Headline Reuters: First Week Critical in Childhood Obesity – U.S. Study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – What you feed a newborn baby during the first week of life could be critical in deciding whether that baby grows up to be obese, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

They found that formula-fed babies who gained weight rapidly during their first week of life were significantly more likely to be overweight decades later.

I think you’d have to feed a baby a LOT of calories during that first week for those calories to make the baby obese for life.

But at least now I’ve got a ready made excuse: “Hey, I’m not fat because I eat half a gallon of ice cream every night. It’s because Mom fed me too much in my first week, and I’ve never been able to get back down to my birth weight.”

From the movie version of The Wizard of Oz

DOROTHY: Oh — apples — Oh look! Oh. Oh —

[Dorothy standing by the First Tree -- she picks an apple off -- reacts as the tree takes the apple back and slaps Dorothy's hand --]

DOROTHY: Ouch!

TREE: What do you think you’re doing?

DOROTHY: We’ve been walking a long ways and I was hungry and — Did you say….

FIRST TREE: She was hungry! Well, how would you like to have someone come along and pick something off of you?

DOROTHY: Oh, dear — I keep forgetting I’m not in Kansas.

SCARECROW: Come along, Dorothy — you don’t want any of those apples. Hmm!

FIRST TREE: What do you mean – she doesn’t want any of those apples? Are you hinting my apples aren’t what they ought to be?

SCARECROW: Oh, no! It’s just that she doesn’t like little green worms!

AP Photo:

Caption: “A tree at the residence of Tony Gioeli is shown decorated with a human face, Sunday, April 17, 2005, in Wilson, N.Y. Mr. Gioeli said he recently attached the carved face to the tree for his grandchildren who visit and play in the back yard. (AP Photo/David Duprey)”

Q.28. How was Christ exalted?

A. Christ is exalted by His rising from the dead on the third day, His going up into heaven, His sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and His coming to judge the world at the last day.

Last week’s question was about the humiliation of Christ. This week we move to the exaltation of Christ. But it is important to know that these are linked. Christ’s exaltation is a direct result of His humiliation.

Philippians 2:1-11

¹So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, ²complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. ³Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. ⁴Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. ⁵Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ⁶who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ⁸And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. ⁹ Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

I don’t keep garden gnomes in the house, and I don’t advise you to do so either. But if you do, please keep them locked up so that children don’t come across them and harm themselves or someone else.

Headline AP: Grandma Stops Intruder With Garden Gnome

LONDON – A grandmother stopped an intruder from entering her home by lobbing a heavy garden gnome at him, police said Friday. Jean Collop was woken early on Tuesday morning by the sound of an intruder on the roof of her home in Wadebridge, southwest England.

“I grabbed the first thing that came to hand — one of my garden gnomes — and hurled it at him, and hit him,” she recalled.

“He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn’t want to break another gnome.”

She doesn’t want to break another garden gnome. If someone is breaking into my home at night, I intend to throw something much smaller at him. (It is only about 9mm.) I’m not concerned about these small things breaking, and I’ve got lots of them to throw.

Headline HealthDay: U.S. Executions by Lethal Injection May Not Be Humane

THURSDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) — Prisoner executions by lethal injection in the United States may not be painless or humane, and may not even meet veterinary standards for putting down animals.

Refusing to provide your animal food and water doesn’t meet veterinary standards either.

It’s strange that what is unacceptable for animals or criminals is the court ordered treatment for the most helpless among us.

Scientists have decided to not take Pink Floyd’s advice on where to build the moon station.

Headline Telegraph: Living on the light side of the Moon

Scientists have identified the ideal location for a Moon base – a crater where the sun always shines and the temperature is a relatively cosy minus 50C.

140 years ago today was Good Friday, and President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. (This day 140 years ago was also the first time President Lincoln met with Vice President Johnson since the Vice President showed up drunk at the inauguration.)

Baseball returns to the US capital tonight as the Washington Nationals play their first home game.

The Washington Times has an interesting article about the baseball that will be used for the cerimonial first pitch.

President Bush will use the same ball that was used for last pitch of the final game of the 1971 Washington Senators before they moved to Texas and became the Rangers. For all thirty-three plus years, Joe Grzenda, the pitcher on the mound when the game was called as the fans stormed the field with two outs in the top of the ninth, kept the ball he was using. Now he will present the ball to President Bush for the inagural pitch of the new Washington DC team.

A man with a tape recorder up his nose.

AP Photo:

Caption: “‘Frankly, I’m suprised that the nominee wants the job, given all the negative things you’ve said about it,’ the panel’s top Democrat, said Joe Biden, seen here February 2005(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)”

Q.27. How was Christ humiliated?

A. Christ was humiliated: by being born as a man and born into a poor family; by being made subject to the law and suffering the miseries of this life, the anger of God, and the curse of death on the cross; and by being buried and remaining under the power of death for a time.

Philippians 2:1-8

¹So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, ²complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. ³Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. ⁴Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. ⁵Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ⁶who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ⁸And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.