"My work is like pablum to them," he tells me.
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It's not enough to read feminist pablum from a prompter.
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Oh, a hearty dish of raw carrot carpaccio with low-sodium pablum?
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This kind of elegaic pablum sounds good and it's certainly delivered well.
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His voters, sick of predictable pablum from buttoned-up pols, wanted a brawler.
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Typical Democratic pablum and travels to dozens of countries does not pass muster.
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Either way, we're sure to hear more coronavirus-related pablum from him on Twitter.
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What can be gleaned from some 1,000 collective pages of senatorial pablum and prose?
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" Of course, there was also pablum about how "free speech must be fostered and encouraged.
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There is a difference between policy and doctrine , between law and principle, between pablum and substance.
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With its focus on the examined life, In Transit runs the risk of becoming trite pablum.
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Obama's vision of national security was a combination of U.N. charter pablum and faculty lounge banter.
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Rather than the usual policy pablum, "Windfall" is a smart, deeply researched primer on the subject.
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Then he started answering questions, a flood of pablum spewed from his mouth, and everyone got angry.
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On the environment, Obama's call to protect "the health of the planet" may sound like generic pablum.
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Finally, I thought, my VERY ADULT good games will destroy the childish pablum of the Disney universe.
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SO DO YOU THINK THAT'S JUST MORE YOU KNOW JUST PABLUM COMING OUT OF D.C. OR IS --?
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"It was pablum, without specifics," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment strategist at Inverness Counsel in New York.
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But here it's just another cloud of pablum that she doesn't have the vocal power to render solid.
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There were no calls for hearing, listening, moving forward, or whatever other pablum is in the ether today.
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Most people's National Book Award pieces are nice bits of pablum, hers was a polemic and an inspiration.
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And from him it doesn't sound like the standard political pablum that most politicians think you want to hear.
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Of course, he desperately wants to keep the job, but on this occasion he dishes the team-first pablum.
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"If Mom does not want coronavirus to be true, pablum from Fox News makes it easier," he told me.
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In person, he is warmer and more direct than his public pronouncements, which resemble a politician's bland pablum, would suggest.
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When Mr. Cramer asked Mr. Stumpf a second time, Mr. Stumpf served up another helping of the same corporate pablum.
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Mr. Cramer also asked Mr. Stumpf about his own responsibility for the mess, and the response was more corporate pablum.
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Alternatively, Barr could have delivered himself of some innocuous pablum, which is something government officials often do in difficult times.
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So how do we get any of the real truth rather than insipid pablum lined by a patina of sincerity?
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That being said, his prepared testimony is a bunch of recycled pablum masquerading as contrition and doesn't suggest a good start.
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The shouting, the eye-rolling, the repetition of nonsensical pablum, the odd words ("bigly" when he meant hugely) — it was all there.
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All three candidates, just as in every previous Democratic debate, offered answers on ISIS and terrorism that oscillated between pablum and nonsense.
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The deranged corporate messaging from the company itself, which slowly devolved from standard pablum to the demented ravings of a death cult.
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I had expected to hear pablum topics, and there were some, like a talk about what children can learn from their parents.
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This may or may not be pablum, but one has to wonder why it justifies this type of stock given the risks.
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CEOs often depart without much explanation, outside of pablum about wanting to spend more time with their families or pursue new challenges.
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To hear Zayn tell it, recording Mind of Mine gave him a chance to escape the tyranny of label-dictated boy band pablum.
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Morrissey has swallowed the autopsy whole, repackaging its pablum in a "field guide" for Republicans hoping for better results in seven battleground states.
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But, as with so much of the pablum that she is promoting, her lines are not meant to be considered in any depth.
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Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Monday dismissed as "more pablum" recent speeches by former President George W. Bush and Sen.
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As if four years of being fed leftist pablum wasn't enough, too many schools shove their students out the door with one last liberal lesson.
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There is a market for this kind of low-key pablum — especially with such fine leads — where characters are little more than bundles of idiosyncrasies.
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They often look like hijacked accounts: Early tweets show a rational person retweeting and tweeting out Pablum content and then, quite suddenly, the content changes.
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Ever since the 1963 James Bond film, "From Russia With Love," Americans learned pablum-style that Russia spies on us and we spy on Russia.
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While that carries some risk, his off-the-cuff commentary is able to break through in an era of poll-tested, focus-grouped, blow-dried pablum.
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For those dedicated to Chomsky's syntactical tree diagrams, this could only sound simplistic, uninformed, and even dangerous — distracting the public from science with feel-good pablum.
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Detractors dismissed it as unproved neoconservative pablum that gave the police a reflexive excuse to arrest people for minor misconduct and that resulted in mass incarceration.
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Often in cases such as this, the weak are mandated to say that a given music is "made new with punk energy" or some such conciliatory pablum.
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His anger, his sadness, his frustration, his confusion, his real and honest emotion are not something that should be so easily dismissed as just more political pablum.
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But The Dark Tower has more in common with the dreadful 2007 adaptation of The Golden Compass, which also flattened a rich, complex narrative into completely forgettable pablum.
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And if the fluid definition of E.S.G. starts to make you feel paralyzed or even cynical, like this is all just so much green-washed pablum, that's understandable.
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Many sports teams tend to retreat into a bubble when it comes to difficult topics and moments, to offer bland and insipid "one game at a time" pablum.
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"Donald Trump once again lied to journalists in order to get good coverage for a couple hours before he returned to his campaign pablum during his speech," Murphy said.
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Mr Babis's trademark legislative achievement, mandating electronic cash registers to combat VAT fraud, is no populist pablum; indeed it agitated small-business entrepreneurs such as bar and restaurant owners.
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And if the fluid definition of E.S.G. starts to make you feel paralyzed or even cynical, as if this is all just so much green-washed pablum, that's understandable.
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Look at that paragraph above and it's a trite Hallmark story, a Readers Digest heartwarming bit of pablum that feels way less important than what it meant to me.
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One character you meet is trapped in a corporate mascot's uniform and sends out desperate requests for aid, but resolutely parrots corporate pablum at you when you attempt to help.
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Crowley's site is much better designed, navigates well and contains all of the conventional political pablum that's been pureed and forced down the throat of the American voter for decades.
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I don't know when he said it, exactly, and I won't spoil it for you, but it's a pushy bit of inspirational pablum that you can buy on a mug.
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Since late 93 when a mysterious, marijuana-connected group bought LA Weekly and fired almost the entire staff, the local rag has abandoned journalism in favor of pablum and weed ads.
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Because we spent so much time together this spring, I thought he would surely be at ease with me and would tell me everything straight: no spin, pablum or talking points.
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Listening to their pablum or their political rhetoric is discomfiting and infuriating — there's nothing to salvage there, and there's nothing interesting about their characters or demeanors to examine and pick apart.
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He draws his strength from those who are angry with the way our government is working and tired of the pablum offered in lieu of authentic answers to problems real people face.
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This sounds like insipid spiritual pablum, but in fact it's a difficult teaching, one that makes a mockery of our foolish national politics, and much of what we find in the media.
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Why water these down with pablum like: "Trust most what your own heart and head tell you to do," or "If you will yourself to fight on, you will never be defeated"?
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What's more, his suggestions for addressing our collective anxieties—and obvious oncoming challenges—aren't some regurgitated pablum birthed in a positive psychology "laboratory" and delivered to you via the human resources department.
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Every conference panel discussion, political talking point, and sobering news report about automated job loss seems to feature pablum about the urgent need to educate workers to prepare them for the modernizing world.
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Fair trade, better education, opportunity, healthcare, lower taxes, strong military and national defense, homeland security, blah, blah, blah, yeah, right, whatever ...standard political pablum fed to you by political and self centered opportunists.
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" In Variety, Joe Leydon calls it "the sort of movie a lot of us need right now," saying it's "too playfully spiky and unaffectedly down-to-earth to come across as bland pablum.
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La La Land, painted by its detractors as whitewashing pablum, was supposed to represent Donald Trump in this schematic; Moonlight, on the other side, was less Hillary Clinton than the legacy of Obama.
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Still, despite her resistance to the rules, she responds to "the pablum of solicitude" the hospital offers and stays for two months, taking part in art therapy and finding a nurse she likes.
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Their ability to remain positive and playful lends the film a surprisingly jocular tone, and one can see how the young men have turned what could be feel-good pablum into an earnest philosophy.
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By focusing so heavily on issues of temperament and character, by failing to articulate a meaningful set of principles that go beyond boilerplate pablum about "limited government," these anti-Trumpers are doomed to fail.
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Stripped of context, it reads as stereotypical Rockwell pablum, but its title, "Freedom from Want," reminds us that the pull of such a scene is universal, while its reality is denied to far too many.
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Mr. Zuckerberg spouts disciplined, molded public-relations pablum about how Facebook stands for openness and free speech, all the while censoring content to satisfy governments such as Pakistan, India and Turkey that have heavy speech restrictions.
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His answers on policy were mostly pablum, and insofar as he had a memorable moment, it came when he yelled at Pete Buttigieg to fire his police chief in the wake of an officer-involved shooting.
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That some of the night was pablum—Bryan Adams playing a song that wasn't "Summer of '69", a final battalion of musicians playing Burton Cummings solo cuts that weren't "These Eyes" or "American Woman"—ultimately didn't matter.
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Director J.A. Bayona made The Orphanage, The Impossible, and A Monster Calls, bleak but lush films that lean unexpectedly hard into their darkness and don't resort to typical Hollywood pablum when confronting things like guilt, despair, and death.
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"Putting out the same candidate biography pablum, that's not going to do it," said Mark Longabaugh, another Squier alum who is now a partner at Devine Mulvey Longabaugh, the firm behind the iconic "America" ad for Bernie Sanders.
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The contrast served as a perfect example of the show's inept handling of the Jackson-Olympios disaster: Let's get through this cheesy wedding of two Bachelor Nation also-rans in order to get to more pablum from Chris Harrison!
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I assume that because Biden is better at platitudes and pablum, he'll be judged the winner, while Sanders will be judged to have failed to move beyond the issues that motivate his base -- but not the broader Democratic electorate.
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Instead, the movie shifts abruptly from sad-lady mode into obsessed-lady mode (Portman dons a blonde wig!) — and then does the unforgivable Hollywood thing of tacking on some pseudo-feminist pablum via a supposedly empowering speech Lucy delivers out of nowhere.
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Even so, I couldn't help wondering whether the Midland gestalt wasn't all so much rich hippie pablum, what with the dogs that some students bring to school (who must pass their own admissions test) and buildings that are partly open to the elements.
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Its moral conclusions are basically pablum — "you should be nice to women, who are also people, like you and your buddies" — but the central character goes through a believable transformation because, once he's forced to listen to women, he learns to listen to women.
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He then had the gall to crown this reckless, horrible move—one that upends years of precedent in the Senate—with some Sorkin-esque pablum condemning the Senate for turning its back on the democratic process and calling for a return to regular order.
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In terms of popular music that is more than just mindless singalong pablum, then she is an artist of genuine stature, whose songs, whose music, are as great as any art form, as the work of any artist in the 20th and into the 21st century.
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Which is where "There She Goes" excels, in a way you might expect from a show whose executive producers include Sharon Horgan of "Catastrophe" and "Motherland" fame: by shining a light on a perhaps more difficult kind of parenting without turning it into overly sentimentalized pablum.
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"The One" ends up somewhere near chillwave, "Break Up Every Night" is toothless pop-punk, and "Last Day Alive," a collaboration with the pop-country duo Florida Georgia Line, is 100 percent pure pablum, a collection of dim anthemic sayings in search of a stadium, a twinkle with no diamond.
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In the best of times (and rest assured, we are not living in the best of times), the John Lennon song "Imagine" is sonic pablum: the cover of choice for mediocre YouTube artists everywhere, the soundtrack to a cheesy soda commercial, the karaoke song that deadens the mood, the clichéd go-to in moments that call for solidarity.
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Her speech contained several lines of political pablum that had clearly been lifted from First Lady Michelle ObamaMichelle LeVaughn Robinson ObamaMichelle Obama to present Lin-Manuel Miranda with the Portrait of a Nation Prize Michelle Obama thanks her high school for naming new athletic complex after her US ambassador to Germany calls out journalists who blocked him on Twitter MORE's speech in 85033.
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Dreamers and immigrant families are not going to suddenly view Trump as their fighter in chief because he threw some pablum language into the beginning of the speech about how, "struggling communities, especially immigrant communities, will also be helped by immigration policies that focus on the best interests of American workers and American families"-- especially since just moments later in his remarks he doubled down on the mean-spirited proposal that harks back to the cruel immigration quota laws of the 1920's.
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In a broader sense, "pablum" can refer to something that is simplistic, bland, mushy, unappetizing, or infantile. The Pablum brand was sold to Heinz Company in 2005. , Pablum is still sold.
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Interview with Big Paul Ferguson. Flaming Pablum. Retrieved on 12 December 2008.
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Pablum cereal carton (center), circa 1935 Pablum is a processed cereal for infants originally marketed and co-created by the Mead Johnson Company in 1931. The product was developed at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, to combat infant malnutrition. The trademarked name is a contracted form of the Latin word pabulum, which means "foodstuff". The word "pablum" had long been used in botany and medicine to refer to nutrition or substances of which the nutritive elements are passively absorbed.
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Clarkson 2004, p. 277. Rita Kempley from the Washington Post dismissed the film as "A pablum of schmaltz and science fiction ..."Kempley, Rita. "'Forever Young’ ." Washington Post, December 16, 1992.
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It is also the hometown of writer and former bank robber Stephen Reid and the current home of poet Charlie Smith. Theodore Drake, one of the inventors of Pablum, was born at Webbwood.
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Other Canadian cities soon followed suit, with St. Catharines in 1887 and Toronto in 1889. By World War I, nearly 50 Canadian cities had streetcar systems in place.Kearney, Mark, and Randy Ray. Pucks, Pablum and Pingos.
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Pablum Mixed Cereal was made from a mixture of ground and precooked wheat (farina), oatmeal, yellow corn meal, bone meal, dried brewer's yeast, and powdered alfalfa leaf, fortified with reduced iron – providing an assortment of minerals and vitamins A, B1, B2, D, and E. Pablum is palatable and easily digested without causing side effects like diarrhea or constipation. It does not contain common allergens such as chicken eggs, lactose or nuts of any kind, while it does contain wheat and corn, which can be allergenic for some individuals.
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In 1996 Shull joined the Board of Waterloo Sounds of Summer Festival as director of programming. and spent five years organizing entertainment activities. The next year the festival attracted a crowd of about 10,000 people. Shull promoted Kitchener-Waterloo based psychedelic punk band Pablum in the USKeren Adderley.
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We Are Devo!. The group signed to Epitaph Records for their 1993 release, Pablum. In 1994, Claw Hammer performed as the backing band on Wayne Kramer's Epitaph release, The Hard Stuff. Jumping to major label Interscope, they released two more LPs, the last being 1997's Hold Your Tongue (and Say Apple).
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Hand-fed male spectacled parrotlet, 5 months old Hand-fed parrotlets are much more popular in aviculture. Babies are taken from their nest at a few weeks old and fed a nutritionally rich pablum-like mash, rich in protein, fats, and minerals necessary for development. Chicks are fed using a syringe starting at three to four times per day. They consume of mash per feeding.
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Frederick Tisdall Frederick Tisdall (1893–1949) was one of three Canadian pediatricians who developed the infant cereal Pablum. He first started working at The Hospital for Sick Children in 1921. In 1929,at the age of 36, he was made Director of the Nutritional Research Laboratories. There, he and his colleagues worked for many months to make the cereal known as their greatest accomplishment.
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His brother, Alan Rosenberg, is an actor who has been the president of the Screen Actors Guild. Rosenberg was described as "one of Hollywood's baby moguls" by The New York Times, which noted that "the roll call of achievements in his obituary was of a length befitting an elder statesman of Hollywood".Karlen, Neal. "FILM; Baby Moguls: From Pablum to Porsche", The New York Times, March 21, 1993.
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The hospital was an early leader in the fields of food safety and nutrition. In 1908 a pasteurization facility for milk was established at the hospital, the first in Toronto, and 30 years before milk pasteurization became mandatory. Researchers at the hospital invented the infant cereal, Pablum. The research that led to the discovery of insulin took place nearby at the University of Toronto and was soon applied at the hospital.
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Here, in 1930, the researchers Drs. Alan Brown, Fred Tisdall, and Theo Drake invented what became known as Pablum, a pre-cooked baby cereal that has saved the lives thousands of children. In 1934, Drs. Tisdall and Drake demonstrated the benefits of enriching milk with vitamin D. The hospital also constructed more than 30 iron lungs for children in Ontario who were the victims of the polio epidemic of 1937.
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The fungus is dimorphic growing in two distinct forms. It grows as hyphae at room temperature, but when conidia are transferred to 40 °C they convert to larger adiaspores. It has no teleomorphs and no sexual stage. It does not have any particular growth requirements in terms of culture media, but it is known to grow well on pablum cereal agar, potato dextrose agar (PDA) and phytone yeast extract agar.
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Bell kept up her strength with Pablum, corn syrup, and lemon juice with water, along with heroic encouragement from her boat crew, including fellow swimmer Joan Cooke and her coach, Gus Ryder. Radio stations broadcast hourly reports of her progress and rival newspapers published "extra" editions throughout the day. At the start, Bell was accompanied by two boats, but a flotilla of boats gathered around her by mid-day. When she finally arrived at about 8:15 p.m.
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Prior to Panter's work, children's shows had a more lulling aesthetic: everything was round, "cute", simplified, and pastel. The set of Pee-wee's Playhouse was the antithesis of pablum-art: it was dense as a jungle and jam-packed with surprises, often loud and abrasive ones. While doing illustration and set designs, Panter kept up an active career as a cartoonist. His work in comics includes contributions to the avant-garde comics magazine RAW and the graphic novel Cola Madnes.
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The program featured screaming matches among Downey, his guests, and audience members. Using a large silver bowl for an ashtray, he would chainsmoke during the show and blow smoke in his guests' faces. Downey's fans became known as "Loudmouths", patterned after the studio lecterns decorated with gaping cartoon mouths, from which Downey's guests would go head-to-head against each other on their respective issues. Downey's signature phrases "pablum puking liberal" (referring to left leaning progressives) and "Zip it!" briefly enjoyed some popularity in the contemporary vernacular.
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Downey's fans became known as "Loudmouths", patterned after the studio lecterns decorated with gaping cartoon mouths, from which Downey's guests would go head-to-head against each other on their respective issues. Downey's signature phrases "pablum puking liberal" (in reference to left-liberals) and "zip it!" briefly enjoyed some popularity in the contemporary vernacular. He particularly enjoyed making his guests angry with each other, which on a few occasions resulted in physical confrontations. One such incident occurred on a 1988 show taped at the Apollo Theater, involving Al Sharpton and CORE National Chairman Roy Innis.
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After breaking up, Keith had been active in the mashup group Legion of Doom, among other bands such as Shiflett's brainchild Viva Death and a solo project called Pablum. Yaro had been missing from the public eye after his 2001 departure from Face to Face. After leaving Saves the Day, Parada joined The Offspring in 2007, replacing Atom Willard, During the recording of their new studio album at the time. After a four-year hiatus, Face to Face reunited in January 2008 for select shows in the US and internationally.
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Medical inventions developed at Toronto include the glycaemic index, the infant cereal Pablum, the use of protective hypothermia in open heart surgery and the first artificial cardiac pacemaker. The first successful single-lung transplant was performed at Toronto in 1981, followed by the first nerve transplant in 1988, and the first double-lung transplant in 1989. Researchers identified the maturation promoting factor that regulates cell division, and discovered the T-cell receptor, which triggers responses of the immune system. The university is credited with isolating the genes that cause Fanconi anemia, cystic fibrosis and early-onset Alzheimer's disease, among numerous other diseases.
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"Austin Chronicle review Robert Koehler of Variety observed, "Because it's billed as a more personal project for Mark Pellington after a string of interesting, idiosyncratic thrillers (Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies), Henry Poole Is Here is all the more disappointing. [Its] tendency to lecture on the power of faith and religion and on the demerits of science seems to assume an almost childlike audience that needs to be spoon-fed Pablum. This tale . . . won't advance the profile of the always-likable Luke Wilson, and Christian moviegoers will have to show up in great numbers to keep the film from being doomed to something far less than sleeper status.
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Dextri-Maltose and Pablum, early Mead Johnson products Edward Mead Johnson had founded Johnson & Johnson in 1886 together with his brothers. In 1895, Johnson developed a side business called The American Ferment Company to create a digestive aid. In 1897, E. Mead Johnson left the family business to go out into business on his own in Jersey City, New Jersey, and in 1905, the company was re-established as Mead Johnson & Company. The firm's first major infant formula was developed in 1910, and Dextri-Maltose, a carbohydrate-based milk modifier was introduced in 1911, making it the first American product for infants to be clinically approved and recommended by doctors.
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On the domestic scene, Herbert McCool invented Easy-Off Oven Cleaner in Regina in 1932Atkins, Jeff, Discoveries and Inventions:Chemistry - Easy-Off Oven Cleaner, article in Horizon Canada, No. 58, Centre for the Study of Teaching Canada Inc., Saint-Laurent, Quebec, 1986, p. 1393 and Frederick F. Tisdall, M.D., T. G. H. Drake, M.B., Pearl Summerfeldt, M.B., and Alan Brown, M.B. of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, invented pablum in 1930. Eli Franklin Burton along with students James Hillier, Cecil Hall and Albert Prebus invented the electron microscope at the University of Toronto in 1938 and Hugh Le Caine invented the music synthesizer in 1945.
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As a result, Genie learned to make as little sound as possible and to otherwise give no outward expressions. Genie developed a tendency to masturbate in socially inappropriate contexts, which led doctors to seriously consider the possibility that Genie's father subjected her to sexual abuse or forced her brother to do so, although they never uncovered any definite evidence. Genie's father fed Genie as little as possible and refused to give her solid food, feeding her only baby food, cereal, Pablum, an occasional soft-boiled egg, and liquids. Her father, or when coerced, her brother, spooned food into her mouth as quickly as possible, and if she choked or could not swallow fast enough the person feeding her rubbed her face in her food.
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The hospital was built in 1892 by the architectural firm of Darling and Curry and served as the hospital that is now called Hospital for Sick Children (or "Sick Kids") until 1951. The construction of the five-storey building was a very important step in the history of the hospital since it was previously located in a small downtown house which was rented for sixteen years by Elizabeth McMaster, the founder of the hospital, with support from a group of Toronto women (Toronto Archives). The invention of pablum, the introduction of incorporated X-rays in 1896, and the origins of the battle for compulsory milk pasteurization in 1908 occurred in this building (Adams 206). Since 1993, it has been home to Canadian Red Cross Regional Blood Centre and later the Canadian Blood Services Regional Blood Centre.
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" Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine deemed the album a thematic success that was "otherwise marred by the kind of slick MOR pablum that plagued the band's last few efforts". Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic felt U2 did not challenge themselves sonically and that the album represents the contradictions in the band's music: "They camouflage their nostalgia in the sound of modernity; they play gigantic music about intimacy... They want to be everything to everyone and, in attempting to do so, they've wound up with a record that appeals to a narrow audience". In a positive review, Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph called Songs of Innocence "fresh and cohesive... an album of big, colourful, attacking rock with fluid melodies, bright anthemic choruses and bold lyrical ideas." In Rolling Stone, David Fricke wrote that the record was a "triumph of dynamic, focused renaissance" and "the first time U2 have told their own tales so directly, with the strengths and expression they have accumulated as songwriters and record-makers.
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In his review of the premiere performance, critic James Keller of the Santa Fe New Mexican described the "impressive premiere" and noted one of the characteristics of the music of the period of composition which "sent opera-goers on a stroll down memory lane to the 1970s, when academic composers were still expected to worship at the altar of atonality." He continued: > but a score as beautiful as Spratlan's reminds us that even if one might not > care to dine on atonality for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, an > occasional taste can be toothsome. From a musical standpoint, Life Is a > Dream is an imposing accomplishment, the more so in light of the bland > pablum that has so often been tendered in stage works of more recent > vintage. The New York Times music critic, Anthony Tommasini, gave the opera a positive review, writing:"Overdue Debut for Composer and Exiled Prince" by Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, 26 July 2010] > ...no question, Life Is a Dream is an important opera, the rare > philosophical work that holds the stage and gives singing actors real > characters to grapple with.
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