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    Insurance discounts granted and revoked by same inspection firm ...

    It appears Coconut Creek resident Sandy Teich wasn't the only one who hired an inspection firm that said her home upgrades qualified for insurance discounts only to have the very same firm do another inspection at the insurer's expense and take the discounts away.

    Eight South Floridians called or wrote this week to say they had the same experience. Most are insured by Citizens and all said they had the same inspection firm as Teich. That firm did more than 17,316 of the re-inspections Citizens processed as of Dec. 20.

    Phil Calder of Tamarac wrote: "Citizens hired [a firm] to do my inspection which is the one of the same companies...who gave me a perfect inspection two months earlier!" He said he plans to leave Citizens because the insurer claims it's not subject to laws that require insurers to handle claims in good faith.

    Neil Leibowitz, of Plantation, wrote that he received a few, minor discounts about three years ago from a firm and "a few months ago, another [inspector from the same firm] came over, to verify the discounts I received based on the earlier inspection. If you read the two reports, it doesn't sound like these two inspectors are talking about the same house." He said Gov. Rick Scott has advocated larger rate hikes for Citizens so consumers will go elsewhere: "Only problem is that 'elsewhere,' is essentially nowhere, since the only companies available seem to be start-ups, third rate, or pure scams. I was taken out of Citizens twice in the past few years. Both companies didn't last two years.....and these were years in which we had no hurricane damage to contend with."

    Tom Steder wrote: "My sons property was reinspected by the SAME... inspector as the original report and was drastically different from the original. Nail spacing had changed on the roof? The roof to wall attachment had changed? All of this while NOTHING had been done to the roof. The premium increase was ludicrous."

    About a dozen homeowners reported they had different inspection firms both times but had the same result: a much higher premium.

    A few said it paid to fight their insurers for legitimate discounts and one said her State Farm agent helped her with it. Others said shopping around made sense. Nina and Frank Panuzzo of Plantation said their premium with State Farm after the insurer's re-inspection increased to $4,380, up 37 percent from the year before and 62 percent from 2010. With a deductible of roughly $16,000, they said they wondered, "Why have insurance?" But they shopped around and found an insurer, an AAA affiliate, that offered a premium of $3,564 with a much lower deductible.

    Teich, whose premium with Citizens increased by about $850, or 23 percent, reported today at the insurer has agreed to refund about $500. She provided Citizens with NOA documents for some of her home upgrades earlier this month.

    Source: http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/business/realestate/housekeys/blog/2011/12/like_coconut_creek_resident_sa.html

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    Friday, December 30, 2011

    Is Morocco really ready for a mega mall?

    In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, Moroccans throng the corridors of the new luxury Morocco Mall in Casablanca, Morocco. Inaugurated by popstar Jennifer Lopez in front of the cream of Moroccan society, Casablanca's first mega mall, complete with two-story-high aquarium, is dripping with glamour and luxury. While developers describe it as a step bringing Morocco closer to the ranks of the developed world, detractors worry that it is a vanity project that a country teetering on the edge of an economic crisis can ill afford. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

    In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, Moroccans throng the corridors of the new luxury Morocco Mall in Casablanca, Morocco. Inaugurated by popstar Jennifer Lopez in front of the cream of Moroccan society, Casablanca's first mega mall, complete with two-story-high aquarium, is dripping with glamour and luxury. While developers describe it as a step bringing Morocco closer to the ranks of the developed world, detractors worry that it is a vanity project that a country teetering on the edge of an economic crisis can ill afford. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

    In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, divers clean the two-story aquarium at the center of Morocco Mall near Casablanca. Inaugurated by popstar Jennifer Lopez in front of the cream of Moroccan society, Casablanca's first mega mall, complete with two-story-high aquarium, is dripping with glamour and luxury. While developers describe it as a step bringing Morocco closer to the ranks of the developed world, detractors worry that it is a vanity project that a country teetering on the edge of an economic crisis can ill afford. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

    In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, water shoots into the air accompanied by music as the musical fountain performs outside the new Morocco Mall near the coastal town of Casablanca. Inaugurated by popstar Jennifer Lopez in front of the cream of Moroccan society, Casablanca's first mega mall, complete with two-story-high aquarium, is dripping with glamour and luxury. While developers describe it as a step bringing Morocco closer to the ranks of the developed world, detractors worry that it is a vanity project that a country teetering on the edge of an economic crisis can ill afford. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

    In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, the new Morocco mall's "luxury quarter" with international brands like Louis Vuitton, is seen in Casablanca, Morocco. Inaugurated by popstar Jennifer Lopez in front of the cream of Moroccan society, Casablanca's first mega mall, complete with two-story-high aquarium, is dripping with glamour and luxury. While developers describe it as a step bringing Morocco closer to the ranks of the developed world, detractors worry that it is a vanity project that a country teetering on the edge of an economic crisis can ill afford.. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

    In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, a poster of Morocco's King Mohammed VI and palm trees are seen underneath an atrium at a new shopping mall in Casablanca, Morocco. Inaugurated by popstar Jennifer Lopez in front of the cream of Moroccan society, Casablanca's first mega mall, complete with two-story-high aquarium, is dripping with glamour and luxury. While developers describe it as a step bringing Morocco closer to the ranks of the developed world, detractors worry that it is a vanity project that a country teetering on the edge of an economic crisis can ill afford. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

    CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) ? Inaugurated by popstar Jennifer Lopez in front of the cream of Moroccan society, Casablanca's first mega mall, complete with two-story-high aquarium, is dripping with glamour and luxury.

    While developers describe it as a step bringing Morocco closer to the ranks of the developed world, detractors worry that it is a vanity project that a country teetering on the edge of an economic crisis can ill afford.

    Morocco at first seems a curious choice for what its developers are billing as the biggest mall in Africa. It already has world-renowned traditional bazaars featuring exquisite ceramics and rugs that draw tourists from across the globe.

    The North African kingdom of 32 million is home to the largest income inequalities in the Arab world ? and now hosts Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Dior and Ralph Lauren boutiques and department store Galeries Lafayette in the new mall, a futuristic, bulbous silver structure perched on Morocco's coast overlooking the crashing waves of the Atlantic.

    It is a stark symbol of the contrasts of a country with 8.5 million people in poverty that ranks 130 out of 186 on the U.N.'s human development index, but will still host acts like Shakira and Kanye West for a summer concert series.

    The 20-minute coastal drive from downtown Casablanca ? Morocco's largest city ? to the mall showcases the complexity of the country, with slums hidden from sight by high walls, construction areas for new shopping centers and finally the villas and night clubs of the wealthy.

    "It is a great honor for Morocco to have a project of such dimensions," said Salwa Akhannouch, head of the Aksal group and the driving force behind the mall, at its opening this month.

    Most Moroccans will not be shopping at the mall.

    The country has some of the lowest literacy and highest unemployment rates and the highest income disparity in the Middle East and North Africa, according to the Gini coefficient, a statistical tool used by economists to measure the inequality of distribution in a country. The disparity has been growing every year.

    Crowds packed the mall in the weeks after it opened, ambling through sunlit galleries and gazing at the aquarium and the 350 stores on offer. Periodically, colorfully dressed performers, some from as far away as Eastern Europe, would burst into enthusiastic dance routines to the accompaniment of loud drums.

    There were few shopping bags in sight, however, and most seemed just curious to finally see this much-talked-about monument to shopping that has been four years and $260 million in the making.

    "There is a big gulf between the rich and the poor and the rich just seem to be getting richer and the poor, poorer ?the mall is a symbol of that," said Hassan Ali, a 45-year-old shopkeeper selling handtooled leather jackets in Casablanca's modest old quarter.

    Tourism is a vital part of the mall's plan, according to its secretary general, Jenane Laghrar, who anticipates 20 percent of its estimated 12 million annual visitors will come from abroad. She said sales for the first week were on target.

    "When you enter the mall, you see Gucci and Dior, but don't forget you have the largest content in Africa ? at the same time you have more affordable brands," she said.

    There is also an aspiring middle class that wants to be able to buy these luxury products, she added.

    The hope is also that European tourists will add to their usual itinerary of beaches and the exotic cities of Fez and Marrakech, a trip to Casablanca ? and the mall.

    Laghrar said they are especially hoping to attract visitors from the rest of Africa who pass through Casablanca airport on their way to Europe.

    For now, however, visitors from Africa make up less than 5 percent of Morocco's tourists, with the vast majority still from Europe.

    This could well be a problem as the European continent sinks into crisis, said economist Najib Akesbi, and in fact Europe's woes pose a dilemma for the Moroccan economy as a whole, which is deeply intertwined with its neighbors across the Mediterranean.

    Morocco's main sources of hard currency, including foreign investment, tourism and remittances from its workers abroad, overwhelmingly come from Europe. On Dec. 20, the government reduced growth projections for 2012 by half a percentage point in response to Europe's crisis.

    "The world is entering a period of crisis, the next four or five years are not going to be years of prosperity," warned Akesbi, who teaches at the Hassan II Institute for Agronomy in the capital Rabat.

    For him the Morocco Mall is part of a bet Morocco is making that it can become a kind of Dubai for the western Mediterranean, attracting consumers from across Africa and Europe to make up for weak local demand.

    "It is a bit of a fragile model," he said. "The success depends less on durable local demand than betting on foreign demand."

    The mall's developers point to Morocco's consistent growth of between 4 and 5 percent for the past few years as a sign that the economy can support this kind of luxury shopping.

    Those growth figures, however, are not producing jobs, and unemployment overall is at least 8 percent, while for those under 34 it is a staggering 30 percent.

    Pro-democracy demonstrations that rose up in Morocco earlier this year have faded away, but there are still regular protests by the millions of unemployed university graduates across the country, frustrated at their prospects.

    Investment has not been in sectors like industry that produce a lot of jobs, rather in retail, services and infrastructure that have not been creating the employment the nation needs, said Akesbi.

    And the economy is still at the whim of the annual agricultural harvest. Part of the reason for the country's steady growth recently has been good weather.

    "Here we are in 2011 and the economy is still largely determined by the sky," said Akesbi. Even though only 25 percent of the economy relies on agriculture, it employs 40 percent of the work force and a bad harvest can hurt other sectors.

    The government budget is also dangerously overstretched, after it increased food subsidies and raise government salaries in a bid to stave off the anti-government unrest sweeping the Arab world.

    The Morocco Mall project was conceived in the headier days of the mid-2000s when it was decided that what the country needed was more shopping centers.

    While Europe falters, the wealthy oil states of the Gulf are playing a role in building a more consumerist Morocco.

    Half the funding for Morocco Mall comes from the Saudi Al-Jedaie Group which has built malls across Saudi Arabia and two new initiatives looks set to shower Morocco with Gulf money.

    Associated Press

    Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/f70471f764144b2fab526d39972d37b3/Article_2011-12-28-ML-Morocco-Mega-Mall/id-debf0dfe1b4a4156a6e93153df0c9116

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    Thursday, December 29, 2011

    Video: Trading the Close: Oil

    The U.S. Fifth Fleet says they won't allow disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, taking oil below the $100 mark for the day, but if tension continues, oil could head higher. Darren Wolfberg, BNP Paribas director of energy trading, discusses.

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    Verizon, on Twitter, says 4G is up and running again

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    Verizon's Twitter account this morning tells us that its latest 4G LTE outage has been resolved.

    4GLTE issue resolved overnight. 3G operated normally; calling, texting were unaffected.

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    Wednesday, December 28, 2011

    Video: Getting the most out of your gift card



    >>> after taking a breather in early december, shoppers have come back in a big way. according ? to the international council of shopping centers , sales the week before christmas were up 4.5% compares to last year. this after a decline in the first two weeks of december. one kmiflt says that consumers are still cautious and looking for bargains. 2011 expected to be a record year. the bought gift cards this year, sales will top $27 billion. experts expected half of shoppers will redeem their gift cards in the january. if history proves right, millions of dollars on those cards will never be used. courtney regan joining me with tips on how to help folks get the most out of those gift cards .

    >> i think many of us have at least one gift card at our wallets. i looked it in mine, very six in there. it's not that i don't want the cards, doi intends to use them. sometimes it's not convenient or perhaps i have to add value to the card to get what i want. you want to make sure you do use the card. $41 billion has been un used in gift cards since 2005 . your first choice is to take it to the retailer and buy something. you can get more for your money now than if you wait 30 days or so when the sales have passed.

    >> you're saying we should redeem them early, to take advantage of some of these post christmas sales we're seeing advertised?

    >> exactly. and if you get a gift card that doesn't exactly suit your tastes, you do have options. you can trade it in. you're going to have to pay a small amount to do so, ? but you can go to plasticjungle or giftcard rescue or cardpool.com and get 290% of the card's value and use it toward another retailer that you will, in fact, be able to use.

    >> i understand there's a website out there that you can take your gift card and use the money on the gift card and invest it? explain that to me?

    >> yes, can you. that's for those of us who don't want to buy one more shirt or candy bar or whatever the case may be. you can go to goldmine.com, for as limb as $25. you can invest that money, put it in a mutual fund and see if it can grow. see if you can make 50 dollars at the end of the year, that will be a good return. you you never know, stranger things have happened . it could be something you could really benefit from in the end.

    >> consumers continue to lose money on these gift cards because they don't redeem them. retailers love them. if you get an itunes gift cards , you never buy 15 or $20 worth of songs, you always spend a little more at that particular store.

    >> yeah, exactly. because like i said, before, if you you get a card for $25. what if the lowest item in the store is $29.99. you have to spend more to be able to use that card. in some respects it's a good thing for retailers. what's interesting, a lot of people think once that card is bought, the retailers get that money, whether or not it's redeemed. because of accounting rules, retailers can not claim that revenue. it's unearned income until that card is fully cashed in. it has to do with accounting rules, believe it or not. it can be tough for them too.

    >> you just taught us something in the studio. have a great new year.

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    Pakistan's PM denies plans to sack generals (AP)

    ISLAMABAD ? Pakistan's prime minister has denied reports that he plans to sack the country's powerful army and intelligence chiefs amid tension with the military over a secret memo scandal.

    Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said late Monday he did not view the generals as a threat to democracy, contradicting statements he made last week.

    The current scandal centers around a memo sent to Washington in May asking for help in stopping a supposed military coup in the wake of the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

    Local media reports speculated that Gilani might try to sack army chief Gen. Pervez Ashfaq Kayani and the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, Lt. Gen. Shuja Pasha, to neutralize the threat to his government.

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    Tuesday, December 27, 2011

    300 Orthodox Jews and police clash in Israel, officer injured

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Ultra-orthodox Jews and Israeli police clashed in Beit Shemesh on Monday, injuring a police officer.

    A police officer was injured and several black-robed protesters taken into custody in the disturbances that erupted after a public outcry over televised footage of an eight-year-old Israeli girl complaining of verbal abuse from black-robed Orthodox men while on her way to school.

    "Nazis, Nazis," religious protesters in the town of Beit Shemesh shouted at Israeli officers escorting them from the scene, Israeli television footage showed.

    Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said one of the protesters was arrested on suspicion of throwing a rock that slightly injured a police officer. Three other ultra-Orthodox men were being questioned, he said.

    He said Israeli police were also investigating complaints that some of the Orthodox men had spat at and spoken "disrespectfully" at girls en route to an elementary school, where Naama Margolese, 8, whose spotlight television interview was aired on Friday, also attended class.

    Police have reinforced their presence in Beit Shemesh where the dispute flared at the weekend, and when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded a crackdown on the zealots some have accused of spitting at or harassing women they see as immodest.

    Israeli television crews filming in the town complained rocks were thrown at them in Beit Shemesh on Monday, where ultra-Orthodox men angry at the removal of a sign urging women to avoid certain streets, threw stones.

    "We have increased our presence in the town to keep it calm," Rosenfeld said.

    The dispute in Beit Shemesh underscores a widening fault-line in Israel between religiously devout and a majority of non-observant Jews, a dispute often exacerbated by the powerful role of ultra-Orthodox political parties in Israeli governments.

    Though numbering only 10 percent of Israel's mostly Jewish population of 7.7 million, ultra-Orthodox voting patterns give them considerable clout, helping to secure them welfare benefits and wider influence.

    Rabbis condemn violence

    But many rabbis have insisted the incidents in Beit Shemesh were the acts of a fringe minority. Some rabbis, among them members of Netanyahu's leading ultra-Orthodox coalition partner, the Shas party, have joined him in condemning the violence.

    Netanyahu intervened in the festering dispute as the public began venting outrage at attempts by zealots to spread their practices of gender segregation, embraced by many Orthodox communities citing religious teachings, into the wider public domain.

    "In a Western, liberal democracy, the public realm is open and safe for all, men and women both, and neither harassment nor discrimination have any place there," Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday.

    Israeli women have complained for years of black-robed religiously fervent men forcing them to sit separately at the back of public buses.

    More recently, and largely in Jerusalem, some rabbis have taken to demanding that businesses avoid posting photographs of women or employ them in any of the shops they patronize.

    But the controversy Israelis have now dubbed "exclusion of women" burst into the headlines only recently after an incident involving a military base where Orthodox male soldiers walked out of a ceremony in protest of a performance by female singers.

    With the focal point having moved to Beit Shemesh, activists have made plans to hold a larger rally there on Tuesday.

    Some in the city fear the dispute may scar relations among an already delicate mix of religiously observant immigrants living alongside Israelis embracing a more modern lifestyle.

    Matti Rosensweig, a spokesman for Beit Shemesh told reporters there that the mayor was "working overtime to try and calm the atmosphere."

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    Monday, December 26, 2011

    Report: AFP photographer released in Turkey (AP)

    ANKARA, Turkey ? Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have released an AFP photographer, along with 12 other people who were detained as part of an investigation into a group prosecutors accuse of having links to Kurdish rebels.

    Anadolu Agency said however, that a court early on Saturday ordered 35 other suspects formally arrested pending trial over their alleged involvement in the Union of Kurdistan Communities ? which authorities say is an offshoot of the PKK rebel group.

    AFP photographer Mustafa Ozer was among 48 suspects, including a number of other journalists, detained in police raids in seven cities on Dec. 20, sparking increased concerns over media freedoms in Turkey.

    Hundreds of Kurdish activists have been charged as part of the investigation since 2009.

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    Saturday, December 24, 2011

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    My life was never an easy one. I lost my father at age 5, my family's home flooded at age 7 and I was diagnosed with ALL (Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia) at age 9. Cancer is the destroyer of bodies. The effect of 3 years of chemotherapy on my body is still being studied for late effects.

    But I fought it, overcame it and lived through it to tell the story. I grew my hair back, I learned how to walk for the second time in my life and am part of an amazing Camp, Camp TaKumTa, a week long camp in So. Hero, Vermont for children who have or have had cancer.

    Getting fit couldn't be as hard as surviving.

    How I Did It

    The first few lessons that my trainer taught me were as follows: you want the body, you have to lift weights and if you want to burn fat, you have to eat. Both of which I was not doing. In fact, I was not doing it properly until I sat myself down in April and had a little chat?with myself.

    I had this great opportunity to improve myself. I had found a gym with people that care, a family, and a trainer and coach that had the tools to guide me to whatever goal I wanted to reach. A no brainer and what I wanted all along! If I did not take advantage of what was given to me, then it would be my failure and this was my life, my goal.

    I had to refocus and remind myself that it was a hard road but it was what I wanted. I started my new workout booklet that day, April 1, 2011. My food was perfect, my workout was perfect and I was determined to flip the switch. I got a picture taken that day in my swimsuit, and said goodbye to the old me.

    Fast forwarding to today, I am over 30 pounds leaner, stronger in heart, mind and body and healthier and more fit than I have ever been in my entire life. In 7 months I went from an asthmatic who would get sick fairly often to girl that competes in fitness games, does Boot Camps at Hoover Dam (Columbus, OH), flips 220lb tires, swings ropes, sweats profusely and can now breathe.

    I can squat and deadlift 175lbs, I can run mile after mile and can be proud to put on a glittery bikini and practice competition posing in front of others. My progression is what blows my trainer away. What blows me away is the support and love that I get and the inspiration that I give others. I never thought others would follow my training, much less care or be inspired by it.

    What surprises me the most is that daily I get messages, calls, texts, emails from people from my past, family, friends, you name it, telling me I inspired them to lose weight and they are 10lbs down, or they want to know what I am doing, how I am doing it, what I eat! It's remarkable!

    I do not make it a secret either. I feel that if I was blessed to be put on this path, maybe my purpose is to share it with others and spread the word that anyone can be fit, reach their goals and just feel good.

    Supplements

    Diet

    Nutrition:
    Calories: 1605
    Carbs: 149g
    Protein: 177g
    Fat: 36g

    Training

    • Barbell Deadlift Barbell Deadlift

      Barbell Deadlift

      2 sets of 10 reps, 1 set to failure
    • Barbell Curl Barbell Curl

      Barbell Curl

      4 drop sets of 15, 10, 10, 10 reps
    • One-Arm Dumbbell Row One-Arm Dumbbell Row

      One-Arm Dumbbell Row

      4 add sets of 10 reps, each arm
    • Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown

      Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown

      4 add sets of 12, 12, 10, 8-10 reps
    • Dumbbell Bicep Curl Dumbbell Bicep Curl

      Dumbbell Bicep Curl

      3 sets of 10, 12, 12 reps
    • Hammer Curls Hammer Curls

      Hammer Curls

      2 sets of 10 reps, 2 add sets of 10 reps

    Cardio:

    Warm Up:

    Circuit: Repeat 3x

    Zumba: 1 hr class or Contest Posing Class: 1 hr

    Project Mayhem Bootcamp (timed fitness challenge) Completed in: 27 min, 17 sec

    Suggestions for Others

    Over the course of 7 months, I have learned a great deal about fitness and health. What I tell others is that while it's not everyone's desire to compete on stage in bodybuilding, everyone can make changes to be healthier, more fit and feel better.

    I am frequently asked a variety of questions but most people want to know the secret to getting fit and staying that way. Well, here it is: there are no secrets and no one specific path to achieving your fitness goals. There is no special pill that you take or fad diet that can realistically change you forever.

    The change starts with you. My secret is consistent, clean eating and exercise. (I know, who would have thought!) If you want to look good in a bikini, then lift weights. If you want to boost your metabolism, then eat.

    If you want to improve your overall fitness and health, educate yourself and seek out those that are fit and talk to them and learn by doing what they do. Gain as much knowledge as you can and apply that to your life.

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    GoodKnews Photography

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    All the Weepy Horses

    The film begins with Joey, a rambunctious, untrained half-thoroughbred, passing into the care of Albert?s father Ted (Pete Mullan), a homesteading farmer in rural England in 1914. Ted is a good man but something of a failure?he?s been an alcoholic since returning from the Boer War, where he won a medal for participating in what?s suggested was an atrocity. When he comes home with an expensive racehorse rather than the plow-pulling draft horse he was supposed to buy, Ted?s practical wife Rosie (Emily Watson) insists that the animal be returned. But their son Albert (Irvine) begs to keep the horse and, with hard work, manages to tame and train it. In what?s surely the most suspenseful plowing sequence ever filmed, Albert teaches Joey to pull the plow just in time for the Narracotts? farm to escape seizure by their landlord (David Thewlis), a miserly wretch whose son (Robert Emms) is Albert?s chief rival.

    Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=f338bb7bc5fb33e2de15df9a86cbf0c1

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    Limit Cold Medications During Pregnancy, Experts Advise (HealthDay)

    WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- It's prudent to limit the use of over-the-counter cold and flu medications during pregnancy, experts say.

    This is because some medications may contain substances that are potentially harmful to developing fetuses, or that have not been well-studied for use in pregnant women.

    "Every year around this time, we get a significant number of calls from pregnant and breast-feeding women in California who are battling colds and are worried about which meds they can and can't take," said Christina Chambers, professor of pediatrics at University of California, San Diego and program director at the California Teratogen Information Service.

    To help expectant mothers who are sick this holiday season, Chambers offered these cold medicine safety tips:

    • Take as little as possible. Over-the-counter cold remedies could contain up to six ingredients for a wide array of symptoms, such as a cough, runny nose or headache. Choose medications that contain just the ingredients you need for your specific symptoms.
    • Avoid oral decongestants in early pregnancy. When taken during the first trimester, these medications have been linked to a slightly heightened risk of abdominal wall defects in fetuses. Saline drops or nasal sprays may be good short-term alternatives.
    • Be cautious about herbal ingredients. Many over-the-counter medications may contain herbal ingredients that have not been evaluated for use during pregnancy.
    • Don't overdo it with lozenges. These drops may soothe a sore throat but they often contain mostly sugar. Lozenges may also contain zinc and vitamin C, which should be taken only in limited daily doses (80 to 100 milligrams per day for vitamin C and 11 milligrams per day for zinc) during pregnancy.
    • Choose alcohol-free cough syrups. Opt for cough remedies that do not contain alcohol.

    More information

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about medication use during pregnancy.

    Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/meds/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20111222/hl_hsn/limitcoldmedicationsduringpregnancyexpertsadvise

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    Hands-on: Kindle for iOS gets iPad magazines, PDF support

    ?Tis the season for family, holiday cheer, and? iOS reader app updates? Just a couple of weeks after Apple?s iBooks got a huge update, Amazon has issued a big one for its Kindle app for both the iPhone and iPad. The biggest new feature ? digital magazines ? is exclusive to the iPad, but iPhone and iPod touch owners aren?t completely left out of the fun.

    When the Kindle Fire launched last month, it included a magazine app that rivals that of the Nook Color and Nook Tablet. Many complained about mediocre (or worse) formatting on the 7-inch display, but it displayed magazines nonetheless. To be exact, it offers over 400 magazines, including Martha Stewart Living, Food Network Magazine, Men?s Health, and (our fellow Ziff Davis publication) PC Magazine.

    Those same Kindle magazines are now on the iPad, and they work much better on the 9.7-inch display of Apple?s iPad. In our tests with the Kindle version of PC Magazine, the formatting was appropriate, with large, rich photos. It looked better in portrait (single page) mode, as landscape mode switches to a double-paged look, which made text look awfully tiny. If this teaches us anything, it?s that digital magazines are much better suited to 10-inch tablets than smaller 7-inch rivals like the Kindle Fire.

    While magazines are exclusive to the iPad version of Kindle, another big addition is universal: PDF (and other) documents can now be imported and read on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. This has been available for Kindle devices for ages, but it?s a huge addition to the iPad app. You can import PDFs to Kindle by transferring through iTunes, opening from an email or Safari, or sending it to your personalized Kindle email address. Other documents can only be opened through iTunes or the Kindle email address.

    While many other iPad apps already superbly handle PDFs (GoodReader, iBooks), Kindle is a welcomed app to add to that list. For PDF editions of long-form documents, public domain eBooks, or ? naughty, naughty ? pirated eBooks, these can now be organized along with your Kindle collection.

    The updated Kindle app is available now in the App Store.

    Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/hands-on-kindle-for-ios-gets-ipad-magazines-pdf-support-20111221/

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