Monday, November 26, 2012

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Everything Cebu | Corner Bakery

Tucked away in a secluded location here in Cebu City is a cozy little haven where you?ll find baked goods that are deliciously tempting and freshly made. Corner Bakery might sound like a very unassuming name for this place, but it?s also apt because the place really is situated along an intersection of two streets, in the residential neighborhood called Villa Aurora.

corner bakery Corner Bakery This bakery was founded in 2007. At first, owners Jason and Michelle Ng operated their business as a home-based one that provided yummy baked goods for their family and friends, who passed the word around. Good word of mouth was apparently enough to keep bringing the customers to them even though they did not advertise extensively. Michelle Ng told the Freeman that wants the quality of Corner Bakery?s products to speak for itself and that quality is at the top of her agenda when she creates the dishes served in their cozy little space. This commitment to quality also ties in with the fact that Corner Bakery?s products are made with no preservatives.

By the way, don?t confuse this Corner Bakery with another Corner Bakery that happens to be the bakery brand of Max?s Restaurant. Corner Bakery Company?s signage has a style similar to that of the Corner Bakery Caf? franchise brand in the United States.

Regardless of its name, Corner Bakery also serves food aside from baked goods. Pasta dishes like lasagna, spaghetti Bolognese, and penne ai funghi (short thick diagonally cut tubular pasta, with mushrooms and cream sauce) are on the menu, for those who would like carbs other than bread or pastries. The couple who own and manage Corner Bakery travel occasionally and pick up culinary trends that they can incorporate into their menu.

People who use the Web site foursquare.com have good things to say about the hot chili wings (served with bleu cheese dip) and the potato salad. Even a bakery staple like pan de sal comes highly recommended when it?s from Corner Bakery, and if you?re the kind of person who likes to snack on sandwiches, then you might want to give the tuna bun a try. As for Corner Bakery?s dessert items, the s?mores (treats with the flavor of toasted marshmallow and chocolate sandwiched between graham crackers), mochi, mango cream pie (made with Guadalupe mangoes), and red velvet cake are the most popular among the Foursquare users.

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The Web site foodspotting.com has some customer photos of Corner Bakery?s blueberry cheesecake, choco swirl cheesecake, and red velvet cheesecake, for the cheesecake fanatics out there. People on Foodspotting also recommended Corner Bakery?s homemade chocolate, choco-nutty banana cupcake, carrot cupcake, spaghetti Bolognese, and crostini (slices of toasted bread served with a spread). Even on Instagram, people have been known to rave about the yummy spaghetti Bolognese or the carbonara, the bread, and the artisan dark chocolate bars from Corner Bakery Company.

Along with such a treat as cinnamon bread or possibly hotdog bread topped with mozzarella, you would probably enjoy a cup of coffee or hot chocolate. Cold drinks like Iced Caf? Latte, Mocharamel Frost, and Coffee Jelly Frost are also available for you to pair with your food order.

If you have special occasions coming up, Corner Bakery takes orders for customized cakes and cupcakes. It has made cakes with themes like Ninjago, Power Rangers, Transformers, Bob the Builder, Geronimo Stilton, Dora the Explorer, and Tangled that were commissioned for some lucky kids? birthdays. Since Christmas is fast approaching, you might be interested to know that in 2011, Corner Bakery had quite a large selection of Christmas goodies as gift ideas. These included its Christmas collection of Angry Birds cupcakes, Santa Claus and poinsettia cupcakes, ?food for the gods? cupcakes, limited-edition vanilla almond brownies, boxes of ensaymaditas (cheese and Belgian choco flavors), fruit jelly, chocolate chip Kahlua bars, and bucketfuls of chocolate treats. Its Christmas cakes with holiday designs were the following: red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, old-fashioned chocolate fudge cake, chocolate torte, and orange champagne torte.

On Monday through Saturday, you may visit the bakery from 9 a.m to 9 p.m., and on Sunday, its hours are 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Corner Bakery is at 44 President Roxas Street, Villa Aurora, Cebu City. If you?re coming from the Ayala Center Cebu area, just turn left after Castle Peak Hotel onto President Roxas Street. Corner Bakery Company is at the left corner just after Abaseria Deli and Caf?. You can call the bakery at telephone number (032)238-3508 for orders. You could send mng.cbc@gmail.com an e-mail message if that?s what you would prefer. Its Web site is http://cornerbakery.multiply.com/ but with a more updated page on Facebook as well, at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Corner-Bakery/203542826344058


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jonathanfrakess: Western Belize Happenings!: Doctors die painless ...

docs_die_grave_pic by Ken Murray| Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient?s five-year-survival odds?from 5 percent to 15 percent?albeit with a poor quality of life. Charlie was uninterested. He went home the next day, closed his practice, and never set foot in a hospital again. He focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Several months later, he died at home. He got no chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical treatment. Medicare didn?t spend much on him.
It?s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don?t die like the rest of us. What?s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care they could want. But they go gently.
Of course, doctors don?t want to die; they want to live. But they know enough about modern medicine to know its limits. And they know enough about death to know what all people fear most: dying in pain, and dying alone. They?ve talked about this with their families. They want to be sure, when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen?that they will never experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that?s what happens if CPR is done right).
Almost all medical professionals have seen what we call ?futile care? being performed on people. That?s when doctors bring the cutting edge of technology to bear on a grievously ill person near the end of life. The patient will get cut open, perforated with tubes, hooked up to machines, and assaulted with drugs. All of this occurs in the Intensive Care Unit at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars a day. What it buys is misery we would not inflict on a terrorist. I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, ?Promise me if you find me like this that you?ll kill me.? They mean it. Some medical personnel wear medallions stamped ?NO CODE? to tell physicians not to perform CPR on them. I have even seen it as a tattoo.
To administer medical care that makes people suffer is anguishing. Physicians are trained to gather information without revealing any of their own feelings, but in private, among fellow doctors, they?ll vent. ?How can anyone do that to their family members?? they?ll ask. I suspect it?s one reason physicians have higher rates of alcohol abuse and depression than professionals in most other fields. I know it?s one reason I stopped participating in hospital care for the last 10 years of my practice.
How has it come to this?that doctors administer so much care that they wouldn?t want for themselves? The simple, or not-so-simple, answer is this: patients, doctors, and the system.
To see how patients play a role, imagine a scenario in which someone has lost consciousness and been admitted to an emergency room. As is so often the case, no one has made a plan for this situation, and shocked and scared family members find themselves caught up in a maze of choices. They?re overwhelmed. When doctors ask if they want ?everything? done, they answer yes. Then the nightmare begins. Sometimes, a family really means ?do everything,? but often they just mean ?do everything that?s reasonable.? The problem is that they may not know what?s reasonable, nor, in their confusion and sorrow, will they ask about it or hear what a physician may be telling them. For their part, doctors told to do ?everything? will do it, whether it is reasonable or not.
The above scenario is a common one. Feeding into the problem are unrealistic expectations of what doctors can accomplish. Many people think of CPR as a reliable lifesaver when, in fact, the results are usually poor. I?ve had hundreds of people brought to me in the emergency room after getting CPR. Exactly one, a healthy man who?d had no heart troubles (for those who want specifics, he had a ?tension pneumothorax?), walked out of the hospital. If a patient suffers from severe illness, old age, or a terminal disease, the odds of a good outcome from CPR are infinitesimal, while the odds of suffering are overwhelming. Poor knowledge and misguided expectations lead to a lot of bad decisions.
But of course it?s not just patients making these things happen. Doctors play an enabling role, too. The trouble is that even doctors who hate to administer futile care must find a way to address the wishes of patients and families. Imagine, once again, the emergency room with those grieving, possibly hysterical, family members. They do not know the doctor. Establishing trust and confidence under such circumstances is a very delicate thing. People are prepared to think the doctor is acting out of base motives, trying to save time, or money, or effort, especially if the doctor is advising against further treatment.
Some doctors are stronger communicators than others, and some doctors are more adamant, but the pressures they all face are similar. When I faced circumstances involving end-of-life choices, I adopted the approach of laying out only the options that I thought were reasonable (as I would in any situation) as early in the process as possible. When patients or families brought up unreasonable choices, I would discuss the issue in layman?s terms that portrayed the downsides clearly. If patients or families still insisted on treatments I considered pointless or harmful, I would offer to transfer their care to another doctor or hospital.
Should I have been more forceful at times? I know that some of those transfers still haunt me. One of the patients of whom I was most fond was an attorney from a famous political family. She had severe diabetes and terrible circulation, and, at one point, she developed a painful sore on her foot. Knowing the hazards of hospitals, I did everything I could to keep her from resorting to surgery. Still, she sought out outside experts with whom I had no relationship. Not knowing as much about her as I did, they decided to perform bypass surgery on her chronically clogged blood vessels in both legs. This didn?t restore her circulation, and the surgical wounds wouldn?t heal. Her feet became gangrenous, and she endured bilateral leg amputations. Two weeks later, in the famous medical center in which all this had occurred, she died.
It?s easy to find fault with both doctors and patients in such stories, but in many ways all the parties are simply victims of a larger system that encourages excessive treatment. In some unfortunate cases, doctors use the fee-for-service model to do everything they can, no matter how pointless, to make money. More commonly, though, doctors are fearful of litigation and do whatever they?re asked, with little feedback, to avoid getting in trouble.
Even when the right preparations have been made, the system can still swallow people up. One of my patients was a man named Jack, a 78-year-old who had been ill for years and undergone about 15 major surgical procedures. He explained to me that he never, under any circumstances, wanted to be placed on life support machines again. One Saturday, however, Jack suffered a massive stroke and got admitted to the emergency room unconscious, without his wife. Doctors did everything possible to resuscitate him and put him on life support in the ICU. This was Jack?s worst nightmare. When I arrived at the hospital and took over Jack?s care, I spoke to his wife and to hospital staff, bringing in my office notes with his care preferences. Then I turned off the life support machines and sat with him. He died two hours later.
Even with all his wishes documented, Jack hadn?t died as he?d hoped. The system had intervened. One of the nurses, I later found out, even reported my unplugging of Jack to the authorities as a possible homicide. Nothing came of it, of course; Jack?s wishes had been spelled out explicitly, and he?d left the paperwork to prove it. But the prospect of a police investigation is terrifying for any physician. I could far more easily have left Jack on life support against his stated wishes, prolonging his life, and his suffering, a few more weeks. I would even have made a little more money, and Medicare would have ended up with an additional $500,000 bill. It?s no wonder many doctors err on the side of overtreatment.
But doctors still don?t over-treat themselves. They see the consequences of this constantly. Almost anyone can find a way to die in peace at home, and pain can be managed better than ever. Hospice care, which focuses on providing terminally ill patients with comfort and dignity rather than on futile cures, provides most people with much better final days. Amazingly, studies have found that people placed in hospice care often live longer than people with the same disease who are seeking active cures. I was struck to hear on the radio recently that the famous reporter Tom Wicker had ?died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family.? Such stories are, thankfully, increasingly common.
Several years ago, my older cousin Torch (born at home by the light of a flashlight?or torch) had a seizure that turned out to be the result of lung cancer that had gone to his brain. I arranged for him to see various specialists, and we learned that with aggressive treatment of his condition, including three to five hospital visits a week for chemotherapy, he would live perhaps four months. Ultimately, Torch decided against any treatment and simply took pills for brain swelling. He moved in with me.
We spent the next eight months doing a bunch of things that he enjoyed, having fun together like we hadn?t had in decades. We went to Disneyland, his first time. We?d hang out at home. Torch was a sports nut, and he was very happy to watch sports and eat my cooking. He even gained a bit of weight, eating his favorite foods rather than hospital foods. He had no serious pain, and he remained high-spirited. One day, he didn?t wake up. He spent the next three days in a coma-like sleep and then died. The cost of his medical care for those eight months, for the one drug he was taking, was about $20.
Torch was no doctor, but he knew he wanted a life of quality, not just quantity. Don?t most of us? If there is a state of the art of end-of-life care, it is this: death with dignity. As for me, my physician has my choices. They were easy to make, as they are for most physicians. There will be no heroics, and I will go gentle into that good night. Like my mentor Charlie. Like my cousin Torch. Like my fellow doctors.
Ken Murray, MD, is Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at USC.
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SO WHAT ARE THE PAINLESS PEACEFUL WAYS TO DIE IN BELIZE?? NEMBUTAL?? MUST YOU HANG YOURSELF?? WHAT ARE THE CHOICES?? HOW DO YOU GET A DOCTOR TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH OF THE TYPE OF LIFE EXPECTANCY AND QUALITY OF THAT TIME LEFT TO YOU?? So far in my own quest for these simple truths, I have found no doctors willing to give the answers.

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Politics over parenting: UK foster family's children removed over ...

Published: 24 November, 2012, 21:13

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A political scandal has erupted in Britain after a local council took away three ?ethnic? children from a foster family, because the parents support anti-immigration UK Independence Party. After a firestorm of criticism, the move will be reviewed.

The couple in question (who have wished to remain anonymous) are in their fifties, with the wife a qualified child nurse, and have been registered foster parents for over six years.

In September, they were given an emergency placement of a baby girl, a boy, and an older girl from a troubled family of immigrant descent. The assignment was initially judged a success by the council?s child services, with the foster parents described as ?exemplary? and the children as ?thriving,? with the baby steadily gaining weight.

After eight weeks, the foster agency received an anonymous tip-off that the couple were registered members of the UK Independence Party (UKIP).

The wife told the Daily Telegraph that she was ?dumbfounded? when a council representative visited their house, and challenged them over their UKIP membership.

?My question to both of them was, 'What has UKIP got to do with having the children removed?? Then one of them said, 'Well, UKIP have got racist policies.? The implication was that we were racist.?

The party ? which consistently scores around ten per cent in opinion polls ? campaigns against immigration, multiculturalism and political correctness, but is not widely regarded as a radical party.

\"I?ve got mixed race in my family. I said, 'I am absolutely offended that you could come in my house and accuse me of being a member of a racist party,?? the wife told the visitor.

Within a week all the children were removed from her care.

The family says they were ?stigmatized and slandered.?

?We felt like we were criminals,? said the wife, who believes the local council will not entrust any more children into the family?s care.

Once the story broke, the council initially stood by its decision.

\"Also the fact of the matter is I have to look at the children's cultural and ethnic needs,? Joyce Thacker, the council's Director of Children and Young People's Services, said during a BBC radio interview on Saturday morning.

\"These children are from EU migrant backgrounds and UKIP has very clear statements on ending multiculturalism, not having that going forward, and I have to think about how sensitive I am being to those children.\"

Thacker also said the council was under obligation to be particularly careful, after a judge in a different case criticized it for being insensitive to the cultural needs of children from different ethnic backgrounds than the foster parents.

Politicians then rounded on the beleaguered council.

\"Rotherham Council have made the wrong decision in the wrong way for the wrong reasons. Rotherham's reasons for denying this family the chance to foster are indefensible,\" said minister Michael Gove, who manages the department responsible for children?s services, and was himself adopted as a child.

Opposition leader David Miliband, whose Labour Party runs the council, immediately distanced himself from its decisions.

\"We need loving homes for children across the country. That can come in different forms, it's not about what political party you are a member of,\" he declared in a statement.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage called the decision?political prejudice of the worst kind.?

The Rotherham Borough Council has since backtracked on the decision, and will conduct an internal investigation. Initial conclusions are expected on Monday.

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The removal was carried out and defended by the Rotherham Borough Council in the north of England.

The couple in question (who have wished to remain anonymous) are in their fifties, with the wife a qualified child nurse, and have been registered foster parents for over six years.

In September, they were given an emergency placement of a baby girl, a boy, and an older girl from a troubled family of immigrant descent. The assignment was initially judged a success by the council?s child services, with the foster parents described as ?exemplary? and the children as ?thriving,? with the baby steadily gaining weight.

After eight weeks, the foster agency received an anonymous tip-off that the couple were registered members of the UK Independence Party (UKIP).

The wife told the Daily Telegraph that she was ?dumbfounded? when a council representative visited their house, and challenged them over their UKIP membership.

?My question to both of them was, 'What has UKIP got to do with having the children removed?? Then one of them said, 'Well, UKIP have got racist policies.? The implication was that we were racist.?

The party ? which consistently scores around ten per cent in opinion polls ? campaigns against immigration, multiculturalism and political correctness, but is not widely regarded as a radical party.

"I?ve got mixed race in my family. I said, 'I am absolutely offended that you could come in my house and accuse me of being a member of a racist party,?? the wife told the visitor.

Within a week all the children were removed from her care.

The family says they were ?stigmatized and slandered.?

?We felt like we were criminals,? said the wife, who believes the local council will not entrust any more children into the family?s care.

Once the story broke, the council initially stood by its decision.

"Also the fact of the matter is I have to look at the children's cultural and ethnic needs,? Joyce Thacker, the council's Director of Children and Young People's Services, said during a BBC radio interview on Saturday morning.

"These children are from EU migrant backgrounds and UKIP has very clear statements on ending multiculturalism, not having that going forward, and I have to think about how sensitive I am being to those children."

Thacker also said the council was under obligation to be particularly careful, after a judge in a different case criticized it for being insensitive to the cultural needs of children from different ethnic backgrounds than the foster parents.

Politicians then rounded on the beleaguered council.

"Rotherham Council have made the wrong decision in the wrong way for the wrong reasons. Rotherham's reasons for denying this family the chance to foster are indefensible," said minister Michael Gove, who manages the department responsible for children?s services, and was himself adopted as a child.

Opposition leader David Miliband, whose Labour Party runs the council, immediately distanced himself from its decisions.

"We need loving homes for children across the country. That can come in different forms, it's not about what political party you are a member of," he declared in a statement.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage called the decision?political prejudice of the worst kind.?

The Rotherham Borough Council has since backtracked on the decision, and will conduct an internal investigation. Initial conclusions are expected on Monday.

Source: http://rt.com/news/ukip-foster-parents-ethnic-495/

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