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Andrea Hanson scored three goals and Erin Booth had a goal and three assists to power the Bemidji girls soccer team to a 6-1 home victory over Little Falls Friday in the season opener.,money clips

BHS resumes its schedule 1 p.m. today at Walker-Hackensack-Akeley and Tuesday it will visit Moorhead.

"Offensively we dominated and we

Andrea Hanson scored three goals and Erin Booth had a goal and three assists to power the Bemidji girls soccer team to a 6-1 home victory over Little Falls Friday in the season opener.

BHS resumes its schedule 1 p.m. today at Walker-Hackensack-Akeley and Tuesday it will visit Moorhead.

"Offensively we dominated and we were able to manufacture many good shots,

New research,money clips, ‘Pulse pressure and coronary atherosclerosis in asymptomatic type 2 diabetes mellitus: a 64 channel cardiac computed tomography analysis,’ is the subject of a report (see also <http://www.newsrx.com/library/topics/Type-2-Diabetes.html> Type 2 Diabetes). "Identification of high risk sub-groups for early initiation of preventive medical therapy requires widespread population screening using simple, inexpensive tests. High pulse pressure has been shown to predict adverse coronary events,Bead bracelet," investigators in Haifa, Israel report.

"We examined if this correlation was related to a greater coronary plaque burden in patients with high pulse pressure using 64 channel coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The study included 427 consecutive asymptomatic diabetic patients with no history of coronary disease, (age 55-74 years, 58% women), undergoing CCTA as part of a prospective outcomes study. Coronary atheroma was present in 76.6% of patients, multivessel coronary atheroma in 55.1% and luminal stenosis (>or=50% of diameter) in 22.9%. Pulse pressure (adjusted for age, gender, mean blood pressure and heart rate) correlated with number of coronary arteries with atheroma (p=0.005) and with multivessel coronary atheroma (odds ratio 1.24 95%CI 1.06-1.43 for each 10 mm Hg pulse pressure, p=0.009). The correlation was independent of Framingham and United Kingdom Prospective Diabetic Study risk scores (p=0.027 and p=0.036 respectively). Adjusted pulse pressure also correlated with quartiles of coronary artery calcium score (p=0.009)," wrote D.A. Halon and colleagues, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine.

The researchers concluded: "Elevated pulse pressure was a useful independent marker of presence and extent of pre-clinical coronary artery disease in an asymptomatic diabetic population."

Halon and colleagues published their study in International Journal of Cardiology (Pulse pressure and coronary atherosclerosis in asymptomatic type 2 diabetes mellitus: a 64 channel cardiac computed tomography analysis. International Journal of Cardiology, 2010;143(1):63-71).

For additional information, contact D.A. Halon, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Dept. of Cardiovascular Medicine, Haifa, Israel.

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Sometimes I think it’s a mistake to leave home. It would be awful, for example, to find somewhere on your travels that is more agreeable than where you live. So I fear for Michelle Obama, currently summering briefly in cumbersome opulence at a luxury resort between Marbella and Estepona in Andalucia, southern Spain. Not that I think that the Costa del Sol will turn her head – when it comes to lousing up a beautiful coastline, the Spanish do it even better than the Americans. But if she were to look up towards the sierra, she might wonder what lies beyond those forest-cloaked ramparts.

I know what it’s like in those hills: I came down from them this very morning. And, I thought I’d take the liberty of telling the First Lady what she might find up there in back-country Spain.

As you leave the coast at Estepona, the air gets cooler and cleaner, and soon you enter a forest that cloaks the southern slopes of the mountains. For miles there is nothing but Mediterranean pine, ringing with the shrieking of cicadas, and filling the air with its heady scent. Looking back along the coast, you no longer see the ugliness, just range after range of misty mountains and capes, made more magical by the heat haze. On and on climbs the road, twisting like a sheep’s gut, until, after half an hour’s drive, it brings you to the high pass of Penas Blancas.

To the north,rings, you can see the green depths of the Serrania de Ronda, presided over in the distance by the bare rock pinnacles of the Sierra de las Nieves. Here and there are scattered tiny villages, impossibly remote, like spills of white beans on the plunging backs of the hills.

At this point you could do worse than take the road signposted for Genalguacil. As you plunge down the hill, the forest, that thinned at the pass, closes over you again, only now it has changed. The pines give way to bright chestnuts, huge ilexes and, everywhere, the fabulous cork oak, their peeled trunks like the limbs of dancers in stockings.

You’re on your own down here; driving for an hour on this road I passed just one other car. Occasionally there is a little white stone house in a clearing, with a tree-trunk bridge to cross the stream, and a fence to keep boars out of the vegetable patch. Finally the Tarmac gives out, and you continue on a dirt track. It may not be to everybody’s taste but to me it gives the impression that you are going somewhere just a little unconventional, somewhere to which there might still cling the faintest vestige of the mystery that tends to forsake a place with the arrival of a Tarmac road.

Suddenly, through a gap in the trees, you see it: Genalguacil, a village plumb in the middle of nowhere. Who lives here, you wonder, what do they do out here? Why would anyone bother to come all this way?

Well, it’s worth the journey because, among other things, it’s beautiful – and there are not so many places of which you can say that these days. The village clings to the edge of a ridge, looking over forested mountains down to the sea,Bead bracelet, 30 miles away. At the bottom is the simple church dedicated to San Pedro de Verona, a saint spectacularly depicted with an axe lodged in his head, and by way of a labyrinth of stone-flagged alleys the village rises to the big white shed of the chestnut co-operative at the top. And as you amble up, contented in the way that good vernacular architecture makes you, you become aware of a most singular phenomenon: art.

In the angles of the alleys and in the nooks and corners, are sculptures and murals of every conceivable stamp. There are some that are gorgeous, a few that are magnificent, here and there a touch of wry humour, and one or two that are hilarious. Some, too, are poignant, and all of them are good for stroking, which is what sculptors like you to do to their creations. As I wandered, I wondered, and to satisfy my curiosity, I sought out the village’s mayor, Beatriz. (This is not as peculiar as it may seem: in small Spanish villages and towns, the mayor is often pleased to see you.)

Beatriz was drinking in the bar of the Posada del Recovero, where I was staying. Attractive and petite, and bursting with nervous energy, she is one of the few mayors in the land who has actually lost weight since entering office. (Most go in thin and come out fat.)

"It’s like this," she says . . . life was hard throughout rural Spain in the 20th century: if it wasn’t the dead hand of the church, or the dismal strictures of the dictatorship, it was the iniquities of earlier rural political structures that kept the country people wretched. And so they left in droves, just as today the people flee North Africa and South America, driven by poverty, desperation and corruption. They went to Madrid and Barcelona, or Argentina and France, and the population of the villages dwindled to nothing. Genalguacil, like so many others, was left with a just handful of old people, longing for the day when their children would return and swell the choir of village voices, reduced now to the feeble croak of the aged. (This is beautifully evoked in "The Emigrant", a sculpture at the top of the village.)

The dictator died; the church, monstrously discredited, was no longer taken seriously, and little by little, Spain joined the ranks of modern European democracies. Things got better, and the countryside began to take on a little more life. But it was still hard to keep the young people in the crumbling villages; there’s only so much you can do with chestnuts and cork.

And then,Beads necklace, 14 years ago, the previous mayor came up with a plan to bring in new life. They would invite artists, house and feed them and give them a good time. In return, the artists would conduct workshops to teach and inspire locals, and leave their works to embellish the village.

The plan was a resounding success – artists love this sort of thing – and soon an annual festival grew out of it. Quite by chance,money clips, when I visited last weekend, Genalguacil was getting ready to celebrate its 10th festival of art (it takes place over the first fortnight of August every other year). Even now artists from all over the country, and indeed the world, were pouring into the village. Beatriz told me that there would be thousands of visitors over the next couple of weeks, and every night in the plaza there would be theatre, music, and dancing beneath the summer stars.

The success of the scheme reverberated in other ways, too. Some of the artists settled in Genalguacil, and with them and their families and the visitors, the breath of economic life wafted through the village, and young people either returned or stayed on. From all over Spain, too, mayors waddled up to Genalguacil to learn about rural regeneration from this simple little miracle.

If only you could see it, Michelle, I know it would be just your thing. I read about the run-in you had with the conventional farmers’ lobby when you stuck your neck out for organic producers and what you people so charmingly call "locavorism", and I’m with you all the way.

But anyway, Beatriz was fired up with the village’s history, and it was taking time to get it told, so we moved on to the Vizier’s Garden, a restaurant run by Miguel, who typifies the whole story.

Miguel was born in Genalguacil, but at 13 had to go down to the coast to continue his education. "I hated it," he says. "As often as I could I would get on my motorbike and come home for my mother’s coffee and cakes."

Later he studied science but, flying in the face of the vortex of the coast and its easy money, he decided to make his stand in the village. The food served in the restaurant is sourced locally and is organic, encouraging and supporting small local producers. His chef, by some curious glitch in the time/space continuum, makes a superb apple strudel. The place is heaving; it’s a job to get a seat (although I’m sure that in your case, Michelle, it could be fixed.)

One of the other pleasures of Genalguacil is civic pride. This manifests itself in a hundred small ways: from a man picking up a dog mess with a plastic bag – a thing I’ve never seen before in Spain – to the striking lack of moronic graffiti (and I am a man who admires good graffiti), but most of all to the vent that is given to the popular love of beauty: patios, pots of plants, and the simple adornment of windows and doorways. Call me a fuddy-duddy, but these simple things are what give the passer-by a frisson of the profoundest pleasure, and make him feel that God’s in his heaven and everything may be all right in its way.

How wonderful it would be if Michelle Obama could give her heavies the slip and get up into the hills to see this simple and glorious little miracle. She’d love it, I know, but then again, perhaps it’s safer that she stays in her luxury hotel down on the coast. That way, when she brushes the dust from her travelling boots back in Washington and looks up at the cobwebs that have gathered in the corners of the White House, she’ll probably think to herself, in the way that we all do, "Well, it may not be much, but it’s home, and home is where I like it best."

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Gray clouds hovered above as the evening grew cold. Couples held hands as they cuddled in a horse-drawn carriage, listening to the clopping of horse hooves.

Despite the harsh economic times and cold weather, the Valentine business is alive for some venues.

“The romance of the day, that’s what carriage rides are all about. Romance and happiness.”tiffany jewelry said Liz Ragsdale, co-owner of Whitehaven Carriage.

She and her husband, Marion, have owned Whitehaven Carriage for 16 years. Saturday was their first Valentine’s Day operating in Denton.

“I think in our economy today, people need something to relax.” Marion said.

“And it gives their husband an opportunity to …,” said Liz.

“… get out of the doghouse,” Marion said with a laugh.

With many businesses feeling the impact of the financial crunch, the Ragsdales are thrilled they haven’t felt much of it.

“We feared every year when we heard that … but they come back every year,” Marion said.

Whitehaven Carriage was booked on Valentine’s Day. Marion handed roses cufflinks and chocolates to couples and families as Liz drove the white carriage guided by two Percheron horses.

“We’re big on customer service; I think that’s what keeps us in business.” Marion said.

He said that 75 to 85 percent of their business comes from repeat customers.

Joe and Johanna Iaia of Denton were among those with Valentine’s Day reservations. They rode a horse-drawn carriage on their wedding day nine years ago.

“We’re kind of reminiscing,” Johanna said. “I scheduled this as a surprise for Joe.”

The Ragsdales offered three packages that included a 25-minute ride, romantic music and a photograph. Chocolates and roses were also given, depending on which package was purchased.

The carriage packages were priced lower than they were when the Ragsdales worked money clips out of Dallas. Marion said he did that out of consideration for their new location in Denton and the economic hardships some are facing.

“If we did Valentine’s Day for the money, it would be weak. You can’t do it for the money,” Marion said.

But Valentine’s Day isn’t their biggest seller. Liz had a full schedule of carriage rides for the night and Marion had to turn away couples attempting to take part in the romance at the last minute.

“It’s a totally different world when they’re on a carriage,” Marion said.

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Nov. 12–The metal bracelet that an Elk Grove Village company has sold by the hundreds of thousands as a pain relief device has only a placebo effect, according to a Mayo Clinic study being made public Tuesday.

QT Inc. has sold its Q-Ray bracelet through TV infomercials and the Internet for $50 to $180, claiming the bracelet is electrically charged, or “ionized,” in a way that can increase strength and soothe pain.

But the study involving 610 people, conducted by a researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., found no such benefit.

“This was dead negative,” Peter O’Brien, a Mayo Clinic statistician who worked on the study, said Monday. “The bracelet doesn’t do anything beyond what you would get with a placebo… [There is] no medical or biological effect.”

The results of the study are reported in the November issue of Mayo Clinic tiffany Proceedings.

Que Te “Andrew” Park, president of QT Inc., could not be reached Monday for comment.

Park has toned down some of the claims for his product since last year, when QT Inc. was sued by a consumer organization. An attorney for the group, Consumer Justice Center, of Laguna Niguel, Calif., would not comment Monday on whether the suit had been resolved.

In an interview last year, Park explained the bracelet in terms of alternative medicine concepts, saying the bracelet pulls excess ions–or electrical charges–out of the body, easing pain.

Park said his company sold more than $10 million worth of the bracelets, C-shaped pieces of metal with knobs at the ends, between September 2000 and March 2001.

Park has supplied free bracelets to professional sports teams, including the White Sox, Blackhawks and Fire, and team trainers said some players reported that the bracelets helped.

The lead Mayo Clinic researcher, Dr. Robert Bratton, got interested in the topic after seeing some patients wearing various brands of “pain relief” bracelets and fielding questions from many others who were curious about whether they worked.

Although pain experts had scoffed at the notion that a bracelet could affect the body’s nervous system, let alone reduce pain, no one had conducted a rigorous medical study of the devices.

Early last year, Bratton and his assistants gathered 610 people with muscle or joint pain. They gave “ionized” Q-Ray bracelets to half the group and identical inactive bracelets to the other half. QT Inc. supplied the bracelets. Neither the researchers nor the test subjects knew which bracelets were which.

The popularity of pain-relief bracelets was evident in the test subjects themselves. Of the 409 participants who answered a survey question before starting the test, 80 percent said they believed the bracelets could reduce pain.

In the study, people in both groups reported less pain while wearing the bracelet. But that’s to be expected, O’Brien said.

“If you give people just a sugar pill and tell them it will take away their pain, people will tend to believe it and report less pain,” he said.

That explanation doesn’t wash with at least one satisfied Q-Ray user, who said emphatically money clips Monday that the relief he felt from arthritis pain in his hands was not due to the power of suggestion.

“I’m a believer in energy therapy anyway,” said Allan Misch, 55, of Columbia, Md. “I think it’s an area that’s really underexplored…

[And] let’s say it is the power of suggestion, so what? The bottom line is, it helped.”

In a statement, Bratton said the study was important because so many patients are interested in alternative medicine.

“We need to look at what our patients are doing for their various problems and undertake objective, controlled studies,” he said.

Many people with chronic pain are tempted by unproven remedies such as bracelets or magnets, said Dr. E. Richard Blonsky of Chicago.

“You hate to see them wasting money on something that’s basically useless,” he said.

The city of Prescott issued the following news tiffany jewellery release:

At its stop on Gurley St., hundreds of attendees welcomed the Capitol Christmas Tree photo: courtesy Kim Webb

This year, Arizona was given the honor of providing the nation’s Capitol Christmas Tree. The 65-foot tree was donated courtesy of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest headquartered in Springerville, AZ and will be presented to Congress on November 30th, after a national tour.

After departing the Show Low-Pinetop area on Tuesday, the Capitol Christmas Tree delivery money clips caravan made stops in Fountain Hills, Prescott Valley, and finally in downtown Prescott at 5:30 pm. The tree was wrapped in sheeting for protection, and the large crowd on Gurley St. were encouraged to sign it.

The City’s special events manager, Becky Garvin arranged for the tree to come through Prescott. “As a former state capitol and the place where many great Arizona politicians have addressed their constituents, it felt right to have the tree come through our town.”

Follow the tree on it’s way to Washington D.C. by visiting the Capitol Christmas Tree website For more information pendants please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.

The saw sliced through the trunk of the 35-foot Colorado spruce. A crane tiffany and co hauled the tree onto the back of a truck. Workers strapped the tree in preparation for its eight-mile police escort downtown.

Everyone standing in Nancy Bartol’s front yard clapped.

“Oh, you can smell it,” said Bartol’s sister, Ann Froehlke.

“The way they did it was just really slick,” Bartol said.

This is the way things are supposed to go each year when City of Milwaukee workers cut down the city/county Christmas tree that resides in Red Arrow Park during the holiday season. The tree in Bartol’s front yard on N. 78th St. was selected a few weeks ago to serve as the 96th official holiday ceremonial symbol.

The crew had a mishap last year in the attempt to corral a 45-foot tree in Bay View cufflinks. The top of the tree snapped on live television. Forestry crews fixed the tree once it was erected in the park, but the video briefly made Milwaukee the butt of jokes from cable and late night talk show hosts.

“We were like ‘whew,’ ” city urban forestry manager Randy Krouse said.

Froehlke, who drove down from Oshkosh, was impressed simply to be able to clearly see the white siding and brick front of her sister’s house. Her late husband planted the tree for Bartol as a housewarming gift 27 years ago.

While the two are sentimental about the gift, it was time for the tree to go. A neighbor said the 18-foot wide tree blocked Bartol’s windows and prevented flowers from blooming on the south side of her yard.

“Your whole front yard was taken up by that tree,” Froehlke said.

Crews will spend the next week securing and stringing ornaments and lights on the tree, and Froehlke money clips and Bartol plan to attend the formal lighting ceremony at 5:15 p.m. Nov. 19.

Neighbors strolled into Bartol’s front yard, attracted by the large city trucks and the television lights. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett joked with Bartol and Krouse as the two discussed whether to replace the tree with a flower bed or another tree.

“We could get you a fire hydrant,” the mayor quipped.

The St. Clair County Community College issued the following press release:

St. Clair County Community College’s Theatre Discipline in December will present A Christmas tiffany Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas in the college’s Fine Arts Theatre.

Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6.

The play is written by Charles Dickens and adapted by Michael Wilson. Tom Kephart is director.

The play tells the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his Christmas Eve journey with three ghostly spirits.

Tickets are $5 for students and seniors age 60 and older and $7 bracelets for adults. Tickets are available at the door or by calling (810) 989-5513 between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays.

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas

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Joel Badley Marysville

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Cassie Farrugia Clyde Township

Kelsey Hernandez Marysville

Rachel Kearney Port Huron

Mallorie Krul Kimball Township

Erilee Lowe Marine City

Jeremiah Lukasak East China Township

Rae Ann McVeigh Kimball Township

Kami Misch Emmett

Donald Parker Port Huron

Zach Parkhurst St. Clair

Ryan Silver Yale

Angie Stoecklin Columbus Township

Dan Williams Kimball Township

Jordan Yeip Columbus Township money clips Children cast list Lillian Beckman Port Huron

Erin Blaylock Marysville

Owen Day Port Huron

Courtney Harris Kimball Township

Delany Lemke Marysville

Wesley Spain Marysville

Marisa Spain Marysville

Elizabeth Sturtridge Marysville For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.

Charity donations made in lieu of presents are becoming common gifts at birthdays and Christmas tiffany. Now a new beneficiary is being marketed alongside victims of famine and endangered species: the Treasury.

Britain’s national debt, currently at record peacetime levels, has become a charitable cause.

The Charities Advisory Trust, which has offered to collect donations and send them to the Treasury to help “whittle down Britain’s national debt”, has already received individual gifts of up to pound(s)500 from publicly minded citizens.

The scheme is being promoted as an ideal Christmas present for those worried about bequeathing the legacy of the banking crisis to the next generation. “Why lumber your descendants with a staggering debt burden?” the advertisements ask. “A wonderful present for children and grandchildren . . . Now is the time to start reducing the National Debt in their names”.

A donation of pound(s)20 is suggested, although bankers feeling weighed down by guilt have the option to cufflinks pay in pound(s)1,000. Higher rate taxpayers should be able to claim back tax relief on donations made to the Treasury, according to PwC, the professional services firm.

Dame Hilary Blume, director of the Charities Advisory Trust which disburses donations to charities, said that although the idea had raised eyebrows, money was already arriving. “This is a way for people to feel that they are helping,” she said. “People feel that the only way we can sort out this situation is if we all take responsibility.”

The scheme evokes the “I’m backing Britain” campaign of the late 1960s, when office workers volunteered to money clips stay at their desks for an extra half-hour each day to help the flagging economy, while the Treasury received envelopes containing “conscience cash” from the public to pay off government debt.

Public-spirited action on national debt is not confined to the UK. In the US, contributions to reduce the country’s debt have risen this year, at just more than $3m, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt.

Unfortunately for the Treasury, it will take more than pound(s)20 a person to dig Britain out of its fiscal hole. John Sibson, partner and government and public sector leader at PwC, estimates the current debt equates to pound(s)17,000 for each adult in the country.

The Budget predicts a deficit of pound(s)175bn this year and debt is expected to more than double from 37 pendants per cent of national income to almost 80 per cent by 2015. Accountancy firms say high levels of national debt could lead to persistently high interest rates, higher currency volatility and uncertainty for business.

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