34 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  8. I need a tip. I’ve always thought that ‘growing pains’ were an emotional situation. My daughter seems to suffer (at particularly her knee joints) from pain as she gets bigger. She has just turned 5. We’ve used hot water bottles, childrens Tylanol, rubbing/massage… eventually something works.
    Does anyone have any advice? Thanks.

  9. Definitely not just an emotional situation. What you’re describing seems normal, although your daughter is younger than I would expect. If she’s shooting up that’s just normal.

  10. Thank’s! I think it’s normal too. Just hard to see her hurt. Any advice to soothe the pain will, at the very least, will be considered.
    Thanks again.

  11. Oh, just the usual painkillers.
    I think I was about eleven + when I went through it. I survived.
    Look on the bright side. With growth spurts like this, she’ll be a supermodel, and keep you in the luxury you deserve 🙂

  13. Red Jeff,
    My oldest had this quite often in the time frame your girl’s in… he was, I think the term is “rambunctious” which may have played a part. He liked the heat pad, but the only meds we used was no name ibuprofen for any pain as it acts on inflammation and that’s quite typical of kids soft tissue injuries. Acetaminophen / Tylenol if there was a fever, and never “Aspirin” at that age.
    Also, telling crazy stories until they fall asleep, I found that helped a bit… 😉
    http://kidshealth.org/kid/ill_injure/aches/growing_pains.html

  14. What kind of journalistic twerp uses the term “full campaign narrative” with a straight face? Half the voters these days don’t know, don’t care, don’t even show up. Most of the rest know who they’re voting for from day one, or at least, know who they’re not voting for. Most of the “full campaign narrative” is lies and attacks on the other parties.

  15. AGW PR:
    ““Most people who buy electric vehicles tend to be premium buyers,…”
    ““We’re not in a situation where the market has followed our forecasts,” Stoll said.”
    …-
    “Renault Delays Electric Twingo Version on Lack of Demand”
    “Renault SA (RNO), Europe’s third-largest automaker, will slow down electric-vehicle introductions in another sign that consumer demand for zero-emission cars is falling short of automakers’ plans.
    The battery-powered version of the revamped Twingo city car, presented at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, is on hold, Chief Performance Officer Jerome Stoll said yesterday in an interview in Cannes, France, without providing a date for the model to go on sale.
    “We’re not in a situation where the market has followed our forecasts,” Stoll said. “People haven’t yet reached the point where they feel the need to have an electric vehicle for full daily use. People need to feel that need to shift to electric models.””
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-23/renault-delays-electric-twingo-version-on-lack-of-demand.html

  17. “New study suggests the public has lost interest in climate change”
    “The public has been steadily been losing interest in climate change following a peak in 2006, a new study suggests.
    Researchers examined Google Trends between 2004 and present day to draw their conclusion.”
    http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/new-study-suggests-the-public-has-lost-interest-in-climate-change/28013/
    …-
    “Renault Delays Electric Twingo Version on Lack of Demand” (bloomberg)

  18. I think it is time for SDA to vote on poll:
    “Are you losing interest in climate change?”
    Results: yes … 48% No … 47% Not sure … 5%

  19. This is in reference to maz2 comment above … thanks for pointing out article.

  22. AGW’s Cemetery in Dead Cow shale oil and gas field.
    “Shale formations often resemble layer cakes, with shale squeezed between layers of unproductive rock.
    “But Vaca Muerta is like one big cake, 1,000 feet (305 meters) thick in places, which means one well can be much more productive,” Robertson said.”
    …-
    “Argentina has won ‘geological lottery’ with Patagonia shale field: Chevron”
    “Argentina has won the “geological lottery” with its 1,000-foot-thick Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas field in Patagonia, a spokesman for Chevron said on Thursday, as the U.S. energy giant increases its investments in the country.
    The company and state-owned oil firm YPF announced plans last month to invest an additional US$1.6-billion to develop Vaca Muerta.
    “The shale play in Argentina is unique because of the rock. Its thickness. Argentina has kind of won the geological lottery,” Chevron spokesman Kent Robertson told Reuters…”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2014/05/23/argentina-has-won-geological-lottery-with-patagonia-shale-field-chevron/?__lsa=6ccd-481e

  23. I would get such pains in my legs when I was younger. My mom used to call it “pins & needles”; which is pretty close to how it feels.
    Unfortunatly, otc pain killers was the only thing I ever got. I suppose its akin to ‘teething’ in some ways.
    Sorry I don’t have a quick fix for you.

  26. Red Jeff, I also had considerable leg pain when I was in my early school years. My mother would rub my legs and knees with liniment. Not sure how much that helped, but it maid me feel better. This went away. Best check with family doctor.

  27. North Carolina restaurant The Pit was robbed at gunpoint on Sunday.
    Normally, local crime stories like this wouldn’t merit a Townhall post, but this one is different: The Pit has a “no weapons” sign displayed prominently on its door declaring the restaurant a gun-free zone, and bans patrons from carrying concealed weapons.
    Authorities said just before 9 p.m. Sunday, three men wearing hoodies entered the restaurant through the back doors with pistols, and forced several staff members to lie on the floor.
    The bandits assaulted two employees during the crime, but they were not seriously injured.
    What groups like Everytown for Gun Safety or Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America seem to have an issue grasping is that criminals have no respect for the law by nature of being criminals. Criminals aren’t going to be stopped by a “no guns allowed” sign.
    Read more at http://patdollard.com/2014/05/lol-nc-restaurant-with-no-weapons-sign-robbed-at-gunpoint/#QGhL4wIP9AMbiRB5.99

  28. PET Cemetery Report.
    Includes: Mao Stlong*s Gendercide.
    …-
    “Trudeau on gendercide”
    “Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says his party would not block sex-selective abortion in Canada because it is a “charter right.”
    http://en.video.canoe.tv/archive/category//trudeau-on-gendercide/3582942151001
    …-
    “China’s Widely Flouted One-Child Policy Undercuts Its Census”
    “LUFENG, China — Next to an imposing government office building, at a roadside stand selling soda and toys, Lin waddles over to dust off her children, two boys ages 5 and 2, and a 3-year-old girl. She is 26, a farmer’s wife, and eight months’ pregnant.
    “Oh yes, family planning is very strict here,” she said, without a touch of irony. “But fine me? There’s no way. I’m a peasant and I don’t really have any income. What can they do?
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/041400china-populate.html
    *Liberal Justine’s favourite dictator.

  29. Chantal HĂŠbert: “The goal of maximizing voter participation is a worthwhile one, but what if it is being pursued at the cost of short-circuiting the due process that should lead to as informed an electoral verdict as possible?”
    To the media elites it’s all about guiding the ‘flock.’
    If journalists valued an informed electoral verdict would they play tricks like using the Vote Compass on the CBC or manipulate opinion with fear mongering (global warming campaign)? There is an obvious agenda afoot that has nothing to do with ‘due process.’ I prefer the debates at the local level where audience members can get a sense of where the candidates stand on issues and how sensible they are, but the national and provincial debates aren’t a big part of my decision-making for an election, and I don’t trust the mainstream media to be factual nor impartial.

  32. There is no outrage; they are “Femi-Nazis”.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  33. The Reader’s Digest condensed version of Justin Trudeau’s latest verbal diarrhea:
    ” The Liberal Party declares that they will always support a woman’s right to abortion .
    We will never abandon the charter or the surviving females.”

  34. A modest medical visitation fee works!
    From Andrew Bolt, Australia
    Wow, the co-payment is working already – even though it hasn’t come in and is probably not going to get through the Senate:
    MEDICAL practices are already reporting plunging demand for GP consultations, with one surgery in western Sydney reporting a 50 per cent drop in appointments in recent days, the Australian Medical Association says.
    AMA president Steve Hambleton said that practice, in Mount Druitt, resorted to sending out SMS messages to patients to inform them that the Coalition’s $7 co-payment for GP visits is not slated for introduction until July next year.
    The measure, described by the government as “a modest price signal”, is designed to dissuade patients from claiming Medicare benefits for unnecessary consultations.
    “It’s localised, but there’s been some reports from western Sydney and now another one from Tasmania suggesting that there has been some reduction in presentations at GP practices,” Dr Hambleton told The Australian.
    Working as designed. If a visit to the doctor isn’t worth even $7 of your own money, then just maybe you’re not that sick.
    (Thanks to reader AP.)

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