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Washington has had more measles cases so far this year than in the past five years combined. State health officials are sounding the alarm to remind people that vaccination is the best protection against the spread of this serious and preventable disease.
So far in 2014 there have been 27 measles cases in Washington, up from the five reported in 2013. The most recent cases reported in the past month have been in King County (11 confirmed cases) and Pierce County (two confirmed cases). This is the third measles outbreak in our state this year and the number of cases so far is the highest reported in any year since 1996. People can check the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department and Multicare websites for a list of places visited by cases while they were contagious. Anyone who visited places at the listed dates and times should find out if they've been vaccinated for measles or have had the disease.
Washington's trend reflects the national trend. From Jan. 1 to July 3 of this year, the U.S. has experienced, the highest number of cases since elimination of ongoing measles virus circulation in the U.S. was documented in 2000. Almost all of these cases are attributed to 17 outbreaks.
The resurgence is linked to several factors — people not being vaccinated, and the fact that measles is still common in many parts of the world including parts of Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Travelers with the measles continue to bring the disease to the U.S. and it spreads when it reaches communities where groups of people aren't vaccinated.
The public health agencies of King County and Pierce County have reported a number of confirmed cases of measles occurring between June 10 and July 4, 2014. As of July 9, seven people who sought care at the following MultiCare Health System facilities were later identified as having measles and may have exposed others to the virus.
Locations, dates and times affected are:
- MultiCare Kent Urgent Care Clinic (6/10): 12:30pm-7pm
- MultiCare Mary Bridge Emergency Department and Tacoma General Emergency Department (6/10-6/11): 5pm-2:30am
- MultiCare Tacoma General Imaging (6/10): 8am-10am
- MultiCare Mary Bridge Covington Pediatrics (6/13): 11:15am-3pm
- MultiCare Covington Emergency Department (6/13): 1pm-3:30pm
- MultiCare Mary Bridge Covington Pediatrics (6/14): 11am-3pm
- MultiCare Mary Bridge Pediatrics Clinic, Maple Valley (6/19): 11:30am-5:30pm
- MultiCare Covington Emergency Department and Imaging (6/21-22): 3pm-12:30am
- MultiCare Covington Emergency Department (6/22): 3:30am-10:30am: 4am-10am; 7:30pm-10:30pm
- MultiCare Mary Bridge Emergency Department and Tacoma General Emergency Department (6/22): 4:30am-10:30am
- MultiCare Mary Bridge Emergency Department and Tacoma General Emergency Department and Tacoma General Imaging (6/24): 10:30am-3:30pm
- MultiCare Tacoma General Emergency Department (7/3): 5pm-11:30pm
- MultiCare Tacoma General Emergency Department (7/4): 2am-3pm
MultiCare staff members are contacting patients and visitors who may have been exposed to the virus and who may be at risk for measles infection. MultiCare advises their patients who have concerns about potential exposure to call their primary care provider. Those without a primary care provider can contact their local health departments at the numbers below:
- In King County, call the Measles hotline: 206-296-4949.
- In Pierce County, call 253-798-6410, press "0."
If you have never been vaccinated for measles or are concerned about whether your vaccinations are up-to-date, visit one of the sites below for information on free or low-cost immunizations:
Pierce County residents: Visit the Tacoma Pierce County Health Department website.
King County residents: Visit the King County Public Health Immunization program.
Download information about Free adult immunization sites.
List of Additional Adult Immunization Sites.
Measles is a very contagious disease. Measles virus travels through the air. This means that if you're not immune, you can get measles if you go near someone who has the virus. A person who hasn't been immunized against measles will most likely get it if exposed.
There are confirmed cases of measles in our state. The best protection against measles is to get vaccinated. Check with your healthcare provider about how many doses you and your family need.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- More About Measles
- About the Vaccine
- Resources and Materials
- Notifiable Conditions (for healthcare providers)
About the Vaccine
- MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine:
- Kids should get 2 doses:
- Dose 1: between ages 12 and 15 months
- Dose 2: between ages 4 and 6 years
- Adults born after 1956 may need one dose
- Kids should get 2 doses:
- Where to get MMR vaccine
- Who should not get the MMR vaccine (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Resources and Materials
- Frequently Asked Questions (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- For Parents (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- For Travelers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- For Pregnant Women (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Videos and Podcasts (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- For Healthcare Providers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Notifiable Conditions (Department of Health)
- Materials for Patients (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
About measles
Measles is a highly contagious and potentially severe disease that causes fever, rash, cough, and red, watery eyes. It is mainly spread through the air after a person with measles coughs or sneezes. Measles symptoms begin seven to 21 days after exposure. Measles is contagious from approximately four days before the rash appears through four days after the rash appears. People can spread measles before they have the characteristic measles rash.
People at highest risk from exposure to measles include those who are unvaccinated, pregnant women, infants under 12 months of age and those with weakened immune systems.
Measles is highly contagious even before the rash starts. It spreads easily when an infected person breathes, coughs, or sneezes — if you're not vaccinated, you can get the measles just by walking into a room where someone with the disease has been in the past couple of hours. About one in 10 children with measles also gets an ear infection, and up to one in 20 gets pneumonia. Of every 1000 people with measles, one is likely to get encephalitis, and one or two may die.
The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine is recommended for kids 12 months and older, health care workers, college students, adults born after 1956, and people who travel internationally. Pregnant women should not get the vaccine until after giving birth.
Children should be vaccinated with two doses of MMR vaccine, with the first dose between 12 and 15 months and the second at four to five years of age. Children aged six to11 months who will be travelling internationally should receive one dose of MMR at least two weeks before departure. Adults should have at least one measles vaccination, with some people needing two. Anyone planning to travel should make sure they are immune to measles before leaving the U.S. Vaccine can be found by calling your health care provider or by checking the online vaccine finder for a location near you.
People who are unvaccinated, or aren't sure if they're immune, and develop an illness with fever and rash should consult a health care professional immediately. Call ahead to your clinic, doctor's office, or emergency room before arriving to avoid exposing others in waiting rooms.
More information about measles and vaccine can be found by visiting the agency's immunization web pages.
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In an article published today, Sporting News national college writer Matt Hayes breaks down the top 10 schools with successful football and
men's basketball programs.
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There's a new world order on Season 2 of "Revolution."
Picking up months after the bombs launched at the end of Season 1, there were some big changes among several of the main characters when the show premiered last week.
Rachel Matheson (Elizabeth Mitchell) returned as a shadow of her former self, plagued with guilt over being unable to stop the destruction in the Season 1 finale. Monroe (David Lyons) is now going under an assumed name and getting paid to fight (shirtless). And Charlie Matheson, played by actress Tracy Spiridakos, was off on her own, sewing her wild oats, before a run-in with Monroe set her on a new path.
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It's a brave new world, and Charlie is taking it all in and all on — by herself — something the actress chatted with AccessHollywood.com about during a brief break in her intense shooting schedule.
AccessHollywood.com: So, I've got a bit of a fun question to start out with… Last week Charlie was walking through town and one of the tents housed a performance by 'David Schwimmer,' described as the last surviving member of the 'Friends' cast. Do you happen to know what kind of show he's doing in there?
Tracy Spiridakos: (Laughs) I don't. I think the whole bit was he was performing scenes from 'Friends.' … I think [which scenes he's doing] should be up to everybody's imagination.
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Access: From the season premiere, it feels like the show has been injected with a huge shot of adrenaline. Do you feel like that way as well?
Tracy: I feel like all of a sudden we got dirtier, grittier, it's faster, harder and yeah, it's got a different vibe to it this year, which is cool. It's been really fun.
Access: How fast-paced is it going to be this season?
Tracy: All the episodes that I've read so far have been to that level of intensity. It's pretty crazy.
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Access: Charlie is completely fearless now. How exciting was it for you as an actress to see this new Charlie?
Tracy: I think it's an absolute blessing to get a character with this many layers. … I've had a blast playing Charlie from the beginning, from this innocent, wide-eyed, naive girl to getting stronger and stronger with all of her experiences and really learning from the things that she experiences throughout the episodes, throughout the year and then finally getting to a place where now, she's on her own, she has nobody else to save her. She has to rely on her wits and what Miles taught her and everything she's [learned] all along the way to get through it and it's been really, really interesting and really fun to play for sure.
Access: What does she take with her this season that she picked up from Miles? Clearly he taught her to kick ass.
Tracy: Yeah, the swordsmanship and how to fight and defend herself, but also how to read people, how to understand the situation, read a situation when you're being threatened. … The experience of being with Miles and experiences in general have taught her how to be independent and strong and [she's] really molding herself into being a warrior.
Access: What's propelling her journey at this point? Was she after Monroe or did seeing him change her course?
Tracy: She was on a bit of a soul searching journey. … Everything had happened and her mom's… really just emotionally distraught and she just knew that she couldn't be around that and didn't know where to be, where to belong anymore. Everybody that she loves and all her family is in that one little home and everybody else [has] passed away, so she takes off… [and] just goes to figure herself out, to see what she wants to see and just exist and then Monroe screws [that up] by being there and it shifts her entire mission.
Access: What's coming up with that arc? Charlie is really after Monroe.
Tracy: She gets to confront him and it's an interesting thing this year, getting to see this other side of Monroe… and Charlie gets to be one of the first to see it. I don't want to give much more than that, but she does actually get to be face-to-face with the devil so to speak.
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Access: Another side of Monroe… could he be a little cuddlier than he's been in the past?
Tracy: (Laughs) I don't think I would use 'cuddly' as the right term for him ever…. I don't want to give anything away, but it's just a different quality in Monroe that we [didn't get] to see very much of last year. … Every episode that I've been reading that's been coming through, it's just been really exciting to see the first of the dynamic shift within all the characters, even the development with the Nevilles and just to see that whole thing and how Jason really steps up to the plate and saves his [dad's] life in this first episode coming back when he's trying to commit suicide. All that stuff. Everybody's relationships have really shifted [in] a really, really interesting and cool way. … There's a lot of twists and turns throughout this year and a lot of things that happen. It's quite a fun ride.
Access: They made your character a little sexier this season. She gets together with a guy in the season premiere. Is she just throwing herself out there because she doesn't care or is she still hurting over things with Jason?
Tracy: I think it's a combination of everything. … I kind of pictured [it as] one of those things where [when] you go through something really intense, one of the first things I want to do is just go away and just be on my own and sort through everything. And she's trying to figure out where her emotions lie. There's a big part of her that's shutting down emotionally, but then there's also another big part of her that wants to do the right thing and be the good person. … And then yeah, with Jason being her first love, and what's happened with that… all the different relationships and everything that's happened with her, it's just really soul searching and finding who she is, where she lies. … It's a bunch of that and just trying to find the basics again on her own two feet and how to stand up and how to be.
Access: What were the reactions to the season premiere from fans?
Tracy: Everybody's been freaking out. Everyone's really, really loved it and I'm so thrilled. [They're] just really liking the — like you and I were talking — the pace of everything, and also, the story line. It's quite interesting. It leaves [Episode 201] on quite the cliffhanger and really pulls everybody in with what's happening. Everyone's about Aaron and what's going on with the fireflies and, 'What were those all about?' … I just can't wait for everybody to see what we've got in store.
"Revolution" continues Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.
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Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on Labor Day, which will be celebrated on Monday, September 3:
'On Labor Day, we pay tribute to the talent, intellect, and entrepreneurial spirit of hard-working Americans, who through their labor have made our nation strong.
'This holiday is fundamentally different from all the others we celebrate as a nation. As Samuel Gompers said many years ago: 'All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day…is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.' Instead, it is devoted to all Americans who every day struggle and strive to ensure their families, and our nation, prosper.
'This year, Democrats have honored the spirit of Labor Day with our work in Congress. For the first time in 10 years, we gave some of America's hardest workers a raise, by increasing the minimum wage. In the House, we passed legislation to protect the fundamental right of workers to organize, and with the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, corrected an erroneous Supreme Court decision, and in so doing restored the fundamental value of equal pay for equal work. Central to all the efforts of House Democrats will always be the fundamental principle of keeping the American dream within reach for all those we honor this Labor Day.'


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Online love scams costing North Carolinians millions
Posted November 6, 2013
Updated November 7, 2013
Raleigh, N.C. — To Lisa, everything about Glen was charming – the way he said he loved her and the way he texted her at the same time each day. But the sweet, smooth-talking Army lieutenant she thought she was falling in love with had a secret – one that would cost Lisa about $8,000.
Lisa, who asked that her last name not be used, is one of dozens of North Carolinians who have fallen victim in recent years to online scammers who promise love but leave their victims heartbroken and, sometimes, broke.
"It's awful. It's just awful," Lisa said. "It's got to stop. Somehow, it's go to stop."
Since 2011, the North Carolina Attorney General's office has heard from 70 victims who've lost a total of $3.6 million. This year, at least 17 victims have come forward, claiming they've lost nearly $700,000 combined.
Most of the victims are women and, on average, in their early 60s, according to statistics from the Attorney General's office. A 75-year-old Davidson County woman reported losing the largest sum of money in recent years. The Attorney General's records show she sent an online love interest about $1.3 million.
FBI officials say scams like these – often called romance or Casanova scams – make up more than 10 percent of all financial losses in the U.S. Experts say all it takes to be a victim is an email address and a willingness to be in a relationship.
'I believed him'
Lisa says she was ready be in a relationship with Glen, who contacted her in an online dating forum last fall and wrote, "Text me sometime." Lisa says she checked out his profile and thought, "Wow, cute," when she first saw his picture. He told her he was an Army lieutenant serving in Afghanistan and would be retiring soon. They started texting right away.
The two sent instant messages back and forth for more than a month when, at the end of November, Glen wrote to say that he had been shot in the leg and needed medicine.
"I don't know (anything) about the military," Lisa said. "I said, 'Well, what do you need?' And he said, '$300.' I was like, 'Ohh, hmm … I don't know about that.'"
Online love scams costing NC residents millions
She checked out his story and found that "there was a patrolman there that did get shot," she said. After she finally agreed to help, Glen instructed Lisa to send the money to an agent in Nigeria, where all military money is sent, he explained.
"I didn't know (any) better," Lisa said. "I believed him."
One month later, Glen needed Lisa's help again – this time, $100 for pain medication. Two months later, in February, he asked for more money – $100 to help him come home. Lisa says she received flight schedules and emails, making her believe his story.
Despite his repeated requests for money, Lisa says she continued to correspond with Glen and even opened a bank account for him for when he returned home because he promised he would be with her in North Carolina. She deposited $25 but closed the account after the bank detected fraudulent activity, she said.
Then, in June, Lisa says Glen somehow got her bank information. When she questioned him, he explained, "I've got my ways," and told her to check her account. There, she found $6,000, which didn't belong to her. Glen instructed her to withdraw the money and send it to him. Before she could, her bank alerted her.
"It was like somebody had put (the money) in and snatched it out, along with everything else, and I was showing $2,000 negative," she said.
Little by little, Lisa says, she sent Glen $100 here, $110 there for items such as immigration payments and passports costs, all in an effort to get him to come to North Carolina and be with her. The most money she sent at one time, she says, was $1,500 for Glen's plane ticket home when he texted and said he was finally coming to be with her.
Lisa says their relationship came crumbling down in August when she went to the Fayetteville Regional Airport to pick him up and instead got a message saying he was being sent back to Georgia to get his passport stamped.
"I said, 'You're not doing this to me anymore,'" Lisa recalled. "I was done with his scam, done with everything, and he still asked me for $80."
Now, one year after meeting Glen online, Lisa says she is struggling financially and emotionally. She says she is in debt and that the fraud has impacted her credit and bank account. She has also received threats from the man she once knew as Glen.
"Your family will help you cry soon when you are being carried inside your grave," he texted. "Just watch your back. I have a bullet waiting to stick in your brain."
Doctors, lawyers, CEOs being scammed
None of the victims the 5 On Your Side team spoke with ever thought it could happen to them. They said they couldn't imagine how they allowed themselves to be lured to the point that they willingly gave up tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars. They all shared the convincing ways con artists romanced them, little by little over months and months.
Barb Sluppick knows the stories well. She runs RomanceScams.org, a counseling website for victims, with 20,000 members, both men and women.
"I have a couple victims that have lost a million," Sluppick said. "We have doctors, we have lawyers, we have CEOs of companies. We have people you never dream in a million years are being scammed."
The state Attorney General's office says most of the scammers are from Nigeria and simply fish until they find their victim, using photos, like the one used to represent "Glen," that they steal from websites.
The same photo of "Glen" has also been used to represent "John McGregory" and "Cecil Wolfsburg" in other scams. The names keep changing, but the picture, the words and the promises used to seduce the victims stay the same.
"By the time it reaches the point where you're sending money, you feel like you know that person," Sluppick said.
Lisa says she felt she knew Glen, despite the red flags in their relationship. His lovey-dovey words have now been washed away by the harsh reality that Lisa will likely never get her $8,000 back.
"When I think about that stuff, I'm like, 'You're such an idiot.' I just tell myself, 'God, you're such an idiot,'" Lisa said. "I wanted to run my car into the back of an 18-wheeler ... I seriously thought about suicide, I really did, but I could never do anything like that."
The 5 On Your Side team tracked down the man in the picture, whose real name is Cecil, not Glen. Cecil, who is in the Army and was stationed at Fort Bragg, says his picture was hijacked years ago and he has been dealing with the fallout ever since.
He says women call him all the time, angry about what happened to them, and he tries to explain that he was not the one texting them. He even reached out to his military commanders, who told him there's nothing they can do because the scam is so large.
Experts say scammers often shape their identities based on the information provided in potential victim profiles. After the victim recognizes that he or she has been scammed and ceases contact with the scammer, the victim may be contacted by a phony detective or private investigator offering services to track down the scammer, for a fee – in another attempt to perpetuate the scam.


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Forehead Ad Blocker —
Hot on the heels of the latest guy who was auctioning off
advertising space on his forehead
, comes this eBay entrepreneur who has invented
Forehead Ad Blockers
there is a new type of advertising that is rapidly gaining ground: forehead advertising. These ads will be inescapable, especially if you have to visually interact with that soulless human posing as a walking billboard. That is, unless you have: The Forehead Ad Blocker™ Portable! No heavier than a standard pair of safety…
Fri Jan 14, 2005
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Toilet Paper Rejected By Beatles —
Up for sale on eBay is
a roll of toilet paper rejected by the Beatles
. It supposedly once occupied the toilet in the E.M.I. Abbey Road Studios in 1962 when the Beatles were recording there, but it was removed because the Beatles found it to be too hard and shiny. Plus, it had E.M.I. printed on it, which the Fab Four thought to be a bit strange. Bidding has already reached over £5,000. If you're a Beatles fan it would be a pretty cool souvenir, but my question is how anyone can be sure…
Fri Jan 14, 2005
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LA Times on Ghosts and eBay —
The LA Times has just discovered
something that I've been saying for ages: haunted stuff sells well on eBay. As they put it:
"Having exhausted bad taste and banality, it appears EBay sellers have moved on to a new marketing strategy — the paranormal. Everything "haunted" is so hot, EBay could launch a new category."
But still, the LA Times is only seeing half the story here. What's interesting is not just that people are selling lots of haunted things on eBay. After all, there's always…
Tue Jan 11, 2005
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Miracle M&M —
I, like everyone else, should stop posting about these miracle foods that keep appearing on eBay. It's only encouraging their proliferation. But I just can't stop myself. So here's the latest one:
A Miracle M&M
. The seller says:
Purchasing a handful of M&M from vending machine, I came across this very special M&M that I believe to be a likeness of Jesus with a crown on his head. This has been a life changing event for me. I am hoping that all of you see what I see.
Sun Jan 09, 2005
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Elvis Water Sells for $455 —
This is of interest
only as yet more proof that the sell-junk-on-eBay gag will never, ever end:
Wade Jones of North Carolina says he snared a plastic cup from which Elvis Presley drank at a concert in 1977 and kept the cup and the water for 27 years before selling the remaining few tablespoons of water on eBay. The winning bid for the water was $455. He says he
won't sell the cup
Fri Dec 31, 2004
Comments (11)
Alien Bacteria on eBay —
Here's the latest eBay oddity. It's
'Magic Air'
that grows alien bacteria and makes your feet swell up:
This glass was left outside by one of my kids during a solar eclipse. When I retrieved it I noticed that it weighed over 10 pounds. I didn't notice any contents but tried pouring it out and spilled some of the "Magic Air" on my left foot. My shoe grew from a size 11 to a 17 DDD in less than 15 seconds. I ceased pouring any more of the Magic Air out and placed the Haunted Purple…
Tue Dec 21, 2004
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Judge Auctioned on eBay —
The latest weirdness on eBay involves a woman, Janet Schoenberg,
who put Judge Jerald R. Klein of the New York City Housing Court up for sale
, free worldwide shipping included. Why did she do this? Because he had been involved in the legal process whereby she was evicted from her East Village apartment, and this was her way of getting back at him. She listed his sale under "Sporting goods, archery, arrows, shafts" (shafts... get it?). The hoax auction wasn't caught by eBay until bidding…
Wed Dec 15, 2004
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Ghost Cane Sold for $65,000 —
So goldenpalace.com, the same online casino that shelled out $28,000 for the
Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich
last month, has now
bought the haunted walking cane for $65,000
. It occurs to me that this casino is rapidly building a Museum of Hoaxes all of its own. They're becoming the
P.T. Barnum's
of the 21st Century.
Tue Dec 07, 2004
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Grandfather's Ghost on eBay —
Yet another ghost is
up for sale on eBay
. This one has received huge amounts of
media attention
(stories about it on CNN, MSNBC, etc.) thanks to a sob story that goes along with it. Last year this woman's father died. Now her eight-year-old son Collin thinks that the ghost of his grandfather is still living in the house. So the highest bidder will get the ghost of the grandfather (plus the grandfather's walking stick). The one condition is that the winning bidder has to write a letter…
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In the Wake of Grilled Cheese Mary —
Following the $28,000 sale of that Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich, it seems like it's been loony season on eBay (if it was ever NOT loony season on eBay, that is). Among the more memorable Grilled Cheese Mary Wannabes have been the
Jesus Fish Stick
, the
NutriGrain cereal that looks like ET
, and the
piece of popcorn that looks like the Virgin Mary holding Baby Jesus
. Buck Wolf, in his
weekly column
on ABC News, points out some miracle foods from years past that have beguiled the…
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Virgin Mary Sandwich —
The auction of a ten-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bearing the image of the Virgin Mary has been
pulled from eBay
. The sandwich was put up for sale by Diana Duyser who claims that in the ten years since she made the sandwich and took one bite out of it (before noticing the face of the Virgin), it has miraculously never grown any mold. eBay pulled the auction because it claims that it doesn't allow joke listings (that's news to me). Looking at the sandwich, I can definitely see a…
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Porcelain Doll Possessed by the Dead —
Someday I'm going to get tired of checking out the haunted things for sale on eBay, but not yet (I'm easily amused). So here's the latest haunted offering. It's a
Porcelain Doll Possessed By the Dead
. I've got to hand it to the seller. That's a spooky looking doll. And the story that accompanies it is pretty good as well.
Tue Nov 09, 2004
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Haunted House on eBay —
I've seen many haunted things offered up for sale on eBay:
haunted glass jars
haunted Coke cans
haunted toasters
haunted rubber duckys
, even a
haunted Gmail account
(which, I'll now admit, I offered $10 for, but got outbid). So it seems inevitable that someone would finally try to auction an
entire haunted house
on the site. But based on what we're told in the article, the woman's evidence for supernatural possession seems a little sketchy. A few flying objects and weird noises.…
Fri Oct 29, 2004
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Was the eBay Wedding Invitation Auction a Hoax? —
Last week this was the big thing on the internet: some guy in Scotland was
selling invitations on eBay to a wedding he didn't want to go to
. He said that the groom was a former mate of his, but the bride was a "dog." Bidding on the tickets reached £400, and that was with strict controls to make sure all the bids were genuine. But last night Twinklydog (as the guy called himself) cancelled the auction, admitting that the bride was his former girlfriend and that he was still in love with…
Tue Oct 26, 2004
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Irish Ghost in a Bottle —
If you hurry, you still have time to bid on the latest eBay sensation:
Irish Ghost in a bottle
(as opposed to a
Irish ghost in a bottle). When I saw this, it immediately conjured up fond memories for me of the original
Ghost in a Jar
, but this new item seems to have a far longer pedigree than the Ghost in a Jar did. It is said to contain the ghost of a rogue 19th century landlord who took his own life after getting a young girl pregnant. And this is the best part of all:…
Sun Oct 10, 2004
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Britney's Wedding Night Skivvies —
Britney Spears' wedding-night underwear is
up for sale on eBay
, nabbed by someone working on the catering staff at the house where she stayed. It's guaranteed to be 100% authentic, so I guess it can't be a hoax. Right? Not like her
used chewing gum
that was up for sale about a month ago. Better bid on this fast before the auction is pulled by eBay.
Wed Oct 06, 2004
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Double-Sided Laptop Display —
The eBay seller of this
Sun Sep 26, 2004
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Britney Spears Used Chewing Gum —
Britney Spears' used chewing gum is the
latest craze on eBay
. Just do an
eBay keyword search
for Britney's Gum and all kinds of stuff comes up. Apparently there must be hordes of people following Britney around, devotedly picking up her gum (probably are). When I saw the article about Britney's gum, I actually thought it was old news. Didn't someone sell a piece of her used gum about a year or two ago? Or maybe I'm thinking of the time someone sold a
piece of french toast NOT eaten by…
Thu Sep 02, 2004
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Loch Ness Air —
Here's an eBay auction I'm sorry I missed:
some guy trying to sell a box of Loch Ness air
... the same air that Nessie breathes. He didn't have any takers. What gets me is that it doesn't even sound like the box was tightly sealed, so all the Loch Ness air would have leaked out by the time it arrived at its destination. But although the market for Loch Ness air hasn't taken off, there's apparently quite a strong demand for bottles of Loch Ness water. Hey, I'm going to be in Loch Ness in…
Thu Aug 26, 2004
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Transformers Comic Book Predicted 9/11 —
Here's something that brings back memories of the
Nostradamus predictions
that swirled around in the weeks after 9/11. Some guy is claiming that comic book artist Simon Furman predicted 9/11 in a Transformers comic book published on Sep. 14, 1991. His main proof: a picture of a transformer (rodimus prime) hanging between the destroyed towers of the World Trade Center. He's
selling the comic book
that contains this picture (as well as some other stuff) on eBay UK. He launches into some…
Mon Aug 23, 2004
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WRC 3: FIA World Rally Championship PlayStation 3
- Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
- Release Date: Mar 26, 2013
- Also On: PC, PlayStation Vita
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 17 Ratings
User score distribution:
Positive: 9 out of 17
Mixed: 4 out of 17
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Jun 26, 2013Totally AWFUL.
Just bought this game and the car engine sounds don't work in game, even once the patch is installed. Cars feel slow and pants, really disappointing. DIRT3 is utterly superior.
May 10, 2013The bottom line is that I play games to have fun. While I found the handling and tracks fun, I have no desire to play a game whose difficulty curve turns it into a second job because it demands near-perfection from the outset. Chances are, if this game is for you, you've already bought it.
Apr 8, 2013WRC 3 may have a professional sounding name, but the game is more of a disappointment across the board. The amount of content is both impressive and disappointing at the same time. Nothing here will drag players away from better experiences elsewhere, and the sheer lack of modes just makes it feel like a rushed effort. I really wanted to like WRC 3 much more than I did, due to the fact that I am a sucker for the genre, but sadly it is nearly impossible to recommend to anyone without mentioning competitors in the process.
Apr 1, 2013It's commendable that WRC 3 aims to give a full rally experience – complete with the need to repair cars between stages - and not dilute it with other forms of off-road racing. Despite this commitment to the sport and the fact that the game has some fun moments, its middling execution only goes so far.


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Apparent drowning victim pronounced dead at Riverton hospital; Efforts to revive were unsuccessful
(Riverton, Wyo.) – Fremont County Undersheriff Ryan Lee said a 55-year-old rural Riverton woman was pronounced dead at Riverton Memorial Hospital this afternoon after she was found in an irrigation ditch. Efforts to revive the woman were unsuccessful. Lee said the woman was from the Buckhorn Flats area west of Eight Mile Road, but her identity is not being released. Lee said at this point there appears to be nothing suspicious about the death, but an investigation is underway due to the circumstances.
The Fremont County Coroner's office said an autopsy will be performed in Loveland, Colo. on Thursday as part of the investigation.
Lee said the ditch involved was about three feet across in width. "It was not as large as a lateral, but bigger than a small field ditch," he said.
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This January 26th through May 19th Consumers is sponsoring the exhibit "Sight and Feeling: Photographs by Ansel Adams" at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts located on 314 South Park Street, Kalamazoo, MI. Consumers members receive a $2 discount on adult admission to the exhibit.
Regular admission price for adults is $5. Student entry to the exhibit is $2, while children under 12 are admitted free of charge. Admission provides access to all exhibitions in the galleries.
"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice." —Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams took his first photograph in 1916, though it took him more than a dozen years to settle on a career in photography. Adams is best known for his iconic images of the American West. According to Roy Firestone's interview with Ansel Adams, the turning point in his career was his photograph of the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, because it was the first photo that he visualized instead of just taking. Throughout Adams career, he published numerous books and portfolios and trained over 5,000 students. He was influential not only as a photographer, but also as a teacher, lecturer, and conservationist. In 1980 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor.
To learn more about Ansel Adams, visit the Ansel Adams Museum Graphics website and watch Roy Firestone's interview with Ansel Adams. For more information on "Sight and Feeling", visit the website of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and read MLive's coverage of the exhibit.


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President Obama signed the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act Reauthorization, known as STELAR, into law today.
"CenturyLink applauds Congress and the president for reauthorizing legislation that will increase investment, innovation, competition and consumer choice in the pay-TV market," said CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) Vice President of Federal Legislative Affairs David Bartlett. "STELAR goes a long way toward making retransmission consent negotiations more fair and balanced, and creates a more competitive pay-TV market for providers and consumers alike, but more video reform is needed."
Over the past five years, CenturyLink has begun offering video competition and programming options through the launch of its Prism™ TV service to approximately 2 million homes in a dozen markets and has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in deploying high-speed broadband services to support its digital video product.


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If you've seen the first "Max Payne" trailer and didn't loved it to death, then these promo shots of Mark Wahlberg posing as Max Payne won't do a whole lot for you. (And if you haven't seen the trailer yet, head over here.) These photos showed up last week all over the net, but I've been waiting for bigger versions to come out to make a gallery out of them. Alas, that doesn't seem forthcoming anytime soon, so here you go. Groovy little "Max Payne" promo shots via FirstShowing.
Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent (Wahlberg) whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin (Kunis) out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.
Avoid the payne October 18.
It's been a while since I played the Max Payne games, but I'm pretty sure they patterned these promo shots directly from the game's cut scenes.


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Fri 26 Dec 2008 in Huntsville:
In a group of houses just north of Madison, AL.
Because this was my first attempt, I simply wrote down basic directions to the hash. During the day, this probably would have been enough, but at night, apparently street signs can be difficult to read.
I left at 11:20, which should have been plenty of time to reach the hash. After nearly missing my first turn, I started to realize the errors of my ways. I then spent several minutes misreading my own directions, but noted this caused me to frequently pass a street that I believe was named MC Crazy. After spending over a half hour attempting to find the second turn, I pulled off into a similar group of houses to prove I was in the general vicinity of the hash. At this point, I discovered that my camera was low on power and unable to take a photo with flash. When I returned home to check my final coordinates, I found that I was two blocks north of the target destination. Close, but no cigar.
Lessons Learned[edit]
A GPS would be great, but a decent map is neccassary at night.
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- A temporal bone study of insertion trauma and intracochlear position of cochlear implant electrodes. I: Comparison of Nucleus banded and Nucleus Contour electrodesPeter Wardrop
Department of Otolaryngology, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland KA2 OBE, UK
Hear Res 203:54-67. 2005..The relative influences of electrode positioning and neural degeneration that may result from trauma are as yet unclear...
- Cochlear implantation in psoriasis patientsSreeshyla Basavaraj
Department of Otolaryngology and Scottish Cochlear Implant Centre, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, Scotland, United Kingdom
Auris Nasus Larynx 34:221-3. 2007..We present two patients with psoriasis who underwent cochlear implant surgery, discussing the risk of surgical site infection and treatment options to minimise infection...
- A temporal bone study of insertion trauma and intracochlear position of cochlear implant electrodes. II: Comparison of Spiral Clarion and HiFocus II electrodesPeter Wardrop
Department of Otolaryngology HNS, Epstein Laboratory, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0526, USA
Hear Res 203:68-79. 2005..The results suggest that both the Clarion spiral and HiFocus II with positioner can be inserted with minimal trauma, but in many cases not to the maximum depth allowed by the design...
- Considerations for design of future cochlear implant electrode arrays: electrode array stiffness, size, and depth of insertionStephen J Rebscher
Department of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 45:731-47. 2008..Further, arrays with greater stiffness in the plane perpendicular to the plane of the cochlear spiral are less likely to cause severe trauma than arrays with similar vertical and horizontal stiffness...
- Short-term versus long-term antibiotic prophylaxis in cochlear implant surgerySreeshyla Basavaraj
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Scottish Pediatric and Adult Cochlear Implant Centre, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, Scotland, UK
Otol Neurotol 25:720-2. 2004..The objective of this study to evaluate antibiotic prophylaxis options for cochlear implant surgery. Does long-term antibiotic prophylaxis have any advantage over a single perioperative dose in preventing postoperative infection?..


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Wines are often named for their region of origin, such as Burgundy, Bordeaux, or Tightly Sealed Bin on Windowsill. Send taste buds traveling with this Groupon.
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Each package includes one wine flight per person (up to a $22 value each) and a Taste of the World plate (a $27 value) for each couple. On each plate, a spread of hard and soft cheeses pairs with select red and white wines. Bread and crackers accompany assorted high-quality meats served with Dijon mustard and garnishes such as cornichons, caper berries, marinated greek olives, and marcona almonds. With this Groupon, each member of the party receives 15% off any wine purchases made during the visit.
55 Degree Wine
Cozy candlelight and flickering lanterns cast soft shadows in 55 Degree Wine's cellar, where waiters eagerly pair customers' palates with weekly rotating wines. Featured on Best of LA Weekly in 2012 for its wine program, the winery stocks more than 2,000 labels, of which up to 60 are spotlighted in the cellar's monthly lineup of pours. Though most vintages are Italian, ambrosias from Europe, South America, and other far-flung climes find homes in the shop after being tasted and approved by store owners. The thermostat, appropriately set to 55 degrees, helps keep elixirs fresh and patrons comfortable, but guests may wish to bring a sweater or particularly affectionate bear.


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New study highlights the challenges of translating promising research to effective treatments
Results from a clinical study in people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) who were treated with a combination of two drugs in an attempt to improve their beta cell survival and stimulate beta cell regeneration are so far inconclusive. The study, called REPAIR-T1D and supported by JDRF and Sanford Health, tested the effect of the heartburn drug lansoprazole and the type 2 diabetes drug sitagliptin on preserving remaining beta cell function as measured by C-peptide levels in sixty-eight people recently diagnosed with T1D. The results, recently published in the journal The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, showed that the average C-peptide levels of the forty-six people treated with the combination therapy continued to decline and were no different than the twenty-two placebo-treated individuals over a 12-month timeframe.
However, the study results did suggest a possible small benefit of this combination drug therapy in some people. In a subgroup of participants who had higher levels of a specific hormone induced by one of the drugs, C-peptide levels were more stable during the study. This may indicate that some people in the study who did not receive any benefit from the therapy needed higher doses of the drugs to work as intended. If substantiated, this finding could be an important learning from the study.
The REPAIR-T1D study was started more than 2 years ago based on promising results treating diabetic mice with the same drug combination. In these animals and in mice with transplanted human islets, the drug combination increased their beta cell numbers and restored them to normal glucose control. The reason for the general lack of efficacy in people in this study is not clearly understood, and it is not the first time results in mice did not translate directly to people. This emphasizes the need for more focus on conducting well-designed pilot human studies of promising T1D therapies and better markers of an effect to shorten study durations.
The REPAIR-T1D study participants will be followed for another 12 months to more fully evaluate the therapy and gain further insights that may point to ways to improve testing this therapy in a future study.
For more information and to support JDRF's beta cell restoration research program, please click here.


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We have a 3 y/o and an 8 m/o. I would really like us all to sit down for a meal in the evening but when we do it is invariably a stressful experience where we are constantly trying to keep the 3 y/o in her chair, hold the squirmy baby, and attempt to get some food in both of them, never mind trying to eat ourselves. DH thinks we should just feed them first and then eat separately ourselves. I agree this is much less stressful but I am wondering how we will ever teach the kids to sit down for a meal if we don't start early.
Do you have family meals with babies/toddlers? If so how do you manage to make it a pleasant experience for everyone?
Me, DH, DD1 (2009), DD2 (2011), and DS (2015).
I'm not crunchy. I'm evidence-based.
Vaccines save lives.
Are you open to making a sticker chart? We did that after dinner got out of control for us (long story but we always had family dinners, then DH started working nights, then things fell apart, then when he is home for dinner the kids act up). After the kids get 10 stickers they can pick out a little prize-- we'll go the toy store and they can pick out something small, or we'll go out for icecream, etc. Some things that are conditions for getting a sticker:
-at least trying to eat the food on your plate (don't have to eat everything, but at least make a good effort)
-stay in your own chair
-be respectful (no saying the food is gross, or saying that something someone else is eating is gross, etc., no potty talk)
-asking to be excused and clearing your own plate
If the kids make a good effort to do most of these things they get a sticker. We're not too hard-lined about it and that works for us. Sometimes when we have an odd-schedule day (we're out playing til late, the kids are starving but DH and I aren't hungry yet, etc.) we'll still sit at the table with the kids (most of the time!) and then DH and I will enjoy an adult meal later. We try not to do that too often, though. But every once in awhile I think it's a nice thing to indulge in.
Jean, feminist mama raising three boys: W (7), E (5) and L (2.15.13)
Personally, what I'd do is feed the 8-month-old first, but have the 3-year-old eat with you, but not get stressed if she can't sit through a whole meal at this point. Kids that age have no sense of time and it is a fight over nothing, IMO. I know a lot of people here at MDC fight this fight, but I can't see how it's worth it, because they aren't getting any of the family time vibes you're hoping for if you're fighting every night at dinner, and in a year or two it'll be much easier for them. When my older one was 3, I just let her get down to play when she was finished eating. There was no stress and she'd stay with us longer and longer all the time until at some point she wanted to sit through the whole meal with us and now looks forward to us eating together at dinner, so much that she volunteers and loves to set the table every night. It's a favorite time of hers (she's 10 now), and I wonder if she would have such a positive feeling about it if she'd grown up with it being a battle zone.
I also have a 3-year-old, but she is a really easy kid and sits at the table with us through the whole meal on her own.
Aiming for all-together 1-2x/week might be more manageable at those ages, and your dh's idea most other nights might work out.
Our kids often leave the table early to play or whatever (they're 5 & 2) and dh & I like a bit of quieter dinner table time together, so that works out for us. When we have guests they're more likely to stay at the table and be chatting, and at special dinners they will end up mainly staying at the table - so in my opinion, it's still working out alright.
Dd1, for the longest time, simply ate dinner at her own small table near us, and actually tended to sit at the table longer when we did that for her. We'd just insist she was wiping or washing her hands in between eating and playing more often, if she was getting up a lot or was eating messily.
I know when dd2 was littler, I'd stop my dinner to clean up her highchair (or else the mess ended up getting too crazy for me, as she'd just turn to playing with her food ) and then set her down in the dining room with one of a few particular toys that weren't too disruptive for eating (nothing too noisy or that needed lots of help or supervision).
If you're all at the table together for 20 minutes - half hour, does it really matter if you're all eating right at the same time? If the kids have eaten earlier, set the 3 year old up with some crayons and the 8 month old with a toy in the high chair and you an your husband can eat. Or maybe the kids eat and you two just have an appie that you can pick up with your fingers, like chopped veggies or something.
Usually what we do if the baby won't be happy in her high chair is, I nurse her and eat one-handed... sometimes DH has to cut up my food for me but our big kids are bigger and can manage their own plates. My main goal is for us to spend some time together and share a bit about our day, so we do a round-robin "What was your favourite part of your day?" once we've finished that, the kids can excuse themselves when they're done eating. Sometimes that's just 10 minutes, sometimes we're all sitting around the table for an hour. It all depends on how they're feeling... but I think having low expectations has made supper time more pleasant for them, in general. When it's a big ordeal for the kids to get through, they almost sabotage themselves.
I have a 4 yr old and a 9mth old. The majority of our meals are family meals. We just find it easier that way/haven't considered anything else. We all come to the table together. Both children are involved in their food for at least a short period of time (baby self-feeds/plays with food) during which time adults eat and or talk. Children can leave the table when they are finished eating, after wiping hands and face.
We eat fairly quickly. Not all meals are exactly relaxed .... but I look forward to eating at a more relaxed pace or lingering over wine or tea or whatever when they are a bit older or with a babysitter. Some meals are quite nice though. And generally, what we are doing works for our family. Our primary goal is that we share food together. We eat the same food.
This might work for the older child:
When my oldest was around 2.5-3 meal time started to be stressful with her not following basic etiquette so the three of us (parents and kid) sat down to develop our rules. Stay in seat unless excused, ask for food to be passed/don't grab, try a few bites of everything, etc. Nothing too major. Then we made a photo list of our rules (kid really enjoyed this) and posted it on the wall. For a few days before we started the meal we would have a reminder of the rules. Then we just got to the point that we would just say "Daughter, what is the third rule?" when she wasn't following it. Long story short, it worked. She felt empowered because she was in the process with us and it wasn't just us saying "this is the way it is!" (even though we had an idea of what rules we would guide to the list before we started).
Chatty Girl - 3/2006, Lovey Boy - 1/2010, Delicious Baby Girl - 1/2012
We try to serve everyone at the same time but focus on getting the kids to eat during that time. Once they eat the can ask to be excused and go play? Then we finish gobbling down our dinner.
Then we made a photo list of our rules (kid really enjoyed this) and posted it on the wall. For a few days before we started the meal we would have a reminder of the rules. Then we just got to the point that we would just say "Daughter, what is the third rule?" when she wasn't following it. Long story short, it worked. She felt empowered because she was in the process with us and it wasn't just us saying "this is the way it is!" (even though we had an idea of what rules we would guide to the list before we started).
I really, really like the idea of doing photo/picture rules together. Thanks much for sharing - we might try it out ourselves (with some of the annoying meal-time issues we've been dealing with recently).
I agree with mamazee. I don't really see making them sit at the table when they're not into it an enriching endeavor. When they are ready, they will. For now, we enjoy our meals in the living room. We don't allow screen time during meals, but otherwise, the kids can eat or play as they wish. We are actually pretty focused on each other during dinner, though. It's not that different than a normal meal at the table except a bit more freedom for the kids.
I also feel like when I was growing up, food was always at the center of every social gathering and I am just as happy to let go of the link between eating and being social where ever I can. I am not sure that I am ever going to make a point of having family meals.
Jayne, sewing up a storm mama to ds1 9/03, ds2 2/09, and 2 sweet furbabies.
We all eat the same food (I don't make kid-friendly versions or anything). We don't feed DS & never have -- we place food in front of him and he chooses whether or not to eat it. So we can just eat our own meals & don't have to worry about 'making sure he eats' because it's his responsibility. Sometimes he cleans his plate and other times he just has a few bites, but it balances out over the course of a day or two. We also make sure he isn't going to the dinner table hungry -- he is free to taste as we're cooking, or grab a healthy snack, even if dinner is just two minutes away (I might let him know that dinner is almost ready but I don't make him wait for it... over-hungry = not fun kiddo!!)
There aren't really any rules at dinner time. We don't worry yet about table manners or staying still, though we try to lead by example. He usually uses a fork and napkin but sometimes eats with his hands or wipes his hands on his shirt, no big deal to me. We have to engage each other (in other words, family dinner can't be me & DH talking about our days & ignoring DS -- he has to be part of the conversation or else he'd be miserable). He isn't required to stay at the table for any amount of time, he could get up and leave if he wanted to but he rarely does; I'm actually usually the first to get up and sometimes he & DH will linger for a while.
I guess I'd suggest making family dinner seem really special -- and what that means depends on what your kids like. Maybe a special dinner time song or prayer. Maybe using fancy dishes or cute cloth napkins with their favorite animals on them or kid-made placemats. Maybe each person chooses a component of the meal, or dinner ends with a favorite treat. Maybe your family dinner is a picnic on a blanket on the living room floor. Whatever it is that your kids would enjoy, whatever would make them feel a part of it. Once they get used to it, it won't seem like such a struggle. I honestly can't imagine feeding DS separately, it feels like second nature that we all eat together (well, whoever is home; sometimes DH isn't able to be home for dinner) and seems easier this way to me.
Sitting down as a family at dinner is not negotiable for us. It's the only meal we all eat together, and while there are rare exceptions (late birthday party or Mom's Night Out), we always sit together for dinner. By the time DS turned 3, he was fine with sitting for dinner. Actually, now that he is closer to 5, he is getting more antsy and leaving the table early where before he really didn't. I'm fine with him leaving when he's finished eating if DH and I are taking a long time to finish (some meals are so good that DH has seconds/thirds and I'm not going to make DS sit through that). However, he rarely ends up with dessert those times, b/c he's already washed up and moved on from dinner. Eventually, he'll figure out that there's dessert on the days he stays at the table (which is "nice manners," to stay until everyone is finished, but I'm not being strict on enforcing that part right now).
As far as keeping it stress-free and teaching him to sit, we have rules, and they are enforced. Some days it IS stressful, but the rules are there to keep that to a minimum. I work hard all day (as does DH) and I'm not going to let a toddler ruin my only relaxing meal of the day. So if we can't sit nicely and use good manners, we don't stay at the table. (We don't go off to play, either -- we go to our rooms or the "timeout" chair.) When we are ready to eat nicely, we can come back to the table. But three strikes and that's it. If DS uses up his three chances and still can't be nice, we figure he must not be ready to eat so his meal is over and he goes to his room til we're finished (b/c otherwise he'll continue to disrupt our meal either by yelling/crying/whining or bringing us toys). I don't think it's unreasonable to have a meal together and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a 3 year old to not ruin it for the rest of us.
We just did it.
Here's what we did. All the food was on the table when the kids were called. The baby was in a high chair with food on the tray. I hated feeding my babies and they hated being fed. So, they fed themselves. They had to sit at the table and eat. When they were done, they could say "I'm done." and leave the table. Babies got taken out of the high chair as soon as food started hitting the floor by intent rather than messiness.
We made it a point to talk to the kids and engage them in conversation. They get our full attention during dinner. No TV, no reading, and honestly, very little adult talk. Now that they're 11 and 8, they can participate more fully in conversations that we have.
I don't think it's unreasonable to ask a 3 year old to stay at the table for 5-10 minutes. I think it's much harder to start this routine when they're older because they're used to not sitting at the table. When you start when they're babies, they get used to it. Yeah, some days were stressful. A fair number of meals were interrupted a lot between about 18-24 months. But by the time my kids were 3, they could do it.
We've always done family dinners. I cannot imagine doing it any other way. For us, that is always the easiest thing to do. We all eat the same food, so we all eat when it's ready. My kids are 5 and 2. We have #3 due in September, but I just expect that means I"ll be eating one handed while holding the baby until she's old enough to sit in a high chair and eat/play with food. I just give our babies the parts of our meal they're ready to eat on their tray and let them self feed. I don't prep separate food for anyone, and I've never spoon fed.
Over the last two years we've developed some dinner time rituals that I really love. We eat by candle light, with all other lights out. We have an annual ring as our centerpiece, and each night at dinner we pull the bead for the day and talk about what happened that day, and about up coming days in the month. We take turns pulling the bead. Tonight it was my 2 year old's turn. My girls are unlikely to leave the table. They're very social and WANT to be at the table with us. We often have nice meals with pleasant conversation and everyone eating happily, but it's certainly not perfect. They do act like kids. They are squirmy. They sometimes eat with their hands, wipe hands on their clothes, chew loudly, complain about food, and sing or play silly repetitive games that make me crazy. When we're all home, we sit together for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and sometimes afternoon snacks too. I love our family meals, especially dinners.
All of that said, if it's not working for you and your family dynamic, then find something that does. Needs ebb and flow over the years. It's ok to go with the flow of what works now.
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There's time ideas like keeping meal times on the shorter side and not having the kids come to the table until everything is set so everyone can just start eating. There's helping ideas like letting the kids help with cooking and/or setting the table so they will feel invested in meal time. There's trying to make it special ideas like allowing the children to share their favorite things of the day or to say prayers or poems of thanksgiving together.
For my family, breakfast and lunch were whenever and wherever but everyone would sit for dinner no matter what and no one was allowed to get up until everyone was done. Well ... that really backfired on me. My dd complied and never gave me an issue. Even as far back as barely a year old she sat in her high chair happily but as she got older and started eating more it would take forever for her to finish and we adults were itching to get up from the table. She's just naturally a really slow eater. So I guess I'm saying be careful what you wish for ... lol.
To really answer your question ... I personally don't like rewarding kids for doing things that should be done just out of respect and common courtesy. I think if eating together as a family is really that important to you then you should explain to your three year old why it is and that you expect him to participate for those reasons.
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Thanks for all the input everyone. It's interesting to see what different people do. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what is making this so difficult for us. I think some of the elements are
- Late night dinner: DH often doesn't get home until 7:30 or even later, so we are frequently sitting down to dinner at 8pm. I feed DD1 some fruit and milk beforehand so she's not starving, but this means she's not super excited for dinner either. And she's never been that into food, if it's not something she's wild about she just won't eat it.
- Eating all the same food: I make one dinner but so far there are only two things I have found that both DH and DD1 will eat: fried rice with veggies and spinach omelets. The other nights DD will usually take maybe 1-2 bites of the main meal (with cajoling) and end up eating mainly something else (eg corn, avocado, oven fried potatoes, tomatoes/cukes/olives out of the salad). Or sometimes I will make a piece of fish just for me and the kids (DH is a vegetarian and he'll just have a cheese sandwich those nights). So I'm not making two meals but somebody (either DH or DD1) is always having some quickie item instead of the actual dinner. And the baby has no teeth so her food has to be soft, so I usually make something just for her as well since nobody else is particularly into mushy food.
- Sitting at the table: I don't mean I need DD to sit there for an hour or anything,10 minutes would be fine with me, it's that she won't even come in and sit down. She'd generally rather play or watch TV or whatever rather than come to dinner. I would be willing to make this a hill to die on and have the battle every night, but DH doesn't feel the same way and it's hard to enforce when both parents are not on board. DH is totally fine with having DD1 play around on the floor while he goes over and sneaks bites of food into her mouth every so often. I think 3 is too old for this but it's hard to get DD1 to toe the line when she knows DH is totally happy to feed her while she plays. And when I do get her to sit at the table after thirty seconds she wants to sit on my lap instead of on her chair, and will throw a tantrum if I don't let her.
- Baby doesn't like the high chair: She is OK there for up to maybe 10 minutes if you give her things to play with (new ones every couple of minutes). After that she won't tolerate it any more, somebody has to be holding her and she is so squirmy and grabby it is really hard to eat that way.
So DH is right that dinner is better without the kids, because when they are there they are inevitably both wanting to sit on my lap at the same time, which makes it impossible for me to eat my dinner, which makes me super grumpy and negates the whole point of trying to have a nice family dinner.
Me, DH, DD1 (2009), DD2 (2011), and DS (2015).
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You've had loads of good ideas suggested, so not sure if you'd like one more...
A few things that work for us (DS is 2.5).
First of all, he absolutely needs to be belted into his booster seat. He is just that kind of child. He absolutely needs to be restrained in order to eat. He is fine with it and doesn't protest, but if we gave him the choice to sit in a regular chair with no belt, he'd be gone in 30 seconds! Can't tell if your daughter is belted or not, but perhaps it would help?
We also put away all the toys at dinner and we make a big deal about what music we are going to listen to while we eat. DS likes to throw out suggestions ("Bon Jovi, Bob Marley, etc) and we try to mostly honor them :-)
Once DS finishes eating, we keep him at the table with us for as long as possible by giving him books to read. We keep a big basket of books by the table and just feed him one after another for as long as he will tolerate. Sometimes it lasts as long as 20 minutes. It helps a ton.
Hope something works for you!
Oh, and I almost forgot, we light a candle, too, which DS gets to "blow out" at the end of the meal (we do it, but he thinks he is blowing it out!)
We've always had dinner as a family. DD1, when she was little, basically didn't eat dinner. She grazed all day, and had very little appetite at dinner. So, she had to sit with us to start the meal. If she felt like getting up, we let her. If she wanted to talk to us, we told her to come back to the table. If she was doing something distracting, we said, "we're eating right now - that has to wait until later". Even though she didn't have to sit with us for the whole meal, she figured out that mealtime was mealtime, not "run around and be crazy" time.
I've never enforced any kind of "stay at the table with us" rule. But, they have to eat at the table, and ask to be excused (I actually don't care for this, but it's important to dh). They're allowed to come back - once - if they decide they're still hungry. DD2 has no dinnertime rules, aside from not yelling, and she can't 'take food away from the table. Over the next couple of years, we'll tighten up the same rules as the older kids. Basically, those rules are to be at the table at the beginning of dinner, don't interrupt, use basic table manners, such as not taking all of your favourites from the serving dish, asking politely for dishes to be passed, eating reasonable sized mouthfuls of things (ds2 still has trouble with this), and ask to be excused before leaving the table.
They also have to try things they don't think they like, but only one bite. If they genuinely don't like what's on the table, they can get a sandwich, piece of fruit, boiled egg, or whatever, from the fridge. I was a picky eater, and people's constant attempts to make me eat things I really didn't like caused me a lot of issues with food avoidance, in addition already disordered eating. (In my case, I now realize there were sensory issues involved, and I know dd1 has them, too.).
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Okay - I just read your second post.
Since your husband gets home late, and he doesn't feel this is as important as you do, have you considered having a sit-down meal with the kids, before he gets home? You could just take a few bites, or whatever. Then, when your husband gets home, you can sit with him while he eats, and eat your dinner then. Since this isn't important to your husband, and his schedule is so late, it might work better to focus on the "sitting together at the table" thing, outside of his dinnertime. (You could work on it with lunch or something, too.)
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I find it harder to get DH to the table and to keep him there than I do to get the kids there. I was more annoyed when DH had me bring him a plate in front of his video game or else would come late to the table and then snarf his food and then leave to smoke a cigarette outside and go back to his video game stuff before the rest of us were done. (He was always playing multi player games so he would be in a hurry to get back to his group) Annoying. He's gotten tons better when he FINALLY got that if I'm going to put a family dinner together he darn sure better give me the respect to eat it properly.
Anyway, since this thread isn't about DH's but about kids... Luckily both of my kids love food. We try to have a no snacking rule during the day, so when meal times come, they're ready to eat. Normally I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner with them, but now that I'm pregnant and nauseated most of the time, I set their food up and have the two of them eat alone. It's kind of sad, but it's better than mama dry heaving at the table. I miss dinners with them and they definitely act sillier now without adults to keep them company.
I guess it was just never a negotiable thing for me. I made dinner, so you're going to sit and eat it. Even when they were babies they would either sit in my lap or later on in their high chairs, and either nurse or self feed. I never fed babies, and also never made special foods for them. I do like to cook and they like to eat. I would have them help set the table from a very early age and they help clear the table too. I do freak out a bit sometimes if they're being super messy or silly, but generally it's a low key affair and we all concentrate on our food more than anything else. It also helps when they help me make the food so they're already looking forward to sharing their creations.
I too look forward to the days when we will be able to linger a little longer at the table. I remember when I was their age lunch would be a long drawn out affair with several courses and lots of adult conversation and I was expected to sit there quietly and eat politely off of real china dishes and table cloths and not get antsy, etc. They're not quite where I was at their age but they don't do too badly, overall.
We do family dinners with our 3 year old and 8 month old regularly. It's not always pretty, but we do it. The three year old does often get up from the table, but doesn't wander far. I put the 8 month old in the high chair and share bites off my plate with her. My only rule with the three year old, is that she must be interacting with us and she must be working on her meal. Sometimes that means she is standing next to the high chair, giggling with her sister about what a mess she's making. Sometimes she is sitting in the seat talking to DH or me. And there's a lot of in between. I guess I'm just pretty lax about that. The 8 month old is perfectly happy to play with the food and laugh at her sister. Our meals are messy, but they're fun. Also, any family member can be excused from the table if they are done eating.
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I'm not quite at the ages your kids are at, but DD is 16 months and I have another one on the way. DD has always sat at the table with us for dinner, we have dinner together nearly every single night. Even when she was a tiny baby she hated being away from us at dinner...she wouldn't sit in her swing even 3 feet away! So I would hold and nurse her and eat with my free hand. I got good at eating left handed for a while :)
When she could sit unassisted at about 6+ months she went into her booster chair at the table (it has clips that keep her strapped in. That was pretty important to me, so that she would be at table level with us not away in a high chair. We did baby led solids, so she always ate what we ate, even if it was only to taste, look at, suck on, squish up, then throw on the floor for a few months. She still sits in her chair, but now eats 3 full meals per day (plus nursing), and will eat nearly anything. She's actually a really slow eater, so DH and I are always done before her and we just talk to eachother and to her until she's done.
When the new baby comes, I expect to hold/nurse this one while we eat until he or she can sit up, then will move them to a booster chair too. Maybe strapping in the 3 year old will help a bit? And maybe putting the 8 month old at table level will help so they feel like part of the table atmosphere?
Oh, DD hates to wait until 7:30 or 8pm to eat too, she's just too hungry by then. We don't snack during the day, but if dinner is running late she'll usually have a banana or something to hold her over. She does great when we eat at 5:30 or 6pm instead, so we do try to get dinner started early-ish. If DH has to be somewhere around dinner time then DD and I eat together and he'll eat later, maybe that's the way you could do it until schedules change a bit? I think the point is to sit down together and appreciate the food that is prepared, and to have even just a little bit of focused family time together. It's wonderful if everyone can be there, but if work schedules don't quite allow it then having as much of the family together as possible is what I would do.
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Great thread! I actually considered starting a similar one because nightly dinners have been a battle for us from the very beginning (DS is 26 months.) I actually don't care if DS eats much of his food (he's more of a grazer and eats a lot earlier in the day) or if he wanted to get up and play after a bit, but the issue is that he won't sit still and he won't leave the table---he wants to be with us while we eat. Throughout the entire meal, DS gets out of his seat to come over and pick things off our plates, or pour his water out, or try to grab the salt shaker, or dump his plate on the floor, or...... When I get to the point where I've had enough and ask him to leave the table, he has a major meltdown and things rapidly go down hill from there. I may try one of those buckle seats---he refuses to sit in the high chair these days. I'm super envious of all the mamas who kiddos will sit through a meal (or even part of one!) What about mamas of other wiggle worms? How do you do it!?
Lots of great suggestions. We have two one year olds and dinner together doesn't work. At least a couple times a week, we all are together at the dinner table and to make that happen takes a lot of effort. The boys either have tons of food and snacks and I start them before us so that I can sit down and eat or I've done the crayons and a piece of paper which at least buys me 5 minutes. Most of the time, I feed the children and then we eat afterwards while the boys are content with toys, books or have something to entertain them on their trays. It is less stressful than jumping up and down and trying to grab a few bites of food.
Again, good suggestions. I need to try some of these.
Great post!
So last night it was just me and the kids because DH had an evening meeting of the homeowners assn, and it was actually way more stressful.
6:30 I put DD1's food on the table and start feeding DD2 in the high chair
6:40 DD1 comes in after repeated requests, sits in chair for a microsecond, takes two bites of food, starts playing with the belt on DD2's chair. DD2 stops eating and starts watching DD1 and laughing. I tell DD2 to stop playing with the belt and get back in her chair but she ignores me.
6:42 DD1 says she has to poop and goes to the bathroom. Simultaneously DD2 tires of the high chair and starts yelling to get out
6:43 I remove DD2 from chair and put her on the living room floor with toys so I can help DD1 clean herself. DD2 starts screeching and continues to do that until I am done helping DD1.
6:50 I come back and find out that DD2 has also pooped. (I really think they time it, this happens all the time.) I go change her diaper.
7:00 I return to the kitchen and find DD1 standing on a chair opening a box of lollipops DH bought. I say she can't have a lollipop until she eats some dinner. She throws a tantrum.
7:10 tantrum subsides and she asks for milk. I say she can't have milk until she takes one bite each of three items on her plate. She has another tantrum.
7:20 she eats the three bites and I give her the milk. Dinner effectively over (once she gets milk she won't eat food anymore, she drinks at least a quart of cow's milk a day and I'd really like to cut that down in favor of more solid food). Nobody ate much.
So much for family dinner. I really do not know how to fix this.
Me, DH, DD1 (2009), DD2 (2011), and DS (2015).
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This is also what my family does. There have been times when our now 4 year old ate earlier than us, and then went immediately to bed. Those times, for a month or so at a time, usually were precipitated by a significant nap time change. Family dinners then came back. the 2-3 times we have put family meals on hiatus in favor of sleep were actually nice for us in away, like the aforementioned wine and conversation wish above.
We focus on conversation more than food at the table. We have a sign for "I have something to say but my mouth is full (and I just can't stand it!!!!)" Since two years old we have used this sign, one hand patting the chin, and we always acknowledge the hand patter with a turn as soon as the bite is finished. it also became a family reminder,meaning you are talking with your mouth full, so that we were not saying this over and over.
Like others I have talked to with four year olds, we went through a trouble-staying-in-the-seat-time at 3 1/2 years old. We introduced the good old "may I be excused" and now we are through it.
So last night it was just me and the kids because DH had an evening meeting of the homeowners assn, and it was actually way more stressful.
6:30 I put DD1's food on the table and start feeding DD2 in the high chair
6:40 DD1 comes in after repeated requests, sits in chair for a microsecond, takes two bites of food, starts playing with the belt on DD2's chair. DD2 stops eating and starts watching DD1 and laughing. I tell DD2 to stop playing with the belt and get back in her chair but she ignores me.
6:42 DD1 says she has to poop and goes to the bathroom. Simultaneously DD2 tires of the high chair and starts yelling to get out
6:43 I remove DD2 from chair and put her on the living room floor with toys so I can help DD1 clean herself. DD2 starts screeching and continues to do that until I am done helping DD1.
6:50 I come back and find out that DD2 has also pooped. (I really think they time it, this happens all the time.) I go change her diaper.
7:00 I return to the kitchen and find DD1 standing on a chair opening a box of lollipops DH bought. I say she can't have a lollipop until she eats some dinner. She throws a tantrum.
7:10 tantrum subsides and she asks for milk. I say she can't have milk until she takes one bite each of three items on her plate. She has another tantrum.
7:20 she eats the three bites and I give her the milk. Dinner effectively over (once she gets milk she won't eat food anymore, she drinks at least a quart of cow's milk a day and I'd really like to cut that down in favor of more solid food). Nobody ate much.
So much for family dinner. I really do not know how to fix this.
Here's mine:
6ish (OH comes in between 6 and 7pm, he sends me a text when he leaves work and gets home 20mins later, almost without exception we eat together as a family): i call DD1 (6yo) to the kitchen to set the table - our plates are heavy so i help her as i finish dinner.
Then i send her back to the livingroom for tv or music (depending on how much tv they've had already) until OH walks in.
I call them to the table, telling DD1 to turn the tv off as she comes, lift DD2 (2yo) into her chair (a normal dining chair with a kids car-booster bungeed onto it for height)
We sit and i serve
DD1 often mucks about, we both tell her firmly to sit down and eat her food, and usually ask her a leading question to get her talking instead of messing about.
DD2 laughs at DD1, we remind her to eat her food and again, distract her with conversation.
I ask OH about his day
OH asks us in turn about our days me, then DD1, then DD2.
Eventually the kids, having eaten 1-90% of their food (i honestly do not keep track) lose interest. DD1 is required to ask "please may i leave the table?", DD2 gets away with "down please". I let them go but OH and i stay to chat.
When OH and i have finished eating dessert (usually fruit) is offered.
Whether the kids take it or not i remind them it's nearly bed time.
OH clears the table and makes us a cup of tea, we continue to talk.
We drink our tea.
Whoever is doing bedtime gathers the kids up and herds them upstairs for bath/teeth/stories/bed.
Basically to me if everyone sat at the table and was able to chat about their day and (even if it took repeated reminders) didn't disrupt anyone else's pleasure in the event too much, and at least tasted their food then it was a success. I don't regard it as my job to make sure they eat, that's up to them, i have enough to worry about :D
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About the Presenters
Dr. Luke Dowden is the director of distance learning at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. As the inaugural director of this office, Dr. Dowden led the creation and adoption of distance learning policies that support quality course development, program growth, faculty professional development and innovation as well as student success. As executive director of the Center for Adult Learning in Louisiana (CALL), Dr. Dowden leads a consortium of 11 public member institutions, which provide 29 online accelerated degree programs. Previously, he served as dean of accelerated learning at Bossier Parish Community College in Louisiana.
Mollie McGill serves as deputy director of programs and membership at WCET, where she assists with the overall management of member services and communications that inform the e-learning community of relevant policy, practices and developments. From 2009 to 2010, she worked with the WICHE Policy Analysis Unit on the Statewide Articulation and Transfer project to specifically study state transfer Web portals. Ms. McGill spent nearly 20 years working for WICHE in the early part of her career and, among other accomplishments, was instrumental in founding WCET in 1989. Most recently, she directed learning innovations and technology initiatives for the University of Colorado System and served in leadership roles for several Colorado statewide e-learning projects.
Dr. Matthew Prineas is the assistant dean for communication, arts and humanities at University of Maryland University College (UMUC), leading an academic department with more than 28,000 annual enrollments and six fully online degree programs. He also has served as assistant provost and as an administrator at the National Endowment for the Humanities, where he coordinated curriculum development for EDSITEment, an online resource for K-12 teachers across the country.