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Asian Americans in government and politics
Asian Americans have a high level of political incorporation in terms of their actual voting population.[1] However, as a result of this group's historically low voting rates, overall political incorporation of the general population is relatively low. Although the population of this group has increased in size by 600% in 30 years due to immigration, heavy naturalization and voter outreach efforts have provided this primarily foreign-born community with less than 1% of voters.
In some areas where Asian Americans have large populations, Asian Americans have elected Asian American candidates at the city and local level; examples of this include Vietnamese Americans in Orange County and Chinese Americans in San Francisco. However, it is not always the case. For example, Korean Americans in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Filipino Americans in Daly City and San Diego have not elected city Asian American officials to represent them.[2]
State government[edit]
George Ariyoshi, who served as the Governor of Hawaii from 1974 to 1986, was the first American of Asian descent to be elected governor of a state of the United States.[3] He continues to hold the record as the longest-serving state governor in Hawaii.
Benjamin Jerome "Ben" Cayetano served as the fifth Governor of the State of Hawaiʻi from 1994 to 2002. He is the first Filipino American to serve as a state governor in the United States.[4]
In 1996 Gary Locke was elected governor of the state of Washington, becoming the first Chinese American to be elected governor in United States history and the first Asian American governor on the mainland. Locke served as governor from 1997-2005.[5]
Bobby Jindal served in various executive positions in Louisiana and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services before being elected to the Congress in 2004, and finally winning the Louisiana gubernatorial elections in 2007 (thereby becoming the first non-white governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction), the first elected Indian American governor in U.S. history,[6] as well as the second Asian American governor to serve in the continental United States.
Nikki Haley is the 116th and current Governor of South Carolina. Haley previously represented Lexington County in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2005 to 2010.[7] She is the first Sikh American governor in the United States,[8] first female governor of South Carolina,[8] second elected Indian American governor in U.S. history,[9] as well as the third Asian American governor to serve in the continental United States. Nikki Haley's election wasn't the only first for Asian Americans to occur during the 2010 election cycle. In California Kamala Harris, who is half-Indian American,[10] became the first female, first African American, and first Asian American state attorney general in the United States.[11]
Asian Americans make up 1.25% of congressional population in 2009. However, as 4.4% of the total population in the United States, this 1.25% still represents less than one-third of the total Asian American population.
Benito Legarda y Tuason and Pablo Ocampo joined the House in 1907 as Resident Commissioners,[12] becoming the first Asian Americans to serve in the Congress, albeit as non-voting members,[13] and beginning the representation of the Philippines which ended in 1946.[13]
Dalip Singh Saund, an Indian American from Imperial and Riverside Counties, was the first South Asian American elected into Congress, and was one of only two Indian Americans to have been elected, serving from 1957 to 1963.[13] Hiram Fong, who served three decades in the Senate from 1959 to 1977, became the first Chinese American member of Congress,[13] and first Asian American senator.[14] Daniel Inouye (who served from 1959-2012) was the first Japanese American in the House and later the first in Senate. Spark Matsunaga was the second Japanese American to serve in the House (served 1971-77). Matsunaga and S. I. Hayakawa were the second and third Japanese Americans to serve in the Senate. Matsunaga served in the Senate between 1977 and 1990, while Hayakawa served in the Senate between 1977 and 1983.
Patsy Mink (served 1965-77 and again from 1990–2002) was the first Asian American woman and the first Japanese American woman to serve in Congress.[13] Norman Mineta (served 1975-95) was the fourth Japanese American to serve in the House. Bob Matsui (served 1979-2005) was the fifth Japanese American to serve in the House. Bobby Scott, elected in 1993, is the first US born member of Congress to have Filipino ancestry.[15] He was joined by Jay Kim, the first Korean American to be elected to Congress,[16] as well as first Korean elected to a national office outside of Korea;[17] since he left office there have been no Korean Americans in Congress. In 1998, David Wu was elected and became the only Chinese American of Taiwanese ancestry to serve be a member of Congress.[18] Wu resigned in 2011,[19] which was followed by a brief absence of Taiwanese Americans in Congress until the election of Grace Meng in 2012.
John Ensign, who is part Filipino American,[20] was elected to the senate in 2000 and resigned in 2011;[21] there have been no Filipino American senators since. In 2008, Joseph Cao of Louisiana became the first elected Vietnamese American in Congress;[13] since he left office in 2011 there have been no Vietnamese Americans in Congress. In 2010, Inouye was sworn in as President Pro Tempore making him the highest-ranking Asian American politician in American history. That same year, Charles Djou became the first Thai American to be elected to Congress;[22][23] he left Congress in 2011,[24] and no Thai American served in the Congress until Tammy Duckworth was elected in 2012 as the first female Thai American, as well as the first Thailand-born representative. In 2011, Representative Hansen Clarke became the first Bangladeshi American to service in Congress.[25]
There are seven Asian Americans in the House and two in the Senate. Representatives Mike Honda, Doris Matsui, Mazie Hirono, and Colleen Hanabusa are all Japanese Americans. Senator Daniel Akaka is part Native Hawaiian and part Chinese American. Representative Judy Chu is Chinese American. There are two Filipino Americans, Representatives Bobby Scott and Steve Austria, both of whom are Multiracial Americans. There is one South Asian American, a Bangladeshi American Representative Hansen Clarke, in Congress, he is also a Multiracial American.
Norman Mineta became the first Asian American cabinet member,[26] serving as Secretary of Commerce in 2000, then was appointed Secretary of Transportation between 2001 and 2006. Elaine Chao was selected as a White House Fellow, and then served in a series of appointed posts prior to becoming the Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009; she became the first, and as of February 2011 only, Asian American woman to be in the U.S. Cabinet.[27] Neel Kashkari became the first Kashmiri to serve at the secretary level when President Bush appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Treasury to oversee the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) from October 2008 through May 2009.
Gary Locke became the first Chinese American Secretary of Commerce, and the third Asian American in the present cabinet. He joined Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, tying the Bush Administration for having the most Asian Americans in cabinet positions in United States history, to date.[28]
Voting trends[edit]
From the 1940s to the 1990s most Asian Americans were anti-communist refugees who had fled mainland China, North Korea or Vietnam, and were strongly anti-Communist. Many had ties to conservative organizations.[29][30] In recent years, more liberal Asian-American groups such as newer Chinese and Indian immigrants have greatly changed the Asian-American political demographics, as well as a larger proportion of younger Asian Americans, many of whom have completed college degrees.[31]
In the 1992 presidential election Republican George H. W. Bush received 55% of the Asian-American vote compared to 31% for Democrat Bill Clinton. Asian Americans voted Republican and were the only racial group more conservative than whites in the 1990s, according to surveys.[29] The Asian American vote has slowly shifted since then with Democrat John Kerry winning 56% of the Asian American vote in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election; Chinese and Indian Americans were more likely to support John Kerry; whereas Vietnamese and Filipino Americans supported George Bush.[32] The Japanese leaned towards Kerry, while the Koreans leaned towards Bush.[32] Democrat Barack Obama won 62% of the Asian American vote in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election,[33] with the margin increasing during the 2012 United States presidential elections, where Asian-American voters voted to re-elect Democrat Barack Obama by 73%.[34]
Overall, Asian Americans as a whole tend to vote for Democrats, but this trend has been fairly recent. As recently as 2000 polling number had difficulty determining Asian American voter affiliation. With some polls indicating a tendency to vote Republican, while other polls indicated a trend to vote Democrat. Due to the smaller size of the groups population, in comparison to the population as a whole, it remains difficult to get an adequate sampling to forecast voter outcomes for Asian Americans.[35] In 2008, polls indicated that 35% considered themselves non-partisan, 32% Democrats, 19% independents, and 14% Republicans.[36] The 2012 National Asian American Survey, conducted by Professor Ramakrishnan of UC Riverside and Professor Lee of UC Berkeley, found that 51% considered themselves non-partisan, 33% Democrats, 14% Republicans, and 2% Other;[37][38] Hmong, Indian, and Korean Americans strongly identified as Democrats, and Filipino and Vietnamese Americans most strongly identified as Republicans.[38] In 2013, according to the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Chinese Americans were the least likely Asian American ethnicity to have a party affiliation, with only one third belonging to a party.[39]
Neither the Republican nor Democratic parties have financed significant efforts to the registration of Asian Americans, however much more attention has been focused on contributions from Asian Americans,[40] having once been referred to as "Republican Jews".[41] As recently as 2006 the outreach of America's two major political parties have been unbalanced, with the Democratic Party devoting more resources in attracting Asian Americans.[42] Political affiliation aside, Asian Americans have trended to become more politically active as a whole, with 2008 seeing an increase of voter participation by 4% to a 49% voting rate.[43]
See also[edit]
- 1996 United States campaign finance controversy
- 80-20 Initiative
- Identity Politics
- List of notable Asian Americans in government and politics
- Politics of the United States
- ^ http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/cb12-ff09.html
- ^ Aoki, Andrew; Takeda, Okiyoshi (2008). Asian American Politics. Polity. p. 106. ISBN 9780745634463. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ^ Niiya, Brian; Japanese American National Museum (1993). Japanese American history: an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present. VNR AG. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8160-2680-7. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ CYNTHIA DE CASTR (18 November 2008). "Benjamin Jerome 'Ben' Cayetano: 1st US FilAm State Governor". Asian Journal. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ "Governor Locke". Washington State Office of the Governor. 2004. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Jan Moller (21 October 2007). "1st Indian-American governor in U.S. vows 'fresh start' for La". The Times-Picayune. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
- ^ Belles of the South Audrey/Asian Women's Magazine - April/May 06'[dead link]
- ^ a b "Haley Becomes South Carolina's 1st Woman Governor". Associated Press. 2 November 2010. Archived from the original on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Raju Chebium (14 February 2011). "Second generation Indian-Americans shed apathy, vie for public service". International Business Times. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Reshma Dhawan (2009). "The New Face of Politics...An Interview with Kamala Harris". Cultural Features. DesiClub, Inc. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ^ Nina Huang (22 December 2010). "The top 10 amazing Asian American achievers of 2010". North Asian Weekly. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ^ Dodge, Andrew R (2005). Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - 2005. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-16-073176-1. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f Lorraine H. Tong (7 July 2010). "Asian Pacific Americans in the United States Congress". Congressional Research Service. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Lynda Arakawa (19 August 2004). "First Asian in U.S. Senate broke barriers". Honolulu Advertiser. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
- ^ "Biography". Office of Representative Robert C. "Bobby" Scott. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Drummond Ayres Jr., B. (28 April 1998). "Political Briefing; To His Own Party, Persona Non Grata". New York Times. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
- ^ Zwetsloot, J. (22 December 2008). "Melissa Lee - first Korean member in New Zealand's parliament". Korean Culture and Information Service. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
- ^ Braden Smith (6 April 2010). "Online exclusive: Congressman Wu visits campus for 'Pizza & Politics'". The Linfield Review. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Charles Pope; Janie Har; Beth Slovic (26 July 2011). "Rep. David Wu boxed in by ethics investigation, forced to resign after pressure from colleagues". The Oregonian. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
- ^ Tony Batt (30 April 2008). "Ensign stands firm on vote". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
- ^ Jonathan D. Salant; James Rowley (22 April 2011). "Nevada Senator Ensign Will Resign May 3 to Avoid Ethics Inquiry of Affair". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
- ^ Pat Gee (13 June 2010). "Djou makes history as Thai American". Star Advertiser. Retrieved 21 February 2012. "Besides being the first Republican from Hawaii elected to Congress in 20 years, U.S. Rep. Charles Djou is the first person of Thai ancestry to serve in Congress."
- ^ Associated Press (14 June 2010). "Djou is first Thai-American in Congress". KPUA. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ Curtis Lum (1 August 2011). "Charles Djou eyes possibilities in next fall's elections". Pacific Business News. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
- ^ "First Bangladeshi-American Elected to US Congress". Voice of America. 3 November 2010. Archived from the original on 25 January 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ "Profile: Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta: Only Democrat in President George W. Bush's Cabinet Asked to Stay On". ABC News. 13 January 2005. Archived from the original on 29 January 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ "U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Visits Houston Chinese Community Center". ChinatownConnection.com. 28 April 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Harumi Gondo (27 February 2009). "Obama's Asian-American Cabinet picks". UPI Asia. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ a b Jeffrey D. Schultz, ed., Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics (2000) Volume 1 pp 261-62
- ^ William Wei, The Asian American movement (1993) pp 16, 226, 274
- ^ William Wei, The Asian American movement (1993) pp 170, 274
- ^ a b Jim Lobe, Asian-Americans lean toward Kerry, Asia Times. September 16, 2004.
- ^ Election results, America Votes 2004, CNN;
^ Exit Polls, CNN.
- ^ Hilburn, Matthew (2012-11-07). "Exit Polls Show Asian Americans Backed Obama by Wide Margin". Voice of America. Retrieved 2012-11-10.
- ^ Lee, Taeku. "Asian Americans and the Electorate". American Political Science Association. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
- ^ Feng, Rex (24 October 2008). "Who Is The Asian American Voter?". AsianWeek. Retrieved 23 August 2009.
- ^ Jerry Large (26 September 2012). "Asian-American voters a force in November election". Seattle Times. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ a b Karthick Ramakrishnan; Taeku Lee (8 October 2012). "Public Opinion Of a Growing Electorate: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in 2012". The National Asian American Survey. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ Matthew Hilburn (17 January 2013). "Asian-American Vote Reveals Nuances". Voice of America. Retrieved 25 January 2013. "Chinese-Americans were the least likely to affiliate with a party. Magpantay suggested that only one third of Chinese-Americans belong to a party, compared with 71 percent among all Asian-Americans, because of the negative association of the word party with the Communist Party in China."
- ^ Chen, Edith Wen-Chu (2010). Grace J. Yoo, ed. Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 722. ISBN 978-0-313-34751-1. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ Cho, Wendy K. Tam (2002). "Tapping Motives and Dynamics behind Campaign Contributions: Insights from the Asian American Case". American Politics Research (SAGE Publications) 30 (4): 347–383. doi:10.1177/1532673X02030004001. Retrieved 19 March 2011.
- ^ Stewart David Ikeda. "Has the GOP Given Up on Asian Americans?". IMDiversity Inc. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- ^ Edwards, Tom (20 July 2009). "Voter Turnout Increases by 5 Million in 2008 Presidential Election". U.S. Census Bureau News (U.S. Department of Commerce). Archived from the original on 11 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
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Blaine school district to lose four long-time staffers
Four familiar faces will be retiring this month from the Blaine school district, including two teachers, a counselor and a school nurse who have a combined 83 years in service.
Mary Baker has been a school nurse for 19 years. The Spokane native earned her Bachelors of Science degree in Nursing (BSN) from the University of Washington in 1969.
Over the years Baker has worked as a clinic nurse, in emergency rooms, doctor's offices, as a home health nurse and has taught in the LPN program at Bellingham Technical College (BTC) and pharmacology for nursing students at Skagit Valley College. When asked what kept her at Blaine schools for so many years, she immediately responded "I love kids!" She admitted that the decision to quit was a hard one, and that every so often she thinks about maybe working a day a week, "but no, I tell myself, this is it!"
She and her husband Gary have one son, Keith, and three girls, Cary, Katie and Christy, and live on the east side of Lake Samish.
"We're sailors," she said, "but we recently went over to the dark side and will go back up to Desolation Sound this summer in a Bayliner 40." Gary Baker still sails competitively in the Bellingham Etchells fleet.
for future plans, Baker said that "We
live on the deck in the summer, and besides Desolation
Sound, plan a trip to Mexico in November. It's
been a lot of fun working here, and I'll miss
Detroit native Jan Burton has lived in Blaine for 34 years. She already had an undergraduate degree but returned to Western Washington University for her credentials in 1984 following some years volunteering for Blaine. She began working as a fourth grade teacher the same year her daughter Margo started first grade, in 1987. She and former Blaine mayor Tom Burton also have a son, Matt.
She enjoys teaching problem solving skills and strategies, especially in math, and encouraging her young students in reading.
She taught for ten years in the fourth grade and then another ten years in third grade.
She has enjoyed this kind of teaching she said but will not miss the paperwork. As for future plans, she said that she's really looking forward to having more time for quilting.
Carole Liebert has been a fixture in the Blaine high school office since 1989, after serving for a half year as a counselor and as a part time attendance secretary the following year.
The youngest of 11 children, she was born on her parent's farm in northeast Nebraska. She met former Blaine mayor and current city councilman John at Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska, and married him 43 years ago. They have three boys, Jared of Richland, Noel and Jay, both living in Minnesota.
Once a certified teacher, Liebert taught a combined K-second grade for one year and another two years at Grace Lutheran School in Fargo, ND.
She was hired at Oak Grove Lutheran School in Fargo after her boys were raised, serving as admissions director for nine years before moving to Blaine in 1987, which, for her husband John, was a move back to his home town.
Her attention to detail and friendly but firm control of the nerve center of Blaine high school will be taken over next year by former volleyball assistant coach and drama coach Laura Nelson.
After nearly four decades in Washington, Leaf Schumann still flinches a bit when admitting that his home town is in Southern California. For the past 25 years he and his wife Louise have lived on the middle fork of the Nooksack, where they raised their two boys, Jesse, 24, and Kit, 21.
much of his career here he's been at the
primary school, counseling children kindergarten through
second grade. His office is a friendly jumble of books,
toys, a kid-sized couch and even a red wagon. "It's
my default position," he
said, "I
like working with this age,
their unabashed enthusiasm
and perpetually fresh view
on life."
Schumann graduated from Pomona College with a degree in zoology in 1968. He returned to Central Washington University for his teacher's credentials and then went to Western Washington University for his master's degree.
He is probably best known for writing and administering the grants that produced the school district's Family Service Center. The program addressed a variety of issues for families in the Blaine school district which, with over 40 percent of the students on a free or reduced fee lunch program, is considered to have a relatively high incidence of poverty.
He shared other visions, saying "I'd like to somehow do away with the pressure of high stakes tests like the WASL, and go to smaller, ungraded classes. The school schedule, which is designed for the convenience of adults, should be moved to start later in the day. There needs to be a lot more account given to alternate lifestyles and family models to make sure all people are included in the process.
"I think religious intrusion in the form of intelligent design, aka creationism, would be placed very close to the top of the list of looming dangers. Schools need to remember that they are charged with teaching truth, not the most recent article of faith delivered by religious zealots.
"And public education should be fearlessly funded, to the extent that if we have to pass levies then let that be to fund war."

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While experts initially expressed concern that fungi-produced chemical compounds known as aflatoxins might damage U.S. corn yields thanks to the drought, results appear mixed.
In September, experts with the University of Illinois reported that some milk had been turned away because of unacceptable aflatoxin levels. Also that month, experts at Purdue University advised farmers to be on the lookout for the mold-like substance, whose presence can vary widely depending on environmental factors and planting time.
But the news hasn't been all bad. Experts at Michigan State University reported this month via CattleNetwork.com that aflatoxin has been less prevalent than expected.
John Leslie is a distinguished professor who heads the plant pathology department at Kansas State University. In an email interview this week, he explained why aflatoxins can be cause for concern; described its relationship with drought; and shared his thoughts on the USDA's decision to allow blending of corn containing aflatoxins.
What is aflatoxin, and why is it a concern for corn farmers?
Aflatoxins are a family of structurally related chemical compounds synthesized by a number of species of fungi in the genus Aspergillus, with Aspergillus flavus the fungus usually of greatest interest and aflatoxin B1 usually the most important aflatoxin.
Aflatoxins are toxic to humans and many other animals at sufficiently high levels, although for humans the more common fear is their carcinogenic capabilities and the increase in liver cancer as a result of exposure to them. Long-term chronic exposure to sub-clinical levels of aflatoxins can result in partial suppression of the immune system, rendering those so exposed generally less resistant to other microorganisms to which the individual might be exposed.
Human deaths due to aflatoxins in the U.S. and other developed countries are rare because our food regulatory system usually identifies contaminated materials and restricts their entry into the commercial food and feed chains. There have been outbreaks of aflatoxin poisoning in Africa, most recently Kenya, in which several hundred people have died due to aflatoxin poisoning from eating corn containing too much aflatoxins.
There are currently major multi-national efforts to reduce the level of aflatoxin in both corn and peanuts in Africa to reduce the health problems these compounds can cause there. The most recent aflatoxin problem in the U.S. occurred a few years ago when contaminated dog food killed a number of pets.
Earlier this year, the USDA authorized states such as Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska to blend aflatoxin-affected corn with unaffected corn. Is this normal? How does this decision benefit farmers, and what should consumers know about these blends?
Maximum aflatoxin levels allowed in corn are set in the U.S., with the exact level determined by the end use for which the corn is intended. Aflatoxin can be carried through the milk of an animal that consumes corn contaminated with the toxin. Thus grain intended for dairy cattle feed, for example, is allowed to have much less aflatoxin contamination than is grain intended for beef cattle.
Blending allows the mixing of grain with a lower level of aflatoxin with grain that has higher levels of aflatoxin, i.e. grain exceeding the regulatory limit, so that the final mixture is below the regulatory threshold. USDA usually does not allow the grain to be blended and rejects the contaminated grain to keep it out of the food system.
The blends being allowed this year will still be safe and will meet all of the food regulatory standards. The blends probably will have levels of aflatoxin that are closer to the limits than might be found in other years.
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Displaying 1 - 13 of 13 recipes.
Balsamic BBQ Chick Skillet
PER SERVING entire recipe:
218 calories, 2g fat, 422mg sodium, 7.5g carbs, 0g fiber, 5.5g sugars, 39g protein
value 5*
Like your chicken saucy and easy?
Here you go!
Basil-icious Chicken
PER SERVING entire recipe:
197 calories, 2g fat, 448mg sodium, 1g carbs, 0.5g fiber, 0g sugars, 39.5g protein
value 4*
Fresh basil makes this trio a winner.
Tomato-Infused Chicken Rollup
PER SERVING entire recipe:
206 calories, 4.5g fat, 470mg sodium, 2.5g carbs, 0.5g fiber, 1g sugars, 35g protein
value 5*
This recipe uses tomatoes of the sun-dried variety. Yes!
Crispy Nacho Chicken
PER SERVING entire recipe:
261 calories, 3.5g fat, 755mg sodium, 13.5g carbs, 2g fiber, 2g sugars, 41g protein
value 6*
Crunchy on the outside, moist and tender on the inside.
Fruity BBQ Chicken for Two
PER SERVING 1/2 of recipe:
219 calories, 2g fat, 411mg sodium, 10.5g carbs, 0g fiber, 4.5g sugars, 39g protein
value 5*
Two very special items make a marinade in this recipe.
Sweet 'n Spicy Chicken Lettuce Cups
PER SERVING entire recipe, 2 lettuce cups:
166 calories, 1g fat, 611mg sodium, 18g carbs, 1g fiber, 14g sugars, 20g protein
value 4*
So simple and packed with flavor.
Bacon-Wrapped BBQ Chicken
PER SERVING entire recipe:
267 calories, 6.75g fat, 802mg sodium, 11g carbs, 0g fiber, 10g sugars, 37g protein
value 6*
A double-protein trio. Hooray!
Chicken a la Pot Pie
PER SERVING entire recipe:
258 calories, 3.75g fat, 680mg sodium, 11g carbs, 2.5g fiber, 2g sugars, 42g protein
value 6*
Without the pie crust and carbs that come along with it.
World's Easiest Chicken Empanadas
PER SERVING 1/6th of recipe, 1 empanada:
157 calories, 6.5g fat, 465mg sodium, 16.5g carbs, 0.5g fiber, 3g sugars, 9.5g protein
value 4*
Bake these up and bring 'em to your next party.
EZ Pineapple Chicken
PER SERVING entire recipe:
228 calories, 2g fat, 676mg sodium, 10g carbs, 0.5g fiber, 8g sugars, 40g protein
value 5*
Easy as 1, 2, 3... ingredients!
Naked Chicken Parm
PER SERVING entire recipe:
247 calories, 5.25g fat, 685mg sodium, 6.5g carbs, 1g fiber, 4g sugars, 40g protein
value 6*
What? Like you've never seen chicken parm without fatty breading before...
Super-Speedy Chinese Stir-Fry
PER SERVING 1/2 of recipe:
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In India, the Access Initiative Indicators were first used by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), in 2001 in New Dehli as a pilot study in the field of pollution control. A review of the Pilot Assessment was undertaken in 2003 and an outreach strategy was launched in 2004 by the Idma Foundation for Sustainable Development (IFSD) from Chandigarh, India. The findings, titled "Capturing Progress in Implementing Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Indian Environmental Sturcutre in Pollution Control" were realeased in 2004. The event was also used to provide introductory input to NGOs from Sri Lanka and Nepal.
As a follow-up to the findings, Idma launched another publication, titled "A Guide to Indian Laws on Pollution Control and Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters". Looking into the geographical and cultrual diversity of India, the Chandigarh luanch was also used as an opportunity to discuss the indicator approach among larger Indian NGO groups and a losse coalition, "TAI-India" was formed in order to look into perspectives of carrying out more assessments in India.
The TAI-India later organized a follow up meeting in Bangalore, hosted by the Environment Support Group (ESG). The Bangalore Report provides the background and plans for future actions. ESG hosted the TAI India Secretariat until 2008. From 2008 onwards, the TAI India secretariat is hosted by LIFE and Environics Trust.
Under the new Secretariat, a TAI assessment (using the TAI Assessment Toolkit) was completed for the State of Himachal Pradesh. The report is now undergoing global review. In the meantime, TAI India has started a nation-wide TAI assessment which should conclude in 2010.
Additionally, the TAI India coalition has a very active group list on which many access and environmental issues are regularly discussed. One result of this group activity is TAI India's current effort to evaluate and make recommendations to the Indian Lok Sabha (Legislature) on revisions to the Green Tribunal Bill that is pending before it. The Green Tribunal Bill will establish Green Courts and regulate how environmental disputes can be brought and resolved before them .
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Simmons ranks as one of most successful catchers with the bat
By Craig Muder
November 04, 2013
Time and the gaudy stats of contemporary catchers have each conspired to help obscure Ted Simmons' big league career.
But in the cold analysis of the black-and-white page, Simmons' remains one of the best hitting catchers in the history of baseball.
Simmons, who played for the Cardinals, Brewers and Braves for 21 seasons, is one of 12 finalists on this year's Expansion Era ballot that will be considered by the committee on managers, umpires, executives and long-retired players at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The 16-person committee will vote on Dec. 8 at baseball's Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla., and the results of the vote will be announced Dec. 9.
The 12 candidates on the Expansion Era Committee ballot are: Dave Concepcion, Bobby Cox, Steve Garvey, Tommy John, Tony La Russa, Billy Martin, Marvin Miller, Dave Parker, Dan Quisenberry, George Steinbrenner, Joe Torre and Simmons. Any candidate who receives at least 75 percent of all ballots cast will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2014.
The Committee consists of Hall of Famers Rod Carew, Carlton Fisk, Whitey Herzog, Tommy Lasorda, Joe Morgan, Paul Molitor, Phil Niekro and Frank Robinson; executives Paul Beeston, Andy MacPhail, David Montgomery and Jerry Reinsdorf; and media members Steve Hirdt, Bruce Jenkins, Jack O'Connell and Jim Reeves.
Born Aug. 9, 1949, in Highland Park, Mich., Simmons excelled in both baseball and football in high school, earning gridiron scholarship offers from Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue and Colorado. But when the Cardinals made Simmons their first-round draft pick (10th overall) in 1967, the switch-hitting catcher knew his future was on the diamond.
"I always wanted to play," said Simmons in 1969. "And I figured I had a decent amount of talent."
That talent brought Simmons to the big leagues in 1968 as a 19-year-old prodigy. He led the California League in hitting in 1969, then joined the Cardinals for good in 1970. The next season, Simmons hit .304 with seven homers and 77 RBI – finishing 16th in the National League Most Valuable Player voting before he turned 23.
In his first seven full seasons in the majors, Simmons hit at least .303 five times, garnered MVP votes in six seasons and was named to four All-Star teams. His 193 hits in 1975 are the most of any catcher who caught at least 150 games in a season, and his 192 hits in 1973 rank second on that same list.
"He's the best hitter in the National League," said then-teammate Joe Torre, the man who Simmons replaced behind the plate in St. Louis.
And Simmons kept on hitting. From 1971-83, he averaged 17 homers and 90 RBI per season to go along with a .294 batting average. He was named to six of his eight career All-Star Games in the 1970s, but the Cardinals' lack of postseason exposure – along with the presence in the same league of future Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench – kept some from noticing the all-around excellence of the St. Louis backstop.
Simmons was traded to the Brewers after the 1980 season, and in Milwaukee he helped the Brewers reach the playoffs in 1981 and advance to the World Series the following year. In the Fall Classic, Simmons hit two home runs – but his former Cardinals team won the title in a seven-game thriller.
Simmons finished his playing career from 1986-88 as a part-timer with the Braves, served as the Pirates' general manager in the early 1990s and currently works in the front office with the Mariners. His final playing totals: A .285 batting average, 2,472 hits, 483 doubles, 248 home runs and 1,389 RBI.
Among those who played at least 50 percent of their games at catcher, Simmons ranks second in hits (behind Ivan Rodriguez), second in doubles (Rodriguez), second in RBI (Yogi Berra), fifth in runs (behind Ivan Rodriguez, Carlton Fisk, Yogi Berra and Johnny Bench) and 10th in home runs.
Craig Muder is the director of communications for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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Third Time Lucky for Henin in Stuttgart
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STUTTGART, Germany - Although eight of the world's Top 10 started at the event, it came as no surprise that clear-cut world No.1 Justine Henin would make the title match at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. It was something of a surprise that Tatiana Golovin stood across the net from her on Sunday; but it all went to form as Henin held her off in three sets for her eighth title of the year.
Coming in on a 15-match win streak (and not having lost a single set throughout), top seed Henin looked to be in trouble as the unseeded Golovin won the first set, 6-2, and held serve for a 2-1 lead in the second set. But just like she has done so many times, the Belgian lifted her game upon detecting trouble.
"She was playing unbelievably in the first set and I was making some mistakes; I just had to wait and see if she could keep that level up during the whole match," Henin said. "Physically, I started feeling a lot better in the second set and as the match went on, and I knew I could play better."
From 1-2 in that second set Henin went on a tear of seven straight games to even the proceedings, one set apiece, and go up 2-0 in the decider. She barely looked back and would eventually finish it off, 26 62 61, avenging defeats in the final of the event in 2001 (to Lindsay Davenport) and 2003 (to Kim Clijsters).
"It's very satisfying to finally win here after being in those finals before as well as getting through the players I did," Henin added. "This helps my confidence after my three week break. I definitely didn't have an easy draw."
Golovin had a fantastic week, notching her 10th and 11th career Top 10 wins over Anna Chakvetadze and Svetlana Kuznetsova en route to the final, then taking a set off the world No.1, which hadn't been done since Marion Bartoli ousted her in the semifinals of Wimbledon, over three months ago.
"She played a lot better in the second set; I got tired, and it's really tough to be mentally strong all the time against her," Golovin added. "I'm so happy with the week overall though, defeating two of the Top 10 and coming close to beating the No.1. I'm proud of the way I've turned around after a pretty bad US Open."
Henin has now won eight titles this year, four more than her closest challengers, and continues to extend the gap between herself and the rest of the field on the rankings. She looks in good shape to defend her season-ending title next month.
"She doesn't overpower you or look that impressive, but she really doesn't allow you to play your game," Golovin declared. "She's there, ready to pounce, as soon as you don't play the perfect point. She surprises you how she defends then goes on the offensive. She's the best player in the world by some way at the moment."
"My main goal for this season was to get through without an injury for the first time in my career and I'm really working toward that. I've won eight tournaments in the 12 I've played; this has definitely been the best season of my career and I'm looking forward to playing my last two events in Zürich and Madrid."
Others making headlines this past week were Serena Williams, who, playing the event for the first time since 1999, reached the quarterfinals before losing to Kuznetsova; Kateryna Bondarenko, who came through the qualifying and then notched her career-first Top 10 win over Ana Ivanovic en route to the quarters; and the team of Kveta Peschke and Rennae Stubbs, which captured a doubles trophy for the second time this season, after triumphing at Los Angeles in August.
This was the 30th straight year the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix graced the circuit, and with Henin, Kuznetsova and Jelena Jankovic all reaching the semifinals, this was the first time in 13 years the world's Top 3 were in the final four here.


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Three games after returning from a concussion, Evgeni Malkin of the Pittsburgh Penguins is out of the lineup again.
Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma said Malkin will not play against the New York Islanders on Sunday night. Malkin, who missed four games with a concussion late last month, just returned to the lineup on Monday.
Malkin suffered an upper body injury on Saturday after taking a hit from James van Riemsdyk in the third period of their shootout win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Believe it or not, Kim Kardashian's 72-day sham of a marriage actually lasted longer than some other ill-fated celebrity marriages. I know I feel more personally slighted by Kim's divorce than I do, say, by Pam Anderson's, but that's only because I rotted my brain for four hours and watched with wide, believing eyes as Kim and her family prepared and carried out her $10 million wedding. I know I'm fully responsible for buying into that crap, and I only have myself to blame for feeling so gypped by Kim and Kris, but still. Seventy-two days? Really?
Maybe looking at a list of the shortest celeb marriages will cheer us up. If we've already forgotten about these ill-fated couples, maybe we'll soon forget about Kim and Kris, too. Because the sooner, the better. Let the healing begin as we reminisce about these five, un-blessedly short celebrity unions.
These other couples certainly didn't have the wedding spectacle surrounding them like Kim and Kris, but, I don't know, maybe in two years we'll be like, Ohhhh yeah! Remember when Kim was married to that super tall guy that kinda looked like Taylor Lautner? God that feels like forever ago.
That day can't come soon enough.
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Local farmers in 23 states help meet increased consumer demand for organic milk
BROOMFIELD, Colo., (January 24, 2011) Horizon® announced today that it now works with nearly 600 certified organic family farmers nationwide to supply organic milk to consumers.
In addition to the 531 certified organic family farmers currently providing organic milk to Horizon, there are 61 additional farms under contract with the company that will begin supplying milk during the next several months after all transition steps have been met.
"The fact that we added 100 family farmers to our network in 2010 reflects the consumer demand for organic milk, which has been steadily climbing," said Mike Ferry, Horizon president. Our family farmers are the heart of our business, allowing us to provide the highest quality organic milk to our customers.
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Christmas has come early for Toronto and 1st Soloist Maya Dumchenko. She is scheduled to dance "Nutcracker," partnered by the Royal Ballet's David Makhateli, with Canadian Ballet Theatre in Toronto December 19 and 20. It's fantastic that she will get this rare opportunity to shine abroad . Maya will also be dancing "Giselle" with Alexander Sergeev at the Maryinsky
on Nov 25 - another rare occurrence.
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Very jealous of everyone who lives in Toronto right now! I hope some BT members are able to review her Nutcracker and Giselle performances.
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October 17, 2009
Non-blocking raw_input for Python
[Edited Aug. 30, 2010 to fix a typo in the function name and generally improve formatting]
I needed a way to allow a raw_input() call to time out. In case it's useful to anyone, I wrote this solution which works under Unix-like OS's.
import signal class AlarmException(Exception): pass def alarmHandler(signum, frame): raise AlarmException def nonBlockingRawInput(prompt='', timeout=20): signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, alarmHandler) signal.alarm(timeout) try: text = raw_input(prompt) signal.alarm(0) return text except AlarmException: print '\nPrompt timeout. Continuing...' signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, signal.SIG_IGN) return ''
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October 12, 2009
Snow Leopard Guest User data loss bug
I've seen a number of mentions today of a bug that can cause a Snow Leopard user to lose all their data:
One user reports a way to recover the lost data. Since it's buried in a discussion thread, I'm reproducing it here (also fixing a typo pointed out by a reader of this blog):
The problem appears to manifest itself on machines which had the Guest account option enabled under Leopard and were subsequently upgraded to Snow Leopard. Users booting their machines have reported that upon start-up, they have been logged into the Guest account. Upon switching to their regular account, the affected users have been finding all of their user data missing and unrecoverable except from a backup. [MacRumors.]
The files were still in /Users,
recovery was not too difficult.
1) su in terminal
2) mv username username.old
3) create account username
4) mv username username.new
5) mv username.old username
6) chown -R username username
I don't know whether it's a general fix. If you run into the bug and decide to try this solution, feel free to post your experience in the comments section!
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September 11, 2009
FlyFi.com upgrade
We've made a substantial upgrade to the look and feel of our Flyfi.com web site. The site does a lot, and this release has been geared toward making the functionality more readily apparent and easier to use.
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August 02, 2009
FlyFi Community Playlist
If you're a Facebook user, you might want to check out my company's FlyFi Community Playlist app which lets a Facebook community collaborate on a playlist... but it's more than a playlist because it also provides tracks related to the manually entered ones.
A fair number of the tracks are legally downladable free MP3's, from superb artists like Randy Newman (one of my personal top 5 artists), Ani DiFranco, Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, and many others.
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July 29, 2009
Correction re singletons
The source code link presented at the main post for my singleton mixin classes was bad until now. It pointed to an earlier version that didn't have thread safety or various other improvements. Sorry.
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July 28, 2009
Even more singleton improvements
singletonmixin now deals with cases where you want to be able to include args in calls to S.getInstance() even after the initial instantiation.
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July 27, 2009
More singleton improvements
Based on internal work and feedback appearing in comments on this blog, I've updated the Python singleton class I posted way back in 2004. That earlier post remains the place to get the code and place any further comments.
It now handles keyword arguments, and is threadsafe for singleton creation.
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June 15, 2009
If you've been following developments in Iran, and particularly the Internet's essential role in reporting (and supporting) events, I don't have much to add.
If you haven't, I strongly suggest you go to Andrew Sullivan's blog and starting following him now -- as well taking a bit of time to look through his posts from the last couple of days. He's been doing a wonderful job. Far better than any mainstream news outlet, with the possible exception of the NY Times' Lede. (Although the Lede doesn't present as much detail and analysis as Sullivan does -- with the help of his readers and well-chosen links to other sources.)
One of Sullivan's readers sums up the key role Twitter is coming to play:
Ahmadinejad's and Khamenei's websites were taken down yesterday - I saw the latter go down within a couple of minutes because of a DDOS attack organised via Twitter. @StopAhmadi is a good source for tweets on this. The other important use of Twitter has been distribution of proxy addresses via Twitter. This would be how most video and pictures of today's rally have gotten out.
One amazing thing is that it seems at least conceivable that the protests would not have been as successful as they currently appear to be if Twitter didn't exist.
Sullivan suggests wearing green in support of the protesters. I think that's a great idea.
June 15, 2009 in Current Affairs, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)
June 09, 2009
Most people reading this blog will know that I am a founder of the company that makes Flyfi.com (basically a vastly improved reboot of the old Goombah site).
In the last couple of weeks we have added enormously to the site, including improved recommendations. If you haven't checked it out, please do!
Here's a note I wrote to introduce it to some high school friends who I recently reconnected with on Facebook:
Hi Everyone. You may remember me playing my guitar in the hallowed halls of B.H.S. In college I became interested in math & computer technology, and in recent years, I've come full-circle by finally merging my interests. I've co-founded a music-oriented Internet startup. Our product is FlyFi.
Our VP/Industry Relations who, in a former life, earned 10 Grammy nominations as a producer, is now dedicated to using his industry connections for getting us the highest quality free music collection on the Internet. We've got great indie artists like Ani DiFranco, some well-known, others up-and-coming. Unlike some of our competing services you don't just hear the music for free -- you can also download many tracks as free legal MP3's.
My area of focus is our music recommendation technology, which lets you type in artists you like and get music out that you'll probably also like. I love music from many genres, from the Beatles to Beethoven to John Coltrane to Leonard Cohen. But I think there are underlying commonalities in the music I most love, regardless of genre. So we have statistical algorithms that try to find music that has those commonalities for each person's tastes.
Over the last 6 weeks or so, I've been completely wrapped up in putting the finishing touches on the first full release of FlyFi (which is why some of you may have noticed that my Facebook communication flow has dropped pretty much to zero). It's out now, ready for your perusal.
So, if you love music, go check out FlyFi.com!
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May 03, 2009
Einstein and this blog
Er, no actual relationship there. But
a) This is one of the most wonderful short articles I have ever read. It's about one journalist's brief but enormously rich encounter with Einstein.
b) My hypothesis in my previous post has turned out to be correct; when I type my name into Google, I am the top hit again.
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Changing face of plastic surgery
Many people aren't happy with their face or body, and a proportion of those turn to plastic surgery to try to alleviate their displeasure. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons annual report shows just how many have opted for cosmetic surgical procedures. There were nearly 1.6 million of them performed in 2011, along with 12.2 million minimally-invasive procedures.
The above chart compares the distributions of the former from 2000 (shown in green) to 2011 (shown in blue). The two years are overlaid, and procedures are roughly organized by spot on the body. Breast augmentation led the way in 2011 with about 307,000 performed.
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The only not I would pick is the scale of the graph. The areas of the bars imply sizable shifts, but in absolute terms we're only seeing differences of (mostly) 1 to 2.5%. Over ten years., that's not really significant.
Pretty odd way to compare two series. My brain crashed. I fear old school side by side bars might have been more readable.
I find the graph confusing.
Very confusing. I immediately wondered where the third color was coming from.
I agree with the other commenters. It took me a while to work out that the third colour was a blend where the top colour changes depending on which year had more surgeries. Side-by-side would have been a lot easier to understand.
Your use of overlapping bars works for me; I can quickly grasp which of the years was greater. But, I think that the blend of the two colours would have been clearer if the overlap had been called out in the graphic. Or instead of a callout perhaps the use of different colours, e.g. red and blue overlapping for purple or yellow and blue for green, would have been a bit clearer.
I was thinking about using a pattern (e.g., dots) instead of a colour for one of the years so it's more obvious that what you seeing is an overlap.
Another alternative to the overlapping bars is to use two partly overlapped bars. See an example in the lower parts of the graphics in this blogpost: http://aytm.com/blog/research-junction/ipad-3-infographic/ .


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Your mom says not to drink soda at night because the caffeine will keep you awake. And she says she "needs her caffeine" in the morning when she's reaching for her cup of coffee. So what is caffeine, anyway?
Caffeine (say: KA-feen) is a natural chemical found in tea leaves, coffee beans, cacao (the stuff used to make chocolate), and cola nuts (the plant that gives cola soda its flavor). Caffeine has been in foods that humans eat and drink for hundreds of years. Today, caffeine is found in many common foods and drinks, such as coffee, tea, hot cocoa, soda, chocolate, and some medicines.
When humans drink or eat caffeine, it acts as a stimulant (say: STIM-yuh-lunt). Stimulants may make us feel more awake and alert. Many people drink liquids with caffeine because they think it helps them to wake up and feel sharper. But no one needs caffeinated (say: KA-fuh-nay-ted) drinks, especially kids. The best drinks for kids are water and milk, which don't contain caffeine.
People who drink caffeine every day may start to depend on it. If regular caffeine users don't get their regular daily dose, look out! People who are used to caffeine and don't get it can develop headaches, stomachaches, and feel sleepy or grumpy all day long.
Caffeine can cause your heart to pump faster and your breathing to quicken. You also may notice that caffeine makes you feel hyper. Caffeine can boost a person's energy temporarily, but a lot of caffeine can also cause other, not-so-great effects:
Caffeine isn't a nutrient, like calcium, so you don't need a certain amount to be healthy. The United States doesn't have guidelines about caffeine, but Canada does.
That country's health officials recommend that kids who are 10 to 12 should get no more than 85 milligrams per day (even less if you are younger than 10), equal to 22 ounces of caffeinated soda. (But that doesn't mean drinking that much soda is a good idea. Stick with milk and water most often.)
*This is an average amount of caffeine. That means some of these products may contain a little more caffeine; some may contain a little less.
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If you'd like to cut down on caffeine, talk with your parents. They can help you understand how much you're getting and help you cut down gradually.
If you like soda once in a while, try to choose one that doesn't contain caffeine. Clear lemon-lime sodas usually don't, but it can be confusing, so check the ingredient list on the label. If you don't, you might find yourself tossing and turning instead of snoozing and snoring!
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Little Eleana weighs just 3lb 5oz
Premature baby Eleana Hastings, born weighing just 3lb 5oz, has become the smallest baby to undergo open heart surgery in Britain.
She arrived six weeks prematurely with a hole between two chambers of her heart and dilated pulmonary arteries and surgery was necessary to save her life.
In the intricate four-hour procedure, cardiac surgeon Mr William Brawn at Birmingham Children's Hospital managed to close the hole in her heart and reconstruct the lung arteries to relieve the compression of the lungs.
A second heart operation followed ten weeks later.
Parents Francesca and Darren, both 36, are delighted with the results.
Francesca said: "Despite all this, she is a happy girl, a great favourite with the staff and her doting big brothers and sister.
"It's been an emotional rollercoaster but now we're looking forward to the day we can take Eleana home for good."
The Coventry couple were delighted to be expecting their fourth child together, but discovered something was wrong at a routine scan 22 weeks into the pregnancy.
Francesca said: "We had gone for a routine scan. We weren't expecting anything untoward but it revealed Eleana had a heart problem.
"But it wasn't until we saw Dr Desai, a consultant fetal cardiologist at Birmingham Children's Hospital, that we realised just how serious the condition was.
"Up until this point we had taken it all in. It wasn't until a midwife at Birmingham Women's Hospital asked if I was ok that the floodgates opened. I burst into tears."
Eleana was born at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire and was rushed straight into a neonatal care bed where she remained stable but had problems maintaining her oxygen levels.
After spending nine days in intensive care, she was transferred to Birmingham Children's Hospital for a four-hour procedure to close the hole in her heart and reconstruct her lung arteries.
Ten weeks after her major open heart surgery, she underwent a second heart operation to enlarge the way into her lung arteries and reconstruct the still lung arteries.
She has also had two bronchoscopes to check the condition of the air passages from the inside, and needs a pneumatic stent to keep her airways open, allowing her to breathe.
Recently little Rudy Maxwell-Jones had to undergo a complex 36-hour heart operation as soon as he was born because of a blockage in his heart causing it to swell to a dangerous size.
While scientists in Aberdeen have been researching a breathing exercise that mums-to-be could use to diagnose unborn baby heart and lung problems as early as 16 weeks into pregnancy.
Here at TB HQ we wish little Eleana all the best.
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This instructable will show how to engrave something and make it look really nice with very little extra effort or skill required.
mailing labels or any other printable sticker material.
engraving pen- I got mine for $12.00 from Canadian Tire
something you need to engrave. (you might want to do a practice one first, don't start on your wife's wedding band just yet)
Please check out my other instructables and I also have a diy podcast called mechanicalmashup.tv
Step 1: Image
You can dress it up with some fancy art around the name but since that is probably a good way to get myself beat up at work, I'll just make it plain here. You have to be careful not to go too fine into the details because some of the paper gets damaged while you are engraving, you will see what I mean when you try it, just trust me for now.
Print out your image onto mailing labels or sticker paper. I try to do most of a sheet and I print it out a few different sizes to have some extras around and to be able to fit it the best possible way.
Trim the label if you have to and stick it to the tool where you want to engrave your name. Push it down good because we don't want it to slide when we start. Also the better it is stuck down, the less the paper seems to get damaged.
I don't have a Spencer yet though, I'll have to keep my eyes open ...
I did this with thin paper and contact cement. Stuck really good and after I cleaned with acetone and solvent cleaner it was excellent. Using a pair of good magnifying glasses helps keep the engraver steady on the lines. Nice tools btw.
LOL indeed.
I think my vertical mill has a better tool collection than most people do, and they belong to it. It has its own roller box and everything! Just saying.
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Tidy Linens Bag
Hi! Lisa Calle of Vintage Modern Quilts here today with a very easy project that will help you get a jump in your spring cleaning. A couple of years ago I bought a set of sheets that came with a handy little storage bag and I thought it was a great idea. The only problem? There was no way I'd ever be able to fold those sheets up as small and tidy as they were straight out of the package and they never fit into the bag again. So what's a girl with a sewing machine and tons of fabric to do? Make my own cuter linens storage bag!
The hardest part of this project is folding that fitted sheet. I made mine for queen size sheets but it will fit king or full, as well. You may want to decrease measurements all over by 1" to 2" for twin sheets.
2 fat quarters (I used a pair of gray prints from V and Co.'s Color Me Happy line)
8"- 11" of Velcro
Marking pen
Hand sewing needle and embroidery thread
Cut each of your fat quarters into a 14" x 15" rectangle. If you are using a directional print, the 15" measurement is your length. From the remaining pieces of each fat quarter, cut a 6" x 8" rectangle. Set these smaller rectangles aside.
Sew a 1/4" hem along the top of each large rectangle (or use a serger, if you have one). Trim a 2½" square from the bottom left and right corners of each rectangle.
Place rectangles right sides together and sew a ¼" seam along the sides and the bottom, leaving the top and the corners open. Be sure to back stitch at each edge. Press seams.
Box the corners of your bag to create depth. To do this, pinch the fabric together so that the seams line up as pictured.
Sew ¼" seam along each boxed corner, back stitching at the beginning and end of your seam.
To create the fold-over flap of your bag, join the small (6" x 8") rectangles together along the long side. Press the seam to one side. Hem all sides of the resulting rectangle.
Determine which side of the bag will be the front. Find the center of the back of the bag and match up with the center of the flap, right sides together. Sew a ¼" seam to join these sections.
Pin one strip of the Velcro along the inside of the bag flap, close to the edge. Sew ⅛" around the Velcro to attach it to the bag. Put your folded sheets in the bag and close the flap firmly, marking where the edge meets (use a removable marking pen). Remove the sheets from the bag and pin the other piece of Velcro just a hair above your mark, again sewing a ⅛" around the Velcro to attach it to the bag.
That's it! You are done. But if you want to take this project up another notch, use embroidery floss to add some important info to the bag. Are these sheets for the guest room? Your child's room? Or maybe just add the size.
1 tidy linens bag
Lisa Calle
Designed by vintagemodernquilts | Lisa on Wednesday, March 05, 2014 Type of Recipe: Accessories, Color Me Happy, Easy, Fat Quarter Bundle, Home Decor, Lisa Calle, V and Co., Vintage Modern Quilts
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- Pierro said...
Rosemary B here:
This is a cute bag. You could also store other stuffs in it. a linen closet can easily turn into a shambles with a few misplaced items.
You could make the little bags out of "Holiday" fabrics and store the place mats and table cloths and napkins for each holiday, like Easter!!
Just a thought
- March 5, 2014 at 5:32 PM
- Patwoos said...
I would suggest making your bag out of the same basic color as the sheets. That way you know what you are grabbing beforehand.
- March 5, 2014 at 6:19 PM
- Maryjean said...
Love this little bag, hope to whip it up soon. Thank you!
- March 5, 2014 at 8:20 PM
- Flicsha said...
Nice Idea!
- March 6, 2014 at 9:26 AM
- sinnemahoning said...
4This such a great idea and I agree with having the bag match the color of the sheets.
There must be oodles of ideas for the use of the bag.
- March 6, 2014 at 9:31 AM
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