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Layered Lemon Pies Recipe
- Pastry for two single-crust pies (9 inches)
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 6 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups cold water
- 3 egg yolks, lightly beaten
- 1/3 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 3 drops yellow food coloring, optional
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1-1/2 cups cold 2% milk
- 2 packages (3.4 ounces each) instant lemon pudding mix
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 carton (16 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
- Line two 9-in. pie plates with pastry; trim and flute edges. Line unpricked pastry with a double thickness of heavy-duty foil. Bake at 450° for 8 minutes. Remove foil; bake 5-7 minutes longer or until golden brown. Cool on wire racks.
- In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch and salt. Stir in water until smooth. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until thickened and bubbly. Reduce heat; cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Remove from the heat.
- Stir a small amount of hot filling into egg yolks; return all to the pan, stirring constantly. Bring to a gentle boil; cook and stir 2 minutes longer. Remove from the heat. Gently stir in the lemon juice, butter, lemon peel, extract and food coloring if desired. Cool to room temperature without stirring. Spread lemon mixture into crusts. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until firm.
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Gradually beat in milk. Add pudding mix; beat 2 minutes longer. Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set. Gently spread into pies. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until set.
- For topping, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Fold in whipped topping. Spread over tops of pies. Refrigerate until set. Yield: 2 pies (10 servings each).
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This site needs a way to cut recipes in half, two pies maybe to much for some people.
This pie is freakishly delicious. Every time I serve it I have printed copies ready because I know I'm going to be asked. I moved to Mexico and most of my 2000 plus cookbooks are in storage but I made sure this made the trip south of the border. Thanks Nanette you did good.
I married into a pie eating family, and this has become everyone's favorite pie... which is kind of a big deal! I make them all the time!
Love the flavor of this pie, however, the second layer is way to thick!!. I would add atleast one more cup of milk, w/pudding, so that it would spread.
I planned to make it for Xmas, but hate to make a new recipe if I'm not sure how it will turn out. Did a "dry run" yesterday and OMG - the best lemon pie I've ever eaten.
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So, watching this film was pretty interesting and informative. It talked about McVeigh's background in the military, his experiences with war in the Middle East and the anger at the government that fueled his motivation for the attack. It seems part of his rationale for killing all those people in the Alfred R. Murrah building was that the U.S. government does far worse in its acts of military aggression, so by comparison his body count was insignificant. His final straw was seeing an act of government aggression on home soil in the infamous Waco, Texas, onslaught at the Branch Davidian compound.
After learning about McVeigh's mindset, I better understood why he did what he did. I do not condone it in any way, but I can at least see the dots he connected. While I do not agree with his course of action, I agree with his anger over the perceived hypocrisy on the part of the government.
To bring my point into the present day, my friend and cartoonist Erik Holland has kept me in the loop regarding the subject of his recent ire: the National Defense Authorization Act. I wrote about it (and he drew about it) a few months ago, when I said it is unfortunate that the lawmaking process has turned into such an illicit horse-trading affair. The act included a provision that Obama publicly spoke against — detainment of Americans who might maybe possibly be suspected of being terrorists — yet he signed the bill into law anyway. In the most recent development, a federal judge struck down that part of the law saying it is questionable on free speech and due process grounds.
She is, of course, absolutely correct. The very notion of holding any person on suspicion indefinitely without a proper presentation of evidence or charges is contrary to our Constitution. But as I said in my prior column, the very notion of this happening seems so remote, so unlikely that I had a difficult time supporting my friend's concern about this law. I figured it was one of those little provisions that was simply worded poorly or was misinterpreted by some folks looking for reasons to be paranoid. There's no way our government would ever really lock someone up and throw away the key simply for a reason that hadn't been tested in court.
But then I would never have thought something like the Waco siege would happen: tanks smashing through walls and many civilians killed in a situation that seemed to have been provoked by the government's actions against a group that was suspicious but probably didn't need to be obliterated. Through the course of their actions, just "doing their job," many government agents made mistakes at Waco. My parallel is this: By eliminating the detention provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, we give the government one less pathway by which to make a mistake and step all over people's rights. Incidents such as Waco rarely happen, but all it takes is once to make someone mad enough to build a bomb.
I hope the president does not tell his lawyers to appeal this ruling and let the detention provision just fade away, because the memory of a tragedy doesn't fade so easily.
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how do you calculate the difference between 2 times in Tables?
For example:
Field 1 = 8:10AM
Field 2 = 10:00AM
In Field 3 I want to show Field 2 - Field 1 = 1 Hour 50 Minutes or 1:50
In Excel, it's done with the Text function:
=TEXT(Field 2-Field 1,"h:mm")
How would this be done in Acrobat.com Tables?
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Thanks, it sounds like time calculations are not fully supported yet. Looking forward to when they are. In the example given on the other post, I see that 9:00AM - 1:00AM will display as 8:00AM and only supported on 12 hour clock. I'm hoping for more advanced time calculations where I can display the result formatted without the "AM" showing in the result field.
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With half-an-hour played in Liverpool's FA Cup third round tie at Mansfield Town, there was a piercing whistle, loud enough to be heard across the entire county of Nottinghamshire. It was not the whistle of the referee, but of Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, who crouched in the ramshackle dugout at Field Mill.
On that bitterly cold January afternoon came acerbic words for Jonjo Shelvey, the man entrusted as Liverpool's creative pivot, the position most important to Rodgers' way of playing. "Jonjo," Rodgers shouted, while placing his two middle fingers upon either temple. "Jonjo, get tighter, focus."
Shelvey acknowledged Rodgers' request with a nod of the head and a thumbs-up, before placing his hands on his hips and staying static as the ball broke forward. Rodgers whistled and motioned once more; once more Shelvey gave signal he understood. Rodgers turned away, frustrated, muttering to assistant Colin Pascoe.
The whistling and shouting could be heard so clearly because the non-league side's support, boisterous upon kick-off, had quieted. Daniel Sturridge's debut goal within five minutes had dampened the atmosphere; it was a goal set up expertly by Shelvey, a pass as incisive as it was intelligent. Yet here was Rodgers on the touchline, no more than 20 minutes later, frustrated, angry, flummoxed.
This was a microcosm of Shelvey and the mystification of the 21-year-old: from quality to maddening inability within seconds. He had played a big part in giving Liverpool the lead, but was also visibly contributing to their struggles off the ball.
Rodgers spent a while micro-managing the midfielder at Mansfield, far too long in truth. The Northern Irishman would whistle, beckon, instruct; he would tell him where to stand, who to mark, when to press the opposition. Solitary words as verbal Post-it notes, failing to stick with the youngster.
It was not laziness from Shelvey, nor was it an absence of desire -- the only thing absent was his mind and legs. He looked weary on the heavy, mud-stained pitch; he looked confused at the role expected of him behind Sturridge, particularly defensively.
Mansfield was only one game, granted -- but it came at a time when his Liverpool career, so promising under Rodgers' early tutelage, had already started to dwindle away. His previous start came on Boxing Day at the Britannia Stadium against Stoke and, while the majority of the side were poor, Shelvey was particularly abject. He would not play the next two games against QPR and Sunderland.
By this point, Rodgers had made a decision to change both the style of football and the personnel; players more comfortable in possession were demanded, but also those capable of quick, one-touch football on the counter.
In a season of learning for the manager, Shelvey became one of the biggest casualties. With Swansea City eager to buy the player for £6 million and Liverpool happy to sell, confirmation comes of the irreversible decline. Gather round all, for this is the story of yet more unfulfilled potential at Anfield.
But before the why comes the how. Before the trip to Mansfield, Shelvey's season looked set to be his breakout one, the one which would confirm everything ever said about him: he made 15 starts, appeared a further 10 times from the bench and earned his maiden England cap. But after Mansfield, he would only make a further six appearances, two of them starts and -- suffice to say -- his England cap remained free of company as well.
That is not to say either Stoke or Mansfield were the 90 minutes that signalled the end. Indeed, the agitation of Rodgers as he tried to guide Shelvey through the cup tie was one well-worn, a long way from the manager's words of comfort given on the Being Liverpool documentary in pre-season.
That contrast, that stark difference, surmises Shelvey perfectly. He is a walking -- and oh, how he walked -- enigma, a player who appeared to have the world at his feet but forgot to tie his shoelaces.
By October, he was an England international, the driving force of his club's Europa League campaign and one of the few people to survive a four-letter tirade towards Alex Ferguson. Though the comparisons to Steven Gerrard were unfair, they were also unstoppable. Now, he will be compared more readily to David Thompson; a young midfielder who -- for a variety of reasons -- never became what people expected of him at Anfield.
It would be easy to blame Shelvey entirely, to consign him to a lifetime of wounded hands, forever picking up fragments of his broken dreams. It is true he did not replicate performances from earlier in the season -- the all-action nature of Manchester City at home, the remarkable cameo away to Young Boys Bern, the tireless graft as a false 33 at West Ham -- and that his outings towards the end of the season, fleeting and forgettable, did little to impress those who needed to be impressed most.
But this is not necessarily the archetypal story of the promising youngster who stalled and stagnated, collapsing under the weight of expectation. His England cap did not herald the beginning of the end and it did not unearth an unruly egotism that eroded all goodwill. Instead, he was simply a victim of circumstance, failing to develop at the same rate his side were.
Shelvey is a player who needs to be central to everything, somebody who could bring something out of his team-mates providing they seek to do the same. With the signings of Sturridge and, more pertinently, Philippe Coutinho, any possibility of that happening at Liverpool ended.
The Liverpool that lost just two of their last 16 league games could not accommodate a player who still dwindled off the ball and was erratic on it; with the necessity for better results quickly, there was no desire to play a player who might be good enough. Coutinho and Sturridge had both played Champions League football while Jordan Henderson -- when eventually given his opportunity -- was more attentive and disciplined off the ball.
Shelvey is not a bad player and, at 21, still has plenty of time to develop -- he must to ensure he does not become an unwanted member of the international one-cap club. But with the arrival of Iago Aspas and Luis Alberto at Liverpool, the playing time he requires to develop, as well as the playing style that suits him best, will not be found on Merseyside.
There will be no tears or regret, alas. Not from Liverpool, who sell their eighth-choice midfielder for substantial profit; nor, in time, should there be tears from Shelvey, who needs to move for the sake of his career, and will no longer hear that shrill Antrim whistle of Mansfield ringing in his ears.


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Tommy J's Grill @ Froggy's "Best New Burger Joint in Town" – What makes Tommy J's burgers the best in town? Every burger is made to order form scratch by hand! Tommy J's burgers are thick, hot, and juicy that will fill anyone?s apatite. As if it couldn?t get any better, Tommy J is always thinking of new burgers and appetizers to keep the menu fresh and exciting. The service is great! Tommy himself is usually the one who will service your table and you?re always greeted by the bartender at the door. The food is always fresh but that doesn?t slow the cooks down one bit. Food gets to the table and drinks are always available. I have been coming to Tommy?s for about a year now and I would defiantly recommend this place to anyone. During the day it?s a fun, friendly environment for all types including families. Plenty of flat screens TV?s to watch sports. I find Mon-Wed days to be the best time to go in because you get to know the regulars . At night Froggy?s switches gears and becomes a busy bar with occasional dancing. So, if you?re ever in Davis the place to be is at Foggy?s.
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Warmer months always usher in a plethora of new styles, whether for wardrobe, hair or makeup. But without a doubt, switching up your polish is the easiest way to spring into the season's new trends without having to break the bank. Ranging from magenta to mandarin, we rounded up the latest hues for your hands.
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New Fire assistant coach Clint Mathis scored a few goals in his career, many of which were stunning.
There was this darting run in 2001 vs. Dallas that wound up winning MLS Goal of the Year.
There was also this one-time volley from 2004 while playing for Hannover 96 in Germany.
But if you got this far into this blog post and didn't already know what the favorite goal of Clint's career was, you haven't been a U.S. Soccer fan long enough. Of course you know what it is:
Daegu, South Korea.
June 10, 2002.
John O'Brien.
24th minute.
Deft touch with his right.
Beautiful finish with his left.
Jack Edwards: "That's why he's here!"
When I asked him this question which was very easily answered, Clint, with his Southern Charm, responded like he'd never been asked before saying, "The goal in 2002. That's one that my kids can tell their grandkids and it's one of those situations where I have some goals I remember playing in the league but it's different when you score in MLS vs. the World Cup.
"I think the significance behind that goal – it ended up being the one goal we needed to get out of the group because of the other results that happened on the final day to put us through – you just can't rate anything higher than that. You can't forget it."
Ahhh, just watch it again:
With his announcement as 2013 MLS MVP Thursday, Mike Magee joined an exclusive list of Chicago athletes that have won their league's Most Valuable Player awards.
Magee's name joins the likes of Michael Jordan, Walter Payton, Stan Mikita, Ernie Banks and Frank Thomas in the Chicago MVP club.
UPDATE! Magee did a short conference call with local media following this afternoon in Kansas City and I had the nerve to ask him what it felt like to be included in such a club. His answer:
"When you put it that way, obviously, it's amazing. Not by any means am I calling myself Michael Jordan or Walter Payton, but to be on a short list or any list at all with the likes of guys I grew up loving and pretending to be — to be on any list with them is a list I will certainly keep."
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Since 2001, the Mock World Cup Draw has been a fixture of sorts in the Crandall Household. Let's be real though, the scale of it was quite small and usually just consisted of me pulling names out of a hat alone in my room.
Alas, Wednesday I took advantage of the soccer constituency available around the club's Toyota Park office and welcomed my co-workers to the 2014 Chicago Fire Mock World Cup draw in Conference Room 1...
All of the spelled out procedures for Friday's draw were followed, such as pulling the odd ninth team out of the European Pot. Fire Season Ticket Services Representative Emily Morris assisted with this and randomly selected England.
We also automatically placed hosts Brazil into Group A…
And then began placing the remaining seven seeds into their groups...
Which ended up looking like this...
Then in order to place England into a group, we put the four South American teams back into a Pot, and drew....
Finally, we drew the mixed South America/Africa pot and came away with this grouping...
Emily then began to draw the mixed CONCACAF/AFC pot...With many in the room holding U.S. and Mexico cheering interests, this proved most dramatic...
The European pot was the last to be drawn, adding to the drama and finality of the mock draw. A proud U.S. Men's National Team supporter, Emily was left doing this face after completing the draw...
And this is why...
Suffice to say, no U.S. fan came away from this exercise doing this...
...but thankfully, I'm not Sepp Blatter and this thing was just for fun.
Do your own mock draw ahead of Friday's official event (the spelled out procedures can be found here). Then join us for our World Cup Draw Bracket Brunch Friday from 10am-noon at Fado (100 W. Grand Ave.).
FIFA revealed the pots and procedures for the 2014 FIFA World Cup draw set to be held Friday morning in Coasta do Sauipe, Brazil.
The Pots:
Pot 1 (Seeds): Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, Colombia, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay
Pot 2 (CAF/CONMEBOL): Algeria, Cameroon, Chile, Ecuador, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria
Pot 3 (AFC/CONCACAF): Australia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Iran, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, USA
Pot 4 (UEFA): Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, England, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia*
The procedure:
Step One: This is really the only variation from the previous wisdom on the draw. Instead of putting the lowest seeded team (in this case France) into Pot 2, FIFA will randomly draw one team out of Pot 4 to go into the mix CAF/CONMEBOL group of teams.
Step Two: Pot 1 will be drawn with Brazil automatically going into Group A. The rest of the seeded teams will be randomly drawn into Groups B-H and will also automatically take Position 1 (B1, C1, D1, etc…) in their group. This is important because there is already a set schedule which corresponds to each group position.
Step Three: With a mixed pot of three confederations, Pot 2 would run the risk of breaking FIFA's rule of geographic separation which keeps nations from the same confederation (outside of two from UEFA) from being in the same group. In order to avoid having three European teams, there will be an additional "Pot X" featuring the four seeded South American teams. The country drawn out of this pot will automatically be grouped with the carryover UEFA team in the already established group.
Pot two will then be drawn, with all countries being pulled with a corresponding number to assign their group position. In the event that Chile or Ecuador is drawn into a South American seeded group, that group will be skipped with the country going into the next available (European seeded) group.
Step Four: Draw pots three and four.
Step Five: Celebrate or mourn your country's prospects for next summer in Brazil.
Watch all the drama go down with your fellow lovers of the "Beautiful Game" at our World Cup Bracket Brunch this Friday from 10am-noon at Fado (100 W. Grand Avenue)! Stay tuned to Chicago-Fire.com as we'll conduct our own mock draw later on Wednesday.
On Friday, December 6, we'll all gather at Fado's for the club's "Bracket Brunch" with great hopes and prizes on the line for the FIFA World Cup draw.
There's plenty to get you started on your "Drawology" now, with the below graphic representing the suspected four pots that FIFA representatives (or perhaps Brazilian celebrities) will use to determine the eight groups for the tournament.
What you should know…
It should be noted that the only confirmed pot are the seeded teams in Pot #1, which features the hosts Brazil and the next seven best teams according to October's FIFA Ranking.
For the second straight World Cup, FIFA has somewhat controversially gone by October's FIFA rankings to determine seeds, rather than the previous formula which factored in both FIFA rankings along with nation's finishes at the previous two or three tournaments.
The change wasn't felt quite as heavily for the 2010 World Cup as traditional powers like Italy, The Netherlands and England all remained seeds. Those countries have been upended this time around in Pot #1 by the likes of Switzerland, Colombia and Belgium.
- The mix of CONCACAF/AFC (Pot #2) seems likely as both confederations have four teams each to make a round group of eight.
The only real question seems to be around which European team would join the mixed CAF (5 teams)/CONMEBOL (2 teams) in Pot #3 . If FIFA continues to go by their ranking procedure, France would be the lowest ranking European team, which could very well push them into the mixed pot, though this is unconfirmed and might not be known until the week of the draw.
Draw Makeup: Only nations from UEFA can be grouped with each other but only two per group and you obviously can't be draw against countries in your own pot, so U.S. dreams of getting another crack at Iran (wither 1998) will have to wait.
- DOWNLOAD our tournament bracket (PDF) and begin conducting your mock draws now! The Fire's "Bracket Brunch" is just two weeks away!
So there it is… On what we know (and suspect), what's the best case scenario for your nation of interest? What's the worst?
It's the end of the road for the U.S. Men's National Team in 2013...
Qualified for next summer's FIFA World Cup for two months, Jurgen Klinsmann will take a last look at his side with a pair of European friendlies beginning this afternoon at Scotland (LIVE 2pm CT on ESPN2, UniMas & WatchESPN). They'll close out the calendar year with another friendly Tuesday at Austria (LIVE 1:45pm CT on NBC Sports Network, UniMas).
Here's hoping Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson gets some time in one of the matches over the next week.
While the USMNT can continue their prep for Brazil, a number of European and African sides are still playing for their World Cup lives this weekend.
A full schedule of the games and where you can watch them on the TV set:
Friday - (UEFA First Legs)
Iceland vs. Croatia; 1:00pm CT on ESPN3.com, WatchESPN
Portugal vs. Sweden; 1:45pm CT on ESPN Deportes, WatchESPN
Ukraine vs. France; 1:45pm CT on ESPN3.com, WatchESPN
Greece vs. Romania; 1:45pm CT on ESPN3.com, WatchESPN
Saturday - (CAF Second Legs)
Nigeria vs. Ethiopia (2-1); 9:00am CT on beIN Sport, beIN Sport en Espanol
Senegal vs. Ivory Coast (1-3); 1:00pm CT on beIN Sport, beIN Sport en Espanol
Cameroon vs. Tunisia (0-0) ; 8:30am CT on beIN Sport, beIN Sport en Espanol
Chicago Fire midfielder Egidio Arevalo Rios and the Uruguayan National Team are [basically] on their way to Brazil next summer after an emphatic 5-0 demolition of Jordan in the first leg of the Intercontinental Playoffs earlier today in Amman.
Rios went 90 minutes in the heart of midfield while goals from Maxi Pereira (22'), Cristian Stuani (42'), Nicolass Lodeiro (69'), Cristian Rodriguez (78') and Edinson Cavani (92+') gave Uruguay what seems to be an insurmountable lead heading into the second leg next Wednesday in Montevideo.
Chicago Fire midfielders Joel Lindpere and Egidio Arevalo Rios won't be in Dallas this weekend as they've joined up with the Estonian and Uruguayan national teams respectively for FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.
Lindpere and Estonia have already been eliminated from contention to qualify for Brazil 2014 but coming off one of the biggest results in the nation's history last month (2-2 draw vs. Holland), they'll be looking to play spoiler as they welcome Turkey to Tallinn Friday afternoon (1:30pm CT).
On 13 points, the Turkish side sits one back of Hungary for the second place playoff spot in UEFA Group D, level with Estonia's Tuesday opponents Romania who visit lowly Andorra on Friday.
Arevalo Rios and Uruguay's position in CONMEBOL qualifying is much more intriguing. Uruguay and Ecuador sit tied on points at 22 with the two nations set to play Friday afternoon in Quito (4pm CT on beINSport Espanol). The winner of the match looks certain to have a leg up on the fourth and final automatic qualifying bid out of South America with one round of matches to play.
Getting a win in Ecuador will be most crucial for Uruguay who sit fifth because of the goal difference tie breaker and because they'll close out qualifying with a home match against group leaders Argentina while Ecuador will face Chile Tuesday in Santiago.
Long before he reached U.S. Men's National Team and Roma fame, Michael Bradley was just a kid running around Fire training watching the likes of Piotr Nowak, Hristo Stoichkov and Ante Razov kick around.
On Friday night, MLS Insider told the story of Michael's young years around the teams his father managed before becoming a professional at age 16 with the MetroStars.
Watch the segment below and catch the full edition of MLS Insider Episode 5 by clicking here.
If you've paid attention to Victor Pineda's story over the last year, you'll know that just making the U.S. U-20 roster was a challenge.
The Fire's original Homegrown player came close to making his competitive debut at the end of 2012 before a meniscus injury sidelined him through much of this year's preseason.
Ever resilient, Pineda recovered in time to join the U.S. U-20s and will hopefully take the field when Tab Ramos' side opens up the FIFA World Youth Championships Friday vs. Spain in Istanbul, Turkey (LIVE 1pm CT on ESPN2).
Yanks Abroad's Brian Sciaretta wrote this excellent piece on Pineda's road to Turkey.


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Golden Gate University, the 110-year old private, non-profit University for working professionals that power the Bay Area and beyond, announced that after an extensive search, the University has selected Paul Fouts as the next Dean of its Edward S. Ageno School of Business.
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Was it ever common to call people like me "male librarians," as it once was to refer to "male nurses"? The days of any profession being that bound up with either gender seem to be thankfully retreating into the past. Why, then, did I take "guybrarian" as my Facebook and Twitter handle, potentially irking both men and women on the right side of history? Masculine insecurity? One pretty safe generalization about us guybrarians is that we aren't shy about owning and celebrating our profession, as seen in these varied titles by and about male librarians. Let the mansplaining begin!
Some years ago, two men working in neighboring library systems in South Los Angeles published warts-and-all accounts of the daily pageant of weird and wonderful that is life in an urban public library. Both Don Borchert's Free for All and Scott Douglass' Quiet, Please keep it relentlessly real, depicting the seamier side of our ennobling profession in scenes that read like a cross between The Office and M*A*S*H.
Other guybrarians' memoirs highlight the transformative power of libraries in the lives of staff and patrons. In Running the Books, sheltered Harvard grad Avi Steinberg learns how the other half serves time when he's hired on as librarian and writing instructor in a Boston prison. Hardened felons such as Fat Kat, Dice, and Nasty are a far cry from the rural folk who patronize Howard Overend's bookmobile in the far northern reaches of British Columbia, as depicted in his nostalgic Book Guy, and yet they, too, cherish their library as a lifeline to a world beyond and outside their own. In The World's Strongest Librarian, Josh Hanagame's chief struggle was with his own mind and mouth. Suffering from Tourette's syndrome, he escapes the awkwardness in the inwardness of books, blossoming into the warm outwardness of library service. All three guybrarians show the real joy of librarianship is that the better you get at this job, the better a person you get to spend your days being.
With exemplars like that, no wonder that many writers cast librarians as heroes. Allen Kurzweil gave us Alexander Short, the realistically put-upon public librarian who finds himself wound up in the fantastical workings of fate as he sets his prodigious wit against the possibly illusory search for The Grand Complication. Isaac Vainio, the librarian hero of Jim C. Hines' Libriomancer, has the enviable ability to turn fiction into reality, summoning forth from books weapons fit to slay marauding vampires. Why didn't they teach this in library school? My favorite is the badass librarian at the heart of Jason Shiga's graphic novel Bookhunter, caroming around the streets of 1970s Oakland to recover a rare, stolen Bible and mete out righteous vengeance on craven book thieves. Even the nicest librarians agree: book thieves are the scum of the earth. You'll relish bookhunter's Dirty Harry tagline, coolly intoned after blowing away one very delinquent borrower with a shotgun: "Shhhh."
Book Guy. By Howard Overend. 2001. Touchwood, o.p.
Bookhunter. By Jason Shiga. 2007. Sparkplug Comics, $16.95 (9780974271569).
Free for All. By Don Borchert. 2007. Virgin, $24.95 (9781905264124).
The Grand Complication. By Allen Kurzweil. 2001. Hyperion, $21 (9780786885183).
Libriomancer. By Jim C. Hines. 2012. Daw, $24.95 (9780756407391).
Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian. By Scott Douglas. 2008. Da Capo, o.p.
Running the Books. By Avi Steinberg. 2011. Anchor, $16 (9780767931311).
The World's Strongest Librarian. By Josh Hanagame. 2013. Gotham, $26 (9781592407873).
David Wright is Reader Services' Librarian, Seattle (WA) Public Library.


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Until It Secures a TV Deal, Reserve Your Judgment on the New Big East
Nov 29, 2012, 10:25 AM EDT
Bill Bradshaw is seeing green, even if plenty of others can't see past the Green Wave.
The Big East has faced a firestorm of criticism since it announced on Tuesday the additions of Tulane and East Carolina to the conference. Those adds came one week after it lost Rutgers to the Big Ten and one day before it lost Louisville to the ACC.
But Bradshaw, Temple University's athletic director, seemed as confident as ever in a halftime interview with 1210 AM during Wednesday night's Temple-Buffalo basketball game. Rather than speak in generalities about the bright future ahead as the Big East continues to replace more recognizable programs with those of lesser prestige and name value, Bradshaw took a bold, honest approach. These quotes come courtesy Joey Cranney of the Temple News:
"If anyone's confused and frustrated, just know one thing: It's the color green," Bradshaw said. "Think of the color green, and that answers all of your questions."
"I think it's going to be very lucrative, particularly with the markets being brought into the Big East, such as San Diego, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Tampa Bay, Orlando, and certainly Philadelphia," Bradshaw said. "All those markets are going to mean more eyeballs, more exposure and hopefully more revenue."
Bradshaw's open admission that his new conference is angling for a pay day points to an overlooked reality. The message seems to have permeated discussions about the BCS conferences, but stayed separate from the debates about the future of the Big East.
It's beyond time to recognize that realignment has absolutely nothing to do with athletics, traditions or rivalries. The only thing that matters is geography, insofar as it can be turned into money, a lot of it. Maryland and Rutgers don't scream "Big Ten," but those two programs provide that conference with TV markets in which it was not previously a presence.
So why not take that exercise, exploit it to its fullest extent, and recognize the new Big East?
As things currently stand, Big East football will be contested between these 13 schools in 2015: Temple, SMU, Navy, Houston, South Florida, Central Florida, San Diego State, UConn, Cincinnati, Memphis, Tulane, Boise State, East Carolina.
For reasons related to quality of competition and the implausibility of a West-Coast school joining a (by name) eastern entity, that assortment of schools has been relentlessly mocked by the conference's critics — of which there are plenty.
But here's that list retyped: Philadelphia (4), Dallas (5), Washington D.C. (8), Houston (10), Tampa Bay (13), Orlando (19), San Diego (28), Hartford (30), Cincinnati (34), Memphis (48), New Orleans (52), Greenville (99), Boise (112).
The numbers in the parentheses represent that city's place in Nielsen's list of the country's largest television markets. Boise and East Carolina do not extend immediately extend to major metropolitan areas, but do provide the conference a presence in two additional regions. Excluded from the list above are non-football members St. John's (New York, 1), Villanova (Philadelphia, 4), DePaul (Chicago, 3), Providence (53), Seton Hall (North Jersey/New York City, 1), Marquette (Milwaukee, 34) and Georgetown (Washington, D.C., 8), who will also factor into the negotiations.
Here's what Big East commissioner Mike Aresco, formerly the executive vice president of programming at CBS Sports, is banking on: The markets mentioned above will provide the conference leverage as it negotiates its new TV deal. Better yet, those markets are the Big East's leverage. Realignment is a cash grab, and what the Big East has lost in traditional athletic prestige, its attempted to add in national scope.
You can criticize the conference as mid-major, and, according to the new BCS bowl format set to kick in in 2014, you would be right. You can mock it for being the new Conference USA, and, considering that nine of the 13 schools mentioned above came from C-USA, you would again be right.
But there's little denying these schools stand to make more money as a group in a makeshift Big East than they would in their former conferences — C-USA, MAC, MWC, Independent (Navy).
This is the only way to write it any clearer than Bradshaw said it Wednesday night: It's about money.
By no means do I aim to argue that the Big East is guaranteed success. It is very possible the conference will soon face the realization that having programs in and around major TV markets does not equate to a meaningful number of individual televisions in those markets.
But until Aresco comes back with a deal in hand, and until its clear just how much money each member school will receive, reserve judgment on the Big East. The jokes have been told and re-told, and the moral indignation has been tweeted and retweeted, and its all become played out.
The Big East has taken one hit after another over the last decade. It's lost 10 members since 2003 (assuming you count TCU, who left before it even arrived). It's lost seven to the ACC alone. It's proven as reactionary as could be in a time when programs, presidents and commissioners needed to be the most proactive. No one should weep for what's happened to the Big East.
But the conference is due at least some credit for having survived this long given all its losses, for somehow figuring out a way to expand beyond the number of teams it ever had at one time for football, for trying something inventive for the first time in a long time.
The Big East, very late in the proceedings, has staked itself a unique place in the conference landscape. It's lost its status as an automatic qualifier but positioned itself to potentially prove the best of the rest.
A few months from now, its last-ditch effort to expand its reach across the country could prove too little, too late. Then the criticisms will have proven valid. But if it succeeds, and if the Big East lands a lucrative TV contract, then it will have done so in the face of every argument about how sub-standard its additions have been.
For now, Bill Bradshaw is right, even if the majority of onlookers can't warm to the idea of adding programs they admittedly know little about.
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The study carries the decidedly wonky title, "Probable causes of the abnormal ridge accompanying the 2013-14 California drought: ENSO precursor and anthropogenic warming footprint."
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An Inhofian Train Wreck
An Inhofian Train Wreck
There's political rhetoric and then there's Inhofian rhetoric.
And even for Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), this is completely over the top.
Or to put it more bluntly, there's a train-wreck and then there's an Inhofian train wreck.
On the Senate floor today during the
Republican filibuster debate on the Climate Security Act, Inhofe made the outrageous claim that "everything" in the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth has "been refuted many times" by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
Now Al Gore's done his movie, almost everything that's been in his movie, in fact everything has been refuted. And interestingly enough the IPCC on sea levels and other things, scare tactics, used in that science-fiction movie have been totally refuted and been refuted many times by the — by the IPCC."
Where does one even begin? Or does one even have to begin to refute this?
Of course we all know that Al Gore and the IPCC were the recent recipients of the Nobel Prize for their respective work on climate change, so do we need more refutation than that?
I would suggest not. At this point, with the scientific evidence and observational effects of climate change diametrically opposing Inhofe's wild-eyed blanket statements on climate change, it's much better to sit back and watch the train wreck.
Here it is:
ThinkProgress was on this story first and has more analysis on this, as does their Wonk Room.
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I think he really believes what he's saying, and that's even scarier. The trouble is, there are people like Inhofe who are in a position to influence policy who are just too blinkered to get it. For whatever reason, he will never accept what the science is saying. In fact, it appears as though he won't even look at what the science is saying.
Fern Mackenzie
"I think he really believes what he's saying, and that's even scarier. The trouble is, there are people like Inhofe who are in a position to influence policy who are just too blinkered to get it."
Oh, good. So it is not just in Canada, eh? That's a relief, somehow.
You'll notice the Goracle never won a Nobel prize in science, he won the peace prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".
You'll also note that his movie has been banned from schools around the world for it's fallacies. Why can't the AGW fanatics just use facts to spread the word . . . oh right, they don't support the theory.
"You'll also note that his movie has been banned from schools around the world for it's fallacies."
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References for 'his movie has been banned from schools around the world for it's fallacies' please!
BTW Regarding 'AGW fanatics', I've ever met one, but I know quite a few people who are very concerned by the implications of the science. I strongly suspect that the vast majority of those who have been convinced by the scientific evidence, rather wish that the evidence didn't say what it does!
Which rather makes me wonder: Presumably, since you seem to despise 'AGW fanatics' (whatever that means) so much, why do you believe that AGW doesn't exist? The objective peer-reviewed science doesn't support your view, so you appear to have got everything backwards.
"... have been refuted many times, and refuted by the IPCC"
Yes, as any well-invested denier knows, the IPCC was set up to investigate and refute popular science films like the Inconvenient Truth. That is why it is called the Indagare Propaganda Clima Comitato (IPCC), or in English, the Committee to Investigate Climate Propaganda.
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Oddly, I don't think we are too different in our opinions. We both appreciate either side can easily manipulate the numbers to justifiy their case.
I like the idea of a better "overall" solution. The combi approach is interesting. I would like to see more solar thermal applications and I can see how you could intergrate with this approach. I think a major stumbling block with solar WH is the cost to garuantee constant hot water. A solar water heater could provide 90% of your HW needs but that last 10% will cost you. Either in capital (Tankless) or standy loses with a tank heater. If you could have a combi system that could easily incorporate thermal solar plus with some heat storage options, it becomes attractive in overall energy use.
My winter cold water supply can and has approached 33 degrees. The most temp rise most of the tankless can provide is maybe 90-degrees. Considering it has to run through nearly 40' of pipe to get to my shower, even at all hot, there may not be enough hot for a comfortable shower - it does cool off along the way regardless of the insulation. It all depends on where you live, and your expectations. Some of the tankless restrict the flow to maintain the temp rise, some don't, and the output just gets colder making getting just the right temp nearly impossible to attain.
I'm glad I switched to an indirect...obviously, that's not an ecconomical option unless you have a boiler, but I do, and did...much better!
Jim DeBruycker
Important note - I'm not a pro
Retired Defense Industry Engineer; Schluter 2.5-day Workshop Completed 2013, 2014
That is meaningless. There are shower heads, and there are shower heads. The type of shower head makes a huge difference on what the water flow feels like when it is compared with the maximum flow rate.
Around here, the state water authority went around and changed everyones shower heads to a low flow air mix type of shower head. Mix some air in with the water, and the spray feels nice and strong. I have never measured the maximum flow rate.
There are full flow shower valves and adjustable flow shower valves. If you can't adjust the flow for comfort, then the shower head determines the flow rate. I can adjust my flow rate for comfort, then I measured the result.
The point was you can run out of temperature rise with a tankless to make those calculations useless!
We had a 30g oil fired that went & we switched to a 50g high efficiency electric - no gas to the house. We need a new boiler so I want a hot water coil i n the boiler. In the winter the boiler will run & take the load off the electric. In the warmer weather a solar heater will assist. We have about 80 psi here, pretty good flow.
Between these 2 methods I'm hoping to cut the electric use
It's 12 degrees out & my input Temp is around 46-48. The basement has dipped to 54 from normal temp of 58-63. The next fgew days will be even colder
I'm not sure what the gpm is, but I've been in lower psi areas & the flow for taking a shower is poor. Some of this may have to do with the design of the shower head
DIY Handyman (not 4 hire)
I have enough to do to my own house
Maximum temperature rise depends on the flow rate required.
My longest run is about 60 feet and is insulated. I set the heaters thermostat for about 125 degrees measured at the kitchen sink. I have never had a cold shower. I always have to mix in cold water for a comfortable shower.
To maintain the water temperature my particular heater uses a modulating gas burner (25K to 125K BTU) which is controlled by a thermostat that measures the outgoing water temperature. It has a fixed flow restrictor that limits flow to a maximum of 3 1/4 gallons per minute. Not sure of the maximum rise that I can out of the unit, but it is around 85 degrees right now (40 degrees input - 125 degrees output).
I just noticed that the MWRA web site has a link to the toilet section of the Terry Love web site.
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From what you said I thought it was a mandatory replacement program. It would be nice of there was a "loaner" shower head program. Take a low flow shower head home (with deposit) & try it out, if you like it keep it - if not return it
There are still a lot of high gallon toilets out there
DIY Handyman (not 4 hire)
I have enough to do to my own house
It was "mandatory" to a large extent. Over ten years ago they had crews go around town and provided and installed everything at no charge. I still have all of my 50 year old toilets. The MWRA installed water dams in each one of them. The shower heads are rated at 2.2 gpm or lower. They are the air mix type, so the force of the water feels higher than a standard flow unit
Seems like the water consevation programs have helped out with water use.
"Operation WaterSense, a joint program of MWRA and its communities, offers conservation services directly to MWRA communities. The program has helped reduce demand from 330 million gallons of water per day to 220 million gallons of water per day, and has helped residents control their water, sewer and energy costs."
Many if not most newer solar heated homes are using tankless HW heaters as backup and "finish" heat for lukewarm storage, and in that application it's the right way to go. Also, more and more people are moving toward low-temperature hydronic heating in their freshly insulaton-upgraded & air infiltration upgraded homes too. When a tankless modulating HW heater's burner exceeds the house's design-day heating load by a factor of 3 or 4, using an oversized cast-iron boiler just to be able to run an indirect-fired tank isn't very efficient (still probably better than a tank HW heater + a right-sized cast iron boiler though). Utilizing a modulating mid-efficiency burner like a tankless as the combined system's heat source then becomes more cost effective up front, and significantly more efficient. With a tankless the modulation factor "right sizes" it semi-automatically to match the actual instantaneous heat load, whether the instant demand is for hot water or to run a hydronic heating zone.
Using a low-head reverse-indirect HW heater as both the space heating buffer and the hot water heater makes for a very nice space-efficient package too. With a single buffer that all heating zones draw from/return to in place, once properly adjusted, the delta-T that the burner needs to support varies with the volume & temperature of the return water from the zones. The flame modulates up & down as the zone demands kick on & off, and only when all zones turn off and the high-limit aquastat on the buffer tank trips does the tankless flame turn completely off. This is a tried & true system architecture adapted from large building heating plants, but applied in micro-scale to micro-zoned residential structures. Actual fuel savings are usually well into double-digit percentages with this approach compared to bang-bang on/off controls.
BTW: Many manufacturers void the warranty for tankless HW heaters used as boilers in heating systems, but I'm not sure why this should be so. If the system has even 10-15 gallons of buffering capacity the number & depth of thermal cycling will go down relative to HW use only. Takagi seems to be the only manufacturer actively encouraging combi or space heating use across their entire product line, but there are many many Rinnais and others running (off warranty) heating systems. A relative newcomer to the US market, Navien has pre-engineered some heat-exchangers & controls to make (un-bufrered) combi-system design easier: http://www.heatingbox.com/
Navien condensing units seem to have a following among the solar-heating combi-crowd, but take "condensing" with a grain of salt here, eh? (I haven't seen any test data, but the "98% efficiency" number they tout is likely only going to hold true when the water entering the heater is well under 50F, whereas in most heating applications return water much under 100F isn't the norm. It might hit 88-89% combustion efficiency in a heating application though- better than the ~85% combustion-efficiency of a standard tankless running ~100F return water (the eKoComfort measurements). I'm not sure the condensing unit it's worth the extra money though- the difference price could buy you another 40 square feet of installed flat panel, with a bigger reduction in annual fuel use in much of the lower 48. (I'd leave that up to the local solar designer to do the math on, but it's worth asking the question at design-review time.)
As houses become tighter & better insulated to the point where instanteous heat load far outstrips HW heater output capacity, a wave of combi systems (includting tankless HW heater types) is coming. Time will tell where the costs & benefits break down, but it's getting harder & harder to rationalize clunky oversized cast-iron boilers as fuel prices rise when low-mass modulating systems are available, and more efficient. My design-day heat load is about 30kbtu/hour, in an area with about a ~6800 degree-day climate. I could clearly run both heat & HW combi off a 199kbtu/hour in (~165kbtu out) tankless with margin to spare, getting far more use & value out of it than if used merely as a HW heater. For that matter, I could heat both my house & HW with most 50gallon gas tank heaters too (I've considered it, calculated it, modeled it, since the up front cost is SO cheap, but...), with a 10-15% comparative performance hit. YMMD.
Given some of the threads here outlining problems with Takagi units and getting the problem fixed I'll pass on the Korean Takagi...
I'm in the Northeast with some pretty cool water temps about now. I will state IMHO that the only payoff I see in tankless is with gas fired units for a situation where the home owner want an unlimited amount of hot water within the flow rate allowed by the heater(s) installed. I.E Large family with back to back to back showers and baths, larger tubs, & carwash showers. Show me otherwise and somebody is cooking the books!
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Yabbut, you don't get it, they're not Takagis they're Naviens- Naviens go to eleven, Takagis only go to 10... ;-) (Some Noritz models are Takagis- barely more than a nameplate change. Ever wonder why some Noritz models use Takagi remote controls? )
But in fact Naviens are their own design, probably come with their own unique sets of misery! ;-)
The scuttlebutt that some of the design team came from Takagi doesn't say much either way about 'em. They coulda been the guys who specified or designed the less-than-fully-reliable flame detector for the TK2, but they just as easily have been the guys who wanted to do it right, but were overridden by the group consensus or management, and thus were happy to bolt to a more receptive Navien when the opportunity presented itself. (I've seen many variations on this movie.) Chryslers didn't become Fords when Iacocca bolted either.
Whether the Navien proves more reliable than the competition remains to be seen, but local technical support and parts availability are useful for any device this complex. Tanks are definitely simpler beasts, with more limited sets of problems (but I've seen issues with electronic ignition on tanks less than 2 years old too, eh?) The complexity buys you some efficiency, but only at some cost. It's not a "set and forget" world, and is becoming less so every day. Where the cost/benefit is for anybody has a lot of factors (damned few of which were addressed in the CU article.)
When will this topic just DIE.
I will sum up tankless water heaters;
Expensive to buy
Expensive to have installed
Somewhat less expensive to operate
May not produce enough hot water
Work better in warmer climates
Work better with good water conditions
May not meet code in all localaties (remember the code does say that you have to provide hot water to all fixtures in the home)
Require regular service
Cause heated arguments that never ever seem to end.
Here I'll put the damn link up! Maybe he'll go away then!
I'll let someone else be the guinea pig!
When I hear nothing but good news I'll jump on the band wagon....
I'll breath until then thanks.
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Network World - Ray Ozzie -- the creator of Lotus Notes who had a successful five-year run at Microsoft -- stands ready to leave his next mark on the industry, this time with his nearly year-old startup Talko (formerly Cocomo), a venture funded by $4 million from investors and shrouded in secrecy.
It's hard to tell exactly what the company is up to given Ozzie's silence, but there are a few clues among some job postings the company made and a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in which Ozzie is listed as CEO.
BACKGROUND: Software whiz Ray Ozzie re-emerges with startup Cocomo
A job posting from earlier this year reads in part, "a handful of us are just starting work on a new communications product for this new world. ... We aspire to deliver compelling tools for social interaction that people will use, value and love." The posting was for a user experience/user interface designer to fit with the development team they already had in place. Candidates should have interests in email, SMS, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. They should also be drawn to "[o]ur multi-faceted identities, and issues of privacy & openness," and the "social anthropology of our ever-growing use of mobile."
The person the company was looking to hire would have "a minimum of several years of experience designing, building and delivering mobile apps on platforms such as iPhone, iPad, and Android" the posting says.
Talko started off as Cocomo, which is shorthand for constructive cost model, which is a way to estimate the cost of software development projects. But other applicable words include communication, coordination, conversation and coherence, Ozzie said in an interview earlier this year with the Boston Globe.
Ozzie had a string of successes at Microsoft during his tenure there from 2005 to the end of 2010. A year into that run, Bill Gates left the post of chief software architect and appointed Ozzie. Two years later at Microsoft's TechReady conference for engineers, Ozzie introduced two of the projects he had been working on: Red Dog, now Windows Azure Web services, and Live Mesh, a synchronization app for PCs now being replaced by SkyDrive cloud storage.
Ozzie also founded Microsoft Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, a select team of researchers developing social networking and real-time platforms for creating rich media and collaborating. It was the creative force behind Microsoft's Socl website recently launched in beta where people with common interests can connect and post collages of things that interest them.
This social connecting and collaborating via the Web and the cloud fits with the vision Ozzie left with co-workers at Microsoft after he decided to leave in 2010. And it could offer some insight into what he might be up to now with Talko.
In his Oct. 28 farewell memo from that year he says, "We're moving toward a world of 1) cloud-based continuous services that connect us all and do our bidding, and 2) appliance-like connected devices enabling us to interact with those cloud-based services." Later in the same email he says, "But there's one key difference in tomorrow's devices: they're relatively simple and fundamentally appliance-like by design, from birth. They're instantly usable, interchangeable, and trivially replaceable without loss."


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Alternative Names
Valvular pulmonary stenosis; Heart valve pulmonary stenosis; Pulmonary stenosis; Stenosis – pulmonary valve; Balloon valvuloplasty – pulmonary
Definition of Pulmonary valve stenosis
Pulmonary valve stenosis is a heart valve disorder that involves the pulmonary valve.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Narrowing in the pulmonary valve is usually present at birth (congenital). It is caused by a problem that occurs when the unborn baby (fetus) is developing. The cause is unknown, but genetics may play a role.
Signs and tests
The health care provider may hear a when listening to your heart using a stethoscope. Murmurs are blowing, whooshing, or rasping sounds heard during a heartbeat.
Sometimes, treatment may not be needed if the disorder is mild.
Expectations (prognosis)
About one-third of patients with mild stenosis get better, one-third stay the same, and one-third get worse. The outcome is good with successful surgery or balloon dilation. Other congenital heart defects may be a factor in the outlook.
Shabir Bhimji, MD, PhD, Specializing in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Midland, TX. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc. – 6/13/2010


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"When my son was born, he was in the nicu and they used pamper swaddlers. I knew when I got home I wanted to switch to a chlorine free diaper so I decided to try seventh generation. Initially they were fine because I felt like we changed him so often anyway but as he got bigger I realized I was still changing him all the time because they are not very absorbent. I guess it was great because I..." --Brittanypaskin
Seventh Generation free and clear baby wipes 350 count refills
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Zoe organics Diaper Balm
A natural barrier to protect baby's sensitive skin from moisture and bacteria. Infused with soothing and restorative organic herbs; calendula, lavender and chamomile. Directions: Always use clean hands to remove balm from jar. Apply liberally to baby's diaper area to prevent and soothe diaper rash. Use as often as needed.


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Tasty Tray
Use a silicon mold to portion out snacks for the kiddos. A great way to make snacking more fun!
Craft Time: 60+ minutes
Uses Recycled Items: No
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Material List
- Tasty Tray
- Wilton® Piping Bag
- Wilton® Coupler
- Wilton® Tip – 10
- Finger Foods
- Dip – Hummus, Peanut Butter or Other Dip of Choice
Project Instructions
Step 1 Fill star shapes with finger foods of choice.
Step 2 Pipe hummus or peanut butter or dip of choice into one star.
Step 3 Serve to your favorite hungry child!