicting info:
Cold compresses vs. warm
Pump a lot vs. pump just enough for comfort
pump just enough comfort vs. risk mastitis because of unrelieved plugged ducts
I am at a quandary as to how to proceed. I sense that oversupply is my problem because the day after I got home from the hospital my breasts felt like they were filled with rocks and marbles (plugged ducts). I got a pump and the few times I pumped I would fill either half or a whole bottle with each breast and sometimes still have stubbornly plugged ducts. Now I am reading that I should pump no more than 30 seconds....which would definitely not relieve my ducts.
I have unhappily resorted to using a pacifier sometimes. I have no problem with him nursing to soothe himself if all that extra milk didn't create struggling sounds that worry me.
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The indictment named Cynthia Lee Ray, also known as Cynthia Carriger Ray. She was identified a year ago as the widow of George A. "Tracy" Ray.
The suspect was arrested a year ago following an investigation led by Texas Ranger James Bennett.
The first count of the indictment alleges that Ray took jewelry that legally had belonged to two of her late husband's children, who were co-executors of their late father's estate.
Count two of the document alleges that Ray gained possession of a Les Baer .45-caliber handgun, and count three claims that the defendant also took a Robinson .223-caliber rifle.
Each of the first three counts is a state jail felony. If convicted, the defendant could be sentenced to up to two years in a state jail facility and fined $10,000 on each charge.
The fourth count of the indictment was on a charge of tampering with a witness. That charge was enhanced to a third degree felony.
Investigators alleged that the defendant agreed to "confer a benefit" to a man who was, at the time, a witness to an official investigation of theft of firearms.
According to the indictment, Ray told the man that he would be able to keep two firearms if he told investigators that Tracy Ray had given him the guns before he died.
If convicted on that charge, the defendant could be sentenced to up to 10 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
District Judge Starr Bauer set Ray's bond at $10,000.
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The news that Fidel Castro was having unspecified intestinal surgery that caused him to hand over formal power to his brother Raul (who is 75) was so fraught with hope that Cuban-Americans in Miami's Little Havana turned out for a
massive street party. That even a rumor of the 79-yearold dictator's imminent demise would create a surge of joy among decent people is not surprising, but what might a change of power in Cuba really mean? Would there just be "a new boss, same as the old boss"?
Although he is little known outside Cuba — and apparently doesn't have a high profile inside Cuba either — Raul Castro doesn't seem a likely candidate to lead a
movement toward freedom or democracy. He has been his brother's right-hand man since the ouster of dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Far less charismatic than
Fidel, he is reportedly ruthlessly competent. When Fidel deemed that executions, bloodshed and terrorizing latent opposition were deemed necessary to consolidate his power, Raul orchestrated it. In the old days he was viewed as a more ideologically committed communist than Fidel.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and cut off its $5 billion to $6 billion per year subsidy to the Cuban regime, the Castro brothers faced a potential crisis. They
saw the Chinese experience — where the Communist Party retained absolute political power but allowed some market-oriented economic activity to reverse the economic stagnation socialism always brings — as a possible model. They allowed the formation of some small businesses and encouraged tourism — with the military owning and profiting from most of the tourist facilities. But they kept the quasi-private, commercial sector small and walled off from the rest of the economy.
Whether Fidel is eventually replaced by Raul or by an anonymous collective of gray generals, don't expect dramatic changes. Mark Falcoff is author of the clear-eyed
book, "Cuba, The Morning After: Confronting Castro's Legacy." He said when he visited a few years ago, even having pored over economic statistics, he was shocked
at how pervasive the poverty was, especially outside Havana, and how the infrastructure has been allowed to crumble.
The most entrepreneurial Cubans have fled the country and those who remain have been indoctrinated for two generations in the evils of capitalism. Even with a freer system, there would not seem to be much willingness on which to build prosperity. One new influence, however, might be from Cubans in Miami. But that's a long-shot.


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Home List of Titles Who cares? An exploration of attitudes and behaviour towards the conservation of resources
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- Title
- Who cares? An exploration of attitudes and behaviour towards the conservation of resources
- Author(s)
- Newton, Peter W.; Meyer, Denny
- Abstract
- A major question mark continues to surround the issue of whether individuals and households in high income countries and regions such as Australia, North America and Western Europe are prepared to make voluntary changes in their consumption practices in order to enable transition to more environmentally sustainable societies in the 21st century. In such societies, it has been the high level of consumption of resources---directly by households in relation to their energy and water use, purchase of housing space, furnishings and appliances, travel, and so on, and indirectly by the material resource flows that underpin their built environments (construction of housing, urban infrastructure, and so on)---that has delivered highly liveable cities and lifestyles. This is not a sustainable position, however, in a resource-constrained and climate-constrained world that will add 50% to its 2000 population by 2050, where residents of developing countries (China and India in particular), as well as under-developed societies, aspire to standards of living similar to those in the West, and where residents of Western societies will desperately attempt to retain theirs. Most research to date has occurred on the supply side and has focused on issues such as sustainable design (buildings and infrastructure) as well as sustainable production (manufacturing and assembly). But there has been much less effort devoted to the demand side and to the question of sustainable consumption, which can be defined as: 'a balancing act, consuming in such a way as to protect the environment, use natural resources wisely and promote quality of life now, while not spoiling the lives of future generations'. This is notwithstanding a raft of reports that continue to point to increasing levels of domestic resource consumption. In this chapter, we use the data collected in the ARC-funded Living in Melbourne survey to examine the following issues: (1) the variability in information and knowledge that individuals hold about the environmental 'performance' of the dwelling where they live; (2) the spectrum of attitudes to environment reflected by the respondents (that feature in the lifestyle typologies); (3) the level of concern expressed for the environment; (4) the intentions that households indicate will likely be reflected in their future consumption behaviour; (5) the actions that households are actually taking to enhance their environmental performance (compared with intentions---exposing the nature and scale of any intention-action gap); (6) The barriers that are preventing behaviour change to more environmentally sustainable patterns of consumption. A principal feature of the chapter is its development of a typology of environmental lifestyles based on the revealed environmental attitudes, values and intentions of the respondents. We then proceed to examine the extent to which such a construct can explain variations in the levels of per person consumption represented within the Living in Melbourne survey sample. In other words, it examines whether there is congruence between stated environmental attitudes and intentions and actual consumption behaviour. Do actions speak louder than words?
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
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- Urban consumption / Peter W. Newton (ed.), Chapter 18, pp. 267-290
- Publication year
- 2011
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- 010401 Applied Statistics; 120501 Community Planning; 120507 Urban Analysis and Development
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- Australia; Consumption modelling; Ecological footprint; Environmental sustainability; Lifestyle; Melbourne; Sociodemographic factors; Urban resource consumption
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- CSIRO Publishing
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"I have been listening to you on EWTN for about a year now. I left the Catholic Church 42 years ago. After many struggles during this last year, I finally went to confession on Sunday. I cannot begin to explain how excited I am to be home. Thank you so much for helping me on my journey home."
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"The [secular] sense of right and wrong is so delicate, so fitful, so easily puzzled, obscured, perverted, so subtle in its argumentative methods, so impressionable by education, so biased by pride and passion, so unsteady in its course, that in the struggle for existence amid the various exercises and triumphs of the human intellect, the sense is at once the highest of all teachers yet the least luminous."
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Buster Olney? More Like Busted Phony
Believe me, dear readers, I didn't want go here today… I didn't want to appear like I was lending credence to another crackpot theory by actually addressing said crackpot theory. But the internets are a buzzin' and the pressure from RSBS fans to address the situation is too great.
So, consider this sharp tongue released…
Yesterday, I first learned of ESPN shoe-licking savant Buster Olney's egregious aspiration to be donned the worldwide leader of make-believe (specifically, a fantasyland where the Cardinals and Phillies swap Albert Pujols for Ryan Howard) by reading the Prince of New York's take.
He speaks for me.
And he is right.
Why does Buster Olney have a job?
Seriously, this is no joking matter — especially considering the faux affection thrown Olney's way every time he enters a baseball conversation, whether on t.v., radio or print.
Indeed, Olney's actions are akin to me walking into an evangelical church yelling "the rapture's coming, the rapture's coming, the rapture's coming!" just because I think it'd be funny to see how people react. (PS, the rapture is not coming… because it's ludicrous.)
It is akin to a doctor telling a perfectly healthy pregnant woman that her baby is dead — even though it isn't — just to get an interesting conversation going… y'know, a good old conversation about what it'd be like if her baby were dead.
It's blasphemy. It's conjecture. It's unfounded (even though he says it isn't).
Not even Carlos Zambrano would say something that stupid. (*I reserve the right to change my mind about this one*)
For me, the desire to continue down this ranting road is strong… but I leave it to my man-crush, Albert the Machine himself, to quash this unfettered anger by saying:
"There's people, stupid, that like to write something when it's not the
truth, and that's all I have to say about that."
Dagnabbin' right, A.P.
Buster? Eat a big Phillie phat one.
And don't hate me… 'cuz I'm right.
(*Link to article with Albert's quote*)
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Some misinformed people like to say things to get a rise out of others or to start an argument.
Well, if that's the case, then MISSION ACCOMPLISHED MR. OLNEY🙂
Trade Pujols? That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Okay, you can trade Cliff Lee because you can't afford him, Ryan Howard, Roy Halladay, et al. But trade your franchise player, who's the best in baseball, for a guy who's like a better version of Curtis Granderson and plays first base because you gave Matt Holliday and Scott Boras too much money? The Cardinals would be total idiots. I am not sure how one would believe a rumor like that, to tell the truth.
I love it when these Sports Charlatans get way too full of themselves and sabotage their careers in the blink of an eye. Remeber how Jim Grey ambushed Pete Rose and then disappeared from existence? Yea, watching the downfall of the stupid is fun. The great thing about Buster farting in his spacesuit like that is the lingering stench he's left to inhale for offering up such a piece while we all hang around, point and laugh.
That rumor is dumb. I laughed when I read it.
I ignored it 'cause it was so ludicrous. And you are smart to reserve the right to change your mind about crazy Zambrano.
Cici — You said it. People wouldn't have believed had it been someone else saying it, but it's Buster. And ESPN.
Mike — Excellent (and nauseating) analogy. Well done!
TotalBases — I was more shocked than amused. Still, it's fiction. That's the main point.
Emma — Haha! Surely he'll say something even MORE crazy than what he has already.
The Cards will never in their right minds trade Pujols!! As for people saying stupid and misleading things, it's annoying!! It's like the Penguin who knocked out Savard in the NHL game a few weeks ago and NHL didn't suspend him for it. People who say stupid things, are stupid.
That rumor is pretty crazy……. I don't think the Cardinals would trade Pujols in their right mind.
Holly — I'm with ya… except, who still watches hockey? lol
23gonzalez — They won't. Believe that!
Funny these writers now have columns that are called "blogs" but they get more credibility than us on steroids… their blogs, not the writers….They are still the skinny kids that got picked last ( most of them).
A great example of today's media centerpiece was the last day of July in 2009 when media giants posted Twitters and blog posting about Scott Kazmir, then pulled them ( including MLB.com) within minutes of their issue.
Bloggers have tried for years to get credibility while these guys get their via their abbreviated initials (EPSN, SI).
I am not aying I am better than them, but I know I can stack my credibility against them and win every time.
Viva la revolution!
Rays Renegade
RR — Revolution it is!
Had to misspell ESPN.
Did not want Onley to think we stand too far above his 5 foot 7 inch self.
Rays Renegade
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA… maybe I have finally stopped laughing…. I think Olney was had here… wouldn't that be funny… setting up sports media to take a hit, especially when they have a less than savory relationship with a team or certain players…..
Outside the Phillies Looking In
RR — I figured as much😉
Peter — So you think it WAS a set-up, eh? I like the way you think… conspiracies and all.
I stil watch hockey, redstatebluestate. I agree with you Holly. Game should be fun tonight😉


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