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"Dairy farmers are telling me they're facing the worse economic situation since the Great Depression."
That's according to Democratic California Assemblyman Richard Pan, who has pledged to carry on the fight to change the state-regulated price of milk used in cheese-making. Lawmakers missed an important deadline last week in the pricing decision, according to Record Net.
While Assembly Bill 31 is still active, it now requires a two-thirds vote instead of a majority to send it to the state's Senate.
"There is interest by many legislators on both sides of the aisle to see a solution," he added. "They don't want to see, and I don't want to see, the demise of the dairy industry here in California."
See, "Milk pricing bill dies at session's end."
Dairies in the nation's top milk-producing state also don't want to see the demise of their industry, but milk-production data released by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) shows that the state's dairymen lost $882 million in 2012. Some believe that the losses were even higher, according to the Capital Press.
Tom Barcellos, a Porterville dairyman and president of Western United Dairymen, believes that the CDFA's estimates of feed costs used to calculate the losses were shy of reality. The adjusted increases would bring the state's losses to $932 million.
These numbers are on track with figures released earlier this year at the World Ag Expo by accounting firm Genske, Mulder & Co. According to the group, their average farm client in California lost $403,173 during the first nine months of 2012. Read, "2012 was a bad year in Calif., but apparently not as bad as 2009."
A trio of headaches, including recession, feed costs, low milk prices. These circumstances created a perfect storm, forcing nearly 400 dairies across the Golden State to close their doors for good, including 105 last year.
"It's going to continue to be difficult for people who have to buy all their feed. It can't continue the way it is," Barcellos warned.
Barcellos added that with a lot of the state's aging dairy farmers missing a younger generation interested in inheriting their operations, more dairies will likely be forced to exit the industry. Read more here.


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Before cloud computing, only the biggest and richest companies could afford complex, multi-server environments to meet their IT needs. These types of tiered configurations provided increased performance, stability, and redundancy along with luxuries like separate staging environments for testing. The essence of the cloud revolution is making these options accessible to all organizations, without forcing them to expand their IT spend.
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By APCNews London, 04 October 2007
Universal access, freedom of expression and invoking the accountability of states are not possible without affordable, equitable access to communications infrastructure.
In a world where access and opportunities are unevenly distributed, many information and communication technology (ICT) enthusiasts are developing innovative new solutions to bring people inside the communications revolution, but many of these experiences are yet to be shared.
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC), in partnership with others, is organising a one-day event called Password: EQUITABLE ACCESS to consolidate emerging lessons and knowledge on innovative access solutions to be held on November 10 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Why this event? Access to infrastructure is about the innovative interplay between ICT policy and technology solutions that provide access to the global information and communications infrastructure. Access brings people together to exchange information, promotes new spaces for social inclusion and is fundamental to development processes in any society. However many of these innovative solutions are happening in isolation and APC's event is offering a unique opportunity to learn from and share with each other.
This event will bring together innovative minds and experience in developing and implementing ICT policy and technology solutions for low-cost access and connectivity.
What will Password: EQUITABLE ACCESS cover? The event will look at innovations, policy advocacy, lessons learned and what worked well for each of the following themes:* Business models * Policy & regulation * Tools & technologies * People, network, capacities
Sessions will focus on community / national / regional issues and the event will also have hands-on training, demos and displays of innovative technologies.
Is there a link to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)? Access is one of the main themes of the Rio IGF which starts just two days after Password: EQUITABLE ACCESS. Password: EQUITABLE ACCESS will include a session which looks specifically at the relevance of these local access issues to the IGF.
Who should attend? If you are interested in knowing how people have managed to overcome policy, technological, economic and social – including gender – challenges to bringing affordable and accessible communications infrastructure one step closer to the people – then this event is for you.
How can you contribute to Password: EQUITABLE ACCESS? Do you have a story to tell about people who have made differences in promoting equitable access? Do you know of any policy change that has improved access your community or country? Do you know of any innovative technological solutions? Then please get in touch.
For more information contact APC's networking coordinator Karen Banks karenb [at] gn.apc.org


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A group of technology companies, including Apple, Facebook and Google, was approved for a $527 million deal to buy up Eastman Kodak Co.'s 1,000 digital patents. Read »
Research in Motion announced Thursday that it plans to eliminate as many as 5,000 jobs. Read »
How RIM shipped the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet without native email, calendar and contact apps is beyond anyone. Read »
Desperate times call for desperate measures. For RIM, things are so rocky, the company's now resorted to begging Android developers to port their apps to BlackBerry App World in exchange for free PlayBooks. Read »
In another bout of bad news for Research in Motion, Google has announced it will end support for its BlackBerry GMail app. Read »
BlackBerry users are trading in their handhelds for the iPhone 4S, an online tech buyer reports Read »
Because of a lack of 3G connectivity, the iPhone hasn't really taken off in the developing nation, but BlackBerry is selling strong, Read »
Research in Motion's new QNX-based BlackBerrys will be Android-compatible, a report says. Read »
Research in Motion's so called iPad killer is dying a premature death on Sprint's network. Read »
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tellyontellyon wrote:Hi,
I spent some time in prison for GBH. It was while I was there that I found a little orange coloured book by Ajahn Sumedho. It was so strange to find that book there, it seemed very out of place really.
Anyway, I was feeling really stressed at the time, very frightened and trying really hard to prove to everybody (and particularly myself) that I was really a 'good' person.
I had read the bible in prison as I was desperate for some sort of support, but I couldn't accept the idea of a god.
I found Ajahn Sumedho's book helpful. I tried to do the meditation but didn't really know what I was doing. The part that really helped was a story about the monk who had to sweep up the leaves but didn't like doing it... eventually the monk learned to use sweeping up leaves as a meditation and so transform it into something beneficial.
Somehow that story really spoke to me at the time... Sorry but I don't know the name of the book.
When I left prison I eventually got involved with Buddhism again. These days I am a lay member of a Karma Kagyu group and have taken refuge with them. I work as a support worker with people with learning disabilities and am now a registered psychotherapist.
I find the teachings and advice that Buddhism offers with regard to attitudes towards difficult daily situations and difficult relationships very helpful. I have found having a generous attitude towards others (especially if they are getting on my nerves) especially helpful and has totally transformed my relationship with people.
I'm really sure that Buddhism can be of help to prisoners. Even something as simple as the donation of a Buddhist book to the local prison's library could be the seed that could completely change the course of someones life.
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Regal opened this megaplex in 1991 and closed it in 2010. Naos Entertainment renovated it and reopened the theater as The Edge 14 on November 24, 2010.
The Edge 14 was closed by Naos Entertainment on September 10, 2011.
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CAN ANYONE GET PHOTOS INSIDE AND OUT BEFORE IT CHANGES, info too?
It's about time this theater gets a makeover. It is in a great location but since the opening of the AmStar/ Grand on Zebulon it has not been very well thought of.
The location is pretty good considering the new "mall" just up the highway and I'm would imagine with digital projection, etc. It might become the alternative that it always should have been.
This news item about the closing and planned renovation includes a short video of the theater's marquee (after the ad): View link
This theater has reopened as The Edge 14 as of November 24, 2010.
New official website: http://www.naosentertainment.com/
Naos Entertainment was unable to make a go of this theater even after extensive renovations and closed it after the last showings on September 10, 2011: http://www.macon.com/2011/09/12/1699898/edge-14-closes-its-doors-for-good.html.
Did they have trouble booking films because they were a minor player? Or was/is the neighborhood simply not ripe for moviegoing.
While there were some real "renovations" the theater was basically the same. It was more of a "clean up" than a true renovation. I only saw a single film there and the auditorium I was in was very dated. In its current condition it would be a great discount theater.
Like I posted earlier, I think this theater is in a decent location but AmStar currently has the market cornered.
I was recently in Macon and this theater has been remodeled so completely, you cannot tell it was a movie theater.
Macon must be a weak Movie town….or folks are driving to the ATL.
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SureFarm launched the first private Defra approved TB initiative at a farm in Higher Chilfrome, Dorchester.
The scheme has been designed for the camelid industry, which includes alpacas, but it could have the potential to be used on cattle.
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It uses a serological blood test that is claimed to provide greater accuracy than the current skin test, reducing the risk of false positive diagnoses.
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Clare Whitehead, president of the British Camelid Veterinary Society, said: "Bovine TB is not prevalent in camelids, but the introduction of this new serological blood test will take away the uncertainty of the skin test and provide an opportunity for owners to verify the health of their herds."
Stuart Drysdale, welfare committee chairman for the British Alpaca Society, said most alpaca owners cared about the health and welfare of their animals.
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ECB chief Paul Downton has revealed that none of the England management or senior players that he spoke to about Kevin Pietersen following last winter's miserable Ashes tour wanted the batsman in the team.
The England and Wales Cricket Board managing director was speaking in a wide-ranging interview on BBC Radio 5 Live's Test Match Special, which focused largely on the rebuilding process being undertaken by England.
One of the biggest moves in the wake of that hellish tour saw England call time on Pietersen's international career.
Downton, who oversaw the decision to part ways with the South Africa-born batsman, said he spoke to several senior figures in the England set-up but could not find a single supporter in favour of keeping Pietersen in the side.
He told TMS: "One of the huge issues after Australia was 'what are we going to do about Kevin?'.
"I was quite frustrated watching him as a fan, and there was a feeling he wasn't engaged as he should be as a senior player. I then watched every ball of the Sydney Test live, and I've never seen anyone as disinterested or distracted as Kevin; it looked very strange.
"I talked to every person on the management team and quite a few senior players, and I couldn't find one supporter who wanted Kevin to stay in the side.
"We spent the next three weeks working out what to do in the best interests of English cricket."
Downton also felt Pietersen was becoming something of a luxury player for Alastair Cook's side towards the end and decided England were best suited moving on without the mercurial middle-order batsman.
Pietersen, who became England's highest ever run-scorer across all forms of cricket last summer, averaged less than 30 in the five Tests in Australia with just two half-centuries, although he was still the team's highest run-scorer in the series.
Downton said: "We made the decision on Kevin to move on as we wanted to invest in Cook and other young players, rebuild the side.
"Kevin was starting to play a bit like a luxury player. There was a 'this-is-the-way-I-play' type of attitude. He had not been fit an awful lot and he wasn't producing the results he once had.
"We felt we couldn't trust him to be a senior player to build side around. We're backing Alastair Cook and others.
"Sooner people understand we have cut our ties with Kevin Pietersen and move on and investing in younger players coming in, rebuild side, the better."
Downton added: "The accusations were that Kevin had too many agendas and wasn't 100 per cent focused on playing for England. I'm not saying everything that happened in Australia was down to Kevin.
"There is no smoking gun; this was in the best interests of English cricket. He had a good career for England over 10 years, not without incidents.
"We'd lost (Andrew) Strauss 18 months ago, (Graeme) Swann retired, (Jonathan Trott) Trotty is recovering but is a long way from getting back to playing cricket, so we absolutely had to rebuild that side - we'd just lost 5-0 with Kevin in the side.
"Are you going to back Cook and (Ian) Bell to be the backbone of that side, or are you going to back Kevin? There was a strong feeling in the dressing room that we weren't going to grow as a side until we addressed that."


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- Television in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Number of bars/lounges - 5
- Number of poolside bars - 2
- Smoke-free property
- Wedding services
- Fitness facilities
- Billiards or pool table
- Grocery/convenience store
- Children's club
- Laundry facilities
- One meeting room
- Garden
- Porter/bellhop
- Luggage storage
- On private beach
- Year Built 1992
- Free self parking
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- On private beach
- Outdoor pools
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Children's club (free)
- Grocery/convenience store
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Playground on site
- Sofa bed
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Room service (24 hours)
- Balcony
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- Shower/tub combination
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- Sofa bed
- Free WiFi
- Rollaway/extra beds (free)
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10:30 AM.
Begonville Restaurant - This restaurant specializes in Turkish cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Orchide Restaurant - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Reservations are required. Open daily.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
2 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a children's pool. In addition to a seasonal outdoor pool, other recreational amenities include a private beach, a sauna, and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Pilates classes on site
- Golfing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Windsurfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Horse riding/rental on site
- Motor boating on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Parasailing on site
- Playground on site
- Racquetball/squash on site
- Sailing on site
- Scooter/moped rentals on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Water skiing on site
Spa Services
Life spa wellness has massage/treatment rooms. Services include body scrubs and body treatments. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a steam room, and Turkish bath/hammam.
The spa is open daily. Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision.
- Sauna in spa
- Steam room in spa
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Body treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Free rollaway/extra beds!
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- No onsite parking is available.
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: TRY 250 per vehicle (one way)
Hotel Name
- Elegance Hotels
- Elegance Hotels International
- Elegance Hotels International Marmaris
- Elegance International Marmaris
- Elegance Hotel Marmaris
- Elegance Hotel Turkey
- Elegance Marmaris
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No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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Imagine this scenario:
First thing in the morning, with your initial cup of coffee in hand, you review the morning reports on your mobile as you walk to your desk. The data just in from Italy -- tracking in multiple currencies and languages, and allowing you to alternate between retail and cost accounting methods -- indicates the latest SKU in your shoe line taking off, delighting customers, with no end in sight. Experience tells you that demand in Italy serves as a bellwether to your business in the United States, and you want to make sure you are in full control to leverage the opportunity from a business perspective, while presenting a consistent customer face and experience. A few swipes through the data allow you to profile the buyers and to map that data against the profiles and volumes you have in your various channels throughout the United States.
Another couple of swipes enable you to move that shoe's inventory to stores and other channels where the demographics match the buyer profile, and your data mining/business analysis enables you to order accessory products with similar styles and features to encourage impulse buying. You navigate between your financial management and operational systems seamlessly, notifying the marketing department to get the store, online, social and mobile promotions ready and scheduling additional staff and other resources to support the projected customer crowd that soon will be coming through your online and brick-and-mortar doors in the United States.
As you sip that same first cup of Joe, you lean back, confident that your ability to analyze business information in real-time has just made your short-term business direction sharper, more effective at putting your customers first and anticipating their needs, and perhaps most importantly, poised for increased profitability. All of this is thanks to the depth of features such as interoperability, integration and granular-level tracking and reporting of your financial management system.
Having data has never been an issue in the retail industry. Data churns through monthly reports; information is gathered in significant layers. Sales reports are generated; gross margins are analyzed. I've even seen retailers with piles of printed reports, with accounting staffs manually trying to make sense of multiple brands and channels, and country or regional variations in reporting. Additionally, I've seen skeleton finance teams forlornly pushing Excel to the breaking point to get data that their executives demand. Data often lies in disparate systems, the result of mergers, acquisitions, or new channel models, and the process of verifying and updating that data throughout all systems is a slow process -- and the reports those systems generate often have a backward looking view of data, making it hard to accurately forecast and respond to changes in the marketplace.
In the fast-paced, changing world of retail, headquarters and decision-makers in the field need to have the ability to easily harness the data they have and analyze it in new and different ways. They want specific answers to specific problems, and they want it in an easy-to-read format. While ERP solutions may help some retailers in addressing parts of their business, oftentimes the finance module just can't keep pace with what is needed. With more Big Data on the horizon, retailers are now focusing on their financial management solutions and how they can be more strategic in integrating effectively with operational systems and more importantly, inform decisions that can have an immediate impact on the bottom line. For these retailers, as well as retailers who have opted for ERP alternatives, best-of-class financial management solutions are an excellent choice. They add a modern, sophisticated and flexible financial system to existing operational systems without the need for large-scale "rip and replace" projects.
Based on my conversations with retail leaders, here are some features of best-of-class solutions that can help ensure your retail chain can fully leverage Big Data:
Flexibility. Bob Perry, finance manager at Kramer, Ltd., a Caterpillar dealership with nine locations doing business as nearby as Canada and as far away as Kyrgyzstan, has evaluated several different financial management solutions over the years. According to Perry, "Kramer's financial management system has not only allowed us to keep costs down, but it also stands apart as a best-in-class solution that provides the power, features and flexibility we need. The reporting capabilities are endless, allowing us to analyze information any way we want. For example, we can slice and dice elements to see the business in real time so we can build on strengths or shore up weak areas. It also gives us flexibility to extract data in a variety of ways based on the needs of the user, so even people who are not financially oriented can understand the reports."
Single version of the truth. A project manager at one of the world's largest home furnishing retailers had this to say: "Having a common chart of accounts across the business was important to us. It means information contained in the system can easily be compared like for like. Information about the performance in any country can be accessed easily and everyone knows what that item relates to because we are working to the same project costs and codes."
Forward-looking. At the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM), a specialized private college based in Los Angeles, merchandising is more than academic -- it runs three stores on its campuses. Roxanne Reynolds-Lair, CIO, says: "It's always better to get ahead of problems, the way FIDM does with its financial management software. One time, when the credit card processor went offline, we used the system to browse in real time, which helped us trace the problem back to our vendor, identify the cause quickly and move onto resolution. It's very important to be able to troubleshoot a problem, and to do it much faster than doing so manually. With our solution, we have just that."
Interoperability. Increasingly, companies today want to retain their existing operational systems that work, and replace only those that lack the flexibility to meet their strategic needs. They want a best-of-class financial management system that enables companies to accomplish that, as well as adapt to ever-changing market demands.
While this list is not all-inclusive, it does give you something to think about as you build your vision of the future in the energetic, multichannel world of retail. A best-of-class approach allows you to retrofit and modernize your financials, no matter what your infrastructure, and uplevels the quality of your business analysis. The net-net is meaningful, accurate and real-time decision-making for your retail chain.
Steve Pugh is CEO of UNIT4 CODA, Inc., a specialist in international, best-of-class financial management software. Coda Financials is designed to integrate with industry- and company-specific applications and provides real-time financial visibility and control across people, processes and systems. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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Hateful bigotry of Texas governor's presidential campaign ad is surpassed only by its asininity
Just when I thought the 2012 Rick Perry for President campaign couldn't get any nuttier, guess what? Yep, it managed to get sillier with the release of Gov. Perry's campaign video attacking openly gay and lesbian members of the U.S. Armed Services.
Never mind that in the video dubbed "Strong" Perry is wearing the same type of tan Carhartt ranch coat actor Heath Ledger wore in the gay romance movie Brokeback Mountain, and that the video's musical score was inspired by gay American composer Aaron Copland. The message is ridiculous, and the video's distinction of registering more than half a million "dislikes" (646,000 dislikes to 20,000 likes) is probably attributable as much to its asininity as its hateful bigotry.
Facing the camera, against a wooded backdrop that conjures images of the big gay movie's outdoor scenes, Perry declares that he is not "ashamed to admit" he is a Christian.
"You don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know that something is wrong when gays can serve openly in the military, but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas and pray in schools," he declares.
Perry adds that as president he would "end Obama's war on religion" and "fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage."
Aside from the imagery and the music of the video making Perry and his campaign staff again look like fools, the idea that openly gay and lesbian members of the military somehow undermine Christianity is ludicrous. Or are children supposed to resent gay and lesbian soldiers because they get to go off and fight wars while they are stuck at school, unable to pray out loud?
I doubt that it will come as a shock to Perry, his staff, the voting public or even school children that there are openly gay and lesbian people working in every level of local, state and federal government and private business — even churches — without harm to Christianity. Yet for some reason they expect everyone to swallow the notion that openly gay and lesbian members of the military will put the nation under the control of pagans.
What about openly gay and lesbian soldiers who observe Christianity by going to church, reading their Bibles and praying? Are they to be the demise of their own religion?
And do U.S. citizens who are Jewish or members of other faiths matter at all to Perry and his campaign staff? Under the Perry plan, are the children of those citizens to be indoctrinated into Christianity?
As to Perry's promise in the video's closing, it would be news to everybody if it were learned President Obama had declared a war on religion. Those laws regulating Christmas displays and school prayer were put in motion decades ago, a long time before Obama ever thought about running for political office.
Open prayer in school was banned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962 when Perry was in grade school. Surely he remembers.
Ultimately, I can't imagine many people viewing the overturn of "don't ask, don't tell," which was supported by a majority of the American public, enacted by Congress and signed into law by Obama, as an assault on Christianity.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said last week that Obama was probably not aware of the Perry campaign video claiming he had declared war on Christianity, but regardless the president is proud of his support of LGBT issues.
The video looks like evidence of the Perry campaign's desperation following the governor's disintegration in national polls since his announcement in August he would run for president. Perry dropped from a double-digit front leader status to 5 percent following a series of debate missteps and disastrous public appearances that showed him to be outmatched on the debate stage by every other Republican in the campaign.
A new American Research Poll shows Perry now has 13 percentage points in Iowa, the first primary state. But he still is in back of the pack, far behind Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.
Regardless of where Perry goes in the polls, I'm confident he will again sabotage himself in some manner, unless he has an undercover gay or lesbian person on his campaign staff doing it for him.
Speaking of which, after Perry's anti-gay ad was released, leaders from the gay Republican group GOProud outed one of the campaign's consultants as gay. It was later learned that the consultant, Tony Fabrizio, had written an email prior to the ad's release calling it "nuts."
But aside from that effort and the obvious aspect of Fabrizio being a traitor who apparently has sacrificed the LGBT community to make a few bucks for himself, he doesn't appear to have been doing a good job of using his expertise as a gay man to help Perry navigate difficult waters. Who will ever forget the image of Perry deep-throating a corn dog at an Iowa state fair while Romney graciously nibbled on his?
What were they thinking when they handed a corn dog to Perry, who has been fighting rumors that he is secretly gay for years?
In fact, a common question today is, "How did he ever go so far in Texas politics?"
There is only one group of people — other than personal friends, relatives and other beneficiaries of the governor's influence as an elected official — to whom Perry still appeals: That is conservative Christians who put their religious beliefs ahead of every other consideration, regardless of whose rights get trampled upon in the process.
No wonder Perry released such a video and continues to offer it on his campaign website, but I don't think there are enough of them to vote him into office.
Many people who started off supporting Perry have now fled from his camp, saying that his performance as a presidential candidate has brought about a national embarrassment. The worst part of it is that there is no telling what Perry and his campaign will do next. But it's bound to be a dilly.
David Webb is a veteran journalist who has covered LGBT issues for the mainstream and alternative media for three decades. Contact him at email@example.com or http://therarereporter.blogspot.com.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition December 16, 2011.


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PELION, S.C. — A nine-year-old's dream to feed the needy from backyard gardens is blossoming even more.
At Katie's Camp, July 16-18, a group of 14 teenagers learned how to plant and manage vegetables at a specially constructed garden at Walter P. Rawl & Sons Inc. The camp is named after Katie Stagliano, who founded Katie's Krops in 2008.
Campers worked with squash, tomatoes, watermelon and other produce, learning about water use, pests, maximizing growing space and food safety practices.
In grade school, Stagliano of Summerville brought a cabbage seedling home from a school project. After the cabbage grew to 40 pounds, she donated it to a food bank.
"When I was eight years old, I really wanted to start more gardens, feed more people and inspire people to do the same," Stagliano, now 14, said. "Hopefully, we have inspired these kids and they've inspired other people. People really see the difference you can make whether starting a garden or whatever they want to do."
Shawna Hettick, a 14-year-old from Gig Harbor, Wash., grows zucchini squash, lemon cucumbers, radishes and cherry tomatoes in her garden.
"This event has taught me a lot and has made me a completely new person," Hettick said. "It has given me a broader perspective on how everyone else lives. It makes me think more about what I've been given and how I've been given so much."
Ted Colwell, 12, of Hubertus, Wis., said the camp taught him some new gardening methods to increase production.
Colwell, who donated 1,200 pounds of vegetables to his churches' food pantry, said the program helped him identify a need in his community.
"It's amazing how far this program has come since she (Stagliano) started it," Colwell said. "When I started three years ago, there were only a few growers."
Through the program, youth in 25 states are growing more than 60 gardens.
Ashley Rawl, Rawl's director of sales, marketing and product development, said he knew he wanted to help Stagliano's community service program when he first met her in 2012.
"Something that's really important to our company is how we are losing a generation of kids that know and understand agriculture," Rawl said. "Because we're very passionate about agriculture and we want to try to educate as many people as possible especially the kids that can try to carry that on for future generations."


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ByYannick LeJacq
When you approach bad guys at the beginning of the new Tomb Raider, they will shout slight epithets like "she's just a girl!" As a player, this is an uncomfortable moment—social issues that could have easily been ripped from today's headlines suddenly invade something which you'd think was intended to be an easy, simple, and fun exercise in shooting bad guys in the face. A few hours later, Lara Croft will be screaming back retorts like "I'm coming for you, you bastards!" while her enemies shriek, "she's a good shot!" in abject horror. The music swells, and you're supposed to feel triumphant as she completes her transformation into what Crystal Dynamics studio head Darrell Gallagher calls a "total badass" adventurer or explorer.
Watch out, Tomb Raider seems to say, this girl can stand her own ground. Which is always the weird thing about female protagonists in violent video games—the self-conscious awareness of developers that there is indeed some inbred and deep-seated genealogy of sexism in the game industry that makes strong female leads an oddity. So much of an oddity that when they do appear in an ass-kicking role like Lara Croft or Catwoman they must have slurs hurled at them constantly, as if to remind the player (and, perhaps more disturbingly, the heroine herself) that she doesn't belong.
But that misogyny and abuse, wrapped as it is in the peculiar context of a cartoonish ultraviolent virtual experience, asks another question about the extent to which games are meant to portray fantasies or simulations. As Seth MacFarlane showed just last night at the Oscars, sexism in entertainment is hardly consigned to video games. So is Lara Croft meant to embody the PC-friendly better angels of our nature, brushing off any jerk that dismisses her as "just a girl" with a shotgun blast to the face in some ridiculous video game version of social justice? Or is Tomb Raider really meant to be an exercise in empathy, giving those same teenage boys that spent the last two decades lusting after Lara Croft a taste of the oppression she faces every day from men like them?
Whether it wanted to or not, Square Enix took on this question when it decided to reboot Tomb Raider. Gallagher could have chosen an easier franchise to mess with, after all. One would be hard-pressed to find a video game character who has pervaded the collective consciousness of pop culture beyond games to the same degree as Lara Croft. Just ask the Guinness Book of World Records, which in 2006 named her the "most successful human video game heroine" for "transcending the boundaries of video games and becoming a recognizable figure in mainstream society."
Still, her popularity has a lot to do with the androcentric underpinnings of gamer culture—gruff and characterless manly men have always embodied the boyish fantasies found in popular videogames better than women ever could. For the women that are created to fill that role, well, think of it this way: Angelina Jolie was the only woman seen fit to carry Lara Croft's legacy into the somewhat real-er world of cinema.
Today, if the editors at Esquire Magazine had their way, she'd be probably be played by Megan Fox. And the Lara Croft in Square Enix's newly reimagined Tomb Raider—it's simply called "Tomb Raider" to separate it from the endless parade of sequels, spin-offs, and tie-ins that have followed the original game's 1996 release—even sort of a looks like her. Or, at least, a young Megan Fox. Megan Fox with "a bit of baby fat," as the game's art director said in one of a series of blundering pre-release interviews that turned Tomb Raider into an explosive example of sexism in the game industry. At a recent roundtable in New York City to preview the game, Gallagher put this a bit more diplomatically when he said that he wanted the new and improved Lara Croft to be "someone you'd want to get a drink with," not an aloof and detached character like "Helen Mirren from 'The Queen.'" The original Lara Croft, he said, had been concocted as a sort of East-meets-West cultural icon that bridged the gap between Japanese and European or North American game development. She had the large eyes and narrow lips of a manga character and the nearly inhuman bodily proportions of, well, someone like Angelina Jolie. She was recognizable to everyone, but also just foreign enough to remain mysterious and alluring.
How does this new Lara Croft compare? Maybe this says more about the silliness of the game industry than it does about Tomb Raider, but the irony of trying to make one of video games' most iconic figures seem "more human" is that the original Lara Croft was celebrated precisely because she seemed more human than most game characters that existed in 1996. "I loved playing Lara Croft," Jeffrey Yohalem, a writer at Ubisoft whose recent game Far Cry 3 channeled Tomb Raider's adventuresome spirit, told me in passing when discussing games he loved playing when growing up. "I wanted to move like her in real life. That flip kick she would do climbing up on ledges if you held the shift key charmed me."
I wouldn't necessarily call Lara Croft's "charming" in her new role. "Struggling" seems more appropriate. While she may evolve, however slowly, into the "badass" that Gallagher described, Lara spends most of the game in physical and emotional agony. She collects a number of deadly weapons that are immaculately designed and extremely fun to use. But it's the player that's having fun—not her. Instead, Lara snivels and weeps quietly as you duck her back and forth around cover and jump her through an increasingly elaborate set of hoops.
Given the endless debate about the glorification of violence in games, building an entire shooter around a character who is tangibly uncomfortable with what she (or he) is doing was a bold artistic move for Square Enix. And, frankly, I wish there were more developers willing to commit to a theme this wholeheartedly instead of continuing to prevaricate on the border between "fun" and "intense moral quandary" upon which so many shooters lazily rest.
So for a game that seemed pretty thoughtless in the lead-up to its release, Tomb Raider more than delivers. Even in the most thrilling moments of gameplay, Lara's pain is still palpable. The combat and puzzles are fun, but like the excellent Dead Space series, all the minute actions involved in gameplay are difficult enough to unsettle the player. And also like Dead Space, this is done through a brutally simple heads-up displayer (HUD) interface that provides little to no excess information to distance the player from Lara. Your bow begins to shake uncomfortably after being held a moment too long, and the controller's spasmodic vibrations feel like someone's shoulder muscles tensing to the point of failure.
The new Tomb Raider fits in the "action adventure" category of video games, a genre that earlier Tomb Raiders created in the first place. All that title really means is that you don't spend all of your time shooting at bad guys, but the game isn't just a series of jumping puzzles either. Plots invariably center around finding some lost city or arcane treasure with a dark twist that's somehow related to World War II or Nazi Germany.
The original Tomb Raider games channeled explorer dramas like "Raiders of the Lost Ark" or "King Kong"–Lara plumbed the depths of elaborate maze-like tunnels, solved puzzles involving complex series of ornate blocks, and wrestled with fearsome animals like tigers. But Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics have continually emphasized that this new Tomb Raider was going to be a more relatable, more human story than Croft's earlier adventures. So there are still puzzles, but they rarely involve moving around boxes. You occasionally fight wolves and have to kill a deer at one point, but most of your enemies are deranged militants who've formed an impromptu cult on the island that you're stranded on to begin the story. You do your best to negotiate with them as you and your friends search for a way off the island, but the story quickly turns into "Lord of Flies" with a lot more machine guns and mysterious Japanese warriors.
Tomb Raider does offer a unique sort of intimacy between the player and protagonist, one that's all the more rare given the nature of the game industry and the strange "shooter" genre, replete as it is with hordes of faceless half-characters whose personalities only extend as far as the tip of their gun barrels. If only Crystal Dynamics had made this relationship the tiniest bit closer. In another pre-release interview with Kotaku, executive producer Ron Rosenberg said that Tomb Raider players "don't really project themselves into the character," instead thinking, "I want to protect her." For all its impressive strengths and occasional weaknesses, the awkwardness of this patriarchy still rings true in the final game—you feel very much as if you're playing Lara, not becoming a Croft yourself.
That's perfectly fine for Tomb Raider (this is a video game, after all, and you play video games). And Gallagher admitted wanting as much from his new game when he told me that it shared the same genes as an action-adventure game like Uncharted or the holy grail of explorer fiction: Indiana Jones.
But how does a game stop at just trying to cater to the most "badass" experience and instead force you to empathize with another person? Tomb Raider is so slickly produced and visually stunning that it veers uncomfortably deep into the recesses of the uncanny valley. Lara and her enemies are so life-like, in other words, that their cartoonish inadequacies are made all the more glaring.
"You're getting pretty deep into core design decisions," Gallagher told me when I asked him why a game about wilderness survival didn't have any of the survival-type features like hunger or sustained injuries that the classic Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater offered its players. I don't pretend to understand all the intricacies of game design involved making either of these titles, but there's something eerily compelling about a game like Snake Eater forcing you to hunt for your own food. Tomb Raider, in contrast, begins with Lara Croft being forced to hunt and kill a deer. She apologizes profusely as the kills the slender animal, the controller quaking as she forces a knife in. She keeps saying she's hungry, which is more than enough narrative explanation I'm sure. But what would make you, the player, feel hungry in turn?


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Hi all
My husband was diagnosed in July 2012, was eligible and had surgery in July. He was also diagnosed with another primary cancer (lung) and that surgery was in December 2012. Radiation followed in January 2013 for the cholangiocarcinoma. Reoccurrence confirmed in December in lympnodes and liver.
Where we are now. He is home with hospice, doc said weeks vs months left. Ammonia levels high and causing night terrors. Taking lactulose to keep levels down as he was incoherent and having delusions.
Help! That's all I can say. My beautiful husband is 60 yrs old. We've been married 31 years and he is the light of my life. I am sad, afraid and sick at heart.


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This is more of a come to jesus reply in regards to spin putting. Take from it, whatever you will. I started out spin putting and in my first year of competitive play I took 3rd place in the state championships (am 3). So because I had just started out and had done this well, I didn't want to become complacent as I tried to move up, but get better in any way. Enter Feldberg. I watched every video on push putting, practiced hours and hours on end year round and committed myself to push putting the following year no matter what. For nearly 2 years I have been push putting in every tournament and round of golf I play no matter how good or bad I did. For 2 years, I have been absolutely terrible and inconsistent with my putting; to the point of wanting to quit and convincing myself I just don't have what it takes. I was convinced, literally until 1 week ago that push putting was the only way to be good because so many of the top people try to keep their elbow straight, i.e. push putt.
A week ago I finally said adios to the push putt and revisited my STELLAR Am 3 putting style. I modified it a little bit so the motion is more of a lifting action with my elbow bent and then when I get about rib cage high I'm using my finger spring and slight opening of the wrist to propel the disc while I shift my weight forward. In all honesty, I haven't played better golf in the past 2 years than what I've churned out over the past week. Even though I'm spin putting, because I lift the disc in the initial release, if I miss it just drops to the ground. Also, because I'm not using my elbow as much for the release, it's more of a height issue instead of left and right.
So this rant is all to say, if you can knock them down inside of 30 feet consistently, don't change it. Push, spin, turbo, drop kick...doesn't matter. I wasted 2 years changing my style b/c of what I thought was supposed to work only to come back to what I started with. There are more examples of great golfers spin putting than push putting. It's all a matter of perspective.
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Thanks for letting me throw this out there!


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Arizona takes advantage of wild eighth inning for comeback win
PHOENIX -- At one point early in Friday night's game after he had swung through yet another fastball, D-backs third baseman Jake Lamb stepped out of the batter's box and looked at his bat.
"I was just like, 'Dude these are going right by me,'" he said. "I guess I needed to shorten up a little bit."
In the eighth inning, Lamb shortened his stroke and it helped him smash a 97-mph fastball for his first career grand slam as the D-backs beat the Rockies, 5-2, at Chase Field.
"That was really cool," Lamb said. "I missed a lot of fastballs early on in the game. It was more than frustrating, but went up there, the guy was throwing hard and just wanted to have a short swing, quick to the ball and when he's throwing that hard and you get barrel on it, it can go far."
Lamb's slam came during a wild eighth inning.
Reliever Rex Brothers started the inning for the Rockies and walked the first three batters he faced.
The Rockies then went to Adam Ottavino and he got Mark Trumbo to hit a tapper back to the mound for a forceout at the plate, and then fanned Miguel Montero.
One out away from getting out of the nasty jam with the Rockies ahead, 2-1, Ottavino left the fastball over the plate and Lamb hit it into the overhang just to the left of the batter's eye in center.
"He did a good job," Ottavino said. "Obviously, I was going right at him with everything I had and missed my location a little bit, but he put a good swing on it and came up big."
Lamb was 0-for-3 with a pair of strikeouts before the grand slam.
"I was actually happy that it was after kind of a rough start to that game," Lamb said. "Because you strike out twice and hit a weak ground ball and you can just quit, you can give up. But I came up and the team needed me to come up with a big hit and I did."
The game started out as a pitchers' duel between Josh Collmenter and Christian Bergman.
Collmenter allowed a single to Charlie Blackmon to open the game before retiring the next 18 batters. He would not allow another runner to reach until Drew Stubbs bunted for a hit with one out in the seventh.
However, with Collmenter's inning total already exceeding that of last season, D-backs manager Kirk Gibson decided to remove the pitcher after the bunt. Collmenter allowed two hits and struck out five while throwing 81 pitches.
"He threw well," Gibson said. "Once more he didn't walk anybody. He was in control of the game. Our bullpen hadn't thrown in a while. We had to kind of watch how far he goes, as well as some other guys."
For Collmenter it was a simple formula for success.
"Location is the key for me," Collmenter said. "I'm not going to blow guys away. If I can spot my fastball in and out and keep them off a lot of the offspeed stuff. And I've been in favorable counts. I've been able to get into 1-2 and 0-2 counts where I can throw pitches that they have to hit as opposed to getting into 2-1 or 3-1 counts where I have to throw pitches over the plate. That's the key for me. That's my game. Location, deception and staying ahead of the hitters."
Bergman weaved his way in and out of trouble as he allowed five walks and a pair of hits over 5 1/3 innings.
The D-backs did not get their first hit of the game until Collmenter doubled to right-center with two outs in the fifth.
The D-backs scored the game's first run in the sixth when David Peralta tripled with one out and scored when reliever Christian Friedrich uncorked a wild pitch.
The lead did not last long as Nolan Arenado doubled home Stubbs after he reached on the bunt single in the seventh. Then in the top of the eighth the Rockies took a 2-1 lead when Blackmon's sacrifice fly scored Josh Rutledge.
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Typically, when parents think about their children's health, they don't think about their bones. But building healthy bones by adopting healthy nutritional and lifestyle habits in childhood is important to help prevent osteoporosis and fractures later in life.
Osteoporosis, the disease that causes bones to become less dense and more prone to fractures, has been called "a pediatric disease with geriatric consequences," because the bone mass attained in childhood and adolescence is an important determinant of lifelong skeletal health. The health habits your kids are forming now can make, or literally break, their bones as they age.
Bones are the framework for your child's growing body. Bone is living tissue that changes constantly, with bits of old bone being removed and replaced by new bone. You can think of bone as a bank account, where (with your help) your kids make "deposits" and "withdrawals" of bone tissue. During childhood and adolescence, much more bone is deposited than withdrawn as the skeleton grows in both size and density.
For most people, the amount of bone tissue in the skeleton (known as bone mass) peaks by their late twenties. At that point, bones have reached their maximum strength and density. Up to 90 percent of peak bone mass is acquired by age 18 in girls and age 20 in boys, which makes youth the best time for your kids to "invest" in their bone health.
Building your children's "bone bank" account is a lot like saving for their education: The more they can put away when they're young, the longer it should last as they get older.
Osteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to become fragile and break easily. When someone has osteoporosis, it means his/her "bank account" of bone tissue has dropped to a low level. If there is significant bone loss, even sneezing or bending over to tie a shoe can cause a bone in the spine to break. Hips, ribs, and wrist bones also break easily. The fractures from osteoporosis can be painful and disfiguring. There is no cure for the disease.
Osteoporosis is most common in older people but can also occur in young and middle-aged adults. Optimizing peak bone mass and developing lifelong healthy bone behaviors during youth are important ways to help prevent or minimize osteoporosis risk as an adult.
Peak bone mass is influenced by a variety of factors: some that you can't change, like gender and race, and some that you can, like nutrition and physical activity.
Gender: Bone mass or density is generally higher in men than in women. Before puberty, boys and girls develop bone mass at similar rates. After puberty, however, boys tend to acquire greater bone mass than girls.
Race: For reasons still not well understood, African American girls tend to achieve higher peak bone mass than Caucasian girls, and African American women are at lower risk for osteoporosis later in life. More research is needed to understand the differences in bone density between the various racial and ethnic groups. However, because all women, regardless of race, are at significant risk for osteoporosis, girls of all races need to build as much bone as possible to protect them against this disease.
Hormonal factors: Sex hormones, including estrogen and testosterone, are essential for the development of bone mass. Girls who start to menstruate at an early age typically have greater bone density. Those who frequently miss their menstrual periods sometimes have lower bone density.
Nutritional status: Calcium is an essential nutrient for bone health. A well-balanced diet including adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals such as magnesium, zinc, and vitamin D is also important.
Physical activity: Physical activity is important for building healthy bones, and provides benefits that are most pronounced in the areas of the skeleton that bear the most weight. These areas include the hips during walking and running and the arms during gymnastics and weight lifting.
The same healthy habits that keep your kids going and growing will also benefit their bones. One of the best ways to encourage healthy habits in your children is to be a good role model yourself. Believe it or not, your kids are watching, and your habits, both good and bad, have a strong influence on theirs.
The two most important lifelong bone health habits to encourage now are proper nutrition and plenty of physical activity.
Eating for healthy bones means getting plenty of foods that are rich in calcium and vitamin D. Most kids do not get enough calcium in their diets to help ensure optimal peak bone mass. Are your kids getting enough calcium?
|Amount of calcium
|Birth to 6 months
|6 months to 1 year
|Children/Young Adults
|1 to 3 years
|4 to 8 years
|9 to 18 years
|Adult Women and Men
|19 to 50 years old
|51 to 70 years males
|51 to 70 years females
|70+ years
|Pregnant or Lactating Women
|14 to 18 years
|19 to 50 years
|Source: Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 2010.
Calcium is found in many foods, but the most common source is milk and other dairy products. Drinking one 8-oz glass of milk provides 300 milligrams (mg) of calcium, which is about one-third of the recommended intake for younger children and about one-fourth of the recommended intake for teens. In addition, milk supplies other minerals and vitamins needed by the body. The chart on the next page lists the calcium content for several high-calcium foods and beverages. Your kids need several servings of these foods each day to meet their need for calcium.
Soft drinks tend to displace calcium-rich beverages in the diets of many children and adolescents. In fact, research has shown that girls who drink soft drinks consume much less calcium than those who do not.
It's important for your daughter to know that good sources of calcium don't have to be fattening. Skim milk, low-fat cheeses and yogurt, calcium-fortified juices and cereals, and green leafy vegetables can all fit easily into a healthy, low-fat diet. Replacing even one soda each day with milk or a milk-based fruit smoothie can significantly increase her calcium intake.
|Calcium (mg)
|Daily Value (%)
|Sardines, canned in oil, with bones, 3 oz.
|Cheddar cheese, 1½ oz., shredded
|Milk, nonfat, 8 fluid oz.
|Yogurt, plain, low fat, 8 oz.
|Milk, reduced fat (2% milk fat), no solids, 8 fluid oz.
|Milk, whole (3.25% milk fat), 8 fluid oz.
|Milk, buttermilk, 8 fluid oz.
|Milk, lactose reduced, 8 fluid oz.
(content varies slightly according to fat content; average = 300 mg)
|285 to 302
|29 to 30
|Cottage cheese, 1% milk fat, 2 cups unpacked
|Mozzarella, part skim, 1½ oz.
|Tofu, firm, with calcium, ½ cup*
|Orange juice, calcium fortified, 6 fluid oz.
|200 to 260
|20 to 26
|Salmon, pink, canned, solids with bone, 3 oz.
|Pudding, chocolate, instant, made with 2% milk, ½ cup
|Tofu, soft, with calcium, ½ cup*
|Breakfast drink, orange flavor, powder prepared with water, 8 fluid oz.
|Frozen yogurt, vanilla, soft serve, ½ cup
|Ready to eat cereal, calcium fortified, 1 cup
|100 to 1000
|10 to 100
|Turnip greens, boiled, ½ cup
|Kale, raw, 1 cup
|Kale, cooked, 1 cup
|Ice cream, vanilla, ½ cup
|Soy beverage, calcium fortified, 8 fluid oz.
|80 to 500
|8 to 50
|Chinese cabbage, raw, 1 cup
|Tortilla, corn, ready to bake/fry, 1 medium
|Tortilla, flour, ready to bake/fry, one 6" diameter
|Sour cream, reduced fat, cultured, 2 tbsp
|Bread, white, 1 oz.
|Broccoli, raw, ½ cup
|Bread, whole wheat, 1 slice
|Cheese, cream, regular, 1 tbsp
|Source: Heaney et al. 2000; USDA 2002.
*Calcium values are only for tofu processed with a calcium salt. Tofu processed with a noncalcium salt will not contain significant amounts of calcium.
Drinking milk isn't the only way to enjoy its benefits. For example, try making soup and oatmeal or other hot cereals with milk instead of water. Pour milk over cold cereal for breakfast or a snack. Incorporate milk into a fruit smoothie or milkshake. Chocolate milk and cocoa made with milk are also ways to increase the milk in your child's diet.
Sources of calcium also might include an ounce or two of cheese on pizza or a cheeseburger, a cup of calcium-enriched orange juice, or a small carton of yogurt. Your kids can also get calcium from dark green, leafy vegetables like kale or bok choy, or foods such as broccoli, almonds, tortillas, or tofu made with calcium. Many popular foods such as cereals, breads, and juices now have calcium added too. Check the Nutrition Facts label on the package to be sure.
People with lactose intolerance have trouble digesting lactose, the sugar found in milk and dairy foods. Lactose intolerance is not common among infants and young children, but can occur in older children, adolescents, and adults. It is more common among people of African American, Hispanic, Asian, and American Indian descent.
Most kids with lactose intolerance are able to digest milk when it is served in small amounts, and combined with other foods like cereal. They may tolerate other dairy products such as cheese or yogurt even if milk is a problem. Lactose-free milk products are now available in most stores, and there are pills and drops you can add to milk and dairy products that make them easier to digest.
Be sure to include plenty of foods with calcium in the meals and snacks you plan for your kids. Almonds, calcium-fortified orange juice, tortillas, fortified cereals, soy beverages, and broccoli with dip are a few great choices. Although it's best to get calcium from food, calcium supplements can also be helpful.
The food label, called Nutrition Facts, shows you how much one serving of that food contributes to the total amount of calcium, as well as other nutrients, you need every day. This is expressed as a percentage of the daily value (%DV) of calcium that is recommended. For labeling purposes, this is based on the daily calcium recommendation of 1,000 milligrams for people 19 to 50 years old. Since children and teens 9 to 18 years old require more calcium, their %DV target is higher, as indicated below:
|Recommended calcium intake
|%DV target
|9 to 18
|1,300 mg
|19 to 50
|1,000 mg
Here is an easy rule of thumb for evaluating the calcium content of a food: 20%DV or more is high for calcium. That means it is a high-calcium food and contributes a lot of calcium to the diet. A food with a calcium content of 5%DV or lower contributes little calcium to the diet and is a low source.
If you want to convert the %DV for calcium into milligrams, you can multiply by 10. For example, if a single-serving container of yogurt lists 30%DV for calcium, it contains 300 mg of calcium (30 × 10).
Getting plenty of high-calcium foods every day is important. To meet their calcium needs, children 9 to 18 years old need about four servings of foods with a 30%DV for calcium (300 mg each) or six to seven servings of foods with a 20%DV for calcium (200 mg each) every day. Foods with a lower %DV for calcium are also important to fill gaps and help ensure that your children get all the calcium they need.
Maintaining proper weight is important to overall health, but so is good nutrition. If your daughter is avoiding all milk and dairy products and severely restricting her food intake, she is probably not getting enough calcium. She needs a more balanced diet that includes low-fat milk products and other calcium-rich foods. Calcium supplements may also be helpful to ensure that she gets enough of this essential nutrient.
You should discuss your concerns with your daughter's doctor. If your daughter is one of up to 3 percent of American girls and young women with eating disorders, the problem is even more serious. Eating disorders, especially anorexia nervosa, can lead to missed or irregular menstrual periods or the complete absence of periods, known as amenorrhea. These are signs of low estrogen, a hormone that is essential for developing bone density and reaching peak bone mass. Girls with anorexia nervosa will often have fractures as a first sign of the disease. Furthermore, reduction in estrogen production in adolescence can increase your daughter's risk of osteoporosis and fracture later in life. In severe cases, girls with eating disorders may even develop osteoporosis in their twenties, and they may find the damage to their bones cannot be reversed later in life.
Look for the following signs and see your daughter's physician if you think your daughter has, or is at risk of developing, an eating disorder:
Experts believe calcium should come from food sources whenever possible. However, if you think your children are not getting adequate calcium from their diet, you may want to consider a calcium supplement.
Muscles get stronger when we use them. The same idea applies to bones: the more work they do, the stronger they get. Any kind of physical exercise is great for your kids, but the best ones for their bones are weight-bearing activities like walking, running, hiking, dancing, tennis, basketball, gymnastics, and soccer. (Children who tend to play outside will also have higher vitamin D levels.) Swimming and bicycling promote your kids' general health, but are not weight-bearing exercises and will not help build bone density. Organized sports can be fun and build confidence, but they are not the only way to build healthy bones.
The most important thing is for your kids to spend less time sitting and more time on their feet and moving. Alone or with friends, at home or at the park, one of the best gifts you can give your kids is a lifelong love of physical activity.
For most people, including children and teens, the challenge is to get enough physical activity. However, excessive exercise and overtraining, often coupled with restrictive eating, can be a problem, especially for some female athletes and dancers, as well as girls who become obsessive about weight loss. Overtraining, like eating disorders, can result in decreased estrogen and eventually lead to thin bones that break easily.
Years ago, it was not unusual for coaches and trainers to encourage athletes to be as thin as possible for many sports, including dancing, gymnastics, figure skating, running, and diving. Fortunately, many coaches now realize that being too thin is unhealthy and can negatively affect performance as well as lifelong health.
They should avoid smoking. You probably know that smoking is bad for the heart and lungs, but you may not know that it's harmful to bone tissue. Smoking may harm your bones both directly and indirectly. Several studies have linked smoking to higher risk of fracture. The many dangers associated with smoking make it a habit to be avoided.
You may think it's too early to worry about smoking, but the habit typically starts during childhood or adolescence. In fact, most people who use tobacco products start before they finish high school. The good news? If your kids finish high school as nonsmokers, they will probably stay that way for life.
Children who learn good eating and exercise habits by their preteen years are more likely to
carry these habits with them for the rest of their lives.
Asthma itself does not pose a threat to bone health, but some medications used to treat the disease can have a negative effect on bones when taken for a long time. Corticosteroids, a type of anti-inflammatory medication, are often prescribed for asthma. These medications can decrease calcium absorbed from food, increase calcium loss from the kidneys, and shrink a child's bone bank account.
Kids with asthma need to take special care of their bones, making sure to get enough calcium and weight-bearing exercise. Some health care providers recommend extra calcium each day. Many people think milk and dairy products—great sources of calcium and vitamin D—trigger asthma attacks, but this is probably true only if your child is allergic to dairy foods. Unfortunately, this misconception often results in an unnecessary avoidance of dairy products, which is concerning, especially during the bone-building years.
Because exercise can often trigger an asthma attack, many people with asthma avoid weight-bearing physical activities that strengthen bone. Kids with asthma may be able to exercise more comfortably in an air-conditioned place, such as a school gym or health club.
Talk to your child's doctor for more information about protecting his bones while he is taking asthma medications.
Osteoporosis is rare among children and adolescents. When it occurs, it is usually caused by an underlying medical disorder or by medications used to treat such disorders. This is called secondary osteoporosis. It may also be the result of a genetic disorder such as osteogenesis imperfecta, in which bones break easily from little or no apparent cause. Sometimes there is no identifiable cause of juvenile osteoporosis. This is known as idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis. Two or more low-impact fractures may be a sign of one of these disorders.
If you are concerned about your son's frequent fractures, talk to his doctor for more information.
You are absolutely right. Research has shown that children and adolescents do not tend to think much about their health. Their decisions about diet and exercise, for example, are rarely made based on "what's good for them." But we also know that you have a much greater influence on your kids' decisions and behaviors than you may believe. For example, many teenagers, when asked who has been the greatest influence in their life, name parents before friends, siblings, grandparents, and romantic partners.
Primary Disorders
Juvenile arthritis
Diabetes mellitus
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Cushing's syndrome
Malabsorption syndromes
Anorexia nervosa
Kidney disease
Liver disease
Some anticonvulsants (e.g., for epilepsy)
Corticosteroids (e.g., for rheumatoid arthritis, asthma)
Immunosuppressive agents (e.g., for cancer)
Prolonged inactivity or immobility
Inadequate nutrition (especially calcium, vitamin D)
Excessive exercise leading to amenorrhea
Alcohol abuse
The best way to help your kids develop healthy habits for life is to be a good role model. Research suggests that active children have active parents. If you make physical activity a priority and try hard to maintain a healthy diet, including plenty of calcium, chances are your positive lifestyle will "rub off" on them along the way. Here are some things you can do:
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