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Monday, December 31, 2012

Aliens and oil tankers: a 2012 news quiz

Published: December 30, 2012 6:00 AM
Updated: December 30, 2012 8:33 AM

Here's a tongue-in-cheek holiday news quiz compiled by Black Press Metro Vancouver reporter Jeff Nagel.

1. Which invasive species did NOT give Lower Mainland authorities concern in 2012:

A. Skin-burning giant hogweed

B. Walking, gobbling snakehead fish

C. Concrete-busting Japanese knotweed

D. Lake-clogging zebra mussels

2. Justice Bruce Cohen's inquiry found no single culprit for the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon, but he did call for measures to reduce the risks from:

A. Ocean-based fish farms

B. First Nations poaching

C. Sewage pollution from Metro Vancouver and Victoria

D. Predatory fish like barracuda migrating further north

3. BC Lottery Corp. pushed for reforms allowing:

A. 1,000% increase in online betting limits

B. Single-event sports betting

C. Betting your car at B.C. casinos

D. Betting on elections, wars and which religion is best

4. Fraser Health embarked on an intensive cleaning of hospitals after an outbreak of:

A. Scabies

B. C. difficile

C. Whooping cough

D. Norovirus

5. TransLink shelved plans to build:

A. Gondola up to SFU

B. Funicular tramway in White Rock to carry beach-goers up and down the hill

C. Deluxe SkyTrain cars with bar service for premium high-end bookings

D. Adventure zip line across the Fraser River under the Golden Ears Bridge

6. David Black, owner of this newspaper, announced plans in August to build a:

A. Space station

B. Pulp and paper mill

C. Oil refinery

D. Insane asylum for reporters

7. Metro Vancouver enacted new regulations to control:

A. Urban raccoons and coyotes

B. Grease dumped down drains

C. The use of shark fins in restaurants

D. Jet skis off beaches in regional parks

8. Dilbit is:

A. An Indian salty snack that was recalled by its Surrey manufacturer.

B. A grade of paving aggregate used by engineers on the South Fraser Perimeter Road to reduce noise.

C. Diluted bitumen, a heavy grade of crude oil diluted so it flows through pipelines

D. A new cartoon strip for Black Press newspapers

9. Metro Vancouver directors said another potential use of a new trash incinerator could be to burn:

A. Marijuana confiscated by police from grow-ops

B. Sensitive documents they may have to disclose through Freedom of Information requests.

C. Complaint letters from the Fraser Valley Regional District

D. Special or hazardous wastes

10. Confronted with news TransLink had no power to punish fare evaders, Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom approved:

A. Withholding of licences and insurance by ICBC

B. Tasering of fare cheats by Transit Police

C. Use of collection agencies

D. Dumping offenders on Bowen Island

11. How many oil tankers would enter Burrard Inlet each year (up from about 60 now) if Kinder Morgan's proposal to twin its Trans Mountain pipeline is approved?

A. 150

B. 220

C. 300

D. 500

12. Surrey officials briefly considered using what method to bust dog walkers who don't pick up after their pets?

A. Live video surveillance in city parks combined with frequent patrols

B. Snitch site where residents could post cellphone photos/videos of offenders

C. Development of DNA database of licensed dogs so excrement can be tested and dog owners fined

13. The federal government angered B.C. groups by moving to:

A. Close the Kitsilano coast guard base

B. Streamline and shorten environmental assessments for new oil pipelines

C. Amend the Fisheries Act to downgrade protection for salmon habitat

D. All of the above

14. Which project would NOT bring more tankers to Metro Vancouver?

A. Enbridge's Northern Gateway oil pipeline

B. Kinder Morgan's proposal to twin its Trans Mountain oil pipeline.

C. A new jet fuel pipeline serving Vancouver International Airport

D. Expansion of Chevron's Burnaby refinery

15: Which of the following did NOT alarm public health authorities:

A. Deaths of young people who used ecstasy laced with PMMA

B. Whooping cough outbreak in the Fraser Valley

C. Recall of tainted beef from XL Foods plant in Alberta

D. Salmon exposed to radiation from Japanese nuclear disaster

16: Which was NOT a target for protesters in 2012:

A. Proposed B.C. oil pipelines and increased tanker exports

B. Coal exports through Metro Vancouver

C. Daily passage of U.S. oil tankers from Alaska to Washington refineries

D. The Pacific Trails gas pipeline to Kitimat

17. Which was NOT raised by opponents as an alleged risk of B.C. Hydro's smart meters:

A. Total global video surveillance

B. Defective human sperm and eggs

C. Scanning brains for bank PIN numbers

D. Sudden fondness for harmonized sales tax

18: BC Ferries considered this to reduce costs or boost revenue:

A. Cutting North Coast run, now subsidized by $2,364.72 per car

B. Reducing number of sailings with no passengers

C. Putting video slot machines on board as Maritime ferries have

D. Cutting Mill Bay ferry, which runs beside a Vancouver island highway

19. What effect is expected from Washington and Colorado legalizing marijuana?

A: Revival of bankrupt Hostess Twinkies production under Chinese ownership

B: A revenue decline for B.C.'s highest-value export crop

C: Decline of anti-smart meter protests in the Kootenays

D: Reduction of U.S. handguns smuggled into B.C.

20. B.C.'s transportation ministry rejected this proposed use of the old Port Mann Bridge:

A. A public greenway and aerial park above the Fraser River

B. Recycling of materials into new Pattullo Bridge so the tolls can be lowered

C. Community garden

D. Keeping it as a backup in case something goes wrong with the new one

ANSWERS: 1-D; 2-A; 3-B; 4-B; 5-A; 6-C; 7-B; 8-C; 9-D; 10-A&C; 11-C; 12-C; 13-D; 14-A; 15-D; 16-C; 17-D; 18-B; 19-B; 20-A

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Junior dos Santos and Tim Boetsch both walked away from UFC 155 with losses. They also walked away with seriously, seriously beat-up faces, as shown in this picture from the hospital.

UFC president Dana White originally suggested that dos Santos suffered a broken jaw from his five-round, title loss to Cain Velasquez, but tests reportedly came back negative. Boetsch had a huge cut during his loss to Costa Philippou, which is pretty easy to find in the above picture.

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Selling business to business (B2B) through online tools can be extremely difficult. The internet if full of slimy scams that make you look bad when you are simply contacted by someone online, asking about their current services or products related to your business. The prospect wonders if you are simply a robot that sent this email out to a bazillion of prospects hoping that a sliver percent respond. Cutting through the spam clutter is difficult but possible using a few methods.

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In my business of selling website services I come across a lot of ugly websites. This encourages me to reach out to the owner of the business in order to?esquire?about what on earth they are thinking?! A simple email is a great way to reach them and supplies basic information for them to consider. As long as you send them a personal email you won?t be marked automatically as spam. However, when the prospect receives the email they possibly will classify you in their own minds as spam. One way to assure them you are not spam is to start the email with a personalized message. ?Hey Mike, I was in your restaurant eating last week?the meatloaf tasted awesome?and I noticed you needed [insert service]??

It?s also important to take some time give them something they find valuable. If you sell business insurance, put some basic tips that are related to their business and how you see they are lacking. I generally put together an analysis video of their website so they can watch and learn a few quick tips about why their website isn?t functioning as they might think. Much of the information I give them they could do on their own.

This might seem like ?a lot of preparation simply to contact one prospect. At times this is true but it sure beats getting caught in a spam filter and never have a chance to begin with.

Follow Up With a Phone Call

Follow up to make sure they realize you are human. I generally send a follow up email after my initial email and if they don?t respond I give them a call on the phone. I can?t count the times I have called someone and asked, ?Did you get a chance to review my email?? They then apologize because they thought I was spam. This gives them confidence to look through my email and consider the information.

Last Resort: Sent a Personalized Postcard

Many times I email a prospect and get no response. I send a follow up email?no response. I give them a call and get pushed to their voice mail again and again?no response. At this point I have put a lot of effort into contacting this person so I want to make sure I take every opportunity to let them know I am wanting to help them. The best last resort is to send a card in the mail. There are great services out there for this. The one I use is SendOutCards.com. You can do it all online and they make it simple. I generally send a postcard with a picture of their website on the front. This gets their attention when it comes with a stack of mail coupons and bills. Just yesterday I had a prospect (that I had already given up on) call me and say they got my postcard and apologized for not responding sooner.

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Obama says failure to reach fiscal deal would hurt markets

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Financial markets would be affected adversely if U.S. lawmakers fail to agree on a "fiscal cliff" deal before Tuesday, President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Sunday, while urging Congress to act quickly to extend tax cuts for middle-class Americans.

Lawmakers are seeking a last-minute deal that would set aside $600 billion in tax increases and across-the-board government spending cuts that are set to start within days. If Congress does not make that happen, the first bill brought up in the new year would be to reduce taxes for middle-income families, Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press."

"Now I think that over the next 48 hours, my hope is that people recognize that, regardless of partisan differences, our top priority has to be to make sure that taxes on middle-class families do not go up. That would hurt our economy badly," Obama said in the interview taped on Saturday.

"We can get that done. Democrats and Republicans both say they don't want taxes to go up on middle-class families. That's something we all agree on. If we can get that done, that takes a big bite out of the 'fiscal cliff.' It avoids the worst outcomes," Obama added.

Low income tax rates first put in place under Republican former President George W. Bush are due to expire at the end of the day on Monday - the last day of 2012.

Obama said that failing to reach a deal would have a negative impact on financial markets.

"If people start seeing that on January 1st this problem still hasn't been solved, that we haven't seen the kind of deficit reduction that we could have had had the Republicans been willing to take the deal that I gave them ... then obviously that's going to have an adverse reaction in the markets," he said.

RARE SENATE SESSION ON SUNDAY

Obama met with congressional leaders at the White House on Friday and declared himself cautiously optimistic about the chances of an agreement, but he noted in the interview that nothing had materialized since then.

"I was modestly optimistic yesterday, but we don't yet see an agreement. And now the pressure's on Congress to produce," he said.

The Senate is scheduled to hold a rare Sunday session beginning at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT), but it was not clear whether the chamber would have fiscal-cliff legislation to act upon.

Obama sketched out what he believed to be the most likely scenarios the end the back-and-forth between both sides. Either the congressional leaders would come up with a deal, or Democrats in the Senate would bring a bill to the floor seeking an up-or-down vote to extend tax cuts for middle income earners.

"And if all else fails, if Republicans do in fact decide to block it, so that taxes on middle class families do in fact go up on January 1st, then we'll come back with a new Congress on January 4th and the first bill that will be introduced on the floor will be to cut taxes on middle class families," he said.

Obama chided Republicans for resisting his call for tax rates to go up for the top two percent of U.S. earners despite what he viewed as significant compromises on his part to cut spending and reform expensive social programs for the poor and elderly.

"They say that their biggest priority is making sure that we deal with the deficit in a serious way, but the way they're behaving is that their only priority is making sure that tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are protected. That seems to be their only overriding, unifying theme," Obama said.

"The offers that I've made to them have been so fair that a lot of Democrats get mad at me. I mean I offered to make some significant changes to our entitlement programs in order to reduce the deficit," he said.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by David Brunnstrom)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-failure-reach-fiscal-deal-hurt-markets-140436243--business.html

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Whole lotta love for Heart's 'Stairway to Heaven'

By Rolling Stone

Heart showed a whole lotta love for Led Zeppelin at the Kennedy Center Honors, which aired Dec. 26, with a spot-on performance of (what else?) "Stairway to Heaven."

With Jason Bonham, the son of Zep's late, original drummer John Bonham, manning the skins, the Wilson sisters cranked out the classic alongside a small orchestra and choir that had Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones nodding in approval, not to mention some minor headbanging from President Obama right before the solo kicked in.

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Rebels extend reach in Central African Republic ahead of peace talks

BANGUI (Reuters) - Rebels in Central African Republic took control of a strategic town north of the capital on Saturday after soldiers defending it withdrew, ramping up tensions ahead of planned peace talks.

The three-week-old uprising by SELEKA rebels poses the biggest threat yet to President Francois Bozize's near ten-year rule over the former French colony - a nation plagued by poverty and turmoil despite its rich natural resources.

Regional neighbors agreed on Friday to send more troops to shore up CAR's army after a string of defeats and after French President Francois Hollande rejected a plea for military help made by embattled President Francois Bozize.

Insurgents riding motorbikes and packed into pickup trucks streamed into Sibut, a regional capital on a major crossroads about 190 kilometers (115 miles) north of the capital Bangui, unopposed early on Saturday, said witnesses.

"(They) took positions at strategic points in the town, firing their guns," said Yvon Bema, a 27-year-old Sibut resident who fled to Bangui. "The national army and the Chadians had left on Friday in the direction of Bangui," he added.

The land around Sibut had been seen as a buffer between the rebels and Bangui. Government troops there were backed by soldiers from neighboring Chad.

CAR's minister of territorial administration, Josue Binoua, confirmed on local radio that Sibut was occupied by rebels after troops withdrew to Damara, about 75 km north of Bangui, where clashes had been reported on Friday.

The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) - which already has more than 500 peacekeepers in CAR - announced overnight a decision to send in more troops ahead of talks planned between the rebels and the government in early January.

"We are thinking of a way to deploy this mission as quickly as possible," Gabon Foreign Minister Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet told reporters after a meeting with his regional counterparts in Gabon's capital Libreville. He did not say how many soldiers would be deployed.

The ECCAS soldiers, mostly from Chad, are part of the MICOPAX (Mission for the Consolidation of Peace in Central African Republic) peacekeeping force.

The SELEKA rebels have threatened to overthrow Bozize if he does not honour a previous peace deal offering former fighters pay and jobs. They have said they will stay out of Bangui for now to give peace talks a chance.

Officials in Bangui said on Friday rebels had agreed to send delegates to Libreville in early January, though a rebel spokesman was not immediately available to comment.

Bozize came to power in a rebellion in 2003 and has since won two elections. France launched air strikes against rebels challenging him in 2006, but Paris has said it will not intervene militarily in the current conflict.

The United States said on Thursday it had closed its embassy in Bangui and evacuated its staff.

Central African Republic is one of a number of countries in the region where U.S. Special Forces are helping local forces try to track down the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group which has killed thousands of civilians across four African nations.

About 1,200 French nationals live in CAR, mostly working for mining firms and aid groups in the capital. French defense ministry sources said Paris had sent in 150 troops to Bangui late on Friday to bolster an existing 250-strong deployment safeguarding French citizens.

French nuclear energy group Areva mines the Bakouma uranium deposit in CAR's south - France's biggest commercial interest in its former colony.

(Additional reporting by Phal Gualbert Mezui Ndong in Libreville and Catherin Bremer in Paris; Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Friday, December 28, 2012

Space spider dies in D.C. after surviving 55 days in space

Space spider dies in D.C.: Neffi survived 55 days aboard the International Space Station. But the famous spider died after four days in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, D.C.

By Staff,?Associated Press / December 6, 2012

A jumping red-backed spider spent 55 days on the International Space Station. But his trip to Washington was less successful.

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Nefertiti, a spider that traveled 42 million miles through space before returning to Earth in October, died after being sent to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

The experiment was designed to determine if a spider dependent on gravity for catching its meals would be able to adapt and eat in micro gravity.

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According to the Boulder Daily Camera , the spider was able to hunt down fruit flies in her sealed space environment on the International Space Station. The spider managed to survive despite a miscalculation on the amount of food needed for the mission.

The Johnson jumping spider (species Phidippus johnsoni). arrived at the Smithsonian's Insect Zoo this past Thursday. By, Monday it had expired.

The Boulder Daily Camera reported:

"Neffi, of a species that typically enjoys a lifespan of about one year, was 10 months old. Monday's passing of the so-called "spidernaut," according to the Smithsonian, was due to natural causes. However, the Smithsonian conceded that no necropsy was performed on the deceased arachnid.
The experiment that made Neffi famous was conceived as part of the NASA-sponsored YouTube Space Lab contest in which two student-proposed studies were selected from thousands submitted worldwide by video. Amr Mohamed, 18, of Egypt, suggested examining whether a spider normally dependent on gravity for catching its meals would be able to adapt, and eat, in a micro-gravity environment."

According to NASA, Mohamed's project was designed to look at whether jumping spiders, like the zebra and red-backed species, can adapt their hunting abilities to microgravity. Jumping spiders do not build webs for catching their food. These particular spiders hunt using their excellent vision to track and stalk prey, jumping and striking with a lethal bite -- similar to cats hunting mice.
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?"I have always been fascinated by science because with a handful of equations, I can explain the world around me," said Mohamed in his Meet the Winner YouTube video. "The idea of sending an experiment to space is the most exciting thing that I have ever heard in my life."

Eventually, Mohamed's experiment was designed by Colorado University. It demonstrated that a spider was able to hunt down fruit flies in her sealed space environment on the International Space Station just fine -- until her food supply ran out, explained Stefanie Countryman, the projects manager for K-12 Educational Projects at CU's BioServe Space Technologies.

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Snowstorm buries parts of U.S. Northeast, flights canceled

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A powerful winter storm that has dumped a foot of snow on parts of the United States forced the cancellation of 457 flights on Thursday and threatened more havoc as it hit the New England states with fierce winds.

The heaviest snow was falling on Pennsylvania, New York and New England, and winter storm warnings continued over a majority of the U.S. Northeast, the National Weather Service said.

The massive storm system touched off tornadoes in the South and produced snow in Texas before barreling down on the densely populated Northeast.

The service forecast 12 to 18 inches of snow for northern New England after the storm moved northeast out of the lower Great Lakes, where it left more than a foot of snow on parts of Michigan.

The storm front was accompanied by freezing rain and sleet, creating hazards on the highways and at airports.

A Southwest Airlines jet skidded off the runway at Long Island MacArthur Airport, about 50 miles east of New York City, as it taxied for takeoff, Suffolk County police said.

None of the 134 people aboard Tampa-bound flight No. 4695 was injured, police said.

"It's been undetermined at this time if weather was a factor," a police spokeswoman said.

Snow was due to fall in northern New York, Vermont and New Hampshire at up to 2 inches an hour, with winds gusting to 30 miles per hour (48 km per hour), the weather agency said.

So far, 457 U.S. airline flights scheduled for Thursday had been canceled, according to FlightAware.com, a website that tracks flights.

American Airlines had the most canceled at 55. A total of about 1,500 U.S. flights were canceled on Wednesday.

New York state activated its Emergency Operations Center late on Wednesday to deal with the first major storm of the season.

Governor Andrew Cuomo warned the heads of seven utilities they would be held accountable for their performances. Utilities near New York City were criticized for lingering outages after Superstorm Sandy devastated the region in October.

New York state has seen little snow during autumn and winter. Buffalo, New York, was 23 inches below normal for the season before the storm, said Bill Hibbert, a National Weather Service meteorologist.

"We're short and even this big snow isn't going to make it up for us," he said.

The storm dumped record snow in north Texas and Arkansas before it swept through the U.S. South on Christmas Day and then veered north.

The system spawned tornadoes and left almost 200,000 people in Arkansas and Alabama without power on Wednesday.

At least five people were killed in road accidents related to the bad weather, police said.

(Additional reporting by Dan Burns and Neale Gulley; Editing by Daniel Trotta and Dale Hudson)

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Italian For Kids: Reasons Why It's Best To Start Young

Mastering a different language is a thing that most adults struggle with. Nevertheless, for young children, the process is almost instant; since children?s brains are rapidly expanding and are wired to absorb details in order to learn about their ? new world ?, they just have to be given simple instructions to know the basic principles of a language- more often than not, being together with adults in conversation can be more than enough to teach a child.

Openness to studying and easy acquisition of details are among the key reasons why instructing new languages is best done while a person is still very young. Actually, kids are so skilled at learning new different languages they can pick up even the most subtle differences in tones that most grown ups often miss. This ability allows youngsters to achieve a natural-sounding accent that can be hardly distinguished from the ones from native speakers!

Along with achieving more natural accents, teaching new languages while a kid is still young can certainly help enhance mental skills as well as help children have a much better grasp of their native language. As an example, mastering Italian for kids can help them fully understand English better. For the reason that the Italian dialect is definitely a close relative of Latin, an old language from which many English terms originate from. Apart from boosting word knowledge, children may study grammar better by assessing grammar guidelines of one dialect with another. This can help them discover the similarities and differences between languages, an exercise which will certainly only serve to expand their comprehension of communication rules. Using a much better grasp of these rules can help a child communicate his thoughts better.

Another reason why it?s better to start foreign language classes early is it can help widen a child?s viewpoint on the modern world as well as allow them to have an even better understanding for different ethnicities. For instance, kids who understand how to speak a foreign language fluently will be more at ease if they ever visit the country since they won?t be so discouraged by individuals talking a different language. Simply because they can determine what is happening around them, they are able to better comprehend the scenery, activities, food along with other wonderful things that the country can offer, such as art and new music.

Finally, kids who speak more than just one tongue will have a good edge in the academe as well as in their professions. Schools and colleges may have a taste for pupils who can converse different tongues, so teaching a child early can increase his odds of getting into great universities. With regard to careers, alternatively, communicating in a different language opens up opportunities not just in one?s own land, but as well as abroad.

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?Celiac Disease ? you?ve probably heard of it and know it has something to do with wheat but aren?t quite sure what. You might even know that it?s related to a gluten-free diet. But given that over two million people in the U.S. have it, becoming acquainted with the disease is a good idea ? especially if you plan on hosting a dinner party any time soon. Here are six facts to help you understand what it is and why it?s such a big deal.?

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The mirror, not the scale, is the enemy of many this New Year's resolution time

Dec. 27, 2012 ? For years Blanca Ramirez, like many Americans, started each new year with a resolution to lose weight. But no more. "I lost 55 pounds this year and the weight is rolling off and will stay off," said the 42 year-old, married, mother of three. Ramirez underwent bariatric surgery at Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care in August and has lost 55 pounds in four months.

Losing weight and improving health are top New Year's resolutions expected to challenge Americans this year, experts say.

According to a study released in December, 2012, more than a quarter (27.8%) of Americans are obese. The United Health Foundation also reports that 30.8 % of American adults have high blood pressure.

"Losing weight has a positive effect on diabetes, heart disease, orthopaedic injuries, and even cancer," said Bipan Chand, MD, director, Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care, who performed Ramirez's gastric sleeve surgery. "Looking good is just one part of the weight- loss equation; adding years to your life is the real benefit."

Chand says there are many reasons that spur people to choose weight-loss surgery, from years of trying and failing to lose weight to experiencing a serious health scare. For Chicago-area resident Blanca Ramirez, it was her own reflection that spurred a decision to have a gastric-sleeve bariatric procedure. "I have been overweight since I was a teenager and I didn't like what I saw when I looked in the mirror," said Ramirez, who is 5 ft. 3 inches and weighed 225 pounds before her surgery in August. "People would tell me I was pretty and I didn't need to lose weight but I knew I was obese and was sick of being fat."

Diets, exercise programs, prescription pills, Ramirez says she tried everything from Atkins to Weight Watchers. The final straw was when poor health affected her family. "My brother had a heart attack at the age of 35. I already had cholesterol problems and I knew my weight would continue to cause more health problems," said the administrative secretary.

Ramirez attended a free weight loss information session offered by Loyola. "I liked what I heard about their program especially the nutritional counseling, exercise guidance and regular support groups," said Ramirez. "Loyola confirmed that my insurance would cover the procedure and that was the final green light to decide bariatric surgery was right for me."

Loyola offers medical as well as surgical weight-loss interventions, including laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.

And Ramirez's resolution for 2013? "To help others win the battle of the bulge.People are always asking me my success and I tell them to attend a Loyola information session," she says. "I like looking at myself in the mirror now. I want others to lose weight and like what they see in the mirror, too."

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