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Maybe it was added by the same editor who misspelled the word *breastfeeding* in the headline?
Health Officials Encourage Breatfeeding During Disastors - KYPost.com
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Turns out that Fairy Bread is simply buttered bread which has been dipped into candy sprinkles aka hundreds and thousands. It is very popular with the children in Oz.
Do you really need a RECIPE for that?
Apparently you do!
And to make things even MORE difficult, you need to measure the ingredients, on a scale, in GRAMS.
Well, no wonder that Fairy Bread never caught on in the US.
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/9535/fa
If you prefer, instead of 2 whole eggs you can use 4 egg whites.
For vegans:
For each egg use 2 Tbsp. water + 1 Tbsp. oil + 2 tsp. baking powder.
4 c. carrots, grated (spoon, not packed into cup)
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 (8 oz.) can crushed pineapple
1/2 c. apple sauce (if sweetened, then halve the sugar)
4 lg. egg whites or 2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
2 c. whole wheat flour
2 tsp. each baking soda & cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 c. raisins, plumped in boiling water and drained
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Coat a 9 x 13 inch baking pan with non-stick vegetable spray. Set aside.
In large bowl, beat the sugar and eggs.
Beat in the pineapple, apple sauce, and vanilla, then the flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon.
Stir in the carrots and raisins
Spread batter in pan.
Bake about 45 minutes until pick inserted into center comes out clean.
Cool on rack. Cut into squares.
In fact, their *music* effectively drowns out everything else.
Here are the sounds of our local frogs. Bear in mind that there are THOUSANDS of them, all singing their hearts out in chorus.
Spring peepers - Pseudacris crucifer
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/s
sounds - http://www.naturenorth.com/spring/s
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Green frog - Rana clamitans
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/s
sounds - http://www.naturenorth.com/spring/s
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http://blogs.timesunion.com/parenting/2
http://blogs.timesunion.com/parenting/2
I also wrote a letter to the editor about CDC recommendations for nursing mothers with regard to the swine flu epidemic. Hopefully, that will be published soon.
cc to my other blog:
The Lactation Consultant is in!
http://normaritter.blogspot.com/
My latest post is
"Breastfeed, because it's not nice to fool Mother Nature!"
- Mood:accomplished
In case you do not have gmail (and if you don't, you are really missing out on a good thing!) then simply go to
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and read about Gmail AutopilotTM by CADIE
SPEW WARNING!
Put down your drink and swallow whatever is in your mouth before reading it!
Enjoy!
Pseudacris crucifer
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/nor
>Along with the return of the Osprey and the departure of Canada Geese, the Spring Peeper is a strong indicator of warmer days to come. The loud, peeping chorus of Spring Peepers means winter is finally coming to an end. <
Does this mean I can put away my winter clothes?
If only!
Our house looks out onto wetlands, but on a rise high enough to avoid the *A river runs through it* look. Nevertheless, from our bedroom window, yesterday, we saw ducks happily splashing away on the swollen creek. Hey, I am glad that THEY are enjoying themselves!
The sleet and rain forecast for this am turned into a minor blizzard. Bah! Now it is beginning to turn to sleet and (hopefully) rain, but this is still very depressing. just as we were starting to dream of pussy willows and forsythia, BAM! it hits us again.
Roll on spring!
Flooding on Mohawk River
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/st
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>Down with the kids
by Chris Cleave
The Guardian, Saturday 31 January 2009
This is an emergency transmission. Is anyone receiving? For the love of God, someone please help us! They came in the dead of night. Both of them. The second one two years after the first. They chose a local site to materialise: a hospital. Irresistible forces compelled us to rush there. It was clever, fiendishly clever. They took the form of human newborns. They feigned helplessness, tricking us into feeding and sheltering them while their bodies adapted to Earth's gravity. This was when they were at their most vulnerable. If only we had acted then.
Within months their digestive systems learned to extract nutrients from Earth food. Initially, they would ingest only human milk, or the dissolved form of a special powder that had to be sourced from the supermarket at incredible expense. This alone would have been reason enough to abandon them, but they had anticipated that.
They shed their wrinkled epidermis and developed smooth skins and button noses. They eschewed teeth in a deliberate strategy to appear gummy and cute. They deployed social smiling and vocal utterances such as "ma-ma-ma", which caused my wife to believe they cared for her. Having secured my partner's cooperation, they proceeded to neutralise any threat I posed. They did this by waiting until I entered REM sleep and then issuing a piercing alarm, which they made by passing air over their primitive vocal cords in a nerve-jangling shriek. They repeated this tactic night after night until my rational mind was gone.
To any rescuers who receive this message and come to our assistance, please proceed with extreme caution. They have learned to mimic human speech. They use it to make themselves appear likeable. On weak-minded individuals the effect can be devastating, and the subject may fall rapidly under their control. If you are affected, symptoms will appear in three phases.
First, you will find yourself charmed by the deliberate errors that they introduce into their speech. You will chuckle indulgently when they say "lots of crosses" instead of "noughts and crosses", or when they call the Atlantic ocean a "big, big bath". In the second phase, you will become fascinated by the stories they tell about "school", a secure location where they go to cluster with their own kind. In the third and final phase, you will find yourself acquiescing to their demands for tomato ketchup on their marshmallow breakfast puffs.
Their swift evolution cannot be prevented but it can be delayed. On no account should you expose them to reading materials or assist them in the acquisition of writing. They learn our ways and use them against us.
They have an inborn addiction to all forms of moulded plastic, especially the costly forms fashioned in the likeness of protagonists from Pixar movies. When denied these, they become listless and moody. Perhaps this dependency might be turned against them? I have discovered only one small additional weakness. For short periods they can be controlled by offering apparent choices, such as "Would you like to tidy your room before or after you clean your teeth?" In this way my wife and I have discovered that they can sometimes be rendered compliant for long enough to prepare and ingest the only known antidote to their powers, which consists of one part gin served over ice with four parts tonic.
Please, please help us. They have beamed a homing signal back to their home planet. A third one is coming to join them. Must stop transmission now ... strength ... almost ... gone ...
http://www.sj-r.com/news/x497774850/Peo
Peoria jeweler sells Senate seats
By JOHN SHARP
GateHouse News Service
Posted Jan 01, 2009 @ 11:49 PM
PEORIA Gov. Rod Blagojevich might deny selling the state’s U.S. Senate seat, but “Al the Jeweler” is hopeful the public will want to buy plenty from him.
Brad Pettet, owner of Pettet Jewelry Designs in Peoria, is selling 3/4-inch-tall charms for necklaces and bracelets shaped as a U.S. Senate seat.
“The whole point of this is to have a little bit of fun,” Pettet said, referring to the governor’s scandal. “People say they are embarrassed to be from Illinois. I’m not embarrassed. It’s Chicago politics. You ought to be used to it by now.”
Pettet is selling the charms in three forms: sterling silver for $35 each, 14-karat gold for $175 and in platinum, which will go at market prices.
Proceeds from the sales are being referred to as “donations” that will go toward Al the Jeweler’s retirement fund, Pettet said.
Pettet, who turns 60 in February, said he came up with the idea of the unique charms after the retail center his shop is in released an advertisement before Christmas simply stating, “We Sell Everything but Senate Seats.”
This got Pettet thinking, and on Christmas Day, he came up with the idea of selling a Senate seat charm.
The next day, Pettet returned to work and started on his idea. A jewelry craftsman for 25 years, Pettet designed the chair, but the first rendition didn’t look so much like a Senate seat as it did a bar stool.
After some refinement, a more visually accurate Senate seat was created out of wax.
He has several of the wax creations at the jewelry store; they are no bigger than a “Monopoly” game piece.
With the prototype design completed, Pettet said he now is ready to mass-produce the charms. He’s unsure how many he will sell in the coming days, but he has the capability to make five to 10 charms per mold.
“One caller said, ‘Will you limit it to 100 pieces?’” said Pettet, describing the callers’ reference to the U.S. Senate’s 100 seats. “I said, ‘No, this is Illinois politics. We can oversell.’”
While this is the first “political satire” project Pettet has done professionally, the jeweler is no stranger to unique creations.
Displayed in the front of his small jewelry shop are a number of examples of his craftsmanship, ranging from earrings made from Chinese writing stone to jewelry made from Illinois River clams.
But nothing he’s done before will garner the attention he’s likely to receive from the Senate seat charms.
Last Friday, employee Charity Schierer took three orders for the charms to be done in silver. One call came from Canada. Another was from a radio station in St. Louis wanting more information.
Pettet anticipates plenty of the charms to be sold, but he predicts if Blagojevich is impeached by February, demand for them will slow.
Schierer disagrees.
“That’s probably when it will be most popular,” she said.
And what if U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald finds out Pettet is selling Senate seats?
“I could be in big trouble,” he said jokingly, adding that some of the proceeds could go to a local charity. “But I will be collecting sales tax on each one of these.”
I am really looking forward to sleeping in my own bed again tonight!
Although the temperature got up to 50Ftoday, there us still a thick layer of ice in the driveway. I was really hoping that more of it would have melted, because this evening it rained and it will not get above freezing point for then next few days, with snow being forecast for Wednesday morning.
Yuck :(
This morning the icy rain and sleet continued. The National Grid said it may be *several days* before power is restored, and the temperature is supposed to be around 11F tonight. Brrrrrrr!
Luckily, DD #1’s power was still on, so we packed up the cats, some clothes, toiletries and the perishable food, and headed over there. DD #2’s power is still on too, thank goodness, so she is OK. If the DDs' power goes off too, we will take up DS's offer and head a caravan to Waltham. That should be fun - and crowded too. Seven adults, five small children and ten cats, all under one roof! Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Having been in our new house only five weeks and now having to return to DD #1’s house, where we spent six months house hunting) seems a bit odd. Deja' vu all over again, as somebody famous once said. I don't know how we can ever repay her (and her dh ) for all their kindness.
You can see pics of the storm here:
http://www.timesunion.com/
and
http://tinyurl.com/5cb7jp
A hankie might come in useful too, to wipe the tears from your eyes.
In case you have not yet met him, Fluffy Ratbag is a British cat who lives with the Skinny Man and the Noisy Woman. He journals about life as seen from a feline point of view. You can read his blog here: http://fluffyratbag.livejournal.com
Here is a snip from his latest offering, Fluffy Ratbag’s Guide To Christmas
>Christmas
Is held in the middle of the winter unless you are an upside-down cat from the other side of the worl’ in which case everything is back to front and it is held on the beach. Wherever you are, Christmas is held to celebrate the birth of the baby cheeses a long time ago that were born in a manger whatever one of them is. It seems that there was no room at the Inn so the baby cheeses were born in a stable along with donkeys, sheep, an oxen, various random shepherds, some passin’ wise men and a lady called Mary-Anne Joseph. Which all sounds a bit bloody unsanitory if you ask me. Anyway, once all this lot had managed to cram themselves into said stable then the baby cheeses was born to Mary-Anne Joseph seemingly in full view of this lot gawpin’ away, honestly is there no privacy these days? At which point there was great rejoicin’ apparently and peas on earth.
From the above it seems that Christmas is thus a time for vegetarians and agoraphobic voyeurs with a cheddar fixation. Takes all sorts I s’pose. <
Enjoy!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf50
john-c-reilly-and-many-more-from-fod-tea
or
http://tinyurl.com/5qj7sz
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/740
How I Feed My Cats with Linux
Give your Linux box the power to control real-world events with an inexpensive microcontroller from Parallax, a Python program and some serial port magic.
Cat in hat makes $10 million for town
A cat boosts a small Japanese town's local economy by $10 million through increased tourism. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/2
Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library
www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-1and
'Heirloom crafts' were once survival skills
www.sj-r.com/homepage/x1261535421/HeirloHomeschooling Grows Up is the largest research survey to date of adults who were home educated. Over the last decade, researchers, professionals, parents, the media, and many others have asked repeatedly: How do homeschooled students turn out? Can a homeschool graduate get into college or get a job? How do they fit into society? Are they good citizens? Are they happy?
In 2003, HSLDA commissioned Dr. Brian D. Ray, president of the National Home Education Research Institute, to conduct a study to answer these questions. The results of his research demonstrate that homeschoolers are succeeding.http://www.hslda.org/research/ray2003/de
