College Confidential - Parent Cafe http://talk.collegeconfidential.com en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:54:20 GMT vBulletin 30 http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/images/misc/rss.jpg College Confidential - Parent Cafe http://talk.collegeconfidential.com <![CDATA[Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish]]> http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/813560-mama-stambergs-cranberry-relish.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:22:43 GMT Here is Susan Stamberg's 2009 take on her cranberry relish recipe, this year read by Ruth Reichl, editor of the soon-to-be defunct Gourmet magazine: NPR Media Player

It sounds horrible, but tastes delicious. Even Ruth Reichl agrees. I make it every year and take it to my MIL's. I'm not sure if anyone eats it but me ;) ]]> Parent Cafe PRJ-147029 http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/813560-mama-stambergs-cranberry-relish.html Best way to treat an older dog http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/813545-best-way-treat-older-dog.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:42:47 GMT Looking for input and advice. We have an older large dog who got deathly ill a couple of years ago and has continuing impaired liver function. Not anything that is currently medicated, we mainly changed his diet. But he has a nasty growth that has quadrupled in size. Initially we ignored it (after a biopsy) as the thought of putting him under anesthetic, which is tough on the liver, was not appealing. Now that it is so much larger I am researching options and ideas. We would like to remove it, but are concerned about putting him under. We found a vet with a laser, but they still require him to be under for treatment. Any wisdom from your past experiences? Looking for input and advice.

We have an older large dog who got deathly ill a couple of years ago and has continuing impaired liver function. Not anything that is currently medicated, we mainly changed his diet.

But he has a nasty growth that has quadrupled in size. Initially we ignored it (after a biopsy) as the thought of putting him under anesthetic, which is tough on the liver, was not appealing. Now that it is so much larger I am researching options and ideas.

We would like to remove it, but are concerned about putting him under. We found a vet with a laser, but they still require him to be under for treatment.

Any wisdom from your past experiences? ]]> Parent Cafe somemom-1644 http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/813545-best-way-treat-older-dog.html Transgender Day of Remembrance http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/813542-transgender-day-remembrance.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:30:31 GMT I thought I'd mention that today is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, with events held all around this country (and others) to commemmorate all the lives lost in the past year to transphobic violence and hate crimes. Trans people, although a comparatively small community in number, probably have the highest rate of death by homicide of any identifiable group in the population. Homicide that often involves an unspeakable level of rage and violence.

Today's Transgender Day of Remembrance Honors the Dead - Chicagoist

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Today's Transgender Day of Remembrance Honors the Dead

The gruesome murder of 19-year-old gay man Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado in Puerto Rico last week has shone new light on the potentially life-threatening dangers facing those who do not easily slide into our society's conventions of gender. He, and 117 others murdered due to anti-transgender violence and prejudice, are memorialized worldwide today as part of Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Mercado was decapitated, dismembered and burned upon murderer Juan A. Martinez Matos's discovery that the "woman" he was propositioning for sex was actually male. In defense of his actions, Matos is reportedly expected to claim a case of "gay panic," i.e. the claim his violence was the result of "a moment of temporary insanity." Speaking on the case, police investigator Angel Rodriguez said, "These types of people, when they enter this lifestyle and go out into the streets know that this could happen." It is not, as of yet, being investigated as a hate crime.

Other victims memorized this year include names like Tyli'a "NaNa Boo" Mack, 21, who was stabbed to death in broad daylight blocks away from a transgender support center in August. Paulina Ibarra, 24, was stabbed later in the same month in her East Hollywood, Calif. home. Andrea Waddell, 29, was strangled before her flat in Brighton, U.K., was set on fire in October. Jeva Padilla, 23, was tortured with burns and mutilated genitals before being shot 40 times in Santiago, Dominican Republic. The gruesome crimes - many left unsolved - span nearly every continent and speak to the transgender community's undeniable position as the most vulnerable component of the LGBT community.
A long list of this year's victims can be found at T-DOR 2009 english | TGEU - transgender europe and at http://www.transgenderdor.org/?page_id=555

A sad day. ]]> Parent Cafe DonnaL-158057 http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/813542-transgender-day-remembrance.html UC Protests http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/813517-uc-protests.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:31:28 GMT Well, I guess dd is getting the full college experience, because what is college without experiencing a protest or two. She just called to let me listen to the current protest in progress. She's not really involved, just wanted to see what was going on. Apparently people are being arrested, the police are out with their shields & batons. Makes for an interesting Friday I guess. ]]> Parent Cafe blankmind-147858 http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/813517-uc-protests.html Washington Post article: 23 and moving back home http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/813504-washington-post-article-23-moving-back-home.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:05:06 GMT washingtonpost.com

From the article:
"She graduated magna cum laude from the GW business school in May, applied for 30 jobs at some of America's best-known companies, and heard nothing. After visiting the campus career center and redesigning her resume, she applied for 10 more. Still nothing." ]]> Parent Cafe dmd77-10471 http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/813504-washington-post-article-23-moving-back-home.html