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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel agreed to restore full diplomatic relations with Turkey in a surprising turnaround Friday after apologizing for a botched naval raid that resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish activists aboard an international flotilla bound for Gaza in 2010.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the breakthrough after a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The 20-minute phone call was brokered by visiting President Barack Obama shortly before he left Israel.
The announcement was an unexpected reversal by Netanyahu, who has repeatedly rejected calls to apologize. But the two countries' joint interests, including fears that the Syrian civil war could spill over their respective borders, made the time ripe to mend relations.
"The two men agreed to restore normalization between Israel and Turkey, including the dispatch of ambassadors and the cancellation of legal steps against Israeli soldiers," a statement from Netanyahu's office said.
Netanyahu "expressed regret over the deterioration in bilateral relations and noted his commitment to working out the disagreements in order to advance peace and regional stability," it said.
The statement stressed that the bloodshed was not intentional. "In light of the Israeli investigation into the incident, which pointed out several operational errors, Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized to the Turkish people for any errors that could have led to loss of life and agreed to complete the agreement on compensation," the statement said.
Israel intercepted a ship named Mavi Marmara while stopping an international flotilla trying to breach an Israeli blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Israel considers Hamas, which has killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks on buses and cafes, a terrorist group. Israel said it imposed the blockade to prevent Gaza militants from getting weapons. Gaza militants have fired thousands of rockets and mortar rounds at Israeli border communities and towns during the past decade.
Israel has previously blamed the activists on the bloodshed of the morning of May 31, 2010, saying its naval commandos were attacked when they boarded the ship. Israel released videos showing armed activists brandishing iron rods and clubs attacking the soldiers as they slowly rappelled onto the deck from a helicopter. Soldiers were overpowered as they landed. They were surrounded by men with sticks. One soldier was tossed onto a lower deck.
The military later said the soldiers were not expecting trouble and had paintball guns as their primary weapons while handguns were only for an emergency. Two activists grabbed the handguns away from soldiers and shot two of them, the military said at the time. Both activists were then shot and killed.
The fighting left nine activists dead, most of them Turks, and dozens were wounded. On the Israeli side, a total of seven soldiers were wounded.
Israel insisted that its soldiers acted in self-defense and later showcased knives, slingshots and clubs they said were found onboard the ship. Some activists had military-style gear, including bullet-proof vests and night-vision goggles. Israel said this indicated that the activists had planned for violence.
The activists also said they acted in self-defense and insist they were attacked first.
Israeli officials said Obama helped play a role in the reconciliation, but that efforts had been going on behind the scenes for some time.
Israel and Turkey were once close allies. But in recent years, ties have deteriorated with the rise of Erdogan's Islamist party. Following the flotilla incident, Turkey withdrew its ambassador to Israel and greatly scaled back military and economic ties. But relations were never broken completely.
A statement from Erdogan's office said Netanyahu had apologized on behalf of Israel for all kinds of mistakes that resulted in the loss of life or injuries in light of an investigation led by the Israeli side that pointed at a series of operational mistakes. "Our prime minister accepted the apology in the name of the Turkish people," it said.
The statement from Turkey said an agreement also had been reached on the issue of compensation and that Israel had lifted restrictions on the movement of goods to Gaza as long as "calm" lasts.
During the telephone conversation, Erdogan told Netanyahu that he valued the strong ties of friendship between the Turkish and Jewish people, the statement said.
Erdogan "expressed that it was saddening that relations, which are of vital strategic importance for peace and the stability of the region, have been soured in recent years," the statement said.
The statement said Erdogan "renewed his support for international and regional efforts to find a lasting and comprising solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the two-state vision."
The U.S. welcomed the development as a means to advance regional peace and security.
"I am hopeful that today's exchange between the two leaders will enable them to engage in deeper cooperation on this and a range of other challenges and opportunities," Obama said in a statement.
Suzan Fraser in Ankara and Matthew Lee aboard Air Force One contributed to this report
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This is a very good compost tumbler.I just hope the stand would be made of a stronger materials.
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- Convenient
- Easy To Us E
- Practical
- works
- Too Close To The Ground
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I haven't taken this item out of the box yet, but I have another just like it I've used for many years. It makes great compost quickly. My only complaint is that it is difficult to get the finished compost out. The opening is too close to the ground to dump directly into a wheelbarrow or cart. You need to shovel the compost out one shovelful at a time.
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- Easy to use
- Batch Processing
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- Lawn Clippings
I did not pick up on it being a one batch at a time process. What do you do with the additional scraps while you are waiting weeks for one batch to complete? Not what I was looking for.
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- Easy to set up
- Opening Large Enough
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I like we're able to recycle and get good compost.
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- Easy to use
- Reduces Kitchen Waste
- Speeds Compost Rate
- Compost Stays Too Wet
- Doesn't Drain Well
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This is actually an update to my review (Emily from League City, TX) posted on 5/15/2014.
The metal frame on our first tumbler started to get wobbly in the last 30 days or so. The frame is directly on the ground/grass and after 5 years in coastal Texas it has corroded sufficiently to be unstable. The grass had actually grown over the frame, increasing ground contact and water hold up.
A friend of ours fabricated a replacement wooden stand as shown in the picture. The plastic tumbler and metal internal rod are still in good condition.
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- Easy to use
- Keeps animals out
- No odor
- Speeds Compost Time
- Doesn't Drain Well
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- Compost
- Reducing Kitchen Waste
I bought one of these in 2009 and another maybe one year later. They are holding up well after 5 years and work great. The only signs of age are rust on the support legs. This year (2014) we added some drain holes to one of our bins with a drill since our compost is mostly kitchen scraps (greens) and tends to stay too wet. We are also adding the coir (Eco-Coir Potting Mix sold by Gardener's) as a source of browns in addition to the cardboard egg cartons we normally add.
These keep any "earthy" odors down and the creatures out (except gnats and fruit flies). The only time we had a problem with attracting animals was when we left a bin open to dry out a bit and forgot about it with a garden rake propped up against the supports. Combined with the unusually cold winter here in Texas, the rake provided a nice ramp for rodents to access the compost and pull out orange peels, etc. We discovered our error and haven't had problems since.
These are great tumblers and easy to turn except when very full and wet (and then they don't aerate well anyway). They don't get hot enough to destroy seeds so be careful with weeds. We had some delicious volunteer cantaloupes from composted grocery store produce.
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- Absorbs Heat Of Sun
- Can Use Year-round
- Holds 6 Mo Kitchen Waste
- Makes good compost
- Odorless When Closed
- Small Animal-proof
- Tough Plastic Container
- Waste High - Easy To Fill
- Heavy To Turn When Full
- Screws Corrode After 3 Yr
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- Garden Waste
- In Cold Climate Get Two
- Kitchen Waste Weeds
- Leaves Small Stems
I like these composters-they work. This size is a compromise-any bigger and it would be impossible to turn, but in a cold climate, it takes several months for compost to finish, so I found I really need two: one actively composting, and another that I am adding new materials to. I purchased the second about a year after the first, and both are holding up well after 3-4 yrs. I had to use a file to make one of the doors slide easily due to a casting imperfection-a minor nuisance. But, the doors slide well in all weather, unless frozen shut, and then a small sledge hammer does the trick. I just had to make the first repair-the 2.5 inch screws that hold the axle onto the frame corroded and broke. It cost only $1.02 for two screws & nuts, but I had to dump out the contents to make the drum light enough to re-assemble on the frame!
One caution: black widow spiders love to colonize the outside hand-hold slots, and sometimes, also live inside, so wear gloves when turning drum, adding waste, or removing compost,
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- Durable
- Easy to assemble
- Perfect size
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Wanted a composter that would tumble and make turning the compost easy. This is very easy to turn and remove compost.
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- Holds A Lot Of Materials
- Movable In Garden
- The Bin Seems Durable
- Tumbles Easily
- No cons yet
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- Incremental Composting
This was a gift which I've had only for about three weeks, but so far, it's terrific! I particularly like the fact that although the materials are sturdy, the unit is movable to where I am working in the garden at the moment. I may be using it in a different way than its designated purpose, but I believe it will do the job. The capacity is more than adequate for our kitchen scraps and garden clippings.
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I love this composter but the frame has completely rusted and has begun to break up along the bottom after several years of use. Disappointing because the composter itself is perfect for my use. I would only recommend it if it was enhanced with a weather resistant frame.
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Google used to have a feature that allowed you to watch videos from YouTube and Google Video inside the search results. Launched in May 2007, the video plus box was a quick way to play videos without having to load the entire page of a video hosting site. For some reason, Google only limited the plus box to its own video sites (YouTube and Google Video), while showing thumbnails and metadata for other sites.
Yahoo Search added a similar feature in October for YouTube, Metacafe and Yahoo Video, but now the plus box is nowhere to be found in Google's results:
Instead of making the feature available for other video sites, Google decided to remove it altogether. Hopefully there's a better explanation than increasing the number of page views for YouTube and Google Video, as Google usually puts the user first.
June 5, 2008
No More Video Plus Boxes in Google's Results
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There is really no way to know for sure if you're going to get prostate cancer. Certain factors can make you more likely to get it than another person. These are called risk factors. However, just because you have one or more risk factors doesn't necessarily mean you will get prostate cancer. In fact, you can have all the risk factors and still not get prostate cancer, or you can have no known risk factors and still get it.
Some factors put you at high risk for prostate cancer. Other factors increase your risk. And some factors are still being investigated and may or may not increase your risk. This section explains all these factors.
Who's at High Risk for Prostate Cancer?
Some factors put you at high risk for prostate cancer. If you agree with either of these statements, you're at high risk, according to the American Cancer Society:
I'm African American.
African American men are more at risk for getting prostate cancer than white men. You're especially at risk if your relatives are from sub-Saharan Africa.
My father, brother, or son had prostate cancer.
These men are considered your first-degree relatives. The fact that they've had prostate cancer makes your risk higher. In some families, certain genetic mutations may increase the risk for prostate cancer.
Who Could Have an Increased Risk?
Other factors increase your risk for prostate cancer. Some are out of your control, such as your age or family history. However, some risk factors--such as the types of food you eat--are factors you can control.
If you agree with either of the statements below, you may be at increased risk for prostate cancer.
I am 55 or older.
The older you get, the more at risk you are for getting prostate cancer. More than 90 percent of diagnoses are made in men ages 55 and older. The average age of diagnosis is 67.
I eat a lot of red meat and/or dairy products.
Men who eat a lot of red meat or high-fat dairy products appear to have a slightly higher chance of getting prostate cancer. These men also tend to eat fewer fruits and vegetables. It's not clear which of these factors might be responsible for raising the risk.


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Harry Redknapp has threatened to quit QPR unless he's backed in the transfer market.
Crystal Palace want Bradford striker Nahki Wells as Wilfried Zaha's replacement.
Joao Moutinho is the first target in Andre Villas-Boas' summer revolution at Spurs.
Michael Appleton will be unveiled as the new manager of Doncaster on Monday.
Andre Villas-Boas has told Spurs to spend big this summer to prevent a repeat of their Champions League nightmare.
Blackburn Rovers are making moves to bring Tim Sherwood back to the club as manager.
Preston boss Simon Grayson is ready to sign Motherwell's Jamaican winger Chris Humphrey.
Hull and Swansea are set to do battle for Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.
Peter Odemwingie will be sold by West Brom this summer having been left out of the final game of the season for blasting his team-mates yet again.
Danny Haynes, released by Charlton, is wanted by Derby, Burnley, Barnsley and Huddersfield.
Wayne Bridge last night leapt to the defence of under-fire Brighton boss Gus Poyet.
Paolo Di Canio labelled his Sunderland flops the most ignorant and arrogant players he has ever seen.
Andre Villas-Boas slammed referee Andre Marriner and claimed he changed the outcome of Tottenham's season.
Andre Villas-Boas accused referee Andre Marriner of swinging the race for Champions League football Arsenal's way.
Arsene Wenger vowed to invest in the summer after Arsenal secured their place in the Champions League.
Paolo Di Canio attacked his "arrogant and ignorant" Sunderland players after saying he was "disgusted" by images of Phil Bardlsey plastered in £50 notes on a night out.
Jose Mourinho's future at Real Madrid will be sealed at a directors' meeting scheduled for Monday night.
Romania and Shakhtar Donetsk left-back Razvan Rat is to have a medical at West Ham on Monday.
Liverpool have revived their interest in Tottenham left-back Danny Rose.
Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini has been linked with Real Madrid defender Pepe, 30, but the Spaniards want £20million.
Hull are close to signing Blackpool defender Alex Baptiste and are keen on Burnley striker Charlie Austin.
Hull and West Ham are targeting Blackburn striker Jordan Rhodes but the Championship club don't want to sell.
After Arsenal claimed the desperately fought-over final Champions League place yesterday, Tottenham Hotspur head coach Andre Villas-Boas insisted that his club, who agonisingly missed out by a single point, must hold on to Gareth Bale if they were serious about competing with the top four next season.
Sir Alex Ferguson bowed out in a crazy tickertape blizzard of goals after one of those "football, bloody hell" type of games, the first 5-5 in Premier League history.
Arsene Wenger has heaped praise on his "special" players after securing a place in the qualifying round of next season's Champions League but pledged to strengthen his squad in the summer.
Andre Villas-Boas has urged the Tottenham board to invest strongly in the squad over the summer to help the club close the gap on the Premier League's top four, which they narrowly failed to make this time out.
Paolo Di Canio launched a ferocious attacked on his Sunderland players last night, saying some of them were worse than "arrogant and ignorant" ones he had at Swindon Town.


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Lounge Pants from Amy Butler's In Stitches book. I used a thrifted sheet out of my sheet stash. (Idea prompted by Soulemama) I think I paid $2.00 for it. I am so tempted to use every sheet I have to make more. Although, I will restrain from doing that, I will make more. A few more.
I omitted the trim from the bottom, because, well I just didn't feel like doing it. This pair is a little long. Just a tad. However, with the fit and the comfort level, these have fast become my favorite lounge pant.


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We had two cats when I was pregnant (and four dogs lol! But my in-laws inherited the dogs from us). We gave away the cats right before Hannah came home [:(]. But the docs said with her lung problems that we had no choice but to find new homes for our furry friends.
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Week of May 6 - 10:
It's been a stunning week or so on "B&B" what with Brooke turning up pregnant and now Steffy's baby appearing to be in jeopardy. Oh my!
It was a mistake.
Brooke's agony was evident this week, but it's pretty hard to feel for her on this one. Really? She - oops - just made a mistake by believing that Katie was giving Bill to her and was done with him? Who gives their sister their husband? So messed up! How could she honestly think Katie was over it when she was so upset? Just kind of ludicrous the justification she's giving Donna for how this happened. As for Donna, she's all over the place on this topic - one minute she's saying Brooke can't possibly keep this from Bill, and the next it's 'no one ever has to know'. Incidentally, it's hard to believe Brooke's been able to hang all over Eric at Forrester without Taylor appearing. Who else thinks she'll show up and 'sense' Brooke's pregnancy with her ultra-sensitive Brooke radar? As annoying as this stuff can be, it's Taylor's reaction to the pregnancy that would be 'must see' TV. Gotta' love this rivalry. It will be interesting to see if Brooke's plans surrounding the pregnancy will include Eric... What do you think Brooke should do? Let us know what you think by voting in Soaps.com's B&B Brooke's Dilemma poll.
Caroline and Carter.
Caroline was a nice mix of her old and new self this week. That said, it's disconcerting watching her scheme and throw herself at Rick, when she's clearly realized he's more interested in Maya. Likewise, Carter keeps sniffing around Maya, when he too knows that he would only be a consolation prize if she can't have Rick. As for Caroline bringing in Uncle Bill, aka, the 'in-house psychic', I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Just when we'd reached the limit with hearing Hope refer to Liam as a possession she had ownership of for the umpteenth time, she decided to make nice. Though it was 'convenient' that Hope and Steffy had this close encounter before Steffy got in an accident, it was also a touchingly genuine moment between the girls.
Best time of my life.
Gah. It was pretty obvious with how ridiculously happy Liam and Steffy have been that something awful was going to happen...and now it has. As soon as she saw the motorcycle I knew - and did they ever draw out that ride - such tension! There's probably very little chance they won't lose that baby. It's a little disappointing for this to go such a predictable route. Worse, we're all thinking the same thing... It's happening so that the dreaded triangle can go another round. No!
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I fall in love once more. The beautiful detailing of these heels, the rainbow of colors, they are a dreamer's dream.
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Touchstone Communities® began as Care Inn Properties, Inc., formed in 1991 by Touchstone CEO Stan Studer, Jr. With a background in real estate and management of skilled nursing facilities, Studer and partners sought out communities that would benefit from their mission of offering skilled nursing in a compassionate environment. The first community Care Inn Properties, Inc. acquired was Brenham Rest Home in 1994. Since then, the company has grown throughout Texas.
Touchstone Communities® offers a continuum of care for elders that include rehabilitative services, skilled nursing, assisted living, as well as specialized care for persons with Alzheimer's disease or needing respite or behavioral care. To better service its residents, all of Touchstone's communities operate on an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, which lessens the amount of time nurses spend on paperwork and creates more time for them to care for residents. The system is efficient and allows for nurses to provide more care directly at the residents' bedside.
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A lot of times when people reach 50 years of age they get paranoid about suddenly getting old — the moment of truth has arrived — and the realization that life is at least half over. I remember as if it were yesterday, thinking of my mother, Lucille Field Dowdle, and that one of her accomplishments was to have given me the foundaton to live a good life, which I regarded as no small matter. So I sat down and composed the following.
Dearest Mother,
On my 50th birthday (3/21/1978) I want to thank you for helping me live a life of some value and satisfaction by instilling in me as I grew up in your care:
Self discipline
Loyalty to family and to friends
Respect for my elders
An appreciation of beauty
A sense of personal worth
A love of and thirst for knowledge
An understanding and appreciation of honor and dignity in myself as well as others
The knowledge that what I amount to in my lifetime depends on me
A deep and abiding respect for truth and honesty
Faith in God as my personal savior
She called to say that when she first received my letter she sat down and cried, and then had it framed for all to see. She was as pleased with me as I was with her!
Frances Abbott Lyon
Mount Pleasant
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When they see you out with me
I don't blame them
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose
When you're passin' by,
Flowers droop and sigh
I know the reason why
You're much sweeter
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose
We were driving down the highway one summer day years ago, windows rolled down, wind in our hair and radio blasting as we sang along. Radio Nostalgie, our preferred road trip station, was keeping us toe-tapping happy with The Best of the 60's, 70's and 80's, French, English, American and even some Italian thrown in, the perfect driving music. All of a sudden, JP leaned over and turned the volume down. He glanced nervously in my direction and exclaimed, "I'm worried. There must be something wrong with me." "What?" "Well, I just realized that I know all the words to every single song! Shouldn't I be worried about that?"
I owe my music education to my husband. He does indeed know them all and carefully taught me to appreciate – and sing along with - each of them: the Groovy (Johnny, Michel Polnareff, Dalida, Mike Brandt, Michel Berger), the Classic (Piaf, Aznavour, Brel), the Unexpected (Fernandel and Bourvil) the contemporary (Jovanotti, Zucchero, Gainsbourg). He has all of us, sons included, singing along to Cat Stevens and Simon & Garfunkel, Willy Deville and Leonard Cohen. And jazz? His favorite. Ella and Louis, Nina, Chet and Django. Jazz, swing, fado, rock, the blues, from Pink Floyd to the Beatles, from The Dubliners to Gregarian chants, he listens to learn and then to enjoy. And he adores Opera! The very first videocassette he bought his young sons was Losey's Don Giovanni, which he played over and over until they could sing from beginning to end. For my 40th birthday he took me to see Cosi Fan Tutte at the Paris Opera. Magnificent! And from there we were onto all the classic operas and opera singers, beautiful lessons indeed. Not to poo-poo those classic musicals either: West Side Story, Peter and the Wolf, Oklahoma and even Hairspray and Grease. His range is astonishing, his collection vast and ever growing.
So while I was listening to Journey and the Eagles, Boston and ABBA, he was listening to, well, absolutely everything! A day without music is torture for him. While I am perfectly at peace with complete silence wrapping her soothing arms around me, with simply the hum of distant cars and the mild roar of the city keeping me company or absolutely mesmerizing me with a delicious feeling of being near the seaside, he paces back and forth, uneasy and nervous until he slips in a CD or pulls up his abundant collection of music on his computer and yes, music does indeed soothe the savage beast!
You just have to touch my cup
You're my sugar
And it's oh so sweet when you stir it up
When I'm takin' sips
From your tasty lips
Seems the honey fairly drips
You're confection
Goodness knows
Honeysuckle rose
As romantic as we are, we have never been romantic in a conventional sort of way. No pet names, no roses and champagne to celebrate those most traditional of occasions, no diamond ring has ever been slipped onto a finger. We were never formally engaged, the proposal, if you can call it that, was made on the sidewalk on our way to shop for the evenings' dinner and it had more to do with having children than getting married. Our homemade wedding was most unconventional. He loathes celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries, dates mean nothing to him. And heaven only knows how it is that he pampers me and showers me with gifts on Valentine's Day, for he adamantly refuses to play along with the silly faux holidays. "I don't need someone else to tell me how or when I should show you how much I love you!" Personally I think it has to do with him turning into an old softie, but that's just my opinion. But we do have an "our song" as strange as that may seem to those who know us well. Sappy and sentimental, it just isn't his thing, but we simply stumbled upon a song that was perfect for us, romantic and a touch racy, jazzy with a dash of swing, a song to sing, a song to dance to in his arms around the living room, a song to make me giggle and him to gently roll his eyes while he amuses me, allowing me to carry on the silly idea that we actually have an "our song".
Yes, ladies (and gentlemen), it is indeed that time of the month again. Another Mac Attack moment. This month Deeba and I asked all of our dear friends who bake with us in our virtual Mactweets kitchen to invent a macaron inspired by a song. Of course, there is no song closer to my heart than Honeysuckle Rose, our song, written by the great Fats Waller and sung by the wonderful Dinah Washington, the version I love the best. It is a song to inspire, a song that brings joy to all and any who sing it loud and saucy, eyebrows wiggling, hips swaying back and forth, arms waving like branches swaying in a gentle breeze.
Honey and Roses, sweet as can be, Honey and Roses will surely make a fabulous macaron. And indeed they did. I started with Strawberry Rosehip tea (because it looked so beautiful in the package) and whizzed a couple of tablespoons up with my ground almonds. Oh boy, the tea didn't smell particularly enticing but processed with the almonds and the kitchen filled with the most mouthwatering scent of strawberries and rose. And the nuts took on a gorgeous deep mauve color. The shells baked perfectly though sadly they discolored ever so slightly and took on a sad, yellowish tinge. But it didn't affect the luscious berry, rosy flavor of the shells. I was stunned by just how flavorful they were! I wanted to use honey in the filling but knew that a chocolate ganache would go over best with the son and his friends so I chose the only viable solution: Toblerone, that perfect honey nougat spiked milk chocolate and, strangely enough, my husband's one and only chocolate weakness. It was perfect! These may be the most delicious macarons I have made yet on my long and winding macaron road.
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Honeysuckle rose
Strawberry Rosehips Shells with Toblerone Ganache
For the macaron shells:
The shells are made with the same basic recipe I used to make my Chocolate Macarons with Pink Praline Filling, my Blueberry Hibiscus Macarons, my Chocolate Espresso Sea Salt French Kiss Macarons, my Coffee Macarons and my Violet Macarons:
200 g powdered sugar
110 g finely ground blanched almonds
3 large egg whites, about 112 g *
30 g granulated sugar
2 Tbs Strawberry Rosehips tea made all naturally with edible dried fruit, berries and leaves
1/2 tsp powdered red food coloring
A couple of drops of liquid red food coloring
Click on any one of the links about for full recipe and step-by-step how-to pictures.
* The egg whites should be left out in a covered container at room temperature for 24 hours.
Prepare 2 large baking sheets. On 2 large pieces of white paper the size of your baking sheets, trace 1 ½ inch-diameter circles (I used the wide end of my pastry tip) evenly spaced, leaving about ¾ - 1 inch between each circle. This will be your template to help you pipe even circles of batter onto the parchment paper. You will be able to reuse these endlessly. Place one paper on each baking sheet then cover with parchment paper. Set aside. Prepare a pastry bag with a plain tip (Ateco #807 or #809).
Whiz the tea together with the ground almonds in a food processor or coffee grinder until fine. Sieve through a mesh strainer into a large bowl. I must say that since my tea had tiny chunks of soft, chewy dried fruit, the ground almonds became a tad damp in the process and I wasn't able to push all of it through the sieve so I simply topped off what did get sifted with enough to make up to the needed 110 grams. The rest I saved to stir into cookie dough or something.
Sift the powdered sugar and the powdered food coloring into the bowl with the now mauve ground almonds and whisk to combine.
In a standing mixer or with a hand mixer, whip the egg whites for 30 seconds on low speed then increase speed to high and whip until the whites are foamy and beginning to thicken. Gradually add the granulated sugar as you are whipping the whites until you obtain a glossy, stiff meringue. Add a drop or two of liquid red food coloring and beat just to evenly distribute the color pink.
Gently but firmly fold about 1/3 of the whipped whites into the powdered sugar/ground almonds. Add the rest of the whipped whites/meringue and fold, using a silicon spatula or the equivalent, turning the bowl as you lift and fold, scraping up from underneath, making sure you fold in all the dry ingredients. When the batter is ready to pipe, it should be flow from the spatula like lava or a thick ribbon. To test to see if you have folded it enough, drop a small amount onto a clean plate and jiggle it slightly. The top should flatten, not remain in a point. If it doesn't flatten, give the batter a few more folds.
Fill your pastry bag with the batter. Pipe circles onto the parchment paper, using the traced circles on the template sheets to guide you, holding your pastry bag above each circle and piping into the center. When you have piped all of your batter out, sprinkle half of the shells with dried or candied rose petals or a bit of the tea if you desire. DO NOT FORGET TO CAREFULLY REMOVE THE WHITE PAPER TEMPLATE FROM UNDERNEATH THE PARCHMENT PAPER. YOU DO NOT WANT THIS TEMPLATE TO GO IN THE OVEN!
Allow the macarons to sit out for 45 minutes to an hour. The top of each shell should form a "skin" (it will feel like it hardened a bit when gently touched).
Preheat your oven to 280°F (140°C). Bake the shells for 15 – 20 minutes, depending on their size (when I touched macs that were not quite done, the top jiggled a bit as if there was still a bit of liquid batter between the top and the "feet" so I let it continue to bake another minute). If your oven bakes unevenly as mine does, flip the trays front to back 5 minutes before the end of the baking time.
Remove the tray from the oven and immediately slide the parchment paper with the shells off of the hot baking sheet and onto a surface, table or countertop. Allow to cool before sliding the shells very gently off of the parchment by slipping a cake spatula under the shell as you lift it up. Be careful or the center of the shell risks sticking to the parchment.
Allowing the shells to sit over night (I store them in a metal cookie box) made them wonderfully chewy underneath the crispy outer shell, just as I love them.
I used approximately 150 g Toblerone with 125 ml (1/2 cup) heavy cream and proceeded as I would a regular ganache:
Coarsely chop the Toblerone and place in a medium bowl. Heat the cream just to the boiling point. Pour the hot cream over the chopped chocolate and stir until smooth and creamy. Allow to cool until thickened and piping consistency.
Mine would not firm up enough, even in the refrigerator so I melted and added 50 g more caramel milk chocolate, warmed up the ganache and stirred them together until smooth and creamy. Again, I allowed it to chill until firm enough to pipe and hold its shape under the weight of the top macaron shell.
Fill the macarons:
Prepare your pastry bag with a plain tip that will pipe teaspoon-sized dots of filling onto the macaron shells. Pair up the shells so you have sets that match (same size and shape). Pipe the ganache filling onto one shell of each pair. Sandwich with the second shell. Allow the filling to set.
Fabulous! The delicate chocolate honey filling married perfectly with the incredibly fruity shell. In fact, it was so delicious I ran right out and bought a second package of this brand of infusion that was dried elderberry, blackberries and blueberries and I can't wait to try using it to flavor macaron shells.


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Paulena Wynonda Penny, 70, of Rattan, passed from this life on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 in McAlester. Graveside services were held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, February 17, 2011 at the Spencerville Cemetery in Spencerville. Arrangements entrusted to Miller & Miller Funeral Home of Hugo.
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Despite tobacco companies' efforts to portray smokeless tobacco products as a "safe" alternative to smoking cigarettes, a recent study conducted by cardiologists showed "hard evidence that chewing tobacco harms the heart." Through With Chew Week, Feb. 19 – 25, calls attention to smokeless tobacco use, highlighting the fact that there are no "safe" tobacco products.
Students from Antlers that were named to the Southeastern College's President's 2011 Fall honor roll. To qualify a student must complete a minimum of 12 semester hours of college-level courses with a 4.0 GPA. The students from Antlers were: Colton J. Ammerer, Kayle E. Bryant, Lacey J. Morgan and Neida K. Owens. A student from Clayton was also named to the President's honor roll, Severt A. Dahl.
On Thursday, February 17, 2012, the Antlers Chapter of ESA donated $250 to the Antlers Public Library to help fund the E-Book service of the Oklahoma Virtual Library Consortium, which now has 15 member libraries from around the state. The Antlers Public Library has now raised the $1,500 annual fee to join this service.
Project SPIT receives the "Smart Start Partner of the Year" Award from Tri-County Smart Start Director, Dennis Willeford, for their outstanding achievements in promoting healthy learning for young children in Choctaw, McCurtain and Pushmataha Counties.
The Moyers Tigers took on the 10th ranked Red Oak Eagles this past week in the first round of the Regional competition. This would prove to be a thrilling, nail biting, heart pounding game that came down to the wire.
Junior Brandon Slocum got the opening tip for the Tigers. Sr. Jake Mattingly scored the first basket for the Tigers. The Tigers jumped out to an early lead in an aggressive, physical battle. At the end of one the score was 12-2.
The Rattan Rams and Lady Rams recently competed in their District Basketball Tournament where they both competed against Haworth. The Lady Rams received the title of District Champions by winning over Haworth with a final score of 41 to 31. The Lady Rams will continue on Regionals and take on the Atoka Lady Wampus Cats at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 23rd in Atoka.
On Saturday, February 25, members of the Pushmataha County Sportsman Club will hold their 41st Annual Awards Banquet. The banquet will be held at the Antlers High School Cafeteria and will begin at 6:00 p.m. On tap for the menu will be smoked brisket, rolls and soft drinks with members bringing all the side dishes and desserts.
The speaker for this year's banquet will be Mr. Jack Waymire, manager of the Pushmataha County Wildlife Management Area near Clayton. Jack will update members on current wildlife conditions and habitat conditions as well.
This past Saturday night our Bearcats and Lady Cats were set to play the Valliant Bulldogs in our one and only District game. Coming into this game the Lady Bulldogs had a season record of 8-14, and both of our teams came into the play offs with a record of 13-9.
Walter Nowell, 69, of Hugo/Antlers, passed from this life on Sunday, Februray 12, 2012. Memorial services will be conducted by the family at 4:00 p.m. on February 17, 2012 at the Westside Baptist Church. Arrangements entrusted to Mills & Coffey Funeral Home in Antlers.


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Fish are high in several beneficial nutrients, including some that are related to healthy brain development.
Headlines recently announced the death of Cory Monteith, one of the stars of the TV show Glee.
The modified saying Music soothes the savage beast may have new applications in the modern world of medicine. New research suggests that music may help some children experience less discomfort when dealing with low level or moderate pain.
Do you remember your first period? I do. Even though it has been many years since that fateful day, I can recall the experience as if it happened yesterday. I was 13 years old and walking home from school. Something felt odd as I took each step something wet.
Many adults and kids have switched to diet drinks to help reduce their calorie intake. In fact, children who drink sugar-free beverages have doubled in the past 10 years according to a study released in 2012.
Is there ever really a perfect time to start a family? If you're in the planning stage or wanting to grow your family you might want to rule out the month of May for conception.
If your teenager tells you that he or she has a stomach ache it might be more than just an excuse to get out of doing something you've asked them to do.
Our typical sizzling summer has officially begun and temperatures are rising across the nation. My thermostat isn't reading as hot as some places like southern California (currently 114 degrees), but it's still pretty toasty outside.
Kids get runny noses. But is it caused by allergies, a simple cold or something more serious like a sinus infection? If your child has a history of sinus infections, a new review of clinical guidelines may be just what the doctor ordered.
When brothers and sisters pick on, harass, hit, punch, kick, insult and generally harass other siblings they're not typically identified as bullies. The response is more often kids will be kids.
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is producing remarkable results in teenage girls by cutting infections in half. A new study measures the vaccines impact since it came on the market in 2006.
Only about half of teen girls in the U.S. have gotten at least one dose of the expensive vaccine, and just a third of teen girls have had all three shots, according to the latest government figures.
"These are striking results and I think they should be a wake-up call that we need to increase vaccination rates," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC study compared infection rates in girls 14 to 19 before and after the vaccine became available. The proportion infected with the targeted HPV strains dropped 56 percent, from about 12 percent before the vaccine was sold to 5 percent. That result was for all teens after it was on the market, whether or not they were vaccinated.
Among girls who had gotten the vaccine, the drop in HPV infections was higher " 88 percent.
For the vaccine to be effective, 3 shots have to be given over a period of 6 months. There are two vaccines against HPV, but the study only looked at Gardasil. Both vaccines are approved for use in males and females " ages 9 to 26 for females and ages 9 to 21 in males.
The study involved interviews and physical examinations of nearly 1,400 teen girls in 2003 through 2006 and of 740 girls in 2007 through 2010.
The vaccine's impact was seen even though only 34 percent of the teens in the second group had received any vaccine. That could be due to "herd immunity" " when a population is protected from an infection because a large or important smaller group is immune.
Some parents have balked at having their children and teens vaccinated for a sexually transmitted disease out of concern that it could encourage sexual activity. Frieden said the vaccination is meant to protect them when they become adul
The rotavirus vaccine is definitely one vaccine you want to make sure your child gets.
Rotavirus is a gastrointestinal disease that causes an inflammation of the stomach and intestines. It can produce severe diarrhea along with vomiting, fever and abdominal pain. Dehydration is often a side effect and globally, its responsible for more than half a million deaths each year in children under the age of five.
This disease is bad news for youngsters, but since the Rotarix and RotaTeq vaccines were introduced - U.S. children have benefited greatly from the protection.
Most parents are good about making sure their kids receive all the recommended vaccines, but many wonder how effective these vaccines really are. A new study says that the rotavirus vaccines are 91-92 percent effective for children 8 months and older. Thats an excellent result.
The study, led by Margaret M. Cortese, MD, of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aimed to find out the effectiveness of the rotavirus vaccine.
There are several types of rotavirus vaccines. Researchers looked at the effectiveness of the monovalent vaccine called RV1- that came out in 2008. They also reviewed data on the pentavalent vaccine RV5.
The researchers gathered files on all children who went to one of five hospitals in Georgia and Connecticut with severe diarrhea lasting no more than 10 days.
The children were all born after the RV1 vaccine had been introduced (2008).
The researchers tested their stools for rotavirus and looked at their immunization records.
The researcher then compared the vaccination history of the children who had rotavirus to those who did not have rotavirus.
There were 165 children who had rotavirus in their stool and 428 who tested negative for it.
When the researchers compared these groups, they found the RV1 rotavirus vaccine was 91 perce
Baby Matters LLC is voluntarily recalling its foam rubber Nap Nanny and Nap Nanny Chill infant recliners and their covers, in exchange for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) dropping an administrative complaint that it filed in December 2012.
From 2009 to the present, the Commission staff has received at least 92 incident reports involving the Nap Nanny and Nap Nanny Chill products, including five infant deaths. CPSC is aware of four infants who died in Nap Nanny Generation Two recliners and a fifth death involved in the Chill model. In the incident reports received by CPSC, there were 92 reports of infants hanging or falling over the side of the products, including some infants who were restrained in the products harness.
In December 2012, four major retailers"Amazon.com, Buy Buy Baby, Diapers.com, and Toys R Us/Babies R Us"announced a voluntary recall of Nap Nanny and Chill models sold in their stores. Consumers who purchased a Nap Nanny from one of these retailers should contact the retailer for instructions on how to obtain a refund for the product.
About 165,000 of the Nap Nanny and Chill products were sold between 2009 and 2012 for about $130. The recalled products were sold at toy and children's retail stores nationwide and online, including at www.napnanny.com.
Baby Matters LLC is no longer in business and is not accepting returns. CPSC urges consumers to immediately dispose of the products to ensure that they are not used again.
Consumer contact:
- Amazon.com:http://www.amazon.com
- Buy Buy Baby: Toll-free at (877) 328-9222,http://www.buybuybaby.com/productRecalls.asp
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The esteemed Pew Research Center, a non-partisan think tank that conducts public opinion polls and demographic research and analysis, came up with five facts about fathers that are interesting.
Over the last thirty years, the roles fathers play in the lives of their children have changed. Some might say for the better.
While there are still way too many children growing up without a father, many dads are making a dedicated and heartfelt effort to be more involved in their child's life.
So, in keeping with dad appreciation week as we build up to Father's Day next Sunday, here are five facts you may not know about dear old dad.
1. The Census Bureau estimates that last year there were about 189,000 stay-at-home dads, defined as married fathers with children younger than 15 who stayed out of the labor force for at least one year primarily to care for the family while their wife works outside the home. Those dads cared for an estimated 369,000 children.
2. In 2009 there were about 2.4 million custodial fathers (that is, raising their children while the mother was living elsewhere), versus 11.2 million custodial mothers, according to a Census Bureau report. About 619,000 custodial fathers were due child support; collectively, they received about $1.9 billion.
3. Fathers have nearly tripled the amount of time they spend with their children, from 2.5 hours in 1965 to 7.3 hours per week in 2011, according to a Pew Research report that analyzed years of time-use data. Despite that increase, 46% of fathers said they spent too little time with their children, compared with 23% of mothers who said the same; half of dads said they spent the right amount of time.
4. More than three-quarters of new fathers took one week or less off from work after the birth or adoption of their most recent child, according to a 2011 Boston College study of fath
Kids and water: They may not want to drink a lot of it, but they sure love to play in it. Now that the magical season of summer is almost here, there will be a lot of children doing just that. While you may think you already know everything there is to know on water safety, its still a good idea for parents, guardians and babysitters to freshen-up on ways to help keep kids safe when around or in water.
The good news, according to a study published by the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John Hopkins University in 2012, is that more parents ARE paying attention to water safety. Children dying from drowning"related incidents have declined dramatically since the early 1990s.
Unfortunately, more than 1,000 U.S. children still die from drowning and another 5,000 are injured every year. Dying from drowning isnt the only serious outcome that can occur. Nonfatal drowning can also result in brain damage and long-term disability.
Children less than 4 years old are most likely to die in drowning incidents, usually in bathtubs or after falling into water. Older children are more likely to drown while swimming, according to research cited in the study, with the risk rising in warmer regions of the South and West that have longer swimming seasons.
Lets review a few water safety tips, provided by kidshealth.org, and USA Today News that may help your little one from becoming one of the heart-breaking statistics listed above.
Supervision: The number one rule for water safety and children is that an adult, preferably one who knows CPR, is overseeing any child or group of children in water - whether the water is in a bathtub, a wading pool, an ornamental fish pond, a swimming pool, a spa, the beach, or a lake. If you dont know how to swim, learn. A parent or guardian who can actually enter the water and retrieve a child is able to respond faster, when a child is in trouble, than someone who has t
Time and time again headlines declare that vegetables are absolutely necessary to a healthy lifestyle. As parents, we get it. But what if your little one doesn't like broccoli, green beans, squash, cucumbers, carrots, beets -ok, I'll pass on that one too- corn, cauliflower, spinach or tomatoes? What if every time you attempt to smuggle a vegetable into your child's meal world war three breaks out?
Well...there may be hope. Try a little dip (and tenderness). According to a small but optimistic study, kids that don't normally like veggies messing up their perfectly good meal, will reevaluate that outlook and give vegetables a taste if they are presented with a bit of flavored dip.
The fact that the dip used during the study was low in fat, calories and sodium didn't seem to matter.
The study was conducted at the Center for Childhood Obesity Research at Pennsylvania State University.
Thirty-four preschoolers were asked to do a taste test of vegetables with and without the low-fat dip.
Not surprisingly, the kids liked the veggies better when they were served with dip. When the dip was flavored, kids liked the vegetables even more compared to plain dip or no dip at all.
What I find amazing is that thirty one percent of the little tykes liked the vegetables as is nothing added. When the researchers added the dip though, a whopping sixty-four percent were thumbs up on the vegetables. There were of course, those children who wouldn't budge even while others were smiling, dipping and exclaiming how tasty cauliflower can actually be. Six percent said no thanks to the dip and the vegetables while eighteen percent said absolutely no to the vegetables with no dip.
To see just how far kids were willing to go with the veggie and dip combo researchers did another study. This time they offered 27 preschoolers celery or squash both notorious for being leaders in a preschooler's yuck category. The kids basically picked at the
Many obese men and women are turning to surgery to help them lose the extra weight. But for women who are planning a pregnancy, is it a good idea?
A new study suggests that for obese women who choose weight-loss surgery to bring their weight under control, having the procedure may also benefit their future children.
A Canadian study found that children born after their mother had lost considerable weight from gastric bypass surgery were slimmer than their pre-surgery siblings and had fewer risk factors for diabetes or heart disease later in life.
The findings showed that numerous genes linked to obesity-related health problems worked differently in the younger siblings than in their older brothers and sisters.
The researchers looked at the genes of 50 children who were born to 20 mothers before or after they had gastric bypass surgery. The children were on average about 15 years old.
The moms were between the ages of 35 to 51 and were all classified as obese before they had the procedures. They all lost almost 100 pounds after the surgery.
The type of gastric bypass surgery performed on the mothers who participated in the study is called a biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch procedure. It is not used as often as the more common Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure. In the biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch procedure, a larger part of the stomach is left intact while bypassing most of the intestine.
In the children born after their mothers surgery and weight loss, researchers found 5,698 genes were expressed differently than their older siblings. What that means is that the mothers didnt pass on different genes to their children, but how those genes operated in the childrens bodies were different in the pre and post surgery children. The reason may be that factors inside the womb seem to affect the dimmer switches that develop on a fetus' genes " chemical changes that make genes sp
If you're planning on adding another child to your family-or thinking about starting a family-you might want to consider getting the whooping cough vaccine before you get pregnant.
Why would you do that? According to a new study from Australia, babies who are born to women that are vaccinated with the whooping cough (also known as Pertussis) vaccine before they become pregnant have a 50% lower risk of developing the disease.
Whooping cough is an infection of the respiratory system. It mainly affects infants younger than 6 months old before they are immunized, and kids 11 to 18 years old whose immunity has started to decrease. Pertussis is characterized by severe coughing spells that may produce a whooping sound when the child breathes in.
It is highly contagious and before the Pertussis vaccine was available it killed 5,000 to 10,000 people in the U.S. each year. Now that there is a vaccine, the annual number of deaths is less than 30. But in recent years, the number of cases has started to rise. By 2004, the number of whooping cough cases spiked past 25,000, the highest level it's been since the 1950s.
The researchers looked at 217 babies ages 4 months and younger who had whooping cough. They compared them with 585 healthy infants born at the same time in the same area.
They discovered that a similar percentage of mothers - in both groups - received the whooping cough vaccine. However, 41 percent of the moms of healthy babies had been vaccinated at least four weeks before their infant became sick. However, of the mothers whose babies had whooping cough, only 27 percent of mothers had been vaccinated at least four weeks earlier.
Also in the healthy baby group, 26 percent of the mothers said they had been vaccinated before their baby was born, while only 14 percent of mothers whose babies had whooping cough said they had been vaccinated before delivery.
In this program, "there was no vaccination durin
Here is another one of the can't believe what I hear at the office! I was on call the other night and it was around bedtime when I walked in the exam room to see 2 little girls (actually they are part of a triplet set but their brother was home). Their dad had brought them in because they had rashes and bug bites. Nothing too serious. They are adorable 2 years old and very well behaved.
So, after examining the rashes and bites and determining that they could be dealt with a bit of cortisone cream, the dad and I were discussing a few more things. Of course the girls got bored, and as you know a bored 2 year old typically doesn't sit still, especially when it is time for bed. So as the girls jumped up and down off the table and picked out more stickers their Dad was getting tired as well. By the way, he is a great father and he and has wife have handled having triplets with such ease. They were meant to have multiples.
Well, before we could finish up the appointment the girls had gotten into the diaper bag, pulled out snacks and were enjoying themselves. As much as he was ready to go, they were not ready to pack up and leave and he was having a hard time getting them to listen.
Here comes the line of the night! He turns to the girls in a moment of what to do next and says,if you don't behave and listen to me, Dr. Sue is going to make you sick! LOL! I have heard a lot of Dr. Sue will give you a shot if you don't behave, but I have never heard this one. While I don't believe in threatening kids with shots at the doctors, this was a new one.
After I stopped laughing I told the girls that this was not true, doctors would and could not make them sick, but they did need to listen to their dad!!
I know that we all say things out of desperation, but please don't use the lines the doctor will give you a sh
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Did you know that the first day of summer, June 21, not only kicks off sun, fun and relaxation, but it is also National ASK Day.
The summer months are typically the time of year when children play more often in homes of their friends, or even other family members. While we parents ASK all sorts of questions to ensure our childs safety, parents need to ASK if there are guns where their kids are playing?
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I just read an article published in the journal Pediatrics which once again validated the importance of family routines. In this study researchers from Ohio State University looked at household routines as they related to childhood obesity, an ever escalating problem.
The research, conducted in 2005, but published this year, analyzed over 8,500 four year old children. 18% of the children were identified as obese. Families were then asked if they regularly ate evening meals together, did their children have a bedtime and receive adequate sleep, and was television time limited within the home? When looked at more closely a little more than half of the children reported having family dinners 6 or 7 evenings a week.
There were 57% of the children who were reported to have 10.5 hours of sleep per weeknight. Only about 40% of the studied children were reported to watch less than 2 hours of television or movie viewing per weekday. When looked at in terms of those children who were exposed to all 3 routines, the prevalence of obesity was 14%, while those children not exposed to any of the 3 routines had a prevalence rate for obesity of 24.5%. The research also found that the number of household routines was a predicator of obesity and that by adding a routine, there was a 17% reduction in odds for obesity as a new routine was added.
These household routines seem to be fairly easy to initiate in that they may be accomplished without any cost etc. Establishing good routines for family meals has repeatedly been shown to improve a childs academic success, attention, risk of using alcohol and drugs and overall well being. If it could also reduce the incidence of obesity what a win!! Just one more reason to plan for a family to eat dinner together. This study did not even discuss healthy food choices, which might make the statistics even more compelling, and what about adding eating breakfast togeth
Summertime in the pediatrician's office means lots of check ups, and often this includes those tweens/teens/and college students who were too busy to schedule their doctor's appointments during the school year. The next three months will be busy indeed.
With HPV back in the news after Michael Douglas revealed that his throat cancer was due to HPV, what better time to remind parents and young adults of the need for the HPV vaccine. The HPV vaccine has been available in the U.S. for over seven years, but statistics from the CDC continue to show that the HPV vaccine is still not being given at the same rate as other recommended vaccines. In other words, we doctors need to ensure that every person between the ages of 11-26 who we see is offered the vaccine, this also means we need to educate.
HPV causes CANCER! This is truly the first anti-cancer vaccine, and I am hopeful that I will see more vaccines to prevent cancer while I continue to practice. I am sure that there will be more anti-cancer vaccines in our children's lifetime. This is exciting news as research continues on ways to combat cancer.
But.....for some reason (that is difficult for me to understand both as a parent and a physician), some parents are refusing to have their children vaccinated despite ongoing evidence that HPV is widely prevalent and causes numerous cancers. The fact that this virus is transmitted sexually seems to be the root cause of parental concern. Do parents not assume that their own children will become parents one day as well? Dont they want to be grandparents one day? Well, that means having sex with a partner. At some point in time, our children do become sexually active and shouldn't they all be protected as much as possible?
Giving adolescents the HPV vaccine does not promote sexual activity. In fact, I think that by having a discussion abou
I love talking to parents about behavior modification and that includes beginning to discipline their children. I really think this is one of the most important jobs for parents and it is hard to believe that your most precious, perfect child will at times misbehave. It happens to all of us!
I would recommend to start using time out as a means of behavior modification when a child is somewhere between 15-18 months of age. For those of you who watch Super Nanny, she coined the word the naughty step which is her version of time-out chair.
When you begin time out, pick a small chair in the house which you can use consistently for time-out. Never use a child's crib or bed, as you do not want them to think that bed is for misbehaving. After a child gets used to doing time out you can use all sorts of chairs and do time out anywhere. Like many things it just takes practice.
When putting your child in time out get down to their eye level, explain why they must sit in the chair, and hold them from behind (with your arms wrapped around them like you are a rope). I use a timer even at this young age so your child begins to understand how long they will be sitting in time out. Time out is typically one minute per year of age.
After time out is finished, get back to eye level and explain that the next time you ask them to mind you, they may choose to listen and they will not have to go to time out. These are such important words for a child's entire life, as they need to understand that they are making choices for their behavior. In other words, taking ownership of making a bad choice and knowing that there will be consequences. You will use these words over and over, you made a bad choice therefore....the consequence is....for a young child it is time out, for older children it may be no TV, or no going to a party, or even no driving. All versions of
I saw a young boy (this week) who was bitten by a dog. Very sad as I began to think this is the time of the year that I will start seeing more bites. Why? Warmer weather brings families outdoors and I've noticed more dog parks popping up. I have experience with dog bites as a pediatrician and mom.
We are a dog family and my husband and I had our first dog, Mrs. Brown, before our oldest son was born. She was the perfect dog, a mutt that my brother (who is a vet) had found and gave yo us.
When the boys came along she was wonderful and would follow them around the yard and to the closest neighbors, I would always know where the kids were as Mrs. Brown would be waiting on the porch for them.
Our next dog was a golden retriever, Maddie, that our middle son wanted, and she too was a member of our family for 12 years. Sweet (but a bit lazy), she was so sad as each of our sons left for college. She was suddenly the only child left at home. It broke our hearts when she died and the boys had not gotten a chance to get home to see her.
Thinking we didn't need a dog in a empty house was a mistake. The youngest son felt like he should have a dog (even though he was away at college) and I thought a little dog might be nice. No way, according to the youngest son, we are a big dog family, and so we now have 4 year old Maggie, a yellow lab. Sweet, smart and spoiled is all I can say.
Now, back to dog bites. I think it is important for children to be around dogs (and other pets as well) but to have a respect for them. Just like we teach children, stranger danger, the same goes for dogs. Teach your children not to approach strange dogs, or reach through a fence to pat a dog. Always ask the owner before trying to pet a dog.
I would not recommend buying your child a dog until they are around 4 years of age. But, if you
I have been receiving a lot of calls, emails and questions on twitter regarding Michael Douglas' admission that his oral cancer was caused by HPV.
Coxsackie virus is rampant once again! I have seen too many kids to count (TMKTC) with symptoms of coxsackie virus and the classic skin rash associated with hand, foot and mouth disease. Many parents are telling me that their day care centers are having outbreaks which is what typically happens at this time of year.
Like many viruses, coxsackie can make some children quite miserable, while others have very few symptoms but never the less are contagious and shed the virus to others. Viruses are just plain ole contagious, even with the best precautions to help prevent spreading the illness. Best prevention continues to be hand washing!
The classic symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease are a fever, sore throat, and a rash which looks like small red spots or even a bit of a blister, occurring on a childs palms, soles and often in their throats causing pain. We are also seeing many children who have a rash on their buttocks, and legs as well. The rash is often confused for a diaper rash if there are no other associated symptoms.
Coxsackie virus typically lasts from 3 -7 days. While some children are terribly cranky and uncomfortable and will even drool rather than swallow their own spit, other seem to not even notice the rash on their hands or feet. The treatment is totally symptomatic, which means acetaminophen or ibuprofen for fever and discomfort and keeping your child hydrated.
Most kids don't have a great appetite when they have a sore throat (do you?), so I am a big believer in popsicles, Slurpees, ice cream, fozen yogurt, shaved ice.....the list is long. You just want to make sure your child is h
OK, I am back to the subject of squeeze pouch foods or as another cute 2 1/2 year old called it squeegy fruit. I have written about this before as I was fascinated by these when they first hit the market. On the one hand, I get that they are convenient and are easy to use for those first months of pureed baby foods, but beyond that, I think they are given to older children.
It seems that more and more kids are enjoying squeegy fruit and also slurping pureed vegetables. The issue is these pouches foods are being masqueraded as healthy foods. Yes, they are fruits and vegetables often mixed together, but if you read the labels it gets a bit more complicated.
I see so many toddlers in my office who are happily sucking down a packet of apples and blueberries. These parents are adamant that their kids don't drink juice boxes or eat junk food but at the same time they are letting their children suck down several of these pouches a day. This is also often in place of meals, as many of these children are described as picky eaters. I saw a little boy today who had been vomiting, but was on the exam table with pouch to mouth as he drank/at a combo of apples, peas and something else. (note: not recommended when vomiting).
So....I decided to look up the nutritional value of these pouches....many of them although all organic or described as healthy do contain a lot of carbohydrate and sugars. Actually, as much as two fruit roll ups! Yes, I did a little comparison and 2 of the dreaded fruit rolls ups contain 23 grams of carbs and almost 11 grams of sugar.....while a 3.2 ounce pouch has somewhere between 19-24 grams of carbs and between 14-23 grams of sugar.
The point of this is not to say that squeeze pouches are bad, or that a child should never have a fruit roll up. Rather, it is to point out that even healthy snacks can be fu
Parents, you know you can say all sorts of funny things and now here come cute, clever kids comments. This has been a week of kids say the darndest things.
A verbal little 3 year old came in this week and while I was getting his chart opened on the computer, I asked him what's the matter? He is the third child in the family and is quite comfortable coming to the doctor and is always chatty. His response was,I have the God bless you's. Now I admit that I was not quite sure what he meant? Then it hit me! He was sneezing a lot and that was what the God bless you''s meant. How smart is that!
He then proceeded to tell me that he had been sneezing and coughing. He also happens to have asthma, so I asked him if he had been wheezing as well. His response to all of these questions was equally bright. He said , I haven't had to use my puffer, my breaving is okay.
I examined him (by this time he is watching a cartoon on his iPad) and he was spot on. His lungs were clear as a bell, he had a clear watery runny nose and his nasal mucosa was swollen. He also had allergic eyes. He was using an antihistamine but not his steroid nose spray.
So I tweaked his allergy medicines a bit and reminded his mom to have him bathe or shower after he had been playing outside. I also suggested that they use a nasal saline rinse on him as well, as this would help to get the pollens out of his nose after he had been outside, and may be one of the best cures for the God bless you's.
Who says children can't give a good history? I often find that the young patient is a great communicator and may open a doctor's eyes to different ways of relaying a new symptom. Whether is from a 3 year old, a tween or a teen, having a patient that you know and that is comfortable talking to the doctor is the key to a good history. This is was a great remind
The surge in allergies this year has been due to a very wet winter and the weather this spring has brought erratic temperatures and lots of wind. The perfect storm for the "allergic cascade" to inflict itself on everyone's nasal mucosa.
The best preventative for nasal allergy symptoms (allergic rhinitis) has been the use of intranasal steroids. These steroid sprays have been used for the past 15 years and clinical studies have shown that intranasal steroids are superior to oral antihistamines.
Intranasal steroids function by inhibiting the production of chemical mediators such as histamine and prostaglandin that cause inflammation and mucous production. In other words they are more of a preventative medication, while an antihistamine is treating the histamine that was released once you inhaled the offending tree or grass pollen. Intranasal steroids may also help eye allergy symptoms too.
The problem is getting young kids to let you use a nose spray on them. The same holds true for the older tween and teen crowd who complain that they "just don't have the time to use it everyday" (it must take all of 15 seconds to use on yourself!) They have been shown to be effective within 3-12 hours, although will reach their maximum effectiveness after several days to weeks of use, so using it daily and throughout the allergy season is going to give you the maximum therapeutic effect.
There are many different brands available and everyone seems to have their favorite. If one spray seems to bother your child due to scent, or intensity of the spray ask your doctor to try another brand. Many times they will have a sample and give you several to try and then prescribe the one that is easiest to get your child to use. It may be trial and error, but finding the right nasal steroid may just change your allergy season.
That's your daily dose, we'll chat again tomorrow. Oh, God Bless You!
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For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink . . . - - - PART 2
January 02, 2011, 10:58:11 PM »
but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
(Romans 14:17)
In some of my readings of the various authors, I've discerned a "head" knowledge more than a "heart" knowledge of scriptures when it comes to the principles of son-ship, and of the Kingdom. Currently, I'm reading through Preston Eby's 48 part series "LOOKING FOR HIS APPEARING" for the second time. I read it earlier in the year, but my thoughts recently were directed to read through it again. In this reading, I've been overwhelmed with the deep principles as if reading it for the first time! Repeatedly, I said to myself while reading this time, "I don't remember this this is great stuff!" Furthermore, we won't remember or receive this information until it is God's time for us to receive it. If you have never read it, I highly recommend that you prayerfully do so.
In Bother Eby's "Looking for His Appearing," it is brought out that our love for Christ must be as one who is the bride expectantly looking for the bridegroom. In doing so, we must lose our self-identity, and take up our identity in Christ, similarly, as we see in traditional society when the bride yields her maiden name, and assumes the husband's last name. Yet there is a deeper relationship with God. Brother Eby so aptly included Lyn Gitchel's worthy comments explaining how our intimate relationship with the Lord truly must be. What she wrote rings true for me, and we all too often get wrapped up in the principles, and then "can't see the forest for the trees."
Please note the deep truth brought out here by Lyn Gitchel:
"Today, most of God's people, that are aware at all of what He is doing, are readily admitting that we are on the verge of a new day, a new dimension in the Lord. Everywhere you can hear the trumpet call of the message that His kingdom is near. Dry and parched bones are awakening at the sound of His voice and are arising to be prepared as a mighty army to meet the enemy and to take the kingdom. The word "kingdom" is heard more than ever before... and expectancy... is arising in the hearts of those who are waiting for Him.
All this is good, but I have become aware of one thing. In all the striving for perfection, teaching of the kingdom, and preaching of the gospel of redemption that will be completed this side of eternity, we are strangely far from the real goal of it all. Some are striving for a greater understanding of the scriptures and the things of God, and some for a bigger and better revelation than ever before. Some are striving to become like Him, formed into His image; some are looking to become His dwelling place on this earth. Some are seeking to become mature 'sons,' and others are looking towards becoming the 'order of Melchizedek.'
All these are fine goals, but they are not THE GOAL that God intends for us. The goal, and the only goal, is set out in the first commandment which bids us seek God first with every part of our being. To move into Him; to establish a ONENESS WITH HIM - this is the only central goal of it all. So often we are seeking something so close to the real thing - and yet not the real central goal. We seek God in order to receive something from Him - or to be made holy, or be like Him in some other way. We seek Him to have Him dwell in us, or to have His power, or joy, or peace. None of these are wrong! They are just not the goal!
"What kind of response do you think you would get if you were moving into a love relationship, with the intention of marrying that person, and then, when they asked you why you wanted to enter into that depth of relationship with them you replied, 'So that I can become like you!' or, 'So that I can have your power!' Too often that is the way we look at God. We have sought to come close to Him so that we might become like Him, or so that His power might be seen in us. Both are admirable desires, but they are not desires that will be fulfilling to the heart of God. He wants us to draw close to Him, not that we might become like Him, or that His nature be found in us (though, inevitably, that will happen), but solely to draw close to Him BECAUSE WE LOVE HIM FOR WHAT HE IS. He wants us to, come to Him WITH NO OTHER INTENTION in our hearts but to fellowship with Him, to love Him, and to appreciate Him, sharing with Him all the love-flow of our hearts. Everything else, no matter how fine a goal, must be second to that!" (end quote)
As I write this posting for the brothers and sisters who read here at this forum, it is now the start of a new year, 2011. Never, in all my life, have I seen a condition in the world as we are seeing at this moment. It seems as if we are looking at a total global cataclysmic collapse of the money systems, governmental systems, and the religious systems.
In 2008, we saw the collapse of the mortgage system which affected many of the "too big to fail" banking criminals, to whom, were rewarded for their crimes with multi-million dollar bonuses provided by taxpayer dollars. Also, we are seeing the 30 year conclusion of continuing millions of job losses in the USA of which is looking like they will never be recovered. It is sucking the treasuries of the cities, states, and federal governments empty. But these are only a foretaste of what's coming! One cannot but think of the verses in James chapter 5 where he wrote: "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you . . . Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth . . . Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you . . . Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain . . . Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh."
Now, at the threshold of 2011, we see the reality of the US cities, and state governments that have grossly over-extended themselves, now heading for bankruptcy. Also, in Europe, a couple of countries have had to be bailed out, and several more are expected in the first half of 2011 these are known as the PIIGS, an acronym for Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain.
Throughout my lifetime, we were worried about the cold war, nuclear arms, world wars, bomb shelters, and now we see governments, businesses, and personal finances imploding nationally and internationally through debt owed to the money controllers.
What we are seeing in the world of this magnitude, has no precedent. We who are the Lord's sense down deep in our being that we are about to witness the changing of the ages, and by His grace, we will be participants in it! Nevertheless, we must be prepared, and not to be like the "five foolish virgins."
All of my life, I have been reminded, if not "haunted" in some way, by the following verses. For me, they are irrevocable, and I must continually, and fervently apply them to my life. How can I heed them any less?
And Jesus said unto him, No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. (Luke 9:62)
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. (Luke 12:48)
Jesus saith . . . lovest thou me more than these? (John 21:15)
Finally, I, again, direct your attention to brother Eby's words from his publication "Looking for His Appearing". May we comprehend the importance of what he writes, and may we yield our rights to ourselves by yielding to God's preparing ourselves for that "day star": "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning" (Hosea 6:3)
Brother Eby writes:
"We are undoubtedly standing at the threshold of a new dimension in God, a higher realm in the Spirit, and a new level of experience. There is an awakening among the elect of the Lord that transcends human knowledge. He is putting into the hearts of His chosen people the desire to ready themselves for the sonship prepared for them from the foundation of the world.
When we come to a time like this, many will refuse to go on. There is some strange thing inherent in all men that makes them reluctant to leave the security of their fixed abode to press forward into the challenge of the new. They feel that they have journeyed far enough and that the effort to press into the new and more wonderful realm is too great a risk. We tend to become rigid, settled, self confident and crystallized, - fixed in our gaze and in our pose. In order for us not to miss the next phase of the unfolding revelation of Jesus Christ, God has to sound a shrill trumpet into our hearts that we might be alerted. God is wanting to say and do a NEW THING.
It is time to go forward. It is the hour to arise to the battle and possess our land, our full inheritance in God. It is time to leave the first principles of the doctrine of Christ and GO ON TO PERFECTION. It is time to put on the mind of Christ and be transformed by the renewing of our mind. It is time to live and not die. So the Lord descends from heaven in a battle alarm, in the electrifying sound of a trumpet-message, to stimulate, to arouse, to alert and challenge you to get ready for the battle of the ages and the victory of victories that follows!
This trumpet sound commands us to pull up the tent stakes of tradition; fold up the tents of man-made religion; take down the banners of static creeds and dogmas and past experiences in God, and stop camping around this mountain of "kingdom-building" and a partial experience of God. We have camped around this mountain long enough. Let us go on to know the Lord in all of His glorious and eternal reality! Only men who have ears to hear can hear this call of the Spirit, but the trumpet is blowing and many have heard the call.
There are times in your life when God wants you to move forward in Him. He says you have camped around this mountain long enough. He has a land of promise ahead for you with all its inexhaustible abundance! Let us not settle for a partial revelation of God as through a glass darkly, but let us see Him face to face, to know Him even as we are known of Him." (End quote)
Oh, praise his name!
May all those who are called to "press on to the high calling of God in Christ" be obedient!
May you be blessed!!
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Hi and Welcome
Thanks for the introduction - I sence youll find some folk at Tent of Similar Mind - me for one
Isa 29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
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What a terrific testimony. I read both posts and was floored. I wouldn't have been able to receive them just last week. But, the quickening in my spirit is unmistakable and I know I will be forever changed. You have confirmed what God has placed in my spirit through your testimony and I was greatly blessed.
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"I would rather train twenty men to pray, than a thousand to preach; A minister's highest mission ought to be to teach his people to pray." -H. MacGregor
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January 20, 2011, 10:50:43 PM »
I agree!!! We have truly come into the dawning of the Sabbath, the rules of engagement have changed just as drastically as the laws and instructions given for the 6 days greatly differ from the instructions of "what to do" when the Sabbath arrives. May we all be witness to the merging together of flesh and spirit, of land and sea, of God and man, may it begin in the hearts of those connected to this forum, not because of UR common threads, but because of the open hearts that are willing to receive the revelation of the Father as he illuminates the nature of his Son to, in, and through our lives.
Welcome aboard bro!! Great to have you join us!!
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January 20, 2011, 11:53:15 PM »
I like ,(what I beleive card mentioned or maybe it was nathan) that 6 days they collected the manna and that was enough to carry them over to the seventh day(rest) and everything else spoiled.I see this as what is happening now.It is sad to see those that were teachers in my life ,grasping at straws and holding on to that which is spoiled.
Now is the time to hear the spirit lead us into a new land....which you know, because it has tonnes of life on it!
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January 21, 2011, 12:06:07 AM »
albeit I've said very similar things, but I think it was Card that brought that truth out on this one ...and I very much like how you worded this ... it's definitely a new land . .. same land . . .just made new . .. not so much as "never been seen" as much as it's "fresh".
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