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Kocher Announced QueenBy: Megan Sterner, "Royal Times"
This years winter homecoming was held on December 13, 2014, during the boys basketball game against Ridgedale Rockets. The Royals won in an exciting double overtime game, 94-87. There were three underclassmen attendants on the homecoming court which were freshman attendant, Kennedy Teynor, escorted by Alex Crall, sophomore attendant, Annika Gerlach, escorted by Kody Wilburn, and junior attendant, Anna Blank, escorted by Hunter Miller. There were three senior attendants on the homecoming court which were voted on by the student body of Wynford. Paige Kissling, escorted by Austin Shutler, Samantha Lambert, escorted by Keaton Teynor, and Hannah Kocher, escorted by Mason Johnson. Each attendant was formally announced as the made their way to center court. This years winter homecoming queen was Hannah Kocher who was crowned by Alyssa Harrer because last years queen Kayli Stuckman was unable to attend due to prior commitments.


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One day the King of Yurp announces a Grand Cook-Off . Anyone who creates a dish that Princess Meg can't refuse will become the new Royal Chef. Too easy? Think again. There's a distinct lack of ingredients, some meddling Moon Mice and the dreaded Fenella Finch standing in Matty Swink's way, not to mention a 500-year-old curse.
Is the kingdom of Yurp doomed or can Mathew Swink cook up a storm big enough to dissolve the ancient curse and does that nagging itch at the back of his memory hold something important?
Get ready for a bit of ridiculous and a lot of surprises when you dive into Little Chef Big Curse. It's a lot of fun, in a crazy, fantastical sort of way.
Title: Little Chef Big Curse
Author: Tilney Cotton
Publisher: Scholastic, $16.99
Publication Date: February 2014
Format: Paperback
For ages: 7-9
Type: Junior Fiction, Middle Fiction
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Recently, The New York Times published an excerpt from Jo Becker's forthcoming book Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality. The excerpt in question detailed the end of President Obama's phony "evolution" in coming to support marriage equality. Becker's book however, has set off something off a nuclear reaction of criticism. I have not read the book, but from all that I have read, that opprobrium is more than merited.
The basic flaw of Becker's book, which she herself does not deny, is that she either ignores or disregards practically everything about the marriage equality movement prior to the 2008 election when both Obama and California's noxious Proposition 8 won at the polls. The heroes of Becker's book are: (1) a then-unknown political consultant named Chad Griffin who founded Americans for Equal Rights (AFER) to overturn Prop 8 in the courts and later became president of the Human Rights Campaign; (2) David Boies and Ted Olsen, the superstar lawyers who headed up the legal team (hired by AFER) to overturn Prop 8 and by extension bring marriage equality to the whole nation; and (3) Ken Mehlman, the (gay) former head of the Republican National Committee who, along with Olsen, allegedly helped make marriage equality palatable to Republicans–and who was also a major fundraiser for AFER. According to Becker it was their combined efforts that led first to public White House embrace of marriage equality and then victory at the Supreme Court.
Except, of course, that is not how the story goes. 2008 was an important touchstone, but it is only one part of a larger story that has not been written yet and has not been finished. In framing her story as such, Becker ignored the entirety of the marriage equality movement, and worse, has slighted its most important architects. One of those architects, Andrew Sullivan, is outraged, and has posted a great many blog posts to that effect.
Now I am no fan of Andrew Sullivan. He is myopic, stubborn, self-promotional, and at times downright dishonest. His continued bashing of the gay left for the resignation of Brandon Eich, rather than say, Mozilla (who got rid of him) or Eich himself (for donating to Prop 8) is more about Sullivan's political agenda than any kind of passion for free speech. In Sullivan's world, the gay left deserves the blame.
Nevertheless, in this instance his reading appears to be absolutely true. It is because Sullivan is the messenger, probably too many people will refuse to hear his message, and it is a message that needs to be heard. Becker, for her part, herself did not acquit herself particularly well in her response to the criticism, effectively saying she was not trying to write an overarching history–an about-face from her publisher's publicity materials and even her own writing. What Becker's critics (including Sullivan, Nathaniel Frank, Chris Geidner, Isaac Chotiner, Gabriel Arana, Dan Savage, Frank Rich, Jim Messina, John Aravosis, Michelangelo Signorile, Noah Feldman, and many others) have pointed out is that Becker disregarded or ignored the marriage equality movement's most important activists and touchstone moments while propping up the lesser lights of the Prop 8 team to whom she had full access. Among the disregarded include Evan Wolfson, Mary Bonauto, and Sullivan, as he himself was quick to note.
But Sullivan, despite being correct, engaged in a little revisionism of his own. Yes, it is true that his 1989 cover story for The New Republic was a major statement, particularly as he made a conservative case for marriage equality, and yes it is also true that many gay people criticized him (and Wolfson), sometimes especially viciously, for advocating marriage rights. But Sullivan's rants make it seem like marriage equality was his brainchild, born in 1989, and aided in part by Wolfson (a staunch liberal) and some other gay conservative and libertarian thinkers. Sullivan was by no means the first person to make the case for marriage equality; same-sex unions have existed around the world throughout recorded history. In fact, a little over a month after Sullivan wrote his cover story, six same-sex couples in Denmark entered into the world's first registered partnerships, which was like civil unions but without child custody rights. As the New York Times noted at the time, registered partnerships in Denmark were the culmination of "a 40-year campaign by gay rights advocates." (Full marriage equality did not come to Denmark until 2012.) While it is tempting here in the United States to think that the rest of the world follows our lead on LGBT rights because of Stonewall and such, the truth is that the movement for gay rights and same-sex marriage was a central European (re: German) innovation.
Even in the United States, the push for same-sex marriage did not start with Sullivan or even Wolfson, whose 1983 law school thesis was about marriage equality. (Wolfson was probably the most unfairly maligned figure in Becker's book, tarred as a reactionary and an obstacle to progress, when the truth is that no one has been more important to the success of the marriage equality movement.) In truth, even Wolfson was late to the game. In 1970, Richard John Baker and James Michael McConnell tried to get a marriage license in Minnesota and were tried. They appealed their case all the way to the United States Supreme Court, who turned it down for "want of a substantial federal question." (Although Minnesota now has marriage equality and clearly the Supreme Court has recognized that there is a substantial federal question involved, Baker and McConnell's case, Baker v. Nelson, was not explicitly overturned and still lurks in opposition briefs in marriage equality cases.) Other same-sex couples in the 1970's also tried to get marriage licenses with no more lasting success.
The most important motivating factor in the battle for same-sex marriage however, was not a person but an epidemic–a fact that no one involved in the marriage movement would deny. When the AIDS pandemic hit in the early 1980's, it was seen as a gay disease; the original name was not AIDS, it was GRID–Gay Related Immune Deficiency. The AIDS epidemic was therefore treated not as a health crisis, but as a moral judgment on a deserving population of degenerates. (Never mind that other populations were also suffering.) The lack of legal protections for couples became immediately and horrifically apparent. Two men who built a life together learned that the law did not protect them when the worst hit. Same-sex partners were denied hospital access to their dying lovers, often by spiteful, homophobic family members. Survivors were thrown out of their homes, and their assets were seized. (Those who now call gay people bullies? They were the ones who remorselessly threw same-sex partners out in the streets.) It was out of this mass tragedy, not Prop 8, that the marriage movement took on an urgency that is only now coming to fruition. There were major setbacks along the way, most famously DOMA in the 1990's, and the slew of state constitutional bans that followed, particularly in the 2004 elections.* Nevertheless, despite the worst backlashes, it was clear to all but the most pigheaded reactionaries that progress was marching only forward, just longer than hoped. This was not a movement that had lost its way as Becker would have you believe, but one that was steadily influencing the law and public opinion to get to the point where a federal court challenge was feasible. And until 2003, the movement labored under the shadow of Bowers v. Hardwick, a reminder of the dangers of a Supreme Court setback.
To disregard all this, to treat Evan Wolfson, a man who devoted most of his professional life to the cause of marriage equality, so disdainfully, to nearly ignore Mary Bonauto,** in favor of Griffin, Boies, and Olsen is both shameful and misguided. Let us not forget that Prop 8 was not a resounding victory for marriage equality; it was a limited case won on a technicality and will be forever overshadowed by its immensely more important companion case United States v. Windsor, which Becker astonishingly downplays (Signorile claims that Becker threw Edie Windsor and her attorney Roberta Kaplan under the bus). Getting back California was a big win, but it was nowhere near the "marriage everywhere" decision that AFER had promised. Windsor, on the other hand, (and I cannot say this enough) is the most significant civil rights decision since Brown v. Board of Education. Around the country, every federal court decision about marriage equality orbits around Windsor. In that sense, Olsen and Boies dramatically failed. Even now, it is entirely likely that Boies and Olsen will not be first in the race back to the Supreme Court, as they are focused in Virginia and the cases in Utah and Oklahoma are much more likely to get there first. (I linked to Feldman's piece above, and it is worth linking to again to note how risky a game Boies and Olsen played, and how we can only hope they don't get a second bite at the apple.)
So as easy (and tempting) as it is to Sullivan, he is absolutely correct that Jo Becker's history of the battle for marriage equality is access journalism of the worst kind. Griffin, Olsen, and Boies gave her the unfettered access, and they are the ones who are lionized.
* I once went to hear Dan Savage speak, something I recommend everyone should do, and someone asked him whether Ken Mehlman has done enough to be forgiven for his part in the 2004 elections. Savage equivocated during the course of his answer moving from "not yet" to "yes," which shows how much ambivalence Mehlman engenders in the LGBT community. For my part, no matter what Ken Mehlman does, no matter how many times he apologizes, no matter how much money he raises for AFER, no matter how many Republican politicians he talks to, I will never forgive him for his part in 2004. He exploited fear and hatred of gay people in order to make the world a worse place for everyone. Sometimes an apology, no matter how sincere, can't undo the damage.
** I greatly admire Mary Bonauto, who has proved time and time again to be the most important LGBT rights attorney in the country. Bonauto brought the LGBT rights movement its first two important, permanent legal victories in Vermont (civil unions) and Massachusetts (marriage). Bonauto and her organization Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) were involved in every single marriage equality triumph in New England, including wildly successful challenges to DOMA that were concurrent with Windsor. In fact, had Elena Kagen not overseen the Justice Department's response to the DOMA cases in the First Circuit, we might today be extolling the virtues of Gil rather than Windsor. The Supreme Court chose Windsor, a legally–if not factually–identical case, because all nine Justices would be present. Bonauto did play an important part in Windsor; she coordinated the amicus briefs, which meant that she was heavily involved in Supreme Court strategy. Having said that however, Bonauto is not–as some people refer to her–the Thurgood Marshall of the LGBT rights movement, despite the fact that she is the movement's most important legal figure. This is a statement which misunderstands the history of the Civil Rights movement and makes a false analogy. The Civil Rights movement was a decades long, well-structured, campaign that ran almost entirely through the NAACP and its autonomous-in-name-only legal arm the Legal Defense Fund (the two entities are now completely separate). As head of the Legal Defense Fund, Thurgood Marshall was the central figure of the movement's legal strategy, especially at the Supreme Court where he personally argued multiple cases. A somewhat better analogy is in the (non-abortion) gender equality cases of the 1970's, which ran through the ACLU's Women's Rights Project. As head of the Women's Rights Project, Ruth Bader Ginsburg shaped the movement and its direction. GLAD however, is one of several LGBT rights organizations and, unlike some others, limited to a geographic region (New England). Although groups like GLAD, Lambda, and the ACLU may work in tandem, there is also a competition between them, which Ariel Levy discussed in her New Yorker article about Edie Windsor. There is no Thurgood Marshall (or Ruth Bader Ginsburg) of the LGBT rights movement. This is not a knock on anyone, it is a recognition of the LGBT movement's decentralization.


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As a long-running IT industry publication, we've had the fortune to collect photos of the channel's movers and shakers through the years.
For some Friday afternoon fun, and to take your minds off the heat gripping the nation, we present a trawl through our photographic archives for you to identify and caption in the comments below.
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A Primer in Neuropsychological Assessment for Dementia
Neuropsychological assessments can be extremely useful in the detection, diagnosis, and management of dementia syndromes.
By Katya Rascovsky, PhD
Neuropsychological assessments are designed to identify the extent and severity of a patient's cognitive and behavioral impairments. They allow us to determine a pattern of relative cognitive strengths and weaknesses, which indirectly yields information about the structural and functional integrity of a patient's brain. Neuropsychologists use standardized tests to evaluate cognitive abilities such as attention, memory, language, processing speed, visuospatial, and executive functions.1 These types of comprehensive assessments are time-consuming and not always feasible or necessary in routine clinical practice. For neurologists, brief cognitive screening tasks can provide a quick estimate of a patient's cognitive function and identify those who would benefit from a more detailed cognitive evaluation.
Commonly used cognitive screening tools include the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE)2 and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA).3 The MMSE is heavily weighed towards orientation and memory, and, as such, may be insensitive to cognitive deficits encountered in non-Alzheimer's disease dementias. The MoCA evaluates a broader range of cognitive abilities, thereby providing higher sensitivity to detect mild cognitive impairment.4 Slightly longer and more comprehensive screening tools such as the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination,5 Dementia Rating Scale,6 and the Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition7 can be particularly helpful in differential diagnosis given their inclusion of additional cognitive and behavioral domains.
Despite the utility of general cognitive screening instruments, these may not be adequate for all patients. In fact, common cognitive screening tools may have poor sensitivity in highly educated individuals, or classify healthy subjects as impaired given their low educational attainment, primary language, or cultural background. Referral to a neuropsychologist is warranted in the following cases:
- There is a clear discrepancy between cognitive screening scores and patient or caregiver reports of actual cognitive functioning;
- The patient is younger than 65 years of age;
- The patient presents with a focal impairment that may not be adequately captured by general screening instruments (e.g., visuospatial abilities, behavior);
- The clinician suspects mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and would benefit from a detailed baseline assessment to track longitudinal progression.
This article provides an introduction to formal neuropsychological assessments and their potential uses in the detection and management of dementia syndromes.
Best Uses for Neuropsychological Evaluations
Neuropsychological evaluations can be used to address or clarify a wide range of issues related to dementia. These include:
- Differential diagnosis: A patient's cognitive profile can help differentiate normal aging from MCI, neurodegenerative disorders from reversible causes of cognitive complaints (e.g. depression), and can aid in the differential diagnosis of dementia due to different etiologies (e.g. Alzheimer's disease (AD) versus Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)).8,9
- Longitudinal progression: Cognitive assessments can provide a baseline to track progression of disease or to document the effects of medications or behavioral interventions.
- Prediction of conversion to dementia: Impairments in neuropsychological tests can be predictive biomarkers of progression to AD and other dementias.10,11
- Function: A thorough cognitive and functional assessment can reveal areas of daily functioning where the patient may need assistance (e.g., remembering appointments, medications, etc.).12 These results can guide intervention strategies to ameliorate cognitive deficits and maximize independence (e.g., referral to speech therapy, use of day planners, assistive technologies).
- Competence: Performance on neuropsychological tests can aid clinicians and families determine a patient's competence in areas such as driving, medical, financial and legal decision-making.
- Research: Quantifying behavior and cognition allows us to correlate patient scores to structural and functional images of the brain, thereby providing insights into the brain networks involved in particular functions. Cognitive tests are also used as sensitive outcome measures in clinical trials for disease modifying agents.
Formal Neuropsychological Assessments
A formal neuropsychological assessment for dementia will usually evaluate the following domains:
Attention and Processing Speed. Attention and concentration are necessary for adequate performance on any cognitive task. Formal tests of attention and working memory include digit span forwards and backwards (WMS-IV Digit Span13) and tests of vigilance and sustained attention.14 Fluctuating attention is characteristic of Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), but this variation may be hard to capture in a single testing session. Processing speed is often measured by timed tasks such as the Trail Making Test - A15 and WAIS-IV Symbol Search Test.16 Disruption of fronto-subcortical circuits can result in slowed processing speed in Parkinson's disease,17 Progressive Supranuclear Palsy,18 and patients with small-vessel vascular disease.19
Memory. Identifying distinct profiles of memory breakdown can be very helpful in differential diagnosis. Memory is formally divided into declarative / explicit (i.e., conscious recollection of facts and information) or non-declarative / implicit (memory for skills and procedures). Episodic memory is further divided into episodic memory (e.g., what you had for dinner last night) and semantic memory (e.g., what is a barometer).
Common memory tests evaluate different components of episodic memory. These include:
- Encoding: Ability to consolidate new information
- Retention: Ability to retain this information over time
- Retrieval: Ability to recall information after a delay or interference
Retrieval can be assessed using free recall (no assistance), cued recall (e.g., semantic cues) or a recognition format (discrimination of targets from distractors). There are several ways to probe episodic memory including word list learning tasks (e.g., California Verbal Learning Test,20 Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test21), recall of stories (e.g, WMS-IV Logical Memory13), Verbal Paired Associates13 and recall of complex geometric figures (see next page).
Neuropsychological Assessments: Qualifications and Considerations
—Katya Rascovsky, PhD
Episodic memory impairment is the earliest and most prominent feature of AD, and heralds progression of disease in patients with amnestic MCI.9-11 This pattern of performance is characterized by impaired encoding, recall and recognition, and is associated with the early hippocampal pathology typical of AD.22 Memory is often impaired in fronto-subcortical dementias but performance follows a pattern of poor retrieval with significant improvement in cued recall and recognition.22 A relative sparing of episodic memory in bvFTD has been demonstrated in both verbal and visuospatial modalities, and can be of use in differential diagnosis.23-25
Visuospatial and constructional abilities. Visuospatial tasks assess visual perception and interpretation of simple and complex visual stimuli (e.g., Visual Object and Space Perception Battery,26 Judgment of Line orientation27). Constructional abilities can be evaluated by asking the patient to copy simple line drawings, assemble blocks or copy complex geometrical figures (e.g., Rey Osterrieth Figure Copy,1 WAIS-IV Block Design,16 Benson Figure28). Visuospatial functions are differentially affected in neurodegenerative syndromes. For example DLB patients may exhibit a disproportionate impairment in visuospatial / constructional abilities in the context of relatively spared memory recognition.22 Severe impairments in visual perception may point to a diagnosis of Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA), while significant apraxia and constructional deficits may be associated with Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD).29
Language. Neuropsychological assessments can offer detailed language profiles that can be used for diagnosis and adequate behavioral interventions. Neuropsychological testing routinely evaluates spontaneous speech (e.g., BDAE Cookie Theft Scene30), confrontation naming (e.g., Boston Naming Test,31 Multilingual Naming Test32), semantic knowledge (e.g., Pyramids and Palm Trees Test33), grammar (e.g., forced-choice sentence picture matching task,34 Northwestern Anagram Test35), reading of regular and irregular words, and repetition of words and sentences.
Language profiles can be extremely helpful in differential diagnosis, particularly when Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA) is suspected.36 Patients with non-fluent/agrammatic PPA (naPPA) present with non-fluent speech and agrammatism in the context of spared single-word comprehension and object knowledge. In contrast, patients with Semantic Variant PPA (svPPA) present with fluent, empty speech, prominent anomia, and difficulty understanding the meaning of words. Although generally associated with underlying AD pathology, the logopenic variant of PPA (lvPPA) is often confused with the non-fluent and semantic PPA variants commonly linked to frontotemporal degeneration. Patients with lvPPA show profound anomia and deficits in sentence repetition in the context of spared motor speech, grammar, single-word comprehension and object knowledge.
Executive functions. Executive functioning is an overarching term that encompasses a wide range of abilities traditionally linked to the integrity of the frontal lobes. Assessment of executive functions often includes word generation tasks (e.g., Controlled Oral Word Association Test1), planning (e.g., D-KEFS Tower Test37) inhibition (Stroop and Hayling Tests1), abstraction (Wisconsin Card Sorting Test38) and mental flexibility (Trail Making Test - B15).
Executive impairments are typical of bvFTD and are common in syndromes with prominent fronto-subcortical dysfunction such as Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Parkinson's disease, and vascular dementia.9 The presence of dysexecutive errors such as concrete thought, perseverations, rule-violations and poor organization may be particularly useful in the differential diagnosis of behavioral variant Frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).25,39
Mood and Behavior. Subjective self-report scales can be used to measure a patient's level of depression and anxiety (e.g., Geriatric Depression Scale40). Many clinicians rely on informant-based behavioral scales to assess behavioral disturbances in dementia, due to the lack of introspection characteristic of certain etiologies. These scales assess symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, disinhibition, apathy and agitation. Common behavioral scales include the Neuropsychiatric Inventory,41 Frontal Behavioral Inventory,42 and the Cambridge Behavioral Inventory.43,44
Neuropsychological assessments can be extremely useful in the detection, diagnosis, and management of dementia syndromes. A patient's cognitive profile can help differentiate normal aging from MCI and can aid in the differential diagnosis of dementia due to different etiologies. Cognitive assessments can also provide a baseline to track progression of disease or to document the effects of medications or behavioral interventions. Finally, performance on neuropsychological tests can reveal areas of daily functioning where the patient may need assistance, thus guiding intervention strategies to ameliorate cognitive deficits and maximize independence. n
Katya Rascovsky, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Frontotemporal Degeneration Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA.
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Today an article in the Daily Mirror in the UK was brought to my attention. It's called 'When Should You Stop Breast Feeding?' by Dr. Miriam Stoppard. And for lack of a better term, it's crap. It angered me enough that I felt I should use this avenue to actually respond to her article line by line, so here we go (Dr. Stoppard's comments in italics)…
There's no keener fan of breast-feeding than me. I always advocate breast milk as the perfect food for babies from birth to weaning.
Wow – that's quite the statement – no keener fan, eh? Given that I've actually read the rest of your piece, I'm going to call bullshit on that one. In fact, based on what's written next, I'm going to question you even calling yourself a fan of breast-feeding. But of course, if you come out and say that, I'm sure everyone will disregard what you have to say next, so of course you've got to pull this little nugget out, no matter how disingenuous it is.
For years, we've followed the World Health Organization guideline that where possible babies should be breast-fed for six months.
Well that's good. After all, the World Health Organization bases its guidelines on research based evidence and practice, examining factors such as physical health and emotional health of those involved (though admittedly with a focus on physical health). As someone who's supposedly a huge fan of breast-feeding, I would hope that you supported and followed these guidelines (which, btw, are six months of exclusive breastfeeding and then breastfeeding more generally for 2 years or more).
Recently, the Institute of Child Health put forward the case for mixed feeding from four months.
I went to their site and while I couldn't find anything specific to that, I trust your statement. After all, the Institute of Child Health is based in a hospital with research focused on certain aims. However, what was truly interesting was that when I checked out their "recent publications" section, the only thing remotely close to this topic was from 2011. I also couldn't find any media releases on such a topic, so I'm going to assume you're speaking of this 2011 BMJ paper. In the realm of science, it's not exactly "recently", but you're behind on your reading and I suppose I'll let that slide. So let's look at what this article found:
- No nutritional deficits or problems outside of iron for children breastfed six months versus four (of course, the data was based on US studies in which cords are routinely clamped early during birth which has been found to be one of the greatest predictors of iron deficiency – but let's ignore that little problem and the other studies that all suggest there is no iron deficiency based on breastfeeding status).
- Lower infection rates for children breastfed six months versus anything less.
- Possible evidence of gluten allergies if gluten isn't introduced between four and six months (though based on suggestions of when to introduce gluten with no control for breast versus formula feeding).
- No long term (6.5 years) effect of breastfeeding for blood pressure, cognition, atopy, and dental carries.
So even though these doctors questioned the multiple studies that found lower infection rates in Western countries, they didn't question the studies that found iron deficiency (and didn't acknowledge the link to cord clamping), nor did they question the one study on gluten intolerance that had no examination of breast feeding, but was based on wheat introduction recommendations for all babies, regardless of what was followed and who followed them. Yeah, great science for recommendations. Regardless, their evidence hardly suggests any problem with the six month suggestion.
I'm with them. Many mothers wean their babies around four months anyway and in the Third World it's often an economic necessity.
Ah, so we should do it because it's just what "many mothers" do (and I assume you're talking Western moms)! Even in the "Third World" (isn't that term so outdated by now?) where it's done out of an "economic necessity". Do you even realize that by stating why it's done in Developing nations you're countering your own argument? It's done because of money. Not because it's best for babe or mom or anyone involved in the breast feeding dyad. It's done because they have to.
Plus breast milk often doesn't deliver the iron needed for a six-month baby.
Except if you delay cord clamp. Then babies get the iron stores they need and breast feeding becomes a moot point. Good of you to recognize that.
But if you're a mum dedicated to breast-feeding, when should you stop?
Um… when you and babe are ready?
I've spoken to breast-feeding consultants who say breast-feed for as long as possible, quoting the nourishment and protection of breast milk throughout toddlerhood.
I don't even know what to make of this sentence. Based on what you've previously suggested (and what you're about to suggest), you must believe these people know nothing because clearly breast feeding offers little benefit even in the first six months and, well, we'll get to your thoughts on toddlers breastfeeding in a moment… So why throw this in? Because otherwise this statement should be the only thing left in the article!
For me, the line was crossed when I saw a cover of Time magazine showing a mother standing breast-feeding her four-year-old child who was standing on a chair to reach his mother's nipple.
Yes, the "line". Let's ignore the sensationalism of the actual cover – the awkward pose, the unnaturalness of the way they were photographed – in order to suggest that that unnatural image should sway one's intellect. I'm glad to see you're able to think so clearly and rationally and not let yourself be swayed by propaganda and journalism focused on selling stories instead of sharing the truth. Great qualities for a doctor who's supposed to be knowledgeable and read between the lines.
This mother belongs to the school of extreme parenting where mums breast-feed into late childhood, let their child sleep with them and, as babies, carry them everywhere in a sling.
So according to you, the vast majority of mothers in history and many mothers in other cultures are "extreme"? Okay, let's look at the various definitions of "extreme" as an adjective in the dictionary:
- of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average: extreme measures.
- utmost or exceedingly great in degree: extreme joy.
- farthest from the center or middle; outermost; endmost: the extreme limits of a town.
- farthest, utmost, or very far in any direction: an object at the extreme point of vision.
- exceeding the bounds of moderation: extreme fashions.
In our society, the first definition does fit. However, in a global and historical context, it would be flipped. Our current practices would be deemed "extreme" relative to what has been done and is done around the world. The third and fourth definitions don't really fit because there's no spatial allowances when discussing parenting. The fifth might fit, but I would argue, who wants to parent in moderation? Aren't we supposed to jump in with all we've got to ensure our children thrive? But personally I like the second definition so I'm going to assume you're using that. Yes, us parents who breastfeed as long as our children want, who sleep with them, and carry them as babies are "exceedingly great". So thank you.
The mother on the Time cover believes in letting her child decide when breast-feeding should stop.
Yep, she believes that her child will intuitively know when he's had enough. Like all mammals and primates that we're related to. Because, after all, pregnancy is the natural weaning stage for many animals (typically after a biological age that mirrors a much longer period in human infancy), but forced weaning at the same stage as we do for infants? Sorry – you just don't find that.
I've never heard anything so irresponsible.
Really?! Because I've heard of parents letting kids do hard drugs in their house or even sharing with them. Of leaving young children in the bath alone, unsupervised as their children drowned. Of dropping their babies into scalding hot water then leaving the house while the child died. But I don't know what I was thinking because of course letting your children self-wean is way more irresponsible than any of those actions.
No young child should be asked to shoulder the burden of such a decision.
Last I checked, letting a child self-wean wasn't asking them to shoulder any burden. In fact, it's allowing them to learn about their bodies and share what they've learned. They get a chance to know when they've had enough milk – whether it be for comfort or nutrition – and make a decision. Isn't that empowering? In fact, I think it's one of the first independent steps we can allow a child to make. Otherwise it's us telling them what they need, providing them no chance to learn on their own.
If you subscribe to that, which other decisions would you let your child make? To go to nursery or not? To get up in the morning or stay in bed? It's clearly wrong.
I'm not sure what to say here. One, your analogies are false alone in that they don't even equate to breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is something the child can have control over so long as mom is okay with it (and of course a mom who is not enjoying the experience or suffering from it should look to alternatives and weaning, no one is suggesting otherwise). Going to the nursery or getting up in the morning are things that simply have to happen for the family to function oftentimes. But breastfeeding? Nope. That is something that is a choice for a particular dyad to make and the decision on who to let make the choice as to when to stop is something that every dyad must decide. By the way, I wonder what you think about kids who self-wean early? Like at a year? Is that okay or should the mother have stopped them earlier?
This doesn't bother advocates of extreme parenting.
No it doesn't, thank you for recognizing that in our "exceedingly great" parenting, we are quite happy with our choices.
They know that it would be an unusual child who would reject the breast their mother is offering them.
Well, yes and no. We know that many children will wean earlier than the average just as some will wean later. Some of us want to wean earlier but understand that the breast offers our children some control over their food intake, their ability to soothe, and provides them with a sense of comfort other things don't. So we follow their lead and watch them learn how to make these decisions themselves.
No. This is about mothers who desire to keep their child dependent on them.
Hmmm… really? Funny, I breastfeed my 25 month old daughter (and she's looking to be one to self-wean very late) and I've never felt that she was dependent on me beyond the obvious fact that she's 25 months and thus dependent on me to survive. But older children? I know children who are highly dependent on their parents and none of them breastfed late. I would argue that you keep your child dependent on you by making all the decisions for them, in essence crippling them from being able to function without you over their shoulder telling them what to do. Breastfeeding doesn't do that. In fact, when it's child-led, breastfeeding is really about the child exerting her/his autonomy in telling the mother what s/he needs. Isn't that independence? Not dependence?
A parent should be encouraging a child to be independent.
Wait – I thought letting a child make a choice was forcing them to "shoulder a burden". Now we're supposed to encourage them to be independent? What kind of independence are you thinking of them? But generally, I agree we need to encourage our children to learn independence. And what better way to teach them independence than to allow them to make choices or participate in choices that are relevant to them?
Extreme parents say it protects their child from "the pain of weaning".
I've not heard that particular phrase, but let's suppose that's the only argument (though hopefully by now it's clearly not). The "pain" here, I imagine, is the pain of having a choice taken away from you. Of being told you don't have a say in something that is central to your life. Of being forced to be dependent upon the whims and decisions of those around you – giving you no choice nor any freedom to contest such decisions. And as a parent, I would hope to be able to avoid that pain when possible. I acknowledge that won't always be possible and my child will have to adapt, but when I don't have to force such submission and dependence on my child? Well, I would like to avoid that "pain". After all, I'm not in the process of teaching my child submission to other people, but to be independent.
Far from it being upsetting, most babies offered a mixed diet are happy about it.
And what evidence of "happy" do you have for it? Because really we're talking about 4-6 months, which was your original argument before you went off the tracks on late breastfeeding (because really, none of the toddlers are exclusively breastfed). Are they smiling more? I can't find a shred of evidence to suggest such a ludicrous claim. In fact, I don't think you could even measure it objectively!
My guide is the appearance of teeth.
Great – and that's your guide. Unfortunately what works for you doesn't work for everyone else, nor should you expect it to. After all, don't you want us to be independent and make our own choices?
Nature arranges for them to erupt when a baby needs food that has to be chewed.
First, most babies' first teeth emerge at six months, so why the problem? The argument you first presented was that babies should get food before that. There was no consideration of teeth here. Second, babies first get one or two teeth. Not exactly enough to even chew food with, so what are you suggesting? That when a tooth emerges a baby is capable of chewing food on his or her own? Really? Do you understand how chewing works?
That should be when breast-feeding is gently suspended.
Wait – what does gently suspended mean? Mixed? Suspended implies giving it up, not mixed with food, but given up. So a baby with one tooth is suddenly independent, eh? What about the myriad health benefits of including breastfeeding (even if not exclusively) up to two years? The effects on cancer, other infections, health care costs, etc.? Especially as a baby can still nurse with a tooth. Just as they can drink other liquids as well – just because we have teeth doesn't mean we give up anything that doesn't involve teeth.
Frankly I have to admit that I've rarely read such an incoherent, illogical, and frankly irrelevant piece masquerading as advice to parents. Despite having read it through several times and breaking it down sentence by sentence, I still don't quite know what your point was at the end of the day except to try and convince parents that breastfeeding needs to stop earlier than they're doing it, regardless of when that is. But even that I'm not sure of. For someone who started out saying she was an advocate of breastfeeding, you certainly have a funny way of showing it. I can only hope all parents can see your piece for what it is – nothing.


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It would seem that after suffocating us at the beginning of book one with the "all-American" (what does that even mean?) genetic supremacy of the Wakefield twins, they decided to lay off ever so slightly this time around. Jessica is only referred to as "bewitching" twice, after all. The story kicks off with Jessica desperately hoping she'll be crowned Queen of the Fall Dance, even though there was already a school dance about ten minutes ago. Also, she's totally in love with Bruce Patman because he's rich and hot and drives a Porsche and those are the most important things in life after all.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth and Enid are making cookies in Casa Wakefield (it's a Spanish tiled kitchen, you know) and Enid is all on edge about her boyfriend Ronnie finding out about her TERRIBLE SECRET. Dramatic! Two years earlier, Enid lost the run of herself entirely and started hanging around with a BAD CROWD. She got involved with a ne'er-do-well called George and they did a load of drugs and drinking, culminating in them going joyriding in George's car (is it joyriding if it's your own car?) "stoned out of their minds" (so...they were driving at around six miles an hour then?) and knocking down a little boy, breaking his arm, the hooligans. George was shipped off to boarding school and Enid straightened her life out, becoming the boring sidekick we now know and tolerate.
While she's telling Elizabeth all of this, her thoughts segue into a description about how gorgeous Liz is, lest we forget that even when the story doesn't actually concern them, we should in fact be talking about the Wakefields. So Enid still keeps in touch with George and she's scared of telling Ronnie because he'll freak the fuck out, due to him being a possessive dickhead who gives her shit for talking to anyone male about anything ever. She shows one of his letters to Elizabeth and then they suddenly have a lame pillow fight where neither one of them notices one of the letters falling onto the bedroom floor. THANKS, FREDDIE FORESHADOWING.
|Elizabeth's shocked expression = sex doll face. I'm sorry. Also, lavaliere necklaces! Yay!
At school, Jessica is busy being furious that her sister has the cheek to be friends with someone as boring and nerdy as Enid, and at one point even says "what if someone thought it was me hanging out with Enid?" Just to hammer the point home that Jessica is a terrible person and all. She's also got her knickers in a twist over Enid because she's somehow her competition for the Fall Dance Queen thing and Ronnie is head of the dance committee and Jessica seems to think everyone is as mental and devious as she is. I'm not quite sure what the deal is with Enid being her competition though. If pop culture has taught me anything (and it has), it's that the popular, bitchy girls are the ones that get nominated for these things. So surely Jessica's friends or the other sorority girls would have been more likely? If I was Lila Fowler I'd be all kinds of pissed off about it. So anyway, Jessica finds one of George's letters in Elizabeth's room (I DID NOT see that coming) and obviously does the most psychotic thing possible, leaving a copy of it in Ronnie's locker in an attempt to ruin Enid's life over a temporary and ultimately meaningless title.
Anyway, as expected, Ronnie breaks up with Enid, but not before getting all grabby in the car and being generally awful to her. While he's berating her about George, she covers her face with her hands while crying, so he "pried them away, forcing her to look at him. His fingers bit into her wrists, cutting off the circulation". What the HELL Ronnie!? Let go of her, you horrible fuckbag! Maybe Jessica was actually doing her a favour, in her own skewed, sociopathic way.
Over in sub-plot land, there's a rumour circulating around the school that foxy French teacher Miss Dalton is screwing Ken Matthews, one of her students. The rumour was started by Lila, because Miss Dalton is actually dating Lila's father so she's jealous due to her raging case of daddy issues. It all comes to a head when someone leaves a message on the classroom blackboard that reads: IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A FRENCH KISS IS, ASK KEN MATTHEWS. Which is so pathetic I'm amazed that the teacher herself didn't break her hole laughing at how lame it is. Instead she runs off crying and doesn't show up in school for a while.
Anyway, seeing as Elizabeth was the only person that knew about George, she gets the blame and Enid stops talking to her, which confuses Elizabeth no end. She confides in Jessica, who tells her that she's better off without Enid and then dashes off to a party at Lila Fowler's house to eyefuck Bruce Patman. How and ever, it turns out that Bruce is busy hanging out at a college party and apparently bringing a nineteen year old bird to the upcoming dance. I can't speak for anyone else, but when I was nineteen, I'd have been MORTO if I was going out with a sixteen year old boy. Anyway, when Jessica hears all this and realises that she wore her ribbed burgundy sweater dress (hot!) for nothing, she talks Ronnie into taking her to the dance, presumably so he'll swing the votes for Queen in her favour and with Bruce being a shoe-in for King, they'll totally hook up for lots of fun sexytimes. PROBLEM. SOLVED.
At school on Monday morning, Jessica tells Elizabeth that she'll talk to Enid in an effort to fix their friendship. Of course, seeing as Jessica is FUCKING INSANE, all she does is pretty much tell Enid that it WAS Elizabeth who ratted her out to Ronnie and then proceeds to twist the knife by telling her that Ronnie's being going around calling her a dirty whore since the breakup. Later that day, after hearing them on the phone, Elizabeth asks Jessica why she's going to the dance with Ronnie, so she passes it off as an attempt to get him back together with Enid. Oh, and this exchange all takes place while Elizabeth is doing her homework, which happens to be a paper on Julius Caesar. HEAVY HANDED METAPHOR ALERT, BITCHES.
The day of the big dance, the twins are instructed to clean their rooms and while doing so, Elizabeth discovers George's letter to Enid. Using her mad Jessica Fletcher skillz, she finally deducts that it was her unhinged sister that told Ronnie about George. Of course, instead of confronting her like a normal person, Elizabeth begins to plot her revenge. Seeing as the last book established her unique brand of crap vengeance, she's probably just planning to hide Jessica's hairbrush or something.
In the meantime, newly-single Enid has decided to stop feeling sorry for herself and go to the dance even though she no longer has a date. While she's getting ready, the doorbell rings and who should appear, only George all dressed up in a fancy blazer and slacks. He heard she was now single and conveniently, he's now a great big ride and is taking her to the dance so they shift the faces off each other. While her Mam is still there from what I can gather. Anyway, yay Enid!
At the dance, Enid apologises to Elizabeth and they make up. Elizabeth then spreads a rumour that Jessica is hot for nerdball Winston Egbert, the other nominee for Fall Dance King, so Jessica gets crowned Queen and to her horror, Winston is announced as King, and not Bruce like she expected. That's it. Elizabeth strikes again. Retaliation is definitely not her strong point. Oh and Miss Dalton turns up at the dance, has a bop with fellow hot teacher Mr. Collins and everyone just gets on with their lives with no need for an investigation into the salacious and potentially career-destroying rumour that was buzzing around. Yay sexy Miss Dalton!
Notable outfit:
"Tonight she was decked out in tight black velvet jeans, a pair of sparkly pink leg warmers and a purple satin blouse."
Dana Larson, you glorious glam rock creature. NEVER CHANGE.
Special mention must go to Jessica and the trashiest swimsuit of all time, though:
"She wished she was at the beach instead, soaking up the rays in the bronze, wet-look, one piece she'd bought the week before at Foxy Mama."
A wet-look swimsuit. Jessica, you total GENIUS.
Things I counted:
Number of pages: 176
References to the twins' blue-green eyes: 4
References to the fact that the twins are blonde: 6
Eye colour mentions in general: 18
Mentions of the word "tears": 25


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3 tblspoon Tandoori Masala Powder (see my recipe)
1 tsp salt
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Cut an onion into rings, add a little of the marinade to the rings. Place the onions rings on a tray and place in oven and bake it along with the chicken, when you turn over the chicken.
Remove the chicken and the onions. Keep onions aside for Garnish.
Change the oven setting from Fan Bake to Fan Grill. Apply little oil to the chicken and place the chicken under the grill for 5 to 7 minutes. Check and see that it does not burn. Remove and turn over the chicken and place it back under the grill for another 5 minutes.
Remove- Tandoori chicken is ready.
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Here's a Friday Question that warrants an entire post…from Tastes Like Chicken:
Could you comment on this story from Slate.com about why so many Hollywood movies these days (like it never happened in the past, but still …) seem to resemble each other? His argument is that it's because everybody these days is using the same 15-beat structure from the book "Save the Cat, by Blake Snyder.
There have always been books that propose templates for structuring screenplays. And that's not a bad thing, per se.
One common mistake would-be screenwriters make is they just start writing their script without a good outline. And more often than not they find themselves going in circles, painting themselves into corners, or realize they're on page 150 already and have yet to introduce the love interest – and it's a romantic comedy.
You need dramatic structure. You need a beginning, middle, and end. You need things to happen. You need conflict. You need a theme. You need character development. A number of these books provide it. Syd Field's is the de facto standard.
But the danger is turning every original idea into a paint-by-the-numbers landscape.
And the greater danger is that producers and studios rely on these templates as if they were the Ten Commandments. Why? Because most of them can't write themselves. Yet once they read these books or go to Robert McKee's seminar they think they're experts in story structure. There's nothing more dangerous than an executive who knows nothing about writing but thinks he/she is an expert.


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Dave Snowden has been arguing for some time about the neo-cultist approach towards Spiral Dynamics. In other forums, I have put forward the view that SD has merit but that it has been bastardised by some people who have used the theory inappropriately, and extended it into areas beyond the reach of the original theory by Clare Graves (such as into spirituality).
I have not done SD-certification (through any of its various schools) but I have read a fair bit on the topic, including Graves original work, and had detailed conversations with people who know a fair bit about it. I find the Emergent-Cyclical Theory to be quite useful in explaining the various situations that people and societies are confronted by, and to explore the reasoning and intentions of their values and behaviours. My personal view is closer to that of Cowan rather than SD-integral. Rather than provide a synopsis of the theory here and the views of the various SD camps, if you want to know more about it – see here for an excellent overview.
I liken the divide between the various Spiral Dynamics communities with that of varrious management approaches over the years. Someone comes up with an approach that appears to have merit, and then as it is diffused, it gets simplified as people look to apply it to various circumstances. In particular, they lose the original context of the theory or why the application worked, and attempt to apply it in areas which are not suited or to extend the theory beyond its original scope.
Here are some selected quotes from a particular page on the Cowan/Todorovic site about their misgivings on others' application of Spiral Dynamics.
It's a mess because, like "integral," Spiral Dynamics has come to mean so much it reliably means nothing.
Sadly, we find much of what we hear about how some others use it deeply troubling, even appalling. Whereas our efforts five years ago used to center on broadening recognition of this model, now too much of our energy goes to damage control as a result of charlatans and exploiters who lack rudimentary expertise.
Although much has been discovered since Dr. Graves's day, very little contradicts most of his hypotheses, and much has been published which illuminates and expands this remarkably insightful theory.
What I find personally useful about SD is its attempt to articulate why people behave in particular ways and to offer a pathway forward for resolving existential problems (until other problems surface as they inevitably will). More quotes from the same page:
The practical side of the work focuses how to achieve systems which congruently match people with their worlds, their capacities with their situations; it actually offers very few prescriptions for what to change, though many descriptions and suggestions on how to approach it if and when it is appropriate. The SD model does not define optimum outcomes because they will differ among situations and contexts, though the viewpoint always looks to movement up the levels of existence overall, in the long run of time because the increasing complexity of existential problems and the expansion of human experience demand it.
The question so central to Gravesian studies – the how and why one values.
When people see a particular application of an approach and witness cultist qualities in its proponents or an inability of that application to adapt to a new context, often what happens is that the whole approach is decried and labelled as unfit for use into the future or as a pseudo-science or worse. I've seen that happen in knowledge management too many times to list. But if one looks at the original theory and approach and beyond the "cultists", then one can see that there is merit in the approach, real evidence behind the theory, and an action theory that if crafted well, could be applied in context that will have considerable merit and benefit to people, organisations and societies. That is how I view SD.


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