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Statement on Swedish Edmonds Construction Accident
We are deeply saddened by this tragedy and want to express our condolences to the family of the deceased and those affected by this tragedy. We are working closely with Sellen Construction, Edmonds Police Department, Snohomish County Fire District 1, and Labor & Industries to investigate the accident and determine what happened.
Although the accident resulted in temporary disruption of power at some of the outlying buildings on the Swedish Edmonds campus, no care services at the main hospital were impacted aside from a temporary safety pause for cardiac cath lab and some elective procedure patients. Power was completely restored to the campus by 3:45 pm.
Out of respect for the family of the victim, those affected by the accident and the ongoing investigation, Swedish cannot provide additional comment at this time.
Modern Healthcare Interview with Swedish CEO Tony Armada
Swedish Health Services CEO Tony Armada was interviewed Furst Group as part of Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare. In his interview, Armada discusses his family's connection to health care, achieving excellence in care and what convinced him that taking the helm at Swedish is the right opportunity for him to pursue.
Read the full interview on Furstgroup.com.
Pacific Cancer Research Consortium Receives $6.6 Million Grant to Expand Access to Oncology Care, Trials
Consortium includes Swedish Cancer Institute, Providence Portland Medical Center and St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute
News Release
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Jean Marks, Providence Portland Medical Center, 503-215-6433, email@example.com
Ken Dey, St. Luke's Mountain State Tumor Institute, 208-381-2894, email@example.com
SEATTLE — August 5, 2014 — The National Cancer Institute's Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) has awarded a consortium of community cancer centers from the Western United States a five-year grant worth $6.6 million to improve access to lifesaving cancer care and clinical trials across a five-state region.
The Pacific Cancer Research Consortium is led by three primary sites: the Swedish Cancer Institute (SCI) in Seattle, which will serve as the grant's fiduciary, Providence Portland Medical Center (PPMC) in Oregon and St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute (MSTI) in Boise, Idaho. The consortium also includes 37 other clinical care sites in Alaska, California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The program opened on Aug. 4.
The Consortium's grant is part of a $93 million funding cycle announced today by NCORP and awarded to 53 researchers across the country.
"We are extremely honored that the National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program has selected our consortium to lead the expansion of cancer clinical trials throughout the Western region," said Thomas Brown, M.D., executive director of the Swedish Cancer Institute. "Together Swedish Cancer Institute, Providence Cancer Center at Providence Portland Medical Center, St. Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute, and a network of clinical care sites are giving patients and their families access to the most current investigational therapies that give hope to advancing the care of cancer patients throughout our region and beyond. Access to clinical trials is the key to providing high quality cancer care in the 21st century."
Study: Mammography Benefits Women over 75
Swedish Cancer Institute's Henry Kaplan, M.D., co-published and helped fund new study
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OAK BROOK, Ill. – Mammography-detected breast cancer is associated with a shift to earlier stage diagnosis in older women, subsequently reducing the rate of more advanced, difficult-to-treat cases, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. Researchers said the findings lend support to regular mammography screening in women ages 75 and older.
The value of mammography screening in older women has been subject to much debate in recent years. The American Cancer Society recommends annual mammograms for women age 75 and older as long as they are in good health, while the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) does not recommend mammography screening in this age group, citing insufficient evidence to evaluate benefits and harms.
A lack of research is chiefly responsible for the divergent recommendations, according to Judith A. Malmgren, Ph.D., affiliate assistant professor at the University of Washington's School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Seattle.
"There are no studies on women age 75 and older, despite the fact that they are at the highest risk for breast cancer," she said.
Dr. Malmgren and her research partner, Henry Kaplan, M.D., from the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, recently looked at the impact of mammography detection on older women by studying data from an institutional registry that includes more than 14,000 breast cancer cases with 1,600 patients over age 75.
Swedish Surgeon Lisa Brown Named Inaugural Intuitive Fellow
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — July 24, 2014 — Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) today announced the launch of the first annual Intuitive Surgical Robotics Fellowship Course through the American Association for Thoracic Surgery's (AATS) Graham Foundation. The course, which began in late July, is designed to offer an introductory training course in robotics to eight North American general thoracic surgery fellows and their attending surgeons. General thoracic surgeons specialize in procedures performed in the chest, such as surgery for lung cancer.
Among the first annual class members is Swedish Surgeon and Thoracic Surgery Fellow Lisa Brown, M.D.
The eight fellows will have the opportunity to spend two days at Intuitive Surgical's Atlanta facility to receive advanced training on Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci® Surgical System. Course Director Robert Cerfolio, MD, leading robotic surgery expert and Chief of the Section of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Alabama, will provide clinical instruction. This year's fellowship recipients come from Duke University, East Carolina University, Mayo Clinic, New York University, Swedish Medical Center, University of Kentucky, University of Southern California and University of Toronto.
"This is about training young surgeons in innovative new technologies and providing surgeons-in-training the opportunity to learn about the latest surgical technologies and techniques," said Ray Pasciuto, Director of Development for AATS's Graham Foundation. "We are grateful for Intuitive Surgical's commitment to product training and its support of our fellowship course."
"We welcome the opportunity to support surgeons early in their professional development as they experience advanced technologies that enable the delivery of more minimally invasive thoracic surgery," said Myriam Curet, Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer at Intuitive Surgical.
Swedish CEO Anthony Armada Named One of Becker's 'People to Know' in Healthcare
Anthony Armada, FACHE, CEO of Swedish Health Services, was recently named one of '500+ People to know in Healthcare' by Becker's Hospital Review. The list says this about Armada:
"Anthony Armada is CEO of Swedish Health Services in Seattle. Mr. Armada was named to lead the five-hospital system in October, prior to which he served as president of Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill."
Swedish First Hill, Cherry Hill Hospitals recognized by US News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report once again recognized Swedish Health Services as one of Washington state's top hospital systems in the 2014 Best Hospitals rankings. Swedish First Hill and Swedish Cherry Hill were ranked in the top 15 percent statewide out of 108 hospitals included in the Washington survey. Each campus earned rankings of #8 in the "Seattle Metro Area" and #12 in the state of Washington. In the "Puget Sound" category, Swedish Cherry Hill was recognized for high performance in Neurology and Neurosurgery. Swedish First Hill earned credit for high performance in Orthopedics.


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StarMenu: custom QML component plugin
This article introduces StarMenu, a QML pop up menu that animates menu elements to align them around a central star.
The StarMenu is a pop up menu that can be raised by clicking or tapping on an area defined like using MouseArea component. The StarMenu's menu items are defined using StarItems. This plugin is been developed with Qt 4.7.4 and tested on linux, Nokia N900, Nokia C7-00, Nokia N950 and Android Galaxy tab GT-7310 (with Necesistas ).
Note for Harmattan: .pro must contains this:
contains(MEEGO_EDITION,harmattan) {
QT += dbus
To compile and install the plugin, just do:
make install
then in your .qml you will need to
import com.starMenu 1.0
To compile within your project: copy staritem.* and starmenu.* in your project directory and add them to the .pro file. Then in the main.cpp include the headers:
#include "starmenu.h"
#include "staritem.h"
and before setSource() or setMainQmlFile() register the component with:
qmlRegisterType<StarMenu>("StarMenu", 1, 0, "StarMenu");
qmlRegisterType<StarItem>("StarMenu", 1, 0, "StarItem");
then, in your .qml file, you will be able to:
import StarMenu 1.0
The StarMenu component displays a contextual menu in a declarative user interface.
StarMenu is hidden by default and opens in response to a user action. The purpose of StarMenu is to manage all StarItem childs. By default they are arrange in a circle shape and, in the center of it, it is painted a star polygon shape with as many spikes as the number of StarItems. It can be visible or not by setting the boolean starCenterVisible property. The circle shape amplitude is given by {{Icode|radiusH} and {{Icode|radiusV} properties. Clicking on the center of the current menu, will close it and goes back to parent. It's possible to click on the center of the first menu to close all. visualParent property is used to bind the close menu action to a specified item, so, instead of clicking on center of {{Icode|StarMenu}, it's possible to set {{Icode|visualParent} to the main window and close menu everywhere on the screen. When using {{Icode|visualParent}, it come handy the {{Icode|color} property to set a transparent color to the clickable area to close the menu. Changing StarItem visible property, makes all {{Icode|StarItem}s position recalculated with only visible items.
It is possible to bind animations to StarItems. When a StarMenu is raised, the StarItems circle shape has the center located by the mouse click (or tap) position and their opacity, rotation, x, y property are set to 0. By doing this:
StarItem {
Behavior on x { NumberAnimation { duration: 1500; easing.type: Easing.OutBounce } }
Behavior on y { NumberAnimation { duration: 1500; easing.type: Easing.OutBounce } }
Behavior on opacity { NumberAnimation { duration: 2200; easing.type: Easing.OutBounce } }
StarItems are animated from center to their final position.
StarMenu has also a delayChangePos property. For example, when it is set to 100, the animation of the second StarItem is started after 100 ms, the third after 200 ms and so on. StarItem has also a delayChangePos property and if it is set, it take priority over the StarMenu delayChangePos property.
StarItems can also contain any other component instead Image component used in these examples:
StarItem {
width: 320; height: 240
scale: 0.3
zoomHoverValue: 1
Behavior on scale { NumberAnimation { duration: 500; easing.type: Easing.OutQuad } }
Column {
Button { text: "Hello Qt" }
Switch { }
RadioButton { }
StarItemss can be arranged in a spiral shape, in a grid shape or in a line shape. StarMenu shape property could have the following values:
- StarMenu.ShapeCircle (default value)
- StarMenu.ShapeGrid
- StarMenu.ShapeSpiral
- StarMenu.ShapeLine
Rows in grid shape are arranged centered by the mouse click and are spaced by spacingH and spacingV properties with columns count defined by {{Icode|columns} property. Spiral shape takes care of startingRadius value to start drawing StarItems and radiusIncrement property to shape the spiral. Line shape has a startingAngle, radiusIncrement and startingRadius properties.
StarMenu has the center where user clicks. This centerproperty can be defined everywhere in scene coordinates by setting center property.
Properties & signals
- center: point
- color: color
- columns: int
- delayChangePos: int
- open: bool
- radiusH: qreal
- radiusV: qreal
- rotation: qreal
- radiusIncrement: qreal
- shape: enumeration
- spacingH: qreal
- spacingV: qreal
- startingAngle: qreal
- starCenterVisible: bool
- startingRadius: qreal
- useParentMenuCenter: bool
- visualParent: Item
- StarMenu::starMenuOpening()
- StarMenu::starMenuClosing()
- zoomHoverValue: qreal
- delayChangePos: int
- StarItem::hoverItem()
- StarItem::leaveItem()
- StarItem::clicked()


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In mozilla 3, u can find this in Options->Advanced->Network->Settings.
I wish to know if something of that sort can be configured for the mobile browser.
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I am hosting a web service in my machine and wish to access it via my mobile phone. Currently, my requests go to the internet and try to locate my machine.
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I love pro football. I love the war-like essence and the power of this game, but I don't know how it's going to survive. I don't know how it's going to continue to exist in its current destructive form.
Head trauma. The charts and paperwork on it continue to swell to the negative. Retired players continue to come out with their forlorn stories, revealing awful maladies 'allegedly' triggered by duty in the National Football League. "Onset of dementia." How many times have I heard it in recent years?
And on the field, despite all the fines and warnings and attempted precautions, the concussions, the blows to the head, continue. Wanna know why? Because it's football. The game is high-velocity collision ball.
This past weekend, more victims were added to the blackout list. Arizona's Kevin Kolb and Miami's Matt Moore and Broncos corner Andre' Goodman and Dallas center Phil Costa … and that raw attempt at decapitation made on Cleveland's Colt McCoy in the Pittsburgh game. I watched it live, but you didn't even have to see the play to guess who was behind the executioner's hood. Yeah, him again … James Harrison.
Harrison, the linebacker who lives by the book, the one by Hugo, Les Miserables, which reads, "The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance."
This head-trauma issue will become more and more prevalent, not less. The latest NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement, which resulted in less contact during team practices and a billion bucks or so for retirees' healthcare, won't stop the flood of overwhelmingly negative stories … and lawsuits … involving the health of former players. The owners can't just negotiate this issue away, or bury it under a glacier of money.
A month ago, I gave a talk about sportswriting to a group outside St. Louis, and there was a little Q&A thing at the end, and one gentleman raised his hand and asked, "What was the saddest thing you ever saw or had to write about?"
Sad? In football? A bit of a strange question.
But actually, I had an answer for him. Two, in fact. Both involved brief telephone conversations I had with two retired players a few years earlier.
In my book, The Super '70s, I did an entire chapter on Cedrick Hardman and the old 49ers' Gold Rush — Hardman and Tommy Hart and Cleveland Elam and Jimmy Webb. Hardman was one of the top sackers of the 1970s, and just as I started the tape recorder he said, "Before we go on, I can never give enough credit to coach Floyd Peters. … You cannot say any of our names without calling Floyd Peters' name. He was the greatest specialist at choreographing the movement of a pass rush. You need to call him, too."
So a few days later, I called Floyd Peters. His wife picked up.
"He's not in the best shape," she said. "He wants to talk, but I'm not sure how much you'll get out of him." I didn't understand what that meant.
She put Floyd on the phone, her husband once a hammering defensive tackle with Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia. I got right into the Gold Rush business and the sack talk with him.
"Well," he said," I'm sorry. I really can't remember anything about that."
No? Well, how about Hardman and Hart, those guys … or Bubba Baker, one of your top game-wreckers when you coached the Lions?
"They sound familiar, those names … they do ring a bell … but no, I really … I really don't know anything about those people. I'm sorry, I can't help you there. Anything else?"
No, Floyd. That will be all. Thank you.
That conversation made me sad.
So did the interview I did with Dave Kocourek, the former All-AFL tight end. Kocourek was an unlucky member of the expansion Miami Dolphins of 1966, a team full of characters and rejects, and I was doing a story on the wackiness of that group.
Every question I asked Kocourek was answered the same way — memories of the time he and former Vikings coach Bud Grant had that great day fishing on the lake in Minnesota.
That's nice, Dave, but how about those old Dolphins of '66? What a crew, huh?
"I don't know … but we sure caught a ton of fish that day, me and Bud." Over and over I heard about Bud and the fish and the boat, until I finally understood what was happening.
Kocourek is now part of a 75-person lawsuit against the NFL, citing that the league concealed damning information about the long-term dangers of concussions and head injuries from its players.
Floyd Peters? He died in 2008. Complications from dementia.
So what safety changes should be made to the pro football of today? Not sure. Haven't thought it through yet. But I can tell you there aren't any training exercises out there that thicken up the skull. And that there is no way to put a seat belt on the brain.
I remember hearing one recommendation from Joe Paterno a year or so ago, during one of his midweek Big Ten conference calls. Joe's persona non grata these days, but he was making pretty good sense on that afternoon.
"I've been saying for 15 years we ought to get rid of the facemask" Paterno insisted. "Then you go back to shoulder blocking, shoulder tackling, and you wouldn't have all those heroes out there. … The game has changed. It used to be shoulders; now it's heads."
It would also mean an epidemic of mangled noses and torn lips and busted cheekbones, but maybe in the big health picture the players would accept that trade-off.
"No facemasks? I wouldn't want to watch it," says former Dolphins LB A.J. Duhe. Duhe was from the late 1970s-early '80s NFL, when terms like "cobwebs" and "getting your bell rung" were still part of the medical terminology. Let's face it, contact is going to be made — helmet to helmet, face to face. People hitting people. You can't avoid it. That's exactly what football is.
"I think I was knocked cold once or twice as a pro. One game was against the Vikings and we were ahead three touchdowns or so, so they didn't send me back in. But I imagine if we were only up three points they would've said, 'A.J., you think you can get back in there?'
"The game is meant to be played viciously," Duhe says. "It's too good to be screwed with. Changing a few rules like they have is fine, but guys ultimately have to learn how to protect themselves. They have to understand they could kill someone or even kill themselves with reckless hitting.
"Don't get me wrong, when I had a bead on a guy I wanted to knock the hell out of him, absolutely. But I didn't stick my helmet into the small of his back, or try to jam the crown of my helmet into his earhole. That's what's wrong — too many guys play to kill today. I'm tired of it."
You haven't learned anything new from these paragraphs. I'm only here to give my prediction.
I'm saying that pro football — the crippling, crushing, mass-times-velocity spectacle we feed on today — will be played quite differently in the not-so-far future. I just can't give you the details.
Tom Danyluk is an award-winning freelance writer based in Chicago. His book on pro football, "The Super '70s," is available at Amazon.com. You can contact Tom at email@example.com.


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I-Cubed, a fast-growing Raleigh technology and consulting firm focused on the manufacturing sector, has been acquired for up to $24 million by a publicly traded Indian company.
A byproduct of the acquisition by tech consulting firm KPIT is the creation of a new 40-employee Raleigh company, ICI Digital, a Web-content management company.
KPIT agreed to pay $14 million for I-Cubed's primary business, plus an additional $10 million that is contingent on achieving performance milestones. The business it acquired employs about 90 workers, most of whom work at the company's offices at N.C. State University's Centennial Campus.
Thompson said he is "highly confident" that the business will achieve all the milestones.
"In fact," he added, "I'm going to stick around awhile to make sure it occurs."
The company's employees have their own motivation: They will share in the upfront money and milestone payments from KPIT.
I-Cubed, which was founded in 1984, has been an employee-owned business since 2006. Current employees owned more than 80 percent of the business and former employees owned the remainder.
Keeps I-Cubed name for now
KPIT was only interested in the larger of I-Cubed's two major businesses – hence the spinoff, said Donald Thompson, I-Cubed's CEO.
The ICI Digital operation that is being spun off "was outside KPIT's sweet spot," Thompson said. ICI Digital provides consulting and technology services for managing the digital infrastructure of "high-end websites" for customers such as TimeWarner Cable and Cary-based SAS.
During a transition period of 6-to-12 months, the I-Cubed business acquired by KPIT will maintain the I-Cubed name. Eventually, however, "we will be blended into the global KPIT brand," Thompson said.
The I-Cubed business also is absorbing about 20 KPIT employees at the outset. In addition, Thompson anticipates the business will hire another 20-to-30 employees over the next six months, and roughly a third of those new hires will be based in Raleigh.
Revenue rising
KPIT has more than 9,200 employees worldwide and generated $444 million in revenue in its latest fiscal year, up more than 20 percent from the previous year.
I-Cubed provides software and consulting services that help manufacturers accelerate the product-development process and reduce costs. Its customers include Caterpillar, John Deere, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon.
Thompson said I-Cubed's annual revenue has risen at least 30 percent in each of the last six years and that the company wasn't seeking a buyer when it was approached by KPIT about eight months ago.
But by joining the much larger KPIT, he said, the business can compete for bigger pieces of business and "we can now serve our customers globally. One of our customers is Volvo. We serve Volvo in the U.S., but now we can can service them on a global basis."
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Benna Wilde has many wonderful memories from the past 21 years as the wife of President Harold Wilde. Her reflections on those years begin with her first visit to Naperville as part of a presidential search interview. "(Trustee) Rita Harvard arranged to give me a tour of Naperville and I fell in love with it," she says. "I was thinking that I really hope they pick us because this is a great place."
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OLYMPIA - An Olympia resident is attempting to recall Councilman Joe Hyer, who has pleaded not guilty to three felony charges for allegedly dealing marijuana.
Steven McKnight filed a request for recall to the Thurston County Auditor's office Tuesday.
In a brief interview, McKnight said he brought the recall because public officials must obey the law. He did not comment on why he was bringing the recall when Hyer hasn't been convicted of a crime.
"It's really not about me, it's about Mr. Hyer selling dope," he said. "I really feel that this country is based on the rule of law, and I know public officials take an oath to uphold these laws."
Hyer, who said he had seen the recall request, declined to comment.
The recall request sets in motion a little-used process. Once a recall statement is given to the elections officer, the officer must notify the accused, and certify and transmit the charge. The case then goes to Thurston Superior Court, which is charged with conducting a hearing, in part, to determine whether the acts in the recall request satisfy criteria for recall petitions.
The petitioner will have 180 days to come up with enough signatures to put a recall on the ballot – a time limit that begins 16 days after the Superior Court determines that the criteria for a recall are met.
The petitioner must gather enough signatures of legal voters to equal 25 percent of the total votes cast for all candidates for the office "to which the officer whose recall is demanded was elected at the preceding election."
Hyer pleaded not guilty two weeks ago to two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and one count of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, each a class C felony.
Hyer was arrested at home on Legion Way last month by detectives with the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force. Court papers state that a confidential informant wearing a wire bought marijuana from Hyer twice during controlled buys at Hyer's home in February, court papers state.
A motion filed by Hyer's attorney, Ken Valz, to prohibit further pretrial publicity in the case suggests that Hyer knows the identity of the informant he sold marijuana to, and that the person is the only one Hyer ever sold marijuana to. Hyer told detectives he sold marijuana, but only to close friends, according to court papers.
In his filing, Valz claims that Hyer was entrapped by someone he thought was his friend. "This 'friend,' over a period of several months, lured and induced Councilman Hyer to commit a crime that Hyer would not otherwise commit except for the influence of this 'friend.'"
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Patriotic Popcorn Cake Recipe
"My mother gave me this recipe, and it has been a bake sale and holiday favorite ever since," relates Teresa Lerret from Vacaville, California. "Kids and adults love the caramel popcorn taste. For faster preparation, use microwave popcorn," she suggests.
- 1 package (16 ounces) miniature marshmallows
- 20 caramels
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 10 cups popped popcorn
- 1-1/2 cups salted peanuts
- 1 cup red, white and blue milk chocolate M&M's
- In a microwave-safe bowl, combine the marshmallows, caramels and butter. Microwave, uncovered, on high for 3 minutes or until melted, stirring occasionally. Place the popcorn in a large bowl; pour caramel mixture over popcorn and mix well.
- Stir in peanuts and M&M's. Press into a well-greased 10-in. tube pan. Cool until firm. Remove from pan; cut with a serrated knife. Yield: 16-18 servings.
Editor's Note: This recipe was tested with Hershey caramels in a 1,100-watt microwave.
Originally published as Patriotic Popcorn Cake in Quick Cooking July/August 2004, p51
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Reviewed Aug. 8, 2013
this is yummy I took out the m and m and added gum drops.
Reviewed Apr. 6, 2012
I have made this twice. I popped my own corn the first time, but used bagged popcorn this time and it worked so well!
I also use the Kraft caramels that come in little balls instead of the cubes and they really melt well! I think one cup of the little caramel balls equals the 20 large cubes. I also always get worried that the carmel sauce won't be enough to cover the popcorn, but it turns out to be perfect! I loove this recipe!
Reviewed Jul. 3, 2010
I have to make this every fourth! Easy to make, easier to eat
Reviewed Jul. 3, 2009
I thought sustituting macadamias instead of peanuts, and forming individual popcorn balls instead of the cake, thus eliminating the cutting.
Reviewed May. 22, 2009
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In the moments after Chris Weidman's win over Anderson Silva, while the cage side doctors went to check on the former Champion the camera's caught Weidman talking to his corner. It appears in a video captured by Luca Fury that Weidman refers to Silva as a "disrespectful piece of shit" and considering the amount of adrenaline coursing in his system and the amount of taunting that Silva threw at Weidman, it would be hard to fault Weidman for running a little hot if he did in fact say that.
It was a contentious fight as Tim Burke details in his results post:
Silva walked away from the cage, then waved him back over. Anderson put his hands on his hips and openly mocked Weidman. Then landed some kicks. Silva continued to mock him, daring him to fight. Weidman landed a punch at the bell, and Anderson kissed him on the cheek at the horn. Seriously.
Anderson continued to clown early in round two. Weidman shot in but got stuffed. Anderson dropped his hands and mocked Weidman again, and then he paid for it. Weidman clocked him on the chin, and Anderson went down. Weidman jumped on him and put him out cold. And became the new middleweight champion.


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The 1981 cult horror hit the Evil Dead is getting the remake treatment. It's not unusual in Hollywood, as countless numbers of 80s horror flicks have been redone lately as well. So far the stream of remakes has been sub-par at best. There have been a few that played decent in theaters, and most have made good at the box office. Still, many seem to lack any high quality and have come off more as money grabs.
Evil Dead is abruptly bucking that trend. This effort, while following closely to the plot of the original, takes some very unexpected and graphic turns. Instead of five 20-somethings heading off into the woods to booze it up and party in a cabin, they're meeting there to help a friend kick her heroin habit cold turkey. But when they discover a book bound in human skin, things go south quickly.
This movie hits the ground running. Once the book is discovered, the horror quickly picks up. Mia, played by Jane Levy, does an excellent job playing our heroin addict trying to turn her life around. Once one of her friends opens up and reads an incantation inside the book, all hell breaks loose. Mia starts hearing voices and becomes extremely scared. When her brother and friends refuse to let her leave, she sneaks out. Things get much worse from here on out.
While trying to get away, Mia sees a woman in the middle of the road (who oddly resembles her quite a bit), swerves and crashes. She tries to run, but is quickly possessed by what is known as the evil dead. After this, her brother finds her. When he brings her back to the cabin, he's pretty much sealed the deal on their grim fate.
The original Evil Dead was done on a shoestring budget, which is one of the charms/hindrances it faced. The new version is a brutal, relentless, unforgiving monster with razor sharp teeth. While the original plays almost like a comedy now, thanks to the low budget, its inventive camera shots and original story made it a classic. The new version may not gain the cult status of the original, but it is definitely a disturbingly beautiful original take.
This film is not for everyone. If you get squeamish at the sight of blood, you should probably steer clear. However, if you are a serious horror movie fan, you're definitely going to want to check this out. You just might need to take a shower once the movie's over.
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Owl's Cliff consists of two main cliffs located on the peak south of Mt Tremont, south west of Bartlett NH. They can be viewed by looking north from the Kancamagus Highway across a marsh near Passaconaway campground. The two cliffs in the distance make up the "eyes" of the owl. There are lots of Owl cliffs in New England, so this area is not to be confused with Owl's Head in Oliverian Notch nor the one in the Pemigewasset Wilderness to the west.
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See Glenn's map www.mountainproject.com/v/new_hampshire/owls_cliff/106821360 Owl's is approached off Bear Notch road. The easiest way seems to be to go in via Rob Brook Rd, a wide, well graded, gated forest road. People have approached from various points further north up Bear Notch Rd., but, though they look shorter as the crow flies, they mostly entail more up and down climbing and more bushwhacking through difficult terrain. For only going to the Right Cliff, some have reported that coming in from high on Bear Notch road, then rapping in from the top works well, taking about an hour (of course you then would have to top out some how). I haven't done this myself, so can't give directions for that way. There isn't any real quick way between the two main cliffs, so you should probably pick one or the other for the day.
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The Office of Multicultural Student Services will debut its Multicultural Book Club Monday, Oct. 30, with an appearance on campus by Letha Dawson Scanzoni, author of "Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?: A Positive Christian Response."
The Library Journal describes it as "a compassionate, persuasive case for a fundamental shift in Christian attitudes."
Eugene McAvoy, instructor of English, will moderate a discussion with Scanzoni starting at 7 p.m. in the Hampton/
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"The Office of Multicultural Student Services is committed to developing a university community where all members can learn about, and communicate and interact effectively and positively with diverse individuals and cultural groups," said Lesa C. Clark, interim director.
"Each month, in conjunction with the national acknowledgement of a cultural or ethnic group, the Multicultural Book Club will highlight a book that focuses on that group."
The books will be available at the MBC display in the University Bookstore. Faculty and staff are invited to nominate books and lead discussions. For more information contact Clark at email@example.com.
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The nearly 20 attacks, most of them in and around Baghdad, demonstrated in stark terms how dangerously divided Iraq remains more than a year after American troops withdrew.
More than 240 people were reported wounded.
Violence has ebbed sharply since the peak of Sunni-Shiite fighting that pushed the country to the brink of civil war in 2006 and 2007.
But insurgents are still able to stage high-profile attacks, while sectarian and ethnic rivalries continue to tear at the fabric of national unity.
The symbolism of yesterday's attacks was strong, coming 10 years to the day, Washington time, that President George W. Bush announced the start of hostilities against Iraq.
A decade later, Iraq's long-term stability and the strength of its democracy are uncertain.
While the country is freer than it was during Saddam's murderous rule, its Shiite-led government is arguably closer to Tehran than to Washington.
It faces an outpouring of anger by the Sunni minority that was dominant under Saddam and at the heart of the insurgency that followed his ouster.
"Today's attacks are new proof that the politicians and security officials are a huge failure," said Hussein Abdul-Khaliq, a resident of Baghdad's Shiite slum district of Sadr City, which was hit by three explosions that killed 10 people, including three commuters on a minibus.
The apparently coordinated attacks around the country included car bombs and explosives stuck to the underside of vehicles.
They targeted government security forces and mainly Shiite areas.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Iraqi officials believe al-Qaida's Iraq arm is to blame.
The terror group favors car bombs and coordinated bombings to undermine public confidence in the government.
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America's 200m Man, Wallace Spearmon Jr. Visits Oakley World Headquarters
Wallace Spearmon Jr. is as fierce as they come on the track. As America's 200-meter standout, he can be seen lining up in the blocks along side some of the world's quickest men, confident and never intimidated. While most look at Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and now Warren Weir, as unbeatable Jamaican powerhouses, Spearmon sees them as just within his reach. He's represented the United States in two Olympic Games now and has unfortunately come home empty handed in both attempts. While this is a source of frustration for Spearmon, he uses it as utter motivation to train like he's never trained before for the next four years, with one goal in mind. With an impressive fourth place finish this year in London, Spearmon already has his sights set on a medal in Rio 2016 and nothing's going to get in his way. Not even Jamaica's finest.
Spearmon is quietly confident. He takes his lane each race with a rigorous routine, donning his darkly tinted Oakley Radarlocks, focused and in the zone. He knows he is a force to be reckoned with, yet he never lets it get to his head. This down home Arkansas boy compliments his exuberating conviction with a humble, gentlemanly attitude, making him one of the sports finest representatives. You won't find Spearmon in the headlines for anything other than his stellar track performances. You won't find him in the midst of wild Olympic Village parties. He simply likes to be seen crushing records on the track and privately enjoying his home life, split between his native Arkansas and his training grounds in Dallas, Texas. He loves his basketball and car racing; he's just like any of us (just a hell of a lot faster).
Spearmon recently visited Oakley's World Headquarters in Foothill Ranch, CA and we got the chance to catch up with him on everything from his time in London at the 2012 Olympics, to his first ever visit here to see the compound, to his love for his Nissan GTR race car. We even got him to do a 100m sprint in our hallways, sporting a full Oakley racing suit, boots and gloves. Wallace is quite the sport and we know that once you get to know him like we do, you'll agree. Keep your eye on "Prince Spearmon" for the next four years and we have a feeling you'll find him neck and neck with those Jamaican boys in Rio 2016.
Oakley: We haven't really caught up with you since the Olympics in London. What was that like? How was it different from Beijing? Tell us about your experience over there.
Wallace Spearmon: London was definitely really cool. Everyone spoke English! So that was the biggest thing for me. We went to Beijing and tried to learn Mandarin, which wasn't very fun. I was also hurt going into Beijing, so in London, I was finally healthy. I got to actually go around and see a lot of the buildings they had set up, like the Oakley Safehouse. We went to the Red Bull House, the Beats by Dre House. I didn't get to see any of that stuff when we were over in Beijing. And that's actually part of the Games – the athletes get to actually go out and experience things outside of your sport. I got to go watch basketball games and volleyball. I just enjoyed my experience. All in all, it was definitely something I'll always remember and keep with me for the rest of my life.
As far as on the track: 2011 I was hurt, so going into 2012, you're never going to have your best year coming off and injury year. I mean, I probably raced five or six times in 2011. I usually race about 20-30 times a season, so it definitely played a roll in my performance on the track. I just went out there and did the best I could. I ran 19.90. Sub-20 seconds is respectable, but it took a lot more to medal this year. We had [Usain] Bolt and [Yohan] Blake and the third Jamaican, Warren Weir, and I felt like if I was 100%, I would have at least gotten third. So, second Olympics with no medal – third one should be a charm!
Oakley: Top, and only, American in the 2012 Olympic 200m final though, that's pretty exciting! What's it going to take to eventually overcome the Jamaicans in 2016?
WS: I definitely feel like I'll be smarter in 2016. I know what I'll need to do. As far as staying healthy, I know how to take care of myself now. I actually didn't lift weights this year, so that will be something I'm definitely going to pick up. I've got a great strength coach down there [in Dallas, TX]. I'm working on my diet and working on my body, so it's going to be a lot of off the track things that I work on. Not necessarily my works outs, because I worked as hard as ever on the track this year. It's off the track that got me, I believe. I could have done a lot more than what I did, so hopefully that will lead to me being on that medal stand in Rio. That's what I've been training for my whole life; not just to make the team, but to get a medal. To come home with some hardware from the Games.
Oakley: Rio 2016 is obviously the main goal for now…thoughts?
WS: Heck yeah! I mean it's four years from now and in our sport, you see cycles come through every Olympics. You might see new athletes, so it's not guaranteed that I'll be there, but the way I feel right now, I don't feel like I'm getting any slower. I feel like I'm only getting faster and faster. I'm coming into my prime, so 31 [years old] is still within that range to where I should still be a threat. That's definitely the goal. I'm not ready to give up any rope that I have right now. I'm looking to make this team.
Oakley: Going back to London; you were the only guy on the 200m final start line with eyewear on. Can you tell us why it's such an important piece of equipment for you?
WS: Actually, when I first started wearing glasses, I just thought it was pretty cool. It wasn't until I started working with Oakley that I actually got a crash course on the performance-based reasons why you should wear glasses; blocking the UV rays and such. Once you're doing that, you're not squinting, so its taking stress off your eyes, off your face and that's helping your body relax. And it brings out colors and makes things more vivid. It just brings a whole new aspect to what you see. People just don't know. They see people wearing glasses, but you just don't know. Other than the scientific reasons, it kind of puts me in the zone. Everything is blocked out and it's just me and this track.
Oakley: And your race was a night too, so the lights in the stadium are pretty crazy. Especially in the Olympic Stadium.
WS: Exactly! I mean, you had the lights in the stadium, spotlights, and then we had these blue lights behind each chair. You wouldn't think that that draws attention, but that's the first thing you see when you walk in the stadium, is these bright blue lights. So it doesn't really matter, day or night, the glasses were on.
Oakley: Off the track, you spent a good amount of time with us at the Oakley Safehouse in the London Design Museum. What was that experience like for you?
WS: Yeah I came by like two or three times [laughs]! Initially I just came by because Oakley is like family, so I wanted to see my family. Then once I got there and saw what was going on, it was awesome! You guys had the restaurant and everything downstairs. It was off the water [Thames River] so you could go outside and look at the rings hanging from Tower Bridge. And once you went upstairs, you were making custom glasses for us and doing interviews and you could see other athletes from other countries. You just had everything! Also some of the history that was in there was cool. You saw the history of who's worn the glasses, people who've won the Olympics. There was just a lot of history, a lot of fun. It was just a good time and really relaxing to just go in there and take your mind off of track.
Oakley: When you were there you got to experience some of our medal ceremonies and watch some of the Games on the giant TV's. What you probably didn't realize was that there were 100's of people crowded around cheering for you in your 200m final. What does that mean to you?
WS: It's just crazy. Like I said, Oakley is a family; extended family. You see it, when you stand out there on the track, or in their respective sport, wearing Oakley eyewear, you can just tell, you just know. So when everyone comes together and they're actually cheering for you, it just feels good. I said this before, I wish somebody recorded it, or I could be in two places at once, just so I could see everyone cheering for me because I don't know who you are if that doesn't make you feel good when people are just rooting for you, in that race. I really appreciate everyone who was pulling for me. It wasn't the results I wanted, but still, the top American, fourth place finish. I just wish I could have seen that. That would be really cool.
Oakley: Let's talk about your trip here to Oakley World Headquarters in Foothill Ranch, CA. It was your first time visiting and you got the grand tour…what did you think?
WS: Honestly, I was talking to my driver on the way over here just trying to get some quick insight. I called Lolo Jones and asked her if there was anything I should see. She said, "You need to see ALL of it." I really didn't expect this. Even when we pulled up and you see the walkway, the entrance. I took a picture of that and put it on Instagram. It's crazy! Then you walk in and it's just huge here! I found out the building never closes, it's open 24/7, there's always someone here. If you dropped me off in this place and told me to find the front, I couldn't find the front of the building! It'd be by luck.
But I mean you've got a BMX course, a grill out back, you've got gyms in here. It's crazy, you could live here!
Oakley: You got to see some technology demonstrations as well. Does what you saw give you a bit more sense of security in what you're wearing on your face?
WS: It definitely does. I mean, outside of sports, I know you work with the military too. From some of these tests, I saw them shooting metal balls into the lenses and they didn't break. And dropping steel rods just a bunch of displays of how great the product really is, I was impressed. It just goes to show that you're wearing the best. If you don't get confident from being the best, wearing the best, then I don't really know what works for you
Oakley: Beyond eyewear, you've got a love for motor sports. You're going to be wearing one of our race suits, shoes and gloves racing one of your cars. What's up with that?
WS: I'm a dare-devil! Anything to do with speed, not just on the track, but off the track. I have a little Nissan GTR. It's like 14,000 horsepower. I race it down drag strips and quarter-miles and we have standing miles and all kinds of stuff. So, they told me I needed a fire suit and you guys make race apparel as well so you hooked me up with a race suit, some boots and some gloves so I've got everything I need to go out there and be safe and fire resistant!
Oakley: Last question: you were featured in our Beyond Reason brand campaign. How does the statement "Beyond Reason" resonate with you in your personal and athletic life?
WS: As far as track and field and "Beyond Reason," as fast as we run, people really can't put their finger on that; how it's done. That's the first thing people really ask me; "Is Bolt really that fast?" You have to put yourself in the same category too because you're competing against him so as far as on the track, it's trying to be faster than any man who's ever ran before. Trying to break all the laws of science and just break records. You push yourself through boundaries and places than no man has before and put your body through hell, to get results that can only be duplicated by a few.
As far as with Oakley, after seeing what I saw today, if you don't believe it, come see it! I give you my word; you'll be just as impressed as I am. They definitely go above and "Beyond Reason." I'm really looking forward to future endeavors with you guys!


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New video from that whale shark spotting shows the close encounter some south Georgia fisherman had with a 25 foot long whale shark.
We've got some new underwater footage now.
Joe Bendis, the Captain of the Celestial Crab fishing boat, is from Valdosta.
He says he couldn't believe his luck when the huge fish showed up next to his boat about 30 miles off the coast of Carrabelle, Florida.
It hung around for about an hour, even nudged the boat at one point.
Bendis says actually touching the gentle whale shark is a moment he'll never forget.
"We experienced something, 'incredible,' as Brad said there in the video, incredible. It's simply amazing and I hope to have many more experiences like this because this is phenomenal," said Bendis.
The whale shark is the largest fish species. It's currently listed as a vulnerable species.
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Overall review: This is an outstanding SUV.
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Toyota vs. Tahoe--no comparison... by Toyota remorse in the midwest... on 06/15/2006. Trim: 2006 Toyota Sequoia SR5 4WD, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: I thought I liked the way the Toyota looked, and I thought I got a bargain on it. But then my neighbor showed up in his new '07 LTZ Tahoe...20" chromed wheels, all of the other stuff...wow did he get a buy!!! And the fit and finish on his is as good or better than my Toyota. My gas mileage is worse than his...guess I should be writing a commercial for Chevy...
Cons: Gas mileage, the interior is stodgy compared to Tahoe, no ONSTAR at all, ride is rough and noisy...Is this Toyota or a Ford?
Overall review: Buy a Tahoe at any price...you'll agree with me that it is money well spent...
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Not so happy with this Toyota by An MSN Autos Consumer on 06/15/2006. Trim: 2006 Toyota Sequoia SR5 4WD, Owned 1 year.
Pros: Had good ratings
Cons: Don't always beleive what you read, poor fit and finish, gas mileage is horrible. Only reason for buying was because others said it was a great truck, nothing good to say about it. Can't wait to get rid of it.
Overall review: Look at the others before considering. Its seems like Toyota quality is really declining from what it used to be. I don't have any of the problems with my GM vehicles as i do with this.
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Learning to maintain a healthy weight is more important than ever, given that more and more of us are overweight or obese. One of the easiest tools to help you watch your weight is the nutrition label on packaged foods. The label gives you a guide for both calories and nutrition by letting you know what's in the foods you eat.
At first glance, a nutrition label may seem confusing or overwhelming. Because packaging space is often limited, the nutrition label was designed to convey a large amount of information in a small space. Unfortunately, many people have difficulty interpreting that information.
Here's a look at a typical nutrition label for a generic macaroni and cheese.
Serving Size: This is the suggested amount of food in a serving of this item. In this example, a single, one-cup serving has 400 calories when prepared according to the package directions.
Servings Per Container: This is the number of servings in the package. In this example, the package contains about three servings. If you eat the entire box, you will have consumed three times the calories intended, for a total of 1,200 calories.
There are three columns in this nutrition label: amount per serving; as packaged; and prepared.
Amount Per Serving: This column lists the amount of a specific nutrient in ONE serving. The amount is usually listed in grams (g) or milligrams (mg).
As Packaged: This column refers to the number of calories or the percentage of a specific nutrient found in a serving before it is cooked (and other ingredients are added). This column is useful to show you how many calories are added by preparation. Not all labels have an "as packaged" column.
Prepared: This column represents the number of calories and percentage of specific ingredients in the food after it is prepared according to the directions on the package. In this example, milk, margarine and the packaged cheese mix are added during preparation. The "As Packaged" column provides a reference, so you can see how many calories preparation adds.
Calories: This row tells the number of calories in a packaged serving and in a prepared serving. In this example, preparation nearly doubles the number of calories per serving (260 vs. 400). The extra calories largely come from the quarter cup of margarine added during preparation.
Calories from Fat: This row helps you determine whether a food is low in fat. In this example, only 15 calories per serving come from fat "as packaged," but a prepared serving contains 150 fat calories. That's a 10-fold increase in fat calories. To determine the percentage of calories from fat per serving, divide the fat calories (150 in this example) by the total calories (400), and multiply by 100: 150/400 x 100 = 37.5 percent. A low-fat food is one that contains less than 30 percent calories from fat; this is not a low-fat meal.
Total Fat: This row usually describes how much fat is in a serving. In this example, however, 2 grams is followed by an asterisk for a footnote. The footnote tells you that the amount of fat listed is what is contained "in unprepared product." After adding the quarter cup of margarine during preparation, a serving contains 16.6 grams of fat, or about 27 percent of your daily fat allotment, based on a 2,500-calorie diet. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends that no more than 30 percent of your daily calories come from fat; that's a total of about 83 grams of fat in a 2,500-calorie diet. If you eat the whole box, you will have consumed a whopping 66.4 grams of fat, or about 80 percent of your daily fat allowance. Although this label does not, most other nutrition labels list the total grams of fat for a prepared serving. You can calculate fat calories by multiplying the grams of fat by 9, because there are 9 calories in every gram of fat. Saturated and trans-fat amounts are generally listed in rows beneath total fat.
Cholesterol: This row lists the total grams of cholesterol per serving. In this example, because margarine has no cholesterol (compared with butter), adding a quarter cup of margarine does not increase the cholesterol in this product.
Sodium: This row lists the total sodium per serving. In this example, a "prepared" serving provides 37 percent of the daily sodium allotment of 2,300 mg. If you eat the whole box, you will have exceeded your daily recommendation for sodium, for a total of 111 percent.
Total Carbohydrate: This row and the indented rows below provide the amount of total carbohydrate and a breakdown of complex carbohydrates, fiber and sugars. In this example, a single, prepared serving supplies 17 percent of your total carbohydrate, based on a 2,500-calorie diet.
Protein: This row shows the total grams of protein in a serving. Most labels do not provide percentages of complete and incomplete proteins. As a general rule, if the product contains milk, meat or egg, the protein is complete, meaning it contains all eight essential amino acids. If the product is plant-based, the proteins are probably incomplete. Your daily protein intake should include some complete proteins.
Vitamins and Minerals: These rows show the percentage of various vitamins and minerals supplied in one serving. As a rule, dried and canned foods supply little in the way of vitamins or minerals, as can be seen on their nutrition labels, unless specific supplements are added. Fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables are your best source of these nutritional elements. Dairy products remain your best source of calcium.
The values on the nutrition label are generally based on a 2,500-calorie diet. If you eat more than 2,500 calories per day, a single serving will provide smaller percentages of vitamins, minerals, fat, sodium, carbohydrate and protein than shown on the label. If you eat less than 2,500 calories a day, a single serving will provide greater percentages than shown. Read the nutrition label carefully to see whether the numbers are based on a 2,000- or 2,500-calorie diet.
A nutrition label offers a wealth of information once you know how to read it. It tells you not only what nutrients a product contains, but also what nutrients it lacks. Knowing these deficiencies allows you to tailor your overall diet to make sure you get the nutrients you need.
In this example, how do you turn a high-fat, boxed macaroni dish into a healthy, well-rounded meal? Begin by passing up the recommended added ingredients. Instead of adding 2 percent milk, use skim or 1 percent milk; these options include vitamin D and little or no fat. Don't add margarine; instead, add 1 tablespoon of grated cheddar cheese or 1 tablespoon of fat-free cream cheese. One minute before the macaroni is finished cooking, add diced green pepper (vitamin C), shredded carrot (vitamin A) and any other finely cut vegetable you choose to the boiling water. Boiling for only one minute preserves most of the nutrition and leaves the vegetables crisp. Drain the macaroni and vegetables, and add the dry ingredients from the package, the milk and the cheese. Stir in a drained can of water-packed tuna (protein and B vitamins). You now have a low-fat tuna-noodle meal that supplies complete proteins, adequate carbohydrate and a lot more nutrition than the original recipe would have provided.
Read the nutrition labels on all the foods you purchase. You may be surprised at what you learn. If you buy sweetened cereals, you'll see that for most of them, more than half of the total calories come from sugar. Even breakfast or nutrition bars, which may sound healthy, contain mostly sugar and fat.
Labels can help you change your diet for the better, maintain your weight in a healthy range and avoid tempting, but low-nutrition foods that seem to beckon from every supermarket shelf.
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Gonzaga fans will get one last chance to boo Matthew Dellavedova. The Zags host Saint Mary's Thursday night at The Kennel.
The Gaels guard will make his final appearance in Spokane. And as much as it may pain the Zags to admit it, the Aussie commands respect from his peers.
"He's a great player, he's got his own style, he's very unique and he has a great feel for the game," said Gonzaga guard Kevin Pangos. "Playing against him is fun. He's a tough guy. I want to beat him, that's all. I just want to get that win."
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'Momma loves you': Funerals begin for littlest victims of Conn. school shooting rampage
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- Opening a long and almost unbearable procession of grief, Newtown began laying its dead to rest Monday, holding funerals for two 6-year-old boys -- one a football fan who was buried in a New York Giants jersey and one whose twin sister survived the school shooting rampage.
Two funeral homes filled with mourners for Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto, the first of the 20 children killed in last week's massacre to receive funerals. The gunman also killed six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary, and his mother in her home, before committing suicide.
A rabbi presided at Noah's service, and in keeping with Jewish tradition, the boy was laid to rest in a simple brown wooden casket with a Star of David on it.
"If Noah had not been taken from us, he would have become a great man. He would been a wonderful husband and a loving father," Noah's uncle, Alexis Haller, told mourners, according to remarks he provided to The Associated Press. Both services were closed to the news media.
Noah's twin, Arielle, who was assigned to a different classroom, survived the killing frenzy by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, an attack so horrifying that authorities could not say three days later whether the school would ever reopen.
Gun control gets unlikely backers in Congress; WH says Obama to make it second-term priority
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Prominent gun-rights advocates in Congress are now calling for a national discussion about restrictions to curb gun violence, signaling that the horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school could be a tipping point in a debate that has been dormant for years.
"Everything should be on the table," West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin declared Monday. He is a conservative Democrat, avid hunter and lifelong member of the National Rifle Association. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa proposed a debate not just about guns but also about mental issues.
White House officials said President Barack Obama would make preventing gun violence a second-term policy priority. But it was unclear what Obama would pursue or how, and aides said stricter gun laws would be only part of any effort.
The president met Monday afternoon with Vice President Joe Biden and a handful of Cabinet members to begin discussions on ways the country should respond to the Newtown shootings. Among those in attendance were Attorney General Eric Holder, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
It remains to be seen whether Obama and Congress can turn their rhetoric into action or whether the shock over the Connecticut shootings will fade before they do. Public opinion has shifted against tougher gun control in recent years, and the gun lobby is a powerful political force, particularly in Republican primaries. Also, Obama has called for a national dialogue after other mass shootings during his presidency, only to see those efforts take a backseat to other pressing issues.
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School neighbor gave refuge to 6 children who ran from school after their teacher was shot
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- Gene Rosen had just finished feeding his cats and was heading from his home near Sandy Hook Elementary school to a diner Friday morning when he saw six small children sitting in a neat semicircle at the end of his driveway.
A school bus driver was standing over them, telling them things would be all right. It was about 9:30 a.m., and the children, he discovered, had just run from the school to escape a gunman.
"We can't go back to school," one little boy told Rosen. "Our teacher is dead. Mrs. Soto; we don't have a teacher."
Rosen, a 69-year-old retired psychologist, took the four girls and two boys into his home, and over the next few hours gave them toys, listened to their stories and called their frantic parents.
Rosen said he had heard the staccato sound of gunfire about 15 minutes earlier but dismissed it as an obnoxious hunter in the nearby woods.
Conn. victims recalled as young children full of life and adults devoted to them
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- At the very start of their lives, the schoolchildren are remembered for their love of horses, or for the games they couldn't get enough of, or for always saying grace at dinner. The adult victims found their life's work in sheltering little ones, teaching them, caring for them, treating them as their own. The gunfire Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School left a toll both unbearable and incalculable: 20 students and six adults at the school, the gunman's mother at home, and the gunman himself.
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They were supposed to be for the holidays, but finally on Friday, after hearing much begging, Charlotte Bacon's mother relented and let her wear the new pink dress and boots to school.
Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, decorated veteran, dies at age 88 after 50-year Senate career
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Recovering from war wounds that left him with one arm, Danny Inouye wanted a cigarette and needed a light.
The nurse at the Army hospital in Michigan threw a pack of matches on his chest. He wanted to curse her. Instead, she taught him how to light it one-handed.
"Then she said, 'I'm not going to be around here for the rest of your life. You'll have to learn how to light your own matches, cut your own meat, dress yourself and do everything else. So from now on you're going to be learning,'" Inouye recalled decades later.
From that moment on it seemed like nothing would stop a determined Daniel K. Inouye, who died Monday after a uniquely American life defined by heroism in war and decades of service in the Senate -- and a lifelong love of Hawaii symbolized by his last utterance.
AP sources: New Obama offer moves toward Boehner with $400,000 tax hike threshold, more cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has agreed to curtail future cost-of-living increases for recipients of Social Security and softened his demand for higher taxes at upper income levels as part of accelerating negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner to avoid a "fiscal cliff," people familiar with the talks said Monday.
Speaking a few hours after Obama and Boehner met at the White House, these people said the president was now seeking a higher tax rate beginning at incomes over $400,000, up from the levels of $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for couples that were cornerstones of his successful campaign for re-election.
Obama's willingness to reduce future cost-of-living increases in Social Security, government retirement and numerous other programs marked another clear concession to Boehner, although it came with an asterisk. The president wants lower-income recipients to receive protection against any loss from scaling back future cost of living increases, these officials said.
Nor did Obama's offer include raising the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67, a Republican goal that has drawn particularly strong objections from Democratic liberals.
Several officials also said during the day that Boehner's offer late last week to accept higher tax rates included provisions that would mean higher taxes on investment income and dividends earned by wealthy Americans and also in the estate tax.
Sobs mix with satellite pride as N. Korea unveils body of Kim Jong Il on anniversary of death
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea unveiled the embalmed body of Kim Jong Il, still in his trademark khaki jumpsuit, on the anniversary of his death Monday as mourning mixed with pride over a recent satellite launch that was a long-held goal of the late authoritarian leader.
Kim lies in state a few floors below his father, national founder Kim Il Sung, in the Kumsusan mausoleum, the cavernous former presidential palace. Kim Jong Il is presented lying beneath a red blanket, a spotlight shining on his face in a room suffused in red.
Wails echoed through the chilly hall as a group of North Korean women sobbed into the sashes of their traditional Korean dresses as they bowed before his body. The hall bearing the glass coffin was opened to select visitors -- including The Associated Press -- for the first time since his death.
North Korea also unveiled Kim's yacht and his armored train carriage, where he is said to have died. Among the personal belongings featured in the mausoleum are the parka, sunglasses and pointy platform shoes he famously wore in the last decades of his life. A MacBook Pro lay open on his desk.
North Koreans paid homage to Kim and basked in the success of last week's launch of a long-range rocket that sent a satellite named after him to space.
2 police officers fatally shot in Topeka; officers shoot, kill suspect after 2-hour standoff
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A man with a history of theft and weapons convictions gunned down two police officers investigating possible drug activity in a Kansas grocery parking lot, and was later killed after an armed standoff, authorities said Monday.
Hundreds gathered outside Topeka police headquarters with candles in memory of Cpl. David Gogian and Officer Jeff Atherly. Members of the slain officers' families attended Monday night's vigil along with dozens of law enforcement officers in uniforms.
"You never really think you're going to lose friends. Everybody, I think, is still in shock," said Officer Kurtis VanDonge, a 31-year-old Army veteran who was in Atherly's training class and worked under Gogian.
A bagpiper played "Amazing Grace," and a minister read from the opening chapter of the Gospel of John that includes the verse: "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
The man who opened fire on the officers Sunday night was David Edward Tiscareno, 22, of Topeka, said Kyle Smith, deputy director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Low turnout in Egypt's referendum raises questions about voting fatigue, stalling tactics
CAIRO (AP) -- Just under a third of voters turned out for the first stage of the referendum on a constitution meant to be a historic milestone in setting Egypt's future -- a showing critics say deepens doubts over the legitimacy of a charter that has already polarized the country.
The dismal showing also raises the question whether Egyptians have been turned off by the turmoil that has characterized the country's politics throughout the nearly two years since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime.
Last Saturday's voting took place in 10 of Egypt's 27 provinces, including Cairo and the nation's second largest city Alexandria. Some 26 million voters were eligible to vote, but only 32 percent of them did. Voting in the remainder 17 provinces will take place the coming Saturday.
The turnout was the second lowest of the relentless series of five nationwide elections that Egyptians have been called to in the 22 months since Mubarak's fall in last year's popular uprising. The highest was nearly 60 percent in the election of parliament's lawmaking lower chamber. The lowest was an embarrassing 8 percent for the vote for the upper chamber, a largely toothless body that the public cares little about.
Besides the low turnout, preliminary results show that the "yes" vote carried the first round only by a slim margin of 56 percent -- hardly the resounding endorsement the Islamists were looking for to silence the increasingly vocal and united opposition that called on supporters to vote "no."


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The Regional System of District and School Support (RSDSS) is a part of the statewide system of school support that was established to meet state and federal requirements. The support system, working within county offices of education (COEs), offers intensive and sustained assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools receiving Title I funds to increase the opportunity for all students to meet the state's academic content standards. California uses a regional approach to address the needs of students because of the vast number of schools and districts in the state. This support system delivers and brokers resources to districts and schools in need of improvement.
Purpose of Work
Region 5 actively supports and provides assistance to LEAs and schools identified for Program Improvement (PI) based on the requirements of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. Region 5 offers services to all PI districts in the region by providing support for developing and implementing action plans to improve student achievement. The Region 5 director and coordinators work collaboratively to develop, support, and implement the work plan. Priority of these services is based on the following criteria:
- Districts having 50 percent or more PI schools
- PI districts whose identification was due to student subgroups that did not meet adequate yearly progress (AYP) percent proficient targets in language arts and mathematics
- Districts that are at risk of PI designation
- Districts with a large number/percentage of Title I schools in deciles 1-3
The goals are as follows:
- PI LEAs with large numbers or percentages of PI schools will have the capacity to engage in a process of inquiry (using state-developed tools), resulting in a revised LEA plan that supports student achievement and addresses identified needs.
- LEAs with schools in PI years 3, 4, and 5 will make informed decisions regarding mandated responsibilities specified in NCLB.
- Region 5 staff in the four counties will be familiar with the latest research-based LEA/school -improvement strategies and regional and statewide resources. These strategies and resources will be brokered to meet the identified needs of PI LEAs and LEAs with large numbers of PI schools.
Regional Demographics
Region 5 consists of four counties located in the central coast area of California: Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz. The region encompasses the large urban area of the city of San Jose, additional cities and towns, and rural and agricultural areas.
Context of Work
Region 5 provides the following services:
- Assist LEA staff in the development of District/School Liaison Teams (DSLTs) to work with LEA and school staff members as district and school staff utilize the state-developed tools.
- Train and facilitate LEA staff in a decision-making process regarding mandated responsibilities to schools in PI.
- Provide trainings to build LEAs' capacity to assist PI schools to comply with NCLB.
- Collaborate with regional partners to ensure that research-based resources are brokered to meet the needs of PI districts and schools: the California Technology Assistance Program; the program for Advancement Via Individual Determination; the California Subject Matter Projects (CSMP); the Regional Assessment Network; the Gates Foundation for Leadership; the High School Learning Collaborative; and the Vocabulary Forum.
- Provide technical assistance to increase district capacity through a wide variety of professional development trainings and planning assistance for districts and school sites.
- Provide school site administrators and teachers with County Achievement Team snapshot observations, analysis, and presentation of results, including pre- and post-observation data.
- Provide support to District/School Liaison Teams in the areas of data analysis, Single Plan for Student Achievement, and School Accountability Report Card.
- Build capacity for PI schools participating in the Teams Assisting Student Success (TASS) process to collect and analyze student data, examine research-based practices, and modify their school action plan based on needs assessments.
- Provide support for research-based best practices through a Model Schools Project serving PI schools.
- Collaborate with the CSMP to provide professional development in language arts and mathematics targeting the needs of PI schools.
- Pilot a data management system to track RSDSS services.
- Collaborate with COEs to ensure effective utilization of funds throughout Region 5 to align with regional goals.
Contact Information
Each COE has a Coordinator that serves as a liaison to the RSDSS. The Region 5 office is located at the Santa Clara COE, 1290 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95131. Contact Frank Wells, Director, by phone at 408-453-6753 or by e-mail at email@example.com. To obtain a complete listing of current and future technical activities, visit the Region 5 RSDSS Web site .


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By: Stuart Reid, Deseret NewsThere is much brouhaha over the adoption of the Common Core, education curriculum across the nation, including in Utah. Mostly, the ruckus is over who controls the content and quality of the curriculum. Utah should step up and become "uncommon" by constructing a curriculum with Utah standards and requirements aligned with the market place down through the entire education system.
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