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Who's Number 1 in college hoops? Not "Number 1" number 1 – the question on everyone's mind is which four teams will earn No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Touranment: The Big Ten champ? UNC?
I love the next two weeks of debate leading up to Selection Sunday as much as anyone, but here is where college football's system and college basketball's system diverge:
However flawed the BCS system may be, the question of "Who's Number 1?" (and, perhaps even more, "Who's Number 2?") is the essence of the season. In college hoops, who is Number One now – and certainly on Selection Sunday – is completely meaningless. Just ask any of last year's No. 1 seeds.
As opposed to being concerned with poll position and, ultimately, seedings, I would be much more focused on how teams are playing – how teams are winning. What their strengths and weaknesses are.
Or how they'll look in various possible NCAA Tournament matchups, so you can spot the upsets or the alchemy of talents that might illuminate which team will be number one when it exclusively matters: At the end.
(Reader Matt reminds me that the NCAA seedings are finalized before the B10 title game is finished. But again: Seedings are irrelevant, except for the dreaded 5-seed. But that doesn't mean we can't use the game to make final evaluations about OSU or Wisco's FF-worthiness.)
The much bigger news was UNC losing at
(Update: As Commenters are pointing out, Maryland was hardly unranked where it matters: The RPI, where they were 17th. I admit to my own laziness in going with the AP poll, which is useless. Give me the RPI or Pomeroy's rankings anyday. UNC remains a lock of a No. 1 seed, and -- yes -- it looks like Florida is a 2, unless they streak their way to an SEC tourney title.)
But again: The most important question is what does UNC's loss at
Your SEC MVP? Derrick Byars. Vandy continues surprising run by beating
Women's CBB: Congrats to Duke on becoming the first women's team ever to go unbeaten in the ACC. (Of course, it doesn't mean anything if they go out and lose to, say,
NBA: Is Amare the Comeback Player of the Year in the NBA? I have 43 reasons (a season-high) to argue he is, but the real proof will come when the Suns win the NBA Finals behind Amare, the Finals MVP.
Meanwhile, Chris Webber is making a late-career surge for respectability. He's been a sparkplug for the Pistons since the trade, and his role yesterday was critical to
Dwight Howard's "Kiss the Rim" Dunk is officially the dunk of the year. Yes, even better than his Slap-Sticker-On-The-Backboard dunk from the All-Star Dunk Contest. Certainly better than anything done by Gerald Green. Here is your People's Dunk Champ: Dwight Howard.
NFL Combine 40 "Talk":
Wisco OT Joe Thomas: 4.93
GA Tech WR Calvin Johnson: 4.35
Drew Stanton > Brady Quinn
(All stats/gossip via ProFootballTalk.)
Watch the Name: Amobi Okoye, the 19-year-old Louisville DT who could be the surprise riser of the draft. PFT was "Talking" him up over the weekend, and I opened my New York Times this morning to a very positive profile. The academic story is wild: Played for L'ville as a true freshman at 16 (16!) and even graduated early. Oh, and he's 6-foot-2, 300 pounds -- and still growing.
Another Name to Watch: Toby Korrodi. Could he be this generation's Johnny Unitas? Only if Unitas would have scored a 12 on the Wonderlic. (Link and Tip: The Feed.)
NFL '07 Schedule: Will it be Cards-Steelers in Arizona in the league's Sunday night season-opener?
MLB: Who had "handful of days" in the "Carl Pavano Injury Pool?" And who had "early" in the "Manny Reports to Camp Pool?"
UPDATE (5 p.m.): Anything that mocks Curt Schilling is OK by me. Here's the link (via Sports By Brooks)
OSCARS: Congrats to Scorsese. Long overdue. And congrats to Forest Whitaker, who might be the greatest actor of our generation. (Beyond "Last King of Scotland," for his work on "The Shield.") Funniest moment: Ferrell, Black and Reilly serenading about the lost cause of comedians at the Oscars. Worst moment: Anything with the full-body shadow hand-puppets. Meanwhile, the Red Carpet show on E! is one of the few times all year I get to update my "List of 5" (celebrities I could hook up with, without punishment from my wife). When I nominated Reese Witherspoon, my wife -- a huge Reese fan -- said OK, as long as you invite her over for dinner afterward so we can hang out. Done and done!
UPDATE: Got a great dispatch from Free Darko's Bethlehem Shoals about Amare. Wanted to share it:
Once he learns the game, it's over with.—Stephon Marbury.
"Back in December of 2002, when Marbury mattered and Garnett still had hope, the Suns and T-Wolves played a game of basketball. Amare exploded for 38, by far his career high, and Stephon took advantage of a chance to belittle KG. This has gone down in history as Marbury at his most desperate, but it was also the first time we saw what a remotely consistent, stable Amare Stoudemire could do.
Last night against the Hawks was another one of those days. I'm still not convinced he's back to his full athletic capacity; even his legend won't accomodate that kind of superhuman recovery. It's high time, though, that we recognize Amare's a basketball player, not some poster-generating armament paid by the kilohert. In the past, it was hard to see this, but the current Stoudemire practically screams personal growth and development.
And in that sense, maybe Marbury wasn't so wrong or desperate after all. He was just a little too proud."


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The UFC's own Kardiac Kid, John "Doomsday" Howard, is never out of a fight, and he's carried that determination to four straight wins in the Octagon. Sunday, he looks to make it 5-0 against Jake Ellenberger.
One of the great aspects of mixed martial arts is that a fight is never truly over until the final bell rings. It's a claim that few sports can make, as there are no 20-point touchdowns in football, a nine point shot in basketball, or a goal in hockey or soccer that awards five points. In other words, when it gets to a certain point, it's time to pack it in and accept your defeat.
This isn't the case in a fight, and that's a good thing for welterweight up and comer John "Doomsday" Howard, who has parlayed an unyielding will to win into 14 pro victories, including several of the 'come from behind' variety that has now become his trademark.
"It comes from the way I grew up," said Howard. "I never say die, and if you're gonna die, at least go out on your shield. That's what it is. I just try to be strong-minded, and if there's a will, there definitely is a way. If I'm still breathing, I'm still moving, and I can still move my limbs, there's still a way I can win and I'm definitely gonna try at least. That's the way I think."
Unbeaten in four fights in the UFC, the 27-year old Boston native has earned each of his Octagon wins. After gutting out split decision victories over Chris Wilson and Tamdan McCrory, Howard was pitted against veteran Dennis Hallman last December, and was one step behind all night, falling hopelessly behind on the scorecards entering the final round. But in that last stanza, Howard came alive, dropping Hallman with a left hook before finishing matters with five seconds left in the fight.
Three months later, debuting Daniel Roberts was Howard's foil, and "Ninja" jumped out to an early lead.
"The only thing I didn't like about Roberts is that he didn't shake my hand when we started fighting," recalled Howard. "He just came at me throwing punches. But he was doing good. He did take me down and did have a bit of control. Some people think he was dominating, but I don't think so."
Then suddenly, just when it looked like Roberts was going to move in for the finish, it was Howard again rising from the dead to finish off his foe with a devastating assault that earned him Knockout of the Night honors.
"I came back, I slammed him down, he went for the Omaplata, I got up, and I knocked him out," he said matter-of-factly. "Some people may call it lucky, but I think it was good accuracy."
That and a helluva big heart.
"That's a big tool in my arsenal," he admits. "Even if you're beating me in a fight, I still have that chance to come back and get you. My attitude is, if you're beating me, all right, but I'm gonna take something with me. They're gonna remember me."
And UFC fans are starting to remember that when Howard is on the bill, it's a good idea to either get to the arena or in front of the television set. And though it seems like yesterday since his Octagon debut against Wilson in January of 2009, this New Englander isn't complaining.
"I'm not disappointed," he said. "I'm undefeated in the UFC and I really can't complain about that. I'm making excellent money right now, I have a great coaching staff, and everything's falling into place perfectly. I have nothing to really complain about and the only thing I don't like doing is cutting weight. (Laughs) There's no secret that I'm a big weight cutter, but besides that, I'm loving it."
He's definitely not loving things now as he begins the final stages of a weight cut that began weeks ago at 205 pounds. But as he sweats down to the 170 pound limit for his Sunday bout with Jake Ellenberger in San Diego, what keeps him motivated is the thought of his three biggest fans – his three daughters, aged two, seven, and eight.
"If I get discouraged, I think about why I'm doing this, and the main reason I'm doing this is to take care of my family and my kids," he said. "That gives me the boost back that I need."
His daughters aren't allowed to watch Daddy fight live, but as Howard's profile has grown bigger, so has his TV time thanks to re-runs of his fights on Spike TV, so at times, it becomes hard to keep them away from seeing the man of the house punch the time clock (and his opponents).
"What can you do?" he laughs, admitting that his two oldest daughters "love it, and they love play fighting with me."
There will be no play fighting in California this weekend though, as Howard collides with the equally aggressive Ellenberger. On paper, this is a Fight of the Night in the making, and Howard eagerly agrees.
"I think its fight of the night," he said. "Our styles mesh together, we're two aggressive guys with a lot of power and explosiveness, and there's gonna be fireworks. I always want to give the fans a great show and you always want to be in a fight with good fireworks. A slow, boring fight is heartbreaking to watch, especially when it's with two good fighters, so I like to be exciting, and I'm excited about this fight – I can't wait."
The idea of 15 minutes of hand-to-hand combat with an opponent trained to take you out isn't most people's idea of a good time, but guys like Howard aren't most people. He enjoys the battle as much as the victory, and even though the victories have been coming more and more frequently, with his last loss (to current UFC middleweight Dan Miller) taking place nearly three years ago, Howard doesn't believe that he's stumbled on a magic winning formula; he's just happy he's doing well.
"This is actually the longest win streak I've had in my career, and I'm just happy," he said. "I want to keep riding the wave until it runs out. The reality is, people get older and slower and new talent always comes to the game, so you're gonna eventually lose, but right now, I'm on a good win streak and if I can ride it out and get it to eight straight wins, that would be awesome too."
And if he can get to eight with a win over Ellenberger, why not nine, then ten, and then, well, you can figure out the rest. John Howard, not yet a household name but on the right track to that lofty status, has already done the math.
"Everything comes with time and you've got to be patient," said Howard. "I'm not gonna force anything. If I stay undefeated and nobody knows about it, and then I get a title shot and people recognize me then, so be it."
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On a regular basis the required schedule files of various VLBI session types are generated using an automated software process based on the VLBI VieSched++ scheduling software application. This software uses modern state of the art design principles including AI algorithms to achieve highest quality scheduling results. Schedules for officially assigned VLBI sessions (T2, OHG, INT2, INT3, INT9, AUA, CRD, CRF) are automatically computed and uploaded to the IVS schedule distribution servers. Schedules for non-IVS sessions like the GOW observing program and the VLBI activities of AuScope are also available. The VieSched++ automatic software also generates test schedules for different other IVS session types like R1, R4, or INT1 for demonstration and comparison only. These non-official schedules are available here.
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Welcome to PixWords Scenes level 31, although the level number might be different on your smartphone, because the level number is random. PixWords Scenes it's a new amazing game from Pixwords family.
PixWords Scenes is made in the trivia genre with very addictive gameplay. In this game you need to guess the words for the proposed picture. The image in this game contains a broad range of characters, objects, persons, patterns, birds, animals, themes etc which give the needed hints.
As said earlier the level number is random, but the image you are blocked right now should be this one:
It's time to get the answers to this image, if you still can't find them all.
Pixwords Scenes level 31 answers:
All words: Knife, Radish, Garlic, Beet Tops, Egg White, Peas, Champignon, Cucumber, Carrot, Yolk, Tomato, Broccoli
Only some of the above words are needed to complete the level.
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Community Mediation Services has worked with youth and families for 27 years, promoting the peaceful resolution of community conflicts, using community resources. Three programs use trained volunteer mediators: Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP); Visitation Mediation; and Teen/Parent Mediation. Mediators don't take sides or make decisions, but do help people solve problems in ways that are decided and agreed upon by all. Studies show that agreements reached through mediation are more likely to be carried out than orders imposed by a judge.
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Last week I talked about solutions for mobile device management, and mentioned that some of those solutions were designed to operate in your enterprise, while others were designed to operate in the Cloud. I've talked about the Cloud in the past, mostly in terms of making sure you pick secure vendors, but I haven't really gotten into specific offerings. "The Cloud" really just means the Internet, but it's a specific reference to using the Internet to do things that might have traditionally been done inside the enterprise. Email is a good example of this concept; email servers used to be situated within the enterprise as a matter of course, and "webmail" accounts were for individuals. Now, however, more and more organizations are turning to vendors such as Google for business email hosting, first smaller businesses and more lately even larger ones. To many organizations, it makes sense to migrate services that are fairly standard (such as email) to the Cloud, particularly if many of their employees are "road warriors" or do a lot of telework. This type of service delivery is known as Software as a Service or SaaS. SaaS doesn't stop with email, of course. Rather than give all users a separate desktop machine running given applications, organizations can choose to use Cloud services instead. For instance, if you currently use Microsoft Office, you could instead use Office 365 through a web browser. I myself write my guest blog articles using Google Drive in my browser (or, sometimes, on my smartphone). If there isn't a Cloud "version" of an application, you can still put it in the Cloud by utilizing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and installing apps on virtual machines that are hosted outside of your enterprise. Your users would log into these machines from anywhere to do their work, which would make contingency planning a lot easier. What's the downside? Well, as I mentioned in my previous articles, if you are handing your services and/or infrastructure over to someone else, you have to be able to trust that vendor with your data. Here, as in so many other things, there's a "you get what you pay for" type of ethic where there is pressure to achieve maximum efficiency at minimum cost, and you have to decide which vendor(s) will be the most reliable and best safeguard your data. To tie this back to last week's article on mobile device management, some of the best MDM applications are Cloud-based. This means, for you, that you don't have to spin up servers to install the management software on, and you don't have to have people in your IT department who know how to use it. The Cloud service does everything for you, including providing all support. For some, this will be a welcome relief, since MDM has never been the easiest part of a sysadmin's job; for others it will be a loss of control. You need to decide which is more important for your organization and implement the solution that will serve you best.
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Visualize Whirled Peas
Her name was Svetlana. She spoke with a thick Slavic accent and wore a pantsuit, which for some reason made me think that she looked like a banker. A Russian banker. Which didn't predispose me to telling her my secrets, but still: I had promised myself that I would do this, that I would seek help, and this place, this tidy office with a worn leatherette sofa and wilting fern and shelves upon shelves of books on psychiatry and therapy and parenting, was where I had arrived. This woman, the occupant of this office, would help me.
So, she says, peering at the file in her hands, you vant harm your child?
Um... no... that's not...
She frowns. Say here, you vant harm your child... you have violent thoughts...
No, no, that's not exactly right... I just...
Is chicken scratch. I cannot to read. You look, tell me vat it say. She hands me the file with my psychiatric referral.
Um... I squint at the inky scrawl "...reports intrusive thoughts of harming baby... reports wanting to drop baby on bed, escape home, reports experiencing feelings as violent, aggressive... denies intent to harm... denies intent to harm self... denies suicidal ideation... reports being afraid of intrusive thoughts." I cringe. I'd rather not be reading this. "Sleep deprivation. Previous treatment for anxiety. Supportive husband." I hand the file back to her. I didn't say that I felt violent. I said that the feeling itself was violent. Like a shock. It frightened me.
Is frightening, yes, these thoughts. She looks me in the eye. I know you do not vant harm baby.
Which is as good a basis for a therapeutic relationship as any, I suppose. I could, I decided in that instant, overlook the pantsuit. I could work with this woman.
We spoke at length, Svetlana and I. Or rather, she spoke, and asked the occasional question, which suited me. I hate psychiatric therapy, I hate feeling that I'm being analyzed. I hate listening to the sound of my own voice droning on and on about can't sleep motherhood hard feel anxious yes family history of depression no not suicidal just TIRED TIRED OH SO TIRED. I just want a solution. I just wanted her to give me a solution.
And Svetlana was all about the solutions. First, we get you to sleep, no? I give you Ativan; you sleep when baby sleep. Zen, we test blood: thyroid, B12, glucose... your body, I zink, it is PFFT!... zen we meet again; we talk... is good to talk... zen maybe, maybe I give you somezing for depression. Not now. Now, you are tired. You are post-traumatic stress. You need sleep and peas. She leans forward and grabs my hand. Sleep and peas.
I had to think about that for a second.
Yes, I say, finally. Peace would be nice.
Peas is nice, she says. I help you to get peas. She drops her voice to a whisper. I tell you somezing. You are not bad mother. You are good mother. She pats my hand. Not to forget.
No, I say. Not to forget. Thank you.
Peas is good. Today, I will fill the prescription for Ativan and will go to bed early with that little bottle of peas while the husband takes the baby and leaves me in the sweet, sweet quiet dark. With my peas. With my peace. So that I will rest, so that tomorrow will dawn brighter, so that I'll move a step or two closer to feeling like the good mother that I know I am.
Note to you all, who do so much to sustain me: if you have e-mailed me in the last month or so and have not had a response from me, please forgive - I am completely overwhelmed and doing the best I can. I read everything. I respond as best I can, but that hasn't been enough to keep control of my inbox. Please know that I so appreciate the support and the contact. I really, really do.
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Hac 2007/Registration
Registration for Hac 2007
Numbers for the hackathon are limited to 20, due to room size constraints.
We ask that you list projects you are interested in working on (in the Haskell projects field of the registration email), and briefly describe the areas your interested in.
If more than 20 attendees register, we may prune the list in favour of people working on core Haskell development, and collaborative projects with other attendees.
Please include the days you will be attending in the Dates field.
Registration is via email. Please mail the following information to:
With the subject line:
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And body containing the following information:
Name: Dates: Email address: Ethernet MAC address: Wireless MAC address: Haskell projects:
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Name: Don Stewart Dates: 10,11,12 Email address: email@example.com Ethernet MAC address: aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff Wireless MAC address: ff:ee:dd:cc:bb:aa Haskell projects: Hackage, ByteStrings, Curses bindings
Any extra information on the projects you want to work on, or with whom you wish to work.
If you intend to bring a laptop please note that you must tell us your ethernet and wireless MAC address (in order to reassure the building security people). There is no guarantee that wireless will actually be available, though we will do our best.
The final attendee list will be posted some time before the hackathon.
Important dates
Event | Date |
Registration deadline | December 6th, 2006 |
Confirmation | December 10th, 2006 |
Hackathon | January 10-12, 2007 |


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This site provides access to an experiment in text and design. As texts, the AHA's G.I. Roundtable series provides a unique insight into a particular moment in time. The American Historical Association produced the G.I. Roundtable Series to help win World War II. Or so they were led to believe. In fact the U.S. Army sought the pamphlets as part of a larger effort to prepare for the transition to the postwar world, and represent a novel effort at social control.
At the same time, the site itself is an experiment, a test of design and techniques in the presentation of history on the World Wide Web, and the proper blending of primary sources and analysis.
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The site design and analysis have been produced Robert B. Townsend, former AHA deputy director. However, please note that while Association oversaw the original publication of these pamphlets, any opinions expressed only reflect the views of their respective authors.


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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
I Call Fowl
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
I mean, I don't want to ruffle any feathers, but this isn't exactly poultry in motion.
Now this, on the other hand...
Hey Dana S. & Elin A., you know the expression "running around like a chicken with its head cut off"? Well, apparently, if they keep their heads, they just lay there niiiice and still-like.
- Related Wreckage: Creations That Might Possibly Be Representations of Turkeys
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- Taylor@MyOlderBrothers said...
There must be a pretty specific market for a plucked fetal position chicken cake. Maybe a PETA protest party?
- September 29, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh my word! Is that going to be "birds of a feather flock together?" Oh, wait . . . the second one doesn't have any feathers! (Who would want to eat cake shaped like a plucked, raw chicken? Ewwwwwwww!)
- September 29, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Uh, why would anyone even want a cake that looked like a plucked chicken???
- September 29, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- Melissa said...
My husband thinks the first one must be an impressionist chicken. You don't know what the wreckerator was feeling when s/he made it - maybe they were just trying to express their inner angst about missing the farm where they grew up.
Right. Anyway, it sure beats the second one. - September 29, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Ros said...
I quite like that first one.
- September 29, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- ilovebabyquilts said...
I can't explain why, but I really like the first cake. It really does look like poultry in motion, its feathers look like they're moving. I also like the green color. It's a very soothing cake to me. I like it!
- September 29, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Whoever ordered the first one is certainly in for a Pullet Surprise!
- September 29, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- HorribleLicensePlates said...
I hope that last cake is pink on the inside. Wouldn't that be great?
- September 29, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- Glory von Hathor said...
To me, that first chicken is definitely pointing left and saying
'He went thataway!' - September 29, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- Niecey said...
Ew at the pink on the inside comment. Ew, ew.
Slice of cold, dead bird anyone? With ice cream on top?
I quite like the first one too. It's pretty. Sketchy. - September 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Katie said...
Aw, I actually think the first one is adorable! But the second one is bizarre and mildly terrifying.
- September 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Melinda said...
"Poultry in motion"! Jen, you never cease to make me laugh!
- September 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM
- Knightridge Overlook said...
I'm seeing the cakes here, but not the wrecks. The first one is a nice picture, not photorealistic, but then they weren't trying for that anyway. The second one is hilarious, on purpose! No wrecks.
- September 29, 2009 at 10:45 AM
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- Lisa Deon said...
The Salt Lake Trib posted a short review of your book today.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_13439888?IADID=Search-www.sltrib.com-www.sltrib.com - September 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Yum, salmonella cake.
- September 29, 2009 at 10:56 AM
- TornadoBaby said...
There's a bakery that donates cakes and pies to my parents church for the Thanksgiving charity dinners there, and some of the cakes are made to look like the turkey roast ready for the table, with the booties and greenery and everything! They're quite well done (ha!) and the people who come in for food get quite a kick out of them.
- September 29, 2009 at 11:02 AM
I'd say the first chicken is Cthulhu's 4H chicken
- September 29, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- dsowerg said...
That 2nd cake looks exactly like pak cham kai (literally means white chopped chicken but is a whole chicken boiled in water, salt, ginger and spring onions). A very popular dish in South East Asia among the Chinese. Serve it with rice cooked in chicken stock and oil and you have Hainanese Chicken Rice!
And yes it's usual to serve the chicken like this. Well actually no, we chop the chicken up into smaller pieces, but at chicken rice stalls, the stallholder does hang up whole chickens to entice the customers! - September 29, 2009 at 11:10 AM
- Terry Lee said...
the first one is strangely interesting.
the second one makes me want to back away and wash my hands. guess i'm just a little chicken when it comes to raw poultry.
bock bock. - September 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- Shannon said...
Eww. Just, eww. Never wanting to eat chicken. Ever. Again.
- September 29, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Ummm. What's going on in the middle of the second one? Is an alien about to burst out of it?
Also, how come it has no drumsticks? - September 29, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- VeggieT said...
Is it just me or does the first cake actually contain no cake? just a lump of frosting? and the second one can we ever forget.... Cake or Death?! now you can have both!! It's perfect!
W.V dykql... I think the bakers overdosed on dykql. Now they're seeing pretty colors... - September 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Oh, wait. Maybe it's not an alien. Maybe that's just its head folded down onto its chest? But if so, it's even MORE wrong that it doesn't have any legs.
- September 29, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Those cakes are FOWL!
- September 29, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Veggie T,
I thought the same thing when I proofread the post this morning. I was wondering if anyone else would think that.
john - September 29, 2009 at 11:34 AM
- justme said...
The first one looks like he could be in the background of a Van Gogh piece, and seriously where are the second chicken's legs??
- September 29, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- KrysTros said...
All I can say about the plucked chicken cake is O.M.G.!
- September 29, 2009 at 11:50 AM
OMG, the puns! I am sitting here giggling.
I hope that dead chicken is strawberry on the inside to give it that real botulism feel. - September 29, 2009 at 11:51 AM
I like the first one, It has an childlike art-y quality. The second one...don't be close-minded now. I can think of an time when cake decorated in the form of raw meat might be appropriate. How about a butcher's convention? a meat-packer's conference? In that case, you'd need a beef carcass cake in addition to raw drumstick cupcakes, and, uh, wait. I'm feeling sick right now and won't look at meat or cake again the same way.
- September 29, 2009 at 11:55 AM
- BeachGirl said...
Actually, the second one is a dead winger not ringer. You gotta love that the decorater tried to make it the color of chicken skin.
- September 29, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Why does the second chicken still have its neck?
Who would ask for a flabby raw chicken, let alone in CAKE FORM?
wv eutche- I just threw up a little in the back of my mouth. Eutche. - September 29, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- Lauren said...
LOL all that effort and the wings are on backwards.
It's not only creepy, it's a mutant! - September 29, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Mags @ the Other Side of 50 said...
LOL@ Paul and "Pullet Surprise"
- September 29, 2009 at 12:26 PM
- Melissa (& Billy) said...
I just want to know...(or maybe I don't...) Who in the heck wants a cake made like a chicken? Especially a RAW chicken?
Maybe someone at a poultry processing plant was having a birthday? That's the only reason I can think of...*scratches head* - September 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Unknown said...
Ah, shucks. I was looking forward to seeing some wrecks today. These two are just neat!
- September 29, 2009 at 12:43 PM
*raises eyebrow* serious?? whatev. oh i'd never eat a dead chicken cake...
- September 29, 2009 at 12:52 PM
- lisadh said...
LOL! Love the posts today. Great puns! And don't forget our favorite chicken:
.!. - September 29, 2009 at 1:00 PM
- Mrs Peel said...
Please tell me that the "niice and stiiiill liiike" is a reference to "The Frighteners". Love that underrated little movie!
- September 29, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- Bek said...
Yeah, that first cake definitely looks like it's only a giant blob of frosting on a cake board. No real cake in there, folks...
- September 29, 2009 at 1:59 PM
- gategeek said...
I'm also fairly sure that first one has no cake underneath the enourmous pile of icing....grody.
- September 29, 2009 at 2:10 PM
- hamburke said...
just curious but does the first cake actually contain any cake or is it just icing on a cardboard tray?
- September 29, 2009 at 2:14 PM
My husband upon being shown the "plucked poultry cake" said: "That's supposed to be a wreck? That's awesome!"
He is officially *not* allowed to ever buy me a cake. - September 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM
- Shannon said...
That roasted (I hope) chicken cake is fabulous! What would even possess someone to do that? It gives a whole new meaning to "Let them eat cake".
- September 29, 2009 at 2:58 PM
- Adnoxious said...
These are super-wrecks if they actually TASTE like chicken.
adnoxious.blogspot.com - September 29, 2009 at 3:04 PM
- Susan said...
Did any other RSS readers get this from CakeWrecks through their feed this morning?
"FOX Sports NFL Teams App
by wrecksistant" (all a link that takes you nowhere)
And nothing on the home page here. :-/
Anyway, hilarious stuff today! :D The second one is like a rubber chicken. - September 29, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Oh, this is weird. Yesterday I I thought I was visiting Cake Wrecks, but I was actually at http://pictureisunrelated.com/
The first picture for September 28 was 2 plucked chickens, and I thought "those are strange cakes," then I realized that they weren't cakes. Now the next day I'm actually looking at Cake Wrecks and there is a plucked chicken!! - September 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- Tabitha (From Single to Married) said...
ewww - it looks like they took an actual frozen chicken and covered it with icing. So not appetizing!
- September 29, 2009 at 3:28 PM
- Matt said...
Before eating, I'd make sure that it was cooked to an internal temperature of 160ºF, or at least make sure the juices run clear. ick.
- September 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM
- Siouxzr said...
Poor plucked chicken -- his little wings are on backward and someone has stolen his drumsticks
- September 29, 2009 at 4:26 PM
- Braley Mama said...
I would totally bring that to my inlaws for a holiday desert!
- September 29, 2009 at 4:33 PM
- krazykris said...
ummmm...I'm having a hard time finding any depth to that first masterpiece. It really strikes me as though they might have milked a few chickens to get that color variation for the frosting. I'm just sayin', ya know?
Between this website and the peopleofwalmart.com today, I haven't been able to have a normal thought. I just wanted you to know I may be mentally scarred for life now, but I will always come back for more!!! Rubberneckers make wrecks rule!!!! - September 29, 2009 at 5:46 PM
- Haiku Joy said...
Missing your drumsticks?
These cakes STILL manage to march
to their own sweet beat.
Haiku Joy's husband on the first cake: "If Predator, Alien, and a chicken had a love child, this would be its birthday cake." - September 29, 2009 at 7:56 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm sure I've written this before, but I'll post it again. As a vegetarian and a cake lover, I am offended.
Not really, but kind of. A little. - September 30, 2009 at 1:16 AM
I actually like that second one. Just don't confuse it with the real Thanksgiving turkey!
- September 30, 2009 at 10:40 AM
- Gina said...
I must say I chuckled at "poultry in motion"
- September 30, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- Liz F. said...
Pullet Surprise? Anyone else get that? Wow.. Maybe it's just me but that's borderline pure genius...
- September 30, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Looks like a stuffed rubber chicken. Maybe the Swedish chef had enough of the Bok Bok Bok's.
WV: redial....awesome I got redial as a word verification. - September 30, 2009 at 2:42 PM
"poultry in motion" :D
Your eloquence deserves a standing O!
*clapping* - September 30, 2009 at 2:58 PM
- Unknown said...
Hey, I'll take a big piece of white meat from that second one!! =D
- September 30, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- Unknown said...
I think the first one's a groom's cake, ordered by the best man. The subtext: You cock-blocked me, man!
- September 30, 2009 at 7:50 PM
- Suzanne Dargie said...
That second one is really a cake? That's awesome! It's quite well done....but somehow I'd be afraid to eat it fearing it would TASTE like chicken!
- October 1, 2009 at 1:47 PM
They have to lay there "niiice and still-like" when they have no legs!!
With his head cranked around backwards, he's saying "Hey, go find your own sticks to beat the drums!!...Awwcckkk.....AAAWWWCCCKKK.....Aawwcckk!!" - October 2, 2009 at 10:18 AM
- DynamicSheep said...
Did anyone else notice that the first chicken is walking on water?
- December 16, 2009 at 8:15 PM
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Not sure if you've written about BrE washing up / doing the washing up = AmE washing/doing the dishes.Thanks for all that, John! By the time I was old enough to help out, my parents had a dishwasher, but I still learned how to wash dishes 'properly' from my grandmother. She taught me that the right way to do it is to first put the kettle on,* so that after you've set the dishes in the drainer, you can pour boiling water over them in order to kill any lingering germs. My grandmother did not have OCD. This is just the way things were done. I doubt many Americans would do that today, but we would run some clean water over dishes to get the soap off. When I've seen English people not doing that, I must admit, I've been [more than] a little uneasy.**
Who's going to do the washing up?
There was some washing up on the draining board waiting to be done.
As well as a kitchen, scullery, and larder/pantry, in the house where I grew up we also had a wash-up (room devoted to washing up). We boys had to help my father with the washing up there.
Nowadays of course we use a dishwasher (a term obviously of American origin, and still in competition in BrE with washing-up machine).
You'll have heard of the British couple dismayed to be greeted on arrival at friends' house for dinner with Would you like to wash up before we eat? (= BrE 'wash your hands')
Lastly, have you noticed how in Britain we assume that you don't need to rinse the (BrE) washing-up/(AmE) dishes in clear water, while in America you do so rinse them?
And now for your commenting pleasure, the almost entirely non-linguistic footnoted digressions!!
*And when we say put the kettle on in AmE, we almost certainly mean putting it on the (AmE) stove/(BrE) hob. When BrE speakers say it these days, they usually mean 'switching the kettle on', as almost no home (or office) is without an electric kettle. It's probably the case that it's our lesser interest in tea that's kept us from having electric kettles--we have automatic coffeemakers instead. I'm in the US at the moment, and had a moment of reali{s/z}ation about the ubiquity of coffeemakers yesterday. I was in our local nirvana of a supermarket, looking to buy a little caffeinated instant (I drink coffee so milkified it doesn't really matter). I was initially surprised to find LESS supermarket choice for this item in the US than in the UK. I mean, many of the UK supermarkets I use would fit (not at the same time, of course) into the produce section of more than a few of the US supermarkets that I visit. (Supermarkets are a major tourist destination for Better Half and me.) Given that for any other non-nation-bound product [with the possible exception of cheese] there seems to be twice to ten times as much selection in an American supermarket as in a UK one, I had expected to be able to find a small jar of caffeinated instant coffee. (There were some larger jars, but not many. I saw no fair trade options. Ended up buying a box of little (AmE) packets/(BrE) sachets, but only one brand offered those.) And then it dawned on me: nearly everyone has a coffeemaker; almost no one has an electric kettle--of course there's not much market for instant coffee. In the UK, in any place where people gather there will always be a kettle, ready to serve tea--and almost always a jar of instant coffee as a nod to the non-tea-drinkers.
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The Sarum Use was the local use of the Roman rite associated with the diocese of Salisbury, England. It is also called the Use of Salisbury or, less correctly, as the Sarum Rite. It was adopted by some Western Rite Orthodox beginning in the twentieth century.
Early Rites - Gallican, Celtic, British, Roman
The origins of the rite are with the ancient local usages of the Insular Churches, ie those of Great Britain and Ireland. The earliest rites of those regions belonged to the family of rites called Gallican Rite.
With the coming of St. Augustine of Canterbury to England in AD 597, a new rite was introduced into Britain: that of the Church of Rome. St. Augustine had been directed by Pope St. Gregory the Great (also called St. Gregory the Dialogist) to respect the Gallican customs that were already in place. Beginning with this period, and later with the rule of Charlemagne on the Continent, the Gallican and Roman rites were mixed. In England, the Second Council of Cloveshoe in 747 under St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne included the canon that the rite of those "speaking the English tongue" would be the Roman rite. During the period of the Celtic and Saxon churches, there developed several related local variants or Uses of the Roman Rite, called Gallo-Roman to distinguish from the old Roman rite. The rites used in France, northern Spain, Portugal, the Low Countries, Germany, and Scandinavia were similar.
Rise of the Sarum Use
In 1066, the Normans invaded England. There were some abortive attempts at changing entirely to the related uses of northern France. However, monasteries particularly in the western parts of the island (especially Sherbourne Abbey and Glastonbury Abbey) proved intransigent. The Norman bishop of Sarum, Osmund, arranged the services for his new cathedral according to the practices that he saw around him—both Norman and Saxon/Celtic.
The Sarum rite as known was probably arranged by Richard Le Poore, who moved the See from Old Sarum to New Sarum (Salisbury) in the 13th c. From this period, the Sarum enjoyed the sterling reputation as being the best liturgy anywhere in the West, and thus had influence on the liturgy of other local churches in the Isles and the Continent (notable among them being Rouen, Braga in Portugal and Nidaros/Trondheim in Norway). Other related local uses continued as well, such as York, Bangor, Hereford, and Durham.
Reformation Era
The Sarum Use was one of the first to be published on the new printing presses in the early days of the Reformation. The complete service books for the whole rite survive. The rite was legislated as the sole use of the English Church by the Convocation of Canterbury in 1544 and after the reversion to the papacy, it was commanded for the whole realm of England during the reign of Queen Mary. It was also the primary source text for the first edition of The Book of Common Prayer (1549) of the Church of England . After Elizabeth I took the throne, the Recusant Roman Catholics continued using Sarum in their chapels until the restoration of the Roman hierarchy in the nineteenth century.
19th Century Non-Orthodox Revival
The rite was revived particularly by the orthodox party of the Anglo-Catholic or Tractarian movement in the 19th c. Church of England. In the mid-19th c., the services were translated into English by such as G. H. Palmer, and became either the preferred liturgy or preferred liturgical model for the non-Romanizing part of the Anglo-Catholic movement (also called Orthodox Anglo-Catholic or Prayer Book Catholic). The ceremonial and customs of the rite were the major influence in the development of the English Use, partly through the efforts of Percy Dearmer, author of The Parson's Handbook. The old English Catholic Clergy Brotherhood also maintained a tradition of Sarum Use through the period of Catholic persecution in England.
Attempts to revive the Sarum rite amongst non-Orthodox groups have resulted in Roman Catholic proponents such as A. W. N. Pugin and Bishop Willson of Hobart. The Sarum rite was suggested, but rejected, for use in the new Westminster Cathedral in 1903. It is used by the "Milan Synod" in some parishes and has been used on several occasions in RCC churches and cathedrals in England and Scotland in recent years.
Modern Orthodox Usage
The St Petroc Monastery Western Rite of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia has published the Saint Colman Prayer Book which includes The Divine Liturgy (Sarum) Usus Cascadae—the full Sarum Rite in English used in monasteries and missions in Australia, the Americas, and Europe. This Sarum use liturgy has also been translated into Spanish and French.
Among Old Calendarists, the Sarum rite has been used in approximately a dozen American parishes of the Holy Synod of Milan, which has published Sarum translations in English and Serbian since 1993. Two versions of the complete Sarum text were published. The first, and still surviving, translation, is the Sarum series published by St Gregory's Press under the auspices of the The Abbey of the Holy Name (West Milford, New Jersey), comprising approximately 30 volumes, including the Medieval Monastic Psalter. The second is the Orthodox Prayers of Old England series, which comprises about eight volumes, including the Old Sarum Rite Missal, and was originally published by St Hilarion Press, now St John Cassian press. The usage was also the official use for the Western American diocese (the first series being the usage of the Eastern) for a number of years.
The Sarum was was also the basis of an "Old English Liturgy" prepared by Dom Augustine (Whitfield) of Mount Royal monastery.
Differences between the Texts
While there is considerable debate over which is the best text, the actual Sarum translations are substantially in agreement, whether from ROCOR or either of the Old Calendarist editions. Certain other liturgies, which are not actual Sarum usages, but hybrid rites do have substantial differences, leading to confusion.
In 2004, one writer, thinking the "English Liturgy" of ROCOR to be native Sarum, pointed out over two dozen differences between the texts of the Old Sarum Rite Missal, leading the translator to point out that the "English Liturgy" was not a Sarum text, but a compilation of different texts, a fact the translator of the different texts has pointed out-- and that the two versions of the Sarum were substantially the same text.
- The Church of our Fathers, Daniel Rock, 1849.
- The Sarum Missal in English , F. E. Warren, 1911.
- The Use of Sarum, ed. W. H. Frere, 1898.
- The Sarum Missal edited from three Early Manuscripts, J. Wickham Legg, 1916.
- The Parson's Handbook, Percy Dearmer, 1957.
- The Saint Colman Prayer Book, Saint Petroc Monastery, 2003.
- The Sarum Use by the Very Rev. Canon Professor J. Robert Wright.
- "Beyond the Frontiers: Guides for Uncharted Territory," by David Chadd, a paper delivered at Frontiers of Research in Medieval Music symposium, 1988.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia: Sarum Rite
- Project Canterbury: the Sarum Missal
- The Roots of the Orthodox Liturgy in the West, from the website of Saint Petroc Monastery
- The Divine Liturgy of Sarum as used in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, from the website of Saint Petroc Monastery
External link
- The Sarum Missal, Done into English. 2nd ed., Revised and Expanded. Transl. by Albert Harford Pearson. London, The Church Printing Co., 1884. Original from Oxford University. (Google. Digitized Jun 8, 2006; 18.5MB download - PDF format). The altar missal that forms the base document for the ROCOR Sarum.
- The Liturgy of the Church of Sarum, together with the kalendar of the same church. Translated from the Latin, with a preface and explanatory notes by Charles Walker, with an introduction by T.T. Carter. London J.T. Hayes, 1886. (The Internet Archive. Digitized May 31, 2006; 16.0MB download - PDF format).
- "The present translation has been made from the best existing editions of the Sarum Missal, chiefly as collated in the recent reprint issued from the Pitsligo Press;[1] use having been made of such further light as is thrown upon the Sarum liturgy by the Gradual and Manual, and by the "Consuetudinary of the Church of Sarum," which is preserved at the end of Mr. Chambers's magnificent Sarum Psalter.[2] The Calendar is given from the Breviary, eight or ten MS. copies of which, together with several printed ones, exist in the Harleian, Cottonian, and Old Royal Libraries in the British Museum." (pp. 6-7).
- Sarum Rite at Wikipedia.
- ↑ Missale ad usum insignis et praeclarae Ecclesiae Sarum. Pars Prima: Temporale. Londini; Veneunt apud C.J. Stewart, 1861.
- ↑ The Psalter, or Seven Ordinary Hours of Prayer, according to the use of the illustrious and excellent Church of Sarum ; with explanatory notes and comments. London : J. Masters, 1852.


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The attackers stopped a vehicle carrying the soldiers near the protest camp, prompting a gunbattle that left the five soldiers dead and two of the attackers wounded, police officials said.
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In a speech Saturday, al-Maliki warned that sectarianism is an "evil thing" that can swiftly spread from country to country in the Islamic world -- an apparent reference to the divisions in Syria.
"If sectarianism erupts in one place, then it will erupt elsewhere too," he said. "And it is returning to Iraq because it has erupted in another area in the region."
That echoed previous concerns raised by the Iraqi premier. In a February interview with The Associated Press, al-Maliki predicted a victory for rebels in Syria would destabilize the wider Middle East, sparking sectarian wars in his own country and in Lebanon.
In further violence Saturday, gunmen also opened fire on a checkpoint manned by government-allied Sunni fighters, killing five of them, near the city of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad.
The militiamen, known as Sahwa, are among those who joined forces with U.S. troops to fight Al Qaeda during the Iraq war. Since then, the group has been a target for Sunni insurgents who consider its members to be traitors.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.


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Mr. President, today I am introducing a resolution to support the goals and objectives of the Prague Conference on Holocaust Era Assets.
The Prague Conference, which will be held June 26 through June 30, will serve as a forum to review the achievements of the 1998 Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets. That meeting brought together 44 nations, 13 nongovernmental organizations, scholars, and Holocaust survivors, and helped channel the political will necessary to address looted art, insurance claims, communal property, and archival issues. The conference also examined the role of historical commissions and Holocaust education, remembrance, and research. While the Washington Conference was enormously useful, more can and should be done in all of these areas. Accordingly, the Prague Conference provides an important opportunity to identify specific additional steps that countries can still take.
I would like to highlight just a couple of examples that, in my view, underscore the need to get more done.
First I would like to mention the case of Martha Nierenberg's looted family artwork in Hungary. In a nutshell, Ms. Nierenberg's family had extensive property stolen by the Nazis, including some artwork. When the communists came along, they took additional Nierenberg family property, and the artwork found its way into the museums of the Hungarian communist regime.
Under the terms of a foreign claims settlement agreement between the United States and Hungary, the Nierenberg family received limited compensation for some, but not all, of the stolen property. That agreement provided that the Nierenberg family was free to seek compensation for or restitution of other stolen property.
In 1997, a Hungarian government committee affirmed that two Hungarian government museums possessed artwork belonging to the Nierenberg family. Unfortunately, to this day, it remains in these museums. As I have asked before, why would the Hungarian government insist on retaining custody of artwork stolen by the Nazis when it could return it to its rightful owner? It is entirely within the Hungarian government's capacity to make this gesture, and I still hope that they will do so–especially bearing in mind Hungary's own efforts to recover looted art from other countries.
Second, I deeply regret that the question of private property compensation in Poland is still a necessary topic of discussion. Poland is singular in that it is the only country in central Europe that has not adopted any general private property compensation or restitution law.
I know a draft private property compensation bill is currently being considered by the Polish Government. I also know that, in the 20 years since the fall of communism, Poland has tabled roughly half a dozen bills on this–all of which have failed. It would be great to see meaningful movement on this before the meeting in Prague, but this will not come about without meaningful leadership from both the government and the parliament.
Finally, when I was in the Czech Republic last year, I expressed my disappointment to Czech officials, including to Jan Kohout who was just appointed Foreign Minister on May, that the Czech framework for making a property restitution claim effectively excludes those who fled Czechoslovakia and received both refuge and citizenship in the U.S. The United Nations Human Rights Committee has repeatedly argued that this violates the non-discrimination provision of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This could be fixed, I believe, by re-opening the deadline for filing claims, as Czech parliamentarians Jiri Karas and Pavel Tollner recommended as long ago as 1999.
The Holocaust left a scar that will not be removed by the Prague conference. But this upcoming gathering provides an opportunity for governments to make tangible and meaningful progress in addressing this painful chapter of history. I commend the Czech Republic for taking on the leadership of organizing this meeting and urge President Obama to send a high-level U.S. official to represent the U.S. at the conference.
I am honored that the senior Senator from Indiana, who is the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is cosponsoring this resolution, as is the senior Senator from Florida.


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Diarrhea in Children
What is diarrhea?
Diarrhea is defined either as watery stool or increased frequency (or both) when compared to a normal amount. It is a common problem that may last a few days and disappear on its own.
Diarrhea may be:
- Acute (short-term, usually lasting several days), which is usually related to bacterial or viral infections.
- Chronic (long-term, lasting longer than four weeks), which may have a variety of causes, such as irritable bowel syndrome, or may be due to chronic diseases such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, or celiac disease. Giardia may also cause chronic diarrhea.
What causes diarrhea?
Diarrhea in children may be caused by a number of conditions, including the following:
- Bacterial infection
- Viral infection
- Food intolerances or allergies
- Parasites
- Reaction to medications
- A gastrointestinal (GI) disease, such as inflammatory bowel disease
- A functional bowel disorder, such as irritable bowel syndrome
- A result of surgery on the stomach or gallbladder
Many people suffer "traveler's diarrhea" caused by a bacterial infection or a parasite, or even food poisoning.
Severe diarrhea may indicate a serious disease, and it is important to consult your child's healthcare provider if the symptoms persist or affect daily activities. Identifying the cause of the problem may be difficult.
What are the symptoms of diarrhea?
The following are the most common symptoms of diarrhea. However, each child may experience symptoms differently. Severe diarrhea may indicate a serious disease, making it important to consult your child's healthcare provider if any or all of the following symptoms persist:
- Cramping
- Abdominal pain
- Bloating
- Nausea
- Urgent need to use the restroom
- Fever
- Bloody stools
- Dehydration
- Incontinence
The symptoms of diarrhea may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your child's healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
What are the warning signs of severe diarrhea?
You should call your healthcare provider if your child is less than 6 months of age or presents any of the following symptoms:
- Abdominal pain
- Blood in the stool
- Frequent vomiting
- Loss of appetite for liquids
- High fever
- Dry, sticky mouth
- Weight loss
- Urinates less frequently (wets fewer than 6 diapers per day)
- Frequent diarrhea
- Extreme thirst
- No tears when crying
- Depressed fontanelle (soft spot) on infant's head
How is diarrhea diagnosed?
In addition to a complete medical history, physical examination, and laboratory tests for blood and urine, the child's healthcare provider may request:
- Stool culture to check for the presence of abnormal bacteria in the digestive tract that may cause diarrhea and other problems. A small sample of stool is collected and sent to a laboratory by your healthcare provider's office. In two or three days, the test will show whether abnormal bacteria are present.
- Blood tests to rule out certain diseases.
- Imaging tests to rule out structural abnormalities.
- Tests to identify food intolerance or allergies.
- Sigmoidoscopy, a diagnostic procedure that allows the healthcare provider to examine the inside of a portion of the large intestine, and is helpful in identifying the causes of diarrhea, abdominal pain, constipation, abnormal growths, and bleeding. A short, flexible, lighted tube, called a sigmoidoscope, is inserted into the intestine through the rectum. The scope blows air into the intestine to inflate it and make viewing the inside easier.
What is the treatment for diarrhea?
Specific treatment for diarrhea will be determined by your child's healthcare provider based on:
- Your child's age, overall health, and medical history
- Extent of the condition
- Your child's tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- The expectations for the course of the condition
- Your opinion or preference
Treatment usually involves replacing lost fluids. Antibiotics may be prescribed when bacterial infections are the cause.
To replace the body fluids that are lost with diarrhea, children should drink fluids liberally. If they are dehydrated, a glucose-electrolyte solution (for example, Pedialyte or Infalyte) should be given to help the body absorb fluid more easily. These fluids have the right balance of water, sugar, and salts, and some are available as popsicles. Avoid juice or soda because these drinks may make diarrhea worse. Too much plain water at any age can be dangerous. Do not give plain water to infants. If you are bottle-feeding or breastfeeding your child, continue to do so.


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This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee. Michel Martin is away. Coming up, President Obama honored late labor and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez earlier this week but a new book questions whether the full story of his life and legacy isn't perhaps more complicated. That's in a moment.
But now we turn to last night's first and only vice presidential debate of this general election season. Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan went head to head. They touched on a number of topics from America's economy to abortion to foreign policy in the Middle East. Here's just a taste of it.
PAUL RYAN: Our adversaries are much more willing to test us. They're more brazen in their attacks and our allies are less willing to trust us.
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Will all due respect, that's a bunch of malarkey.
MARTHA RADDATZ: And why is that so?
BIDEN: Because not a single thing he said is accurate.
HEADLEE: Here to help us understand the substance and style of both vice presidential candidates, Paul Orzulak. He was speechwriter for President Clinton and served for Al Gore during the 2000 election. Also spent time with Vice President Biden, helping him prepare for the debate. And also with us, Mary Kate Cary, a former speechwriter for George H. W. Bush. She's now a columnist and blogger for U.S. News and World Report. They both join me here in our Washington studio. Welcome back to the program.
PAUL ORZULAK: Thanks, Celeste.
MARY KATE CARY: Great to be here.
HEADLEE: And, Paul, let's begin with you because you helped coach Vice President Biden for these debates. So how do you think he did?
ORZULAK: I think he did great. He had a higher burden on him than the congressman did because, you know, we've had not the greatest week since the president's debate with Mitt Romney. It was pretty clear - I think it was universally agreed the governor won last week. So I think Joe Biden's task in the debate was to reenergize Democrats, to get them excited about turning out.
And, as a secondary goal, you know, expose the Romney/Ryan plan and raise doubts again that were sort of put aside in last week's debate. And I thought he was very effective in doing that. He was strong and...
HEADLEE: Not too much laughing?
ORZULAK: Well, I know that a lot of people probably have different points of view on that. I think that when you're talking about style points at the end of the debate, if you're trying to spin it on style points, then you probably on substance know that you didn't do very well. But, look. I mean, the broader picture is that this was a great debate for the country. This was a real debate.
I feel like they mixed it up and really had different point of views.
HEADLEE: Yeah.
ORZULAK: There was a very clear contrast between the two.
HEADLEE: That's for sure.
ORZULAK: I feel like there are a lot of issues now teed up for next week. From the Democratic perspective it's how do you pay for this? I don't think the congressman who is the best in their party at explaining it didn't really have an answer for it.
HEADLEE: OK. Well, let me take that to Mary Kate, then. OK.
HEADLEE: Congressman Ryan, obviously, was hoping to build on the momentum that Governor Romney had...
CARY: Right.
HEADLEE: ...from the presidential debate. Did that happen?
CARY: Yeah. I think he did. The Democrats could not afford to go two and oh. Since the last debate, the presidential debate, the GOP has swung in 11 swing states, closed the gap. Polls were moving. The momentum had shifted to the Romney campaign. And I think the Ryan performance last night did nothing to hurt that momentum.
What was going into it for Biden was that Biden was upside down on his likeability ratings. And what Biden's been doing the last few months is going to core Democratic audiences - AARP conventions, union halls, teachers, places like that - to rev up the base. And he's very good at doing that and that's what he did last night.
Unfortunately, I think he did it by being rude and disrespectful. But Ryan on the other hand, has never lost an election in a very liberal state. He's good at going into a hostile audience and winning people over. And I think if you look at the polls last night after they went off the air, most of the undecided voters who Ryan's used to winning over did just that. He came across 10 points better on likeability, four points better on who won.
HEADLEE: Well, we got mixed reviews.
ORZULAK: We got mixed reviews on that.
CARY: This is CNN undecided is the one I'm talking about. Yeah.
HEADLEE: Some of the polls show Biden winning, some of the polls show Ryan winning.
CARY: Right.
HEADLEE: And I guess we'll have to settle it when we get..
CARY: Which is a draw, I guess. Yeah.
HEADLEE: But let's address some of the specific topics that they addressed last night. Foreign policy was one of them. The moderator, Martha Raddatz, opened with a question about the attack on America's embassy in Benghazi, Libya. Let's hear a part of Vice President Biden's response when he was posed a question about the lack of security in Libya.
BIDEN: We weren't told they wanted more security again. We did not know they wanted more security again. And by the way, at the time we were told exactly - we said exactly what the intelligence community told us that they knew. That was the assessment.
HEADLEE: OK, Paul. The second half of that, that they issued a statement which was exactly what the intelligence community - that's undisputed. The part that is disputed by some fact checkers is that they hadn't asked for more security. Your response?
ORZULAK: Well, I think that it's still an open question. There's an official investigation on this now. Thomas Pickering, the former ambassador from the Reagan administration, is looking into this. But, you know, we live in this world now where we have 24-hour news cycles and presidents have to put out statements on things that happen right away - sometimes before we know all the details.
The White House, I think over the last two weeks since this happened, which was a terrible tragedy - you had an ambassador and three other Americans killed - you know, they told the American public what they knew at the time. I feel like we're learning more about it now and I don't know that there's any ground to be gained in politicizing this when we have so much more to talk about...
HEADLEE: Right.
ORZULAK: ...in terms of the last four years - ending a war in Iraq, Osama bin Laden being taken out.
HEADLEE: Yeah.
ORZULAK: Ending the war in Afghanistan. These are bigger issues. But there's no question that this is still a dangerous time in the Middle East and it will be and the next president needs to be a person that's able to...
HEADLEE: Address it. Yeah.
ORZULAK: ...keep America safe.
HEADLEE: Well, let's take a listen to Paul Ryan's response and then get your answer, Mary Kate.
RYAN: This Benghazi issue would be a tragedy in and of itself, but unfortunately it's indicative of a broader problem and that is what we are watching on our TV screens is the unraveling of the Obama foreign policy.
HEADLEE: And that's something that we heard several times. If you're just joining us, you're listening to TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee. We're talking about last night's vice presidential debate with former presidential speechwriters Mary Kate Cary who worked with Republicans and Paul Orzulak who worked with Democrats, including Vice President Biden in preparation for last night's debate.
So Mary Kate, we heard several times Paul Ryan referring to the unraveling of the Obama foreign policy. How did that work for him?
CARY: I think he really did very well pointing out how deeply vulnerable the Democrats are on the Libyan question. This is one issue - you know, we've been debating taxes and the economy and Medicare for the last six months but this is one issue that will stick with this for the next month and go right up to Election Day.
The press is hot on this story. Clearly, the administration cannot stick with the same story from day to day. Just two days ago they said now it's come out that there were no protesters at all, which was directly contradictory to what the U.N. ambassador said on all the Sunday talk shows.
The thing that our listeners who may not have seen the thing last night are not seeing when you're playing these clips was as we were discussing the murdered ambassador and the embassy on fire and Iran getting the nuclear power, Vice President Biden was laughing, grimacing, rolling his eyes, sort of smirking to himself.
It was very, very odd the way - this was not a funny subject at all and yet he seemed to really be on another planet or something, the way he was reacting to what Ryan was saying. On radio I think Biden did well but on TV it really came across poorly.
HEADLEE: I agree with you he was making faces at Paul Ryan. I don't think he laughed during the Benghazi thing. But let's move on because I want to hit two more topics before we end our discussion here. One of them, of course, we have to talk about the economy. Democrats, many Democrats, criticized the president for not making reference to the video of Mitt Romney who seemed to dismiss 47 percent of Americans in that video.
But Vice President Biden did not hesitate to address it. Let's take a listen.
BIDEN: But it shouldn't be surprising for a guy who says 47 percent of the American are unwilling to take responsibility for their own lives. My friend recently in his speech in Washington said 30 percent of the American people are takers. These people are my mom and dad, the people I grew up with, my neighbors. They pay more effective tax than Governor Romney pays in his federal income tax.
HEADLEE: So, Paul, does this make up for what some Democrats saw as a lost opportunity in the presidential debate?
ORZULAK: No. But I think it restarts the conversation and gives the president the ability to talk about it next week. Look, there's a pretty universal view that there's a big difference between debate Romney and candidate Romney from last week, that the Governor Romney that we saw during the debate was very different from the Governor Romney that we saw in the previous 18 months.
The 47 percent comment, the 30 percent taker comment, that needs to be part of the conversation because that's who they are. It's not just one debate performance.
HEADLEE: Congressman Ryan repeatedly attacked the Obama administration on the economy. He talked about 43 months of unemployment above eight percent but the jobs numbers have been slowly improving. They were better than expected last month. Does that undercut the power of some of these attacks?
CARY: No, I think it doesn't. Because you've still got 23 million Americans out of work. You've still got record high food stamps. We've still got majorities of Americans saying we're on the wrong track.
But to go back to the trajectory of the race, I don't think this changes as much as it did last week. Last week really changed a lot. This week, not so much because I think these vice presidential debates - I was in the debate hall in 1988 when Lloyd Bentsen went after Dan Quayle and really kind of clobbered him and I thought, uh-oh. You know, now, we're really in trouble, and President Bush went on to win 40 out of 50 states. So I don't think the trajectory changed because of this debate. If anything, it gave us a roadmap for what's going to happen next week.
By the president coming out last night and saying, I couldn't be prouder if Joe Biden - after earlier in the week saying, I think I was too polite to Mitt Romney - that telegraphs to me that the president's game plan is going to be very disrespectful, rude, feeding more of this incivility in Washington. That's my prediction for next week. I think we see the Democratic playbook loud and clear right now.
HEADLEE: OK. All right.
ORZULAK: I'd be very surprised if that happens next week.
CARY: Really?
ORZULAK: Yeah.
CARY: We'll see.
HEADLEE: All right. Well, let's get to one...
ORZULAK: I don't think Barack Obama's been rude a day in his life.
HEADLEE: Let's get to one last issue because, finally, we got a mention of at least one issue relating to women and that's when the moderator, Martha Raddatz, posed a question about abortion. Here's a short clip of Congressman Ryan. He's explaining why he's prolife and he's talking here about seeing his first child's sonogram. Take a listen.
RYAN: We saw that heartbeat. Our little baby was in the shape of a bean and, to this day, we've nicknamed our firstborn child, Liza, Bean. Now, I believe that life begins at conception. That's why those are the reasons why I'm prolife.
HEADLEE: So, Mary Kate, this comment was almost immediately all over Twitter. Was this effective?
CARY: Well, personally, I had a very similar experience with a sonogram at six weeks and heard the heartbeat and I think that's becoming more and more common as technology progresses in American society. Right now, the polls show record number of Americans - record low identify themselves as pro-choice. Pro-life, with exceptions, which is what Congressman Ryan was talking about last night, is very much a mainstream view and I think it resonated with people.
I also will say, though, I thought Biden's answer was also very good on the same question of not imposing it on other people and, if you saw the CNN ticker there, people like that, too. Both answers were very, very good.
HEADLEE: All right. Hopefully, we will hear more about these kind of issues in the next presidential debate. That was Mary Kate Cary, a former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush, now a blogger and columnist for U.S. News and World Report. Also with us, Paul Orzulak. He was a speechwriter for President Clinton and with Al Gore during the 2000 election, also spent time with Vice President Biden helping him prepare for last night's debate. They both joined me here in our Washington studio.
Thank you both.
CARY: Thank you.
ORZULAK: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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ATTLEBORO, Mass. – Aaron Hernandez fired the shots that resulted in the death of a semi-pro football player, an alleged accomplice and associate of the former New England Patriots tight end told investigators, according to documents filed in Florida.
The records, obtained by The Associated Press, also show that a vehicle wanted in a double killing in Boston a year before had been rented in Hernandez's name.
Together, the revelations provide the most damning evidence yet against the 23-year-old star athlete.
Hernandez has been charged in the June killing of Boston semi-pro athlete Odin Lloyd. The records say Hernandez associate Carlos Ortiz told Massachusetts investigators that another man, Ernest Wallace, said Hernandez shot Lloyd in an industrial park near Hernandez's home in North Attleborough.
The gun used in the killing has not been found.
The documents were filed in court by the Miramar, Fla., police department to justify a search of Wallace's mother's home in that city.
The records also show that police, while investigating Lloyd's killing, searched in Hernandez's hometown of Bristol, Conn., and found a vehicle wanted in connection with a July 2012 double homicide near a Boston nightclub.
Hernandez has pleaded not guilty in Lloyd's killing. His legal team did not return email messages Tuesday. Wallace faces an accessory to murder charge in the case and has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors say Hernandez, Wallace and Ortiz drove with Lloyd in a rented Nissan Altima to the industrial park where Lloyd was fatally shot.
Ortiz told police that during the drive, Hernandez told Lloyd that Lloyd had been "chilling" with people Hernandez had problems with, the documents say. But Ortiz told police the two men shook hands and the problem seemed smoothed over. However, the Altima soon stopped, and everyone but Ortiz got out to urinate, according to Ortiz's account.
The witness told police he then heard gunshots before Hernandez and Wallace got back into the car without Lloyd and the car sped away.
Ortiz said he couldn't see who fired the shots because it was dark. Back at Hernandez's home, Ortiz said, Wallace asked him to get a small gun out from under the driver's seat. Ortiz said he did and gave it to Hernandez once they were inside.
Ortiz said he then went to sleep. When he woke up in the afternoon, according to his account, the three men returned the Altima and rented a Chrysler 300 before returning to Hernandez's home. Ortiz and Wallace then went to an apartment in the area that Hernandez and other football players used. Wallace let Ortiz in before leaving for a long time, the documents say. The two then drove to Bristol. Ortiz told police Wallace said Hernandez shot Lloyd.
Hernandez, Wallace and Ortiz appear linked through Bristol. Wallace told Florida police he grew up with Hernandez's father. Ortiz's attorney, John Connors, said Tuesday his client, who's athletic and around the age of Hernandez's older brother, is from Bristol.
Meanwhile, eight search warrants were unsealed in Massachusetts after news organizations sought access to them. The warrants reveal the breadth of the investigation, with authorities scouring through everything from Hernandez's house to his phone to the contents of his team locker, which the Patriots emptied into a container after they released him.
A rifle, ammunition and video surveillance equipment were among the items police seized from Hernandez's home.
Records show Hernandez, who played tight end, became "argumentative" during his first encounter with police at his home about five hours after Lloyd's body was found by a jogger. Hernandez told police he had last seen Lloyd in Boston the day before. He asked, "What's with all the questions?" and locked the door behind him.
He then returned with his attorney's business card but didn't respond when police told him they were investigating a death, the records show.
"Mr. Hernandez slammed the door and relocked it behind him," the records read. "Mr. Hernandez did not ask officers whose death was being investigated. Mr. Hernandez's demeanor did not indicate any concern for the death of any person."
Hernandez came out later and agreed to be questioned at a police station.
The documents also say Hernandez called his girlfriend's cellphone and stopped her from speaking with police after they pulled her over and told her Lloyd was dead.
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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