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Two University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire students have been selected to participate in the first Global IT Project Management (GloblTpro) international study program, according to Dr. Matt Germonprez, UW-Eau Claire IS assistant professor and campus GloblTpro coordinator.
UW-Eau Claire students Jeremiah Isaacson, a senior IS-systems development major from Eleva, Wis., and Andrew Van Zeeland, a senior computer science major from Shawano, Wis., will study information technology project management, global business, and entrepreneurship this summer at the Management Center in Innsbruck (MCI), Austria, and the Braunshweig University of Technology (TUB) in Braunshweig, Germany. Four students from the University of Nebraska-Omaha will also participate in the GloblTpro program, which runs May 25-August 13, 2010.
Isaacson and Van Zeeland were excited to be picked for the program, which Van Zeeland described as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." While both students would like to work for an international company some day, Isaacson plans to attend graduate school first. He applied to the GloblTpro program in part because he felt it would prepare him for graduate study.
"One of my educational goals is to attend the aeronautics and astronautics program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology," said Isaacson. "Participation in the GloblTpro will be an excellent addition to my academic resume due to the program's strong focus on technology, engineering, entrepreneurism, and research," he said.
For Van Zeeland, who is also pursuing a minor in German, participation in a program meant the opportunity to study entrepreneurship and other topics not traditionally included in a computer science curriculum at some of the best schools in Europe. The possibility of working side-by-side with international students and participating in research for industry leaders like Siemens and Lufthansa also played a role in his decision to apply to the program.
"I have a great deal of interest in the global community, and I love learning new cultures and practices and the subtle differences between people," said Van Zeeland. "Showing that I have experience working with people from many different cultures will give me an edge in the global job market," he said.
The Global IT Project Management (GloblTpro) international study program is a consortium of four universities: the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, the University of Nebraska-Omaha, the Management Center in Innsbruck, Austria (MCI), and Braunshweig University of Technology (TUB), Braunshweig, Germany. The consortium is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) which enables each partner university to exchange three to four students each semester.
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John F. Kennedy
No Justice, No Peace?
Opinion: Protests won civil rights. Riots set them back.
Kennedy memories: 25 for JFK
It's been 51 years since the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of John F. Kennedy and there are thousands of nonfiction works - from brilliant to stark raving mad - that deal with his slaying. There are also numerous movies, novels, plays and songs that focus on the assassination in some way or other. Here are 25 (actually a few more than that) memorable pop culture examples.
The Never-Ending Replay of November 22, 1963
After the intense 2013 hoopla, it's a good bet there won't be much fuss about this Saturday's 51st anniversary
Obama's JFK Problem
How the battle between the president and his joint chiefs chairman over Iraq recalls the early days of Vietnam.
Nixon and the newspaperman
How the 37th president became Ben Bradlee's favorite enemy.
The Georgetown set
When Joe Alsop, Ben Bradlee and their friends ran This Town.
Was RFK a JFK conspiracy theorist?
Opinion: What did the attorney general know, and when did he know it?
Marshals escort James Meredith onto Ole Miss campus, Sept. 30, 1962
Turned back by violent resistance, Meredith returned the next day to begin attending classes.
Officers brief Kennedy on Vietnam, Sept. 10, 1963
On this day in 1963, Marine Maj. Gen. Victor Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall reported jointly to President John F. Kennedy on the situation in South Vietnam.
Presidents in uniform
Many presidents served in the military. Here are photos of the men in uniform before they became commanders in chief.
Heads or tails
A look back at how presidents and vice presidents have kicked off football games over the years.
Obama on ALS: Will pay, not play
He says yes to the donation, no to the ice.
James MacGregor Burns dies at 95
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and political scientist wrote candid presidential biographies.
Poll: Obama worst prez since WWII
A new poll shows 33 percent of voters say the current president is the worst since 1945.
Kennedy receives Navy and Marine Corps Medal, June 12, 1944
On this day in 1944, he recieved the second-highest noncombat award for heroism.
Bush receives Kennedy award
The former president is honored for agreeing to raise taxes to confront a spiraling deficit.
Obama and the strong leader myth
Opinion: The president is wise to act cautiously in Ukraine.
Republican who saved civil rights
How a little-known conservative Ohio congressman changed American history.
The King-Kennedy connection
Audio of an interview with King sheds new light on a famous phone call Kennedy made to his wife.
Why they mattered: Lee White
Todd Purdum remembers the White House civil rights adviser.

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Brenda McCarthy, also known as Brenda Lee, 39, of North Platte received a 1½-3 year sentence Monday in the penitentiary on two charges of terroristic threats.
McCarthy was arrested on April 9 for threatening a man and woman with a chainsaw and a shotgun. At the time, she had been out of the jail only four days after serving 52 days for domestic assault and driving under suspension.
Police were called to the 1700 block of West 14th and while talking with her, the officer came to believe she was under the influence of something and decided to detain her. She later tested positive for meth.
In a plea deal charges of felon in possession and using a firearm to commit a felony were dropped as was one charge of assault. McCarthy got credit for 167 days spent in the county lockup.
Lincoln County District Judge Donald Rowlands cited her extensive record in handing down the penitentiary sentence. McCarthys record shows 20 visits to the county jail since 2004.
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Tate turned one last Wednesday (isn't he cute?)! We hosted his first birthday party on Saturday. It was a pirate theme. On Thursday night, I spent about 2 hours driving around the entire city looking for pirate eyepatches, to no avail. Wouldn't you have thought your local Target would have pirate eyepatches? Me too.
There are many, many reasons why I love working for an optometry program. But on Friday, the top reason was that I was able to walk into the clinic and beg my way into getting 10 eyepatches (normally used for patients) for all the party attendees.
Party saved! After all, what kind of pirate party doesn't have eye patches?
P.S. These eyepatches were so ridiculously nice. They were super durable and sturdy. A couple parents even commented on the quality. Not just your everyday party supply store eyepatches, I tell you. These ones were professional.


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Bail bill passes Senate
Delaware judges would eventually have the power to hold suspects charged with the state's most serious felonies without bail under legislation that cleared the Senate Sunday.
Senators voted 19-2 to approve the first leg of Wilmington Democratic Senator Bobby Marshall's proposed constitutional amendment even though getting the amendment okayed took three tries.
Marshall says it was worth it.
"All of Delaware won a significant victory today regarding public safety. Judges will be able to keep chronic, violent criminals off our streets, rather than achieve cash bail and being able to go out on the streets again and commit the same type of violent crime. The judge will have the discretion to keep that offender behind bars."
One of the keys to Senate approval was an amendment that would require trials for people held without bail to take place within 120 days.
The amendment, which must pass two consecutive legislatures, likely will not be considered by the House until next year
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How Stagnant Wages Have Trapped the Housing Market
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- In the housing bubble of the past decade one warning sign flashed bright red: Home prices rose faster than incomes. That condition cannot continue for very long before too many prospective buyers can't afford to buy -- the point where the bubble bursts.
On a national basis, this isn't a major problem today, as mortgage rates are low and home prices remain below their bubble-era peaks. But in some markets, especially the large metropolitan areas of California, affordability is becoming an issue, according to Zillow.com, the online housing marketplace.
A survey commissioned by Zillow asked 106 economists why affordability was declining in certain markets. Stagnant income growth was cited as the No. 1 reason by 28% of those who responded, followed by abnormally high rates of home price appreciation at 27% and an abnormally low supply of homes for sale (21%). Other reasons were an insufficient number of homes (13%) and tight credit (11%).
"We're certainly in a better spot than we were just a couple years ago, but the housing market remains far from anyone's definition of 'normal,'" said Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries. He said that "despite a generally improving economy, incomes have not risen at the same level as home values and rents, leading people to spend an ever-larger share of their pay on housing. It will take years for these issues to either be adequately addressed through policy, or to naturally work themselves out of the market."A shortage of homes in some of these markets hurts affordability by pushing prices up. The shortage is caused, in part, by a large number of homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth, despite rising prices in recent years. Those owners don't sell because they can't get enough to pay off their existing mortgage. Also, construction of new homes is weak, partly because it's difficult to build a home cheaply enough to compete with existing homes. So it's a strange situation: Prices have risen enough to make buying too expensive for many prospective buyers, but prices are still too low to get more homes onto the market. It is stagnant wages that keeps the market trapped in this purgatory. homes remain relatively affordable by historical standards because prices are still below the peaks reached in the middle of the past decade. But incomes remain flat in most of the country. The big California markets demonstrate how hazardous this can be as the housing market struggles to return to normal. If incomes were to rise faster, buyers could afford larger down payments and bigger loans. Currently, low mortgage rates help to make homes affordable in much of the country. But if rates rise, as many experts expect, buyers won't be able to borrow as much, making it harder for the average buyer to afford the average home. So if rates rise, returning to normal could take even longer.
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Toolona Creek and Mount Wanungra(Lamington National Park)
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A full day walk that follows Toolona Creek in which over 8 waterfalls will be seen, also reaching Mt Wanungara lookout to provide views to Byron Bay and North Stradbroke Is. The round trip takes 6-8 hours.
Getting there
Driving from Brisbane take the Narang exit and follow signs to Canungra. Turn left in the centre of Canungra, following the signs to Lamington Plateau, Green Mountain Car Park (aka O'Reillys). From Canungra the drive takes approximately 50 minutes along narrow winding roads. Take care, particuarly with the numerous blind corners.
There is a gift shop up from the main car park where you can buy various maps that cover the local walks.
Hema Maps has a 1:25000 that covers Lamington National Park in a single map.
Sunmap sheets Tyalgum and Beechmont cover the walk in 1:25000.
There is also a National Park Information Centre with brochures which outline the track system. The applicable points where the track splits are signposted as well.
Route/Trail notes
The first part of the walk to Picnic Rock is easy and the surface is a compacted rock and concrete track. Start on the border track and ignore the first turnoff (250m - Blue Pool and West Canungra Creek Circuit). Take the second exit (1.7km) leading to the Box Forest Circuit, Picnic Rock and the Toolona Creek Circuit. The Box Forest Circuit branches away from this track so take the right branch leading to Picnic Rock.
The track continues on the opposite side of the creek and continues to descend for 200m. The next branch is where the Box Forest Circuit and West Canungra Creek Circuit return. It's a crime if you don't turn left and walk 140m to see Elabana Falls. After that detour return and take the right hand turn to start on the Toolona Creek Circuit proper.
The walk along Toolona Creek crosses the creek over 5 times and takes you to or past around 7 small waterfalls (sometimes a short track will leave the main track to take you to a waterfall). It is really a spectacular walk.
Once you reach Toolona Falls which take approximately 2 1/2; hours, you soon join up with "The Border Track". Turn left and head to Mt Wanungara it is a well signed a 100m detour to the Lookout. The Lookout is approx 50 min walk from Toolona Falls and is a good spot to take a break for lunch. Here you can see views of the Tweed Valley, Murwillimbah, Mt Warning and even Byron Bay and North Stradbroke Island on a clear day. Mt Wanungara is also home to a majestic Antarctic Beech forest.
After that head back to where you first joined the Border Track and continue straight ahead towards O'Reillys. As the track heads off the ridge and down towards o'reilys the tree trunks are covered in moss and creeper plants colouring the whole place green.
Be prepared for a muddy track, particularly in the wetter months. Also be aware that recent rain may raise the creek level and make the creek crossings more interesting.
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Added box circuit to it aswell. Very pretty, well worth while, so many waterfalls.B_T on Mar, 2014
Did this walk for a bit of fun, really enjoyed all the waterfalls and the scenery along the way. Mt Wanungara lookout was spectacular. Camped at Mt Bithongabel campsite which was beautiful as the clouds rolled up the cliffs in the evening.Viking on 22 Nov, 2013
Waterfalls are fair flowing!Allan Allport on 7 Oct, 2013
I have always though of the West Canungra Creek circuit as my favourite walk, but this one is just as good. There was low cloud at the southern end and so no visibility at the lookouts, but walking through it was fantastic. Great photos!Ian and Sue on 7 Oct, 2013
Very wet and muddy, BUT a fantastic walk. Waterfalls were amazing which also included a heap of creek crossings. A lot of leeches looking for a feed nothing that couldn't be handled.Stellar on 31 Jul, 2013
Recently re-opened after extensive storm damage. The creeks & cascades are thundering at the moment. Wear gore-tex footwear & warm (woolen) socks as you're gonna get very wet. We passed a group asking how many creek crossings there are - close to a dozen folks, and no, you can't skirt around them, not with this much water. Leeches also out in force, but anyone doing this circuit should be fairly accustomed to these little critters by now.iano on 3 Jul, 2013
The time this walk takes will depend how fit you are, but don't begin any later than 10:30am or you'll probably be caught in the dark. Once you have cleared the cascades - there's still at least another 4-5k until you hit the Border Track junction at Wanungra/Bithongabel. Doesn't matter how many times I do this circuit, this ALWAYS catches me out. Bitho back to Green Mountains however is a cinch and can be done in an hour flat if you still have some energy.
Still beautiful. Love it.WorldWalker on Mar, 2012
Had a great day walking this track again, it's one of my favourites especially when you want to introduce people new to the walks in Lamingtion National Park, Green Mountains section.... A great walk that shows of the beauty of the many falls, a view at the top of Mt Wanungra and Bithongabel if it's clear and also takes in the Ancient Antarctic Beech treesWalkinghawk on Mar, 2012
Track was quite dry (for Lamington). Bithongabel had much less of a lookout than last time I was there (probably close to 10 years ago) - the trees have grown to obscure the view. Still a great track - combination of waterfalls + views.Richard Mason on 17 Sep, 2011
Superb walk. A pair of King Parrots decided to hang out on my head and shoulders for a while.Gregory Neverov on 17 Sep, 2011
I did this walk with my 10 year old son and got back to the start by 1pm. Beautiful walk, lots of lovely waterfalls. When we did it we couldn't stop too often as it was absolutely crawling with leeches and they would climb on us quicker than we could get them off. Also, due to the leeches we didn't feel like stripping down and swimming in any of the waterholes. Luckily it was winter and not very hot.Grumps on 28 Aug, 2010
A good walk, best done in early morning. A few leeches.Laurence Hallam on 17 Dec, 2009
We didn't have a topo map so used an EPA map from the info centre. Big mistake! Distances did not seem correct, but then they do warn not to use them for information purposes only. Otherwise walk was great. The track can be divided into two sections; the Toolona Creek part (9.5km) and the Main Border track (7.5km). The second part isn't very interesting, mainly downhill and easy walk. The first half takes you through rainforest along creeks and waterfalls. Very nice scenery, lots of uphill walking. I was suprised of the difficulty of that section of the walk. Overall I would do that section again and would recommend it to all.Anonymous on 16 Aug, 2009
On driving to O'Reilly's: from Canungra it's a 50 minute / 35km drive on narrow winding uphill roads. On the way up we encountered a collision between 2 cars trying to pass each other, and on the way down had to stop for cattle on the road.
Great if you want some exercise. Plenty of lovely little waterfalls/creeks running through and near the track. Lookout (like any) would be good when weather is fine.Belinda Cruickshank on 11 Jul, 2009
Once you depart the waterfalls and climb up the switchbacks, it can kind of get disheartening, but definitely worth it. Especially for a nice dip in the waterfalls on a hot dayAllan Allport on 20 Sep, 2008
Excellent walk. One of the best in this region.WorldWalker on Oct, 2007
From memory had a great day out walking today with worldwalker, and then back to the camping ground to cook dinner and rest our feet..Walkinghawk on Oct, 2007
Done this walk a number of times this being the most memorable as half way through the day a thunderstorm came over got soaking wet, contended with leaches all day and walked throught the mist and cloud cover up at the lookouts, mt wanungara 1165m, toolona 1160m, Bithongabel 1165m, the swirlimg mist through the antarctic beech trees transformed this walk into a magical experience.Walkinghawk on Sep, 2000


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Is That a Kitty in Your Pocket?
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The Sorento's mileage is ample for the price, but so is just about everything else about it. Not only does the Sorento have the largest passenger cabin of its similarly sized competitors, but its 37-cubic-foot maximum cargo volume is cavernous for a midsize SUV. Features such as a 10-speaker sound system and rear camera display only sweeten the deal.
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Apple, the reigning champion of "intuitive" design, strikes again has another winner.
"Podcast" is a useless, branded neologism for audio files that come out on a regular basis. Nevertheless, audio files that come out on a regular basis are enjoyable. I "subscribe" to the Dave Ramsey "podcast." I also bike to work. Those may seem unrelated, but in fact the latter is the cause of the former.
Biking to work falls into the high-risk class of activities, but is closer to the moderate-risk class than, say, sky diving without a parachute. Folks who don't bike to work don't much notice those who do. I'm all for live and let live, but this lack of attention can sometimes break that pattern for bikers. The point is that just how a pregnant woman has to eat for 2, I have to pay attention for 2, or 3, or 4, depending on how many motorized vehicles cross my path during my commute. That payment of attention only requires a visual debit, leaving many spare brain cycles during which my mind sits idle. I like to fill that with sound. Sound where I learn something is even better.
Enter audio files that come out regularly. But sometimes I don't listen to the Dave Ramsey audio files that come out on a regular basis, giving me a backlog. This means that there's more than that I haven't heard. Now, the genius of mp3 players is that they hold more than 1 song, and mp3 players can, generally, play all their contents without user attention between each track.
Enter the iPod.
Audio files that come out regularly are a magical class of audio file for the iPod. The iPod, by default, cannot play 1 such audio file and then go on to the next without user interaction. In fact, at the end of 1 such track, it repeats the same track, even though the menu is showing a list of all availabe Dave Ramsey audio files that come out on a regular basis. Now, I realize that desiring this feature just means I'm using the iPod wrong, because only holiness emanates from Cupertino. Nonetheless, academic freedom dictates that I must challenge such dogmas and question all authority.
Assuming all cows are perfect spheres, this as a default behavior makes perfect sense. And it gets better! If we define "intuitive" as "difficult" or "requires somewhere-above-average-but-less-than-expert knowledge of system to use," then Apple has provided an intuitive way to overcome this problem. This blog post describes the solution. I mean, who wouldn't have thought to create a "Smart Playlist" to do something so basic complicated as playing the next track? Who actually uses their mp3 player that way anyway?
However, if not all cows are, in fact, perfect spheres and we define "intuitive" the same way that Merriam-Webster does, then to get the next track to play, one should just have the next track on the device. Ergo, this is an Apple fail.
- danandchoka deserve a pizza.
- The fact that goole has just over 400k hits for "ipod podcast play next" seems to indicate that I'm not alone in this problem.
Besides venting another Apple-related spleen, I wrote this post to bump up danandchoka's post. I really did appreciate finding the answer to this problem.


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Come back Diva! You are so very beautiful!
Diva has a special pussy. Gorgeous totally shaved with her pussylips always open like a butterfly. I love her long hair to, although it isn't blonde, because it fits perfect by the kind of Diva's body. Lovely tits to.
Diva is really good. I think that if she posted more she would be ranked higher than she is.
Trully exquisite and erotic ! Diva is just one of the sexiest models I've ever seen. Hope she will grace the pages of this site again !
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John C. MacQueen Memorial Lecture Award
For Innovation in the field of Maternal and Child Health
|Gail Christopher, DN
Vice President, Program Strategy
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Vince Hutchins Leadership Award
For leadership in promoting a society responsive to the needs of women, children, youth and families
|John P. Rossetti, DDS, MPH Captain (retired)
U.S. Public Health Service
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Merle McPherson Family Leadership Award
For exemplary contributions to further family/ professional collaboration within the state Title V program and AMCHP
|Rodney Farley, Parent Consultant
Division of Developmental Disabilities Services
Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services
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Ryan Colburn Scholarship Award
For outstanding youth leadership in the field of MCH
|Josiah Barbar, Student Portland State University
|Presented Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the morning general session.
Realityworks and Go Beyond MCH Graduate Student Scholarship Award
For demonstrating leadership involvement through academic excellence and practical experience in the field of MCH
|Aimee Eden, Doctoral Candidate University of South Florida and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology Eckerd College
|Presented Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the general session luncheon.
Best Practices Awards
For especially innovative emerging, promising and best MCH practices accepted into AMCHP's Innovation Station
|Presented Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the general session luncheon.
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Preconception Campaign
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PASOs Program
Every Child Succeeds
Home Visiting
Inaugural Excellence in State MCH Leadership Award
For significant contributions to the health of women, children and families within a state
|Presented Tuesday, Feb. 14, at the general session luncheon.
|Ruth Ann Shepherd, MD, FAAP Director
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Apple Cider Pie with Cheddar Crust
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Serves: 8
Total Time: 2 hr 38 min
Prep Time: 40 min
Oven Temp: 400
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Cheddar Cheese Pastry:
- 1.75 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/2 stick(s) (1/4 cup) cold unsalted butter or margarine, cut in pieces
- 1/4 cup(s) solid vegetable shortening
- 4 ounce(s) (1 cup) extra-sharp Cheddar cheese, coarsely shredded
- 6 tablespoon(s) cold water
Apple Cider Filling:
- 2/3 cup(s) sugar
- 2 tablespoon(s) cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon(s) ground cinnamon
- 3/4 cup(s) apple cider or juice
- 3 pound(s) (about 9 cups) tart apples (Granny Smith, Pippin, Greening, Northern Spy), peeled, quartered, cored and cut in 1⁄4-inch-thick slices
- 2 tablespoon(s) cold unsalted butter or margarine, cut in small pieces
- Have a 9-inch pie plate ready.
- To make pastry in food processor: Process flour, salt, butter and shortening with short pulses until mixture resembles small peas. Add cheese and water and pulse just until water is blended. Remove blade, then dough. Press together with hands or a rubber spatula. By hand: Mix flour and salt in a medium bowl. Cut in butter and shortening with a pastry blender until mixture resembles small peas. Using a fork, gently stir in cheese, then water just until dough clumps together.
- Divide pastry in half. Gather each half into a ball, then press into a disk. Wrap and refrigerate about 1 hour until firm enough to roll out.
- Filling: Mix sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon in a medium saucepan, then stir in cider. Bring to a boil over medium heat and, stirring constantly, boil 1 minute until thickened and translucent. Put apples into a large bowl, add cider mixture and gently turn apples with a rubber spatula to coat well
- Position 1 oven rack in middle of oven and other rack just below it. Place a sheet of foil on lower rack to catch drips. Heat oven to 400°F.
- To assemble: On a lightly floured surface with a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out half the pastry into a 13-inch circle. Fit into pie plate. Add filling, mounding it in center. Pour any liquid remaining in bowl evenly over apples and dot with butter.
- Roll remaining pastry into a 13-inch circle. Moisten edge of bottom crust with water. Place top crust over filling. Press edge to seal. Trim overhang to 1 inch, turn under and crimp or flute. Cut slits in top crust for steam to escape.
- Bake pie in middle of oven 50 to 55 minutes until crust is golden brown and apples are tender when pierced through a slit. (If crust browns too quickly, cover pie loosely with foil.) Cool on wire rack.
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Edamole! A Mexican Dip Recipe With Edamame
Today I'm sharing a Guacamole recipe that uses edamame instead of avocados. Find out why below!
The Hubs and I were at IHOP for breakfast with the kids. I was telling him that I couldn't come up with a good idea for a Guacamole recipe. I said, "What on earth can I do? Guacamole pizza? Guacamole fries? Nothing nothing nothing sounds good!"
He laughed and said, "If you ask me, the best Guacamole would be one without avocadoes. I can't stand those things!"
At first I didn't take him seriously. I was like, "Yeah, yeah, funny. I knew you wouldn't be any help with this one."
But then inspiration struck, "Or maybe you're the best help in the world! Guacamole without avocadoes! But how to do it? White bean dip with green food coloring??? Ewwww."
My ever-brilliant (and not-at-all-sarcastic husband) responded, "Wouldn't it be easier, and less gross, to use a bean that's already green? An edamame dip, perhaps?"
And that's what I did. I came up with a dip recipe with edamame as the main component: A Mexican Edamame Dip.
Frozen shelled edamame simmered in water and then puréed with Mexican flavorings.
The result is delicious but kind of eerie. It looks a lot like Guacamole, has a smooth texture that's similar to Guacamole but it tastes…well…it tastes like Guacamole would taste if it didn't have avocadoes in it.
I know that's hard to imagine. But I've gotten many people to try it now and all of them are like, "Wow! That's good. Hmmm…it tasted like…like…just like…ummm…Guacamole without the avocadoes."
A side bonus of this recipe with edamame, let me just say, is that it has way less fat than Guacamole and also packs a good protein punch making it a great alternative to Guacamole not only for avocado-haters but also for those of us who are trying to keep those fat grams low.
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- 12 ounces of shelled frozen edamame beans
- ½ cup cilantro (leaf coriander) leaves
- ¼ cup lime juice
- ¼ cup chopped onion
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp minced jalapeno pepper (optional)
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp ground cumin
- ¼ tsp ground coriander seed
- a pinch of sugar
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- Bring two cups of water to a boil. Plop in the beans. Bring the pot back up to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 3 minutes. Turn off heat and cover the pot. Let it sit until the beans are soft, 7-9 minutes. Drain the beans.
- Put all of the remaining ingredients except for the vegetable oil into a blender. Add ¼ cup of water. Blend until very smooth. Add the vegetable oil and blend until it is well-combined.
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|I have started seeds inside and while getting the bed prepped I have been studying what will companion with what. Then I thought of a space that I have that might make a good SFG. It's approx. 2 ft. wide and about 12 - 14 ft. long. I would like to get feed back on this plan. Remember the bed is two ft. wide.
2 ft. Tomatoes; 1 ft onions; 1 ft. lettuce; 1ft. carrots; 2 ft.tomatoes; 1 ft. onion; 2 ft. peppers. I would probably go another 2 ft. with squash, either summer or winter.
Ideas please. I'm in zone 8 Dallas, Ft. Worth, TX. area
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|Sounds good! You might need 4 squares for each tomato and each squash. That depends on what kind you grow and if you're trellising or staking or sprawling. SunGold, for instance, takes up a lot of room, whereas Lime Green Salad or Red Robin are small and would only need a square each. Not all tomatoes are created equal, nor is their spacing.
Squash, I love. But be prepared for the sprawl of vines like spaghetti squash, or the huge leaves of zucchini.
Either way, you sound like you are on your way. Good luck.
|Thanks, Jan. I have some veggies that I've winter sown and will probably need to transplant in 2 - 3 weeks. So I hope the bed is ready by then. Help is coming today. The tomatoes that I grow get large, but we'll deal with that
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It's not a real Space Shuttle, but you can touch this exhibiton November 9, 2012 @ 4:57 am (Updated: 11:42 am - 11/9/12 )
The trainer is the same size as the shuttle. It has all the bells and whistles inside. It just never went into space, and the outside is made out of wood, not high tech metal and heat shields.
See photos of the shuttle trainer at the Museum of Flight
But if you can get passed the fact that it never went into space, you might come around to how Museum of Flight President Doug King thinks.
"In the long run, I'm absolutely believing that we got something better," he said standing in the shadow of the 120-foot long trainer.
This full-scale trainer differs from the four real orbiters in one other significant way too. You can touch this one. You can crawl inside this one. You can experience this one. You can feel the claustrophobia-causing cramped quarters and get a real sense of what the astronauts were experiencing.
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"This is where they trained," King said. "This is where they practiced before they went to space, everything from egress training to moving big payloads around. They spent a lot more hours in this than they did in space."
The controls are scratched. The panels bear all the marks of 30 years worth of practice and training. Once inside, you lose all reference that this thing never went into space. It certainly feels real.
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Seb may have got a lot of records this season, but in the last race Max Chilton took one that he'll never have...
Star of the Race
Max Chilton, Marussia, 19th
There were a lot of records set in Brazil. Someone driving for the Red Bull team completed nine wins in a row - which was pretty special. They also equalled Michael Schumacher's record for 13 wins in a season, which was also special (should it have been 12, minus Malaysia? Please go to straight to the forum for your answer). But one record that Sebastian Vettel will NEVER get was achieved by Max Chilton. Seb will never finish all 19 races in his rookie season.
True, Max spent a lot of these poodling around the back of the race looking in his mirrors from about Lap 17 until the end of the race. But he didn't put it in the wall in Monaco, he didn't hurtle into the tyre barriers at Degner 2 in Japan and he didn't get involved in meaningless wheel-banging with Giedo van der Garde.
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Overtaking Move of the Race
Lap 2: Mark Webber on Lewis Hamilton for P4
It was essential that after a poor start Mark Webber didn't get stuck behind Lewis Hamilton and let Fernando Alonso escape down the road. Coming through Lake Descent before DRS had been enabled Mark took a wide line and then cut back on the inside out of Turn 4, which would turn into the outside of Turn 5. Lewis held his ground, but allowed enough room for Mark to get through and the Red Bull took it.
This kind of move emphasises the stark difference between the top drivers and the midfield, i.e. what happened with Vergne and Maldonado towards the end of the race in the Senna Esses - the good drivers leave each other room.
Webber had a strong last race, but with Vettel's love of record collection (and also what happened here in Brazil last year between the two of them) this was never going to be a win gifted to a departing team-mate. And most probably Mark wouldn't have wanted a hand-out. However he did get the fastest lap on his final F1 performance and history will be able to judge whether he was as unlucky to be partnered with Sebastian Vettel in his prime as he invariably was with his own car's reliability.
There was a tremendous level of affection on display at Interlagos as well as a tremendous display of bushwacker hats.
Ross Brawn, Mercedes Principal, 2nd
After three years of under-achievement, Ross Brawn finally delivered a team result worthy of the silver arrows name and investment. The team has signed one of F1's top three drivers and has a real prospect of delivering a World Championship with their new turbo engine in 2014. And Brawn won't be there. He's leaving the team after the season ends and won't be in charge next year. Instead it'll be Toto Wolff and Paddy Lowe taking control. He asked for no announcement and no interviews during the Interlagos weekend, but the BBC say it will be confirmed in the next few days.
If he's not in F1 next year it will be the sport's loss. Can Luca Montezemolo lure him back to help Ferrari? Stefano Domenicali could do with a bit of assistance in what will be a make or break season for the Scuderia's relationship with Fernando Alonso (and hence Santander).
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Some great footage from the new rotating camera, for this race installed on Valtteri Bottas's Williams. It got a bit boring after Lap 47, though.
Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 1stA poor start from Seb but he made amends on the first lap and made a DRS-type overtake without the need to stall the rear wing. Getting himself unlapped a couple of times in the race showed the degree of caution he was exerting. Rocky hardly had to reach for the tranquilisers once.
Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, 3rd
Fernando said he would have been happy to hand his podium place over to Felipe, had the Brazilian been behind him, and you've got to believe it. Another hard fought race from Alonso. It will indeed be a complete travesty if he doesn't add another World Championship to his cv before he retires.
Jenson Button, McLaren, 4th
Sergio Perez, McLaren, 6th
He may have been gifted a couple of the places thanks to Hamilton's puncture and Massa's inability to take in an instruction, but even 6th from 14th on the grid would have been a great result for JB. This was like old school McLaren, proper McLaren, not 2013 'Earth Dreams' McLaren.
Perez put in an equally storming performance to move from 19th to 6th. Arguably this was the drive of the day, though Checo does like to live dangerously. He gave Adrian Sutil a gentle kiss on the tyres as he and Esteban breezed past the Force India. Old habits die hard.
F1's Driest Season Since 1987?
There was a stat being bandied around that this was F1's driest season since 1987. Whatever the veracity of that information it was typical that all the practice and qualifying should be run in the wet and when you really wanted it to howl down in the race, all we got was a few drops. In fact halfway through the race it looked like we were going to get a recreation of John Carpenter's The Fog with a mist rolling up the hill from the lake. But it was just mist. No pirates at all.
Ferrari, 3rd in the Constructors' Championship
Ferrari lost somewhere between $10m and $20m by finishing behind Mercedes in the teams' battle. There was a tantalising moment, on Lap 25 with Alonso running 2nd and Massa in 4th - and Lewis in 5th and Rosberg 7th - when they were just a single point behind Mercedes had the race finished at that moment. But then Webber overtook Alonso to move the points gap out to four. In truth, Hamilton would most likely have overtaken Massa had he not go his drive-through penalty. It was only a question of time.
Massa was livid at getting the penalty but the instruction not to cut the white line with all four wheels was pretty clear. Everyone else managed to avoid it, even though Massa believed he was the only one singled out for treatment.
Lewis Hamilton's subsequent drive-through penalty was far more contentious.
Valtteri Bottas, Williams, DNF
From hero to zero, it's hard to know what Bottas thought he was doing trying to pass a car that was a lap in front of him. Especially going around the outside into Lake Descent, one of the trickiest of overtakes when you're racing for position, let alone when you have to be particularly mindful of the car in front. Backmarkers are supposed to get out of the way of cars in front, not take up positions on their racing line and prevent them battling for a podium.
Lewis Hamilton was pretty deflated after the race, but he put in a strong performance and helped Mercedes reach a target that many in the paddock thought they would struggle to achieve this year. Although Rosberg was further up the road when they crossed the line, it was Hamilton who looked the likely prospect for a podium.
The fight for third place in the Constructors' Championship ended on Lap 3 in plumes of Total oil smoke. Grosjean was out after a weak start, and it was even worse for Heikki Kovalainen who was swamped on the opening lap and dropped from 11th to a miserable 18th. What's the betting the Quantum deal collapses this week? A former team boss who I spoke to this week, as we watched some VT of the Quantum spokesman being interviewed by Sky's Martin Brundle, shook his head and sighed. "We get people like that in the paddock all the time." was the gist of his unprintable remarks.
We've dubbed Eddie Jordan 'The Bard of Bray' before now and yet again he went deep. He felt it necessary to remind us where we were in case all that rain had somehow made us question our existence. Asked why he thought Perez would end up at Force India next year he started off with: "Look, we're in the world at the moment."
With all the money worries for Lotus and the flaky way the Quantum deal is being executed, DC's words were rich with irony. David Coulthard: "Eddie loves Rubens because he brought some money to the team and they actually paid it."
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Williams received his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, followed by medical school at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Emory University, and overlapping fellowships in cardiology, clinical pharmacology, and nuclear medicine at the University of Chicago. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology and cardiovascular computed tomography. Williams joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1986. He served as professor of medicine and radiology and director of nuclear cardiology at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine until 2010, when he became the Dorothy Susan Timmis Endowed Professor and chair of the division of cardiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI. In 2013, Williams assumed the position of James B. Herrick Professor and chief of the division of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL.
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After graduating from the University of Florida and the University of South Florida Medical School, Chazal returned to Florida after training in cardiovascular disease at the Krannert Institute of Cardiology at Indiana University. He continues to practice clinical cardiology in Fort Myers, FL. In 2010, Chazal's single-specialty group joined Lee Memorial Health System, where he now serves as the medical director of the Heart and Vascular Institute. Within the ACC, Chazal has served in numerous leadership positions, including committee positions, treasurer and as governor of the Florida Chapter. He is currently the vice chair of the Strategic Plan Task Force.
Mansour is a graduate of Millsaps College and the University of Mississippi Medical School, and completed his internal medicine residency at the Ochsner Foundation Hospital. He has served as chief fellow in cardiology at the University of Florida School of Medicine and interventional fellow in cardiology at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He later served as assistant professor of medicine at the University of Florida, followed by clinical assistant professor of medicine at Emory University. Currently, he acts as an affiliate faculty in the department of medicine, University of Mississippi Medical School. His current research interest includes health care disparities, and he has worked to address disparities and improve outcomes in underserved and minority populations through his current practice, the ACC's credo initiative, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's study on health care disparities and its program: Expecting Success, and has organized community and statewide programs. Mansour's previous research interests have been in interventional cardiology and endothelial function. He holds board certifications in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, interventional cardiology, nuclear cardiology and cardiovascular computed tomography. Currently, Mansour is an officer and member of the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi State Medical Association. In addition, he is president of the Mississippi Chapter of the ACC, as well as chair of the ACC Board of Governors and a member ACC Board of Trustees.
Valentine is an interventional cardiologist in Lynchburg, VA. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and named the University's outstanding senior. He attended the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed his medicine and cardiology training at Emory University in Atlanta. Valentine served as chair of the Board of Governors (BOG) in 2006 and has held leadership positions on the ACC Advocacy Steering Committee and other key committees.
Harold is a clinical professor of Medicine at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles. Harold completed his cardiology training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and his internal medicine training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He holds an appointment as clinical professor of medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in cardiology in 1985 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he began his practice in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
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Brush is a practicing cardiologist at Cardiology Consultants, Ltd., in Norfolk, VA, and a member of the clinical faculty at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Brush graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1976 and earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1980. He trained in medicine at the University of Vermont School of Medicine in Burlington and underwent a cardiology fellowship training at Yale University School of Medicine. Brush's primary areas of clinical interest are catheter-based coronary revascularization and nuclear cardiology.
Cacchione is an interventional cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic; Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine; Arnold and Sydell Miller Heart and Vascular Institute. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Cacchione is the chair of Operations and Strategy, Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute. As a leader in health care quality initiatives, he heads up Network Growth Strategy for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Previous to his tenure at the Cleveland Clinic, he was in a private practice for over 19 years and served as executive vice president and chief quality officer at Saint Vincent Health System in Erie, PA.
Casale graduated from Cornell University Medical College prior to completing an internal medicine residency at The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center. Following residency, he completed a clinical and research fellowship in Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is completing a Master of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an interventional cardiologist and chief of the Division of Cardiology at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, PA and serves as medical director of quality for Lancaster General Health. He is active in clinical research and medical education and is a clinical professor of medicine at Temple University School of Medicine. Casale is chair of the ACC Partners in Quality Committee and the PINNACLE Registry Steering Committee.
Dangas has devoted his career to education for physicians and health care professionals. A professor of medicine and director of Cardiovascular Innovation at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Dangas has chaired the ACC Interventional Scientific Council since its inception in 2007. In addition, he has served on the Program Executive Committee of the ACCi2 Summit Conference since 2007. His position on the Interventional Council has allowed him to pursue his dedication to the quality initiatives and outcomes clinical research.
Drozda acts as both a cardiologist and director of Outcomes Research at Sisters of Mercy Health System. He currently chairs the College's Clinical Quality Committee, is a member of the ACC's National Cardiovascular Data Registry Management Board, and is the ACC representative for the National Quality Forum. He has been actively involved in clinical trials for almost 18 years. In his current position, he is leading the development of a health services research function at Mercy with an emphasis on the Mercy Care Model and Mercy's Patient Centered Medical Home and on comparative effectiveness research.
Erb graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Colorado College. He attained his medical degree from Vanderbilt University, where he graduated with honors receiving the Rudolph Kampmeier Prize in Clinical Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Following residency, he was selected to be chief medical resident and clinical instructor in medicine at UCSF. Subsequent to this, he completed his cardiology fellowship and served as chief fellow in cardiology at Vanderbilt University; and in 2002 founded Cardiology Consultants of Bozeman, PC. He has served as the governor of the Montana Chapter of the ACC, as well as chair of the PINNACLE Network Workgroup. Erb currently sits on the Clinical Quality Committee Steering Committee and the ACCPAC Board.
Gray received his education from St. Thomas' Hospital in London and continued his postgraduate training there, as well as at the Brompton and St. George's Hospitals before being appointed consultant cardiologist at the University Hospital in Southampton, UK. He is formerly the chair of the Assembly of International Governors of the ACC, a past-president of the British Cardiovascular Society, and is national clinical director for cardiovascular disease at the Department of Health (England).
Handberg is the director of the Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Section in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Florida. She also serves the University as an associate professor of medicine, and serves on the College CME committee. She is an alternate Institutional Review Board member and the program director for the practitioner competency assessment program Florida CARES and C.A.P. Handberg has contributed to 55 articles, which have been featured in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the Journal of Interventional Cardiology and the Journal of Women's Health among other publications. She recently qualified for the designation FACC and was the first nurse (Cardiac Care Associate) to achieve this recognition.
Harrington received his undergraduate degree in English from the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1986. He was an intern, resident and the chief medical resident in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He was a fellow in cardiology at Duke University Medical Center, where he received training in interventional cardiology and research training in the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Diseases. In July 2012, he moved to become the Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor and Chairman of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the ACC, the AHA, the ESC, the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention, and the American College of Chest Physicians.
Hendel received his Bachelor of Arts degree in biological sciences and education from Northwestern University before receiving his medical degree, with distinction, from George Washington University School of Medicine. He is currently the associate chief of clinical cardiology, director of cardiac imaging and professor of medicine and radiology at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. Additionally, he currently serves as the chief for cardiovascular service and director of the cardiac care unit at the University of Miami Hospital. Hendel's areas of research have included angiogenesis, attenuation-corrected SPECT imaging, patient risk stratification, and pharmacologic stress testing, and quality/appropriateness in cardiac imaging.
Holmes is the Edward W. and Betty Knight Scripps Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and an interventional cardiologist in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He earned a B.S. from Princeton University in 1967 and a medical degree from Marquette University in 1971. He completed his internship at the Virginia Mason Hospital & Medical Center in Seattle and pursued a fellowship in both internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases at the Mayo Clinic. After completing active duty in the Navy at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Holmes returned to the Mayo Clinic as a consultant. Holmes has also served as the president of the ACC.
Kovacs is a professor of clinical medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the clinical director of the Krannert Institute. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Kovacs completed an internship and residency at the Indiana University Medical Center. His fellowship training also was at Indiana University, where he served as chief fellow and chief medical resident. He also serves as physician advisor to the Cardiac Diagnostics Department at Clarian West Hospital, is vice-chairman of the Cardiovascular Sub-Section at Clarian North Hospital and serves as acting chief of the Cardiology Service at Wishard Memorial Hospital. He is a past-chair of the ACC Board of Governors and secretary of the College, 2010-11
Krumholz is the Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health in the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Yale College in 1980 and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1985. He completed his residency and was chief resident at Moffitt Hospital, University of California San Francisco. Krumholz completed a cardiology fellowship at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He also received a Master's degree in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1992. Krumholz' research is focused on determining optimal clinical strategies and identifying opportunities for improvement in the prevention, treatment and outcome of cardiovascular disease, with an emphasis on under-represented populations. He is leading efforts with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to develop national outcomes measures for public reporting of hospital performance.
Mack has practiced cardiothoracic surgery in Dallas, TX, since 1982. He is Board-certified in internal medicine, general surgery and thoracic surgery, and is currently medical director of cardiovascular surgery for Baylor Health Care System and director of cardiovascular research at the Heart Hospital Baylor Plano. In addition, he co-founded and is chair of the Cardiopulmonary Research Science and Technology Institute (CRSTI), a not-for-profit research organization, and is published in more than 350 peer-reviewed medical publications. Mack currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and CTSNet, and sits on the ACC Interventional Scientific Council. He is also the chair of the STS/ACC TVT Registry Steering Committee and an honorary member of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
May currently works as a managing partner at his private practice, Cardiovascular Specialists, PA (CVS). He completed his undergraduate training at the University of Louisville and, in 1980, received his medical degree summa cum laude from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Following medical school, he completed his PhD in pharmacology and toxicology at the same institution. May is a past Board of Governors chair and secretary of the College, 2013-14.
Ness graduated summa cum laude from Drew University with a bachelor's degree in psychology and sociology, and completed her graduate work in social welfare and public health policy before receiving a Master's of Science from Columbia University School of Social Work. Ness has been a strong advocate for fairness and social justice for more than three decades. Before assuming her current role as president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, she served as executive vice president for 13 years. Ness has played a leading role in positioning the Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization as a powerful and effective advocate for today's women and families.
Newburger received a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1971, a doctor of medicine degree alpha omega alpha from the Harvard Medical School in 1974 and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1980. She trained in pediatrics, followed by cardiology, at Boston Children's Hospital. Newburger joined the Department of Cardiology in 1979 as an instructor in pediatrics and is currently the commonwealth professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and associate cardiologist-in-chief for academic affairs at Boston Children's Hospital. Her research has focused on prospective clinical studies, including multi-disciplinary prospective randomized trails and prospective cohort studies. She has made seminal contributions to both evaluation and therapy of Kawasaki disease and neurodevelopmental outcomes after pediatric cardiac surgery. She maintains an active practice comprised of patients with congenital and acquired heart disease.
Poppas received a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University and her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Medical School. She completed her residencies in internal medicine at University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and in cardiovascular medicine at University of Chicago Hospital. Currently, Poppas serves as director of the Echocardiography Laboratory at Rhode Island Hospital and an associate professor of medicine at Brown Medical School. She is also a member of a large hospital-based practice and specializes in treating women with heart disease during pregnancy and focuses her research on echocardiography and the various facets of heart disease in women and the elderly.
Rumsfeld received his medical degree from the University of Chicago (1991) and doctoral degree in Epidemiology from the University of Colorado (1999). He completed internal medicine internship and residency at the University of California, San Francisco (1991-1994), and cardiology fellowship at the University of Colorado (1995-1999). Rumsfeld is the national director for cardiology for the U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VA), and is also the national director of the VA Cardiovascular Assessment, Reporting and Tracking (CART) Program.
Shor graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, in 1978 and then completed his medical school training at University of South Carolina in 1982 where he was given several awards including the Dean's Award. He completed his Internal Medicine internship and residency at Emory University and affiliated hospitals in Atlanta in 1985 where was awarded commendations as an outstanding intern and resident. He deferred his fellowship until 1986 to assist in the care of his first child. He completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases from Emory in 1989 and since then has been in private practice in Northern Virginia with Virginia Heart. He is trained as an invasive cardiologist, but currently spends more time on preventive cardiology and quality measures. He has held several positions in the Virginia Chapter of the ACC and is the current Governor of the Chapter.
Tuzcu is an interventional cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic and serves the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute as a professor of medicine and vice-chairman in the Department of Cardiology. He received a medical degree from the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1977. After completing his internship and residency in internal medicine in Istanbul, Dr. Tuzcu completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. Tuzcu's clinical interests also include coronary artery disease, and his expertise in catheter-based treatment of valvular heart disease and adult congenital heart defects is internationally renowned.
Walpole is currently the Chief Medical Officer of Okyanos Heart Institute. Prior to this appointment in 2012, Walpole served as the chief of cardiac sciences at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. He also served as managing partner of Saint Thomas Heart for 10 years and was instrumental in its integration with Saint Thomas Heart Services. He served as governor of the Tennessee Chapter of the ACC and currently serves on the Cardiovascular Leadership Institute Work Group and is past chair of the ACC Political Action Committee.
Warnes is a professor of medicine and a consultant for cardiovascular diseases, pediatric cardiology and internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where she also directs the Mayo Clinic's Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic. Warnes completed medical school at Newcastle University in 1974. She completed her residency in internal medicine at the Royal Victoria Infirmary at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. She has completed fellowships at the National Heart Hospital and The London Chest Hospital in England and studied for her post-graduate degree at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Warnes has served as chair of the ACCF/AHA 2008 Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Congenital Heart, and has participated in the College as an abstract reviewer, chair of the Accreditation Committee, chair of the WIC Council and a member of the editorial board for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Zoghbi is a leader in the field of cardiovascular imaging and echocardiography. During his career, he has developed new techniques to evaluate valvular disorders and cardiac function, improving the non-invasive evaluation of diastolic function with Doppler and refining the use of stress and contrast echocardiography for detecting ischemic heart disease. Zoghbi is the William L. Winters endowed Chair of Cardiovascular Imaging at The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center and director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Institute at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. He is a past president of the College, 2012-13.
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text: I'm labeled the trigger-tongue from London,'' says Monie Love, a 20-year-old rapper whose first album, Down to Earth, has already put ''Monie in the Middle'' at the top of the rap charts. Born in England to West Indian parents, Love first made a splash in the U.S. earlier this year with some high-velocity guest verbiage on Queen Latifah's hit single ''Ladies First.'' She auditioned for that job while hosting a music cruise on a boat off the coast of England. ''Latifah heard me in the changing room,'' Love remembers. ''The boat was rocking and I was really scared.'' Since then, she has worked with two other American rap acts known for their mellow, Afrocentric pop: Jungle Brothers and De La Soul. While she seems entirely fresh-faced and unaffected, Love isn't afraid to take gambles. She's just moved from London to Queens, N.Y., that stronghold of rap, to be part of its thriving scene. All these changes in her life are a little dazzling to Love, who was training to be a schoolteacher three years ago and has a remarkably modest view of her ability. ''I can't sing,'' she says. ''If I could sing, why, I wouldn't be in rap.''


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Trixie Lulamoon Equestria Girls Doll Coming Soon
December 24, 2013 09:44
A new Equestria Girls doll has popped up on the Hasbro Toy Shop. Trixie Lulamoon is coming soon as a new EG doll. Currently clicking on Trixie takes you to a blank page, but soon it'll host the page where you'll be able to purchase it at one of the many retailers that sell the EG dolls. Keep an eye out on the Hasbro Toy Shop if you are interested in purchasing Trixie and for more details to be released.
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I have checked target,walmart, kmart and toys r us but there are no trixie dolls anywhere… ARE they out yet for sale?


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A few years ago online (I wish I could remember where) I read about a Catholic family's New Year's tradition to choose a new patron saint for their family each year. I thought this was a great idea!
Choose a saint that you feel would be a good fit for your family- something relative to you. We chose St. Anthony because my family is hopelessly disorganized, and we constantly loose things. I thought the patron saint of lost objects would be fitting for us.
I like to put a statue of our family's patron saint by the door in our home. Keeping the statue there reminds me daily of our patron saint of the year.
Here are some ideas for celebrating the yearly patron saint of your family:
- Put a statue of that saint in your home.
- Give your children holy cards or inexpensive saint medals of the saint.
- Do research and learn about your saint over the year.
- Celebrate your saint's feast day.
- Make crafts and do activities with your children relating to your saint and his or her patronage. (Search in my navigation bar for ideas under "saints").
- Do a quick google search to see if your saint has a prayer you can say together on New Year's day, and put up somewhere in your home. Include this prayer in your bedtime prayer routine for the year.
Just so you know, buying Catholic stuff for your home doesn't have to break the bank. I like to check out Catholic Deals for money saving ideas, but I've also found some good deals around town.
Looking for affordable saint statues? I have routinely found saint statues that stand a foot high at Ross for somewhere around $9 each, which is a great deal! And no, they're not plastic. They're not usually labeled, so you need to know who you're looking at. It's hit or miss, but worth checking out for sure! If they're damaged at all, ask for a discount- they'll always give it to you.
If you're lucky enough to have a local Catholic shop, every Catholic store I've ever been in has a set of these drawers with cheap saint medals inside. They're about 0.50 cents each. These are great for kids, and excellent for crafting!
Some of my favorite things about having a new patron saint of our family each year:
- We are exposed to more saints and learn about a new one each year.
- Rather than choosing a New Year's resolution, we can choose a saint with a positive aspect that we can work towards emulating for the year.
- We have more saints that we feel "close" to, and are special to us. The number grows each year.
- It gives us a new angle to work on ourselves spiritually, taking our new patron saint on as a spiritual inspiration.
- It gives us a reason to celebrate a new saint feast day each year, and learn about the traditions that go along with that saint.
Here's Julian proudly sporting his St. Anthony medal from last year. He loves it!
PS. Just wanted to make sure you all remember that New Year's Day is indeed a holy day of obligation, so going to mass should be a part of your New Year's tradition. What other traditions does your family have for celebrating the New Year's?


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September 2013
Rage Against the Machine - Part 2
Date: Tue, 10/09/2013 - 09:09I am not a natural hostess. I like to keep my personal space exactly that - personal. I do have a tendency towards hermit-like qualities generally because I find interacting with human-beings so exhausting.
August 2013
Rage Against The Machine: Part 1
Date: Fri, 02/08/2013 - 09:32I hate my laptop. I actively, vehemently, passionately HATE it.
July 2013
Come Fly With Me…
Date: Fri, 12/07/2013 - 09:26I love the movie Casablanca. I love the ending when Rick and Ilsa are standing together on the airport tarmac, and they say their goodbyes while the little propellers of the plane start up.
What's In a Name?
Date: Fri, 05/07/2013 - 08:24I have never really liked my name. I was a child of the 70s, all my little friends had nice normal names like Karen, Alison, Deborah and Susan. I always felt mine was a little foreign and no matter how hard I searched on holiday, there was NEVER a key-ring/mug/gonk...
June 2013
We Can Be Heroes
Date: Tue, 25/06/2013 - 09:27I had two fights this week. Two. Not with fists, although I was very, very close to smacking a particular person over the head with a 2 litre bottle of Vera. Two fights is quite a lot, even by my standards.
No LOL Matter
Date: Fri, 07/06/2013 - 08:18Picture the scene. You've met someone you actually LIKE. You agree to meet for a drink. You toy with the idea of shaving your legs (degree of hirsuteness = degree of interest).
May 2013
It's all about ME!
Date: Fri, 31/05/2013 - 06:29I do not like my upstairs neighbour. I do not like him because he is SELFISH. It seems that there are a lot of selfish people on this planet and it feels like the majority of them follow me around on a daily basis.
Don't Bank On It…
Date: Sat, 25/05/2013 - 13:07Going to the bank is always fun. The opening hours are so convenient, the uniforms are always very stylish and the fluorescent lighting is guaranteed to make your skin look just peachy.
Facebooking: The Facts
Date: Sat, 18/05/2013 - 08:28I like Facebook. I never thought I would and I avoided it assiduously for many years. In fact I was fairly vocal about my antipathy towards it (Gentle reader, I know it is hard to imagine me expressing a strong opinion, but I did…).
My Left Boot
Date: Fri, 03/05/2013 - 07:38My left foot is bigger than my right. It is quite common for people to have one foot, hand, ear, boob bigger than the other, but mine is a lot bigger. Freakishly so.


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In order to successfully collect data for the 35 percent quantitative portion of TLE, teachers will utilize a process called Roster Verification to properly link themselves to the students they teach. Read the full newsletter
Amid the growth of state "virtual" charter schools, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi is calling for legislation to strengthen academic and financial standards for such entities.
While a proponent of charter schools, Barresi said the relatively new phenomenon of virtual charters needs to be held to the same standards of accountability and transparency that are applicable to other charters in the public school system.
"Oklahoma's public schools predate statehood, while virtual charter schools have been around for but a handful of years," she said.
Dec. 19, 2013I am excited to begin the 2014 OKTOY Blog, and I agree with many friends that this is long overdue!
OKLAHOMA CITY (Jan. 3, 2014) — Two Oklahoma elementary school teachers are among 102 teachers nationwide recently honored with the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
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Jan. 6, 2014
I had the pleasure recently of hosting the first meeting of the Character Education Task Force.
More than 20 representatives of school districts, civic groups and faith-based organizations from throughout the state joined members of the state's Parent Teacher Association in the initial meeting earlier this month. In doing so, we are laying the groundwork for something I hope will help in the development of character education in Oklahoma schools.
OKLAHOMA CITY (Jan. 14, 2013) — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Janet Barresi today notified district school superintendents that middle school students testing in Algebra I, Algebra II or Geometry are no longer required to take the grade-level math assessment."This double testing has long been a requirement of the U.S. Department of Education, but it is unnecessary and not in the best interest of our students," Barresi said.
The start of a new year is not only a great time to applaud annual achievements, but it is also the perfect opportunity for districts to set new goals and plan next steps. Read the full newsletter