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"How does she do it?"
A common question you hear asked about many mothers but in this case…really…seriously…How DOES she do it?
This week we are shining the spotlight on mother of four (including multiples), business owner, blogger, freelance writer and an uber-school volunteer Stacy Molter.
We chose to feature Stacy not because she's and expert "mommy-juggler" but because of her courage to honestly share her real-life experiences in parenting – the good, the bad, and the ugly! Don't get us wrong, her blog is not filled with complaints and whining- it's filled with compassion, vulnerability, creativity, and some solid parenting advice!
Here's what Stacy had to say…
GPC: What inspired you to blog about your experiences as a parent?
Stacy: I have always been an open book and quickly realized I'm not the only parent looking for answers while learning my way on the journey of parenthood.
Being able to share our experiences raising multiples with other mothers of multiples, and help fellow families of children with food allergies learn to manage their allergies through education and support, has been my inspiration. I hope our real-life stories can connect with other parents on an intimate and personal level to help them along the way as well
GPC: Has your blog or business changed since you started and how?
Stacy: My blog has evolved over the years to fit my every changing lifestyle and to keep a balance between work and family time.
I started blogging in 2008 as a digital scrapbook designer and mom-blogger. As my children grew older and became more active in school and sports, I found it difficult to devote the time needed to designing and managing my blog, and spending quality time with my family.
In 2011, I decided to quit designing and focus more on the parenting side on my blog, sharing with my readers that parenting is a personal, moment-to-moment choice, and as parents we are sure to make a few wrong choices along the way.
GPC: Has blogging about parenting twins or children with food allergies helped you to form a community with moms facing the same challenges?
Stacy: Definitely. One thing I have found is that we are all parents striving to be the best parents possible for our children.
It's one thing to talk to a specialist about our children, but I love to get advice and help from real parents in our community, parents who have been there and done that and don't add any fluff.
GPC: You write about many topics, but is there one that is near and dear to your heart?
Stacy: The topics I hold closest to my heart are the topics around my family.
My husband and I recently celebrated our 10th anniversary so I held a month-long feature of wedding and anniversary posts including amazing DIY tutorials, photography tips, gift giving ideas and more, to help my readers have the most amazing anniversary celebration with us. I don't blog much about my husband and I, but I really loved including everyone in our joyous celebration.
Sharing our experiences and challenges learning how to manage our son with multiple food allergies has also been dear to me because we have met a huge community of support to help us when times get tough. Whether we have question on how to safely feed our son, or need someone to lean on when our son has a severe allergic reaction, the food allergy support community has helped us realize we are not alone in this challenge.
Raising multiples is different than raising a singleton, and I hope our experiences raising our twins can help a new mother of multiples relax and enjoy the true blessing she has received.
GPC: What types of blog posts have proven to be your most popular?
Stacy: My parenting posts have definitely been my most popular. There is no text book for parenting, and without the help and support of parents world-wide, who would we turn to to give our children the best lives possible?
GPC: How do you balance blogging with your family responsibilities?
Stacy: I have tried everything from an editorial calendar with a strict blogging schedule to even having an editor, but what I have found out is that real life happens, especially when you have young children, and that cannot be scheduled.
At first I used to stress over my blogging schedule, but I have learned that life will go on if a post gets missed. Yes, I yearn for a strict blogging schedule with posting dates based on categories, but it's just not possible right now. Just last week, I rescheduled my posts after my six-year-old broke his wrist, definitely not something I had planned. He needed me and I needed to be there for him, and that was what was important.
Read all of Stacy's parenting articles, food allergy advice and craft ideas on her blog and don't forget to follower her on Twitter and Facebook too!


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Back Row (left to right): Council Member TJ Thomson, Council Member Ben Quintana, Council President Pro Tem Lauren McLean, Council Member Scot LudwigFront Row (left to right): Council President Elaine Clegg, Mayor David H. Bieter, Council Member Maryanne Jordan
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Boise, Sept. 28, 2008, 9:45 p.m. - Boise Police responded to two robberies at two convenience stores today and tonight, have two people in custody.
Neither incident is connected. However both robbery suspects were caught thanks to alert, quick thinking citizens and quick response by officers!
Tonight, at approx. 7:57 p.m. Boise Police were called to a convenience store near the corner of 27th and Main by a witness who reported to police dispatchers the store was being robbed. The witnesses reported a man wearing shorts and carrying a backpack walked into the store, laid the backpack on the counter and demanded money.
The witness, a woman who had just been inside the store, described the suspect to dispatchers and detailed the direction he ran after leaving the store. Dispatchers relayed the information to responding officers. Officers found the suspect riding a bike about four blocks away.
"The best way citizens can help is to be a good witness, call in suspicious activity quickly, and give us a good suspect description or direction the suspect is headed." said Boise Police Patrol Lt. Doug Doney. "That's exactly what this witness did tonight. Her information was a great help in making this quick arrest possible. We owe her a lot of thanks."
The suspect had told the clerk at the store, and repeated to arresting officers that he had a bomb inside the backpack. Officers were able to get the suspect separated from the backpack and took the suspect safely into custody. The Boise Police Bomb Squad was called and found the threat had been a hoax, there was no device inside the backpack.
Arrested: Bradley J. Munroe, 19, Melba
Charge: Robbery (F)
Boise Police thank Garden City Police for their help in searching for the suspect.
This morning at approx. 6:00 a.m. Boise Police were called to the robbery of a convenience store at Five Mile and Fairview. Witnesses told officers a man walked into the store carrying a knife and demanded money from the clerk. A man who was a customer in the store was able to subdue the suspect. The customer and the female clerk were then able to knock the knife away from the suspect and detain him until police arrived.
"We can't encourage citizens to take matters into their own hands, but today, the actions of both the customer and the clerk were a huge help in getting this suspect arrested," said Boise Police Patrol Sgt. Ted Snyder.
"Anytime someone gets involved when a suspect has a weapon, there's a big chance someone's going to get hurt. We don't want citizens to put themselves in danger. Still, these two citizens felt they could take quick, decisive action, and we have a dangerous suspect in custody because of it. We're thankful he's in custody and we're very thankful the citizens weren't hurt." said Sgt. Snyder.
Arrested: Christopher W. Anderson, 22, Boise
Boise Police also thank Ada County Sheriff's Deputies for their quick assistance in responding to this call.

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by Sebastian Wöber | 9th January 2012
The cinema5D forum has evolved: I present to you the cinema5Dreviews page that we've been working on. This is not a new forum page, this is a whole new section of cinema5D, uniquely programmed and embedded into the cinema5D platform. What is it? cinema5Dreviews is a growing database of reviews for filmmaking equipment. It is in Beta right now. What can it do for me? It has a lot of very valuable information on each filmmaking product all put in one place by fellow filmmakers. You save time surfing the web and you might find information you could have missed somewhere else. No more endless forum searching for reviews and opinions on products. It is all gathered in one place. ➔ Opinions by fellow filmmakers (which you can trace back because they're forum members) ➔ the best video reviews gathered by you from YouTube and Vimeo, or add your own. ➔ prices ➔ ratings ➔ collection of product highlights ➔ currently sortable by star rating, price or name Who is filling the database? You. And any other cinema5D forum member can add to the database. If you have tried or own the product you can add your opinion and give a rating for the product. You can also add new products and can add details to existing products. Not only HDSLR HDSLRs are great, they've upgraded our clips, films, productions, but we're also embracing all other low budget large sensor cameras and their accessories. More categories to come, please post your preferred categories in the comments to this article. It needs to be filled This database has just been born and it will become more powerful the more you feed it. Since we've written this software on our own and with an extremely tight budget we need some time and your feedback to work out all the glitches. It's beta, so if something doesn't work please be patient and let us know. That's it. The more you use it the better and faster we can improve the platform to your benefit. Now go check it out and add a product or two: www.cinema5d.com/reviews/Read more
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Photo by: DP Review I just got word of this new entry level camera by Canon from DP Review. It looks like the new Canon Rebel T3/ EOS 1100D will only have 1280 X 720 video according to the press release. I could not find any pricing yet. Here is a rip from DP Review. Click here to check it out. "Canon has unveiled the 1100D entry-level DSLR. Built around a 12MP CMOS sensor and the latest Digic 4 processor, the new baby-Rebel is also capable of 720p HD movie recording. It gains the 9-point AF sensor previously used in more expensive models and the iFCL color-sensitive metering sensor first seen in the EOS 7D. It also gains the Basic+ non-technical interface that allows creative control without specialist photography knowledge. The camera will be sold either with the revised, version II 18-55mm IS lens or an updated Mark III non-stabilized version." ▪ 12MP CMOS sensor ▪ 9-point AF system (up from 7 on the 1000D) ▪ 63-area iFCL color-sensitive metering (from EOS 7D) ▪ 720p movie recording at 30 or 25fps (H.264 compression) "Could be UK Specs.(24fps in the USA?)" ▪ 2.7″ LCD, 230,000 dots ▪ ISO 100-6400 (no expansion) ▪ Basic+ creative point-and-shoot mode ▪ Eye-Fi wireless SD card compatible menu optionsRead more
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Air India may have constituted a committee to ensure the implementation of the Dharmadhikari Report but a certain section of its employees are in no mood to wait anymore.
Air India may have constituted a committee to ensure the implementation of the Dharmadhikari Report but a certain section of its employees are in no mood to wait anymore. CNBC-TV18's Sunanda Jayaseelan learns that even as the committee looks for ways to resolve pay parity issues amongst others, employees who have been getting their salaries on a staggered basis say they are fed up with the way things are being run.
A section of pilots of what was the pre-merger Air India, the Indian Pilots' Guild, had gone on strike for about 58 days. It had been called off in July and the bulk of the salary was cleared before Diwali. A part of funds raised from NCD issue was used to pay the outstanding salaries.
However, CNBC-TV18 understands from sources that all certified employees, which is basically your pilots and engineers, get about 60-80 percent of their total salary as variable pay. After the Dharmadhikari Report was formalised a committee was set up and it was decided to do away with this entire variable pay. The reason given was that the company is not making profits. Therefore, at the moment employees say there is no clarity on just what is going to happen of that huge chunk of their salaries. Are they going to get it? When are they going to get it? How much they are going to get it?
CNBC-TV18 tried to reach out to Air India to get more clarity on the matter. The company says that it is facing no shortage of pilots. However, sources say nearly 10 percent of all pre-merger Air India pilots have left the company since July alone and remaining are waiting more clarity from the company. But till that comes they are of course looking for avenues outside of the company.
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The phototherapy unit offers a wide range of ultraviolet light treatments and testing. Ultraviolet B, both narrow band and broad band, is widely used in treating psoriasis and other disorders.
PUVA (psoralen + UVA) is available for both whole body and local (hand and foot) treatments. PUVA is used in treating psoriasis, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, vitiligo, graft versus host disease and many other disorders. Light testing is also performed to help in the diagnosis of sun sensitivity.
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Poor NeNe was surrendered to the shelter after his only parents lost their home. He does not look or act his age - a vet in Westlake guessed he was around "10-ish." NeNe is very sweet, laid back and oh so loving! He gets along well with EVERYONE, including other dogs, cats and children. He is housebroken but had some accidents in his foster mom's house due to stress or an intestinal upset. He had a leg problem because he got excited and jumped out of the car when the door opened, but he's been fine since. This sweet boy is depressed and disoriented in the shelter environment, so he needs a loving home ASAP. Will it be you who opens their heart? This tiny fellow will make a wonderful companion pet.
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* Syria seeking wheat after worst harvest in 27 years
* Damascus subsidises bread for areas it controls
* Russia says will provide only 100,000 tonnes as aid (Adds quotes, details, background)
By Maha El Dahan and Olga Popova
ABU DHABI/MOSCOW, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Syria is looking to finance a 1 million tonne wheat purchase from political ally Russia in an attempt to fill its supply gap after war and poor rainfall nearly halved its local crop.
The government of President Bashar al-Assad was forced to tender this summer for an unprecedented 1.35 million tonnes of imported wheat from Russia to ensure supply of the flat loaves that are a staple for the Syrian people.
Syria's state grain agency, the General Authority for Cereal Processing and Trade (Hoboob), has received "suitable prices" for the Russian wheat tender but several financing scenarios are still being considered, a government source said on Wednesday.
"We have received 16 offers and have presented several scenarios for funding and we are awaiting the approval of one of them in order to proceed," the Syrian government source said.
The financing of the deal could be through immediate payment or through various credit facility options, he said without elaborating.
It was not clear when a final decision would be made.
In Moscow, a source in Russia's Agriculture Ministry said his government would only provide 100,000 tonnes of wheat as humanitarian aid but the rest would have to be paid for.
Before its civil war erupted in 2011, Syria had been a wheat exporter, producing four million tonnes in a good year and able to export 1.5 million tonnes. Now the whole industry, including wheat farms, seed distribution, milling and bakeries have all been greatly affected by the conflict.
Syria's wheat harvest nearly halved to 1.3 million tonnes this year, the lowest in 27 years, as fighting and poor rainfall further degraded the farming sector and the nation's ability to feed itself.
Hoboob was only able to procure slightly more than 400,000 tonnes of the total amount of Syrian wheat, creating a large import need for Assad's government. Perilous transport routes have meant the Syrian state has struggled to buy from traditional "bread-basket" areas outside government control.
The Damascus government subsidises bread for the areas it controls and aid agencies offer supported prices in some areas, but Syrians in other parts of the country suffer bread shortages and high prices.
The Russian Agriculture Ministry source said the 100,000 tonnes provided as aid may include grade 5 wheat, with a protein content of less than 12.5 percent but any further amounts would have to be paid for in commercial deals.
"We are ready to supply even more from Siberia but if they pay. The 100,000 tonnes is humanitarian aid to be paid by us (Russia)," the source added.
The Russian Agriculture Ministry declined to comment on the issue when contacted by Reuters.
Two Russian agriculture sources said Syria might only be able to pay for a total of 250,000 tonnes of wheat and not the whole quantity of one million tonnes for which Hoboob is tendering.
Syria has previously tapped frozen funds in foreign bank accounts to step up purchases of food stocks including wheat. It has also relied on Iranian credit lines.
Syria's economy has been hurt by a depletion of foreign reserves that were estimated at around $16-18 billion before the conflict.
The Syrian war has killed more than 250,000 people, created the world's worst refugee crisis, allowed for the rise of the Islamic State group and drawn in regional and major powers. (Reporting by Maha El Dahan in Abu Dhabi, Olga Popova and Polina Devitt in Moscow; Editing by Adrian Croft and Gareth Jones)


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The Keystone Indoor Drill Association (KIDA) is pleased to announce information regarding our 2014 Indoor Color Guard, Percussion, Majorette and Dance Championships. This year's championships, celebrating the 33nd season of the association, will be held at Chambersburg High School on March 29, 2014. KIDA Championships begins at 9:00am with the Percussion Championships, followed by the Color Guard and Dance Championships.
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That's not what I said
"The trouble with quotes on the Internet," Abraham Lincoln once observed, "is that you can never know if they are genuine."
Okay, maybe he didn't say it. But there's an awful lot of misquoting and misattribution going on out here in Pixelvania, and some of it may be due to the brain wanting to take the easy way out:
Have you noticed how incorrect quotes often just sound right sometimes, more right than actual quotations? There's a reason for that. Our brains really like fluency, or the experience of cognitive ease (as opposed to cognitive strain) in taking in and retrieving information. The more fluent the experience of reading a quote or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind the less likely we are to question the actual quotation. Those right-sounding misquotes are just taking that tendency to the next step: cleaning up, so to speak, quotations so that they are more mellifluous, more all-around quotable, easier to store and recall at a later point. We might not even be misquoting on purpose, but once we do, the result tends to be catchier than the original.
On the other hand, in contemporary political discourse, it is probably wise to assume that any misquotation is deliberate.
A personal note: Since the old Movable Type days, I've had a sidebar feature called "It is written," which yanks a quotation out of a text file. For some reason, most WordPress widgets offering rotating quotes expect you to store all that material in the database; the plugin used here does not, which is exactly why it is used here, inasmuch as that file has grown to about 160 kilobytes and roughly 2,000 quotes. Of those two thousand, I've had to go back and correct about 50, although the problem is more often misattribution than misquotation. I mention this because the piece to which I've linked contains one quotation I'd semi-improperly attributed: correct speaker, but incorrect rendering of his name. Of course, it's since been fixed.


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Police have arrested a man in connection with the investigation of two New York City men whose bodies were found in a brush fire along a highway last week.
Police say Rogelio Rodriguez was arrested Tuesday on charges of murder, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal tampering.
Information on a lawyer for the 34-year-old man was not immediately available.
Police said earlier they believe 22-year-old Rudy Superville and 25-year-old Gary Lopez were shot and stabbed to death after attempting to rob a drug dealer's Brooklyn home.
Firefighters found their fully clothed bodies last Wednesday in a grassy area off the Belt Parkway in the Howard Beach section of Queens.
Police are searching for at least three other suspects in the investigation.
Published at 9:08 PM EDT on Mar 12, 2013 | Updated at 8:46 AM EDT on Mar 13, 2013


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TONY Abbott gave voters a glimpse of a very different prime ministership when he stepped up to the podium at the National Press Club this week - one where the nation's leader performs lifeguard duty at his local surf beach, continues as a volunteer with the CFA, devotes a week each year to working in remote Aboriginal communities and even manages to lead his annual ''pollie pedal'' to raise money for charity.
One intention, according to an email from Abbott to his advisers (including wife Margie) was to communicate to the television audience what those around him already know - that Tony's a ''good bloke''. It was also to present the man accused of misogyny by Julia Gillard as a champion of women's rights - the prime minister who would deliver a ''Holy Grail of the women's movement'' in the form of a ''fair-dinkum'' paid parental leave scheme.
For those unaware of his CV, Abbott revealed that it is more rounded than many voters might assume. He has been a concrete plant manager, a Rhodes scholar, a footy coach, a journalist, a nipper parent and a political adviser before spending seven years in John Howard's cabinet.
''I cherish my time on patrol with the Queenscliff [NSW] surf club and with the local brigade - not just for the community service but because working with people without a political agenda helps to keep politicians grounded in the real world,'' Abbott remarked.
The portrait of Abbott as a man of many (attractive) parts was also painted by Victorian Liberal Helen Kroger when she introduced him to a morning tea at Wheelers Hill earlier in the week. ''We saw Tony out on the weekend, filling sandbags and helping out [with the floods] in Brisbane and, before that, firefighting in New South Wales,'' Kroger told the gathering, describing the Liberal leader as a highly intelligent, straight-talking man of action, with strong family values.
The question that will not be answered until we see the polls in the weeks and months ahead is whether any of this will change public perceptions of the man who has put the Coalition in the box seat to win the September 14 election, but whose disapproval rating in the last Age/Nielsen Poll of 2012 hit a record high of 63 per cent. The likely answer, however, is: not much. As social researcher and Ipsos Australia executive director Rebecca Huntley puts it: ''What we are finding is that people have been unwilling to move on him. The gut feeling about him is the same as people had about [Mark] Latham - that it's hard to imagine him being prime minister.''
This is reflected in most of the quantitative polls, with the December Age/Nielsen poll showing his net rating (approval minus disapproval) has been worse than minus-20 for four straight months, and raising the question of whether he was beginning to drag down the Liberal vote.
Herein lies the significance of Julia Gillard's gamble of setting the election date almost eight months out from polling. There are three strategic arguments for giving away the tactical edge of being able to announce the election five weeks out from polling day - and putting pressure on Abbott to reveal costed policies is the most contentious.
Clearly, Gillard believes Abbott is incapable of making the transition from a brutally effective opposition leader to a credible alternative PM - and she expects this to be confirmed as greater scrutiny is applied. The risk for Labor, of course, is Abbott seizing the opportunity of more exposure to present himself as an attractive alternative.
Certainly, Abbott's attempts to resonate with voters so far have been solely about putting a positive spin on the old negative message about stopping the boats, ending the waste and ditching the carbon and mining taxes. That, of itself, will not be enough.
As he often reminds us, the task of opposition leaders is to provide a powerful critique of the government and an alternative vision capable of capturing the imagination of the undecided and the alienated. Abbott has been spectacularly successful in the former but a failure in the latter - at least until now.
A second argument for Gillard locking in the date is to try to lock in her own leadership, and Abbott as her opponent. This, too, is open to argument. The truth is that Gillard remains one major stuff-up or crisis away from her leadership being under challenge - this is situation normal - and that any change on the Labor side could fan concerns in the Coalition that Abbott is vulnerable, especially if his numbers don't improve.
The third argument is the most persuasive (and, to my mind, justifies what Gillard did): to remove one source of speculation and provide a measure of certainty, especially given that the election was always going to be in late August or early September.
The argument that she has called the longest election campaign in Australian history - ''227 DAY FARCE'', screamed one tabloid headline - is bunkum. All parties have been campaigning since the last election produced a hung parliament, but the real campaign - the time when the electorate beings to take a serious interest - begins when the writs are issued.
Gillard has returned recharged and in charge, and used her Press Club address this week to frame the year under her ''Jobs, Opportunity, Fairness'' banner. Setting the date was all about instilling confidence and giving order to her plan to give Labor a real shot at an unlikely third term.
If she needed reminders of the degree of difficulty, three presented themselves in quick succession: the savage critique of her move by anonymous Labor MPs who see a Kevin Rudd return as Labor's only hope; the laying of fraud charges against former Labor MP Craig Thomson; and the Independent Commission Against Corruption hearings in Sydney that offer a daily reminder of a very bad state Labor government.
So, while Abbott has a serious image problem, it is not a cause for significant angst among Coalition MPs. ''Everyone is pretty calm,'' is how one expressed it. Former Howard chief of staff and now Liberal senator Arthur Sinodinos sums it up this way: ''We wouldn't be the chance we are today without Tony Abbott and that's why he deserves a shot at the next election.''
Moreover, in the absence of the policies that will be released in the coming months, a just completed survey of almost 1000 voters by Ipsos has shown that the Coalition is seen as more capable of managing all the issues that voters regard as important. The online survey was conducted between January 25 and 31 and saw health and hospitals nominated as the most important issue, ahead of law and order, the cost of living and immigration.
On health and hospitals, 30 per cent preferred the Coalition to Labor's 23 per cent; on cost of living pressures, the Coalition led 34 to 20; on the economy, 39 to 22; on education, 33 to 25; on immigration, 37 to 16. Even on the environment, the Coalition was preferred by 24 per cent to Labor's 15.
But there was one important qualification: an average of 25 per cent of those sampled replied ''don't know'' when asked which party was better equipped to manage the many issues. This reflects the antipathy towards all sides of politics. As Huntley puts it: ''People don't believe Labor deserves a third term, they don't like Tony Abbott, they don't want minority government - and the Green vote is going to decline.''
All of which points to seven months of drama and uncertainty before the final battle begins.
Michael Gordon is national editor of The Age.


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I congratulate the entrepreneurial successes of Swirls and Twirls and other frozen yogurt establishments, as reported in "LI-based frozen yogurt chain swirling in" [Business, Aug. 12]. Their tasty treats generate jobs and contribute to the economy. While I enjoy self-serve frozen yogurt shops, I am often shocked by the container options, ranging from large to largest. The belief that frozen yogurt is a healthy snack coupled with the oversized self-serve cups can tempt anyone to overindulge.
The prevailing public health problems related to overeating, overweight and obesity, not to mention sky-rocketing medical costs associated with these issues, give us reason to examine our behaviors and eating environments. Portion control can help prevent weight gain and reduce the risks of developing heart disease, obesity and type-2 diabetes.
Efforts to educate the public about ingredients, calories and portion size are underway. However, the social norms that surround the booming food and beverage culture make it extremely difficult to refrain, and they contradict some of the broader public health messages.
Karyn C. Kirschbaum, Wheatley Heights
Editor's note: The writer is a health policy coordinator for the public school system on Long Island.


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With 300 beers on its binder-size drinks menu, Taps Restaurant Bar and Lounge very much specializes in booze. But what sets it apart from most spots on Southwest Second Street is a commitment to a modicum of healthfulness.
"Our food is a little step above most bar food," general manager Lee Evans says. "Our food is smart food. It's made with fresh ingredients. It's made with very little sodium and very little butter. We don't have a fryer in the building."
Buffalo chicken ($11) is on the menu, for instance, but not as wings out of the fryer. Instead, strips of chicken breast are tossed with wing sauce and sliced celery and served with romaine leaves for guests to make their own lettuce wraps. There's even a little ramekin of crumbled blue cheese. You almost don't miss the greasy wing. Almost.
Air-popped, blue-kernel popcorn ($5) is served in a white paper cone dusted with Asiago cheese and a bit of truffle oil. It goes perfectly with a glass of Bell's Oberon pale wheat ale ($5), or any kind of beer for that matter.
There are 18 so-called American tapas, including spicy barbecue chicken cashew skewers ($12), which were a bit overcooked, but nicely coated with a sweet and slightly spicy sticky sauce. The bean dip trio ($10) features hummus, white bean and spiced black bean dips. While the hummus tastes as though it was made without tahini or garlic, the white and black bean dips are quite good. The dips are served with grilled pita, but we took the menu's suggestion and substituted fresh carrots and celery ($3). Baked meatballs ($15) are dramatically presented on a long, white serving tray topped with tomato sauce, dollops of ricotta, fresh basil and garlic crostini. The meatballs are tender and generously seasoned with garlic and Italian seasoning.
During the 4-6 p.m. daily happy hour, four appetizers — bacon-wrapped jalapenos, baked meatball salad, gyro and hot pretzel — cost just $5 each. Taps take $1 off draft beer, and single-liquor cocktails and house wines cost $5.
The 10 bruschetta preparations ($9-$11) are hard to ignore, so we settled on an interesting topping combination of balsamic roasted mushrooms, basil pesto and goat cheese ($9). There's no mistaking this for anything other than something to nosh on while drinking beer, but the ratio of balsamic to pesto to cheese is just about right. The other bruschetta offerings include brie with honey ($9), meatball with ricotta ($9) and smoked salmon with red onion and lemon-basil aioli ($12).
It would be easy to make a meal of those American tapas, which we did during one lunchtime visit. But one early evening, we took at look at salads and sandwiches. A Northern Italian sausage hero ($11) starts with a grilled Italian sausage. It's served on a baguette topped with white-bean spread, arugula, roasted balsamic portobello mushrooms and roasted red peppers. It delivers.
Lighter eaters — I'm thinking of anyone on their way to a show at the Broward Center — will like the Greek salad with chicken ($12), a fairly typical mixture of romaine, feta, olives, onion, artichokes, fennel and cucumber. The dressing is a simple red-wine vinaigrette that, thankfully, you don't need to order on the side, because it's so wonderfully lightly dressed. Other salad selections include a bacon turkey salad ($12) and chicken paillard ($14) with asparagus, portobello mushrooms, roasted red peppers, oven-roasted tomato, artichoke hearts, arugula and a goat-cheese croquette.
Heavy eaters will want to end with a brick-size piece of warm apricot bread pudding ($9), served with vanilla ice cream, caramel and sliced almonds. There's enough here for four.
Taps seats about 100 people, mostly at high-top tables. While there are TVs everywhere, one side of the restaurant is more sports bar than restaurant. If you're eating here, try for a seat in the north side of the building.
The eager, polo-shirted wait staff wear a No. 4 patch on their arms. This is the fourth Taps location after Tampa, Orlando and Naples. Tampa will soon get a second location. Folks obviously like what Taps does.
While it won't necessarily win any culinary contests, Taps is one more Southwest Second Street option.
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Original Sin - Preview Roundup
Here are some more previews for Divinity: Original Sin.
Divinity: Original Sin is getting there. It's approaching the territory of the grand old CRPG adventures, but it has considerable distance yet to travel. That it's doing some of that journeying on Steam Early Access is probably for the best, as gamers can give the developers plenty of additional work. Thus far, the combat is sluggish and clumsy: spell targeting in particular needs adjustment to remove those instances of accidental self slaughter. Navigation, questing, and map markers need to be properly programmed, and the opening area needs considerable balance. When I gave up in frustration on the murder investigation and wandered out of town, I was beaten at every turn by enemy squadrons that discouraged exploration. Amid the admittedly disheartening flaws, there is a lovingly crafted world rich with detail and personality, but it will take time for it to come to light. For now, it glimmers.
There's no doubting it's an early game: you can't name your characters nor select their gender, loading takes ages, and it has crashed a few times. More damningly one save game loaded my group of characters into a city of unmoving NPCs. I was lucky enough to have a working quicksave, or I'd have had to restart. Clawing back hours of progress is that clammy fear that we all hold when playing games, and it intensifies when you're playing a huge RPG that can claim it warned you this could happen.
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As you can see, I was more than a little impressed with Divinity: Original Sin. It looked good on paper, and the real thing was fantastic. Rarely am I able to read up on a game, be hyped about it, and then actually have my hype rewarded with a fun, playable game. Even though it's in early Alpha, there's still a great deal of enjoyment to be had. If you're interested in Divinity: Original Sin, look for it on Steam where it's available on the Early Access program for $40. I had a fantastic experience and would recommend it to anyone that has friends to play with. However, I cannot stress enough that the game is still in early Alpha, so please don't buy it expecting a full and complete game.
Information aboutOriginal Sin
SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
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Soccer-Sheringham joins West Ham as attacking coach
May 30 (Reuters) - Former England striker Teddy Sheringham has taken up a part-time role as an attacking coach at West Ham United, the Premier League club announced on Friday.
The 48-year-old spent three seasons at the club as a player during a career that saw him win the Champions League, the FA Cup and three league titles with Manchester United and finish as top scorer in the first season of the Premier League in 1992-93.
"I'm very excited. Sam (manager Sam Allardyce) phoned me a week or so ago and asked me if I fancied it," he said in a statement on the club website (www.whufc.com).
"It was far too good to resist really. Being a West Ham boy and coming from the area, it fits nicely in all that I'm about, what with working alongside Sam and knowing a few of the players as well. They've got a lot of respect for Sam, they speak very highly of him and to know that's the case made me want to get involved."
Sheringham sits ninth in the all-time list of Premier League goal-scorers with 147 in 418 appearances.
Allardyce came under fire from fans last season for West Ham's style, and Sheringham has been handed the task of developing the club's attacking play.
West Ham finished 13th last season, scoring 40 goals in 38 league matches. (Reporting by Josh Reich; editing by Amlan Chakraborty)


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Baylor String Quartet to Perform March 28March 23, 1998
by Richard Veit
The Baylor University String Quartet, comprised of four members of the Baylor music faculty, will present a concert at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Treasure Room of Armstrong Browning Library.
The quartet's first violinist is Bruce Berg, associate professor of violin; the second violinist is Jody Gatwood, Brown Visiting Professor of Violin; the violist is Kathryn Steely, instructor of viola; and the cellist is Gary Hardie, professor of cello and coordinator of strings.
Their program will open with Franz Schubert's "Quartettsatz" (or "Quartet Movement"), which is the first movement of a proposed string quartet that the composer began writing in December of 1820 but later abandoned.
As a tribute to the late Richard Willis, who died last year at the age of 68, the Baylor String Quartet will perform his String Quartet No. 2. Willis was emeritus professor of music composition and Composer-in-Residence at Baylor from 1964 until his retirement in 1996. His Second String Quartet is in five movements, the second of which leads directly into the third without pause.
The final piece will be the last of Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartets, his String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Opus 135.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Baylor School of Music at 710-3991.
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The Internet advertisement reads like a used-car classified: "33 yr old American male. Non smoker or drinker with a clean bill of health. $75,000 U.S. Will travel anywhere. Facility and Physician must meet the highest standard."
Meet those conditions, and his kidney can be yours.
"This is a rough economy," says the California man who placed the ad, speaking on the condition his name won't be used: What he's doing is illegal. But a good price for a spare organ (plus paid travel and medical expenses) would knock a chunk off the $100,000 he owes on his student loans. A day after placing his latest ad online, he says he has already received 16 e-mails. Eventually, he figures, someone will pay his price for a sturdy, American-bred kidney. Most other sellers on the website say they're from places such as India or Indonesia - organ-trafficking hot spots.
The right contact in those countries will find a citizen willing to sell a kidney dirt cheap, by Canadian prices. So if you're rich enough, why wait in line? A quick trip, and you can fly home with your new body part installed (properly, you hope). Good for you, not so good for your donor, who has just received a relative pittance from a broker and now faces questionable follow-up care. And certainly pointless to your fellow Canadians - now numbering about 3,800 - who linger on an ever-growing wait list because too few people are willing to give up what they don't need for those who will die without it.
Organ donation is a tragic case of supply not meeting demand, even though transplants have become much safer for recipients and donors. Living Canadians are relatively generous on international rankings, on par with Britain, but our posthumous donations lag far behind leading Spain. Either way, there aren't nearly enough to go around, especially as the population ages. In British Columbia, those who can't afford the international black market can expect to wait an average of nearly six years for a kidney - longer than many patients survive on dialysis.
The best way to bring supply in line, as any economist knows, is to sweeten the deal for the suppliers. So why don't we?
In June, when Canadian Blood Services is due to deliver recommendations on the situation to the provinces, what won't be on the list will be allowing people to profit from the sale of what they clearly own - the parts of their own bodies. It won't even be up for discussion.
However many lives and however much money a market for organs may save, the thought of trading coin for kidney makes too many of us squeamish - that is, until we're watching the slow death of someone we love.
"When something is repugnant to you," Arthur Matas says, "you just keep finding reasons to justify your gut reaction rather than thinking about it."
Dr. Matas is the Canadian-born director of the renal-transplant program at the University of Minnesota and a former president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. He has long been a vocal advocate for a broader incentive system for donors that would go beyond covering travel and missed-work expenses, as some provinces do now. (Saskatchewan announced this week that it would provide up to $5,000 to reimburse donors.)
Profiting from organ donations is illegal in most countries, including Canada and the U.S., despite the occasional ad on Craigslist. Iran allows people to sell their organs - receiving cash from both the government and the recipient - and claims to have eliminated its waiting list. And despite prohibitions, an underground market thrives in nations such as China, Egypt and Brazil.
Many countries are already testing the idea of some form of incentive, even if it's not monetary. Israel has created a law where people who commit to being donors after they die may jump the line if they or a family member need a new organ themselves. In Britain, consultations are being held to decide where the public stands, for instance, on the idea of covering some funeral expenses for donors. A University of Montreal researcher recently proposed a tax credit for consenting donors that after their death would go to their next of kin.
Would poor people become an organ pool?
The case against allowing people to profit off their organs is usually moral: Critics say it would stop people from giving altruistically, make poor people an organ pool for the wealthy and even encourage the more nefarious among us to hasten the death of unwanted, but organ-rich, relatives. Could someone deep in gambling debts be pressured to give up a kidney?
While donors are rigorously screened, even Dr. Matas concedes that concerns about abuses are legitimate - though safeguards, such as keeping the benefit small, should be part of any debate. "Why do I have to design a perfect system before this concept can be acceptable?" he asks.
Some economists, such as University of Chicago Nobel laureate Gary Becker, argue that something closer to a freely competitive market would stabilize prices and mitigate organ trafficking while recognizing individual freedom. But Dr. Matas envisions a regulated organ market in which governments would determine the compensation for living donors and still control who receives the organs based on need. (At this point he is not including deceased donors, as it's difficult to decide who receives the benefit.)
The cost to taxpayers would be offset by the health-care savings: In Canada, statistically, giving someone on dialysis a transplant saves about $50,000 a year.
Under Dr. Matas's system, people would be properly educated about the risks of donation and would receive a financial perk - perhaps in the form of discounted college tuition, or $1,000 each time they go to the doctor for an annual checkup after the operation, as an incentive to take care of their own health as well.
He scoffs at the notion that this would sully the purity of the donor's act of giving. "This concept that donors today are gaining nothing is ridiculous. If your husband is sick and you donate a kidney to him, you benefit from having a healthy husband," he argues. "There are huge other things going on in conventional donation beyond pure altruism. In what other situation do we say that you can do something for free, but you can't do it for an incentive? There is no parallel."
Even the pairing approach to kidney transplants - which allows families to exchange kidneys when they don't match for their own relatives - is a form of transaction. What makes a bonus compensation so different?
Risk and reward - a time-honoured combination
A large part of the resistance is that compensation such as cash or discounted college tuition is mainly an incentive for lower-income people. "Why is that bad? Poor people do all sorts of things that rich people aren't doing," Dr. Matas says. "Well-informed people are capable of making decisions in their best interest. I won't argue with that the fact that billionaires aren't likely do this. So what?"
Altruism doesn't preclude compensation: Society already rewards people such as firefighters and soldiers for taking on dangerous roles that serve the public good. An organ donor is no different, suggests Phil Halloran, a transplant surgeon at the department of medicine at the University of Alberta and the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Transplantation.
"You are getting paid for what you do," he says. "Surgeons get paid for what they do. Health care works on the basis of people providing good services to other people - and they get paid."
As for the risk of exploitation, he argues that people are already receiving unequal care because organs are in shorter supply in certain locations and because the wealthy can seek out other options.
Other experts, such as University of Toronto bioethicist Linda Wright, say Canada should consider some other options first - ones that might be sold more easily to the public, including doing a better job of promoting the idea of organ donation.
Canadian Blood Services hopes to get a national waiting list for organ donations up and running this year - the current one, astonishingly, is still maintained manually by the London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ont., and then faxed out to hospitals.
A key recommendation of the agency's report in June will be to improve front-line resources and personnel in emergency rooms and intensive-care units so that donors can be identified more quickly and families counselled to reach an informed decision - a top priority for Dr. Halloran, and the main factor credited with Spain's high donation rate. (One option that is being tried in New York won't be considered here: having transplant teams in "organ preservation units" trail ambulances responding to 911 calls.)
Some European countries have adopted an opt-out system - in which, with some caveats, people have to alert the government that they will not be donors. However, Canadians are divided on this approach, so it's also not being considered.
"It's really a trust factor," says Peter Nickerson, executive medical director of organ transplantation at Canadian Blood Services. For the system to work, he says, people need to believe that the final choice is theirs.
Prof. Wright, the bioethicist, says people still want organ donation to be "an altruistic act and not for payment." But altruism isn't getting the job done. And Dr. Matas argues that it's wrong that such idealism has kept the idea of compensation for organs from being tested with a government pilot project - or even seriously debated.
Shouldn't we find the status quo equally distressing? "If we don't do something," he says fiercely, "the waiting lists are going to get longer and more of our patients are going die every day."
Erin Anderssen is an Ottawa-based feature writer for The Globe and Mail.
[Click here to see a related story about how the field of regenerative medicine is addressing the need for organs to transplant.]


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New Research commissioned for The Lawyer has exposed the extent to which the legal profession is dominated by the wealthy, just as the Government unveils a new campaign to drive elitism out of the profession.
The study, carried out by Bristol University-based Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), found that lawyers are more likely to come from a privileged background than any other profession and that the gap has increased during the past decade.
Geoffrey Vos QC, who sits on Labour's new social mobility commission under MP Alan Milburn, admitted there was a problem but told The Lawyer that things were starting to change.
"The legal profession exists to service society. It won't service society properly if it only employs people from one background," he said. "What I'm trying to do, and the Social Mobility Foundation is trying to do, is to make sure that people coming in now, born in 1985 or later, are from all backgrounds."
Firms including Addleshaw Goddard, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Clifford Chance, Field Fisher Waterhouse, Macfarlanes and Taylor Wessing, have signed up to the Social Mobility Foundation's mentoring scheme for disadvantaged children, chaired by Vos.
But few can deny that the law lags behind other professional and City jobs when it comes to recruiting those from poorer backgrounds.
According to the CMPO research, taking wealth as an indicator of social standing, when investment bankers and stockbrokers born in 1970 reached the age of 16, their families' average monthly income was £1,885 and £1,623 respectively. This was on average 22 per cent and 44 per cent less than lawyers' family income, which stood at £2,300. Over the past 12 years the gap between what lawyers' families earn and what the families of other professionals earn has widened further.
Dr Lee Elliott Major, research director for education charity the Sutton Trust, argued that there are a number of reasons for the legal profession's poor performance on social mobility.
These include a lack of good careers advice in many schools, the cost of getting legal qualifications and a perception that law is elitist.
"Law is perceived to be a profession that's not for the likes of us," he said. "That comes across in survey after survey."
Part of the problem is that although few people would accuse lawyers of outright bias, there remains a view that it is not the industry's problem and that firms can only chose from the candidates put in front of them.
One TheLawyer.com reader posted a comment that read: "I'm going to be brutally honest and say I disagree with the concept of 'social mobility' because it's patronising and removes any notion that the legal profession is, and should be, based upon meritocracy. It's not about your background – it's about how hard you are prepared to work to achieve in a very tough industry."
But Major said this view was "not good enough". He believes there is a vast pool of untapped talent being ignored by the profession.
"If law firms don't do it themselves, who else is going to?" he retorted. "They could help in raising aspirations and providing advice early on. We want law to represent the society it's intended to service."
The Sutton Trust runs its own mentoring scheme called Pathways to Law, which identifies bright pupils at age 16 and provides them with careers guidance and contacts in the legal profession.
It is run in partnership with the College of Law.
Despite this, social mobility remains a forgotten issue for many. Law firms and chambers have arguably been quicker to embrace more fashionable diversity issues. As one poster on TheLawyer.com put it: "I think it's about time that the question of socio-economic background is tackled alongside the 'traditional' diversity issues of gender, ethnic background and sexuality."
Vos argued that there might also be cultural reasons for the lack of lawyers from working class backgrounds. "One of the reasons is that, certainly at
the bar, it's a profession of presentation," he explained.
"Therefore when young people come into the profession, if they come from a poor background they won't naturally present as well as people from public schools and top universities."
Although chambers are now realising that these skills can be taught, Vos said there was a long way to go. Shortly after becoming social mobility commissioner, Milburn singled out the bar in a speech, noting that seven out of 10 of the country's top barristers went to public school.
Adding to the problem is the fact that most firms only recruit from a select group of universities, which have a disproportionate number of privileged students.
"A lot of law firms only look at graduates from the top universities. They need to look for talented candidates who come through lesser universities," Vos said.
The legal profession does not hold all the answers. But if Milburn is to realise his aim of giving everyone "a fair crack of the whip", law firms and chambers must do more to shed their elitist image.
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- This was made for our group Halloween costume last year. It's fun to wear, but the tutu does get annoying when you're trying to sit down.
The wig I had initially bought for my Jessie cosplay from Team Rocket a few years ago, so it ended up being used for this one since I didn't feel like buying a bright red orange wig. Also, you try and keep costs down for halloween costumes!
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AN ultra-violent computer game that shows characters being dismembered and decapitated has been slapped with Australia's first R18+ rating.
The Classification Board deemed the action in Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge so "high impact" that it handed down the ruling less than two weeks after new legislation allowed such games to be released in Australia.
Board director Lesley O'Brien said: "Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge contains violence that is high in impact because of its frequency, high-definition graphics and emphasis on blood effects."
The game has been made for Nintendo's Wii U console - a device which typically attracts younger players than its main rivals, the Sony PS3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360.
The game follows the exploits of a character called Ryu Hayabusa, "a cursed ninja" battling terrorists.
A website launched alongside the game revels in its gore.
"Dismemberment has returned in the Wii U version of the game, allowing you to disable enemies by cutting off their arms and legs," the site says.
"This allows for new attack strategies, while requiring you to think fast when limbless foes come at you with desperate last-ditch attacks."
However, other computer games banned for graphic scenes of torture, violence and sex are being sold online and over the counter in Sydney.
Titles for sale include Manhunt, banned for "high impact" scenes of torture; the latest of Mortal Kombat, featuring realistic depictions of mutilation; and the unedited version of Witcher 2, which rewards a player's character with sex for completing in-game tasks
The titles are thought to have been imported from Britain, where retail chain CeX - which buys, sells and exchanges computer games in Sydney - is based. They carry British "18" ratings.But an Attorney-General's Department spokeswoman said overseas ratings had no status in Australia.
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● Straw/toothpick flags with "Welcome Baby"
● DIY Party hats
● Pennant banner - 4 designs
● Mini-Pennant Banner with "CANDY LAND"
● 2", 4" & 10" Cut Out graphics coordinated with theme, Swirly Candy in colorful, pink, green, red, blue & yellow (great for tabletop decoration, cake & cupcake toppers, you can use 2" paper puncher for the 2" designs)
● 4 Coordinating pattern papers
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PRINTING & ASSEMBLING - You can print the PDF files with your home printer or take them to a print shop. Designs are formatted to fit US Letter Sized Paper (8.5" x 11"). You will need 2 inch circle or scalloped paper puncher to create the cupcake topper & favor tag.
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Brits are becoming better barterers thanks to the recession.
A new report from Auto Trader has found British motorists, on average, barter £939 off the price of a car. Three-in-five motorists are paying under the asking price for a new or used car in the past quarter (July-September).
The report reveals that men are better negotiators when it comes to price, on average saving £300 more than women. The average saving made by male motorists was £1,029 compared to female drivers £706.
Auto Trader believes part of the problem is sellers misjudging the state of the market before pricing their vehicle.
Nathan Coe, group director of Auto Trader, said: "With so many sellers getting less than they were expecting for their cars, it raises the question of whether this is people not valuing their cars appropriately or whether it's buyers taking advantage of a weak market.
"Everyone knows buyers look at the state of the market before they purchase, but consumers have a lack of understanding about accurate pricing when it comes to selling. Sellers should do research through online valuation sites to prevent disappointment.
"While it is a good time to buy, the market is starting to turn so buyers should not be complacent. Those who are willing to do their homework will usually get the best deals.
"It's advisable to research the price and specifications of cars online ahead of making a purchase so buyers are armed with the knowledge and confidence that enables them to make more informed decisions."


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2013-09-16 14:06:18 by Jody Abrigg - Patient Family, as posted on the inside.akronchildrens.org blog.
Christian receives treatments every 2 weeks at Akron Children's to help reduce the severity of his allergies.
My son Christian is just like any other 12-year-old. He loves being outside. He loves playing sports. But it hasn't always been easy for him. He has severe allergies, the kinds that threaten his life.
That's why I'm so thankful to have the pulmonary medicine department at Akron Children's Hospital Mahoning Valley. It has the resources my son needs to keep him healthy, right here in our backyard.
It was there that Dr. Heather Strawbridge figured out Christian doesn't have regular asthma – he has a rare autoimmune disorder in which his body attacks itself at the slightest hint of an allergen. He's allergic to things in the air, latex – you name it and he's probably allergic.
Now, every two weeks, Christian receives treatments at the hospital's new pediatric pulmonary function lab in Boardman. The medicine goes into his blood stream and helps to create antibodies to protect him.
We can't get rid of his asthma or allergies, but the treatment helps reduce the severity of a reaction and allows his body to heal from the inside out.
Each visit lasts two or three hours. The doctors, nurses and technicians are wonderful. This isn't a fun process for Christian, but they're so good at making him comfortable.
Plus, he knows this gives him the best chance at normal life. Christian knows everyone there on a first-name basis, the equipment is the latest and greatest; I couldn't ask for a better place to take my son.
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We're lucky to have a resource like Akron Children's pulmonary medicine department in Mahoning Valley. We no longer have the same level of anxiety and stress. I feel so much better knowing that when things come up, I've got a place to go that will provide a solution.
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Press Release: IMF Approves Three-Year Arrangement Under the ESAF for Nicaragua
March 19, 1998
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a three-year arrangement under the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF)1 for Nicaragua, in an amount equivalent to SDR 100.9 million (about US$136 million), to support the government's economic program for 1998-2000. The first annual loan, equivalent to SDR 33.6 million (about US$45 million), is available in two equal semiannual installments, the first of which will be made available March 25, 1998.
Since peace was restored following the civil war in the 1980s, Nicaragua has made substantial progress in reducing economic imbalances and in moving toward a market-based economy. The government strengthened macroeconomic policies, eliminated most price controls, and liberalized the foreign exchange and trade system. As a result, inflation dropped to single digits in 1997, and real GDP growth accelerated to about 5 percent. Public finances deteriorated, however, reflecting large expenditure overruns and an increase in the public sector domestic borrowing requirement; and, in combination with a weakening of credit controls, led to pressures on net official international reserves.
Medium-Term strategy and the 1998 Program
The objectives of the government's medium-term strategy for 1998-2000 are to move the economy toward sustainability of the public finances and the external sector, carry out structural reform, and promote economic growth in order to alleviate poverty and reduce unemployment. The fiscal program aims at increasing public savings by 6 percentage points of GDP during this period, and targets a small surplus in the combined public sector balance (after grants) by the year 2000. The basic macroeconomic objectives for 1998-2000 are to: (1) increase gross reserves to the equivalent of 3 months of imports; (2) achieve a rate of real GDP growth of around 6 percent by the end of the program period; and (3) bring down inflation to about 5 percent. Within this medium-term strategy, the 1998 program, supported by the first annual ESAF loan, seeks to: (1) increase gross reserves to the equivalent of 1.8 months of imports; (2) achieve a real GDP growth rate of 4.8 percent; and (3) limit inflation to 8.0 percent. To achieve these objectives, the government will pursue a fiscal policy designed to reduce the overall public sector deficit (before grants) to 9 percent of GDP from 9.7 percent in 1997. This will entail a reduction in the size of the public sector and an increase in central government revenues brought about by a broadening of the tax base, increased transparency of the tax system, and the elimination of a large number of discretionary VAT and customs exemptions. Also, central government expenditures will benominally frozen, and export subsidies eliminated. Monetary policy is designed to support the external sector and inflation objectives of the program.
Structural Reforms
The authorities plan to continue with public sector reforms to improve services and efficiency. They intend to implement a law that restructures the executive branch so as to reduce the number of government ministries and agencies reporting directly to the President. To improve governance and public accountability, the government is preparing a comprehensive judicial reform designed to improve legal procedures and enhance enforcement of contracts and property rights. The government will also phase out restrictions and eliminate discriminatory treatment against foreign and domestic investors. The authorities will complete the reform of the state banking sector and privatize public utilities, state oil distribution, and the services of the major ports.
Addressing Social Needs
The authorities' social strategy is based on investing in human capital, by improving health and education, including through investment in social infrastructure in the poorest regions by the Social Investment Fund. To implement this strategy, the government will need to improve the targeting, quality, accessibility, and efficiency of these services while at the same time promoting their decentralization. Also, social expenditure will be protected although government expenditure as a share of GDP is cut, and the government will be able to increase social expenditure beyond that budgeted, as additional concessional financing becomes available.
The Challenge Ahead
Political demands for increased public expenditure pose risks to the program. Also, despite substantial progress in reducing Nicaragua's external debt and debt service, Nicaragua continues to face a difficult external position in the coming year as a result of its large debt-service obligations. Sustainable improvements in the external debt situation will require strict adherence to the program and the eschewing of nonconcessional borrowing. Substantial concessional assistance for some years to come will be needed to support Nicaragua's reform efforts.
Nicaragua joined the IMF on March 14, 1946, and its quota2 is SDR 96.1 million (about US$129 million). Its outstanding use of IMF financing currently totals SDR 20 million (about US$27 million).
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Wigan Athletic midfielder Tom Cleverly thinks victory on Saturday will be enough to secure their Premier League survival.
Wigan kept up their hopes of staying in the top flight with a dramatic 3-2 victory over West Ham United on Sunday which in turn relegated the Hammers.
Cleverley believes that a win this coming Sunday against FA Cup finalists Stoke City should keep them safe.
He told Sky Sports: "There is a week's worth of hard work still to be done and then another good performance.
"We know we have a tough task ahead but we've just got to stay focused on our game.
"42 points will get us above either Wolves or Blackburn, who play each other, and then Birmingham and Blackpool have both got tough ties away from home.
"You've got to be very unlucky to go down with 42 points but all we can do is focus on ourselves and get the three points."
The Latics had to come from 2-0 behind to beat the Hammers on Sunday and reflecting on the game, Cleverley admitted to being stunned by the outcome.
He added: "It was just crazy. I have never seen as many opportunities in one game of football or in the space of 20 minutes.
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NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Busy families who can't seem to fit it all in will have a new option: A Cleveland-based business is expanding its online grocery-ordering and home delivery service to North Ridgeville and Avon.
Presto Fresh Grocery, which began operations at the end of November, is entering Lorain County boasting close to 5,000 grocery items including fresh meats, produce and seafood, that are available for home delivery on its website, according to owner and founder Steve deMoulpied.
The fast-growing business now serves Cleveland and all of Cuyahoga County as well as Willoughby, Wickliffe and Eastlake in Lake County.
The selection of Avon and North Ridgeville in Lorain County came after deMoulpied studied entry into west-side markets for a time.
The two communities were chosen in part for the presence of a good number of white-collar, professional households as well as a desire to boost what deMoulpied said is the miniscule level of business in the world of e-commerce related to the food industry, he said.
"This is a huge opportunity in an area in which 1 percent of total grocery sales occur over the Internet," deMoulpied said.
The website currently has 400 to 450 registered shoppers.
A sizable number of households in Avon and North Ridgeville represent the "segment of society that is very busy and places a premium on their time, and often finds it difficult to get to the store due to time constraints," deMoulpied said.
And, he said, Presto Fresh Grocery has been getting quite a bit of interest from people in both towns asking about a possible expansion into Lorain County.
"This seemed to be the next natural location for us," he said.
Similar in scope to other major online shopping operations, the grocery-ordering business lets customers fill orders after browsing its thousands of pictured grocery items in categories ranging from "breakfast and cereal," "meat and seafood," and "grains, pasta, beans," to "organic and natural," "deli" and "laundry, paper, cleaning."
"In some areas as dairy, we may not have the pure volume as a grocery store may have, but we try to have enough of a cross-section in those items to make you shopping experience worthwhile," deMoulpied said.
The online grocery-shopping service wants to promote area food businesses such as Twinsburg's Day Lobster.
The seafood company sells lobster and other fresh seafood, which is shipped in every 24 hours from the Boston area, Florida and the West Coast.
Discounts of up to 15 percent are offered for volume purchases.
Shoppers can keep track of what they're spending as they order groceries via an on-screen display that keeps a running tally.
"If you get close to your budget or go over it, you can click on the shopping cart to reduce the number of items or eliminate them," deMoulpied said.
Once a shopper has completed an order, online payment is accepted by all major credit cards, and a delivery time is set up. Home deliveries are made by the company's vans between 1 and 9 p.m. seven days a week in two-hour time blocks.
Delivery fees range from $7.95 to $9.95, depending on the total cost of grocery orders.
DeMoulpied knows he won't corner the grocery shopping market, but he's hoping to carve out a successful niche for the right customers.
"We realize this isn't for everybody as some people really enjoy going to the store," he said.
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I have spent my life in NJ/NYC and now am working at a restaurant in VT...we need to figure out how to make those hard rolls you can get with butter at QuickChek...WaWa...A&P...Pathmark....you know the ones? They cost about 50 cents and are so light on the inside and a thin, but crusty outside (not like a traditional german hardroll). They can also be similar to a portugese roll found in the same supermarkets.
Can anyone help? I've baked Kaiser roll after Kaiser roll...tried baking bun dough....tried simple white bread in bun form...nothing is working! I've tried trays of water and high temps to steam out the oven...i just cant do it!
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