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Base redevelopment group hears presentations

Members of the Ingleside Local Redevelopment Authority heard presentations from five companies and received a total of 10 proposals to do business with the group. The group didn't take action, opting to read through the proposals before making a decision.

Six companies -- Illinois-based Mid-West GIS, New York-based MRB Group, Corpus Christi-based Naismith Engineering, PB (no other identifying information available), Corpus Christi-based TexMaps and Pennsylvania-based Weston Solutions -- submitted proposals to conduct data collection and analysis of a geographic information system. Representatives from Naismith and Weston Solutions gave presentations on Wednesday at the Nueces County Courthouse.

Four companies -- Corpus Christi-based LNV Engineering, Victoria-based Maverick Engineering, Naismith Engineering and Corpus Christi-based HDR/Shiner Moseley -- submitted proposals to conduct a feasibility study for an Ingleside industrial highway corridor study. Representatives for LNV, Maverick and Naismith gave presentations.

Stella Herrmann, Ingleside mayor and chairwoman of the authority, said all companies were offered the chance to make presentations. The group will make its decisions on both contracts at its next meeting, tentatively set for Sept. 25.

At its next meeting, the group also will review its goals and objectives for the redevelopment of Naval Station Ingleside's Electromagnetic Roll Facility. The facility, which demagnetizes minesweepers upon their return to base, along with the base are scheduled for closure by Sept. 30, 2010, as a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure round.

The authority is charged with redeveloping the 155 surplus acres that comprise the Electromagnetic Roll Facility. The remaining base property, about 912 acres, reverts to the Port of Corpus Christi when the Navy leaves. The port is pursuing redevelopment of that property separately from the Ingleside group's effort.

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Common Name: Bougainvillea, Paper Flower
Botanical Name: Bougainvillea glabra (bo-gan-VIL-ee-a GLA-bra)
Decorative Life: Generally only looks good under many commonly encountered interior conditions for 1 to 2 weeks.
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Harvest Instructions: Removal of some new and expanding leaves can increase flowering.
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  • A member of the Nyctaginaceae (four-o'clock family).
  • Native of Brazil.
  • The only somewhat common relatives are four-o'clock and sand-verbena.
  • Plant is classed as a dicotyledon, leaves not parallel veined.
  • Flowers are inconspicuous, each one surrounded by three colorful rounded bracts. Hence, it is grown for the beauty of the bracts.
  • Stems climbing, woody, sometimes spiny.
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Flower Color: Pink, red and some white.
  • Most commonly grown as vines. 'Sanderiana' is one cultivar suitable for potted plants.
  • The specific epithet name "glabra" means smooth, no hair. The genus was named after de Bougainville, 1729-1811, French navigator. Originally spelled Buginvillea.
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Open: Seasonal
Number of Sites: 295

About: Strawberry Bay Campground is located adjacent to beautiful Strawberry Reservoir at an elevation of 7,200 feet, and is set among rolling hills of sagebrush and grasses. Small pine trees dot the campground and provide minimal shade.

The campground has plentiful beach/shoreline access, and popular activities in the immediate area include boating, canoeing, water skiing, hiking, biking, horseback riding, and fishing for Rainbow trout, Cutthroat trout, and Kokanee salmon. Strawberry Marina is within 1/4 mile and offers a boat ramp, power and pontoon boat rentals, slip rentals, fuel, and small general store with fishing supplies.

Nearby, 75 miles of trails run through the Strawberry OHV Trail System, and numerous, extensive mountain biking trails are in the area. Strawberry Visitor Center has interpretive displays, a working fish trap and egg collection station, and a nature trail.

Fees: Single sites - $17.00 (2011)

Water: Yes

Restrooms: Flush Toilet

Restrictions: No ATVs or OHVs in campground. Pets must be leashed. Quiet hours are from 10PM to 6AM. No discharge of firearms or fireworks.

Directions: From Heber City, Utah, take Highway 40 east for 28 miles to Strawberry Bay junction, 6 miles to campground. Located adjacent to Strawberry Reservoir.

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Pakistani sheep cull 'disgusting': Ludwig

Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig says he was appalled by the recent brutal slaughter of 21,000 Australian sheep by Pakistani authorities but says he is satisfied that all due diligence has been done for an upcoming export of live cows.

The minister was commenting on a report by the ABC's Four Corners on Monday, which probed the circumstances surrounding the inhumane culls in September and October.

Officials from the Sindh provincial government claimed the slaughter - which saw some sheep buried alive - was necessary due to health concerns, but these claims were vehemently rejected by Australia's live export industry and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF).

Exporter Elders is now preparing to send a shipment of nearly 3000 breeder cows, 2000 of which were destined for Pakistan, where they would be under the supervision of the same government department that carried out the cull.

Senator Ludwig says he is satisfied that the department has done all of the due diligence for the export of the cows.

"Breeder cattle are are quite expensive animals to begin with," he told ABC Television on Monday.

"They are also likely to end up within local herds and well looked after - they have a long productive life."

He said he was disgusted by the scenes of the sheep being slaughtered in Pakistan.

"It was certainly appalling," the minister said.

"No one would have expected that - it was unprecedented.

But he stood by his department's handling of the case, saying the animals were not rejected on the basis of any health problems.

"The High Commissioner in Pakistan, myself, the department, everyone including the exporter and the importer did everything they could to ensure the animal welfare of those sheep," Senator Ludwig said.

"Ultimately, it didn't succeed (and) we had an appalling circumstance."

The department says it is investigating the case for any possible breaches of the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System.

"We do not know the reasoning behind the Pakistan authority's decision to cull the sheep in Pakistan or their choice of the method used," DAFF said in a statement.

"We continue to hold that both the decision and the method used were unnecessary."

RSPCA Australia chief executive Heather Neil said the ABC report showed the live export trade wasn't worth the risk.

"No matter how much industry or government involvement there is, the live export of animals for slaughter presents an unacceptable level of risk for the animals and is inherently cruel," Ms Neil said.

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Breast MRI Cost-Effective in Certain High-Risk Pts

ABSTRACT: Acceptance of expensive new technologies often rests on their proven cost-effectiveness within specific clinical scenarios. A recent article (Plevritis et al: Cost-effectiveness of screening BRCA1/2 mutation carriers with breast MRI. JAMA 295:2374-2384, 2006) suggested that adding breast MRI screening may be cost-effective for women of certain ages who carry BRCA1/2 gene mutations. To shed light on this subject, Cancer Care & Economics (CC&E) spoke with noted breast imaging expert Elsie Levin, MD, medical director of the Faulkner-Sagoff Breast Imaging and Diagnostic Centre in Boston.

CC&E: What is the patient flow at Faulkner-Sagoff?

DR. LEVIN: We see about 150 patients a day for screening and diagnostic mammography, breast ultrasound, and interventional procedures. We also perform about 15 breast MRIs per day.

CC&E: A study recently published in JAMA examining cost-effectiveness of MRI in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers concluded that breast MRI screening is more cost-effective for BRCA1 than BRCA2 mutation carriers. Further, the study found that the cost-effectiveness of adding MRI to mammography is age sensitive. What does this mean in the context of clinical breast screening?

DR. LEVIN: Women who have any predisposing factors such as BRCA1/2 mutations need to be screened and counseled with extra sensitivity. As the study suggested, in BRCA1 carriers, where the lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is so high and the types of cancers tend to be very fast-growing, breast MRI, even with all the additional testing involved, is a cost-effective constituent in the management of these women. However, in the general population where the incidence of breast cancer is so much lower than it is in gene mutation carriers, we really cannot justify the cost of employing breast MRI as a standard screening tool. Screening mammography remains the gold standard in breast health management for the overall population.

CC&E: Are the increased false-positive findings associated with breast MRI a deterrent for its acceptance?

DR. LEVIN: Everybody talks about the false positives associated with breast MRI, but there are false positives with mammography and ultrasound as well. The first breast MRI is just like the baseline mammogram; you need to do additional testing because you don't have an imaging history. The first MRI may detect benign findings, but once you categorize them as benigneither with ultrasound-guided biopsy or follow-upduring the next round of screening, you're not going to work-up the same abnormalities. There's no costly redundancy. For example, in our practice at least 80% of the abnormal findings on MRI can be seen with either ultrasound or mammography. An ultrasound-guided core biopsy is a 5-minute procedure that's relatively low cost. In short, as we learn more about breast MRI, the specificity ratio will improve, reducing the number of false positives and the costs associated with the subsequent follow-up procedures.

CC&E: Is breast density a variable in MRI efficacy as it is in mammography?

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More Support for Adjuvant Carboplatin for Stage I Seminoma

More Support for Adjuvant Carboplatin for Stage I Seminoma

CHICAGO—A single 2-hour infusion of carboplatin appears to be an alternative to a course of radiation therapy for preventing relapse in patients with stage I seminoma after orchiectomy, according to mature results of an international trial reported at ASCO 2008 (plenary, abstract 1).

R. Timothy Oliver, MD, of St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Hospital, presented updated results of the MRC TE19/EORTC 30982 trial, the largest trial in testicular cancer to date.

The noninferiority trial randomized patients with stage I seminoma who had undergone orchiectomy to carboplatin (AUC 7) or radiation therapy (with a subrandomization to 20 or 30 Gy). Initial results, obtained after a median follow-up of 4 years, have been previously reported (Lancet 366:293-300, 2005).

“It is extraordinary that with so little treatment, we are able to reduce by 75% to 80% the expected relapse rate.”

                         — Dr. R. Timothy Oliver

Analyses were based on 573 men in the carboplatin group and 904 in the radiation group. With an updated median follow-up of 6.5 years, the 5-year rate of relapse, the trial’s primary endpoint, did not differ significantly between the carboplatin arm and the radiation therapy arm (5.3% vs 4.0%), Dr. Oliver said at an ASCO press briefing.

n fact, he noted, the relapse rate in the carboplatin arm was reduced to 4% when analyses were restricted to patients who received the full dose of chemotherapy.

An Unexpected Finding

An unexpected finding, according to Dr. Oliver, was a significantly lower rate of germ cell tumors in the contralateral testis with carboplatin (0.3% vs 1.7%, HR 0.22, P = .03), raising the possibility of a more conservative approach at the time of surgery.

“Clearly, until this time, no one had really given any thought to whether or not we should try to do lumpectomies and testis conservation for men with testis cancer,” he commented.

The carboplatin and radiation groups had similarly low rates of death from seminoma (0% and 0.1%). In addition, carboplatin had an acceptable safety profile and a lower rate of acute toxicity.

“We have fairly solidly confirmed our primary endpoint, which is that carboplatin is an alternative, an equivalent management strategy for these patients,” Dr. Oliver concluded. “It is extraordinary that with so little treatment, we are able to reduce by 75% to 80% the expected relapse rate of such patients.”

He acknowledged that unequivocal evidence of the comparable safety and efficacy of these adjuvant therapies will require follow-up of at least 20 years.

A Reasonable Third Option

“From the results of this study, it seems like carboplatin is a possible reasonable third option [to radiation therapy and surveillance],” said discussant George J. Bosl, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. “I would not say, however, that it is the standard of care.”

Given the confidence intervals for relapse-free survival, the trial has technically not met its noninferiority endpoint, he noted. Moreover, noninferiority is not the same as equivalence, and “certainly, equivalence has not been demonstrated.”

Ideally, management of clinical stage I seminoma would be risk-based, Dr. Bosl continued, and to that end, identification and prospective validation of more prognostic factors are priorities for future research.

In the meantime, patients should be counseled so that they can make informed decisions. “We explain to the patient that each choice has known and unknown risks,” he concluded. “To achieve the best outcome, the patient needs to understand his options and risk profile.”

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The Lampe Berger Dance In The City lamp is of a famous painting by Renior. In 1882 Renoir used models for his life-sized series with couples, who are in different social dancing situations. This lamp measures 12.5 cm in height and is is made of porcelain. Lampe Berger is an amazing product for removing odors and killing airborne bacteria while fragrancing the air. Be sure to look at all of the beautiful Lampe Berger fragrance oils to choose from.To use your Lampe Berger lamp, follow these easy steps:
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Community Involvement

Canterbury Park's corporate giving is not limited to financial contributions. Rather, the energy and spirit of our employees fuel our giving program. From Toy Drives and Highway Cleanups, to a variety of volunteer projects throughout the community, Canterbury Park employees donate their time and talent to the community both on and off the clock. In addition to participating in volunteer opportunities, employees also choose to support many area non-profits through our monthly Jeans Day for Charity, and over the last two years, employees got involved in supporting the global charity, Movember.

Feed My Starving Children
Canterbury Park employees volunteered with this non-profit organization to hand-pack meals specifically formulated for malnourished children, and these meals are shipped to over 70 countries around the world. In 1 ½ hours, the team of volunteers that Canterbury Park employees were a part of packed enough food for 9,504 meals which could feed 26 kids for an entire year!
Loaves & Fishes
Canterbury Park volunteers teamed up with the non-profit, volunteer driven agency, Loaves & Fishes to prepare and serve a meal to people in the Shakopee community. This non-profit’s mission is to provide nutritious meals to those who are hungry in the Twin Cities metro area in an atmosphere of hospitality at site locations where the need is greatest, and the employees who volunteered did just that.

Kids Vote
For over ten years, Canterbury Park has been involved with Kids Vote. Employees involved volunteer at an assigned precinct location to guide students in grades K-12 through the real-life voting process. It allows students to go to adult polling sites with their parent or guardian on Election Day and vote on the same candidates as adults.

Additional Community Involvement

Hope for the Holidays
Over the holiday season, Canterbury Park teams up with the Cap Agency in Shakopee to benefit families in the Scott & Carver County areas. Employees are invited participate in Hope for the Holidays by donating toys/presents for our Giving Tree along with new hats, scarves & mittens for youth and adults. All of these items are distributed to the Cap Agency so qualified families in need are able to benefit from the program over the holiday season.
Food Drives, Blood Drives, School Supply Drives
Over the years, Canterbury Park has held multiple “drives” allowing employees to give back to the community. In our food drives, employees get involved by donating non-perishable food items that are then distributed throughout the community to certain organizations. Thousands of pounds of food have been donated as a result of employees choosing to donate. For the School Supply Drive, we partner with the CAP Agency to get supplies donated for their annual Backpack Distribution in which they distribute backpacks and supplies to local students in grades K-12. Employees can also take part in an annual Blood Drive which is located on-site making it easier for employee to participate throughout the work day.
Jeans Day for Charity
Each month, Canterbury Park participates in a Jeans Day for Charity through Southwest Newspapers in Shakopee to help raise funds for local non-profits. Each month a different area non-profit is selected, and on the Jeans Day, employees who wear jeans donate money to go to that local charity.
In 2014, Canterbury Park began taking part in Movember to help raise awareness and funds for men’s health. A number of employees participated in a Moustache Competition while many others supported the cause through joining the employee Movember team and raising funds.
Highway Cleanup
For 13 years, Canterbury Park was involved in the semi-annual highway cleanup through Scott County. From 2001 – 2013, every fall and spring employees volunteered to help clean the portion of the highway that Canterbury Park was responsible for.


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Far too often in today's political arena politicians make promises but, at the drop of a hat, do what is convenient and expedient at the time. I made a promise before I was elected not to raise taxes on the residents, the taxpayers, the voters of Cape Coral. For almost four years I have kept my promise and I will not let you down now.

Some of our council members would rather raise taxes than tighten our belt, just like our residents have had to do over the past four years. They are telling us "The Sky is Falling", without additional taxes our city will fall into disrepair, that services will have to be cut. The problem is, all of this talk, is nothing more than scare tactics. Politicians use the politics of fear to justify continued spending, which keeps them from making the touch choices that will keep our city running while protecting our taxpayers.

When you elected me mayor nearly four years ago I knew that our taxpayers deserved a government that was affordable. I knew that our city, recovering from the worst economic downturn for our community must tighten its belt, like our families did. Now as our community has begun to recover, there is a faction on our city council that would have our residents and taxpayers believe that we must now bear the burden of new taxes so our government does not have to go without. I say "No".

We have had many opportunities over the past several years to tighten our belt. This council spent $250,000, on an armored personnel carrier instead of buying six cruisers for our police. This Council spent $13,200,000 on 652 acres of land that has no use.

Prior councils spent $15,000,000 on unused equipment purchased for a bio solids plant that has never materialized, and $8,000,000 on The Water First Project to the North Cape that will probably never materialize.

We cannot squander our taxpayer dollars and then come back and ask them for more because our city council cannot learn to decide between our residents NEEDS and our governments WANTS.

Unlike some of our local politicians I will hold the line against new taxes that are an unfair burden to our taxpayers. I have heard from our community, in my office and across the Cape, you do not want any new taxes . I will keep my promise and continue to fight for you.

John J. Sullivan

Mayor of Cape Coral,

running for re election

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Breast Cancer Awareness
  • Salt boosts flavor when used right

  • You don't hear this often but that pinch you are using when the recipe says "salt to taste" may not be enough.
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  • The next time you're looking to stir things up, ask food-savvy friends what happens when they are directed to “season with salt to taste.”
    Seemingly noncontroversial, the topic is as loaded as a baked potato at a steakhouse chain. Everybody's got an opinion. Recipe writers see the phrase as a nod to individual preference, while that very lack of specificity is viewed by others as a scourge on modern, everyday cookery.
    One thing it isn't, scourge or no, is a recent development. In the mid-18th century, English cooks making gravy were told to “season it to your Taste with Salt” by Hannah Glasse's “The Art of Cooking, Made Plain and Easy.” Go back in the time machine, via Larousse Gastronomique, and you'll learn that the Greek poet Homer described nations as poor “when they did not mix salt with their food.”
    One thing culinary professionals can agree on is that home cooks of this era don't have the touch for efficient salting. Chalk it up to the salt bombs inherent in so much processed food or to health studies that have scared the salt cellars off our dinner tables, but we all need help – especially those who must monitor their intake. If salt is to be limited, better learn the best ways to maximize its impact. But don't go without it.
    Why? Shake any serious treatise or article on salt, and something along these lines will fall out: Humans need the stuff to live. It's a fundamental taste sensation. In “What Einstein Told His Cook,” chemistry professor Robert L. Wolke calls sodium chloride – salt, at his house – our most precious food, the only natural rock intentionally consumed by our species. And it has “the magic ability,” he writes, “to enhance other flavors.”
    Salt entrepreneur Mark Bitterman crystallized a takeaway message in 2011 when he wrote in the Guardian that “the simple act of salting food is so ancient, varied and essential that we have been lulled into believing we know how to do it, but most often, we don't.”
    Case in point: the handsome 2009 cookbook “Salt to Taste.” A good place to get granular, you might think. Author-chef Marco Canora of Hearth restaurant in New York invokes the title phrase even in basic pasta recipes. He encourages cooks to follow their senses. But we're not going to be sampling raw dough. Give us a starting point, as exasperated food-writing coach Dianne Jacob says.
    Many cookbook authors do just that, in their introductory chapters, by explaining what their “pinch” of salt entails or describing how to establish a salt baseline. (For ways to salt efficiently at home, see the accompanying sidebar.) The problem is, such reading material is seldom reviewed every subsequent time the page is turned to a new recipe.
    Some practitioners who used to sling “salt to taste” have seen the light.
    “I didn't use to specify amounts or types of salt in my savory recipes,” says beloved cookbook author and master baker Dorie Greenspan. “I always did for my sweets. But my thinking has changed, in part because I find many cooks are too timid with salt. The old pinch of salt is always too little and often the 'to taste' is, as well.”
    The actual taste of salt is not what's in play here, nor is catering to the hand that showers salt crystals on french fries. It's getting back to a place where we come to realize how much salt – or how little – it takes to elevate the foods we cook at home. Proper seasoning with salt takes practice; the addition of a few grains while ingredient flavors blend in a pot can make a huge difference.
    “Salt to taste” is what you might say when you're trying to dodge the issue, according to Sara Moulton, host of public television's “Sara's Weeknight Meals.” She has been teaching people how to cook since the 1980s and says questions about salt come up in every class and in every cooking demonstration. The Gourmet magazine alum is upfront enough to admit that some salting advice she has dispensed should be taken with a grain of, well, regret.
    “I told people during my live show that kosher salt has no additives,” Moulton says. “That's not always the case. I said boiled rice and pasta and potatoes could correct oversalted soup. ... Then I experimented with chicken broth and found out how wrong that was.” (Diluting with water is her preferred method now.)
    Because her focus is on how home cooks can get the most flavor out of the food they make, Moulton emphasizes seasoning as you go and tasting often, common practices among culinary professionals. “Vegetables or meat, I don't season differently,” she says. She goes for a light sprinkling, not always for every ingredient added to the pot.
    “It is something that people at home are afraid of,” says Serious Eats managing editor J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. “You can add salt but not take it away. But the flavor you get from the salt shaker at the table is not the same as the flavor you get from salting as you cook.”
    Lopez-Alt, who will publish in the fall a two-volume, technique-based guide aimed at home cooks, marvels at salt for what it does to food physically, such as breaking down muscle proteins in meats and charcuterie, and for the way it helps food taste more like whatever that food is. When he hears talk of substituting, say, lemon juice, for the sake of reducing the quantity of salt in a recipe, he's not convinced.
    “Acid doesn't behave the same way,” Lopez-Alt says. “Increasing one variable doesn't compensate for not having enough of the other.”
    Still, between accounting for the hidden, naturally occurring salt we consume in foods daily – in business lunches downtown, say, and the occasional nacho chip binge – getting stingy with added sodium in your home kitchen has become a default of its own. “I've trained myself not to add salt,” and “I'm not using as much salt as I used to” are familiar cooking-class comments that make instructors secretly wince. Once we really learn how to season with salt, our efforts in the kitchen will be all the better for it.
    “People should reduce their salt a little,” says Paul Breslin, a Rutgers University professor of nutritional sciences often consulted as a guru of taste (receptors, not trends). “But when they use salt at home, it's possible they will punish themselves by withholding salt from their diets. Not necessary.” The amount of salt from a shaker is trivial compared with what can be ingested from processed/prepared foods, he says.
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agree, citing that more than 40 percent of Americans' sodium intake comes from a mere 10 foods we buy or order at restaurants: bread; cold cuts/cured meats; pizza; fresh and processed poultry; soups; sandwiches; cheese; pasta dishes; meat-mixed dishes such as meatloaf with tomato sauce; and the snack trinity of pretzels, chips and popcorn.
    Breslin is in the salt-food-at-the-end camp, interestingly. Studies show that people tend to use less salt when they apply it at the table, he says. The much-ballyhooed trick of tenderizing a steak – basically a reverse osmosis that involves salting meat, then aging it in cold storage so the moisture is pulled out and then reabsorbed with salty goodness – can be achieved without any salt at all. Remember that the proteins in a piece of unwrapped piece of meat in the refrigerator can be broken down simply by dry aging, he says.
    Still, humans just plain crave salt, don't they? There is no clear evidence of that, Breslin says – at least they don't crave it as fervently as salt-lick-seeking animals do. The slightly addictive properties of the late Judy Rodgers' Zuni Cafe cuisine could qualify as Exhibit A that we hunger for the proper use of salt, at least. The San Francisco chef was an early adopter of pre-salting meaty proteins as well as vegetables – to glorious effect. Thousands of chickens were roasted a la Rodgers, salted a day in advance, in honor of her passing in December.
    Which raises the issue of salting that goes on in restaurants. Thanks to open kitchens and endless cutthroat competitions on TV, we can watch chefs regularly toss in enough salt to handle an icy porch. More is more! Salt equals flavor!
    Some attribute the heavy hand to chefs' palate fatigue. West Coast cooking teacher Linda Carucci has an additional theory, which came to her on a second visit to a restaurant where she had enjoyed a good-tasting meal. On this occasion, however, just about everything she tasted was too salty. As she was leaving, she saw chefs on a cigarette break in the alley.
    “I thought, 'Smoking dulls the palate. How many chefs do I know who smoke?'”
    We asked the pros for techniques to help home cooks season with salt more efficiently. Warning: You won't find total consensus, but the experts we spoke with do agree that proper use of salt results in food that tastes more like itself, not food that tastes salty.
    From Serious Eats managing editor J. Kenji Lopez-Alt:
    n Get a salt cellar and fill it with coarse kosher salt. (His go-to is Diamond Crystal kosher salt.) Keep it where you cook. Practice pinches, the feel of how many grains you need.
    n To salt a steak in advance, sprinkle on just enough to resemble a light dusting of snow, akin to a flurry's effect on an empty parking lot.
    From Rutgers University nutrition professor Paul Breslin:
    n We can best taste sodium (ions) when dissolved in water.
    n A fine salt will yield greater salty flavor on your tongue than larger salt crystals. Test that by placing a half-teaspoon of coarse kosher salt on your tongue, then spit it out. Repeat using the same volume of fine-grained salt. You'll feel the large crystals, but they won't register as salty as the fine salt.
    From cookbook author Dorie Greenspan:
    n Before you can learn to season with salt, it's good to taste and see whether you have preferences. Taste as many salts as you can, either by sprinkling the salt over a piece of bread spread with unsalted butter or over slices of raw cucumber, carrot or celery.
    n Taste, taste, taste, and remember to season early and often as you cook. The salt you add during cooking has a different (deeper, more penetrating) effect from the salt you add to finish a dish. Every ingredient that goes into a dish should be seasoned; think of it as layering. And you should taste, if not at every stage, then toward the end for sure.
    n Remember to use salt in baking. Just like savories, sweets need to be “seasoned.” Without it, you're not getting all the flavor that's possible from ingredients such as butter, brown sugar, caramel and chocolate, among others.
    From cooking-show host Sara Moulton:
    n When salting as you go, sprinkle lightly.
    From chemistry professor emeritus Robert L. Wolke:
    n Bake with unsalted butter; four ounces (one stick) of salted butter can contain up to 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
    n Bake with kosher salt or sea salt instead of iodized table salt; the ions in some potassium iodide (in table salt) can be oxidized to form iodine, and that can create an acrid flavor.
    From Washington Post Food editor Joe Yonan:
    n Make your favorite soup recipe, with two changes: Don't add any salt at all, divide the soup into two halves, and keep both warm.
    n Put 1 teaspoon of kosher or coarse sea salt into a little dish. Add salt to half of the soup a pinch at a time, tasting as you go, and pay attention to how the flavors develop, clarifying and brightening.
    n Keep adding until you get to the point where you think the soup tastes too salty - that is, you taste more salt than the soup's main ingredients.
    n Now look to see how much salt you have left; measure it if you like, and subtract that from 1 teaspoon.
    n Try the exercise again with the second half of the soup, this time with the goal of stopping just short of that too-salty flavor. Make the measurement calculation again, if you like, and take note: That is about how much salt you like in a recipe of this size, and that is the proportion you should be going for when you're cooking. (If you'd rather not measure, that's fine too; it's better to get to the point where salting becomes intuitive.)
    – The Washington Post
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California pumpkin growers gearing up for Halloween

Tim Hearden

Capital Press

The pumpkins harvest in California is entering its peak. Growers say this month's mild temperatures are helping crop development as well as attendance to the public attractions that are offered at many farms.

ANDERSON, Calif. — If the leaves are starting to turn, that means pumpkin patches around California are burgeoning with orange orbs that are ripe for picking.

The pumpkin harvest in the Golden State is entering its peak, and growers say the mild temperatures that have lingered this month have helped both crop development and attendance at their public events.

“You can’t ask for better weather than this,” said Wayne Bishop, co-owner of Bishop’s Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland, Calif. “We had rain on our opening day, but that’s not all bad because it’s the trigger people need to think about fall. Normally, it’s not unusual to have 100-degree highs even now.”

California’s 5,900 acres of pumpkins yielded about 14.5 tons per acre in 2011, bringing an average gross value per acre of $3,393, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Pumpkins are grown in most counties in California, though about 70 percent of them are in San Joaquin County, University of California Cooperative Extension advisors explain. Most are planted in May or June for the Halloween season, according to a UC essay on pumpkin production.

Farmers say the quality of this year’s crop looks very good and will stay that way if the rain holds off until November, the California Farm Bureau Federation reports. Most of the pumpkins grown in California are sold within the state, according to the Farm Bureau.

Over the last decade, many pumpkin farms in California have developed into booming tourist attractions. Now in its ninth year of providing entertainment, Hawes Farms here offers a corn maze, train and hay rides and other attractions. The farm is visited by thousands of schoolchildren on field trips each autumn, co-owner Greg Hawes said.

“It looks good,” Hawes said of this year’s crop. “We just started … (but) it looks nice.”

Manteca, Calif.-based pumpkin shipper George Perry and Sons, Inc., moves much of its product in the three weeks leading up to Halloween, co-owner Art Perry said. The business provides pumpkins to supermarkets and other retailers.

“I don’t think we’re going to have an excess, but I think we’re going to have enough for the customers we take care of,” Perry said.

“It’s been a good growing year,” he said. “This is almost perfect weather because it’s not too hot. Sometimes we can get heat waves … that can hurt us because it’s too hot. Right now it’s very mild and dry and the forecast looks good.”

Hawes Farms: http://historichawesfarms.com/

Bishop’s Pumpkin Farm: http://www.bishopspumpkinfarm.com/

Perry and Sons, Inc.: http:/perryandsons.com/

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University sells own cheese

WSU expert recruited to help start program at Oregon State

Capital Press

Watch out, Cougar Gold, there is a new cheese on the block.

Beaver Classic, made, marketed and sold by Oregon State University students, is now for sale and ready to go head-to-head with Washington State University's prize winning Cougar Gold.

Lisbeth Goddik, OSU dairy food extension specialist and food science professor, said the two cheeses have distinct differences.

Cougar Gold is a white cheddar cheese, while Beaver Classic is made in the Alpine style, featuring subtle, nutty flavors.

"It's a cheese that is not produced in Oregon today," Goddik said. "We didn't want to produce something that was already out there.

"And we didn't want to make a mainstream cheddar cheese," she said. "We'll leave that to the bigger companies. This is an artisan scale and artisan type of cheese."

To date, OSU students have sold just a little over 1,000 pounds of Beaver Classic. Most of the 200 pounds a week the students produce are in storage, where it will stay for a minimum of six months.

The OSU food science program convinced long-time WSU cheese-making supervisor, Marc Bates, to come out of retirement and help get the OSU cheese off the ground.

Bates supervised the making of Cougar Gold for nearly 30 years.

"We convinced him to help us get started out right to make sure everything is done correctly and safely," she said.

Beaver Classic is available online, where it sells in wedges for $10. The cheese also sells for $25 a pound. The program is self-supporting, Goddik said.

"It is a perfect gift for OSU alumni," Goddik said.

The cheese also is available Fridays at the Department of Food Science and Technology, in Room 108 of Wiegand Hall from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

OSU Beaver Classic Cheese: oregonstate.edu/main/cheese

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New fighting breaks out

A large fight between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas broke out
Thursday evening on the Lebanese side of the border, the Israeli army said,
adding that its troops suffered casualties but did not elaborate. Hezbollah’s
Al-Manar television said three Israeli soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in

The forces crossed the border as part of ongoing operations to push back
Hezbollah guerrillas who have continued firing rockets into northern Israel
despite more than a week of massive bombardment.

Israel, meanwhile, hinted at a full-scale invasion. It warned residents to
flee a nearly 20-mile swath of south Lebanon along the border. Its warplanes
also launched new airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah
stronghold, shortly after daybreak, followed by strikes in the guerrillas’
heartland in the south and eastern Bekaa Valley.

The planes also bombed large parts of the south, from which Hezbollah
guerrillas fired more rockets into Israel. On Wednesday, Israeli bombings killed
as many as 70 people, according to Lebanese television, making it the deadliest
day since the fighting began July 12.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Security Council that “hostilities
must stop” between Israel and Hezbollah. He also condemned Israel’s “excessive
use of force” in Lebanon.

“There are serious obstacles to reaching a cease-fire or even to diminishing
the violence quickly,” Annan said.

The fighting had triggered a humanitarian crisis, he added. The U.N.
estimated that about a half-million have been displaced in Lebanon, with 130,000
fleeing to Syria and about 45,000 believed to be in need of assistance.

Russia sharply criticized Israel’s onslaught, now in its ninth day, sparked
when Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers. Moscow said Israel’s
actions have gone “far beyond the boundaries of an anti-terrorist

At least 306 people have been killed in Lebanon since Israel’s campaign
began, according to Lebanese officials. At least 29 Israelis have been killed,
including 14 soldiers.

About 40 U.S. Marines landed in Beirut to help Americans onto the USS
Nashville, which will carry 1,200 evacuees bound for Cyprus in the second mass
U.S. exodus from Lebanon. It was the first U.S. military deployment in Lebanon
in 22 years.

Thousands of Europeans also fled on ships — continuing one of the largest
evacuation operations since World War II. An estimated 13,000 foreign nationals
have been evacuated.

More than 600 relatives of U.N. peacekeepers and other foreigners were
evacuated by ship from the southern port of Tyre, a region that has been pounded
for days by Israeli warplanes and gunboats.

Hezbollah guerrillas fired 25 rockets into Israel on Thursday. Although they
caused no casualties, the continued rocket barrage raised the question of
whether Israeli air power alone can suppress them.

The guerrillas have been fighting back hard on the ground, wounding three
Israeli soldiers. An Israeli unit sent in to ambush Hezbollah guerrillas also
had a fierce gunbattle with a cell of militants.

In another clash, just across the border from the Israeli town of Avivim,
guerrillas fired a missile at an Israeli tank, seriously wounding a soldier.
Hezbollah said its guerrillas destroyed two tanks trying to enter the Lebanese
border village of Maroun al-Ras, across from Avivim.

Israel has mainly limited itself to attacks from the air and sea, reluctant
to send in ground troops on terrain dominated by Hezbollah.

But an Israeli army spokesman refused to rule out the possibility of a
full-scale invasion. Israel broadcast warnings Wednesday into south Lebanon,
telling civilians to leave — a possible prelude to a larger ground

In the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been fighting for three weeks after one
of its soldiers was captured, Israeli forces killed three people and wounded six
Thursday. Nine people — eight of them militants — were killed a day earlier.

Leaflets dropped Wednesday night warned that any trucks traveling in Lebanese
towns south of the Litani River would be suspected of carrying weapons and
rockets and could be targeted by Israeli forces.

A Hezbollah official said it was “fully ready” for an Israeli ground
offensive, dismissing Israeli claims to have destroyed half the guerrillas’
arsenal of missiles. Mahmoud Koumati, deputy leader of Hezbollah’s political
bureau, told the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. the group has enough missiles to
fight Israel for “long months.”

The Lebanese government is under international pressure to deploy troops in
the south to rein in Hezbollah — but even before the fighting, many considered
it too weak to do so without deeply fracturing the country.

On Wednesday, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora appealed for a cease-fire,
saying Lebanon “has been torn to shreds.”

Dallal said Israel had hit “1,000 targets in the last eight days — 20 percent
were missile-launching sites and the rest were control and command centers,
missiles and so forth.”

Brig. Gen. Ido Nehushtan insisted the Israeli army never targets civilians
but has no way of knowing if they are in an area it is striking. “Civilians
might be in the area because Hezbollah is operating from civilian territory,” he

He said that Hezbollah has fired more than 1,100 rockets at civilian areas in
Israel since the fighting began and that 12 percent — or about 750,000 people —
of Israel’s population lives in areas that can be targeted by the guerrillas.

The Israeli military said aircraft dropped 23 tons of explosives on what it
believed was a bunker for senior Hezbollah leaders in the Bourj al-Barajneh
neighborhood of Beirut between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Hezbollah said none of its members was hurt and denied a leadership bunker
was in the area, saying a mosque under construction was hit. It has a
headquarters compound in Bourj al-Barajneh that is off limits to Lebanese police
and army, so security officials could not confirm the strike.

Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman told CNN his country would not comment
about the attack until it is sure of all the facts. But he added, “I can assure
you that we know exactly what we hit. … This was no religious site. This was
indeed the headquarters of the Hezbollah leadership.”

On Thursday, Israeli jets struck houses believed used by Hezbollah officials
in the town of Hermel in the western Bekaa Valley, wounding at least three.

Israeli warplanes also destroyed a five-story residential and commercial
building that reportedly once held a Hezbollah office in the Bekaa Valley city
of Baalbek, a Hezbollah stronghold, witnesses said. There was no immediate word
on casualties.

Two civilians were killed late Wednesday in strikes on bridges in Lebanon’s
far north, near Tripoli, the National News Agency said.

Israeli jets also raided a detention center in the southern town of Khiam
Thursday, witnesses and local TV said. The notorious Khiam prison, formerly run
by Israel’s Lebanese militia allies during its occupation, was destroyed, they

International pressure mounted on Israel and the United States to agree to a

The destruction and rising death toll deepened a rift between the U.S. and
Europe. The Bush administration is giving Israel a tacit green light to take the
time it needs to neutralize Hezbollah, but the Europeans fear mounting civilian
casualties will play into the hands of militants and weaken Lebanon’s
democratically elected government.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour criticized the rising
toll, saying the shelling was invariably killing innocent civilians.

“International law demands accountability,” she said in Geneva. “The scale of
the killings in the region, and their predictability, could engage the personal
criminal responsibility of those involved, particularly those in a position of
command and control.”

Associated Press reporters Joe Panossian in Beirut and Maria Sanminiatelli in
Larnaca, Cyprus, contributed to this report.

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What will George do after 2008?

I have always wondered what President Bush will do after he finishes his second term, assuming that he consents to go. He could be a professional brush clearer, a producer of exercise-bike videos or a private elocution teacher for would-be politicians who need to mangle their sentences in order to achieve the common touch.

Perhaps he will be dean of the Alberto Gonzales School of Law in Texas. (Motto: “What’s a Constitution Between Friends?”) Yes, the possibilities are endless for one so talented. As for endorsements, I understand that a company wishing to build a new Titanic is clamoring for his support.

While I know that Bush will be the decider of his future fortune, it seems pretty clear to me that he will become a history professor, perhaps at one of the nation’s military colleges.

The president is renowned for constantly making speeches to those in uniform. Indeed, many of us are surprised that he hasn’t mistakenly given a speech to a convention of ice-cream vendors or even a gathering of clowns. (Wait! That was his State of the Union address.)

Bush’s fondness for uniforms has never been properly explained, but I refuse to believe that Bush prefers the troops because the common taxpayers have a habit of asking pesky questions. Perish the thought!

No, it’s because he is a “war president” and the whole country has been mobilized and even the rich have agreed to tax increases as part of the shared national sacrifice because civilization itself is at stake!

(Editor’s note: The preceding paragraph was sponsored by the American Society to Eradicate Hypocrisy, which touchingly supposes that conservative readers will be moved to think by the force of irony.)

Last week, he spoke before the Veterans of Foreign Wars at their convention in Kansas City, Mo. It was the next-best thing to speaking to current veterans — or, as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld might have said, if you are the war president, you go with the audience you’ve got.

Bush was in rousing form. He gave a history lesson to those boys and gals in the VFW caps like they have never heard it before. This was probably a bit of a surprise to some in the audience because they had made the history he was explaining and surely knew better. Nevertheless, they cheered him to the rafters.

It just goes to show what happens when an audience that perhaps has had one or two beers in the VFW hall over the years meets a president who sat too long on the bar stool during the war of his generation.

Now that we are all sober, just a few million brain cells short of a load, who can remember how history went down? Cambodia? Vietnam? Hard to keep ’em straight.

Bush’s history lesson may have owed little to scholars such as Arnold J. Toynbee or Edward Gibbon, but with that going for it, this was just the sort of thing that our young people should hear today.

For one thing, his history is so simple and easy. Back in the day, some of us had to write tedious essays on the causes of various wars and it was all a tangle of archdukes, armament build-ups, spheres of influence, commercial rivalry, interlocking alliances and so on and such like.

Not in Prof. Bush’s class. No, sir. According to his theory, all wars are basically the same. Why, I could get a gentleman’s C in his class — and I am rarely accused of being a gentleman.

Sample question: What was the cause of the war with Imperial Japan? Or in Korea? Or in Vietnam? Or in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Correct answer: The enemy hated freedom.

The only challenge is to expand this answer to 800 words. But knowing some of America’s college students as I do, they are the masters of creative double spacing.

If Bush becomes a history professor, I certainly intend to go to his class. In order to get my questions answered, I know I will have to put on the old bush hat or the rakish beret of my former service in Vietnam, where, as it happens, I never got to ask the enemy why he hated freedom because he was too busy hating us for being there.

I love freedom myself. I wonder what part of it our enemies hate? The part where we vote on electronic machines that cannot be trusted?

Gosh, with history explained, perhaps Bush will make math easy. Oh, I forgot, he did that already with his ever-rosy news about the economy. Such is life in the struggle for civilization.

(Reg Henry is a columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. E-mail rhenry(at)postgazette.com.)

  1. allan hirsh

    mr. hirsh
    stock market
    I don’t know. I give up. Why use my imagination on
    someone without one?

  2. doneck

    How about being the executioner for the Lone Star State? Unlike the Texas prison officials, Bush has no qualms about dispatching miscreants – or even suspected miscreants. He would provide a valuable service to the prison employees who have consciences but, unlike GW, have no direct communications with God Almighty. It would be so fulfilling a task for GW that he would serve the Lord and the State by performing these awesome duties gratis. And he would also be pleased to serve Allah as Hangman of Baghdad, but there doesn’t appear to be a shortage of Iraqi volunteers already there. Instead, he could emulate ex-President Carter, observing executions around the world, just as Carter observes national elections. GW would enjoy his many trips to China, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, etc., and maybe he could even promote world peace on discovering that he shares common ground with the merciless mullahs of Iran.

  3. RSW

    Veterans of Foreign War — it ain’t Christmas, but what the hey — Bah!!! Humbug!!!

    We don’t need more Veterans. It’s time for a colonic treatment on the rest of the world to clear our military from it.

    Oldernwiser and Veteran, too.

  4. Donnat

    If there’s justice in this life, the thing he’ll ‘do’ is hard time after being convicted of war crimes by an international tribunal.

  5. acf

    I don’t see him giving any speeches, because the kind of people he’s been speaking to these past few years, the captive audiences of military bases, and VFW posts, are not likely to be the kind to pony up cash to pay to hear him, and I don’t see him going to the kind of audiences that could pay for him. They’re just not interested. I imagine he’ll continue trying to restore some semblance of a decent reputation, you know, the legacy thing. And, honest to God, I can’t imagine him in a college, lecturing, although the secrets he’s been let in on would be interesting if you could trust him to ever tell the truth.

  6. Elmo

    He’ll be hired by Faux Gnus to masquerade as a wildebeeste wrangler and line up guests for Bill O’Really to shout down.

  7. geyser

    You’re all wrong. Ex-President Bush will not do or become any of the above. The first action he will take is divorce Laura. She will get revenge by taking Barney in the settlement. George will put up a fight to keep him, the last gasp will be to openly cry in the lawyer’s office. George will once again grab headlines in every newspaper in the country, he will announce his up coming marriage. He will not say who the bride to be is, when asked why, he will plead the 5th. Amendment. He, at the end of the announcement, tell the date of the nuptials, September 11, 2011, angry mobs will try to attack George saying he is trampling on the dead from 9/11 by getting married to a second wife. Before leaving he turned his back to the 14 people attending this speech, then quickly turning to face them and shout, Gotcha! He was going to name the lucky women all along.
    He cleared his throat, looked the audence in the eye and said,
    “My future wife is somebody everyone should know, she made a name for herself in the early 2000s. It is none other and I am proud and happy that she said ‘Yes’ Cindy Sheehan. A lone Tomato came out of the crowd, it was thrown high and now arching downward. It got george right above the bridge of his nose. It knocked him back a few steps, as he recovered, the juice was dripping into his mouth. He adjusted the microphone and said, “It needed salt”

    Taking One Day at a Time

  8. Nathaniel Smith

    “NASCAR driver” was my answer, posted 6/10/07 at http://progressivenetworksepa.org/?p=137:

    Bush announces post-presidential plans

    Crawford TX 6/10/07

    With the countdown on his presidency eagerly watched by his foes, George W. Bush’s remaining admirers have been pressing him to declare his projects for after January 2009.

    “President Clinton is working for AIDS treatment around the world; President Carter is conquering guinea worm and now moving on to malaria; I’ve wanted to do something closer to home,” President Bush said; “I’m becoming a NASCAR driver.”

    Press secretary Tony Snow explained: “It’s not all that different from what he’s doing now: he’ll try to stay out ahead of the people chasing after him, encourage gas, oil, and rubber consumption, and advertise his sponsor, the great ex-American company Halliburton.”

    The First Lady, Laura Bush, exulted: “It’s the perfect job for him. Georgie has always enjoyed model cars, and now he can drive real ones and get away from those pesky Secret Service chauffeurs. He can forget all those big words he’s had to learn in the White House. We’ll be installing a 2.5-mile race track on the ranch,” she added, “paid for by Exxon-Mobil.”

    — Nathaniel Smith

  9. Sonorous Pest

    He will try a new experimental drug just out for stupid expresidents. The new drug just out after 7 years of complicated testing is called “Dr. Roger Roberts little rectum rockets”,good for colds, moles, tight assholes, freckles, farts, measles and STUUPID EXPRESIDENTS. However I’m not sure it WILL do Bush any good.

  10. TallMIke2

    After a presidency where he lied so often and so consistently that you assumed whenever his lips moved he was lying, Bush, the war criminal (illegal war, torture of prisoners, suspension of Habeas Corpus for POW), and crimes against Americans like illegal wire tapping, will avert much deserved prosecution as a War Criminal and for violations of the constitution, by escaping to Paraguay, just like other notorious war criminals have, e.g. Mengale, (Bushes role model).

  11. Bill Robinson

    WHO CARES????
    The Word I’m hearing from pals in DC is that Bandar Bush, son of the royal family ex parte, will retire to Saudi Arabia. There he will ask Laura to wear the garb for religious Moslem women–that one piece bag that just has a slit for the eyes. Georgie, cunning twerp that he is, has purchased 7 of them for his beloved wife, all in varying shades of black and none with eyeslits. He will then lie back and enjoy the 76 virgins he has been promised by his pals in the royal family. He will have the US Secret service on hand to help him on and off the virgins as his mental disability will have progressed to the drooling and babbling stage from the “Just drooling” stage that he is involved in now.
    Like I said earlier: WHO CARES?

  12. Steve Horn

    He’ll likely fade into obscurity like most ex-presidents after he has a presidential libary constructed and donates both of his favorite childrens books to it. For a time he’ll also get paid many thousands of dollars to speak at NEOCON events – although why anyone would pay to listen to a noncompoop like Bush escapse me. He’ll also continue to drain the economy by taking full advantage of every perk offered – especially the security guards.

  13. Caine

    After 2008? What’s in 2008? I think there is a good chance that after 2008 (perhaps even before), he will become a dictator of a former superpower of the world!! And I don’t mean Russia!

  14. LurkingFromTheLeft

    Ah yes – so you’ve been…

    …reading my comments –

    …I’m still not sure Dumbass The 43rd will be giving up his throne and palace either –

  15. JudyB

    Having proved he has brilliant mind for Government as well as a complete command of the English language, it seems likely that he’ll be ask to take a position as a professor of Govenment Law or perhaps Linguistics at Yale and since he is such a dynamic speaker he’ll probably be urged to sign on with a Public Speakers Bureau. However there is a greater possiblity of him returning to his passion of watching cartoons, playing Nentendo and drinking vodka!

  16. bryan mcclellan

    I think smirk should devote all his energy to the development of an affordable Glassectomy.He could be the first beneficiary of this revolutionary procedure that surgically implants a glass screen in the lower torso of the patient,just above the genital area.It would be a boon to people like him who are blind because they walk around all day with their heads stuck up their ass.

  17. scottp4

    Probably the most pathetic thing is that the Secret Service told Congress that they were going to require 109 agents to guard Bush when he left office.

    None of the other ex presidents have had details of that magnitude. I guess Clinton had about a dozen. Hopefully he’ll be told he’ll get the same protection as all the others.

  18. www.nazilieskill.us

    He will go back to sitting on boards. He should spend the rest of his life cleaning up after traffic accidents.

    John Hanks, Laramie, Wyoming


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Alternatives to spanking June 26, 2004 3:07 PM

I think many members could benefit from an Aware Parenting-focused discussion on the ways we work with our children that don't involve punishments like spanking. What works for you? Do you have success stories to share? Methods that work in your family? Have you been challenged by others for not spanking? How do you respond to them? I don't have a LOT of experience yet, since my child is just about to turn 14 months, so I will hold off a little on sharing just opinions and ideas on the matter ... -Kirsten  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 June 26, 2004 3:51 PM

I've gotten alot of help from online, especially from the Natural Child Project. They have these reminder cards that help me not to spank my son. I've put them around our apartment. Ex. of the cards: 1. Find the humor. 2. Does your child need rest, food, quiet, fresh air, exercise...or a hug? 3. Let your child be a child. They work really well.  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
natural child June 27, 2004 9:53 PM

The natural child project is a great place to start. They have a book too, I think it is wonderful.  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 June 27, 2004 11:36 PM

Redirection is wonderful! You can interrupt their thinking and get them focused on something else. Another tactic is to reaffirm 'What you are doing.. is a 'NO'.. but there's a 'Yes" that you can do right over here. Hold them on your lap and make them look into your eyes. "I don't think you want to take a nap this early, do you?" Child shakes head no.. "Good. I'm happy to hear that. Let's do this *redirect*." Make sure the child has enough of your love and attention that it satisfies what they are truly yearning for and the urge to misbehave diminishes. Give them stuff all along that they get to be 'in charge of'. Teach them responsibility along with the 'in charge of'.. Every time they clamor for more control in the relationship.. find something else they can be in charge of.. along with the responsibility. Supervise to make sure they are following up. If they balk or get frustrated, it's an excellent time to point out that being in charge is a lot of work and being their parent is a loving thing.. *BUT* independence is where they are ultimately headed. The authority of the parent adjusts with the capacity of the child to handle themselves appropriately. It is important for the child to understand that they are not ready *AT this TIME* to be in charge of all the options. Most of the time, this quiets my headstrong children's drive to test me.  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
spank or nothing at all....... July 01, 2004 10:38 PM

I was raised where spanking was a must. Not just spanking, but sometimes something bordering on abuse. It was ok then, not like today. I see my beautiful baby and I never want to raise a hand to him, never. But too often I see parents doing nothing. A child is running around screaming, breaking things, hitting, biting, ect... and the parent just sits there. They don't want to spank they say. I think that too often people assume its spanking or nothing, either hit your child or let them behave like monsters. I want my son to grow up knowing respect, knowing limits, not thinking that there are no consequences for his actions. This is something I saw today, and it runs threw me like fingernails on a chalkboard. Sometimes I wish I could calm the child down, then spank the parent. LOL  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
Me too, Summer July 02, 2004 6:37 PM

I was also raised under the "spare the rod, spoil the child" mentality. It definitely was borderline abuse. Once, when I was a teenager, my father actually clenched a fist at me. I honestly was afraid he was going to punch me. I decided right then that I was never going to raise a hand to my children. How could anyone want their kids to fear them? How could anyone hit a child?? Anyway, my 18 month old dd is getting very fiesty. She loves to run me ragged. She's in a stage where she likes to hit me...the other day, I held her arms still so she wouldn't hit again, and she head-butted me square in the nose! My mother told me that I should slap her thigh, right below the diaper (so she could feel it). I was like, "tell her not to hit by hitting her back?" What kind of mixed up crazy message is that? If anything, it teaches them to hit more! I just tell her that hitting hurts, and to say sorry and give hugs. She can't say sorry, yet, but she loves to give the hugs! I also tell her to "be nice to mommy" and then she says "awww" and pets my face. My 5 yr old dd is so sensitive, that all I have to do is tell her that she did something that she shouldn't have, and she feels super guilty. She hardly ever acts up anyway, so I rarely have to worry about her. Hopefully her little sister will turn out as wonderful as she did!  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
Problem Parents July 03, 2004 12:41 AM

When ever my children 'playup' at my Mum's house, her stock reply is that they deserve a smack. If they are crying or whiney and she doesn't know why they are crying she suggests I 'give them something to cry about!' (playing up in my Mum's eyes is not sitting still and not touching anything - if anyone knows any 3 and 5 year olds who can do that for 3 hours at a time then they are some strange kids!!!) I think old-fashioned parents are the problem - not 'naughty' children!!  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
I agree, Emma July 03, 2004 7:29 AM

I've noticed that there are way too many children whose parents pay them absolutely no attention. They never play with them. They never actually teach them what is right and wrong. It's like, they are expected to know, and then spankings are the result. It's very frustrating.  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
I'll give you something to cry about.... July 03, 2004 10:31 PM

OHHH! I used to hear that all the time. I never could understand it as a child. Obviously I have something to cry about or else I wouldn't be crying! I think I said that to my mom or to my grandmother once. Which ever one, I remember getting slapped for it.  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
Mom's mood July 04, 2004 1:03 AM

Another alterative to spanking has got to be monitoring my own emotional state. If I allow myself to become too tired.. too lonely from other mom's.. too resentful, whatever.. it certainly does come out in my reactions to the kids. WHen I see myself getting stressed, I see if I can manage it myself.. sometimes I have to ask my husband for some help. Even if it's just to run the situation by him to see what he thinks. My husband's really great that way.. his approach with me really centers me and that helps me respond gently with them...  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 July 12, 2004 9:31 PM

it is funny kids perception on things...i have 4 boys,14,8,6 and 2 none have been spanked.i grew up in a home where we got "the belt when dad came home" so i know how much it was a nessary thing to NEVER use spanking as a solution.for me at least i feel that it is used more as a quick fix to have the use of a threat ,do you need a spanking or even knowing it was coming was enough to make you stop out of fear. it is not how i want to have my children learn to do or not do something.i want them to make the choice because it is the correct one ,not because they are in fear of getting a swat on the just makes zero sence to me. as my oldest got older,maybe about 4 time out worked really good,but it took alot of differant time out tryings to find a good way to make it work for us both in a constructive way.even now him as a teenager, it has pulled us together very close and i think has really shown him good communication skills.the deal we have made that works best for us is when a time out is needed for either of us,either i am so mad that i need some time out so i dont say or react verbally aggressive and i need to go sit and think how i want to deal with the situation,or calm myself before continuing the heated conversation,(teens really know how to push the buttons!) or he needs it for simular has come to the point where i just say you need to take some time and come back when your ready to talk not fight.or i can say to him i need to take some time away from this situation,i will finish it when i am ready to be calm with you.the rule is though it has to be with in he cant come back in 2 min attempting to rehash the arguement etc...for him and i it really has helped in that situation.also with other issues of misbehaving i try to find a fitting punishment for the problem ,i actually do that with all the kids.each problem has its own ways of fixing and i feel that a spanking will never teach,words lets say usen hurtwords in anger to some one,i would talk to them about them haven to sit alone and come up at least 3 differant ways they can deal with the situation next time. so they are in controle of the length of the time out,but they have to take time to relax and actually come up with the solution to fix it. these things all work well with a little bit older kids,but my 2 year old sees this and when he does something naughty he goes on the steps for about 1 min then comes and says sorry mama and i talk to him a moment and he goes abotu his way.however a 2 year old is still a 2 year old and will repeat it about 50 more times hahaha. i just feel them knowing why i am upset, or why it isnt ok or what ever is so much healthier and constructive.this has workd well for us. i am sorry to babble on i have a bad tendancy to do that and get sidetracted... be well!  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 July 13, 2004 5:50 PM

Mike, I am curious how you feel that your views on force match with ap-style discipline and other aspects of attachment parenting? -Kirsten P.  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
Back to alternatives July 13, 2004 6:02 PM

I've found that spanking does nothing but breed negativity. My mother lived in a spare the rod spoil the child kind of household (also a household without much affection)... she wanted better for her kids and raised us to be mindful and respectful, and just a touch of a good healthy sense of respectful "fear". It was just nicer to have a happy mom... cuz if mom ain't happy ain't nobody happy. LOL.. As for me as parent, when my son was younger he was a CHALLENGE. At age 2 he had some heavy duty rage and anger I'd never seen in a toddler before. We had battles and he was a biter big time. I really was at my wits end with him at times. The biting stopped when I finally bit him back... not hard (his bites bruised me and stuck around for days) but just to let him know it hurt.. he never bit again, nor did I. We butted heads though.. yikes, boy oh boy he was a bugger. Then when he was about 4 or so my mom read a fantastic book I recommend to anyone with "problem children" who don't believe in spanking. It's called "What did I just say?!" by... Dr. Donavan I think is the guy's name... I wrote a book review on it, I can post the link if anyone wishes to read it. But the book gave a LOT of great ideas in how to word things for a child, how not to get lip from a child by not introducing opportunities for "lip"... like asking a child "would you put your cup away?" offers them a choice.. a statement "put your cup away" is a direction... given the choice you might get a no which isn't what you wanted, you wanted the cup away... the book goes into detail about a variety of discipline techniques AND consequence techniques as well as positive reinforcement. I started using some of the things in the book and man, it was like a miracle. I still catch myself sometimes but we do a lot of feedback when he's mad now, we've learned to deal with those times, when he used to get violently mad (thrashing and such... like spanking would do what? reinforce the behavior I wanted stopped?) I'd hold him so he'd not hurt anyone or himself... I was afraid my lap would become a prison for him but it wasn't.. it was a safe place he could come to work out his emotions without fear of them. Being angry can be scary to a little guy. But I'm proud to say that he's a great 8 year old. I get compliments on how well mannered and well spoken he is. Of course he's still a kid and has his moments. LOL.. DD is another thing altogether. I think one has to find what works best for the child... one size doesn't always work. Time outs used to work for her, but I've found consequences work better. She hits her brother... I hold her hand still for as many seconds as she's months old. She hates it and doesn't hit again. Same with biting.. I hold her face (no, I don't pinch or cause pain) still and count to myself... she thinks it's funny for 10 seconds, the last 10 she knows I mean business. LOL.. but she won't bite again. Thankfully she's not like her brother was, that's for sure!  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
Friends of mine July 13, 2004 6:05 PM

Didn't believe me that the tactics in that book worked... they were afraid if they didn't smack their kids around (as they were smacked as kids) that they wouldn't learn. Well, they didn't seem to be learning by being hit or threatened. Their 3 year old actually would tune out their screaming and yelling to the point where he didn't know when they were telling him to do stufff.... they're doing much better with 1,2,3 magic... I think it's called. And with my suggestions of not asking questions but using direct statements with a respectful tone. Another miracle. LOL... I think it's proof that positive attention and knowing how a child thinks (they don't understand sarcasm and things are very literal) can help bridge the gap when it comes to, what I think of as AVOIDING the NEED for discipline. I like that the best.. then one doesn't have to wonder about time outs vs spanking... if the call for discipline can be avoided all together.  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
Woohoo.... July 20, 2004 11:05 PM

another debate about spanking.......back onto my soapbox. First of all, Mike, spare the rod spoil the child is a biblical term. It has been taken out of context as an excuse for the primative act of corporal punishment. Look at the other biblical references to the term "rod"..."thy rod and thy staff"....we all know a staff is a shepard's hook, the rod is the other TOOL shepards used to GUIDE thier sheep. Shepards DO NOT BEAT their sheep...they simply guide them....the rod was a stick used to GUIDE sheep by gently nudging them. Shepards usually just hold the rod out to point the sheep in the right direction. So when you say spare the ROD spoil the are really saying spare GUIDANCE spoil the child. SHEPARDS DO NOT HIT THEIR SHEEP! Also, as you will see my comments in another thread...if spanking and hitting is so darn effective as a teaching tool...why do we abandon it as adults? I personally think your view about hitting is wrong and I feel a need to teach you a lesson, perhaps I should just smack you around a little and get your head straight. (doesn't that sound absurd coming from one adult to another??). Hitting is about power and control. No one DESERVES to be hit. You hit because you can. Because you feel you have a right over another human being. You don't hit an officer who wrongly gives you a ticket,do you? Why not? She said you were speeding, but you weren't. You don't hit your boss when he/she messes up...why not? What if your children were to hit you for your mistakes in parenting (which we ALL make)? Why is hitting a child okay? What are you truly "teaching" them? I believe you are teaching them that those who are bigger get what they want through force. You said we feel pain for a you honestly believe that "reason" is so the people who are supposed to love and guide us can harm us? We feel pain to protect us from danger. Hot burning fire=pain=danger, Acid=pain=danger, dad=pain=danger. Is that the lesson you want to instill? I personally want my child to make decisions based on HER choices, not her fear of pain. I think spanking teaches children to fear, not to make educated choices. Spanking teaches deciet, no on likes pain...I would lie to avoid would a child. It teaches that IF YOU GET CAUGHT there are consequences. True discipline teaches children to think and rationalize, not to fear. How will they handle themselves when the fear is not there and they must make a decision based on thier thoughts rather than their reaction to pain? *Climbing off soapbox for now*  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 July 21, 2004 11:08 AM

Well said, Rodonda!  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
Oops.. July 21, 2004 11:08 AM

Sorry I misspelled your name, Radonda... my head's been in a cloud the past few days.  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
Spanking July 21, 2004 12:52 PM

I don't have children but I am the oldest of four girls and have extensive experience baby-sitting and as a nanny. My father was young when I was born and very inexperienced with children. He was angry ALOT and used to spank us all the time. For me personally it was the worst thing he could have done. I was and still am VERY sensitive, spanking was cruel and unneeded. All I ever wanted to do was please my parents. Most of the spaking was done in anger, when my dad was just too tired or mad to deal with us. I began to blame myself for his anger and still to this day have to remove myself from his emotions. As a child you think the world revolves around you, so everything good and bad is your fault. I have issues with dealing with my anger because of the bad example I had. I believe you can have chilren who love and respect you enough to listen to you. Fear NEVER works! They just learn to hide it from you. You need to work with each child and find what motivates them. Because my sisters and I were VERY different. One sister and my dad had a constant power struggle and the only way he could control her was by hitting/spaking her. It didn't work! She just rebelled more and more. So in my experience you can have well-behaved children with out hitting them. Just my two cents and experience!  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
 July 21, 2004 6:14 PM

The pro-spanking posts have been removed.  [ send green star]
Yay Alice! July 21, 2004 7:42 PM

Hopefully, something as learned however.  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
Sorry... July 22, 2004 2:53 PM

Sorry for my rant! I know this discussion was old but wanted to add to the other anti-spanking posts!  [ send green star]  [ accepted]
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