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the THe Bulletin BulletiN B e l ter ra C o m m u n i t y New s January2007 2009 Volume 3, Issue 1 August Morgen Academy Wins Grand Prize In Anti-smoking Video Contest News for the Residents of1, Belterra Volume Issue 1 Meet Kendrell and Jonathan DOB: October 1993 & October 1997 Two Morgen Academy students tied for first place in the Great American Smokeout video contest sponsored by the American Cancer Society. Fifth graders Casey Gaughn and Madelyn Jackson, both age 10, shared how they imagined taking up smoking as adults would negatively impact their lives. Casey spoke about how she wanted to have a farm with pot-bellied pigs and chickens. “I want to climb Mount Everest and travel the world,” Casey added. “If I smoked, I wouldn’t have enough energy to climb Mount Everest. It would stink!” Madelyn said that when she grows up she’d like to be a Marine Biologist. “If I smoked,” she said, “I won’t be able to afford to travel around the world because I’d be too busy paying for cigarettes and medical bills.” The videos were filmed and submitted by parent volunteer Jennifer Barnette. Each of the top winning schools won a Flip video camera which Morgen Academy will use to post videos to the school website, www.morgenacademy.org. View the winning videos at the American Cancer Society site http://sharinghopeblog.org. The Great American Smokeout was inaugurated in 1976 to inspire and encourage smokers to quit for one day. In the past year, 39.8 percent of the 43.4 million Americans who smoke have attempted to quit for at least one day. The Great American Smokeout remains an opportunity to encourage people to commit to making a long-term plan to quit for good. Copyright © 2009 Peel, Inc. Kendrell and Jonathan want to find a forever family. They have a close bond; Jonathan looks up to his sister and Kendrell is very nurturing to her brother. They enjoy each other’s company and play well together and other children. Kendrell and Jonathan do well in school and excel in sports. They are both wonderful children who appear shy or quiet when you first meet them, but both can also be strongwilled and determined. Kendrell is outgoing, cheerful and makes friends easily. She enjoys running and doing typical “girl” things. She is engaging and talkative. Kendrell may present as a tough girl, but her foster parents report that underneath her tough exterior, Kendrell has a big and generous heart. Jonathan is a happy, easy-going child. He is active and enjoys sports and drawing. He is smart and can watch someone doing something and it will only take him a few tries to be able to do it himself. These children very much want to be adopted together and would contribute significantly to the happiness of a family. Jonathan would benefit from a positive male role model that will spend time doing mutually enjoyable activities. Kendrell would thrive in a home that allows her to be a teenager while guiding her in becoming a mature young woman. If you would like more information on becoming an adoptive parent, please contact the Adoption Coalition of Texas at 512-301-2825 or info@adopttexas.org. For more information about Kendrell and Jonathan, please contact: Grace Lindgren, LMSW, Adoption Coalition of Texas/Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Recruiter, Gracelindgren@ adopttexas.org, 512-687-3209. 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THe Bulletin Texas Tuition Promise Fund Submitted by Anna Mallett The state of Texas has exciting news for families wanting to save for their children’s college education. You can lay the foundation for your child’s education in an easy and affordable way with the Texas Tuition Promise Fund — a new prepaid college tuition program that lets families start paying for college tuition now, based on prices determined by today’s tuition rates. Some families may think college is unattainable because of the costs involved. But with the Texas Tuition Promise Fund, families from all economic backgrounds can choose from a variety of options to save for their children’s college education. The Texas Tuition Promise Fund lets you decide how much you can afford, while sheltering you from rising tuition costs. You can purchase just a few hours or a semester at a community college or as much as six years of resident tuition and required fees at the most expensive public university in Texas. 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I preach and preach to backup your computer’s data to everyone I encounter, yet invariably someone will have a system failure and when I ask if their data was backed up, I’ll get a great story about how they meant to purchase an external drive, or that have the drive, but never got around to setting it up. Well, it’s a new year and time to commit to safeguarding your data. Stop and think for a minute about all you have on your computer. Maybe you have priceless photos from a vacation, or a birthday, or even wedding and honeymoon pictures. How would you feel if the hard drive suffered a catastrophic failure, or you were the victim of a break-in and your computer was stolen. You can never get those pictures back. Maybe you have important business or financial data, how would you get that back? So here are a couple of inexpensive ways to protect your precious data. One way is to use an external hard drive that connects to your computer’s USB port. You can find them for under $100 and most of them come with some kind of backup software. A favorite backup software of mine is the free version of SyncBack, which can be downloaded at www.2brightsparks.com/freeware. 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Friday 26th 8pm ‘Phillip’s Songwriter Series RoundRobin format’ Saturday 27th 8pm ‘Chase and the Porchcats’ The Bulletin - January 2009 you can schedule it to run daily so you don’t have to remember. An even better choice is an online, off-site backup. This gives you access to your data from anywhere, and even in the event of fire your data is safe. If you have less than 2 Gigabytes of data, you can backup your information for free at mozy.com. My favorite is using a $20 software package called JungleDisk. You download it from jungledisk.com. You use the software to easily upload your data to Amazon’s secure servers designed just for storage. Your data is encrypted during transmission and while being stored – only you have access to the data because only you have your encryption code. The cost is only $.15 per Gigabyte for storage and $.10 per Gigabyte for transfer. You don’t have to upload everything you have, just your most valuable files. Even if you have lots and lots of photos, you’ll probably only pay 25 cents a month or less. The software lets you easily schedule what files and folders to backup, so you again can set it and forget it. So this year, make a New Year’s resolution to protect your computer’s data and do daily or weekly backups. Once you set it up, your computer will keep your resolution for you and a year from now, you can look back and know that you kept at least one of your 2009 resolutions. 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In younger children, the ligaments (bands of muscle that hold bones together) are loose and bones are not yet fully developed, making it easy for them to slip in and out of place. As kids get older, however, their ligaments tighten, bones enlarge and harden, and the risk of nursemaid’s elbow significantly decreases. Causes of Nursemaid’s Elbow The elbow joint connects the humerus (upper arm bone) to the radius and ulna (lower arm bones). The rounded tip of the radius (the radial head) is surrounded by a ligament that is sometimes loose in kids. If not tight enough, the ligament may slip over the radial head if a small amount of pressure is applied. This causes the bones to move out of place, or subluxate. Any of the following can cause a subluxation: • Jerking a child's arm. Pulling a toddler along while walking or quickly grabbing his or her hand can jerk the arm, resulting in slipping of the radial head. Use caution when taking a child by the hand. • Pulling a child up by the hands. Pulling on hands or forearms can put stress on the elbows. Never pick up a toddler or infant by the hands or wrists. Lifting under the armpits is the safest way to lift a child. • Swinging a toddler by the arms. Any type of swinging by holding the hands or wrists can strain the elbow joint and should be avoided. • Breaking a fall with the arm. The natural response to falling is outstretching an arm for protection. The elbow can overextend during this type of injury, resulting in a slip of the radial head. • Rolling over in an awkward way. Sometimes rolling over in a crib, bed, or on the floor can cause nursemaid’s elbow in infants and very young children. When Your Child Is Injured A child with nursemaid’s elbow will probably not look outwardly injured because the subluxation does not cause the arm to twist or bend awkwardly. However, a child may exhibit warning signs that should signal a red flag to parents. Here’s what to look for: • The child refuses to use an arm. A child will not be able to use the injured arm without pain. Therefore, the arm is usually kept in a fixed, straight position or with a slight bend in the elbow. • Use of the arm is painful. Toddlers may tell you the forearm hurts, or they may cry or shout out in pain if you touch it. This doesn’t necessarily indicate a case of nursemaid’s elbow. Fractures and bruises will hurt, too. You’ll just know something isn’t right and a doctor needs to check it out. Contact your doctor if you suspect a case of nursemaid’s elbow. Do not attempt to put the bone back into place yourself. Timely treatment by a medical professional can ease pain and reduce the risk of further complications. At the Doctor’s Office If your family doctor is not able to treat nursemaid’s elbow, an orthopedic specialist may provide care. A doctor at a local emergency department can also see your child. The doctor will first determine whether your child has nursemaid’s elbow. The arm and shoulder will be felt to make sure there’s no swelling or other abnormality, which could point to a fracture instead. If no swelling is present, the doctor will attempt to manually push the radial head back into place. The medical term for this is reduction. Your child may be given some medicine for anxiety relief before the reduction, but anesthesia is not needed. The procedure is very quick and takes only a few seconds. A child is usually asked to sit on a parent’s lap while the doctor attempts to reduce the elbow. During this procedure, the arm is taken from a straight position and quickly bent upwards. The doctor will listen and feel for a “pop” or “click” sound, indicating the bones are back in place. A child may experience a moment of pain in the elbow at the time of the reduction. After treatment, most kids have full use of the arm within 5 to 10 minutes. Some cases may require more than one try to successfully reduce the elbow. Occasionally, a child may not use the arm after the reduction for a brief time, fearing it will be painful. If discomfort continues, the doctor may put the arm in a sling and recommend acetaminophen or ibuprofen for pain relief. Kids who’ve had nursemaid’s elbow are at risk of a recurrence, so it’s important to be careful when picking up your child or holding hands. Never jerk, swing, or tug on a young child’s hands or arms. Reviewed by: Kate M. Cronan, MD Date reviewed: October 2008 Not Avaliable Online Copyright © 2009 Peel, Inc. This information was provided by KidsHealth, one of the largest resources online for medically reviewed health information written for parents, kids, and teens. For more articles like this one, visit www.KidsHealth.org or www.TeensHealth.org. ©1995-2006. The Nemours Foundation The Bulletin - January 2009 The Bulletin ADVERTISE HERE 512-263-9181 www.PEELinc.com Peel, Inc. PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE 311 Ranch Road 620 S. 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