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House price rises are spreading beyond the hot markets of Auckland and Canterbury and are likely to continue this year because of extremely low mortgage rates, some economists say.
But home buyers can expect lending rates to rise significantly in the next two to three years, from about 6 per cent towards a "painful" 8 per cent or even 9 per cent, eventually flattening out price rises.
Economists say official interest rates could start rising as soon as September this year or by early 2014, gradually rising from 2.5 per cent to 4.5 per cent or as much as 5.5 per cent over time.
As widely expected, Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler held the official cash rate at 2.5 per cent yesterday, but fired a warning shot at rising house prices and said the currency was overvalued. On some measures house prices would be as much as 20 per cent overvalued, economists said.
Wheeler pointed out that house price inflation had increased, and said the central bank was keeping a close eye on that. House prices rose 6.7 per cent last year, according to the Real Estate Institute's Housing Price Index.
The central bank is also keeping a watch on household credit growth. Figures out late yesterday showed household borrowing rose 1.2 per cent in the December quarter, the strongest quarterly rise since mid-2008. Net mortgage debt in December was up 3.7 per cent from a year before, a clear acceleration from earlier last year.
"The bank does not want to see financial stability or inflation risks accentuated by housing demand getting too far ahead of supply," Wheeler said.
Westpac chief economist Dominick Stephens expected official interest rates to start rising in December this year, but rise more than others currently expected, from 2.5 per cent to 5.5 per cent by mid-2016.
"Today's fixed rates are low relative to where we think floating rates are going to go," Stephens said.
The housing market kicked off in Auckland and Canterbury because of a shortage of supply, but was now being driven by low interest rates, he said.
"Our concern is that interest rates may need to go up a fair way to check the inflation pressures arising from the Canterbury rebuild.
"If they do, that could be very painful for some people getting into the housing market now."
House prices were overvalued by as much as 20 per cent, assuming interest rates moved back to more normal levels. But with mortgage rates as low as they are now, "house prices could go higher still over the next two years", he said.
"It is now becoming a nation-wide upturn [in prices]," Stephens said.
Westpac is forecasting house prices to rise 9 per cent this year or more, and 4 per cent next year, but then be flat to falling as higher mortgage rates kicked in. House sales volumes were rising rapidly across the board and house prices could follow them up soon.
"The further they [house prices] go up now, the greater the risk of a correction [fall] because of those higher interest rates," he said. There could be a painful combination of rising interest rates and falling prices, as seen in 2007.
Bank of New Zealand head of research Stephen Toplis said if the economy grew at a modest pace this year, the "new normal" interest rate would rise to 4.5 per cent.
BNZ expected rates to start rising in December, and gradually tick up.
Toplis agreed house prices were probably 20 per cent overvalued when compared with wages, rent returns or market averages.
But in the current environment house prices were likely to keep rising at recent levels of 5 to 7 per cent at least for the next year.
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How many times have we just overlooked a particular image or series after a long day of shooting? How often does procrastination get the best of us? Sometimes we just don't see the result we expected, while other times we aren't looking with the right eyes. Maybe we just didn't have the software or processing equipment at the time to realize our vision. Whatever the reason, it's time to pull out old photos that you haven't yet processed. Process them using whatever current technique you like (subtle sharpening to full blown HDR is fine), and give life to a photo that you'd otherwise forgotten. I'm not talking about processing a shot from a series that you already liked and had processed several of; this one must be from something you completely overlooked. Note the old capture date rule.
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University of Akron basketball players Hanna Luburgh (left) and Rachel Tecca watch from the sidelines while the team runs a drill during practice last season at James A. Rhodes Arena. (Ed Suba Jr./Akron Beacon Journal)
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SEATTLE -- Here is a quick-hitting look at Washington's 11th day of fall camp:
Johnson, Kearse have surgery
Receiver James Johnson had surgery on the dislocated wrist he suffered in Wednesday's practice. In addition to the dislocation, doctors found torn ligaments. The senior is expected to miss four to six weeks.
Linebacker Jamaal Kearse, who has a stress fracture in his tibia, also had surgery Friday and is expected to miss four to six weeks.
"Anytime you're dealing with bones, it is what it is," Washington coach Steve Sarkisian said.
WR Smith works his way back
Sarkisian could sense the excitement when receiver Kevin Smith got the opportunity to participate in team drills.
"Kevin is such a great spirit," Sarkisian said. "He's got such a great energy. He loves being out here. When we gave him the opportunity to get in there on some team stuff he was just excited to be out there."
The junior continues to work his way back from the ACL injury he suffered right before the Alamo Bowl last season and his progress is a positive sign with Johnson expected to miss more than a month.
But, moving forward, the Huskies will continue to be cautious.
"He's definitely on a one-a-day schedule," Sarkisian said. "He will never go on a two-a-day. We've been very encouraged by his progress to this point."
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Freshman safety Shaq Thompson shed the yellow non-contact jersey and was back to full strength. He also made another promising play, making a one-handed interception on a tipped pass.
The Huskies will scrimmage Saturday.
Sarkisian said he expects senior safety Justin Glenn, who has been recovering from a mild concussion, to be back Monday.
Sarkisian said one of the surprises through fall camp so far has been the play of safety Will Shamburger.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Moving 1,200 chairs from the Salt Palace and setting them up in the Capitol rotunda may not seem like military training, but it is for members of the Utah National Guard.
They're getting ready for Gov. Gary Herbert's inauguration on Monday, where other members of the guard will participate in everything from security to a 19-gun salute to a helicopter flyover.
All of it serves as a chance for the 100 or so military men and women involved to practice various skills — including, when it comes to making sure there's seating at the event, logistics.
"For the National Guard, this is our opportunity to welcome in our commander-in-chief," said Utah Army National Guard Col. Scot Olson, the military liaison to the state Capitol.
Olson said planning for the inauguration began shortly after Herbert was elected in November to fill the remaining two years of former Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s term.
This will be Herbert's second inaugural ceremony in just over a year. He was sworn in as governor in a modest ceremony inside the Capitol when Huntsman stepped down in August 2009 to become U.S. ambassador to China.
This year's swearing-in ceremony will be similar, Olson said. "He wanted to stress that he's preserving the history and the dignity of the office while maintaining his responsibilities as a conservative fiscally."
The National Guard's role won't differ either, Olson said. "It is a statutory and historic component," he said. "My understanding is the Utah National Guard or the Utah state militia has participated in each inauguration since statehood."
During the hourlong event, Herbert is set to deliver an inaugural address that will highlight the state's "Legacy of Leadership" along with his vision for Utah. The Utah Chamber Artists, a 40-person choir, will also perform.
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Tom Bissell is the author, most recently, of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, just out from Pantheon. His most recent article for Harper's Magazine, "Cinema Crudité: The Mysterious Appeal of the Post-Camp Cult Film," appeared in the August issue. Senior editor Donovan Hohn asks Bissell to explain the mysterious appeal of video games.
Your subtitle, "Why Video Games Matter," points to a certain anxiety that runs through the book. You write, "all of us want the reassurance that we are not spending absurd amounts of time on something without merit." That anxiety interests me. I mean, writers who write about baseball, say, or film, no longer seem to need that kind of reassurance, though they might have in the past.
The biggest problem facing the video game, as something to talk about critically, is not that most of them are pretty wobbly as works of art; it's that even excellent, thoughtful games are virtually impossible to explain to people who've had no experience with the medium. Anyone can watch a film. Anyone can read a book. The average person might not come to the most learned, considered place critically, no, but you make someone play a game who's never played one before, and it's just terribly, terribly awkward and depressing. You have to learn how to play them, and adults don't like to learn new things, usually—especially something that most people assume are toys for children or man-children. So yes. The subtitle. I kind of regret it, in a way, because a lot of people said I only made the argument as to why games mattered to me—a comment that gets the blue ribbon for stupidity, because how else does one make the "meaning" case for something if not personally?
The last video-game console I owned was an Atari. And yet, although I don't feel a great urge to test drive the games you write about, I did like reading about them, just as I liked reading the last piece you wrote for Harper's ("Cinema Crudité: The Mysterious Appeal of the Post-Camp Cult Film," August 2010) but haven't bothered to see the film you were writing about, Tommy Wiseau's The Room. In both the Harper's piece and Extra Lives it seems to me that what you're really investigating as a critic is the nature of storytelling.
From "Cinema crudité: The mysterious appeal of the post-camp cult film":
What does it say about contemporary American culture that the Rocky Horror Picture Show of our time is not a likeable exercise in leering camp and butt-shaking grooviness but an earnest melodrama distinguished by what it is unable to provide? Why are so many people responding to a megalomaniacal feat of formal incompetence? Is it the satisfaction of seeing the auteur myth cruelly exploded, of watching an artist reach for the stars and wind up with his hand around a urinal cake? Some viewers of The Room clearly relish this aspect of it, but others come away from the film strangely exhilarated. In an entertainment culture in which everything from quiet domestic dramas to battling-robot fantasias is target-audienced with laserlike precision, The Room descends as bereft of familiar taxonomy as a bat from Mars. In an entertainment culture in which bad and good movies alike have learned to wink knowingly at their audiences, The Room is rivetingly unaware of itself or its effect. In an entertainment culture in which "independent filmmaking" is more calculated stance than accurate accounting of means, The Room is a film of glorious, horrifying independence.
That's exactly right, I think. What interests me, storytelling-wise, about something like The Room and a lot of video games is how bad or wrong they often (in The Room's case, always) get it, and how weirdly absorbing a narrative work filled with what you or I would call mistakes can often be. However! A lot of video game storytelling is phenomenally good: BioShock, Portal, Left 4 Dead, Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect. And there's a whole gamut of storytelling/narrative strategies in those games. That's the most exciting thing about video games right now: watching a medium sort of figure out its guiding principles.
Is the video game a storytelling medium? I'm thinking here of Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid, his notion that the challenge of game play is at odds with narrative progression. That's his reservation about trying to make video games tell stories. I have another: Doesn't the participation of the player make any complicated notion of character impossible? Of character and perhaps of plot? Imagine if you made a video game of Macbeth. You could outfit him with superficially characterizing details—armor, a really cool dagger, lines of dialogue, a nervous tic, all that. But if the game allows you to make the character Macbeth butcher his wife instead of King Duncan, then the plot suddenly becomes arbitrary and the character is no longer a character. He's a puppet.
This is the great bugaboo of people opposed to video games as a workable art form: that interactivity sabotages narrative meaning. I can see how that argument works, and I agree with it insofar as an interactive Macbeth would not be Macbeth. The counterargument is that video-game storytelling doesn't really mean a Macbeth in which you can do whatever you feel like; the video game author has to give the player a limited number of choices and make it seem as though anything is possible. A video game Macbeth means a slightly more variable Macbeth, not an anything-goes Macbeth. I think that a sensitive, thoughtful game designer could design any number of affecting scenarios to play out within a Macbeth-like plot structure. But this is all citrus and cider, obviously, since, as Clint Hocking says in the book, the nature of drama as it is currently understood is that it is authored. Period. No one designing a game, I think, would have any aspirations toward something like Macbeth, which is a work of art designed to plunge inward. Games don't do that very well. And maybe they don't have to, any more than novels need to have great action sequences. One more word about interactivity: Actors interact with texts on stage, yes? They have a range of decision within a framework, and a lot of freedom to interpret that framework in ways they see fit. Video game players, I keep saying to anyone who'll listen, are like actors. They're performing. I try to make my video game characters behave in ways that feel like they, the characters, want to. Some of those choices might be fitting and some might be terrible. It's all a matter of what your goal is. It may be trying to honor the intentions of the game designer, and it may be fucking with the intentions of the game designer. Both are legitimate ways to play video games. I view it as a problem inherent to games, but it also might be what makes games, games.
You've said that your favorite game designer is Clift Hocking, and I'll admit that the game I'd most like to play is Far Cry 2, the one that you say best recreates that experience you've written about in your other books, of being a stranger in a strange land. "Video games are very good at using detail to induce awe," you write, "but Far Cry 2 understands how smaller details cytoplasmically gather around a moody nucleus of place." Maybe then the aesthetic experience of a good video game most closely resembles that of travel writing? A virtual odyssey rather than a virtual drama?
A guy named Kieron Gillen made the argument a few years ago that good video game writing would be, prima facie, travel writing. I didn't know of his argument until I was well into writing Extra Lives, but I'm very pleased to think of the book as another travel book of mine, as opposed to straight criticism. The Far Cry 2 chapter is the one I'm proudest of, too, and the most travel-writingy, I think, so I'm glad you mentioned it. I like exploring. I like narrative fungibility. I like the feelings of loneliness that a really good, really thoughtfully conceived gameworld can subject you to. And of course that's exactly what I love about travel, too. Someone asked me recently what I'd give up first: real, actual travel or video games. Of course the answer is video games, but I don't want to undersell the intensity of the experience something like Far Cry 2 can give you.
Since I've never played the games you write about, Extra Lives certainly felt like travel writing to me. Again, though, I think I'd rather read about your trips to, for instance, the dystopic, zombie-infested land of Resident Evil's Raccoon City than go there myself. But then again, I'm not sure I'd like to go to some of the real places you've written about—war zones, the post-apocalyptic landscape of the Aral Sea, a midnight screening of The Room. Has it ever occurred to you that the places you write about in the real world bear a suspicious resemblance to the settings of many video games?
I've thought about this a lot, actually. And I don't think it's a coincidence that the kinds of video games I love most are open-world games that stress exploration, unpredictability, and branching narrative possibilities. When I turn on a game I really like and have never played through before, and it gives me a rich and fully imagined world, with only notional ideas of which way to go or what to do, I'm in gamer heaven. And when I land in a new city I've never been to before, and have nothing to do but explore and figure stuff out, I'm in real-life heaven. Those feelings of potential and discovery are what I live for, both as a person and a gamer.
You note how few games are funny, by which you mean how few are intentionally funny. For all the sentences you spend thinking about them, you also spend a great deal of the book mocking them—the awfulness of the dialogue, the "autistic" performance of the voice-over actors, the absurd ways characters interact. (Again, I'm reminded of your essay on Wiseau's The Room.) Here, too, Far Cry 2 was an exception. In your telling, the absurdities that occur on that game's war-torn African savannah credibly resemble life-like absurdities. There's that scene—for me the most memorable in the book—in which you swerve your jeep to avoid a zebra and end up plowing both jeep and zebra head-on into an oncoming jeep-load of armed guerrillas. I don't know whether to credit you or the game, but it read like a scene out of one of your short stories.
The best part of that scene, and what was so affecting about it, was, as Clint Hocking (the game's designer) pointed out, it wasn't scripted. It was something that grew organically out of the systems they put into place. And it was wonderful: upsetting, funny, bizarre, intense. What other form of entertainment can do that for you? Provide a series of systems that you poke and prod and walk around in and explore, to the effect that, sometimes, you have something happen right in front of you that you made happen by virtue of being a virtually present within the system. You think about it long enough and your brain begins to melt, doesn't it? It's not storytelling, actually, but it allows a story to happen. That's the kind of storytelling I find most exciting in games, in which systems are designed for storytelling events to occur, even though the events themselves are not written or planned for.
I have to ask about that last chapter, the most personal in the book. You write with great candor about becoming a habitual user of both Grand Theft Auto IV and cocaine. Critics of video games have often complained that, like slot machines and unlike more nutritious art forms, they can be addictive. Your experience seems to bear the allegation out. What does that last chapter imply about video games?
I hesitate to use the A word with regard to games. I'm not sure why. I also hesitate to use it to describe my relationship to drugs, which I have spent the vast majority of my adulthood more or less responsibly abusing. Cocaine has the nastiest potential for catastrophic abuse of any drug I've ever been attracted to, and games, I would say, have a similarly nasty potential for over-indulgence of any entertainment medium. The kinds of rewards games give you can be very insidious, and very addictive. But I've come to a point in my life where I'm much more able to walk away from a game I'm playing out of joyless compulsion. Times when I've been down in the dumps, or frustrated—games were very attractive to me, then. Which means that I was fleeing something else to play games, rather than being drawn into games by virtue of their addictiveness. So I don't deny that games can exert a strange and sometimes unpleasant pull, but I also don't want to blame the medium for my own compulsive attraction to them. I will say this, though: If I hadn't done a lot of the things I've done, and traveled to all of the places I've traveled, and looked back on my life to find that I'd spent most of it playing video games, I have to believe that I would pretty much do anything to have that time back. If a game can give me something genuinely interesting and aesthetically compelling, though, I don't begrudge the time I might spend on it, anymore than I would regret all the time I've spent watching movies. My demands with games now is this: Give me something back. When they don't, and I realize I'm playing only to play, I put down the controller. Life, to coin a phrase, is too short.
Have you considered trying to design a game yourself?
I'm actually in the process of helping to write a couple of games, one of which is based on a popular movie property (though not a new one), and which has the potential to be mind-blowingly good, and another which is a comedy game, and a first-person shooter, that takes two very popular game genres and smashes them together. That's about all I can say. Whether either one will come to fruition, I don't know. But I hope they do. Video-game storytelling is still such open ground, and the idea that I might be able to put my money where my mouth is with regard to why so many games are badly written . . . well, it's either going to be hugely rewarding or kick me right in the balls.
Can you describe your ideal video game, one that does not yet exist, that would fulfill the promise of the incipient art form?
I'd love to see a game in which problems were spread out before the gamer that did not have easy or even obvious solutions. A game in which decisions were largely irrevocable, and made you commit to the choices you make. A game in which characters seemed something more than nth-generation Xeroxes of action-movie heroes. A game that offered a world with no good guys and bad guys, but people with equally intricate and complicated belief systems. A game that left people stunned by the variety of human experience, in other words. A game in which not every obstacle was a puzzle or an enemy, but something spiritual, maybe, or moral, or personal. The problem is that none of this sounds very game-like, and it's hard to imagine how you enable these kinds of experience within the reigning paradigms of game design. That's either the problem or the challenge. I hope it's the challenge.
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I recently wrote about a day through Vieve's eyes. Here's what a morning in the last week or so might look like through Finn's eyes.
1am: I hurt. Why doesn't Mummy understand?
3am: I still hurt. And my nappy is dirty. Mummy is tired and I think she's grumpy at me.
6am: Still hurting...
7am: No, Mummy, I don't want food. I hurt! And I'm dirty again! Fix me!
8am: THE WORLD IS HORRIBLE. WAHHHHHHHHHH.
My poor little man has had diarrhoea for 14 days now, and had fevers for 11. I took him to the doctors after he'd been ill for a week. She took his temperature, felt his stomach, told me it was probably a virus and he looked a bit dehydrated. I should get fluids ino him, and come back if he still had diarrhoea in a week.
I fretted on the way home; a week is a long time for a wee boy to be sick like that, and he just wasn't himself. My instincts said something else was wrong, but I squelched the niggles with the thought that the doctor said it was just a virus. I decided I was probably worrying too much.
Over the next few days his fevers got a little more frequent and worse; not alarmingly high, but it was noticeable that he was washed out and miserable. He was exceedingly clingy and burst into tears if I even went to the bathroom. His appetite was gone, and it was hard to get fluids into him, even via his favourite transferral mechanism. I could see in his face that he was losing weight, and the birthmark under his nose was visible, something that only happens when he is pale. Two days later I decided my mummy intuition was not happy with waiting a week, and booked him in to see a different doctor.
It turns out that ear infections can cause diarrhoea. If I'd known that, I would have insisted that the first doctor check his ears. In fact, I think I will make it a standard request in future.
Poor Finn had a severely infected ear, with a blister on the eardrum, quite possibly a holdover from the horrible holiday's cold. Ow. I'm not one to automatically use antibiotics, but this one is obviously contributing to or causing his misery. So amoxicillin it is.
I also had to obtain a stool sample. Of the many glamorous things I have done as a mother, scraping poop into a pottle rates quite high on the I-never-expected-to-do-that-ometer. Thankfully, it seems that the nether region issue was just a side-effect of the ear infection (and now the antibiotics, though it has improved). I sure do it hope it resolves quickly once his prescription is finished; a packet of nappies per day * 14 days = a lot of my grocery budget. I'd use our cloth nappies but I'm terribly behind on laundry as it is.
It's a good lesson not to second-guess myself, and to trust my parental instincts. Have those instincts ever kicked in for you?
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Oh Donnelle he is so cute!!!
I don't have kids (yet) but do have my own experience. Went to the doctor about two previously uncoloured moles on my chin that were becoming darker - she said they were nothing but I hounded her for a referral to a specialist.
Turns out they were precancerous and were removed.
Very glad I didn't just take her word for that one!!!
Poor little chap. Well done for finding the source of the problem. It wouldn't surprise me if teething causes ear infections because of all the movement and inflammation around the jaw / sinus area. I hope he is recovering quickly now.
Good on you Donelle. I say that a mothers instincts are always right, after all, who knows their child best? Had a similar incident with our son, he had chronic ear infections and was on antibiotics a lot(he was 11 months at the time). I asked our doctor about grommets and he said that he hadn't yet had enough infections to qualify and was too young. hmmm. I got a second opinion from a private specialist (a two hour drive away) who was absolutely horrified with the state of Sam's ears, and within 48 hours Sam had grommets inserted. I think it's important to realise that doctors have a bit of knowledge in all areas of medicine, but if anything chronic is happening it always pays to see a specialist, or at the very least, another doctor so you get a second opinion.
When my 16yr old looked hollowed eyed and losing weight, collapsed at school, urinating frequently, I took him to the doctor only to get a lecture on eating properly. I asked if any blood tests were going to be ordered but was told no so I asked for a blood sugar to be done at the surgery thinking that if this doctor didn't take us seriously I was just going to have to find another. He did the test and my son was admitted within an hour to hospital with type 1 diabetes. I have since found out from other parents of such young people that usually a diagnosis takes weeks after going backwards and forwards with a really sick teenager.
What a wee sweetie you have there Donnelle.
I have to say when my son was small I was incredibly lucky to have a doctor that believed in a mothers intuition. I remember one time taking my son to the doctor and having him checked out and the doctor saying to me I'm sure it's just a virus. Two days later it turned out it wasn't. We had many trips like that. It got to the point that he said to me one day, I can't see anything but I know that you wouldn't have brought him unless something was wrong. He said your mothers intuition is always right. He never fobbed me off.
Always trust your instincts.
Devil's Advocate here. I suppose it is quite hard for doctors, esp when so many symptoms are shared by many different illnesses, plus neurotic mothers who want their child checked up if they have a running nose (that's me! I'm not criticising anyone). Plus there is greater pressure on them due to fewer young doctors staying in the country. It can't be easy.
After saying that - we had our child checked out last year for swollen puffy eyes, here take some antihistamines. One week later I don't think it's an allergy. Go back to doctor, was sent for tests and boom we were in hospital with nephrotic syndrome.
Also when he was born, I told this rather horrible hospital midwife (who incidentally but off point very rudely asked me why are you still here 2 days after he was born when he's attached to a drip. Because I enjoy the wonderful facilities that's why!) that he had jaundice - no he doesn't. This is my second child, yes he does. I've been a midwife x years, no he doesn't. Finally Dr takes my side, but still discharges us, and then hello hospital again - your baby has jaundice and should be admitted. Stupid midwife, stupid hospital. Okay will stop the rant now. Hope Finn is feeling better Donelle
Donelle I am glad that Finn is on the mend, and good on you for doing what you felt was right..poor wee man!
I am actually horrified that the Dr did not give him the full once over when you went the first time! Our Dr always checks ears etc if a temp is involved. I would expect they would take the time to rule out any possiblity especially given Finns age and how quickly young children can detoriate.
Thankfully when my teen was diagnosed as Type 1 two years ago the GP we saw was switched on. It was Sunday so we were at an after hours clinic and a blood glucose test was the second thing they did after checking his temp. He too was admitted to hospital within the hour with a blood glucose level of 48.5.
This has certainly happened to us as well. Our son, 9 months at the time, had been sick on and off for 2 months running. Nothing major, just a neverending stream of colds and temperature. Repeated trips to the doctor resulted in: "You are overanxious, it's just a virus, give it time". Despite feeling that there was something wrong, being blown off so consistently made me feel like I was overprotective, maybe everyting was fine? Finally, after 3 months of "colds", we found out that he had pneumonia. He ended up in Starship.
Hey there, Yes you are correct, about 2 and a half years ago my then 14 year old son was vomitting constantly so off to the dr we go, he said "Food poisoning" should be ok in a few days a few days went bye and still vomitting non stop I took him to a after hours surgery! Same thing wait a couple more days, I did. After 2 more days I took him back the Dr said you are being anxious and just be patient he will come right in a couple of days,get him some energy drips and make him have small frequent sips. Now its Friday and I'm thinking man food poisoning don't last this long..I rung the dr no we can't get him in go to the after hours dr or the A&E, so I went with my gut instinct and went to A&E he was seen straight away (by this time he had lost 21kgs) and 1 blood test told us he was in total Renal (kidney)Failure, and because of the energy drinks we had made him drink, his sodium content was so high we had given him a heart murmer, by 9am the next morning we were at Starship hospital. I will never sit back and not ask questions again. I would never want a parent to ever go through this ever. I think stories like this must be told to gain more awareness, as we as mothers can tell the difference between slightly sick and really sick.....Take care and I hope your little boy is better soon...
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In recent years, nearly every state has been hit with an "adequacy" lawsuit complaining that school funding was not sufficient to ensure a good education. Now that states are cutting their K-12 budgets by billions of dollars, they can expect to be hit with a lot more.
It's already happened in New Jersey. In May, the state Supreme Court ordered the restoration of $500 million in funding for schools. New Jersey may be a special case -- the state had asked for relief from the longstanding lawsuit based on a new funding formula it had developed and, ultimately, failed to fund -- but it won't be unique.
"When the Legislature rolls back funding substantially below what the court ordered by way of adequate funding in 2006, that unquestionably helps our case," says Alan Rupe, attorney in a lawsuit against the state of Kansas.
Mike Griffith, a finance analyst with the Education Commission of the States, says he does expect to see an uptick in the number of filings, but doubts they'll have much immediate impact. Not many courts will step in quickly, he predicts. "These things take at least five years, and the norm is seven to 10," Griffith says.
To the extent they're challenged on education cuts, states are likely to embrace what might be called the blood-from-a-turnip defense. Courts have generally been leery of ordering states to spend specific dollar amounts on schools. They may be more sympathetic than usual to arguments from states that they simply can't afford to spend much more.
"All of these courts are political in nature," says Eric Hanushek, an education finance analyst at Stanford. "They can't just say, 'We're not going to pay attention to the fact that there's this deep recession and there's not revenue there.'"
Still, most observers predict that going to court will become an even more common recourse for school districts, civil rights groups and parents concerned about education spending levels. Personal injury lawyers sometimes talk about a "good injury" that helps clients win a case. Billion-dollar spending cuts are a good injury in this regard.
"You'll see more lawsuits filed as funding levels are cut," says Josh Dunn, a political scientist at the University of Colorado. "The attorneys interested in this sort of litigation are working on it fairly consistently, but this does give them an opportunity."
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Man shot at Heatherwood Apartments; suspects flee in silver Honda
Why did the description not list the shooter's race? That would be very helpful in identifying the shooter. Is this being politically correct? And, another "poster" was right: Topeka has an overflow of young criminals who target Lawrence.
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Statehouse Live: Brownback's chief of staff steps down, but will continue working on governor's behalf
The governor is a disgrace to the state is many instances. That he is a liar should not be unexpected.
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Kansas education board at impasse over Brownback school funding plan
So - the State Board of Education (with Brownback appointees) attempted to issue a statement endorsing his ideas? Maybe with a little practice they Board can become as effective as the Kansas City, MO school board.
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Statehouse Live: Brownback unveils budget; recommends state funding of local SRS office, $200k in arts funding
Worst governor in the history of the state. Why don't we just exempt businesses and rich people from paying any taxes. That would allow them to "invest" in our well being to the extent they see fit. Then we can get "trickled down" on.
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Let's have another vote on this project. It's a bone head waste of tax payer money. Does anyone think some contractor pushed this expansion over on the public? The construction company makes a nice profit, and my property taxes rise yet again. How about a slogan of STOP THE NONSENSE NOW ! ?
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This program has been tried before in Kansas. The results ranged from incompetence to disaster. The general public does not know how to deal with inmates / parolees. Their intentions may be very good, but they get suckered into ploys by the inmates. This idea is really intended just to save money on employee salaries (by not employing as many parole officers). The public is then left at a greater risk. But what the heck?.....Isn't it more important to save State money than to save citizens from harm?
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Very good ideas from JayhawkFan1985 and Philbert. The KPERS retirement plan is woefully underfunded and retirees have not received a COLA in years. Our public schools also need the funds which were cut by Ebenezer Brownback and his cohorts in Topeka. He closed the Lawrence SRS office solely as political retribution to a county that did not vote for him in the last election. Next November, let's vote Brownback's Neo-Nazis out of office. They're a nation-wide embarassment.
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Marks and Spencer is the brand with the most green credentials, followed closely by Innocent in second place and The Body Shop in third, according to a survey of 1,000 UK marketing pros from Marketing Week and Yougov. The survey's goal was to reveal the top ten and ten worst green brands in the UK.
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The survey also uncovered the fact that the UK's marketing fraternity believe Shell and Exxon Esson to be the two least credible green brands in the UK. McDonald's features as the third least green-friendly brand to UK marketers – charting close to Coke, perceived as the eighth least green friendly company.
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