| Scary, sweet treats are easy on braces
Having braces means straighter, healthier teeth in the long run. But times like Halloween can be challenging for kids, teens and even adults with braces who are tempted by the many sticky treats. Taffy-like candies can stick to braces, while other goodies may even snap pieces of the metalwork. The American Association or Orthodontists has teamed up with celebrity pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network to promote braces-friendly recipes and National Orthodontic Health Month in October. The ideas are tasty and could be good additions to any recipe file not only for Halloween but throughout the year (minus the spooky twists). The Peanut Butter Eyeballs are a fun option that could be traded for a trick-or-treater's haul of candies that could get stuck in or damage braces. After Halloween, bring the recipe out and change the food-coloring designs to fit Christmas or just omit them and let the white-chocolate coating dress up the peanut butter balls.
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Madville Times readers will not be surprised; you've read here about such policies at the state and local level. Among the points Free Lunch adds to the argument that the plutocrats are destroying the free market: George W. Bush amassed two-thirds of his wealth thanks to eminent domain and a tax increase that supported the building of a new stadium for the Texas Rangers that Bush and his buddies could have afforded to build with their own capital. Bush was able to sell the team for a profit (and dodge taxes by claiming $17 million in compensation as capital gains). But stadiums help the community as a whole with economic development, you say? Bonk. Stadiums simply concentrate relatively fixed recreation spending in one place. Cay Johnston cites stats from the last baseball strike, during which time cities with sidelined major league baseball teams saw their restaurants, movie theaters, nightclubs, and video arcades enjoy big boosts in business.
Today(R) Sponge to be Distributed in Hong Kong and Macau
MEDIA, Pa., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synova Healthcare Group, Inc. (OTCBulletinBoard: SNVH) announced today that it would begin distributing and selling its Today(R) Sponge non-hormonal contraceptive product in Hong Kong and Macau through Hind Wing Co, Ltd., a distributor located in Hong Kong. This represents an important milestone for the Company, as it will be the first time Synova has made the Today(R) Sponge available to women outside North America. Synova expects to begin shipping to Hind Wing before the end of the year. Hind Wing is one of the largest pharmaceutical trading companies in Hong Kong. Hind Wing represents a wide range of well-known pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and medical and consumer products that are manufactured in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia.
R.Kelly : Rated R
You gotta pay for your defense somehow. The tour, which kicked off Nov. 17 in Columbus, Ga., seemed like a sure bet. That is until the face of drama started showing as reports came in about Cole's diva behavior, Ne-Yo's show stealing performances and mixed reviews on Kelly's set. Eventually it would all come to a head as Ne-Yo became the fall guy and was let go from the outing. According to reports, Ne-Yo got dropped from the tour after two performances. Although Kelly's people claim the split was due to a contract dispute, Ne-Yo's reps believe that he was let go because of concerns he would outshine Kelly. While we have a few days to go until the end of 2007, Kells is providing us with a last bit of intrigue through his former publicist Regina Daniels.
Save-the-date cards are increasingly saving the day
Tami Kowit arrived at Doll Bloom's tiny shop lugging a jumbo-sized book of sample invitations and a medium slab of indecision. "Sari really wants purple," Kowit said, as she opened the book to a purple invitation embossed with butterflies. "You can take off the butterflies and put horses, right?" she said cautiously, dithering about invitations to send for her daughter's June bat mitzvah. Bloom sells custom-printed invitations, cards and so forth at Notoriety, her store in Beachwood, Ohio. An integral part of her work is to reassure the hosts and hostesses who come her way. "You don't have to decide until January," she instructed Kowit, the proverbial soccer mom on the run. Besides, the two women already had decided on the first order of business: the save-the-date card.
Lower-cost Insure Montana plans have subsidy catch
For the nearly 780 small Montana businesses that get state subsidies to help buy health insurance for their employees, there's a catch if they choose a new, cheaper plan next year: They get a lower level of subsidy.And for a Whitefish T-shirt shop currently on the state-endorsed health plan, this little-known wrinkle in the Insure Montana program could mean the difference between affordable insurance and no insurance."I was going around telling everyone what a great thing this Insure Montana was," said Bridget O'Leary, manager of the Northwind Shirt Co. in Whitefish. "And now I (could) be uninsured again."Why wouldn't they do (the full subsidy) for any policy that you found?"The predicament facing O'Leary and her three co-workers so far is affecting only a handful of businesses on the Insure Montana program.Yet more could be affected if they choose to shop around for a new health insurance policy that is less expensive than state-endorsed plans offered by Montana Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
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