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can babies be vegan if they’re breastfed?
Inquiring minds would like to know. What do you think?
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Please say why you think one way or another in the comments.
I know it is a silly question but milk is an animal protein and vegans avoid animal protein (for whatever reason they choose). By breastfeeding, a baby isn’t technically a vegan.
Are you Chi-nese or Ja-pan-nese?
I find it funny that the most popular variety of mandarin oranges is the satsuma variety.
Mandarin refers to a dialect of the Chinese language and satsuma is a Japanese word.
Burtâ??s Bees owned by Clorox?
Whoa! A natural products company exists that is owned by a chemical company? I can understand Colgate-Palmolive purchasing Tom’s of Maine, but not Clorox buying Burt’s Bees. Then again, Clorox does own Hidden Valley (maker of ranch salad dressing).
Can Burtâ??s Bees Turn Clorox Green? – New York Times
Today, the coupleâ??s quirky enterprise [Burt’s Bees] is owned by the Clorox Company, a consumer products giant best known for making bleach, which bought it for $913 million in November. Clorox plans to turn Burtâ??s Bees into a mainstream American brand sold in big-box stores like Wal-Mart.
I think $913 million is likely too high a price for Burt’s Bees but I’m glad at least one of the founders was able to get that much out of it. The real story in the NY Times article is the relationship between the founders and how one was shafted by the other. The one shafted seems to prefer it that way. What a fascinating novel the story would make.
Running on empty
I’m metaphorically Running on Empty. That song is now running through my head.
I have a 30 page paper due at 5pm tomorrow. I have 27 pages and a dearth of footnotes. I told myself I’d stop researching last month but just found a paper that parallels mine.
I’d love to stick around but I’m running behind
You know I don’t even know what I’m hoping to find
Running into the sun but I’m running behind…
Fortunes told …
Here are our fortune cookie fortunes tonight.
BT’s: “Going with the flow will make your transition ever so much easier.”
Mine: “If it seems the fates are against you today, they probably are.” 🙁
Studying has its [near] dangers
I love California weather. One reason is I can study outside most of the year. As much of the midwest slips out of its indian summer and into an autumn chill, California has remained temperate and comfortable. This week in Santa Clara has been no exception.
One of my favorite places to study is on a deck behind the law school library. A wisteria vine shades the patio during summer and then sheds its leaves to let the sun through during winter. But it hasn’t been a very pleasant place this week.
The wisteria pods that have been ripening all summer long are spontaneously exploding this week. That’s right, exploding. Without being touched or molested by animal or even a light breeze, the wisteria pods suddenly pop open with a small bang and send shards of pod skin and seeds flying in a number of directions. Every few minutes a pod explodes.
The danger isn’t in being hit. I have been hit several times by seeds and pod shrapnel but am not even scratched. The danger is the distraction from studying to watch the show or watch people watching the show. The other danger is having wisteria parts fall into a drink before realizing it was left open to attack.
The snapping has even been loud enough to bring folks out of neighboring buildings to determine what all that racket is about. One older woman even stood on a table while wearing her comfortable heels (can heels ever be comfortable) to touch a pod. It didn’t explode, but she quickly retreated when one exploded several feet to her left and sent seeds far to her right.
Needless to say, I studied under the wisteria for only a short while on Monday and yesterday. Today, I walked by without stopping after I heard the familiar crackling sounds. There’s always tomorrow. 🙂
[Freecycle] OFFERED: Book: “Coping with your Difficult Older Parent”
I found this item offered in the Freecycle email humorous:
Subtitle “A Guide for Stressed Out Children.”
by Grace Lebow and Barbara KaneDiscusses ideas for handling controlling types, having trouble adjusting
to grieving, clinging, nagging, recriminations, the impaired parent,
obsessive, intolerant.. .and so many more difficult older parent issues.
I’m exhausted just reading the table of contents.Maybe a FRIEND needs this book! 😉
Glad to be of help…
It was spoken for very quickly.
the [low] value of red bull
Walking through campus today, I was offered free Red Bull by marketers looking to get college kids hooked (today was the first day of the quarter for the undergrads). I wasn’t impressed. Red Bull tastes like a mix between cough syrup and Faygo Rock ‘n Rye soda. It even left the same unremarkable aftertaste.
The caffeine buzz is nice, but I can easily get that from tea, coffee, yerba mate, and a number of better tasting sodas. Hopefully I don’t crash during class.
Is Google’s CFO departure a harbinger?
When I first heard Google’s CFO is retiring, I immediately thought of the day Gary Valenzuela, CFO of Yahoo! during the boom, retired. The obligatory “for family reasons” was given and few thought much of it.
Yahoo! tanked soon after Valenzuela’s announcement during the Q2 earnings release in 2000. News.com: Yahoo! beats street again as sales, traffic surge.
Separately, Yahoo! announced that Susan Decker, the former Global Head of Research at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette will replace Valenzuela as CFO.
In the release, company officials said Valenzuela will retire and July and work closely with Decker through this transition period.
Perhaps Valenzuela, 43, retired because he was exhausted from continually downplaying Yahoo!’s potential.
Last quarter, Valenzuela said Yahoo!’s extraordinary growth rates were “unsustainable.”
Googles CFO to retire by end of year – Yahoo News
Google Inc.s chief financial officer will retire by the end of the year, creating the most prominent job opening at the Internet search leader since it went public three years ago.
George Reyes departure as CFO, announced Tuesday, was unexpected â?? a development likely to stir speculation about his reasons for leaving a crucial job at one of the worlds most scrutinized companies.
At the time Valenzuela retired in 2000, crazy .com fly-by-nights were just starting to fold at exponential rates. Now we’re seeing the financial markets being rocked, a toll that will eventually be felt in the advertising market. Financial Services spent $272 million dollars in online advertising during July 2007, a figure that is almost twice as the next closest industry in terms of dollars spent. The source of that figure is Nielsen. Although that amount doesn’t include paid search and Yahoo! is more obviously exposed (unless I’ve only been dreaming of being harassed by dancing dinosaurs) I don’t think Google will be immune from a cut in a big financial services industry ad budget, particularly if it completes the Doubleclick acquisition. We’ll find out soon enough if this early retirement is a harbinger or he’s truly puckered out.