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TV Affects Sleep of Preschoolers

“Watching violence on television or TV before bedtime can lead to sleep problems for preschoolers, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics. Experts have known for some time that too much TV time can negatively impact our sleep, but this new research finds that what young children watch and when they watch it can make a difference as well.

The study looked at the television viewing habits and sleep problems of more than 600 preschoolers in Seattle, Washington. When children watched age appropriate TV in the morning or afternoon, they didn't have problems with their sleep, but when the shows contained violence, young people were more likely to experience nightmares and walk up feeling tired.

Part of the problem, researchers say, is that younger children are watching shows meant for older kids, and preschoolers can't yet distinguish fantasy from reality.

"For a 7- to 10-year-old they are really at a point where cognitively they can grasp that that's not real violence and they can see the humor in it – it's not frightening for them. But 3- to 5-year-olds just aren't developmentally there yet," explains study author Michelle Garrison, Ph.D., with the Seattle Children's Research Institute.

Garrison also found that watching television right before bedtime made it more difficult for children to get to sleep, meant  more nightmares and waking up during the night,  even if the shows were educational and geared specifically for young children…”   CNN – The Chart

 

  Think about the children that see violence right in their own homes.  Think about the children that see violence right outside their home or apartment.
  We need to do more for our children.  We need to do better by them.
  How many fathers just want their kids to go to bed so they can surf for porn.

  We are learning more about children and our brains all the time.
  But it appears to me that there is less interest in using the information.  The Republicans want to do away with the Department of Education.  The Republicans do not believe in science. The Republicans hate teachers. 
  Republicans want to cut taxes of the rich and give more money and benefits to the rich at the same time they want to cut help for children and working families.  
 

  One of my kids would not want to go to bed because “Star Trek” was on and it was on late.  She was tired but she would stand in the rocking chair and rock back and forth and watch “Captain.”  I would say “time for bed” or something like that and she would say “Captain.” 
  Sometimes I would just let her watch it and then she would go right to bed and other times when I knew she was very tired as soon as a advertisement came on I would say “Captain is over” and she would go to bed. 

  One of my other kids when she was older loved all animals.  She loved hamburgers but would not eat them because it was made from cows.  So I told her that they were made from beans and other stuff but not cows or animals. She ate a lot of hamburgers after that… I think she knew I was not telling the truth. 

  I think most of us try to do what is best for our children.  We often fail.
It has got to be harder than hell now days to raise kids.  I had four kids.  I do not think I could do it now days.  We need to support families and we need government to help.

Sex can cause heart attacks

“Sex can kill you if you're not in shape, researchers in Massachusetts have concluded.

Indeed, sudden spurts of moderate or intense physical activity like passionate sex (or even jogging) by people who don't get regular exercise greatly increase their chance of  having a heart attack, researchers at Tufts Medical Center in Boston announced Tuesday.

Dr. Issa Dahabreh, whose study appears in the March 23 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn., explained that people are 3.5 times more likely to get a heart attack when they are exercising compared to when they are at rest. Likewise people are 2.7 times more likely to have a heart attack when they are having sex (or immediately afterward) than when they are not having sex.

Jessica Paulus, a researcher who worked on the study and who also teaches at Harvard, told Reuters that she doesn't want people to think that exercise (or sex) is bad for one's health…”

 Los Angeles Times

 

  So I should tell all The Tea Party people to go get fucked is that correct?

  I have asked this question before on subjects like this but I got to ask again… Is this study just about “sex” between two people or does it also a apply to someone having sex alone?  

Zombie Apocalypse

  The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has a article on Zombie Apocalypse.  I am not kidding you. 
  I guess you can not say that our government is not ready for any sort of emergency.
OR you might say thank God our government has a sense of humor.

  Of course there is CSpan and I think we all feel that most of the time it is a comedy channel.  Of course CSpan is not a government operation it just covers the comedy, humor and horror that takes place in Washington.

“…So what do you need to do before zombies…or hurricanes or pandemics for example, actually happen? First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house. This includes things like water, food, and other supplies to get you through the first couple of days before you can locate a zombie-free refugee camp (or in the event of a natural disaster, it will buy you some time until you are able to make your way to an evacuation shelter or utility lines are restored). Below are a few items you should include in your kit, for a full list visit the CDC Emergency page.

 

• Water (1 gallon per person per day)
• Food (stock up on non-perishable items that you eat regularly)
• Medications (this includes prescription and non-prescription meds)
• Tools and Supplies (utility knife, duct tape, battery powered radio, etc.)
• Sanitation and Hygiene (household bleach, soap, towels, etc.)
• Clothing and Bedding (a change of clothes for each family member and blankets)
• Important documents (copies of your driver’s license, passport, and birth certificate to name a few)
• First Aid supplies (although you’re a goner if a zombie bites you, you can use these supplies to treat basic cuts and lacerations that you might get during a tornado or hurricane)…”

Republicans–always wrong on everything

Washington (CNN) - A conservative legal watchdog group has filed the first lawsuit seeking public release of video and photographs of the U.S. military raid and aftermath that left al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden dead.

Judicial Watch is asking the Department of Defense to comply with a Freedom of Information request for the material, especially photos of the September 11 mastermind lying dead on the third floor of his Pakistan hideout. The legal complaint to force compliance was made in federal court in Washington on Friday.

FULL STORY

By: CNN SUPREME COURT PRODUCER BILL MEARS
Filed under: Al Qaeda • Osama bin Laden

 

  Republicans always wrong on everything.
We do not want to see the photos of Osama bin Laden.

We want to see all of the porn that was found in the raid.

 

Google Chooses Kansas City (KS) for ultra-fast Internet

“NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The year-long wait is over: Google announced Wednesday that it has chosen to deploy its ultra-fast broadband network in Kansas City, Kansas.

Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) will provide broadband Internet access to the city with speeds of about 1 gigabit per second. That's around 100 times faster than what most Americans have available to them today. Google said that the network's speed would be fast enough to download a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes…”

  Oh my God!  I was born in Kansas City (MO) and spent all my adult life in Kansas City (MO).  I left in 2000.  Kansas City (KS), and I am not racist by the way, is a shit hole.  I worked one entire year in Kansas City (KS).  The KCKS police department was very bad.  We are taking scary.  I worked with a guy that was racist and a very bad guy and he had been kicked off the Kansas City (KS) police department.  They took him back on the force.  He told me how he and other police officers used to beat blacks and push them down stairs and say they fell.  He was just the sort of guy you do not want to be a police officer and they hired him back.
  I do not see how high speed Internet is going to help KCKS.  I have been gone 11 years from the area but I do not think anything can help that city.

ATC Sleeping Blame President Reagan

Falling asleep on the job? Drug tests? What is going on in those towers?

That's what the Federal Aviation Administration certainly wants to know. They've been conducting an investigation into the air traffic supervisor who reportedly fell asleep on the job at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, forcing two planes to land without assistance from the tower. FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt told the Associated Pressthat, "As a former airline pilot, I am personally outraged that this controller did not meet his responsibility to help land these two airplanes."

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/25/faa-suspends-sleeping-supervisor-is-air-traffic-control-out-of-control/#ixzz1HfT60k67

 

  Let me say first if you are an employee working the graveyard (midnight) shift and you fall asleep then you have no excuse.  It may not be your normal shift, you may be working over time, they may have called you in at the last minute or it could be anything.  You might have been up all day and not able to sleep because of a family emergency.  You company may have had to come in in the middle of the day for meeting at work and then expect you to work the midnight shift.  But if you fall asleep at work you have no excuse and you are guilty.
  I have never counted up how many years I worked the midnight shift.  I worked the midnight shift at a number of different hospitals.  I worked at one hospital for 11 years on the midnight shift.  I am an expert on working the graveyard shift.
  Working midnights is hard.  In fact it is a killer.  If you work midnights you have all sorts of medical conditions that you are may get.  You will be sicker more often and sicker when you are and you will have more family problems.  You can expect to die sooner.  The midnight shift is truly a killer.
  
  During my years as a hospital security officer I found a lot of employees asleep on the job.  We are talking ICU nurses, ER nurses and lots of other employees.
  I also have seen police officer sleeping on duty.  At one hospital and that was during the day shift two police officers fell asleep in their car in our parking lot.  They were “watching” a bank that they expected to be held up.  They were a special unit.  Their car ran out of gas while they were sleeping. 
  At one hospital, a Jewish hospital, we received a threat, phone call, and the hospital had security go on 12 hour shifts.  Plus they had the local police supply us with an off duty police officer for each shift as extra help.  The police officer that worked the midnight shift came to work with his own red pillow.  He took his car into the parking garage and parked up on a level that had no cars and he went to sleep and would sleep all night. 

  I also have worked security on the midnight shift at two different ATC control towers.

  Now I have said that the employee was at fault.  Who else is at fault and who is responsible for the ATC mess and problems like this one?
  Two Presidents of the United States;  President Ronald Reagan and President George W. Bush.  I have talked about them and the problems they have caused with our ATC system here in this blog.  Plus I just recently said that we would be having more problems because of the actions of those two. 
  I am not going to repeat it all here and now.  I am going today or tomorrow create a YouTube video on the subject and I will tell you what they did to cause this problem and other major problems that put you and your family and our nation at risk.

Nude Beach for Delray Beach FL?

“DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- David Armstrong, a member of the Delray Nudists, has lived in Delray Beach for 22 years. Their group has been lobbying for a clothing-optional beach for six years.   “I’m a naturist and I like to hang out at the beach naked. I like to go swimming in the ocean naked. I do everything in the nude,” said Armstrong.   Armstrong is just one of thousands of self-proclaimed naturists in the county who like to participate in recreational activities in the nude.   “We’re public citizens. We pay taxes. They should set aside a section of land for nude recreation,” said Armstrong.   To get the project approved, the city would have to change the ordinance, which is something Vice Mayor Adam Frankel says they don’t have any intentions on doing.   “A nudist beach really would not fit with the child-friendly and family-friendly principles we have here,” said Frankel.   “It’s what they keep saying ‘because it’s a family beach,’ but naturists have families as well so I don’t understand his point,” said Armstrong.   Armstrong estimates the venture could bring the city more than $100 million. He cited a study that was done by a nonprofit naturist group in Miami, BEACHES Foundation Institute. The group looked at how much revenue the nude beach in Miami, Haulover Park, brings in…”

                                                              
 It does not sound like it is going to happen.  But the guy is right about a couple of things.  It is nice to be nude at a beach.  The other thing is how popular Haulover beach is for Miami (FL).  People come from all over the world for that beach. 
   It brings in lots of money.  I have been to Haulover beach.  But if the city is not behind the project I do not think it would work for Delray Beach.  You need the support of the city. 

Chimp Rapes a Frog

This video was filmed at the Honolulu Zoo on November 11, 2004. This chimpanzee grabs a frog/toad and forces the poor little guy to perform oral sex.
This frog is gonna need some therapy if he survives.

 
  It sounds like parents watch along with their kids.  You would think mom and dad would say lets go look at this over here or there.
  I guess that sort of stuff must happen at the zoo all the time. 

Monks make, donate casket for youngest victim in AZ shooting

“Monks make, donate casket for youngest victim in Arizona shooting

By Eric Marrapodi and Kara Devlin

A group of Trappist monks in Iowa have donated a handmade casket to bury 9-year-old Christina Green, the youngest victim in the Saturday attack that killed six and wounded 13 others in Arizona.

Sam Mulgrew, the general manager of Trappist Caskets in Peosta, Iowa, told CNN a family representative of the Greens reached out to the monks at New Melleray Abbey near Dubuque after her death. The custom-made casket arrived in Tucson, Arizona, Wednesday morning.

"We didn't want to send an adult coffin that would be too big, we wanted something just for her," said Mulgrew, who is not a monk but who manages the 11-year-old casket business that is part of the abbey.

The casket, crafted from red oak, was made especially for 9-year-old Christina, Mulgrew said. She died after a gunman opened fire at a constituents event held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically wounded in the shooting.

Christina's funeral is scheduled for Thursday in Tucson…”

 

The Casket Blessing “Merciful Father, by your Son’s suffering, death, and rising from the dead, we are freed from death and promised a share in your divine life. By the hands of monks each day raised in praise of your goodness, this casket was fashioned for your child who died in faith. We ask you now to bless this casket. Receive the soul of our departed brother or sister who is laid in this humble bed as in a cradle, safe in your care until the day of resurrection, when we will all be reunited in the vision of your glory who are Father, Son, and Spirit, one God forever and ever.  Amen.”

EMail address had expired

  I use Google Mail mostly for my email but I have a lot of other email accounts.  God, I got so many I wish I could just have one account.
  One of the email services I been using and paying for many years is NetAddress.  I used to pay by the year but for the last year or two I been paying monthly.  Not a good idea.  I just found out it expired about 10 days ago and I did not know it.  The notices were in their trash or junk folder and not getting pulled in by GMail.
  I got to start paying these things by the year.  Hell it is even cheaper to do it by the year.

  Google GMail is a good email system.  I recommend them.
NetAddress is also a good email system but they have a small fee. I think it is like $6.00 a month.
 
  GMX is also an excellent email system.  You can sign up for free.
  Both NetAddress and GMX both have extras that they offer. 
  GMX has spreadsheets, database and all sorts of things most if not all are free.

  I hate all this stuff that bills all the time.  I have a couple of hosting sites that bill me.  I got other things that bill.  Skype bills a number of different things.. I am not even sure what I spend it each month with them.  I think I pay x amount each month for the ability to call out for free.  I spend x amount each three or four months for the phone number and I think I spend something for something else.  It is all confusing.
  Skype has a lot of power and the ability to use it say from a WiFi network is interesting.  
  
  These little bills that get from time to time … drive me crazy.  I forget about them. I am surprised often when I get billed.
   I suspect I am being dumb.  I should be using something like Google Calendar to note down the dates that things are due.  But I got at least three Google accounts.. Hell, I do not know how many Google accounts that I got.  I never use Google calendar.  I never use any calendar.

   I think when and if I get a smart (android) cell phone then I will start using things like Google calendar and other things like that to keep track of things.

   Oh when I used a Palm device I had everything on my Palm device and I was up to date on everything.  I miss the Palm operating system.  But the way to go now is a smart phone.