News – Early Feeding

General

The deputy director of Unicef’s Baby Friendly Initiative says that feeding a baby pureed foods is unnatural and could lead to health problems down the line. She says that babies should be fed breast milk or formula for the first six months, then be weaned on to solid food. They should, at that point, also be allowed to choose how much they eat. Professor David Candy, a pediatric gastroenterologist with the Royal West Sussex NHS Trust, says that it’s a good idea. He cautions, however, that there is no set age at which babies should be given solids, as all children develop at different rates. Also, that pureed food could help in the transition from a liquid diet to one of solids.

Could the Internet collapse under its own weight? Nothing is infinite, thus it’s a given that it will happen eventually, baring some upgrades that raise the ceiling. Question is, what is that breaking point? We should find out, given the importance of the Internet to our modern world.

A fresh challenge for Microsoft’s Outlook. An online app that has recently added support for an addon that lets you look at and edit your tasks offline.

Explainer looks at hw soldiers avoid friendly fire.

The Blogs look at the fate of the Palestinian government, the Vatican’s rebuking of Amnesty International’s modified position on abortion and a Welsh salesman-turned-opera-singer. I heard the salesman here(http://youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA) and he’s pretty good.

Today’s Papers has the continuation of a series about veterans’ mental health problems and fronts a look at the inadequate treatment that many Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with post traumatic stress disorder receive at Walter Reed, a dispatch from Ethiopia’s Ogaden region, where many say they have suffered systematic abuses at the hands of government troops, that the Homeland Security Department is trying to prevent Congress from passing a measure to delay a requirement that all U.S. citizens present a passport to re-enter the country by land or sea and more in the one page news.

Middle East

Now that the US has all the troops from the surge in Iraq, they’re launching a new offensive. Will this have any effect greater than prior offensives? We shall see.

Two rockets are fired into Israel from Lebanon. It’s suspected that a Palestinian group made this attack, with Hezbollah denying responsibility. Israel says it won’t ‘succumb to provocation’. Well, this would be one of the rare times if not, from my sampling of its past history.

Iraq’s tit for tat violence extends to the recent mosque attack. All it takes is a few angry, indignant young men with more balls than brains.

Israel is restoring fuel supplies to Gaza due to the hardships a cutoff would have on civilians. It was cut off when Hamas took over the strip.

As expected, the US focuses on backing Abbas and Fatah, while trying to isolate Hamas. Because that plan has worked so well in the past, hasn’t it? Is it so much to expect a unique idea out of the current administration? I honestly had hope that, if properly guided and encouraged, Hamas could he led out of the realm of armed resistance and made a political entity in total. But now I suppose we’ll never know, will we?

A note of how it hit the fan in Gaza.

Africa

Nigeria could have a strike brewing as well, with folk concerned over recent rises in the price of gas and taxes on them. The ruling and opposition aspects of the government are in talks to deal with the situation, but you know how those things often go. Still, one must hope for positive results.

I wonder what has led Omar al-Bashir to accept a joint UN-AU peacekeeping force in Sudan. If I recall, he was against such a thing not too long ago. Now an unconditional agreement? Hmm. Perhaps I missed something.

Asia/Pacific

With as many tales of heroic civilians saving the day, there are surely as many tales of civilians killed while trying to aid others that go unreported. Pick your battles and know the risk.

A positive little baby step toward the shutting down of North Korea’s main nuclear reactor. Discussion on shutting it down amounts to nothing really, but it’s nice to see positive steps regardless.

New Zealand is setting up sanctions for Fiji after the military authority(if you’ll recall, they had a recent coup) expelled their NZ’s top diplomat from the island country.

Americas

A judge orders the FBI to turn over thousands of pages of documents related to FBI abuses of the Patriot Act after an internal audit gives note that it’s been abused more than 1,000 times. No doubt most of them will be black inked into obscurity as much as humanly possible.

Blockbuster video says it will only sell Blu-ray HD DvDs at many of its US stores now, leaving Toshiba’s HD format out in the cold.

Amusements

Topless woman awarded $29,000 after arrest, assault and commitment to mental hospital by NYC police officer who didn’t know it’s been legal for women to shed their shirts in the city since 1992 (SFW pic)

Not News: Car stolen. News: Car actually recovered. Fark: Car stolen again the same day

Consider Dallas Byrnes, a Rutgers sociology major. “I just picked sociology because in those classes, I got A’s,” she said. “But it’s finally hitting me that I have no clue what I am going to do now.”

Wonder why there’s so many people at Sunday services at that church? Maybe the pastor is selling drugs out of it

It’s 4am and you find your liquor store is closed. Do you: A) Go home and wait till tomorrow B) Go find another liquor store or C) Go rob a backhoe and use it to tear off the front of the store so you can help yourself

Woman sues funeral home for wrongfully cremating her husband. Then it gets weird

Number of women caught driving drunk in England doubles. So naturally media blames it on Paris Hilton

Sometimes expensive artworks look as if they could have been done by kids. Sometimes expensive artworks HAVE been done by kids

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Brother, can you spare a Photoshop?

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop these deflated party balloons

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop a Father’s Day card