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Roberts, due to retire this year, saw his pension entitlement rise by a third to just under £150,000 a year. That rise would cost £564,835 to fund on the open market. He also received £225,852 salary, up from £219,314 last year. Consignia's annual report reveals that finance director Marisa Cassoni was the highest-paid director, on £308,532. Chairman Allan Leighton was paid £21,093.
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Welcome to stnicholassquarevillage.com! This website was developed for collectors of Kohls' St. Nicholas Square Village Collection to do research, browse pictures and contribute content to aid us all in completing our collections. This is not an official site and is not maintained or endorsed by any manufacturer or distributor of the village pieces.
The St. Nicholas Square Village Collection began in 1990 with a small set of buildings, most likely repackaged by a distributor/manufacturer from another line. These first buildings were for the most part unmarked and tagged with a "Made in Taiwan" sticker.
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Welcome to our blog! This blog is dedicated celebrating all things 18 inch and 6 inch doll related. From Free craft ideas to great Dollar store Gems,and reviews of some fantastic Etsy shops! You will find it all here as well as give away contests of Doll clothing, books, accessories and more! Please check out my weekly column at www.dolldiaries.com Thank you for stopping by, I hope to see you again soon. I welcome feedback and questions, even a story or too!
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Clothing for the 6 inch dolls! A great pattern for more doll play possiblities!
Jen of Created4Fun has truly lived up to her name. I bought this fantastic pattern from her on Etsy tailor made for the 6 inch or 6.5 inch American Girl Dolls!
This past summer I picked up my first 6 inch doll from the American Girl Doll store in Seattle after reading reviews on them from parents who said they loved that their daughters could take them just about anywhere and they were as well made as the larger dolls.
I bought Rebecca as I really wanted to buy her in a larger version but could not find the extra money to purchase the 18 inch version.
I was thrilled with the $22 doll I bought. I wished they had clothes to go with them and then I stumbled upon Jen's pattern and now the opportunities are endless!
I was also thrilled to find that the dolls are available on Amazon.com for sometimes under $15! Now I could afford to purchase a new little friend for Rebecca, but before I do that I wanted to make her a wardrobe of her own!
I cut out the pattern pieces and then used some of the quilting cotton squares I had that have very small flowers and prints. I cut out 8 dresses to start with and was thrilled with how easy they were to make.
The pattern included A Victorian Style Dress, Colonial Style Dress, 1930's style dress and nightgown. It also included pants, shorts and capri's as well as a shirt and tank tops.
I have had fun creating these dresses and outfits for these very cost effective dolls. They would make great Christmas gifts especially now with a pattern available to create many fun outfits in time for the holiday gift giving season. The new mini dolls and their holiday dresses for this years 25 anniversary.
Jen is a busy mom of 4 who home schools her children and tells me
her older daughter "was really interested in all things American Girl starting when she was 3 years old, and she had a selection of mini dolls as well as one 18" Kit doll by the time she was 5 (she is now 11). The problem arose when she wanted to dress and redress the mini dolls and all she had was the meet outfits they came in. So I started playing around with making patterns, and after several trials and many errors - here are the fitting results. I have two daughters who just adore American Girl products, and were thrilled to be able to have a seemingly endless wardrobe for the mini dolls as well as their 18" dolls. Both of the girls have enjoyed dressing like their dolls, and my younger daughter still does. So I have created patterns for the 18" dolls to match my daughters clothes as well."
Jen is also a very busy lady
as mentioned, she home school's her three younger ones (ages 11, 8 and 7), and also teaches some classes at "our parent partnership. Two of those classes are History with American Girl book clubs. We read AG books and discuss the historic facts and talk about the difference between then and now. It is so much fun, and I really have a passion for making learning fun for kids"
So if your 6.5 inch dolls could use an up dated wardrobe, take a look at Jen's shop
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- AnonymousOctober 18, 2012 at 10:53 PM
This is a great pattern! If people don't sew, Vee's Victorian Doll Clothes has dresses ready made. They also have some cute shoes and socks.ReplyDeleteReplies
We also carry them and have found these little dolls moving up in popularity. We ship to Canada, US and UK
So cute! We also have mini outfits for 6 inch dolls at http://www.mybrittanys.com/6-inch-mini-american-girl-doll/ReplyDelete
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Though the Green Bay Packers were on a roll with 4 straight wins, they desperately needed their bye this week.
Three more starters – Clay Matthews, Jordy Nelson and Bryan Bulaga – were hurt in Sunday's 31-17 victory over Arizona and Bulaga's hip injury appears heavy enough to keep him out for an extended period of time. Matthews doesn't feel his hamstring is as bad as it's been during the past, coach Mike McCarthy said, but it still could sideline him for "a couple weeks."
Matthews leads the Packers with 9 sacks, which ties him with the Cowboys' DeMarcus Ware and Broncos' Von Miller for 2nd in the league behind the Texans' J.J. Watt (10).
"Clay's a difference maker," defensive coordinator Dom Capers asserted Monday, in the opinion of the newspaper. "Hopefully, we'll get good news, and with luck he'll be back sooner than what we think."
The Green Bay Packers' injured list was already cramped, with top receiver Greg Jennings, perennial Pro Bowl defensive back Charles Woodson and workhorse RB Cedric Benson among the headliners.
"We need the physical rest, get our bodies back," Ryan Pickett expounded. "We've got 2 weeks to get them right, get them nearer to playing. And guys that have been hurt before that, we've got an opportunity to get them back. So this bye is at the perfect time, the best time for us.
"We've got lots of fighters – guys going down, guys stepping up; it shows plenty of character. (But) we can't bear to wait to get all of our players back," Pickett added. "It's huge that we won these 4 games, but Chicago is out there a pretty good ways. We have to keep winning. I don't see them losing anytime soon. We just have to carry on building off each win that we have, kept getting better."
Five of Green Bay's last 7 games will be against NFC North opponents, a stretch that might prove every bit as tough for the banged-up Packers as the difficulties they faced in the 1st half. In that stretch is a Dec. Sixteen trip to division-leading Bears (7-1), and they have still have to play Minnesota Vikings (5-4) and Detroit (4-4) twice each. Betting lines
"To do what we would like to do, you have to win your division games," Capers expounded. "When you have 5 of 7, we're going to get a heavy dose of men who know a lot about us and we know a lot about them. That's always a challenge. You've got to put extra effort in the preparation. There's often a bit more power that comes with division games. It'll start right as fast as we get back."
The players are doing their part by resting, both mentally and physically. McCarthy gave the Packers the entire week off, saying he wanted to make sure they were fresh for the last grind of the regular season, and he got no argument from his players.
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Policy Network has published a fantastic series of international responses to "In The Black Labour", focusing on how Social Democratic Parties around the world have, or are, tackling the challenge of budget discipline in tough times.
There are contributions from the US, France, Germany, Chile, Sweden and Canada, all of which are worth a read.
I particularly want to draw attention to the Swedish article, which deal with how Social Democratic parties dealt with fiscal consolidation in tough domestic (but good global) times*
Now, the 2010's are not the 1990s. A consolidation in the next decade will be more economically and politically challenging than one then (Gordon Brown could make a strong argument that until c2003ish, he delivered a similar consolidation to Sweden, and he might mordantly observe that it wasn't just mad left wingers who wanted him to spend more).
Nor is the case that what Sweden did is exactly what we should do now. As Katrine Kielos points out "Budget consolidation in a small open economy at a time when the rest of Europe is doing fine is one thing. Budget consolidation in a large economy next to a continent full of centre-right governments who all embrace austerity whether they need it or not is something very different". To me, this points the necessity of focussing on consolidation and growth as two sides of the same coin, in both policy and target terms. The issue is one of sequencing and of the right rules to guide the restraint.
With those important caveats made, Katrine sets out 9 political lessons from the Swedish Consolidation on how the British left can face up to the challenge of the Fiscal Restraint to come:
- Restoring the health of public finances is the prerequisite for preserving the public sector in the long term
- In the end it's about national freedom and faith in democracy
- Be open about the fact that it will hurt
- Everyone should share the burdens
- Use the law of small numbers*
- Try to spare education
- Invest in people
- Introduce strategic policies directed at future growth
- Undertake the necessary structural reforms
I think the third lesson is particularly important. I've said before that Labour needs to focus on the pain, not because we enjoy it, but because the pain is both the sign that things are changing and the test of your priorities and values.
Some pain will be in Tax increases that impact families, other pain in public service spending reduction. The pain is both proof you take the issue seriously and the outcome of your values. In the end, the difference between us and the Tories should be able to be summed up in four words "Who suffers? Who gains?".
I also think there is a danger that the centre-left tries to ignore Katrine's final point. If we're going to both reduce deficits and focus resources on a few key areas of policy, we have to change what we do across the board. That means changing what the state does (as Gavin Kelly pointed out in an excellent New Statesman post last week)
It's tempting to play this down, because Structural reforms are hard. They upset various interest groups, appear risky and can be extremely controversial. Try and tackle pensions, universality, NHS demographic cost pressures, Welfare spend (especially Housing Benefit) or policing costs and you can soon see why politicians find it easier to salami slice budgets or to hope the challenges will be solved in a few years time by extra growth.
It's easy to try and avoid the pain. Instead, we should focus on it. Is it worth it? What can we get that's better? Can we think of a better use of these resources to meet our policy needs?
A focus on the pain of reform also matters because if you want to reform capitalism (or even just make it work a bit better), you have to also reform the state, not least because in an era of tight budgets it's the only way to free up the capital you need.
The Tories don't mind to much about this, partly because they don't really thing the state can build a better capitalism, but also because as long as the deficit goes down, they're happy, and a cut is often an easier political sell than a change and a cut.
So the challenge for the centre left, once we have accepted the need for sustained Budget restraint from 2015 on, is to be clear about where and what we will change, how that will hurt, and who will suffer, who will gain.
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Please help a newbie with PSU current requirement for Aikido linestage
I'm building an Aikido linestage using all 6SN7 tubes. B+ is 300V and each (half) tube draw about 10ma. I use a PSU that can provide maximum 50ma for both channel.
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If you are using 350R cathode resistors for both the input and output stages, you are drawing 10mA per tube @ 300V B+.
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No, you're not having another 'Memento' moment, calm down. Soya Suicide, our SG of the Year for 2011 has swept it once again, nabbing the 2012 crown! Jeez, we get it, you guys like her. (We do, too.)
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OGDEN, Utah - Northern Arizona's Eric Heins has been
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Heins led the Lumberjacks men's and women's teams to Big Sky Championship titles on Nov. 1 in Greeley, Colo. Northern Arizona's men finished the meet with 19 points, while the women tallied 28. Coach Heins has now won three straight men's Coach of the Year awards. He previously won the women's award in 2007.
Lumberjacks David McNeill and Veronica Pohl won the Big Sky individual titles, followed by seven NAU men and five women on the Big Sky All-Conference teams. All-Conference teams consist of the top ten finishers at the Big Sky Championship. Northern Arizona men and women have each won eight Big Sky team titles this decade.
The Northern Arizona men finished fourth in the team standings at the NCAA Championship Nov. 23rd. McNeill led the Lumberjacks finishing 2nd overall with a time of 29:07, while Pohl made her second consecutive appearance at the NCAA Championship after receiving an at-large bid. She covered the 6K course with a time of 20:43 for a 38th place finish.
Heins, who began his coaching career as an assistant in 2000 at Indiana, served as the Lumberjacks assistant under Ron Mann from 2001-03. After a stint with TCU he returned to Northern Arizona in 2007 to head up the cross country program. In the summer of 2009, Heins was promoted to Interim Director of Track and Field and Cross Country after the departure of head coach J.W. Hardy.
May 2, 2010 Athletics Department Hands Out Annual Awards
February 1, 2010 Nine Cross Country Athletes Named All-Academic Big Sky
December 4, 2009 Heins Named Big Sky Coach of the Year
November 23, 2009 McNeill Finishes Runner Up; Lumberjacks Claim Fourth Place
November 20, 2009 Lumberjacks to Compete at Cross Country Championships Monday
November 18, 2009 McNeill Named Mountain Region Athlete of the Year
November 17, 2009 Lumberjacks Slip in Latest USTFCCCA Rankings
November 15, 2009 Mens Team Receives At-Large Bid to NCAA Championships
November 14, 2009 McNeill Repeats; Men Finish Fourth, Women Seventh at Mountain Regional
November 12, 2009 Cross Country to Race at NCAA Mountain Regional in Albuquerque
November 3, 2009 Mens Team Climbs to No. 4 in Latest USTFCCCA Rankings
October 31, 2009 Lumberjacks Sweep Big Sky Cross Country Championships
October 30, 2009 Big Sky Conference Championship Start Time Pushed Back
October 28, 2009 Cross Country to Run in Big Sky Championships Saturday
October 20, 2009 Chipangama, Pohl Named Big Sky Cross Country Athletes of the Week
October 20, 2009 Lumberjacks Drop in Latest USTFCCCA Polls
October 17, 2009 Cross Country Teams Turn in Solid Efforts at Pre-Nationals
October 16, 2009 'Jack of All Trades by Amy Farnum of NCAA.com
October 15, 2009 Watch The Lumberjacks Compete Live at Pre-Nationals Saturday
October 14, 2009 Lumberjacks Gear Up for Pre-Nationals Invitational
October 8, 2009 Freriks Already Making Impact in Young Career
October 6, 2009 Lumberjacks Move Up in USTFCCCA Rankings
October 5, 2009 Cowboy Jamboree Highlights and Interviews
October 3, 2009 Chipangama Leads Lumberjacks to Cowboy Jamboree Men's Title
September 30, 2009 Cross Country to Compete in ASU Invitational and Cowboy Jamboree
September 29, 2009 Lumberjacks Stand Firm in USTFCCCA Rankings
September 22, 2009 Pohl Named Big Sky Conference Womens Cross Country Athlete of the Week
September 19, 2009 Pohl, Chipangama Lead Lumberjacks to Titles at Aztec Invitational
September 15, 2009 Lumberjacks Head West for Aztec Invitational
September 15, 2009 Cross Country Teams in Preseason USTFCCCA Rankings
September 8, 2009 Pohl Claims First Women's Cross Country Athlete of The Week Award
September 5, 2009 Lumberjacks Capture Rain-Soaked George Kyte Classic Titles
September 1, 2009 Cross Country to Host George Kyte Classic Saturday
August 24, 2009 2009 Cross Country Season Preview
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August 17, 2009 McNeill Finishes 24th at World Championships; Lomong Advances
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PRINCETON, N.J. - Havard senior Ali Farag (Cairo, Egypt) was named the Ivy League's Men's Squash Player of the Year for the third time in his career on Wednesday when the League announced its annual awards.
Farag, who previously won the award in 2010, 2012 and shared in with Princeton's Todd Harrity in 2013, joins Mauricio Sanchez of Princeton (2007-09), Yasser El-Halaby of Princeton (2003-05) and Kenton Jernigan of Harvard (1984-86) as three-time winners of the award.
Earlier this month, Farag won his second CSA Individual National Championship in three years to cap off a stellar collegiate career. Farag finished the 2013-14 season with a perfect 20-0 mark as an individual, helping the Crimson to their 31st national title. He was also the recipient of the 2014 Skillman Award, the highest individual honor in men's college squash. For his three-year collegiate career, Farag finished 52-2.
Farag's teammate Dylan Murray (Bronxville, N.Y.) was named the League's Rookie of the Year. Murray finished his freshman campaign 13-2 overall in helping the Crimson to their Potter Cup crown. Playing from mostly the No. 3 position, he went 6-1 in Ivy League action during the season with the lone setback coming due to an injury withdrawl.
Eight of the ten All-Ivy selections were unanimous selections by the coaches. Harvard had three selections to the 10-person squad, while Princeton and Cornell each had two. Farag and Murray were joined on the squad by Harvard's Brandon McLaughlin, Brown's Blake Reinson, Ramit Tandon of Columbia, Nick Sachvie and Aditya Jagtap of Cornell, Princeton's Samuel Kang and Tyler Osborne, and Yale's Neil Martin.
*Ali Farag, Harvard (Sr. - Cairo, Egypt)
Dylan Murray, Harvard (Fr. - Bronxville, N.Y.)
Blake Reinson, Brown (Sr. - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
*Ramit Tandon, Columbia (Jr. - Kolkata, India)
Nick Sachvie, Cornell (Sr. - St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada)
*Aditya Jagtap, Cornell (Jr. - Mumbai, India)
*Ali Farag, Harvard (Sr. - Cairo, Egypt)
*Brandon McLaughlin, Harvard (Sr. - Villanova, Pa.)
*Dylan Murray, Harvard (Fr. - Bronxville, N.Y.)
*Samuel Kang, Princeton (Jr. - Singapore)
*Tyler Osborne, Princeton (Jr. - Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
Neil Martin, Yale (Sr. - Belfast, Ireland)
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Minima Moralia
In 2012, Domeniul Coroanei Segarcea decided to group some of the best blends of the vineyard in a collection with a strong character, that would match and reflect six fundamental human values: Honor, Gratitude, Devotion, Hope, Honesty and Respect. The name Minima Moralia—borrowed from the philosophers' realm—brings the six values together.
There is truth in wine, the saying goes, and also in the peoples' eyes—this was the insight that lead to the creation of the wine's identity. Plus our creative director Cristian 'Kit' Paul's obsession over the soul-touching merit of photography.
The packaging depicts real people with an archetypal visual character, explored through the unique detail, texture and bokeh of wet plate photography (collodion and tintype)— an old technique kept alive by aficionados. Thus, three photographers—Michael Shindler (San Francisco), Alex Timmermans (The Netherlands) and Bernt Nielsen (Norway)—joined our endeavor and provided the magnificent pictures we embedded in the identity. The model of the Gratitude picture was the respective artist's father, who sadly passed away shortly.
The brand was successfully launched internationally in 2012 at the top class Hong Kong International Wine & Spirits Fair and has gathered so far 14 international awards. A special launch on the Romanian market was celebrated in the CEC Palace in December 2012.


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Hello, and thanks for contributing to MDC! I hope you can help me in my quest to make a decision in regards to the MMR vaccine my daughter should receive at her one year well baby visit in just over a month.
Up until now we have been following the alternate vaccine schedule given by Dr. Sears. I have been dreading the MMR vaccine because of all the conflicting information. How likely is it to cause autism? I would never forgive myself if this vaccine injured my child in any way. I may forgo this particular vaccine, although I dread the "fight" I will have to have with the private then public school my DD will attend. I could also delay this vaccine until a later date if my pedi would agree to that. If I chose that route at what age should I consider giving it?
Thank you so much for any information you can provide to help me make this decision.
P.S. My husband is not at all worried about the vaccine and thinks we should continue with our current schedule with no changes.
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with both boys. I'm also a foster mom to a beautiful baby girl.
Let me start by saying that I am NOT a medical professional...I am a computer scientist who manages medalerts.org (a consumer search engine for Government VAERS data). There is not much in the Government's VAERS database about autism. Therefore, it is impossible for me to say anything about risks for your child...this is your decision.
Here are some things I have heard about vaccine safety which you may want to consider:
- Avoid preservatives. Large serum bottles that are used for many patients need preservatives to keep the vaccine fresh. Choose single-dose vials if you can.
- Older children fare better: do not vaccinate too young.
- Never give shots when a child is sick or just recovering.
- Do not give Tylenol to your child before or after.
- It is preferable to get shots for one disease at a time, rather than combination shots (MMR is a combo of three, and there are many five-vaccine combination shots).
- If you wish to avoid vaccines, check the exemption rules for your state (see www.nvic.org for more information).
There are a number of books that you can consult for more information:
- "The Vaccine Guide: Risks and Benefits for Children and Adults" by Randall Neustaedter
- "Vaccine Safety Manual for Concerned Families and Health Practitioners" by Neil Z. ******
Good luck.
-Steven Rubin
I also have some conflicting thoughts/emotions about vaccines, so I appreciate this question and answer. I am curious though, why avoid Tylenol? I never give it or any pain relievers to my babies b/c I think nursing works just as well and does not have any potential side effects. But my pediatrician always tells me to give Tylenol after shots, so I'm wondering why you say not to. I'm hoping my instincts were right!
Thank you for the reply and the recommended books! I knew you were a computer scientist, but thought you might have some data on what the statistical risk was of my child having autism after getting the MMR shot. They no longer make separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines so the only option is the combo shot.
My pedi also said that it was ok to give Tylenol after vaccines, but I have chosen to breastfeed, as the pp, said after shots as well.
When rereading and considering your reply I may just ask to give the MMR vaccine later in my DD life.
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with both boys. I'm also a foster mom to a beautiful baby girl.
As with all of this, there is much controversy involved. I've seen quite a few articles suggesting that Tylenol has issues:
Once again, do not take this as medical advice: discuss with your doctor and decide for yourself.
Just wanted to say that here in Europe we can get seperate shots for the MMR, so I am surprised you can't in the US. Have you checked the vaccine forum to see if anyone over there has any tips for getting them seperate?
It can't be done at all here in the U.S.
I don't know about availability of the individual components of MMR, but I can search the VAERS database to see if any of these individual vaccines have been associated with adverse reactions in recent years.
Reactions from individual Measles, Mumps, or Rubella vaccinations are certainly on the decline, but are not gone yet. There are 3 reports of adverse effects associated with a Measles vaccine in 2011, and 13 reports in 2010. The individual Rubella vaccine is listed in 4 reports in 2010 and the individual Mumps vaccine is listed in 2 reports. So someone out there is certainly getting these individual vaccines.
There are also partial combinations listed by the government: a Measles/Mumps, a Measles/Rubella, and a Mumps/Rubella.
I can understand if your doctor is unable or unwilling to get them, but I doubt that they are unavailable.
But when I warned against too many different serums in a single office visit, I was more concerned with giving MMR in addition to other vaccines that may be on the schedule. This is particularly troublesome, as I reported in my blog: http://medalerts.org/analysis/archives/50
US doesn't have single M-M-R any longer, only the 3 in one. (This also means that women who are supposed to get Rubella-only boosters due to their childhood vaxes having worn off are also supposed to get the full MMR).
I followed the Sears schedule with one child when the single doses were available. I waited until the second child was 3 to do the MMR since there were no more single ones. No reactions for either child on either plan. He is supposed to have a booster in a few more years. I haven't decided to test titers or do the MMR since he had no reaction with the first.
98% of people are immune to Measles with the first dose. Some states will let you do a titer check for Measles immunity in lieu of a Measles booster. Most states don't require 2 doses of Rubella or Mumps, only Measles, so this makes it one MMR rather than 2 MMRs.
Our ped said that any pain reliever, if given prior to a shot, can interfere with the immune response. We give pain reliever when we get home (which is 30 or 40 minutes after the shots). Just a thought. I do not have any articles or science to back this up, but it's what we've followed. We are delaying the MMR for our 14 m.o. (it is "supposed" to be given at a year and I guess we will maybe do it at 15 months?--still not sure). I heard (and ped confirmed) that the CDC has commissioned a new study about the MMR shot in relation to the autism scare. Our ped said her understanding was that they want to quell the fears about the association once and for all, but I am not sure I buy that. It is a hard decision to make
I got tired of my signature, but I still love my children and husband and miss my little brother.
Here is an article that claims that Tylenol following MMR increases the risk of Autism. The study is a fairly small sample, and people will no-doubt attack this conclusion. Still, for the curious:
Here is an article that claims that Tylenol following MMR increases the risk of Autism. The study is a fairly small sample, and people will no-doubt attack this conclusion. Still, for the curious:
Yes, thinking people will attack this study for a good reason. Small sample is a good reason.
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Is the world their oyster? The global imagination of pre-service teachers
Widegren, Pernilla & Doherty, Catherine A. (2010) Is the world their oyster? The global imagination of pre-service teachers. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 38(1), pp. 5-22.
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This paper reports on a qualitative interview study with eleven pre-service primary teachers in Queensland about their career plans exploring whether and how a global imagination motivates this next generation of teachers. The study is framed within sociological theory of globalisation, with regard to the growing possibilities for international mobility for work purposes, and the new life circumstances which make this imaginable. Teaching as a profession has changed and teachers are no longer as entangled with specific systems or geographical locations anymore. International recruitment campaigns are shown to pursue these pre-service teachers during their university preparation. The analysis of the interview data reveals the kind of impact these possibilities make on how pre-service teachers imagine their career, and what other considerations enhance or limit their global imagination. The findings are used to reflect on the highly localised governance of pre-service teacher preparation and the limited state-bound imaginaries to which these pre-service teachers are unnecessarily confined in their preparation.
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All in all, it hadn't been a good day. Bad traffic, a malfunctioning computer, incompetent coworkers and a sore back all made me a seething cauldron of rage. But more importantly for this story, it had been over forty-eight hours since I'd last taken a dump. I'd tried to jumpstart the process, beginning my day with a bowl of bowel-cleansing fiber cereal, following it with six cups of coffee at work, and adding a bean-laden lunch at Taco Bell. As I was returning home from work, my insides let me know with subtle rumbles and the emission of the occasional tiny fart that Big Things would be happening soon. Alas, I had to stop at the mall to pick up an order for my wife. I completed this task, and as I was walking past the stores on my way backto the car, I noticed a large sale sign proclaiming, "Everything Must Go!" This was prophetic, for my colon informed me with a sudden violent cramp and a wet, squeaky fart that everything was indeed about to go. I hurried to the mall bathrooms. I surveyed the five stalls, which I have numbered 0 through 4 (I write a lot of software) for your convenience:
1.Clean, but Bathroom Protocol forbids its use, as it's next to the occupied one.
2.Poo on seat.
3.Poo and toilet paper in bowl, unidentifiable liquid splattered on seat.
4.No toilet paper, no stall door, unidentifiable sticky object near base of
Clearly, it had to be Stall ..1. I trudged back, entered, dropped trou and sat down. I'm normally a fairly Shameful Sh1tter. I wasn't happy about being next to the occupied stall, but Big Things were afoot.
I was just getting ready to bear down when all of a sudden the sweet sounds of Beethoven came from next door, followed by a fumbling, and then the sound of a voice answering the ringing phone. As usual for a cell phone conversation, the voice was exactly 8 dB louder than it needed to be. Out of Shameful habit, my sphincter slammed shut. The inane conversation went on and on. Mr. Sh1tter was blathering to Mrs. Sh1tter about the sh1tty day he had. I sat there, cramping and miserable, waiting for him to finish. As the loud conversation dragged on, I became angrier and angrier, thinking that I, too, had a crappy day, but I was too polite to yak about in public. My bowels let me know in no uncertain terms that if I didn't get crapping soon, my day would be getting even crappier.
Finally my anger reached a point that overcame Shamefulness. I no longer cared. I gripped the toilet paper holder with one hand, braced my other hand against the side of the stall, and pushed with all my might. I was rewarded with a fart of colossal magnitude -- a cross between the sound of someone ripping a very wet bed sheet in half and of plywood being torn off a wall. The sound gradually transitioned into a heavily modulated low-RPM tone, not unlike someone firing up a Harley. I managed to hit the resonance frequency of the stall, and it shook gently.
Once my @ss cheeks stopped flapping in the breeze, three things became apparent:
(1) The next-door conversation had ceased;
(2) my colon's continued seizing indicated that there was more to come; and
(3) the bathroom was now beset by a horrible, eldritch stench.
It was as if a gateway to H3ll had been opened. The foul miasma quickly made its way underthe stall and began choking my poop-mate. This initial "herald" fart had ended his conversation in mid-sentence.
"Oh my God," I heard him utter, following it with suppressed sounds of choking, and then, "No, baby, that wasn't me (cough, gag), you could hear that (gag)??"
Now there was no stopping me. I pushed for all I was worth. I could swear that in the resulting cacophony of rips, squirts, splashes, poots, and blasts, I was actually lifted slightly off the pot. The amount of stuff in me was incredible. It sprayed against the bowl with tremendous force. Later, in surveying the damage, I'd see that liquid poop had actually managed to ricochet out of the bowl and run down the side on to the floor. But for now, all I could do was hang on for the ride.
Next door I could hear him fumbling with the paper dispenser as he desperately tried to finish his task. Little snatches of conversation made themselves heard over my anal symphony: "Gotta go... horrible... throw up... in my mouth... not... make it... tell the kids... love them... oh God..." followed by more sounds of suppressed gagging and retching.
Alas, it is evidently difficult to hold one's phone and wipe one's bum at the same time. Just as my high-pressure abuse of the toilet was winding down, I heard a plop and splash from next door, followed by string of swear words and gags. My poop-mate had dropped his phone into the toilet.
There was a lull in my production, and the restroom became deathly quiet. I could envision him standing there, wondering what to do. A final anal announcement came trumpeting from my behind, small chunks plopping noisily into the water. That must have been the last straw. I heard a flush, a fumbling with the lock, and then the stall door was thrown open. I heard him running out of the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.
After a considerable amount of paperwork, I got up and surveyed the damage. I felt bad for the janitor who'd be forced to deal with this, but I knew that flushing was not an option. No toilet in the world could handle that unholy mess. Flushing would only lead to a floor flooded with filth.
As I left, I glanced into the next-door stall. Nothing remained in the bowl. Had he flushed his phone, or had he plucked it out and left the bathroom with nasty unwashed hands? The world will never know.
I exited the bathroom, momentarily proud and Shameless, looking around for a face glaring at me. But I saw no one. I suspect that somehow my supernatural elimination has managed to transfer my Shamefulness to my anonymous poop-mate. I think it'll be a long time before he can bring himself to poop in public -- and I doubt he'll ever again answer his cell phone in the loo. And this, my friends, is why you should never talk on your phone in the bathroom.
Not my story, but i was laughing my ass off reading it....
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I tell ya, if some fool's on the phone in the bathroom, I have no problem flushing, slamming door, or letting loose the foul demons of post-meal hell with all force...
There's certain places for certain things, if bathrooms were meant for phone conversations, they'd have had landlines in them long ago!
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There have been times that could have been me, however, i would have conducted myself a bit different. I would have spoken boldly and loudly to get off the phone or be prepared.
I HATE people that feel the need to talk on the phone on the can.
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L M O A !!!!!!!! Thank you Jeepfreak <> I have not had a laugh that hard in a long time !! beat red face, tears, creased cheeks from smiling, and sore abbs!! that was hillarious ! although my coworkers will never know why i was like this, and probably think i am crazy for sitting over here by myself laughing at a black screen....its ok. it was worth it !! i never knew a sh!t story could be so enertaining!
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wow that would have been even funnier if i had not read the exact same story word for word on another board over a month ago
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lol...still a funny story, i believe i actualy read it first on Pirate, but their search is FUBAR so i just posted a link to that site. i'm audio tech, so i do think about it alot
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It's not "word for word"...and go back to canada.
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BY JOSH PATE, UTSports.com
Saturday's walk-off victory against Xavier was emotional for the Tennessee baseball team, but especially for one player and one coach.
Matt Duffy, in his first season with the Vols, started at third base, batted fifth, and went 0-for-4 with a strikeout. Nothing special. Volunteer assistant coach Bill Currier took a little extra pride in that left fielder P.J. Polk scored the winning run; Currier is in charge of coaching the outfielders. But quite honestly, Duffy and Currier were just happy to be on a field competing.
One year ago, on Feb. 20, 2009, Currier was about to embark on another season as head coach of his alma mater, the University of Vermont. Duffy was about to have a career season as shortstop for the Catamounts. Two weeks before the season was scheduled to begin, the news came: Vermont was pulling the plug on its baseball program despite its lush history. The program had placed 32 players in the Major Leagues and was the school's most successful athletic team in terms of winning percentage.
Vermont got outscored 35-5 in that opening series of the season at Vanderbilt. The Catamounts finished with a 22-33 record but was 14-10 in the America East Conference. Duffy was the conference player of the year. But it was obvious that the season wasn't the only thing on the players' minds.
"Everyone is kind of scrambling. Where am I going to play next year? Am I going to play next year? Are my credits going to transfer?" Duffy said.
Added Currier, who went 486-470 in 22 seasons at his alma mater: "It was a difficult pill for us to swallow. We had 18 freshmen and sophomores so we were lining up to be a pretty darn good team in a couple of years. It was difficult for us as a team and very disheartening to my old teammates and the many kids I coached there over the years."
Duffy said players were trying to balance aggression on the field with patience off.
"It was bizarre," he said. "Everyone was waiting, hoping to get calls from other teams."
Duffy got a call from Tennessee. He visited Knoxville over Easter, watched the Vols play Mississippi State (a 10-9 loss), and signed two weeks later. The Vermont native was headed to the South.
"At the beginning it was crazy," Duffy said. "I have never seen such school spirit at such a huge university with this tradition. I went to a smaller school and everyone kind of kept to themselves. The baseball team wasn't that big of a deal. But down here, it's just a whole different world. Everyone supports you from top to bottom in all the sports. It's crazy. It's been a great experience."
UT head coach Todd Raleigh said getting Duffy to wear the Vols uniform was a no-brainer.
"You can talk recruiting and we certainly sign first rounders out of high school and all these top picks," Raleigh said. "But they're still unproven in college, I don't care if they have five stars or four stars, it doesn't matter. When you have an opportunity to get somebody who is already established in college baseball, that's the best indicator, to me, of success because he's already achieved success at this level."
And it's gotten better. Duffy, a junior economics major, was walking to class one day when his phone rang. It was his coach from Vermont, Currier. The coaching veteran had accepted a volunteer position with Tennessee. The two former Catamounts were about to be reunited.
For Currier, moving to the South wasn't a huge issue. He broke into coaching as a graduate assistant under legendary coach and current Clemson skipper Jack Leggett, for whom he played at Vermont. Currier's first real job moved him back to the Northeast, but he said he's always had an affinity for the warmer states. Plus, it's a chance for him to recharge his coaching batteries. He works primarily with the UT outfielders, allowing more one-on-one teaching time. For Currier, that's been a nice refresher.
"Usually you're worried about travel arrangements, where you're going, scheduling for 2012, fundraising, budgeting, as well as your short stop and pitching staff. So it's kind of a little different from that perspective," Currier said. "I can sit back a little bit and analyze the situation a little more. Maybe that will be a value to Coach Raleigh."
That's why Raleigh called him in the first place. The two had coached together before when Currier gave Raleigh his first assistant coaching spot at Vermont in 1992, and Raleigh was familiar with Currier's situation since he first contacted the program about Duffy. The experience of Currier was too difficult to pass up, making Currier the only other member of Tennessee's coaching staff with previous head coaching experience.
"I don't know how many volunteer coaches in the country have 22 years of head coaching experience. So I look at that as a positive," Raleigh said with a smile. "Kids like him. He just brings a lot of knowledge to us."
For Duffy, however, the transition has been a little more gradual. The Massachusetts native moved up to Vermont for college, where the university's enrollment is just more than 13,000. Campus life is private. Baseball is buried by more popular regional sports like hockey, field hockey, lacrosse and skiing; Vermont sponsors a team for NCAA competition in all of them.
At Tennessee, Duffy is dealing with twice the student population, a monster athletic program, and a baseball team that the entire campus supports. Plus he's got an old mentor.
"It's pretty cool that my old coach got to come down and be a part of the coaching staff as well," Duffy said. "It's been cool just seeing him around the clubhouse, a familiar face and someone who has always been there to help me and guide me."
Duffy saw his success at Vermont from the shortstop position, but he's playing third base for the Vols with Zach Osborne already established at short. No problem for Duffy, and it's a gem for Raleigh. UT's coach said he sees no stronger combination on the left side of the infield in the entire country.
Raleigh likes Duffy's bat, too. Last season, Duffy hit .388, had 57 RBI, scored 57 runs, had a .713 slugging percentage, and notched a .495 on base percentage, all of which led the America East Conference. He also hit 13 home runs.
"The guy will probably hit third or fourth for most teams in the country, but not for us, which is good because we have a couple of other guys (for that spot in the lineup)," Raleigh said.
In Tennessee's first series of the season against Xavier, Duffy went 4-for-14 with five RBI while shuffling in the lineup. He batted fifth on Friday, eighth on Saturday, and sixth on Sunday.
None of that was the focus for Duffy or his old coach Currier. The bottom line: The Vols got three victories in three games. This time last year, neither knew if they would be on a team in 2010.
"This place is completely different," Duffy said. "It's on a different level. It's awesome and I'm just lucky to be a part of such a great program."


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Its claim against the Health and Safety Executive, the taxpayer-funded safety regulator, is unprecedented in railway history.
Mr Justice Morland dismissed an HSE application to strike out the claim and gave the go-ahead for a full hearing of Thames's claim.
Thames has paid £12m in compensation but the final bill will be far higher. A total of 31 people died and 300 were injured when the Thames turbo train collided with a Great Western express in October, 1999.
Lord Cullen's inquiry criticised Thames for its ' significant shortcomings' in its training of the driver, who passed a red light. Railtrack was censured for its failure to tighten safety after similar incidents in the area in 1995 and 1998 and has pledged to honour compensation claims.
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GB Railways, the transport group that operates Anglia Railways, has settled a claim for losses resulting from the Hatfield accident amounting to around £500,000, it said today.
The train operator saw a sharp downturn in passenger numbers following the crash in October 2000, and had been pursuing claims against its insurer, Gerling Insurance Group, for losses following the accident.
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Current cost calculations still show disastrous shortfall in cost coverage in milk production
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The third European Fair Milk Conference was held at the end of June. This year's host was Fairkoperativ Lëtzebuerg, who was celebrating its 5th anniversary and organised the conference together with the EMB. Read more...
"That's it: there must be no more wishy-washy decisions!"
European milk producers demand effective measures for the sector from the European Council of Ministers of Agriculture
The milk market: Even large farms in Denmark and the Netherlands cannot cover costs
Recent figures on costs refute the claim that large farm structures are the solution to the milk dilemma
Third Fair Milk Conference in Luxembourg
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The situation on the European milk market continues to deteriorate and the decisions and measures adopted by the Commission in March have proven to be - as was clear to see from early on - ineffective and inappropriate as a way out of the current crisis. Read more...
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Monrovia-based Aerovironment has scored a win in Texas, with TXU Energy, to deploy a network of electric vehicle chargers. According to AeroVironment, TXU Energy has selected the firm to deploy EV charging stations in the Dallas Metro-plex area. Size of network was not announced. According to Aerovironment, the first units were installed at the McKinney Public Library. The resurgence in interest in electric vehicles has revived Aerovironment's electric vehicle charging outlook; the firm is currently providing EV charging stations and installation services for the Nissan LEAF, NRG Energy, and the state of Hawaii's EV Ready program.


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Sosa, Von Tungeln Named to NWL All-Star Team08/30/2012 1:21 PM ET
Tri-City Dust Devils outfielders Francisco Sosa and Kyle Von Tungeln have been named to the 2012 Northwest League All-Star team, league president Bob Richmond announced Wednesday.
Sosa spent the majority of the season batting in the middle of the Tri-City order and through Wednesday was hitting .271 with four home runs and 32 RBIs. In addition, his 21 stolen bases ranked second in the league. Sosa is in his fifth season in the Rockies organization after spending 2011 in Casper and the previous three years in the Dominican Summer League after signing as a non-drafted free agent in 2007.
Von Tungeln emerged as the Dust Devils' leadoff hitter after being drafted in the 13th round of this year's First-Year Player Draft out of TCU. Through Tuesday he leads the team in runs scored, and is hitting .258 with the league's fifth-best on-base percentage at .401.
Patrick Kivlehan of the Everett AquaSox was selected as the Northwest League's Most Valuable Player, and Clayton McCullough of the Vancouver Canadians has been named the Manager of the Year. The complete All-Star team is as follows:
1B - Taylor Ard, Everett AquaSox (Seattle Mariners)
2B - Gioskar Amaya, Boise Hawks (Chicago Cubs)
3B - Patrick Kivlehan, Everett AquaSox (Seattle Mariners)
SS - Jorge Flores, Vancouver Canadians (Toronto Blue Jays)
DH - Taylor Ard, Everett AquaSox (Seattle Mariners)
Catcher - Mike Zunino, Everett AquaSox (Seattle Mariners)
OF - Francisco Sosa, Tri-City Dust Devils (Colorado Rockies)
OF - Royce Bolinger, Spokane Indians (Texas Rangers)
OF - Kyle Von Tungeln, Tri-City Dust Devils (Colorado Rockies)
LP - Alexander Carreras, Yakima Bears (Arizona Diamondbacks)
RP - Javier Avendano, Vancouver Canadians (Toronto Blue Jays)
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Well, how do you fare compared to the Zeitgeist?
Chat up your fellow wooters and let us know how lame this poll was or what obvious choices we missed.
For example: Was this poll a) STUPID, b) DUMB, c) POINTLESS or d) ALL OF THE ABOVE?
I voted Macadamia, but only because you rubes left out the noble hazelnut/filbert.
Also, none of these are true nuts, botanically speaking. These are drupes, fruits, and legumes. Show me a filbert, chestnut, acorn, or beech nut.
conculcate wrote:I voted Macadamia, but only because you rubes left out the noble hazelnut/filbert.
Ditto. I love me some hazelnut.
What nothing for us with Nut Allergies!?!? Anyone listening out there or am I typing too Blind Eyes?
I like most nuts. But deez are for sure my fave.
Brazil nuts really ARE my favorite nut!
I do like Brazil nuts (and most others) but PECANS are by far my favorite.
Peanuts are legumes, not nuts.
kirsten05 wrote:Brazil nuts really ARE my favorite nut!
Me too! I always get made fun of, but I also get to eat them out of all my friends' mixed nut cans
You guys really messed up.
1. Brazil (by far)
2. Filbert/Hazel
3. Pecan
If there's one thing the show "Friends" taught me (in the "what if" episode when Monica is fat and dates the Dr. guy) it's the Brazil Nut is actually masquerading as a nut when it is actually a seed. Thank Buddha for TV for my learnin'.
The nuts who run this site
Hickory. Tough to crack, but worth the trouble.
Hey, where're the walnuts? I like walnuts and pecans!
procop wrote:Hey, where're the walnuts? I like walnuts and pecans!
Agree. Where's the pecans
Anyone have information on which is the healthy ones and how each of them are?
I voted pistachio, but cashew would be a close second. And nothing beats boiled peanuts!!
I love 'em all. You are what you eat, y'know...
ivyleeg23 wrote:You guys really messed up.
1. Brazil (by far)
2. Filbert/Hazel
3. Pecan
That's my list as well!! :D
Cashew? Gesundheit!
Another vote for Pecans!
My son. He's such a nut/goof.
I love all nuts including Brazil(there's never enough of them in the can) but i guess my list would go like this
my family(we're all nuts in a lovable way)
pecan(which i pronounce pacon to sound fancy)
Can't vote.
Not on the list...
PocketBrain wrote:Cashew? Gesundheit!
Ya made me laugh!
I have to go with pistachios and pecans. I like eating them just plain, but also cooking with them.
All I could think about when I saw this poll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGmNqzbsuiY
I am a Tim Ferriss acolyte so I eat a few raw Brazil nuts every morning and every night because they are packed with selenium. No, they are not as delicious as almonds, cashews, peanuts (to which I am alarmingly addicted) but they do the job (fuel me for testosterone production) better than anything else.
h2olily wrote:Me too! I always get made fun of, but I also get to eat them out of all my friends' mixed nut cans
Hey, that's what I do! We should be friends. I dig them out of the Planters mixed nut canister! Brazil nuts RULE!
bam666 wrote:Another vote for Pecans!
I actually do like Brazil Nuts, although they're not my favorite. Cashews are great tasting, but the least healthy of all the nuts, so I try to avoid them.
A peanut is not a nut it's A legume.
farmist wrote:I do like Brazil nuts (and most others) but PECANS are by far my favorite.
EXACTLY! How was it that Pine nuts made the list and Pecans weren't listed? I'm offended! I had to put my vote for Brazil Nut - raspberries to the skewed results of this now invalid woot! poll *thppppppt!*
I love brazil nuts.
My grandmother liked them and during the holidays there would be a large bowl of nuts on the table with a nut cracker. Brazil nuts were the hardest to crack and the last ones left, my grandmother would offer me a nickel (a lot of money in the late 60's) for every nut I would open for her. I figured if they were that hard to get to they must be good and developed a taste for them.
True Story Bro.
When we get a tub of mixed nuts from Costco I immediately go for the brazil nuts, my husband thinks i'm crazy.
Where's the damn pecans!?
Peanut is a legume, not a nut. Pistachio is a drupe, not a nut. How can your favorite nut not be a nut? Yeah, it's just silly . . . depends on who defines the terms, and who bothers to listen to them.
natrug wrote:A peanut is not a nut it's A legume.
That's what I was going to say...
Cashews, pecans, hazel/filbert (so good it gets two names), almonds and walnuts.
(I am surprised the guys haven't mentioned their favorite "nuts", just sayin'. Or are those comments getting deleted?)
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Jon Chait has a funny post at TNR. He was reading Ryan Lizza's new New Yorker piece on Obama's foreign-policy shifts and quotes this Lizza passage:
"The project of the first two years has been to effectively deal with the legacy issues that we inherited, particularly the Iraq war, the Afghan war, and the war against Al Qaeda, while rebalancing our resources and our posture in the world," Benjamin Rhodes, one of Obama's deputy national-security advisers, said. "If you were to boil it all down to a bumper sticker, it's 'Wind down these two wars, reëstablish American standing and leadership in the world, and focus on a broader set of priorities, from Asia and the global economy to a nuclear-nonproliferation regime.' "
As Chait notes, that's rather a long bumper sticker. He even had the TNR graphics folks mock up an image, which you can see if you click through above. Then Chait writes:
The bumper sticker problem is endemic for American liberalism. On foreign policy, it's actually a murky split, with ideologies cutting across both party coalitions. But on economics, there's a persistent phenomenon of conservatives having clear bumper-sticker answers and liberals lacking them. That's because, as I've argued before, conservatism is philosophically anti-government in a way that liberalism is not philosophically pro-government. "Market good, government bad" fits on a bumper sticker. So does "Government good, market bad." The problem is that the former pretty well describes the Republican philosophy, while the latter describes the philosophy only of a tiny socialist fringe operating mainly outside the two-party system.
Liberalism is forever in search of a philosophy that can fit on a bumper sticker. It's always failing, because a philosophy of leaving the free market to work except in cases of market failure, and then attempting to determine which intervention best passes the cost-benefit test is never going to be simple.
This, to me, is exactly right. When I was editing The American Prospect magazine, I came up with this idea for a reader contest: give us liberalism's elevator pitch. It's basically the same idea, but rather than fitting on a bumper sticker, it has to be something you can say to a potential convert (or donor) on an elevator to win him or her over.
We had lots of entries, and lots of perfectly good ones, but nothing that shouted out to us: YES! Because like Chait says it's not easy. We believe in the free market, but a regulated free market. How regulated? As much as proves necessary based on the dishonest and harmful behaviors that occur in the unregulated market. We believe in taxes. High taxes? No. Enough taxes. We believe in putting America first, of course, but not in such a way that....whatever. There's always a "but," a qualifier. So there'll never be a great liberalism elevator pitch.
I remember that some conservative bloggers mocked our efforts, and sometimes in ways that were genuinely funny. One guy wrote something that began with a ridiculously earnest and ponderous and somewhat hectorish appeal about compassion and justice and then wrote: "hey, why are you getting off on seven? I saw you press 32!" Points for that one, whoever you were.


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I'm bad at birthdays. They sneak up on me, though I don't know how, considering that my new nine year old has been counting down since Christmas til this day. The past month I've fielded daily questions about it – how much longer, who would come to his party, what gifts he would like – and which ones he would NEED, why he couldn't just go buy the gifts he asked for in the week prior….
This morning I woke up, as I do on all birthdays, to the realization that instead of wrapping gifts and making a card the night before, I instead curled up in a ball on the couch and drifted off, giggling, to our new favorite comedian, Hari Kondabolu who was ranting ridiculously about health care and flamboyant heterosexuals.
So, now I'm holed in a room upstairs, writing, coloring, and wrapping. It's fun, but frantic. A little overwhelming. Sometimes (I don't think this time), I collect gifts way ahead of time, then forget that I've done so. And much later remember that I've done so. It's what happens when birthdays take you off guard, like they do me.
His birth was like this. I knew it was coming. I was ready. The birth kit sat in a box; his clothes and diapers, folded and washed; our team of support was on deck. But then he decided to be born and it was game on. I was anticipating a fast labor, considering his older brother's birth was a mere 4 ½ hours. But my midwife kept insisting that a second birth was as virgin as the first. That there was no pattern established yet. I later determined she was lying so I wouldn't panic. You simply can't prepare someone for a two-hour labor.
After he was born, nearly everyone responded to his fast labor with, "*GASP* You're SO lucky!" And I wanted to punch them in the throat. Unless you've experienced a seven pound fetus barreling through you while you lie, sideways on the bathroom floor, gripping the cabinet doors as through they are the roller coaster handlebars and yell (not moan, yell) with all your heart, you just have no idea. There's a reason these things are supposed to take time.
"Stop pushing!!"
That last one one was a sort-of truth. It wasn't voluntary, anyway. But I could feel him inching his way down with each contraction as I yelled away. I will never forget the details of those sensations as long as I live. I didn't rationally fear that I was going to die, yet I felt on a plane of otherly existence. Powerless and taken over; consumed by an electrical current that pulsed through my entire body. It was hard to breathe; it took all of my solitary concentration and effort as the contractions subsided (though they never went fully away) to force myself to regroup and center and position myself for the next.
She arrived as he began to emerge. She squeezed through the crack in the bathroom door, the one my family sat on the other side of, biting their knuckles and holding their breath. As she stepped over me, she soothingly cooed, "Thank you for waiting for me." I breathed my first deep sigh.
Moments later he was handed up, purple and squishy onto my chest. I flopped back and mindlessly caressed his back as I felt myself swirling through space, like the moments in the dentist chair when you've breathed in deeply through the mask on your face. His first scream hurled me back into the present plane. That kiddo screamed and cried for hours, a mirror to my rant in the previous two. Everything hurt. The placenta birth was as intense as his labor.
My uterus ached; my vagina pulsed and swelled. But I walked, easily and gladly, to my bed across the hall. I guzzled orange juice and nibbled at cereal. I snuggled my new baby; investigated him, sat with the midwife, cross-legged, on my bed as my family stood by in the room. We laughed and marveled at his impatient debut. My family was stunned, amazed that such a frightening experience could be normal; that birth could be safe even when it was scary.
That day we slept a lot together. No one came in to take him from me; no one weighed him, or warmed him, or poked him, or insisted I not sleep with him, or charted his feedings. It was just us. I was trusted, I was competent. I was inching my way toward healing.


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