Archive for June, 2010
Jun
30
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By BETH J. HARPAZ, AP Travel Editor
Got butterbeer?
Harry Potter fans are all abuzz about butterbeer, and they’ve got the foamy mustaches to prove it.
The cold and creamy, frothy drink is the most popular food item at the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando, according to Universal spokesman Tom Schroder, with visitors lining up to try it.
“Then they would walk around and have this mustache on,” said Sabrina Sampson, 11, of Richmond, Va., who described the drink as tasting “like cream soda. It was somewhat thick, and it was really sweet, and then it got salty as you swallowed it, like butterscotch.”
Schroder said that about half the visitors to The Wizarding World sample...
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Jun
30
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Lorain County Moms
By ALISON LADMAN, For The Associated Press
No need to travel to Hogsmeade (or to Universal Orlando) to get a taste of Harry Potter’s butterbeer. We’ve created an easy version of the formerly fictional drink made famous by the young wizard. …
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Jun
29
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Lorain County Moms
“Just Plain Foolishness: Rachel Yoder – Always Trouble Somewhere” by Wanda E. Brunstetter, performed by Ellen Grafton
c.2010, Brilliance Audio
$14.99 / $18.99 Canada
3 CDs / 3 hours
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, Philadelphia Tribune contributor
What did you want most for your last birthday?
Did you want a new bike or the skateboard you saw at the store? Maybe you wanted clothes or a new game player, complete with that hot new game you’ve been dying to have. Perhaps you wanted something simple, like a one-day trip or vacation with your family.
And did you get what you wanted? …
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Jun
29
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By LISA A. FLAM, For The Associated Press
She’s clutching her toddler’s hand with phone pressed to her ear or finger-scrolling through e-mail while carrying too many packages. Now, she doesn’t have to worry about carrying her fab, fashionable handbag, too.
The crossbody bag, sporting a long strap and worn across the body, is suddenly everywhere. The bags are practical, stylish and with offerings at every price from two digits to four, highly accessible.
“The business is definitely on fire right now,” says Brooke Scott, fashion director of handbags and accessories at Bloomingdale’s.
“Everybody needs to be hands-free,” she says. “We’re all girls on the go, trying to juggle a lot of different things....
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Jun
28
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CINCINNATI — The Procter & Gamble Co. is aiming to make disposable diapers fashionable.
Popular designer Cynthia Rowley has designed 11 styles of Pampers, including pastels, stripes, madras and ruffles. P&G says they’ll be offered in Target Corp. stores beginning in mid-July.
Jodi Allen, a P&G baby care vice president, says in a statement Wednesday that diaper performance comes first, but parents consider the look important, too.
Pampers is the No. 1 worldwide brand in sales for the Cincinnati-based consumer products maker that also has Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste and other brands.
Dallas-based competitor Kimberly-Clark Corp. last month launched U.S. sales of Huggies Jeans Diapers, giving babies’ bottoms a denim style for the...
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Jun
27
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By Marla Jo Fisher, The Orange County Register
It’s summer, that wonderful time of year when the kids are out of school and you can enjoy lots and lots of quality time with them.
Personally, I love being with my kids 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I mostly work at home these days, so I don’t have to miss a single opportunity for sharing family bliss.
It’s fun to listen to the bickering first thing in the morning over who used up all the hot water in the shower.
It’s fun to have them come flop on the couch at 10 a.m., asking to watch TV because “it’s hot outside and we’re tired.”
It’s even more fun to walk into the kitchen after a few hours of work, to discover that it looks like little...
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Jun
26
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By Karen Garloch, McClatchy Newspapers
Mysterious deaths of babies during sleep have been recorded since antiquity.
But the term sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, wasn’t coined until the 1960s when it was declared a medical disorder. Some facts about SIDS:
What is SIDS?
Often called “crib death,” SIDS is the sudden death of an infant under age 1 that remains unexplained after a thorough investigation, including autopsy, examination of the death scene and review of the medical history.
How is it diagnosed?
SIDS is a diagnosis of exclusion. An autopsy is used to rule out other medical causes. Authorities rely on a death scene investigation to provide evidence of causes, such as...
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Jun
25
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By Erin S., Los Angeles Moms Blog
These are the two most influential people in my husband’s life: his younger brother Max and his father Isaac.
Isaac passed away three years ago, the result of complications during a surgery. He’d been ill, had had cancer, had beaten it, had had liver damage, had beaten it … he’d been a fighter. He was nearly dead seven years ago … and then, miraculously, he was at the hospital after I gave birth to my youngest daughter a year later. He was loud, told it like it was, loved his kids and grandkids so fiercely. My husband and his brother Max lived by his “rules of life,” written on a piece of paper in the entry of his home, which included such simple lessons as don’t cheat, don’t...
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Jun
25
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By the editors of Weekly Reader digital and print, McClatchy-Tribune
Reading is not a seasonal sport, so why should it stop in summer? If you’re a parent who wants your child to keep reading when the temperature rises, we’re here to help. Try this list of books sure to engage readers from ages 5 to 11. We offer stories and advice books, all of them tomes we’ve spent time poring over, thinking about, and recommending to anyone who will listen. We bet your kids will, too!
“Adele and Simon in America” by Barbara McClintock (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008).
Don’t have time for a cross-country road trip this summer? Invite your children to travel with siblings Adele and Simon on their journey across America...
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Jun
24
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By Karen Garloch And Lisa Hammersly, McClatchy Newspapers
Do you sleep with your baby?
For millions of parents, the answer is yes.
Bed-sharing between infants and adults is common in much of the world.
And it’s on the rise in the United States, as breast-feeding has become more prevalent in recent years.
But studies show the practice of adults and babies sleeping together can increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome or asphyxiation.
Babies can suffocate accidentally in excessive bedding or when parents roll over on them without realizing it. Bed-sharing is especially dangerous if parents have been smoking, drinking alcohol or taking drugs that impair judgment or reaction time.
That’s why, in 2005, the...
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