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Blood: What's in It, Anyway?
Though blood is often thought of as a single substance, it actually consists of many separate components. In fact, blood contains 45 percent cells and 55 percent plasma, which is mostly water. Plasma also contains dissolved proteins, sugar (glucose), carbon dioxide, hormones, and minerals. White blood cells (WBCs) and red blood cells (RBCs) are the cell types found within blood, in addition to cell fragments (platelets).
When a patient's blood is drawn for tests, it commonly goes to a lab in a tube where it is centrifuged, meaning that a machine quickly spins it so that gravity separates the most dense parts of the blood from the least dense parts. Red blood cells, the most dense part, fall to the bottom, while plasma, the least dense part, is on the top. In between the red blood cells and the plasma is a white band that with white blood cells & platelets, making up less than one percent of blood.
A Closer Look at Blood Cells
Blood cells are produced from blood stem cells in the bone marrow of large bones, such as the pelvis, sternum, and long bones. White blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets are all produced in the marrow and then enter the bloodstream for circulation.
Red Blood Cells
Red blood cells, also known as erythrocytes, are flattened and disc-like, characteristics that result from the absence of a nucleus and other cell parts, found in most cells. This unique shape gives RBCs more surface area to take on and release oxygen. Additionally, they are small and flexible, allowing them to move, single-file, through capillaries, the smallest blood vessels.
RBCs contain a protein molecule called hemoglobin, which is designed to carry oxygen throughout the body. Each molecule of hemoglobin contains four iron atoms, and each iron atom carries one molecule of oxygen. Iron is responsible for giving RBCs their red color. However, blood can take on many different shades of red. The blood found in arteries carries oxygen from the lungs, making it a brighter shade of red. Alternatively, the blood found in veins, which released its oxygen, has a bluish color.
In blood there are more RBCs than any other kind of cell. In fact, there are two to three million RBCs made every second, and it takes only 20 seconds for an RBC to circulate throughout the body. One RBC contains 250 to 270 hemoglobin molecules; therefore it holds one billion molecules of oxygen. However, the amount of red blood cells varies between men and women. The percent of RBCs in whole blood (hematocrit) is 42 to 54 percent for men and 38 to 45 percent for women.
White Blood Cells
White blood cells, specialize in fighting infections and healing injury. When the body is injured or invaded by a germs, such as bacteria, many white blood cells quickly migrate to that location to start the infection fighting process. There are several kinds of blood cells and each one has a different role in the process in fighting invaders. For example, some cells make antibodies to the invader making it easier to destroy, others attack the invader directly and others assist in the healing process. The main kinds of white blood cells are neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils.
A White Blood Cell count measures the number of white cells in one drop of blood. The number can increase with infection and conditions such as allergy, injury, and leukemia. The number can decrease with certain virus infections, chemotherapy and leukemia. When a WBC count is very low, a person is at more risk for infection. Tests that analyze white blood cells give important clues to the cause of many conditions.
Why Plasma Matters
Adults have 3 liters of plasma in their body, which is comprised of mostly water. However, the plasma contains many other substances, also. Plasma consists of nutrients such as glucose, amino acids, vitamins and minerals, and blood proteins such as antibodies, hormones, and factors responsible for making the blood clot. It also transports the molecules for hormones, vitamins, and minerals, and it is extremely important for the transportation RBCs, WBCs and platelets. Without the plasma, there would be no way for these components to travel throughout the body.
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On April 22, gold prices decreased from a maximum of $1,203.50 to below $1,190. There were no conclusion reached at the meeting of the euro group on April 24 regarding the economic reform for Greece, including its possible exit from the euro zone, were delayed.
According to Reuters, this drop of gold prices was also influenced by the strong housing data in U.S. by National Association of Realtors which stated that sales increased its highest level in more than a year.
On Thursday 23 prices remained stable with no remarkable ups and downs between $1,180 and $1,190 while dollar was rallying from last crash. On Friday 24 gold prices landed hard and hit the lowest of the week with $1,176, and were stable during weekend at nearly $1,180.
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The Wall Street Journal published a book review by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey yesterday. Judge Mukasey (as I will refer to him here) is one great American. He was the trial judge in the case of the Blind Sheikh and a man who answered the call of duty by resigning from the bench to take the position of Attorney General for the last two years of the Bush administration. He is a man who knows what he is talking about whenever he talks, and he is therefore always worth listening to.
The book under review is a memoir by Philip Mudd of his 24 years as an intelligence analyst at the CIA and FBI. As Judge Mukasey explains, "[h]e was part of the small team sent to aid anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan in the days after 9/11 and then, in January 2002, was appointed second-in-command of the CIA's new Office of Terrorism Analysis, the division of the Counterterrorism Center (CTC) where hundreds of analysts were assembled to gather information about al Qaeda." For a period of time Mudd managed the information about terrorism in the "holy grail" of U.S. intelligence: the President's Daily Brief. The book sounds like must reading, but what really caught my attention was Judge Mukasey's personal testimony:
As attorney general from 2007 to 2009, I was among the beneficiaries of Mr. Mudd's expertise at daily morning briefings at FBI headquarters. The complex threat streams were laid out, as was our need to rely on the often uneven work of hundreds of field offices and to fashion on-the-fly metrics to measure threats and successes. Mr. Mudd quotes with approval Secretary of State Colin Powell saying before a briefing. "Tell me what you know. Tell me what you don't know. And then tell me what you think." "I always thought," Mr. Mudd continues, "that any conversation about the intelligence the briefer provided every morning should clearly articulate the differences between the three, along with the even more clearly defined separation from the fourth, non-intelligence, pillar: discuss the policy question, what we should do about the problem that's just been defined."
When the Obama administration took over in 2009, Mr. Mudd was asked to serve as head of intelligence of the Department of Homeland Security. He would have been ideal for the job, but the president had come to power vowing to punish those who, in his view, had gone beyond permissible bounds in the treatment of captured terrorists, including the then still-classified interrogation program administered, with Justice Department approval, by the CIA. Mr. Mudd, as he concedes in the book, had known about the program. And he may or may not have participated in a decision to send a detainee to another country for questioning—the so-called "rendition" procedure introduced during the Clinton administration. ("I couldn't remember," he notes, "which seemed to be a dodge unless you'd been involved in the variety and intensity of activities the Center had underway while I was there.")
His nomination became controversial and one day he found that the White House lawyers who had been preparing him for his confirmation hearing failed to show up for a scheduled meeting: "Even an amateur analyst," he notes, "could read that writing on the wall." He withdrew from consideration and resigned from government service in 2010, at age 47. There are, of course, thousands of employees throughout the government charged with protecting our welfare. But there are few like Philip Mudd, and we can ill afford to lose any of them to the toxic posturing of the political classes.
Andy McCarthy prosecuted the case against the Blind Sheikh before Judge Mukasey. When Eric Holder was nominated to succeed Judge Mukasey as Attorney General, McCarthy opposed Holder without apology, based on his own experience. McCarthy turned to Holder's role in "the terrorist pardons" issued by President Clinton at the close of his administration. These included the pardon of Susan Rosenberg, the subject of George Russell's great Commentary essay. In his 2009 NRO column McCarthy recalled:
As it happens, I know a great deal about the Rosenberg case. For over a year prior to Clinton's commutation of her richly deserved 58-year sentence, it was mine.
At the time, I was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York — the office from which Holder was desperate to conceal his stove-piped pardon process since our knowledge of the Rich case would have blown to bits the absurd but unrefuted arguments [attorney Jack] Quinn was permitted to make directly to President Clinton.
Our office had indicted Rosenberg in the mid-Eighties in connection with the infamous Brinks robbery, in which the Weather Underground, together with the Black Liberation Army, killed two New York State troopers and a security guard. Rosenberg was never tried for the crime because, like Rich, she became a fugitive. Unlike Rich, however, Rosenberg spent her years on the lam plotting to kill more police officers, military personnel and American government officials. In November 1984, she and a cohort were captured in New Jersey. They had an arsenal worthy of a small army and were in the throes of plots to bomb more government buildings and slaughter more innocent people.
Rosenberg turned her New Jersey terrorism trial into a circus, posturing as a political prisoner. At her sentencing, she urged her supporters to continue their war against the United States. ("When we were first captured we said, we're caught, we're not defeated, long live the armed struggle. We'd like to take this moment to rededicate ourselves to our revolutionary principles, to our commitment to continue to fight for the defeat of U.S. imperialism.") She expressed remorse about only one thing: she hadn't had the courage to shoot it out with the police who'd apprehended her.
Her brazen barbarism moved a highly respected federal judge not only to impose the 58-year sentence but to recommend against parole (within the limits of then-existing law, under which convicts "maxed out" after two thirds of their jail terms). Southern District U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani then dismissed the Brinks charges: not because Rosenberg was innocent but because there had already been a grueling trial that Rosenberg didn't deign to attend while she was out plotting murder and mayhem. There was no need for the pandemonium a second Rosenberg trial promised: the New Jersey sentence should have kept her on ice for at least 20 and, more likely, well over 30 years.
I got involved in the case because her clever lawyers — from high-octane Williams & Connolly, the same firm which had represented President Clinton in the impeachment process — tried to convince a judge to order the U.S. Parole Commission not to consider her participation in the Brinks atrocity. Their hope was that this would open the way for the commission to grant their terrorist client an early release. Ultimately, after a long, often heated litigation, they lost. (It has long been the law that sentencing courts and the Parole Commission may take into account any conduct, even if the defendant has been acquitted — which Rosenberg, of course, had not been.)
I finally persuaded the judge to rule against Rosenberg. Unbelievably, President Clinton then pardoned the terrorist — or, to be more precise, Clinton commuted the sentence to time-served, resulting in Rosenberg's immediate release. The commutation was announced along with the Rich pardon. So was Clinton's equally astounding decision to commute the 40-year terrorism sentence of Rosenberg's co-conspirator, Linda Sue Evans. At the time of her arrest, Evans, who had harbored a fugitive fellow Weatherman terrorist from the Brinks murders and used a fake ID to buy a gun for Rosenberg, possessed hundreds of pounds of explosives with which she and her comrades were plotting to bomb the U.S. Capitol and various military installations. (Interestingly, Evans and Rosenberg were confederates of President-elect Obama's friends, the former terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Dohrn, in fact, did a short stint in jail for contempt of court when she defied a grand jury subpoena compelling testimony about the Brinks case.)
As you might imagine, I was stunned (as were others in my office) when the Rosenberg pardon was announced on January 20, 2001. I had publicly filed, among other things, a 60-page brief in the district court laying out the history of the Rosenberg case, refuting her frivolous arguments against the Parole Commission's consideration of the Brinks evidence, and marshaling innumerable reasons why her sentence shouldn't be reduced by a single minute.
To be sure, Clinton administration deliberations over the Rosenberg commutation were not as secretive as those involving Rich. While Quinn and Holder worked completely in stealth, Rosenberg's lawyers tried a two-pronged approach: a short public relations campaign (timed for the end of Clinton's term to make it difficult to coordinate an effective response) combined with exploitation of the Clinton White House's bizarre pardon vetting operation — the very one that Holder, the deputy attorney general, had encouraged in order to cut the Justice Department, and particularly the Southern District, out of Clinton's deliberations.
So in October 2000 a story broke in the New York press that Rosenberg would seek clemency from Clinton. Then, in mid-December, 60 Minutes ran a sympathetic profile, rehashing her attorneys' bogus claims. Our office was tipped off enough to register opposition to a commutation through the normal Justice Department channels. We assumed that this information, especially in a time of terrorist assault against our nation (on which more momentarily), ensured that no commutation would be granted. But unbeknownst to us (though, of course, not to Holder), the game wasn't being played by the regular rules. Rosenberg, it turned out, had her own Jack Quinn-like intercessor: Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the New York Democrat who pressed her case directly on the president.
As Clinton administration Deputy Attorney General, McCarthy notes, Holder signed off on "the terrorist pardons." With Rosenberg's Weather Underground buddy "Professor" Kathy Boudin in the news this week, McCarthy's recollection is timely once again and, like Judge Mukasey's, a reminder of the character of the Obama administration.
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"If you're really passionate about what you do, but it's not going to make you a lot of money, should you still do it?"
What a great question! It seems like just about everyone who has ever addressed a graduating class of high school or college seniors has said "Do what you love, the money will follow."
Inspiring. But it is true? Couldn't you do what you truly care about and very well go broke, as the question above (recently sent from one of our readers) implies?
Based on the research we did for our book, we're convinced that when you're heading into the unknown, desire is all-important. You simply want to be doing something that you love, or something that is logically going to lead to something you love, in order to do your best work. That desire will make you more creative and more resourceful, and will help you get further faster.
And, it will help you persist. When you're trying something that's never been attempted before — beginning an unusual project at work, or trying to get a new business off the ground — you're going to face a lot of obstacles. You don't want to be giving up the first time you encounter one.
But, let's be real. None of this guarantees wealth, or even financial success.
A friend of ours was hanging out at a bar with a few fellow professional musicians after a recording session, talking admiringly about another musician they all know. One of them commented on how fortunate it was for this musician that his music was commercial. In those four words, you will find an enormous truth. We all have our music and there is no guarantee that anyone will buy it. Absolutely none. These are two entirely separate things.
So this reader question attacks us straight on and says, in essence, "I have the desire, but I am pretty certain it's not going to lead anywhere that's monetarily profitable. Now what? Should I still go ahead?"
Of course you should.
Now let's qualify the answer a bit:
If you can't afford to do the thing you're passionate about — for example, if you do it, you won't be able to feed your family, or it would keep you from graduating college (which is something you think is more important than whatever you're passionate about) — then no, you'd better not bet your economic life on it. A basic principle concerning how you should deal with an unknown future is that every small smart step you take should leave you alive to take the next step. So, make sure you attend to your lower order Maslow needs of food and shelter and the like.
But even this doesn't mean you can't work on your passion a little — even if it's just for 15 minutes a day.
And you should!
Research (such as The Power of Small Wins that ran in Harvard Business Review May, 2011) shows that people who make progress every day toward something they care about report being satisfied and fulfilled.
We're in favor of people being happy. And we're also in favor of provoking people into pursuing happiness. The nice thing about this reader's question is that it might get people who have — by any objective standard — more than enough money to reconsider whether they want to continue to do things that are not making them happy, just because it'll make them more money. More often than not, these people say, "Once I get enough money, I'll do what I really want to do. I won't worry about the money." But somehow, they never get to that point. Time is finite. The question might be enough to get you to reconsider how you're spending it.
And of course, the assumption embedded in the question could be wrong. You might, indeed, end up making money if you engage in your passion, even though you currently think you won't. Remember, the future is unknown. Who knows what people will buy, or what you might invent after your very next act. At any moment in time, you are only one thought away from an insight — an insight that can change everything.
As we said in our previous post, when you are facing the unknown, they only way to know anything for sure is to act. When you are dealing with uncertainty — and whether you are going to make any money from your passion at this point is definitely an uncertainty — you act. You don't think about what might happen, or try to predict the outcome, or plan for every contingency. You take a small step toward making it a reality, and you see what happens.
Who knows? Even the smallest step can change everything.
So take those small steps. You might discover that your passion does, in fact, make you money. After all, who knew you could make huge amounts of money figuring out a way to connect all your friends ( Facebook) or make a better map (pick your favorite GPS tool).
Even if you don't, you want to spend part of your day doing at least one thing that's making you happy. Otherwise, something is terribly wrong.
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have you read one of the latest posts on empty emptor? i think a lot do think that fashion blogging is, for the most part, quite dead. it's sad. sorry to hear about your crazy housing situation—that's not cool! i miss reading my old favourites too. i think i am a bit guilty myself since i stopped about fashion per se :PReplyDelete
Yes, I have! It actually came out while I was writing this post, and well, captured what I meant much more eloquently, haha. I should have linked to it, as it most likely influenced me more than I thought when I first put this post together. I think that even though you don't exclusively blog about fashion anymore, there's still a sense of continuity with what you do in the way your personal voice is still very present in the blogosphere, which I think is great. I don't miss fashion blogging in general per se as much as the voice of my favourite bloggers who wrote about other things as well. This is probably going to sound corny, but, erm, it's like losing a friend in a way, you know?Delete
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Forecasters say a tropical storm warning is in effect from La Paz to Cabo San Lazaro, while a tropical storm watch is in effect north of Cabo San Lazaro to Puerto San Andresito and north of La Paz to San Evaristo.
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Benight with one 'n' looks so weird. They're probably the weird side of the family.=)ReplyDelete
Actually, I've seen Bennight/Benight spelled both ways for the same person, even in the same paragraph on these old records. It seems like people didn't obsess over correct spelling so much 150 years ago. (I agree, though, it's hard to get used to seeing it spelled "wrong")ReplyDelete
This is my tree. & yes we are the bat-crap crazy side :P William was my great-great-grandfather. His third wife was the mother of his daughter-in-law Elizabeth Lucinda Gimlin Benight Chandler. (This can get confusing here... He was a widow & father to Wesley Grant Benight, & Mary was a widow & mother to "Lizzie" & they hooked up & had the twins Bessie & Jessie.ReplyDelete
William was born in Vigo County Indiana. From what I have researched in the Benight history is that there were two brothers, one family spelled the name with one "N" & the other with 2 "N"'s actually this is how I keep them strait. I'm glad your side chose to spell it wrong, lol! Here is where you run into another problem though- "my" William was William Danford Benight. In his civil war records his name is spelled William B Benight & ALSO William B Bennight-- the b was supposed to be a D, the military wrote it down wrong- Anyhoo- much info about this side.Replies
Hey! Great to hear from you, Cindee70. And thanks for the info about the Gimlins, I didn't know that. I saw a note on Find A Grave about that middle initial B versus D. Things like that can drive me crazy when I'm trying to figure out who's who. And what about Bennights showing up on records as Bennetts? I'll keep my less-common name, thank you! It makes the research easier.Delete
No problem Loraine, I have been working on my family tree for about 13 years & it can get confusing at times. The Bennights and the Benights are related. There is a free google book about the names & spellings all being related to the Bennett name. Google "Benight Bennett" in google books, should bring it up. Family legend is the name originally was Benoit, & family origins were southern France, to England, to America... Americanized name was Bennett, Benet, Bennet, & Benight. Also our side has always pronounced the name as "BUH night". I'm always searching for new info.ReplyDelete
I've heard those stories about the variations of the name, too. Fascinating, huh? So you pronounce it BUH-night? That means it doesn't rhyme for my blog title. If you live in the south, I can certainly imagine that BUH-night is the way to say it. I've heard people from the south pronounce my name LO-raine. If you would like to view my family tree on Ancestry, shoot me your email address and 'll send an invitation.ReplyDelete
I remember my Gpa Denferd Benight (his name was supposed to be Danford named after William Danford Benight but they wrote it down in the birth records, etc so they ended up calling him Denford) saying that his family always pronounced it BUH-night. Gpa Benight's father, (Wesley) paid a man to run for land in the Ok land run, a claim was staked & Wes & family moved from Illinois to OK by covered wagon. I'm sure they had a blast with 8 kids yelling "are we there yet?!" GPA Benight was the youngest #9 & he wasn't born until 1910 in OK. There are a bevy of Benight's in OK. Mainly in Eastern Ok, around Tulsa area.ReplyDelete


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Yesterday I was reading the Anchoress' piece on Andrew Cuomo and the link to Deacon Greg. I found it extremely depressing but for reasons you might not suspect.
Not for the concept of the new abortion regulations, I'm resigned to democrats pushing for such things.
Not for the potential slaughter, The current slaughter is already depressing and frankly the world is full of slaughter from Africa to China to Mexico to Chicago, there is never a shortage of innocents murdered to be upset about.
Not even for the cheers as he made the proposition. I'm into history, the idea of a mob cheering evil as if it's good has a long and distinguished pedigree.
No what depresses me about Andrew Cuomo is the same thing that depresses me about the Monsignor Kevin Wallin story.
They both knew better or at least should have.
It's not like they have the youth of a Lindsay Lohan or a Amanda Bynes to explain their behavior, or the ignorance of many of those born in the last few decades who have never been taught differently or exposed to the word and came of age in a culture that mocks it at every turn.
Andrew Cuomo was born in 1955 eight years before me, His father Mario was born in 1932 11 years after my own. Both were raised Catholic, Andrew being sent to a Catholic High School. Both have been clearly taught the precepts of the Church and of Christ. Being Italian Catholics it is impossible they did not have one or move strongly devout relatives or in Mario's case devout parents who set an example of faith and what it means.
Likewise Wallin at 61 not only came to age in a different era but as a Catholic priest would have had formal training and teaching in the Gospels, in the faith. These are not things that would be abstract to him, these would be things that would be understood.
Additionally both Cuomo's and the former Monsignor (he left the church in 2011) by virtue of their place in society would have direct access to superiors in the faith, people of vast knowledge and understanding able to give them advice and guidance, access that an average Catholic simply doesn't.
Yet they have discarded it like the wrapping of a gift at Christmas. Tossed it for pride in the case of Cuomo, lust in the case of Wallin and greed in the case of both.
The question is why?
Well the easy answer, the one that is most comfortable and least challenging is simple human weakness. These are sins, all people are vulnerable to sin. It is tempting to look at Mr. Cuomo and Msgr Wallin and say to ourselves: "They have given into sin, we are all sinners so rather than critique we should simply pray for them", Indeed we should pray for them, but that answer while comforting to us permits us to ignore a most uncomfortable reality.
Both Mr. Cuomo and Msgr Wallin are intelligent and educated men. At ages 55 & 61 they both understand they at the very least a decade closer to death than to birth and like all of us are marching relentlessly toward it. This being the case, what do their choices tell us?
They tell us when it comes to Christ, they simply don't buy it.
They don't buy God, they don't buy Christ, they don't buy the idea of heaven and hell and they certainly don't buy these words from the Gospel:
"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few. " Matt 7:13-14
They simply see the world in front of them as the only end and a supposed faith as a means to those ends. As Elizabeth Scalia bluntly put it concerning NY's Governor:
"Yeah, well, he's not seeking heaven, just now," I shrugged. "He's seeking the White House, and power."
Of course he's not seeking heaven Elizabeth, he doesn't believe it's there! For such a person Mass is a formality for electoral purposes or more likely a comfortable habit akin to Sheldon Cooper knocking on a door three times.
As I said on the air on the Money Matters Radio Network in my first broadcast as a guest host yesterday. The only reason to be Christian in general and Catholic in particular is because it's true. If it's not true the we are an Elk's club that meets on Sundays and the rules of morality that take away from your wealth or comfort are the rules of fools and no amount of belief will make it otherwise. If it's not true I'm a sucker for not walking across the bridge to Water street and buying every EBT card I can for .50 on the dollar and doubling my available grocery money in seconds.
But the converse is also true. If Jesus Christ is the Son of God, if the Gospel is the word of God, if the bread and wine are transformed at the altar into the body and blood of Christ and if heaven and hell exist, then no amount of disbelief, doubt or laughter will change it.
The tragedy of Andrew Cuomo and of Kevin Wallin is not solely in what they have done and choose to do driven by either the lust for power, sex, money or even drug addiction in Wallin's case.
The tragedy of their actions is they knew better and were taught better and are intelligent enough to understand better, yet are still walking toward the open-pit. Watching them walk toward it is like watching a Lindsay Lohan or a Amanda Bynes self destruct. It's a waste, it bothers me, it doesn't have to happen.
But Andrew Cuomo and Kevin Wallin have one thing going for them, one card still in play:
And he told them this parable: "There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, he said to the gardener, 'For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. (So) cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?'
He said to him in reply, 'Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it;it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.'" Luke 13:6-9
Cuomo, Wallin, myself and anyone who is reading this still has that one vital ingredient to avoid the pit in front of us. We are still alive. I'll do my best to steer clear of it, you do the same and I hope and pray that Mr. Cuomo and Wallin do too. They have the rest of their lives to do so….
…after that, they're on their own.


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In percolation much work has been done on the critical probability, since it is strictly between $0$ and $1$ in every non-trivial model; however, in $r$-neighbour bootstrap percolation the critical probability is of no interest, since every lattice has critical probability $0$ or $1$.
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The [lastfm]Foo Fighters[/lastfm] are back. After a four year lapse in new material, most bands would be content with just releasing a new album. But Dave Grohl and co. aren't like most bands, and they are celebrating their return with a bigger bang than most are even capable of. Last week, the band's documentary Back And Forth hit theaters; today, their new record Wasting Light hits stores AND the band gives an exclusive Live On Letterman performance to celebrate. And finally, this Record Store Day the group is releasing a covers album, Medium Rare, on limited edition vinyl available only in shops. Wowza.
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Grade-A authentic rock, of course. The [lastfm]Foo Fighters[/lastfm] offer eleven no-holds barred face-scorching, ear-meltingly loud rock songs that are rawer than steak bleu and catchier than the bubonic plague.
In true Foo fashion, songs leap from quiet verses and tight guitar chugs to throat-tearing shouts and explosive chords that somehow maintain a semblance of a melody. Wasting Light sounds like the boys are still having fun together, but no zany videos are necessary to prove that this time. These songs are succinct heavy hitters, crammed with a sound so full and alive it'll make any causal listener jump at learning this is the [lastfm]Foo Fighters[/lastfm]' seventh studio album.
Of course, who is a casual listener of the Foos anyways? The band has already solidified themselves as one of the greatest, friendliest, and entertaining living rock bands of their generation. Just ask Johnny from NY:
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Updated Monday March 12, 8.12am: If you didn't make it to Paris this weekend, see a preview from inside the exhibition celebrating the work of two men who have changed the face of fashion and style in their times - Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs.
Vuitton, who founded the luggage label in 1854; and Jacobs, who launched its ready-to-wear offering in 1997 and has held the creative director post since then, may superficially have little in common - but the exhibition links them as innovators and creators, who both advanced their industries in their time.
"More an invitation to analysis than a traditional retrospective, the parallel stories of Vuitton and Jacobs permit an in-depth look at the fashion industry during two decisive periods," a release from the label explains, "one beginning with 19th Century industrialisation and the other peaking in 21st Century globalisation."
Updated Wednesday February 29, 9.37am: Marc Jacobs says that the making of his forthcoming Louis Vuitton exhibition, which looks at his 15-year reign at the French fashion house, was an "emotional" experience.
"I guess some places I got very emotional just thinking about what the circumstances were when we were doing some things, remembering certain anecdotes or stories, situations, and where we were," said Jacobs. "Whether it was at Rue du Bac or whether we'd just moved to Rue du Pont Neuf or what our team was like when we were five people as opposed to 50 people. So I guess I wouldn't say it was nostalgic, but I had some emotional moments looking at the content of the exhibition. But more than even emotions, it feels kind of joyous, we've done all that and then we're in the process of doing something new. It's not the end of anything."
Not a fan of fashion exhibitions, it took a while for Jacobs to work out how to show his work in a way he felt comfortable with.
"I always find it a bit difficult to deal with the idea of fashion and museums and I've said that before," he explained. "And I think curators have a kind of cerebral, heady, comparative narrative thing going on. For me the reward of doing what we do is doing it, not when it's done. And when people wear it and love it and covet it or can't wait to have it, whatever it is. So I think my attitude towards the whole thing was that I was very flattered, but how do we make this experience of what fashion is all about - which is the joy."
Far from traditional static fashion displays, Jacobs' exhibit will focus on the "life" of his work and will entice visitors with interactive and animated elements.
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Updated Wednesday January 4, 12.18am: Louis Vuitton's hotly-anticipated Louis Vuitton- Marc Jacobs exhibition will open at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris on March 9 until September 16. A celebration of the designer's 15-year-long reign at the luxury label, the exhibition will be curated by leading fashion author and lecturer Pamela Golbin.
The showcase will look at both Jacobs' and Vuitton's contributions to the fashion world, seperately as well as together once Jacobs joined the 158-year-old label in 1997. The space will cover two floors, with each dedicated to one of the two exhibition subjects. Visitors can expect to see Jacobs' most famous designs for the French fashion house, alongside a selection of Vuitton's iconic trunks.
Updated Monday May 16, 9.16am: Marc Jacobs is set to become the subject of a new exhibition at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris, which will look at the designer's work for Louis Vuitton since he took over the creative reigns in 1997.
The display will also pay tribute to the iconic fashion house's eponymous designer, who started out his career as a trunkmaker in 1854. The museum's curator plans to showcase two different periods in the label's history - the industrial revolution of the 19th Century and the globalisation of contemporary fashion.
According to WWD, specific dates have not yet been announced although the exhibition is thought to take place next year.
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On The Street……Cardigan Rocker, Nolita
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I think it's enough with the bootleg pants for men now, I'm trying to phase them out of my wardrobe.But the top half is pretty cool, minus the face and the hair.So just the cardi,the tie and the shirt then.Ok.
Black, white, vertical, horizontal…
check out
that hair
Is that . . . is that Doc Hammer?
thats fucking awsome.
I love his look! extremely Rock'n Roll, very cool. The black and white seems to be going strong here in London as well and skulls are absolutelly everywhere…
This guy works this look well, but very men can get away with this. Really, there are only a handful of cities where you can pull this look off.
Not for the faint of heart. But this gentleman works it perfectly.
If it weren't for the stripes on the sweater and the sunglasses, his clothes would look exactly like the winter uniform of the boys' school across the road from my high school years. And good they looked, too.
Have you noticed that the three main men's looks these days derive from either Ivy/Prep, Rat Pack or Rocker and this is seem to be a blend of Prep Rocker, which is not easy to pull of. Robert
Go team Venture…
It's Franz Ferdinand meets A.F.I. Very cool.
It's the hair too! Always makes me wonder if the entire wardrobe fits this colour scheme. Guess it's pretty passe these days to get highlights/colours to simply accentuate one's skintone!!!
it seems to be all about the skull and bones this season in everything.
Just beautiful this cardigan!
Looks like a very poor fly costume for halloween . . .
I dig the stripes.
Very slim, the tie tucked into the sweater is a nice touch.
The bags on both arms are funny. It adds a weird weight to the picture… in an interesting and good way.
i can't decide if i like this look or not. individually all the elements work, but when placed on his tall, slender frame the proportions start to compete. fun belt buckle peeking out, though
I say he looks great, even though he could have done something more interesting than the River Phoenix haircut. As to the skull and bones, is that a belt buckle, on the end of his tie, or on the bottom of the cardi?
Warhol, Warhol, Warhol.
Love the thin tie, gotta get one!
By the way Sart, I think your photos are great, I'm impressed by the way you handle your subjects regarding pose, (or lack of) and depth of field and background detail.
Any chance you could say what equipment you use?
Yes, I thought Andy Warhol, too!
I agree that the bootcuts are soo played out on guys. Slim fit or straight leg for me…such a nicer shape and it makes guys improve their posture as well. Like the blond hair though–an improvement on the hipster mess uniform hair.
I'm glad you're back in NY for the best season for fall, the best season for Fashion. Paris and Milan are boring to see–style is the norm. here, they are jewels in the rough.
yeah… dandy+geek was the concept of our men clothing collection, very accurate,
The hair is natural, if that is indeed Doc Hammer of Venture Bros fame. Read his wiki (linked above, courtsey of anonymous) if you're curious to know about the hair color.
I feel he pulls off this look quite well.
Oh, yes. I like it.
love this.
Oh it's definitely Doc Hammer of "The Venture Brothers" fame. There are other pictures of him on the web showcasing his interesting style although I think it works mostly because he's so slim.
get over it. he is trying way too hard and definitely not pulling off the look. obviously much older than he is trying to look. the dyed hair and outfit is a big stretch for this guy. people should learn to dress according to who they really are. dont try to be something that you aren't.
assuming this is not an expression of who he is may not be entirely accurate or fair.
What a great cardie!
i actually don't like this. maybe he looks too skinny – which isn't normally a problem – or maybe it's the crispin glover haircut. i think he should not have gone with a white shirt. it's a little bit too moddish goth.
So stylish :-)
Could be a women's silhouette these days too !
i like the sweater! and well yea very Brit.
Too Mod/Goth? That sounds like a perfect combo to me. And I don't remember seeing it pulled off this well before.
Hee! Hilarious comments. This beautiful man is a huge Goth from back in the days when that meant something. So, no, he's not trying to hard to be something he's not. This is what grow-up Goths look like. This is our fashion legacy to you, glad you enjoy it. Plus he's hot, and exceeedingly, disgustingly talented. Yum.
Doc Hammer as always looks amazing!
lol @ all the people crying about his natural hair colors.
people are calling him out on his dye-job. from what I understand, his hair naturally does that.
ADORE this man.
People, people, that is not a hair bleach or dye job. The gentleman in the picture is Doc Hammer, an artist in a number of medias who has a skin condition called vitiligo which causes loss of pigment in the skin. In this case his scalp; thus the white streak in his hair. Research a subject before so cruelly making fun of a person's style.
He is beautiful, isn't he? *sigh*
Its Doc Hammer for christsake he's allowed to pull of whatever he wants…
Now only if I could get him in bed.
Thats Doc Hammer! Go Team Venture!
Dyed hair? Guess again. That's natural sweeties.
Also, can anyone else see a little "dean" in his lanky-ness?
Anyone who's hair naturally grows those colors can wear whatever he wants. I fully love the way Doc dresses.
love of my life
Doc Hammer could make a used sweat suit look stylish, he is just that cool. I think I'm in love! I love the cardigan, and I am a sucker for a man in a tie. Attention guys: ties are awesome; please wear them more often!
still the love of my life. yes, this is the second time i have commented on an ancient post.


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Think locally act globally!
|Rachel Carson
May 27, 1907-Apr 14, 1964
It is easy to be a good guy, all you have to do is label yourself as an environmentalist. I certainly don't want to take anything away from the true custodians of the environment that work hard to protect nature from harm, like Carson and many others, but what hurts the environment on the other side of the earth certainly hurts us here. If you want to see what I'm talking about, go to the beach and try to decide where the junk washing up on our shores is coming from. For the most part... it ain't ours. What are we doing about that? Beside continually picking it up!
Recently we've had to wonder if some of the junk from Japan might be radioactive flotsam from the Fukushima Nuclear plant. It was built to withstand a 7.2 earthquake, but it wasn't designed to withstand a tidal wave. How do they ever plan to sell us on the idea that nuclear power is safe if they can't even get past an earthquake. Japan is capable of providing an even larger quake than they had that caused the Fukushima disaster. Why aren't we all screaming for better standards? Not just here, but world-wide. They have sold us (some of us) on the idea that we "live in a world economy now" so they can sell us cheap products that can be made cheaply offshore, but at what expense? What countries adhere to the high environmental standards that we here in the U.S. do? Certainly not China.
Our chances of a dam being placed across the Golden Gate are ZERO, because, rightfully every environmentalist in America would be against it. Man woman and child would be screaming at the top of their lungs that it shouldn't happen. Politician's heads would roll, there would be rioting in the streets, there would be pandemonium. Soooo… why is it okay with all of us "environmentalists", that are so busy "thinking globally and acting locally", while using cheap Chinese products and being grateful for the "good buy" that we are getting? Shouldn't we be thinking locally and acting GLOBALLY?
They say that the Three Gorges Dam generates as much power as 15 nuclear power plants, but at what cost? The kinds of fish in the river will change, the valleys are gone, the antiquities are gone. The birds and animal life will change. Some say the they worlds weather will change because of the size of the dam. There are theories that the dam will cause earthquakes due to the weight of the water. The people that used to live in the valleys and grow their own food are no longer able to do so. The displaced people were moved in to large apartment complexes in the cities. I can't believe that they are, in any way, happier. Our own local second district supervisor, Clif Clendenen, just lost his job, in part, because he suggested that the people that live in the hills should move to town where they would be easier to care for. Say What??? Not many people like living in a town compared to having their own space and garden in the country. So, why did we, in the rest of the world, allow China to do this to their people? Shouldn't we have been fighting for them to be left on their farms? If we live in a "world economy" we should darn well have some say over what the rest of the world does to the environment and their people. Too bad we don't have a vote in this "World Economy" that we live in.
Eric Kirk just did a post on GMO foods, and whether or not they should be labeled. It starts out like it's about Kepler, but it ends up about GMO labeling. It was one of the most interesting discussions that I've ever seen on a blog. The comments were educated and articulate. My only hope is that GMO foods would be labeled. If your are going to sell me food, you should be obligated to tell me all about it. One of the points that was made was that we would need genetically modified foods to feed the world. Maybe so, but we wouldn't need GMO foods if we had more space to grow natural food. In our own valleys we have replaced prime agriculture land with brick and mortar industry. A good example of that is "Silicone Valley" thousand of prune and walnut trees were removed from the San Jose Valley to make room for buildings. The buildings would have probably been better placed in the foothills and the valleys left for agriculture, quite the opposite of the plan to move everybody to the cities. Sadly, The San Jose valley was known by the Indians as The Valley of the Acorn Oaks. The oak trees were removed to plant prunes and walnuts. I don't necessarily disapprove of planting a better crop, as long as in doesn't glow in the dark, like some GMO plants. Or if it glows in the dark, it should be at least labeled that does that.
I guess my whole point is, why are some of our "environmentalists" so darned obstructionalistic locally, when they don't seem not to care a rat's patooty about what the rest of the world does.
Link: Three Gorges dam
link: 17 facts about the three gorges dam


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Palestinian Children's Author Reports on Holy Fire in Jerusalem
At the Orthodox Institute this fall Dr. Maria Khoury of Palestine will present the keynote address. Maria is known for her reflections on life in the Holy Land, which circulate to a wide readership by e-mail. Many appreciate her writings as a personal window into the land of our Christian heritage. I received one of her e-mails recently from Ms. Phyllis Onest which describes what is known as the Holy Fire in Jerusalem. I enclose both the introduction by Phyllis, and Maria's description of the Holy Fire. During her time in the States, Maria will be available to come to parishes and present on life in the Holy Land and her affordable housing project, and to sign her Christina children's book series. If you are interested in hosting Maria, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
From Phyllis:
Maria Khoury, author of the Christina book series, and her family live in the last Christian village in Palestine—Taybeh, known as Ephraim in the Scriptures (if my memory serves me correctly). She has been our eyes and ears to the truth of what occurs behind the high walls the Israeli government has built around Gaza to keep the Palestinians "entrapped" in their own land. President Carter refers to the what occurs there as "Apartheid."
There are still Christians attempting to witness to the world that this is the place where Jesus lived and preached and where the Apostles taught and the Church grew. But most have left out of fear for their lives and for a future for their children. There was a time that thriving Orthodox monasteries cared for the Holy sites. Now there are a few monks or nuns.
Our Orthodox brothers and sisters have no voice because: (1) Evangelical Christians in particular, and possibly other Western Christians support Israel because they believe the Jews are still God's chosen people, even though they did not accept the Messiah when He came. (2) The Jewish lobby in Washington is strong. (3) Neither Jews nor Muslims forgive their enemies—unless others speak on their behalf.
Maria keeps us informed. I will continue to pass on the information to the clergy and faithful of the Orthodox Church. If you feel called to share this with others, please do.
Phyllis Meshel Onest, M.Div.
Director, Office of Religious Education
Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh
Miracle of Holy Fire in Jerusalem
By Maria C. Khoury, Ed.D.
April 26, 2008—Pilgrims from all over the world gathered in Jerusalem today to witness the greatest of all miracles—the Miracle of the Holy Fire. The miracle has turned into a magnificent cultural event but many simply could not get anywhere near the Holy Sepulchre. The soldiers, the police, the large crowds, the noise, the drums of the Boys Scouts and the Girl Scouts anxiously waiting to receive the Holy Fire from the Life Giving Tomb of Christ is a day long adventure. It was a miracle in itself that Sam and Janet from our sister parish, Annunciation Orthodox Church in Little Rock, attended.
It was an exciting celebration with the sound of many languages at the same time where representatives of many churches from all over the Holy Land come to receive the Holy Fire and carry it back in small lanterns to their particular churches for the Midnight Resurrection Service. Special permits were issued for Christians from Gaza to enter Jerusalem but the large crowds meant no entry to the Holy Sepulchre.
It is on this Great and Holy Saturday that the Holy Fire was received by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, His Beatitude Theopilus as it has been done every year, on the same day, in the same manner, at the same time, at the same holy place of Christ's Life Giving Tomb. This is the miracle that allows us to believe that Christ is alive and offers eternal life. This is the miracle that tells us that Christ is truly among us. This powerful miracle is another way that God communicates. As we chant in our Midnight Resurrection Service: "Come ye and receive light from the unwaning Light, and glorify Christ, Who arose from the dead."
A spectacular parade was also held to receive the Holy Fire entering our village of Taybeh by five in the evening. The priests of all three churches, Fr. Daoud, Fr. Raed and Fr. Jack with the mayor of the village, my husband, David, led the faithful with the choir chanting to meet our cousin Ibrahim with his six year old son Philip who traditionally go to the city of Ramallah to receive the Light from a patriarchate representative who brings it from Jerusalem to Ramallah for all the Palestinian Christian communities that cannot reach the Holy City. Philip made his dad put a sign on the white car this year that read "Light of Christ," and wanted to ride on top but was forced to patiently sit with the flame until he said "Christ is Risen" and gave it to the adults.
After eight years of violence in the Holy Land, back and forth, surely we have been living in the darkness of all evil where children do not even have a childhood. "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." (John 1:5) The strong Christian message on this holy day is that our hope lies in Christ and the streets were simply filled with faithful who came to witness Christ's love.
Thus today we all received the Light that proceeded from the core of the stone that covers Christ's Life Giving Tomb and once again celebrated the oldest unbroken Christian ceremony that exists in the world.
In Luke 16:15 we read that Jesus said: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." We witness the truth and received the Holy Fire today so that all who are not blessed to live in the land of Christ's Holy Resurrection can believe that Christ is the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. (John 1:9)
"And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things." (Luke 24:47)
Our Christian community is small and diminishing but with God's help can survive the daily hardships that make life unbearable. Truly the Lord is Risen!


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San Fransico's Finest.
"...gave Americans the right...expired..."
Note to people in other countries: If you wonder why someone would write a "right" has expired, due notice it is written by someone in San Fran. Cali. These people are still breeding out the effect of LSD from 50 years ago, and no know better. Just wave and move on.
As far as the Jailbreak, this is undoubtedly good news for iToy users. Hopefully they don't patch it.


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After a difficult time trial and then a hard mountain-top finish atop Plateau de Beille, stage 15 to Foix Loudenvielle to Le Louron is the Queen Stage of the 2007 Tour de France. The long, difficult traverses the heart of the Hautes-Pyrénées from Foix in the Ariege region, with the Col de Port as the opener after just 27.5 kilometres. Then stage 15 rolls through the beautiful countryside around Saint-Girons before assaulting the challenging second-half of the stage, with the steep Cat. 2 Col de Portet d'Aspet, then the steeper Cat. 1 Col de Menté, the new hors catégorie ascent of the Port de Balès, a 19.5-kilometre climb that averages a 6.2% grade, with the final 10 kilometres at 8.5% which should show who is the strongest in this year's Tour.
However, the terrible stage 15 isn't done yet, as the steep 10 kilometres Col de Peyresourde awaits before the technical descent to Loudenvielle Le Louron. Look for Ag2r Prévoyance's Christophe Moreau and Rabobank's Michael Rasmussen to battle for the Maillot Blanc à Pois Rouges of Best Climber across the five cols of stage 15.
Km 27.5: Col de Port: 11.4 km climb @ 5.3 % grade / 2nd Cat.
Km 98.5: Col de Portet d'Aspet: 5.7 km climb @ 6.9 % grade / 2nd Cat.
Km 114: Col de Menté: 7.0 km climb @ 8.1 % grade / 1st Cat.
Km 159.5: Port de Balès: 19.2 km climb @ 6.2 % grade / hors catégorie
Km 184.5: Col de Peyresourde: 9.7 km climb @ 7.8 % grade / 1st Cat.
Km 68: Saint-Girons
Km 127: Marignac
Stage Map
Images ©:www.letour.fr


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Practical life activities make up one of the most important areas of Montessori education, helping with order, concentration, coordination, and independence. And most preschoolers LOVE practical life activities that involve food preparation!
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links (at no cost to you).
Here are some Montessori-inspired food preparation ideas found online:
Andrea Coventry had some helpful introductory words in a site that's no longer available:
"Food prep is a great practical life activity. The children learn self care as they wash their hands. They develop independence as they learn to prepare food. They improve fine motor skills as they prepare the food. They practice grace and courtesy as they offer the food to share with their friends."
Here are two of Andrea Coventry's food preparation articles: Ideas for a Preschool Kitchen Center and Food Preparation Activities for the Pincer Grasp.
Food Preparation Area from How We Montessori.
How We Montessori has many other food preparation posts in the practical life category, such as the Kids Cutting post.
I have a "Cutting a Banana Practical Life activity for Toddlers."
I have other food preparation activitie, such as ants on a log, in my Kids in the Kitchen category.
I also have healthy recipes for kids and families, such as my healthy, yummy, gluten-free blueberry muffin recipe in my Kids in the Kitchen category.
"Toddler Day Care -Montessori influenced -pretty food" Video from Monarch Montessori Ministry
Montessori Activities for Toddlers: Food Preparation from Daily Montessori
Toddler Knife Skills from The Montessori Motherload
Independent Food Preparation: My Toddler Can Do That? from Montessori Moments
Practical Life with a Toddler: Naturally! (photo) and Kids in the Kitchen: Finding the Right Tools from Vibrant Wanderings
Montessori at Home: Toddlers in the Kitchen from Bluebirdkisses
Favorite Recipes for Preschoolers are Often the Easiest (my post)
Activity of the Week – Homemade Ice Cream Right Now! No Machine Required! (my post linking to a post from Simply Montessori)
Introducing Food Preparation Curriculum: The Savory Side of Practical Life by Debra Gorman Cagle at CBS Business Library
Learning to Share from MariaMontessori.com
Food: Preparation and Serving from Joyful Child Montessori Company via Montessori Education (UK) LTD
Serve-Yourself Snack Gives You More Freedom from Awake Parent Perspectives
Montessori in the Kitchen from Life in a Pink House
Carrot Peeling, Egg Slicing, Cherry Pitting, Whisking Eggs and Sorting Grapes, Our Snack Break – Food and Set-Up, Snack Time, Watermelon Snack, and Daily Food Chart from Counting Coconuts
Snack Time (snack table) from Little Red Farm
Food Chart from Noor Janan Homeschool.
Montessori-inspired making-applesauce activity (above video) from O' Boy Organic Blog.
Squeezing lemons and oranges, peeling tangerines and fruit cutting from Leptir
Slicing Bananas and Grinding Spices, Carrot Work – Washing, Peeling, Cutting and Serving, Potato Mashing and Serving Others – A New Lesson in Grace and Courtesy via Pickle Work from The Moveable Alphabet
Making zucchini carrot muffins, Montessori Toddler Activities (including preparing snack and making pizza – photo), Slicing and peeling hard-boiled eggs, baking with a toddler, squeezing oranges and making honeydew melon "ice cream," and making granola for snack time from The Adventures of Bear
Making Yeast Pancakes from Early Education with Antek and Kuba (use Google Translate from the blog's right sidebar)
Baking with children – Toaster Oven Muffins from Montessori Print Shop
For Small Hands has many inexpensive child-size tools to use at home.
Kids' Food Fun Pinterest Board
I have many links to fun food ideas for kids that can often be used to create Montessori-oriented food preparation activities in my Kids' Food Fun Pinterest board.
What are your child's favorite food preparation activities?
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This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting with the theme Kids in the Kitchen. This month our participants have shared how kids get involved in cooking and feeding. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
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Please take time to read the submissions by the other carnival participants:
(This list will be live and updated by afternoon November 8 with all the carnival links.)
- Baking & letting go — Cooking with kids can be a mess. Nadia at Red White & GREEN Mom is learning to relax, be patient, and have fun with the process.
- Family feeding in Child of Mine — Lauren at Hobo Mama reviews Ellyn Satter's suggestions for appropriate feeding and points out where her family has problems following through.
- Children with Knives! (And other Kitchen Tools) — Jennifer at True Confessions of a Real Mommy teaches her children how to safely use knives.
- "Mommy, Can I Help?" — Kat at Loving {Almost} Every Moment writes about how she lets her kiddos help out with cooking, despite her {sometimes} lack of patience!
- Solids the Second Time Around — Sheryl at Little Snowflakes recounts her experiences introducing solids to her second child.
- The Adventure of Toddler Tastebuds — The Accidental Natural Mama shares a few things that helped her daughter develop an adventurous palate.
- A Tradition of Love — Kelly at Becoming Crunchy looks forward to sharing the kitchen traditions passed on from her mom and has already found several ways to involve baby in the kitchen.
- The Very Best Classroom — Alicia C. at McCrenshaw's Newest Thoughts reveals how her kitchen is more than a place to make food – it's a classroom!
- Raising Little Chefs — Chef Mike guest posts on Natural Parents Network about how he went from a guy who couldn't cook to a chef who wanted to teach his boys to know how the food we love is made.
- In the Kitchen with my kids — Isil at Smiling like Sunshine shares a delicious soup recipe that her kids love.
- Papa, the Pancake Artist — Papa's making an incredible breakfast over at Our Mindful Life.
- Kids won't eat salad? Try this one! — Tat at Mum in Search is sharing her children's favourite salad recipe.
- Recipe For a Great Relationship — Cooking with kids is about feeding hearts as well as bellies, writes Hannah at Wild Parenting.
- The Ritual of Mealtimes — Syenna at Gently Parenting Twins writes about the significance of mealtimes in her family's daily rhythm.
- Kid, Meet Food. Food, Kid. — Alburnet at What's Next? panicks about passing on her food "issues" to her offspring.
- Growing Up in the Kitchen — Cassie at There's a Pickle in My Life shares how her son is growing up in the kitchen.
- Harvesting Corn and History — From Kenna at School Garden Year: The kids in the school garden harvest their corn and learn how much history grows in their food.
- My Guiding Principles for Teaching my Child about Food — Tree at Mom Grooves uses these guiding principles to give her daughter a love of good food and an understanding of nutrition as well as to empower her to make the best choices for her body.
- Kitchen Control — Amanda at Let's Take the Metro writes about her struggles to relinquish control in the kitchen to her children.
- Food — Emma at Your Fonder Heart lets her seven month old teach her how to feed a baby.
- Kitchen Fun? — Adrienne at Mommying My Way questions how much fun she can have in a non-functional kitchen, while trying to remain positive about the blessings of cooking for her family.
- Kitchen Adventures — Erica at ChildOrganics shares fun ways to connect with your kids in the kitchen.
- Kids in the Kitchen: Finding the Right Tools — Melissa at Vibrant Wanderings shares some of her favorite child-sized kitchen gadgets and where to find them.
- The Kitchen Classroom — Laura at Authentic Parenting knows that everything your kids want to learn is at the end of the ladle.
- Kids in the Kitchen — Luschka from Diary of a First Child talks about the role of the kitchen in family communication and shares fun kitchen activities for the under two.
- Our Kitchen is an Unschooling Classroom. — Terri at Child of the Nature Isle explores the many ways her kitchen has become a rich environment for learning.
- Montessori-Inspired Food Preparation for Preschoolers — Deb Chitwood at Living Montessori Now shares lots of resources for using Montessori food preparation activities for young children in the kitchen.
- My Little Healthy Eater — Christine at African Babies Don't Cry shares her research on what is the best first food for babies, and includes a healthy and yummy breakfast recipe.
- Two Boys and Papa in the Kitchen: Recipe for Disaster? — MudpieMama shares all about her fears, joys and discoveries when the boys and handsome hubby took over the kitchen.
- Food choices, Food treats — Henrietta at Angel Wings and Herb Tea shares her family's relationship with food.
- learning to eat — Catherine at learner mummy reflects on little M's first adventures with food.
- The Night My 7-Year-Old Made Dinner — Melodie at Breastfeeding Moms Unite! shares how her 7-year-old daughter surprised everyone by turning what started as an idea to play restaurant into pulling off making supper for her family.
- Cooking With a High-Needs Toddler — Sylvia at MaMammalia describes how Montessori-inspired activities and a bit of acceptance have helped her overcome hurdles in cooking while caring for a "high-needs" child.
- Kids in the Kitchen – teaching healthy food choices — Brenna at Almost All The Truth shares her belief in the importance of getting kids into the kitchen using her favorite cookbook for kids to develop healthy food choices now and hopefully into the future.
- Make Milk, Not War — Tamara at Tea for Three remembers the daily food fights as she struggled to feed a picky eater.
- teaching baby birds about good food. — Sarah at Small Bird on Fire writes about the ways in which her family chooses to gently teach their son how to make wise food decisions.
- 5 Ways to Enhance Your Baby or Young Toddler's Relationship with Food — Charise at I Thought I Knew Mama shares simple ways to give your child a healthy beginning to her lifelong relationship with food.
- Toddler at the Table: 10 Creative Solutions — Moorea at Mamalady shares tips for preventing meal-time power struggles.
- How My Child Takes Responsibility During His Mealtime… — Jenny @ I'm a full-time mummy shares how she teaches and encourages her 32 months old son on adopting good manners and responsibilities during his mealtimes…
- Kids in the Kitchen: 6 Tips Plus a Recipe — Kristin at Intrepid Murmurings shares six tips for overcoming some of the the difficulties of cooking with multiple young sous chefs, and a recipe they all can agree on!
- How BLW has made me a better parent — Zoe at Mummykins shares how baby-led weaning has changed her approach to parenting.
- My Budding Chef — Jenny at Chronicles of a Nursing Mom is no cook but is happy that her daughter has shown an inclination and manages to whip up yummy goodies for their family.
- Kids in the Kitchen: An Activity for Every Age — Gaby from Tmuffin describes how she keeps her kids busy in the kitchen, whether they are one week old or two years old.
- The Phantastically Mutlipurposed Phyllo — Ana at Pandamoly shares how Phyllo is used to create enticing dishes at home! Anything can be made into a Struedel!
- Kitchen Kids — Laura from A Pug in the Kitchen shares her children's most favorite recipe to make, experience and eat.
- Independence vs. Connection in the Kitchen: won't you please get yourself your own snack already? — Lisa at Organic Baby Atlanta wishes her daughter would just go make a mess in the kitchen. But her daughter only wants to do it together.
- Grandma Rose's Kitchen — Abbie at Farmer's Daughter reminisces about her childhood and dreams of filling her kitchen with people, love, noise, and messes.
- Healthy Food Choices for Kids — Jorje offers one way to encourage children to make their own healthy food choices at MommaJorje.com.
- Cooking food to thrive rather than survive — Phoebe at Little Tinker Tales is trying to foster a lifetime of good food habits by teaching her children about the importance of avoiding junk, cooking healthy meals, and learning about the whole food process.
- Evolution of a self-led eater — Sheila at A Gift Universe shares the story of how her son grew from nursing around the clock to eating everything in sight, without her having to push.
- 10 Ways Tiny Helps In The Kitchen — Jennifer at Hybrid Rasta Mama explores the ways in which her toddler actively participates in kitchen-related activities.
- The Complexity of Feeding a Child — Feeding children a healthy diet is no straight-forward task, but Lisa at My World Edenwild shares some general guidelines to help your child thrive.
- Lactation Cookies — That Mama Gretchen shares a fun recipe that will benefit both mamas and babies!
- 50 of the Best Books, Websites, & Resources to Inspire Kids in the Kitchen — Need inspiration to get your kids in the kitchen? Dionna at Code Name: Mama rounds up some of the best books and websites that can serve as a source for ideas, recipes, and cooking with littles fun.
- A 4-year-old's smoothie recipe — Jen at Grow With Graces and her son set out to make a smoothie without the usual ingredients. She let him improvise. See how it turned out.
- Independent Food Preparation (My Toddler Can Do That?) — Megan at Montessori Moments shares simple ways for children to prepare their own healthy snacks.
- Follow Your Gut — Amy at Anktangle shares her philosophy about intuitive eating, and how she's trying to foster her son's trust in his own inner wisdom when he feels hungry.
- A TODDLER-STYLE LUNCH + RECIPE — Manic Mrs. Stone photographs how to have messy fun during lunchtime with a helpful toddler.