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Keller, who is member of the management board for Nürnberg Messe, and has been the show's project leader, said: "You can see the attendance is high, the show is running well. The second day is normally the heaviest day in terms of attendance...we expect in total this year over 31,000 visitors from all departments."
Andrea Kalrait will take over show management responsibilities from next year, and discussing wider industry sentiment she told Ben Bouckley: "Of course, the crisis affects the beverage industry as well...that is a problem that is still ongoing.
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Countdown to Stelara for Psoriasis
Now that it's March, I'm beginning a countdown of sorts. At the end of the month I will start Stelara (ustekinumab) for the first time. I haven't tried a new medication since I took Humira (adalimumab) a few years and had to stop after some weeks because of apparent side effects. Now that the clock to taking a new prescription medicine is ticking, all kinds of numbers have started dancing in my head related to my psoriasis treatment:
0: Times I've tried Acupuncture. I just can't bring myself to do it for some reason.
1: Psoriasis daycare treatment centers I've attended (Palo Alto, CA in 1989).
2: Liver biopsies I've had while taking Methotrexate.
3: Biologic medications I have tried so far (Amevive, Humira, Enbrel).
4: Number of Enbrel (etanercept) injections I have left before stopping for two weeks pre-Stelara.
5: Years I've been writing the Itch to Beat Psoriasis blog.
6: Dermatologists I have built relationships with over the years.
7: The age at which I first showed psoriatic symptoms.
17: Years I've been married to my best friend Lori.
30: Months I've wanted to try Stelara but put it off.
33: Years I have had psoriasis.
I'm looking forward to blogging about the journey with Stelara … stay tuned!
Any particular numbers stand out to you related to your psoriasis? Any updates on your treatments or therapies?
Update on "A Young Ambassador for Psoriasis"
My younger daughter Aleta's birthday is early this month, Happy Birthday Aleta! She completed a successful presentation on psoriasis this past week in her fifth grade class. Unfortunately I was in the midst of a two-week intensive course so I couldn't make it. A special thanks to the National Psoriasis Foundation for providing great and useful materials for classroom presentations.


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Pericarditis is swelling
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Pericarditis usually doesn't cause serious problems. Most people get
better in 7 to 10 days. When there are problems, they may include:
Many things can cause pericarditis, including:
In many cases, the cause is not known.
The main symptom is a
sharp pain in the center or left side of your chest. The pain may spread to the shoulder blade. For some people, this pain is dull
instead of sharp. It may be worse when you lie down or take a deep
The pain lasts for hours or days and doesn't get better
when you rest. It's different from a type of chest pain called
angina, which only lasts a short time and usually gets
better with rest.
Other symptoms may include a mild fever,
weakness, feeling very tired, coughing, hiccups, and muscle aches.
Pericarditis usually isn't dangerous. But your chest pain could be
caused by something more serious, like a
heart attack. Getting diagnosed and treated early
can help keep pericarditis from leading to other problems. That's why you
should call a doctor right away if you have any kind of sudden chest
Your doctor will
listen to your heart during a physical exam. He or she will also ask questions
about your medical history, such as whether you've had a recent illness,
radiation treatment for cancer, or tuberculosis.
Your doctor may
want you to have some tests, including an
electrocardiogram, a chest X-ray, and blood
If the chest X-ray shows any fluid buildup, or if you have new or worse symptoms, such as shortness of breath, your doctor may want you to have a test
called an
If there are no other problems,
pericarditis usually goes away on its own in a couple of weeks. During this time:
Be sure to keep all follow-up appointments with your doctor. If you have complications or the illness gets worse, you may need further treatment. This could include medicines or a procedure to relieve the fluid and pressure around your heart (pericardiocentesis).
Learning about pericarditis:
Other Works Consulted
Hoit BD (2011). Pericardial disease. In V Fuster et al., eds., Hurst's the Heart, 13th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1917–1939. New York: McGraw-Hill.
LeWinter MM, Hopkins WE (2015). Pericardial diseases. In DL Mann et al., eds., Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 10th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1636–1657. Philadelphia: Saunders.
Maisch B, et al. (2004). Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of pericardial diseases. Executive summary. European Heart Journal, 25(7): 587–610.
Welch TD, et al. (2012). Diseases of the pericardium, cardiac tumors, and cardiac trauma. In EG Nabel, ed., ACP Medicine, section 4, chap. 16. Hamilton, ON: BC Decker.
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Wireframing is a quite common method in user experience design. It is a way to explore and specify a user interface without wasting expensive engineering time. It is easy and fast to visualize an idea of the planned interaction flow, and discuss with colleagues. To that extend it is somewhere between sketches and formal interaction design specifications.
There are at least 18 Wireframing, Mockup And Prototyping Tools To Plan Designs available. (Und eine Diskussion im UXForum). However, when I joined the VDI team I decide to start my wireframes journey with OpenOffice.org Impress, OOo's presentation module.
A disclaimer on the second slide says, "This is not a presentation. It is a collection of low-fidelity screen designs, aka. »wireframes« for project xy. Therefore it is part of the specification at URL.". This should prevent anybody from presenting the slides with a projector one after another. The consequences on the audience would be horrible! And maybe this is the reason why I just show the thumbnails as an example.
Instead it is recommended to make extensive use of the Slide Sorter mode, and I am following a few simple rules to support orientation and navigation in the document. The slides are organized in a linearized way throughout the entire application. BTW_ I am talking about Oracle VDI Manager, a web administration tool to configure user groups, pools of desktops of virtual machines, and hypervior and storage resources. And -- no surprise -- this is exactly the order of sections in the wireframes. Large images mark the beginnings of the sections because they remain visible even when zoomed out in slide sorter mode. See for instance the s-shaped image in the third row of the left image to the right. Another one is for example in the 7th row from the bottom. Between VDI 3.0 and VDI 3.2 (the image far right) the number of pages that correspond to the number of different screens in the application grew significantly. But I am still pursuing this approach, now with an image filling the entire slide. Look for the blue - water - pool image in row 13 / slide 51.
You can already see this in the skyscraper images to the right, but I assume that you clicked and zoomed-in meanwhile. Then you can discover some other visual hints that guide me and my colleagues through the document. Wizards. Drill-Down views, confirmation dialogs for delete operations, settings pages. And lots of colored text boxes that convey specific meaning, and of course more details than the wireframes themselves.
[Hurray, this is hypermedia. I made you open and inspect three tabs in your browser!]
Let me conclude with a couple of remarks. This is approach is only possible because of the robustness of OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice. However, performance and layout of the Slide Sorter should be improved. Second, this approach is only possible because of additional User Interface guidelines because by definition wireframes provide just the layout, maybe the interaction, definitely not the visual design. And last but not least, it's possible because of the engineering team. There are plenty of iterations and dozens of shared screen conferences between Hamburg, Dublin, and Guichen. Over the time the team got used to wireframes as one central element for developing Oracle VDI.
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Lockwood, who also got his curfew lifted at weekends after a month, did half of the 300 hours he was ordered to do when a judge decided not to jail him.
But after the 45-year-old said his diabetes had got worse, he was on the sick with depression and his racehorse transit business had collapsed he was told he wouldn't have to do the remaining 150 hours.
Lockwood, of Ogbourne St George, had been suspected of stealing after he was seen loading plants into the boot of his Range Rover at the Swindon Garden Centre in Kingsdown.
When the store boss approached him about paying for the goods he sped away with the manager hanging on to the side of the vehicle.
Lockwood said he panicked, as an unknown man had leaned through a window, driving out of the car park and on to the road with him hanging on to the side of the vehicle.
After more than 100 metres, at speeds of up to 25-30mph, the garden centre worker had to make a jump for it, suffering cuts and bruises as he hit the ground.
The defendant claimed he was suffering a bad reaction to a double dose of prescription medication at the time.
Lockwood pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving and received an eight month jail term suspended for two years.
A charge of theft was dropped after medical evidence was served on prosecutors when the case appeared at Swindon crown court.
As part of the punishment he was ordered to do 300 hours of unpaid work, complete an 8pm to 5am curfew for six months and pay £1,500 compensation.
A few weeks later he was back before the court saying his business would collapse if the curfew stayed in place and the judge lifted it on weekends, when work was busiest.
Now he has had the unpaid work removed leaving him with no conditions on the suspended sentence, which continues for another year.
Lockwood, who is signed off work with depression, said he is taking his son out of a fee-paying school as a result of the business folding and his house was on the market.
He said his diabetes had got so bad that he was suffering from seizures as a result of the condition.
Removing the remaining unpaid work Recorder Jeremy Wright said "All that is left now is the remaining 12 and a half months of suspended sentence.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo softball team (1-1) opened its 2010 campaign with a split of NAIA opponent Webber International University (2-1), Monday evening from University Field. The Lions dropped the first game 1-0 but scored seven runs in the second contest to solidify their first win of the 2010 season.
In total, the Lions collected nine hits in the doubleheader. Tiffinee Harvey led the charge going 2-for-5 on the evening with a pair of doubles and one RBI. She also drew two walks and scored a pair of runs. Harvey was also one of four players to steal a bag against the Warriors. Elysha Agen also contributed a solid contest, going 3-for-8 from the plate with one double and two RBI. Junior-transfer Sarah Boyd made an immediate impact for her new squad, going 1-for-4 from the plate, while driving in two runs and scoring once. Danielle Moreda and Dianne Gonzalez each added singles for the Green & Gold, before Amber Martyn capped the night with a hit and a run scored.
The first game developed at a slow pace, as hitters went deep into counts and fought-off multiple pitches. Despite the patient hitting tactics by both teams, neither could find a rhythm on the scoreboard as the game remained scoreless for the first five innings. In fact the NAIA foe was outhitting the Green & Gold 5-to-1, going into the top of the sixth when Webber eventually struck. With two outs, the Warriors put an infield hit deep in the hole between shortstop and third base allowing the runner at third to come home to score. It was the only run accounted for in the game as Saint Leo could not break onto the scoreboard before the final out.
The Lions best opportunity came in the bottom of the seventh inning when the Lions possessed runners at first and second with one out. Unfortunately, a fly ball double play dampened the Lions' plans, falling in their home opener, 1-0.
Despite the tough loss, Lions' starter Kristin Kelly threw 7.0 innings and allowed eight hits. She surrendered just one run and struck out six Warriors.
The mini momentum builder at the end of the first game carried over into the game two, as Saint Leo used two walks and three hits to score their first three runs of the season. Boyd knocked home the Lions first run with a single to centerfield scoring Harvey. Moreda followed it up with a single single to left center as well, scoring Brittany Yates. Gonzalez used some unintentional small ball during her at-bat, as her infield hit plated the Lions third and final run of the inning.
As Ashton Whidden continued to control Warrior hitters from the circle, the Saint Leo offense expanded their lead to 5-0 with two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Harvey connected with her 23rd career double to bring home Ana Castillo and Boyd eventually brought Harvey home on a sacrifice fly to leftfield.
Saint Leo added pair of insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth, when Agen doubled to right centerfield bringing home Katie Gwinn and Martyn.
Now with a 1-1 record, the Lions will head to Pensacola, Fla. to take on Gulf South Conference powerhouses West Florida, North Alabama, and No. 1-ranked Alabama-Huntsville at the SSC/GSC Crossover Tournament. Their first series against West Florida is set to begin on Friday, February 12th on the campus of West Florida with first pitch coming at 3:00 p.m. local time.


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DETROIT - We are watching Michigan's version of the public sector union battle play out.
The floodtide of advertising heading your way over the next three months won't spell it out this way, but that's what is coming with a flourish. Granted our battle is tepid in comparison to Wisconsin's. You will recall the national headlines and the breathless daily live news updates of that pitched battle between Wisconsin public sector unions and the state's new Republican Governor Scott Walker.
When he tried to reduce the amount of public sector union bargaining power there were the weeks long protests in the capital rotunda, legislators who couldn't win a vote picked up their marbles and drove across the state line to prevent that vote. There was the drawn out and very expensive union backed recall vote against the Governor that, in the end, did not remove him from office.
Well, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was watching. It's not his style to provoke that kind of chaos. But he did want the same thing Walker did. Snyder more stealthily weighed in with Public Act 4. With a Republican legislative majority, they teamed to, in a nutshell, put some real teeth in the State of Michigan's Emergency Manager Law [Public Act 72]. The teeth gave emergency managers the power to impose, rip up or otherwise alter public sector union contracts at will. The Governor viewed it as simple, responsible financial governance. The state's municipal unions immediately saw it as union busting. They attacked with some force. If you remember the embarrassing sound bite from Rev. Malik Shabazz saying the the Detroit Financial Review Team's deliberations "we will burn this city down before we let you take it over" was the cherry on top of the drama that played out in the City of Detroit alone [as the governor set out to use his newfound power under Public Act 4]. The American Federation of Municipal Employees flexed their considerable muscles all over the place trying to stop him. They spent lots of time and money in places like Ingham County courtrooms attempting to ball up the Governor's emergency manager and consent agreement work at every turn; some with little success, [Judge Collette, the Michigan Supreme court and Detroit's consent agreement] and others more so.
Today was that day. AFSCME was the money and the manpower behind the Stand Up For Democracy movement. It gathered more than two hundred thousand signatures in an attempt to get a repeal of Public Act 4 on the November ballot. Over the past six months, in fight after fight with the Michigan Board of Canvassers and several appeals courts over, of all trivial things, the font size in the petition's heading. After watching much haggling and gnashing of teeth, the Michigan Supreme Court ultimately weighed in and said the question should go on the November Ballot; and so it will.
One of the questions Stand Up for Democracy's petition drive left unanswered was this; "by repealing Public Act 4, what is a city of Detroit or any other municipality left with?" Here's the answer: Chapter 9 Bankruptcy [Note that several California cities have just filed.] A Chapter 9, which is federal municipal bankruptcy, [where a federal judge carves up the carcass of the city or town in question], has never been done in Michigan. Detroit would make the nation's largest Chapter 9 ever. That is why the governor was so intent on having the consent agreement the city now lives under. He desperately wanted to avoid that version of the Hindenburg disaster.
But the AFSCME membership knows it is in the desperate fight of its collective life. Members understand, as my late father would say, "the gravy train is about to end" unless something drastic happens. Their world of very specific negotiated work rules that few in the private sector can dream of are hanging in the balance. The rallying cry amounts to "it's last chance café!" There are things like essentially guaranteed employment, advancement based on seniority and vacation and sick time are accrued over a career useful as credits for later retirement calculations. Many double dip. They retire after twenty, twenty five or thirty years, take their pension and find another municipal union job somewhere else to start the process all over again. [To be fair, white collar employees do the very same thing] That's made possible by the higher than normal private sector defined benefit pension payments to add to the list. Let's note here few db plans exist anymore in the private sector. Most of the municipal plans have payout multiples that dwarf anything that remains in the private sector. This is great work if you can get it. It was always about the benefits in public employment that attracted so many, not so much the pay. Who could blame anyone in that system for trying with all their might and resources to keep it? But this municipal largesse is exceedingly expensive and the governor's office is happy to point out this is the stuff that accounts for 70 to 80 percent of all of the financial problems in the seven entities [Detroit City Schools, Muskegon Heights Schools, Highland Park Schools, The cities of Flint, Pontiac, Benton Harbor and Ecorse] that have emergency managers.
Now, in November, voters will get to give the Emergency Manager Law thumbs up or down. The petition drive collected a lot of signatures and you don't have to travel far in the City of Detroit to find resident who can spout the union line that Public Act 4 is a theft of democracy. Yet, it is equally easy to go into the suburbs across the state and hear residents watching the financial carnage and the emotionally charged political battles in horror wondering why anyone would stand by and watch governments spend themselves into oblivion unencumbered. This in a nutshell is how this public sector union battle will be fought. As it stands right now, the Governor's side is winning.
A Public Policy Polling survey done in late July [two weeks ago] puts the pro PA-4 forces up 41% to 31%. There are a lot of undecided voters left though. So, you can expect to see, hear or read hundreds if not thousands of television, radio and newspaper ads attempting to persuade you. You now know the reasons why it is happening. It's do-or-die time for the state's municipal unions. The same could be said for municipal budgets.
The question now becomes will outstate voters out number city voters in places where emergency managers now reside or may be about to?
This promises to be one important, epic battle.
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The Aussie initially skidded a third of a cent to one-week lows of $uS1.0395 after retail sales came in flat for October versus an expected rise of 0.4 per cent.
Adding to the pain were a fall in local job advertisements for an eight month and a private gauge of inflation showing a tame reading.
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The data echoed an official PMI survey released over the weekend showing a rise to a seven-month high.
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Australian government bonds bounced with the three-year contract up 0.04 points to 97.430, well off multi-week lows hit last week. The 10-year contract added 0.03 points to 96.950, having recently fallen as low as 96.765.


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Sunny McGowan, a student at Fairview Elementary School, chooses between several different fresh fruits during lunch Tuesday. Carroll Community School District has added salad and fresh fruit bars at all four of its buildings to improve the nutritional quality of meals served to students.
Cherry tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, sliced cucumbers and broccoli were offered on the vegetable bar Tuesday at Fairview Elementary. Lettuce (with a small serving of dressing) is the most popular with students.
Food Cost
The total cost of food in the Carroll Community School District last year was $387,140.24.
This food cost accounted for about 47 percent of the total food-services expenses, which were $817,171.
Total expenses of the district last year were $21,151,950.51.
The food-services expense accounted for about 4 percent of the total expenses in last year's budget.
The actual food accounted for nearly 2 percent of the district's total expenses in the 2012-13 school year.
January 15, 2014
The sound of the bell pierces the halls, the universal signal that releases students to their next class period.
At Fairview Elementary, the young students line up and make their way to the cafeteria where they are greeted by a 6-foot-long salad bar and 8-foot-long fruit bar. The spread features at least 13 different fruits and vegetables including lettuce, cherry tomatoes, carrots, fresh apples, grapes and watermelon.
The salad bars were added to each of the Carroll Community School District's four buildings two years ago. The additions were the result of the district's interpretation of new rules implemented by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2012 in an effort to make school meals more healthful. At the beginning of January, the USDA permanently relaxed some of these guidelines - specifically the daily maximums for grains and meat or meal alternatives, said Sara Nielsen, food service director for the Carroll school district.
The original changes were aimed at limiting fat and salt, reducing portion sizes and increasing fruits and vegetables. According to recent studies, more than 31 million children across the U.S. receive free or reduced-price lunches, and these low-income students are often most at-risk for becoming overweight or obese. In the Carroll district, nearly 40 percent of students receive free or reduced-price lunches through the federal program.
The grain and protein restrictions were loosened amid complaints that portion sizes and calorie limits - 550-650 for kindergarten through fifth grade, 600-700 for sixth through eighth grades, and 750-850 for high school students - were leaving children hungry. Nielsen said these claims are exaggerated - 850 calories is more than enough for a filling lunch - but acknowledged it could be challenging to incorporate the full amount of calories due to the grain restriction.
Students in kindergarten through fifth grade were allowed eight or nine grain servings per week, students in sixth through eighth were allowed eight to 10 servings, and high school students were allowed 10 to 12 grain servings each week. Typical grains in school lunches include hamburger buns, which count for two servings, and cookies, which count for one serving each.
For the younger children, these restrictions often meant they could not have dessert, explained Nielsen. After accounting for grain servings in buns and breaded chicken products, there were no grain servings left for a cookie, even if Nielsen had used only 600 of the allowed 650 calories for the day. Similar limits on protein meant the younger students often could not receive cheese to put on their hamburgers.
In the high school lunch line, students have more than one option. The traditional school lunch is offered, but students have typically had a second choice, such as a sub sandwich. However, the sub bun has more bread than a hamburger bun and therefore counts as three grain servings rather than two. The grain restrictions implemented two years ago meant that subs could no longer be offered as an alternative meal every day because if students had a sub every day, they would consume 15 grain servings, three more than the maximum allowance, even though the calorie count would fall within the required range, explained Nielsen.
With grain restrictions preventing Nielsen from adding the extra bread stick to bring the calorie count on a day's lunch up to the maximum, she said the Carroll district could have received similar complaints if it had not made the decision to add unlimited vegetable and fruit bars at each building. Students may return to the refrigerated bars and refill their plates until they are no longer hungry.
The addition of the fruit and vegetable bars to the cafeterias has also had the added benefit of reducing waste, explained Nielsen.
The same USDA rules that implemented the grain restriction and calorie counts also required her to put on the menu one green vegetable, one starchy potato, one red or orange vegetable, one bean and one other vegetable per week. The rules also require each meal to include one bread, protein, fruit, vegetable and milk. Students are only required to take three items as they pass through the line.
When the dark green vegetable choices consist of kale, collared greens, spinach and broccoli, it's not very likely children will take the vegetable, and even less likely they will eat it, said Nielsen. But, since the schools have salad bars - which include red and orange vegetables such as cherry tomatoes or carrots, dark green vegetables such as broccoli and additional vegetables such as cucumbers and lettuce - the students are allowed to pass on a vegetable they won't eat and take a different vegetable they will eat from the salad bar instead.
"It was our interpretation of the rules that you have to offer each of the vegetables in a salad bar or menu it," Nielsen said. "If you put it in the salad bar, you are offering it every day. You don't have to menu it and then have kids say they were hungry because they didn't eat it. We offered it, so we were still compliant."
By offering rather than serving food, students are encouraged to take only what they will eat, and to eat what they take, said Nielsen. As a result, the cooks can fix six cans of baked beans instead of 18 cans. The money saved on the 12 cans of beans that are no longer prepared can be used to supply fresh produce for the fruit and vegetable bars, and the food is actually eaten, not thrown away.
"We're able to make less. All kids take a fruit, but we're not putting one fruit on their tray and watching it go to the dumpster," said Nielsen. "We find we're offering better things but spending less money. It's sickening to watch all that stuff go down the garbage disposal. Now the plates are pretty clean."
In addition, the bars allow the school to provide fresh fruit, such as strawberries, watermelon, grapes or kiwi, in additional to the traditional canned varieties such as pears, peaches or fruit cocktail. Nielsen has observed elementary students returning to the vegetables up to three times in a single lunch period. But, though students appear to be eating more, the reduction in waste means the food cost has not increased, said Nielsen.
"A lot of (school officials) think kids would overeat or waste a salad bar, but we don't see that," said Nielsen, who has about $2.10 to spend on each meal. "They aren't eating you out of house and home."
According to district business manager Gary Bengtson, the initial cost for the refrigerated salad bars was $4,750 per building. The district also purchased a new oven for Adams Elementary last year. In the last two years, expenditures in the food-service budget have increased about $125,000 while revenue has increased about $105,000. Bengston said these equipment purchases contributed to this gap but added that the costs were "well worth it."
"(The fruit and vegetable bars) have been very popular, especially at the elementary level where in the past they had little or no options," said Bengtson in an email. "To see those young kids returning to the salad bar over and over has been amazing to me."
Though the USDA has removed its grain and protein restrictions, the school district will not change its fruit and vegetable policy, said Nielsen.
"Kids are eating more fruits and vegetables this way," she said, adding that the heavy emphasis on health in the last two years has made it easier to buy good foods, such as whole-grain breaded chicken patties that contain nine grams of carbohydrates instead of 25. "I do truly believe lunches are healthier."
Carroll takes second place in breakfast challenge
Carroll Community School District recently took second place in the state among schools with enrollments of 900-3,999 students in the Iowa School Breakfast Challenge.
The contest website said students with empty stomachs "often lack concentration and struggle with poor academic performance, behavior problems and health issues."
However, only about one-third of students who qualified for free and reduced-price lunches also eat breakfast, making Iowa 49th in the nation for breakfast participation. According to the Iowa Department of Education website, the department partnered with the Midwest Dairy Council to challenge schools to change that ranking by increasing their breakfast participation by at least 20 percent.
The contest had four tiers based on enrollment. In the third tier, Carroll took second place, receiving $2,500 in award money for increasing breakfast participation 27 percent by providing three breakfast choices instead of one, including one hot meal.
District food services director Sara Nielsen said that the prize money would be put back into the program.
Carroll fell only 1 percent behind the first-place winner, Shenandoah Community School District.
In the first tier of schools with enrollments less than 350 students, the East Greene Community School District took first place, receiving $4,000 in prize money.
According to the breakfast challenge website results page, the district increased participation in its breakfast program by 100 percent through promotion of the program in the school district, on the website and on the radio. Officials also work to build relationships with the students to "invite and encourage them to eat breakfast with them."
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How do the people that escape from Azkaban get back to the mainland since they are in the middle of the sea?Still Learning 19:36, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
There are a few ways, using a few examples. 1. Sirius Black swam to the mainland as a dog. 2. Barty Crouch Junior was smuggled out by his father
as for the mass breakouts... I think only Voldemort can help you there. Leopardstarismyleader 19:41, 14 August 2009 (UTC)


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Last week, the big rumor was Rihanna really canceled a bunch of tour dates because she's pregnant with Chris Brown's baby. A scenario that would've been absolutely retarded for everyone involved which made it all the more plausible. Except here's Rihanna partying in Ft. Lauderdale last night looking definitely not-pregnant, and before anyone says most, if not all, pregnant women don't look like Kim Kardashian, I actually thought of something. If Rihanna really was pregnant, she would've Instagrammed the inside of her uterus by now. Or at the very least tried to tattoo "Breezy" on the kid's head. She's gonna make a great mom.
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Correspondent: Dear Sir, how do you interpret the recent developments that brought Turkey and Syria closer?
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>Racing>Help with 10k speed
I have signed up for a 10k, I have 4 weeks to prepare for it. I should've trained/planned ahead earlier but I messed up and thought the race was going to be in May. I've just "restarted" after a couple of fairly low volume months.
This is what I normally do (am getting back into):
~40+ mpw, mostly easy runs
1 day of intervals, usually something like 10x400s or 6x800s
1 long run on the weekend (I used to run around 13 miles, but haven't gotten back into this habit lately)
My question is if there is 1 or 2 workouts I can add or substitute in to help with my 10k speed? I'm not in shape for PR now, I just want my time to not suck too badly. Based on how I ran my 5k race last week, I am not optimistic. I know it is not realistic to expect much improvement in this short a period of time, but I do hope to carry on the workout to improve my 10k time this year, not just for this race.
I'm not an expert, but last year when I was working on my 10K goal race I did pretty much what you are doing, but I added some longer intervals in there at goal 10K pace. 4 X 1 miles, 5 X 1,000s, etc.
Earlier on in my plan I did some Tempo runs at HMP, but toward the end I focused on sharpening with some 200s mixed in with some 400s and 800s. Also added in 6 x 15 second strides on about half of my easy runs.
I made a knock off of someone's Hanson 10K plan that I used. It's still in my log under training plans.
Good luck!
Age: 49 Weight: 202 Height: 6'3" (Goal weight 195)
Current PR's: Mara 3:14:36* (2017); HM 1:36:13 (2017); 10K 43:59 (2014); 5K 21:12 (2016)
Similar to npaden's response:
I would try to get in two or three tempo runs at HM pace/effort. I'd go for about 40:00 minutes since that is about how long you will be racing when you run your 10K. Work on focusing the full tempo time. Train the brain.
As for speed, little time for anything to really soak in, so short (200s or 400s) intervals for sharping.
Good Luck!
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't run races and tempo runs enough to know what my HM pace should be, but I gave it a shot last night and did a 10k tempo. It was moderately difficult in effort in the last mile, and I felt that I could have kept the same pace for another 5k, but I would be spent if I did that. Is this the right level of effort for a tempo run? I could have pushed harder with my pace but I don't know if I should. I'm still trying to figure out how "comfortably hard" should feel like.
Sultan of slug
Supposedly VO2-max-type stuff gives you a quick payoff and lots of bang for your buck in the short term. I use Daniels-style intervals: Hard repeats (at 3k-5k pace) of 3-5 minutes in duration with equivalent-time jogs between repeats. You will certainly not be fully recovered between intervals.
A staple of my current 5-15k training has been 5 x 1200m with 600m jogs between intervals. They wipe me out, but they started to become easier after just a few weeks to the point where I increased my pace.
Daniels suggests sessions where you spend no more than 8% of your total weekly mileage at this VO2 max pace. So for a 40-mile week, you could run 5 x 1000m with, say, very slow 400m jogs in between.
I think that even doing these for three weeks, and then eliminating them during your race week (or getting in a session on, say the Monday before your Saturday or Sunday race) would give you a boost. At the very least, they're great practice for the psychological rigors of racing!
Future running partner.
IMHO, i think that this next race can be used as just a test to see where you are currently at fitness wise, and focus more on the long term by picking a goal race that is about 9 to 12 weeks out. Looking at your log it doesn't look like you have cut back to much. You may not be logging the 60-70 mile weeks like you where, but the 30-40 is still pretty good to maintain most of your fitness. Last year I was in a very similar situation as you. I came from running 60-70 miles a week in the fall then from December through February I cut back a lot and even had a couple of weeks off due to injury. When I started back up in February I focused on getting my mileage back up and getting lean.Then in March I picked a race that was 8 weeks out and set a goal for that race to go sub 20 5k. Thats when I started to focus on speed work. Don't concern yourself about the possibility of running a slower 10k this next one. That doesn't mean you don't have to rule out any speed work either, but the really hard long intervals at close to VO2 max can drain you rather than train you. I found its better to gradually work into those kinds of workouts. When its early in training for me I prefer to do striders, or few short hill repeats and sprint drills to work on speed. When my mileage is up to where I want it to be, I'll start to through in some repeat 200s at goal 5k to 10k pace with 200 recoveries at close to my normal run pace instead of a jog. I'll make this like an 8 to 10 mile workout. What I have found with this is that it gives me the ability to run at 5k or 10k race pace aerobically and makes me get really comfortable running those paces and it doesn't stress my body too much too early in training with heavy anaerobic work. When I get to about 9 weeks from my main race then I take those repeats and I start extending them every week, until they become specific endurance work. As this workout progresses it may finish with doing 5x1000s at 5k pace with a 200 jog for a final workout before a main 5k or 3x2000 at 10k pace with a 400 recovery for the final workout before a main 10k. If you want to get an idea of how I did this check my log from around February to May of last year. I was able to t make my goal this way.
Read this article: http://www.runnersworld.com/race-training/performance-page-best-10k-workout
It worked very well for me. I had only 4 weeks too, so I did one workout every week instead every second week.
Read this article: http://www.runnersworld.com/race-training/performance-page-best-10k-workout
It worked very well for me. I had only 4 weeks too, so I did one workout every week instead every second week.
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Thanks, I'll try some of the workouts and see how it goes! I happened to have tried the 3x2miles a couple of weeks ago and it is hard...
I don't think I can hit those workouts. Think about the total volume of that workout, warm up of 1-2 miles, 6 miles of hard running, a mile or so jog rest, and then a cool down, total about 9-10 miles, a hard workout for most folks not running a lot. If I can do 3 X 2 miles at my HM pace, I'd consider it good enough.
The key is to work your way up to that. Like the article said, the first workout is more like 6 x 1 mile at 10 goal pace with 3 minutes rest in between. Over the course of several weeks you increase the difficulty of the workout by increasing the length of the intervals. But you also adapt as the workouts get harder. So that eventually the 3 x 2 miles doesn't feel much harder then the 6 x 1 mile. The 5k race pace 200's are also very important for getting you used to being comfortable at speed.
In order to do these kinds of workouts your mileage should be at least 40 mpw. Generally speed work like this should only be about 6 to 10% of your weekly mileage. Or it ends up being more of a strain rather then train.
Good point EnjoytheRide.My average mileage last year was 40 miles/week.


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Oscars Hair Color Trends: Go Bold or Go Home!
Bold reds, blondes, and brunettes were the big trends when it came to this year's red carpet hairstyles. We got the lowdown plus the best color care tips out there from colorist Kyle White!
-Courtney Leiva
Yes, we're still a little bit obsessed with everything Oscars here at BettyConfidential, but come on! Can you really blame us? To fuel our fixation just a little bit more, we've chatted with Oscar Blandi Salon's lead colorist, Kyle White, on the hottest hair color trends seen on the red carpet this season. From Naomi Watts' bold blonde coif to Jessica Chastain's sultry red curls, read on for some serious hair care secrets!
This award season, bigger and bolder hair color proved to be ongoing trend. And just because the glitz and glamour of the Oscars is all over, that doesn't mean that we'll see this bright color trend going away anytime soon.
"Whether the color was red like Jessica Chastain, blonde like Naomi Watts, or brunette like Anne Hathaway, color was solid and strong with no obvious highlights. Blondes were light, brunettes were deep and rich, and reds were vibrant," White says.
Maintaining freshly colored locks can prove to be a challenge, so to create your own red carpet-worthy look, here are some of White's color-saving tips to keep your locks bright and beautiful:
Read Oscars Hair How-To: Adele's Classic Half-Up Do + 6 More Red Carpet-Worthy Styles
1. To keep your hair color in perfect shape, make sure you do a clarifying treatment like an apple cider vinegar rinse the night before any big event. This vinegar rinse works to remove any product buildup that can dull shine; it also helps the hair absorb styling acids and serums more effectively.
2. Follow your clarifying treatment with a deep conditioner. Deep conditioner deposits moisture in the hair cuticles, making the hair shaft smooth for maximum light reflection. Then, simply heat a tablespoon of coconut oil in the microwave and comb it through damp hair for fifteen minutes. Afterwards, wash with shampoo.
3. The day of any big event, have a gold gloss applied prior to styling your hair. Glosses tightly seal the hair cuticles, leaving your locks nice and shiny!
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HOUSTON - A teenager died after he was hit by a car on a northeast Harris County street, investigators said.
Harris County sheriff's deputies said the incident happened in the 800 block of Gulf Bank about 6:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Detectives said the 15-year-old was listening to music while riding a skateboard when he was hit by a car that was traveling in the same direction. Investigators said it was dark outside and the driver did not see the teen until it was too late.
"Driver remained at the scene," Deputy David Pearson said. "She had two children in the vehicle with her also."
The teen died at the scene. Relatives identified him as Brian Alvarado and officials said he attended Aldine High School.
"There is no sidewalk on the street," said Enoc Alvarado, the teen's uncle. "It's very dangerous for the kids."
Officials said they hope parents will talk to the children to make sure they're safe while walking to school.
"The thing to learn from this is talk to your kids about hazards, to stay out of the roadway -- especially in a dark road," Pearson said.
The incident is under investigation. No charges have been filed.
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Comme des Garçons Spring 2013
"Crushing. The energy of an explosion," said Rei Kawakubo backstage at the Commes des Garçons show—if you can call the half-shelter of their open-air concrete river wharf a stage. Which, of course, it wasn't in any usual sense, and neither was the "fashion" because Rei Kawakubo doesn't really do fashion. Over and again, she leads it by ignoring it, yet of all the designers, she's the one who can set new agendas by challenging only herself. Last season, the ripple effect of her show of flat cutout shapes made impact at record speed with graphic flatness now a summer trend in countless collections. This time—with all eyes on her—she set about a collection which seemed to be about the process of designing itself, haphazardly crushing all the scraps and revisions of the toile-stages of dressmaking and tailoring into soft-sculpture composites. The young British artist Graham Hudson, who works with found materials, made her scrap-metal crowns to match, towering headgear jauntily soldered together from upturned paint cans, wing mirrors, aluminium food packaging, brass brackets, and broken toy cars.
How did this come about? It didn't seem to be a somber treatise on the need for waste-reduction and recycling in the garment industry. Instead, you could imagine Kawakubo walking into her studio in Tokyo one morning while striving to arrive at what she'd do next, glancing at a chaotic pile of half-completed or rejected lapels, sleeve shapes, shoulder pads and ragged canvas offcuts, and seeing beauty in it. Perhaps, like an artist, she wanted to preserve the accidental juxtapositions, spontaneously tacking on the pieces to build a new 3-D form out of the folds, padding, and puffed sleeves. Actually, there was more order in the apparently random patchworking than first met the eye. All the work was bunched onto short dresses, tops, and skirts, giving the whole collection a quirkily charming air.
As for the agenda-setting potential of this collection? Let's wait and see. Part of the glee Kawakubo might have taken in making it was the thought: "Let them copy this one then!" Or, on the other hand, who knows? She might be completely indifferent as to whether she's emulated or not. What's certain is that she'll be the first to translate this lineup of toile-sculptures into the simpler, wearable T-shirts, skirts, and sweaters that are always stocked alongside the full-strength runway pieces in her stores. It's at that point the fashion industry's style-recyclers typically step in and start churning out the Comme-inspired ideas as they always do—eventually.


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Smokers will be confronted with a graphic warning about their habit this weekend, with a new campaign highlighting the very poor prognosis for anyone diagnosed with lung cancer hitting television screens from Sunday.
Around 34 Victorians die every week from lung cancer, with lung cancer death accounting for 19% of all cancer deaths. Smoking is responsible for around 80 to 90% of all lung cancer cases.
Executive Director of Quit, Ms Fiona Sharkie said the campaign, developed by The Cancer Institute NSW, focuses on the whistling-noise of a smoker's breathing indicating the presence of advanced lung cancer, which is found blocking the airway when viewed through the lens of a broncoscope.
"People tend to assume that every smoker knows that smoking is a direct cause of lung cancer but in reality less than half of smokers believe tobacco use causes lung cancer."
"This new campaign provides a sobering reminder of what could happen to a smoker who does not quit, and we are hoping it will deliver the lung cancer message to a new generation of smokers."
Ms Sharkie made no apologies for the graphic nature of the campaign saying it demonstrated the very real health consequences of smoking.
"Smokers deserve to see an accurate presentation of the potential consequence of tobacco use and although this campaign may not be pretty it does present the dangers of smoking in an honest and uncompromising manner."
Associate Professor David Ball, a cancer specialist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, said lung cancer is the greatest cause of years of life lost to cancer in this country and the most tragic aspect is that nearly all of the deaths could have been prevented.
"Everyday we see the human faces behind lung cancer statistics, the lives and families interrupted tragically and irreversibly by this disease."
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Nash Farm Battlefield & Museum
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Nash Farm Battlefield, a 204-acre public park, is located in far western Henry County on its line with Clayton County, about 21 miles south of Atlanta. The Civil War battles called "Lovejoy" or "Lovejoy's Station" once covered many square miles of land, but that land is now mostly covered up by every kind of development. During the second half of 1864, the Nash Farm was the scene of considerable military activity, including Kilpatrick's Raid, infantry battles/skirmishes that marked the end of the Atlanta Campaign, as well as the campsites belonging to Confederate General Stephen Dill Lee's Army Corps.
The park is open seven days a week and historical markers provide a self-guided tour. Nash Farm Battlefield Museum is open Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. All are welcome, but we ask large groups to contact us before their visit so we can be properly staffed. For more information on the Nash Farm Battlefield or to set up tours, contact [email protected].
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Hours of Operation
Sunday: 7:00AM - 10:00PM
Monday: 7:00AM - 10:00PM
Tuesday: 7:00AM - 10:00PM
Wednesday: 7:00AM - 10:00PM
Thursday: 7:00AM - 10:00PM
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Family-friendly, Free Admission , Open Year 'Round
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Group Reservations Required , Group-friendly
Near Interstate Highway
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Art From the New World
Gary Baseman, Buff Monster, Camille Rose Garcia and other American street artists get a show at Bristol's City Museum
In a well-timed moment of cross-cultural exchange, the Corey Helford Gallery partnered with the Bristol City Museum and Gallery to put on a mega American show at the latter's space, featuring some of today's heaviest hitting street, pop and fine artists, including several never-before-seen works. Aptly called "Art From the New World," the exhibit (opening this Saturday, 15 May 2010) includes work from Ron English (pictured), Gary Baseman, Mark Ryden and Camille Rose Garcia, among others. Check out the slideshow below for more images.
"Like the Arts Decoratif of Paris in 1925 or the bright, poppy England of the 1960s, America is gushing forth a new wave of taste and style born of Pop Iconic culture, expanding American diversity, resistance to the mainstream art world and a need to communicate to an art audience looking for relevance in America's Age of Uncertainty," said Corey Helford's owner and curator, Jan Corey Helford, in a statement.
Buff Monster, in addition to painting murals, built a 15-foot-tall ice cream cone balloon sculpture. Bug-eyed characters from Baseman's works will attend the opening (pictured above) and mingle with patrons.
Museumgoers can also expect to see Mike Stilkey's painting done on the spines of 2,000 stacked books and Todd Schorr's "An Ape Allegory," a surreal artwork full of creative interpretations (pictured top right). AJ Foski (pictured above), Shag and Kent Williams also make up the lineup of works will be spread throughout the museum.
The show runs through August 22.


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A Calne man who claimed he could not work after a double hip replacement was operating as a fencing contractor for Chippenham Town Council.
John Snell, 67, claimed more than £50,000 in benefits saying he as was unable to work following the operations.
But in reality Snell, who was also in receipt of two work pensions, was going out each morning as a self-employed fencer.
And among his contracts he was working for Chippenham Town Council, Swindon Crown Court was told.
Paul Grumbar, prosecuting, told the court that Snell is a married man who started claiming pension credit in August 2006, along with council tax benefit.
Prior to receiving the payments he said he was getting incapacity benefit, he told the court.
They launched an investigation after getting a tip off he was working as a fencing contractor and found he was working for Citadel and the town council.
When he was questioned about the matter he said he started claiming benefits when he was unable to work as a result of hip replacements.
"He failed to tell the department he was working as a self-employed fencing contractor and has two private pensions," Mr Grumbar said.
Mr Grumbar said he received £48,393.43p in pension credits and £3,090.66p in council tax benefit between August 2006 and August 2012, making a total loss of £51,484.09p.
Snell, of Heron Close, Calne, pleaded guilty to three counts of making a dishonest representation to obtain benefits when he appeared at crown court.
Mike Pulsford, defending, said the claim had started when his client was laid up and he just failed to say when he was fit to resume work.
He said he was on disability living allowance in 2007 and 2008 after having both hips replaced.
"He says 'all I want to do is go out day by day and work'. That has been the foremost motive for him," he said.
"When it was pointed out to him last year he was claiming these benefits he ought not to he said 'I don't know how the Pension Credits work'.
"He said he was told at the age of 60 he was told that pension credit was available to top up his earnings.
"At that time he received disability living allowance which is not income dependant and he just carried on putting his head in the sand.
"When he was back working full time he left things as they were. It is a huge figure, he is shocked."
He said he and his wife had downsized to a house without a mortgage during the past seven years and had not been living a life of luxury.
The pensions, which should have been declared, only paid out £40 a month for one and £400 a year for the other.
"He has be chastened by these proceedings and they are not over yet with the Proceeds of Crime Act proceedings."
He said he may have to sell his house to meet the final bill when he has to repay what he received.
Judge Philip Wassall said: "It is rather difficult to avoid, the payments are being made because you can't work.
"If you return it is obviously something is going to change with the pension. The onus is on you. It was only the result of good investigation that led to it being detected.
"£51,000 of public money has gone into your accounts, to someone who works in cash strapped public services that is probably, over a two years, gross income to someone in public service. People feel angered by this type of activity."
He imposed a 24-week jail term suspended for two years and ordered him to do 240 hours of unpaid work for the community.