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johannesburg - Efforts to cut costs by the department of correctional services are putting prison staff at risk, the Public Servants Association (PSA) said on Wednesday.
"(We) have raised the issue of the safety of employees over 1/8the 3/8 years with the national commissioner, without any success," deputy general manager Manie de Clercq said in a statement.
One of the strategies employed by the department to economise was a shift system, which meant that only half of the staff of prisons were on duty at any given time.
De Clercq said recent attacks on staff of St Albans prison, near Port Elizabeth, led the PSA to advise staff employed at jails "not to risk personal safety in pursuit of service delivery".
On Tuesday, three warders were stabbed and wounded at St Albans when two prisoners attacked them with sharpened objects, correctional services regional commissioner Nkosinathi Breakfast said.
The warders suffered minor cuts to the forehead and were taken to a local hospital in a stable condition.
The department could not immediately be reached for comment. - Sapa
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Is it safe to eat boneless skinless chicken breasts that were frozen for one year?
By Debbie from IL
You really should use food within 6 months. Never eat freezer burnt food. We freeze food to take advantage of sales and to keep food we grow in the garden but with stores so close to most of us and sales going on all the time it really isn't necessary to buy food and freeze it for a year. Rotate it and use it up.
Coming from an old farm family I know how it can get lost in the freezer.
1. Is it freezer burnt and real bad, cook it for the dogs and give them a treat.
2. Just a little burnt. Thaw it out in a tablespoon of vinegar to the pan of water you thaw the meat in and if it smells after thawing no.
The vinegar will actually tenderize and take the freezer smell out. The meat should still be good. A good rule of thumb is on chicken and turkey or store bought cook within 2 months because they already keep it too long. I have had chicken in the freezer for over a year and it not even show any freezer burn. Use your best judgment and your nose if it has a bad smell throw away....if slimey throw away.
By Debbie Dzurilla 28 1,124 04/19/2011
Thanks for the info. I defrosted the chicken breasts and they have no freezer burn, were not slimy,had no off smell. I washed them off in cold water and then have them marinating in terriyaki sauce and my husband will grill tonight. I am not worried that they will be bad at this point but perhaps will not taste so good. They indeed got lost in the deep freeze and we'll have to be more careful in the future. Also these got frozen before we invested in a vacuum sealer but they were wrapped very well. If I remember I'll let ya know how they turn out.
By Debbie Dzurilla 28 1,124 04/20/2011
I am the one who posted the question. We ate the chicken last night and it was perfectly fine. After marinating my husband grilled and they were tender, juicy and delicious. I will be more careful in the future to use up meats sooner though!
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I have just had to clean out my freezer of its meat, as both my husband and I had stomach upsets after eating chicken that had come from the freezer. How long can various meats be stored in the freezer before it is unsafe to use?
As long as the meat was handled properly BEFORE it was frozen and then handled properly after you take it out of the freezer to cook (NOT defrosted on the counter, etc.), it should be safe to eat.
Another thing to check would be to make sure your freezer was working ok, the seals on the doors are still good etc, no one left the door ajar, or there were no power outages.
There is a lot of info at this link, and there is a chart at the bottom for how long it is suggested to have meat in the freezer before quality starts to get affected:
Hope you are feeling better! (02/12/2008)
By Kaelle
Invest in a vacuum sealer, and your meats will be fine for a year. While it may cost a little more to use a vacuum sealer, it's cheaper than throwing out things that you forgot in the freezer. Also, mark everything you 'seal' with the date you put it in there, so you know which packages to use first. (02/12/2008)
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I have had some cuts of beef and pork in my freezer for two years, can I cook and eat them?
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These sites will give you all the freezing information you will want on all foods. If your meat remained properly frozen, it is most likely still good just not very tasty. Freezer burned, and only good tasting for soups. Remove all the air from your package before sealing and double wrap it. This helps to stop freezer burning. (12/15/2009)
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Where is Sharpton, Jackson, Holder and Obama? If three white teens went joy riding and killed a black man jogging down the street all hell would break loose. Jackson and Sharpton would be leading marches — Holder would be demanding that justice be served and he'd have the DOJ and FBI looking for racial hatred and fueling the fire. Obama would make a speech about how racist our society is. The mainstream media would be going crazy trying to outdo each other with profiles of the white thugs.
However, when two blacks gun down a white man there isn't even a peep from the so-called black leaders in this country. Racism does exist in this country — it exists both ways but you won't hear that from these four. Sharpton and Jackson benefit from racial discord and the have no interest in solving the problem. Holder won't dare open an investigation into this maybe being a hate crime and Obama won't say that one of these thugs could have been my son. All four are big-time hypocrites.
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The theme for 1999 is 50 years of the Republic of Germany. Topics under discussion are music, autos, art, people, jobs, "Gastarbeiter," politics, the coming down of the Wall, and the reunification of Germany.
Organizers for this workshop are Elizabeth Ametsbichler Ph.D. and Ulrike Tietze along with Hiltrud Arens Ph.D, . Ursula Meyer, and Gerald Syring. are the guest presenters.
Here are the instructors: Ulla Meyer, Ulli Tietze, Liz Ametsbichler, Hiltrud Arens, and Gerald Syring.
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Gathering and culling information to be presented is one of the many activities of the workshop. Sandie Waters and Marcie Tanner look through the resources provided.
One group (Glen Peppel, Phil Phillips, and Patty Hill with Liz) gathers and sorts through information in order to present it to the rest of the participants.
Each team presents its unit to the remaining audience; here Duane Jackson and Phil take their turn.
Here Ulli holds a model of the most common car to be made in East Germany. This information presented by Gerald of Wiesneck Germany. Also pictured are Ulla, Marcie, and Diane.
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Google adds Shawnee to list of Google Fiber locations in Kansas
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Shawnee joins Olathe, Kansas City for Fiber rollout in state
Google is expanding the coverage of its existing gigabit Internet offering from Kansas City into another area of Kansas. The city of Shawnee, just outside of Kansas City, will gain Google Fiber in the future, and joins the high-speed connection construction waiting list alongside Olathe in the same state, Austin in Texas and Provo, Utah.
The Shawnee City Council voted to approve an agreement to deploy Google Fiber in the area on May 2nd, though despite its closeness to the current fiber network being constructed in Kansas City, there is not a set date for when it will be rolled out in the area. The Google Fiber blog confirms the company still has "a lot of planning and engineering work to do before we're ready to bring Fiber to Shawnee," but will be providing updates as soon as they are available through the Google Fiber site.
The Google Fiber project has seemingly stimulated other broadband providers into rolling out or upgrading their own fiber networks. While AT&T announced plans for a gigabit fiber network in Austin shortly after Google revealed their own proposal, CenturyLink is building its own pilot gigabit service in Omaha, according to a recent Omaha.com report. Vtel, an Internet service provider in Vermont, revealed during its fiber product launch that the creation of Google Fiber helped it receive stimulus funding to build its network, after a first attempt to gain federal funding was denied.


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Oakland band Midnight Raid released their music video for the song "Fire" this week. Band members have been present at various demonstrations and wanted to do their part for Occupy Oakland. Support Occupy, Support local music, Stop Brutality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtDKyE7b79k 45950
Positive Thoughts About the Occupy Movements
My positive thoughts about the many OWS type movements are collected in the articles listed below. The hope is that some of these thoughts may help young and active participants to develop better ideas of their own. These articles were also written to refute many of the criticisms of the Occupy Movement (OM), and to push back on the hostility of "the establishment" to OM. At my blog (http://manuelgarciajr.wordpress.com) I show links to videos and articles by others, which go deeper into the financial and economic roots of the crisis … Continued
IBM, Hitler and the Holocaust: A Terrible Tale of Capitalism Without Conscience
IBM, HITLER AND THE HOLOCAUST: A TERRIBLE TALE OF CAPITALISM WITHOUT CONSCIENCE Global Revolution 1: American Revolution 2: Day 60: Communication 1 IronBoltBruce's Kleptocracy Chronicles for 15 Nov 2011 (g1a2d0060c1) How many examples of greed and corruption must you see before you act? This is taken from "Six million and counting", written by Peter Preston for The Observer, Saturday 17 February 2001: Hitler's Holocaust was happening anyway. With IBM's help, it was easier, as Edwin Black demonstrates in [his book entitled] 'IBM and the Holocaust' http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com You thought, perhaps, that … Continued
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I am considering a proposal to the General Assembly. Would love some crowdsourced input before a draft is submitted. Also, as of now could use another co-signer. Below is current draft: Until such time as the global Capitalist order is overthrown, be it resolved that Occupy Oakland will respect the private property rights and rights of commerce of small local businesses in Oakland and the surrounding communities. A working group will be established to create channels of communication between Occupy Oakland and local city businesses. This working group will also … Continued
Links to 2 in-depth articles on Occupy Protests
Following are links to two in-depth articles that deal with the most fundamental questions, problems and solutions, and strategy and tactics of the 2011 American Protests (Occupy Protests). These need to be reviewed and considered for the creation of goals, agenda, strategy, and tactics. 1. http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/occupy-wall-street-potentials-and-limitations-of-the-2011-american-protests-by-fazal-rahman-ph-d/ 2. http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/occupy-wall-street-problems-of-the-dialectics-of-diversity-uniformity-and-unity-by-fazal-rahman-ph-d/ 3346


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Commander Fix joined the "Seahawks" of VAW-126 in August 1999 onboard USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN-75) where he participated in Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. In September 2002, he reported to the VAW-120 "Greyhawks" as an NFO Instructor, serving as Head Schedules Officer, Air Intercept Control Phase Head, and E-2C Model Manager. In June 2005, he reported to Carrier Air Wing SEVENTEEN (CVW-17) where he served as Air Warfare Officer onboard USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN-73). In September 2007, he graduated from the United States Naval War College with a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies.
In March 2008, he reported to the "Screwtops" of VAW-123 onboard USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) for his Department Head tour, serving as Safety, Administrative, and Operations Officer. Commander Fix then completed a joint tour at USTRANSCOM Joint Enabling Capabilities Command (JECC). In June 2013, he reported to the staff of United States Fleet Forces Command where he served as Battle Watch Captain. He reported to Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Virginia Capes, in May 2014.
Commander Fix has accumulated over 2,100 flight hours and more than 400 carrier arrested landings in the E-2C Group 0, Group II, and Hawkeye 2000 aircraft. His decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (4), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and various unit and service awards.
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A few of us forget the warnings to regularly change or disinfect our toothbrushes. Some of us remember only when we are getting over an infection. The last thing we COPDers need is another infection, and failure to maintain a sanitized toothbrush might lead to just that. Jimmie, a member from Missouri who reminds us she is a "gal" in her signature, recently stressed the importance of disinfecting our toothbrushes. She disinfects hers with peroxide. Toothbrush care is part of good oral hygiene. Taken to an extreme, neglecting oral health might lead to periodontal disease, and a recent study in the Journal of Periodontology concludes that "[P]eriodontal disease may increase the risk for respiratory infections." For more information about this study (warning, the article refers to COPD as a respiratory infection), see the PRNewswire article at http://tinyurl.com/4srzs5z
In contrast to the above study, the American Dental Association website says, "Although there is insufficient clinical evidence to support that bacterial growth on toothbrushes will lead to specific adverse oral or systemic health effects, a common-sense approach is recommended for situations where patients may be at higher risk to infection or re-infection by various microbes." Their statement, from 2005, and can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/4hysd5s
How Dirty are Toothbrushes?
Toothbrushes can contain germs, saliva, blood and toothpaste residue. There are numerous websites that detail the horrific types and numbers of bacteria, however many of the frightening descriptions appear to be self-serving; they often cite "studies" that cannot be traced to their original source. The following American Dental Association articles provide practical information without the hype
Suggestions for Storage and Care of Toothbrushes
- Replace toothbrushes periodically. The American Dental Association recommends replacing them every 3 or 4 months or when they become frayed; however others suggest changing them at least every 2 months.
Options for Disinfecting Your Toothbrush
- Soak your brush in an antiseptic mouthwash (discard regularly). Don't soak multiple toothbrushes in the same liquid as this could lead to cross-contamination.
Manual or Electric?
There are many different opinions regarding any benefit of using an electric toothbrush over a manual one. A 2006 study in the International Journal of Clinical Dental Science provides this seemingly contradictory conclusion: "In general there was no evidence of a statistically significant difference between powered and manual brushes. However, rotation oscillation powered brushes significantly reduce plaque and gingivitis in both the short and long-term."
What Toothpaste is Best?
In 2006, St. Martin's University in Lacey, Washington, conducted a study of three popular toothpastes: Aquafresh, Colgate and Crest. Their study concludes, "[T]here was no statistically significant difference among the three brands of toothpaste. Thus, no toothpaste was more effective in repressing bacterial growth than the others."
Congress's Medicare Advisory Commission is recommending that Medicare recipients be charged a copayment for home healthcare services. Homecare services cost Medicare $20 billion a year, but Medicare does not currently require a co-payment for the services. Although the panel did not suggest a specific amount for the copayment, they are nevertheless talking about $150 for each series of related visits. This STLtoday (from Saint Louis, Mo.) article provides a good overview http://tinyurl.com/45o44vo
Individuals with COPD often have other diseases that coexist with COPD (comorbidity). According to a study in Respiratory Research, patients with COPD cost more than 3 times the amount of money to treat than do average patients. The researchers believe comorbid diseases are to blame for these high costs. The pricy (and debilitating) diseases, according to this study, are: myocardial infarct, congestive heart failure, mild liver disease, and diabetes. Aside from the costs involved, and from a personal health perspective, we COPDers may need to be aware of this list of diseases so we can take measures to prevent or minimize their impact on our health. This 7thSpace website, explains the study, first published in Respiratory Research http://tinyurl.com/48qcymn
Vitamin D, as pointed out frequently, is an important vitamin and benefits us in numerous ways. One of the claims that appears on occasion is that a low level of vitamin D might decrease the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids (such as fluticasone, beclomethasone, budesonide, ciclesonide, mometasibe, triamcinolone). However, a recent study published in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease found that vitamin D (as 25-hydroxyvitamin D) levels do not influence the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids. You can read about this study at http://tinyurl.com/4qscsty
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is asking drug manufacturers to limit the amount of acetaminophen (the ingredient in the brand Tylenol and also available generically) in prescription medications to 325 mg, and to also warn users about potential liver damage. The risk of liver injury is greatest when someone takes more than the recommended amount of acetaminophen. This is more likely to occur if people are unknowingly ingesting large amounts of acetaminophen because of its presence in multiple medications. The current maximum dose is 4,000 mg within 24 hour period. For the FDA announcement, see http://tinyurl.com/5s8kcwn
The Independence (London) reports on a study from Switzerland that appears in the British Medical Journal that shows common painkillers increase the risk of heart attacks. Researchers analyzed 31 different studies to come to the conclusion that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) double, triple, or even quadruple the risk of heart attacks, depending on the drug. (A list of NSAIDS by generic names is below.) Although they only studied 7 NSAIDS, they warn of the possibility that all of them might have this effect. They claim that naproxen is the safest. Aspirin, unfortunately, was not included in the study. They caution that NSAIDS usage should be no problem for those who take them occasionally. Their concern is largely with those who use larger amounts for pain control, frequently older people. For more information, see http://tinyurl.com/4qllcue
Generic Names of NSAIDS:
According to MedicineNet, NSAIDS include (generic names only): aspirin, celecoxib, diclofenac, diflunisal, etodolac, ibuprofen, indomethacin, ketoprofen, ketorolac, nabumetone, naproxen, oxaprozin, piroxicam, salsalate, sulindac, and tolmetin. [Note that Acetaminophen (Tylenol and Panadol) is not listed as a NSAID.] See http://tinyurl.com/ylgq67k
Additional names found in the UK: Diclofenac, mefenamic acid, etoricoxib and indometacin. See http://tinyurl.com/4kj3dpc
Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta Georgia and the University of Chicago found that some of those who were infected by the 2009 H1N1 flu might have developed antibodies not only against the H1N1 but also against a large number of other strains of flu. Discoveries like this could lead to a universal, or wide-spectrum flu vaccine. This Emory University news release provides an easy to read discussion of the findings, first published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine http://tinyurl.com/4jpqc37
John Costello, the former Editor (and backup) of this newsletter, recently shared a new cleaning discovery when she wrote:
~~ I just bought a Robomop, a product fairly new to the United States and better known in the UK. It dry dust-mops hard surface flooring. I saw it demonstrated on Home Shopping Network (HSN) while channel surfing. Since it was only $30.00 and HSN has a "no questions asked" return policy, I took a chance on being scammed. Boy was I surprised! The thing really works! It removes dust bunnies, lint, hair, etc. It is very low-tech and it has no learning curve. It did an excellent job dust mopping my cobalt blue entry/hall ceramic tile and my laminate kitchen flooring.
When researching on the web, I noticed several different models at various prices. I have no interest in the HSN except it had the best price. Robomop looks like a toy, but it really works. Click on the video in the upper left hand corner of this web page to see it in action http://tinyurl.com/4lj9mf6
Does anyone else has any favorite labor/energy saving devices to recommend?~~
Pat, a member from frigid upstate New York, followed up with last week's lead article on moisture condensation in oxygen tubing with her own discovery. She wrote: "No matter what I tried, when I used a humidifier on my concentrator, I would get water in the hose. Recently a Respiratory Therapist recommended that I only fill the bottle to a quarter inch below the lowest "maximum" line. It doesn't bubble as wildly. It has worked and I haven't had any trouble since." Pat also offered one of those, "Why didn't I think of that" suggestions when she wrote, "A good way to get water out of the hose is to connect it to a nebulizer. It blows it out in no time."
The Newsletter, like all the other endeavors of the Family of COPD Support Programs , is provided to you by COPD-Support, Inc. a non-profit member organization with IRS designation 501(c)(3). If you would like to be involved and help us provide these programs to the individuals who benefit from them, please consider joining us as a member. Further information is available at: http://copd-support.com/membership.html
The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a federal program that helps low income individuals and families pay for home energy consumption (heat and air conditioning). Although it is a federal program, it does not provide direct assistance. Instead it provides grants to states, tribes, and U.S. territories who administer the program. Programs can help cover energy costs, provide emergency help, and even in some areas, help weatherization or energy-related home repair. If you think you may qualify for assistance, you'll first have to find where to apply. The following will provide you with more information about the program and how to contact your local LIHEAP center http://tinyurl.com/yje9mt6
You have a few months before you have to worry about taxes, but there is nothing stopping you from tossing out old records now. What records are safe to toss? Bankrate's website lets you know how long to keep the various types of tax related records.
This is a very "neat" site that illustrates, through tutorials, how to draw things! Pick up your paints, charcoal, or pencil, and draw along, or simply sit back and enjoy watching someone else do the drawing. It is fun just to watch how it is done, at http://tinyurl.com/ye7wq93
Here's list of different sites for crossword puzzles. Some require registration, and some are better than others, but the selection is large enough to satisfy everyone. Keep your brain active at http://tinyurl.com/6sgws
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'My idol for dance is Maria Tall Chief. She was the first Native American ballerina, and she's also Hispanic. She was the reason I started dancing, and I've... Read the full article
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"Swan Lake" performed by the beautiful dancers of Colorado Ballet is the very essence of classical ballet — lovely, sad, familiar, lyrical... Read the full article
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Get ready for another sell-out season of world class dance with Colorado Ballet. The company, in it's 51st season, will enchant audiences with four ballets betw... Read the full article
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After an absence of six years, the Colorado Ballet was back in the spotlight Monday evening at the Vail International Dance Festival, taking part in a strik... Read the full article
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BEAVER CREEK, Colorado — Five choreographers. Five new pieces. Monday's night "UpClose: Premieres" evening at the Vilar Center in Beaver Creek... Read the full article
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Paying homage to masters of the craft, such as Alvin Ailey and George Balanchine, is an important part of any dance festival. But just as important is creating ... Read the full article
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New Yorker Emery LeCrone has spent the past few weeks in Denver choreographing a dance for 18 dancers in the Colorado Ballet. The piece will be unveiled Monday ... Read the full article
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The conventional route to becoming a choreographer usually encompasses establishing a career as a performer first and then gradually transitioning into... Read the full article
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NETGEAR routers to be sold at Wal-Mart include the Wireless-G Router for a simple and secure wireless solution that enables users to share an Internet connection across several PCs; the popular RangeMax Wireless Router, which delivers up to ten times the speed and coverage of standard wireless-G devices; and the RangeMax Next Wireless-N Router, which allows multiple users to use such advanced applications as downloading and streaming multimedia files, and making Internet phone calls.
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Jill left Australia in 2003 and worked at the National University Library in Timor-Leste. This role led to a period of nine years work in development in Timor-Leste, the last five of which were as Program Manager for Plan International, managing a range of projects including early childhood education programmes and the development of mobile libraries operating in camps for internally displaced people.
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(This column was published in the April 2006 issue of ORHealth, a Gannett magazine that circulates in Oregon's Mid-Willamette Valley.)
By Bob Miller
No surprise: We like things that work.
We buy cars because we've had good experience with them or know people who did.
We see certain movies because they feature stars or themes we've enjoyed in the past.
And we pick up selected brands of toothpaste, soap and hair-care products because they've always worked for us.
Now, tens of thousands of Oregonians are going to enjoy greater certainty about the effectiveness of mental health, alcohol and other drug treatments in which they enroll.
Before you say "this isn't about me" and turn the page, consider this: Most Oregonians, even if they aren't in treatment, know someone who is, was or will be. The odds are good that it's someone in your extended family.
Now, thanks to legislative authorization, five state agencies including the Oregon Department of Human Services are requiring "evidence-based practices," meaning simply that there must be research-supported proof that a chosen treatment practice works.
Treatment providers have always used promising approaches that they believed were effective; that's their business. The change is that more and more publicly financed treatment and therapy will be required to show evidence of effectiveness before tax dollars will pay for it.
This is a good thing.
Perhaps as many as one in 20 Oregonians will receive some sort of publicly financed treatment this year.
Not only that, but many providers who serve these clients also deliver services for private-pay patients, who will benefit from this rigorous approach too.
It is altogether reasonable to assert that it will slow the cost increases of publicly financed treatment services. This is because people who improve their mental health or shake an addiction as a result of treatment are less likely to be unemployed, go to the hospital emergency room, abuse their kids or get sent to jail or prison. If that occurs, we should be spending less than we otherwise would on welfare, Medicaid, child-protective services and criminal-justice costs.
Even more satisfying are the results in human terms, because people who get better can nurture their children, do well at work, pay taxes and live happy, productive lives.
An example of an evidence-based practice? Sure.
If you know someone who's been through alcohol or drug treatment, then you've perhaps heard that therapists have been known to treat people with an abrupt, confrontation approach. "You have a problem – and you need to face up to it." As a result, some clients quit treatment because they are angry with their therapist or resentful of the approach.
A newer, research-tested technique is called motivational interviewing. It's different because it works with people at their own pace to recognize their problem and begin traveling the road to recovery. As a result, the research tells us, people stay in treatment longer, complete treatment more often, and are more likely to remember what their therapist told them they could do to help themselves.
That is the goal.
The state law requires that 25 percent of publicly financed treatment practices be supported by research today, and that 75 percent be by mid-2009.
If you ask Google for "evidence-based practices," the search engine will give you more than 10 million links. Yet writing the concept into public policy is relatively new. Oregonians should be pleased this is happening in their state, and that other states are contacting us for tips on their own work in this area.
People who invest time, money and energy into treatment should have the same confidence as you expect from a trusted brand that you regularly buy at the store. Now they will have it.
Bob Miller is operations manager in the Office of Mental Health and Addiction Services of the Oregon Department of Human Services, where he is responsible for working with providers to implement evidence-based practices.
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You probably know comic-actor David Koechner as "that asshole" from most of the things you've seen him in—but as a sort of witty, weird, sad asshole. He's played Champ Kind, the clueless Ron Burgundy-worshipping sports guy, in Anchorman; the pathetic idiot manager in Waiting; the funny firearm lobbyist in Thank You for Smoking, and the schmuck womanizer in NBC's The Office. Later this year, he's set to star as an obnoxious redneck in My Asshole Neighbor. Indeed, Koechner's made a pretty good living at portraying characters you'd gladly beat with a club, and he'll likely be doing so when he hits the Trocadero this Saturday for a stand-up set.
Quick story: Koechner's a lifelong Kansas City Chiefs fan and was cheering for them on Twitter throughout their epic loss to the Indianapolis Colts over the weekend, in which the Andy Reid-coached team blew a 21-point lead at the half. After the loss, he tweeted, "Thanks (sic) you! Lots of heart! Nothing but love! Have a great offseason." What he didn't say: Experiencing epic losses is what it's like having Reid as your coach. (Of course, we knew that already.)
Koechner's Philly stop is part of his 12-city Together Again tour—timed with the successful release of his latest film, Anchorman 2: The Legend of Ron Burgundy—and he'll be testing out some new material. / RANDY LOBASSO
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When I first discovered yoga, I was blissfully unaware of how stiff my body was. My teachers (I have had many) were all very different from each other in their approach to yoga, and the student, and therefore each one gave me something unique, something to think about, but most of all, the impetus to keep on practicing. One of my teachers usually taught asana in groups – such as forward bends, backward bends, sun salutations, salutations to the moon and so on. And on one particular occasion, we picked backward bends as the subject matter for discussion and subsequent practice. I was amazed at the hidden symbolism of postures and how much I had taken myself – body and soul - for granted.
One of the key points of discussion was about how backward bends cure excessive introversion by physically turning the chest out and encouraging inhalation. These postures are done opposing gravity and hence require physical energy, focus and muscular strength to perform and hold. Moreover, any deeply ingrained introversion and excessive keeping to oneself would start getting broken down by bending backwards – an open chest signifies the confidence to open up to the world and holding one's own without feeling "exposed". They are supposed to induce in the practitioner a feeling of being able to receive life with open arms and complete acceptance. On a physical level, the spine has much to gain from these postures, especially with respect to nerves originating from between the vertebrae, which get strengthened.
The spinal column is an anatomical assembly of discs and vertebrae. A number of muscles are involved in keeping it together and holding it up. If these muscles are to be well maintained, then backward bending postures are all important. They correct postural defects, which further affect the muscles negatively. Other neuro-muscular or skeletal imbalances resulting in a range of painful conditions (sciatica and slipped disc to name a few) will start manifesting. It is believed that the health of the spine determines the health of the entire being – physical and psychic alike. Therefore, postures that strive to bring the spine to health are bound to affect the entire system positively.
The thing to remember while doing asana, backward bending or otherwise is to correctly apply breath so that entire muscle groups contract consistently and the movement in general is propelled by breath.
Another thing worth noting is that impure blood often collects around the spine due to posture, leading to listless circulation. Backward bends take care of that very effectively. These postures apply the kind of pressure on the abdomen that ensures good digestion, elimination and the general well being of all organs in that region. The organs in the pelvis also get healthy and due to the fact that the muscles in that area get a good stretch.
The most important lesson, however, that I took away from this class was that just because the spine is at the back, I should not forget all about it. It holds my body together. Why, it even holds my mind together. I can stand, walk sit or run because of it. In a way, my whole life depends on it. So I'd better love it, revere it and bend backward to keep it healthy!


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Edmonton is seeking its season high-tying third straight win after skating to a 4-2 victory at Vancouver on Monday. David Perron recorded his second career hat trick as the Oilers defeated the Canucks for the first time in four tries this season. Edmonton, which won three in a row from Nov. 16-21, now looks for its first win over San Jose in 2013-14 after being outscored 8-2 in two losses earlier this campaign.
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ABOUT THE SHARKS (34-13-6): San Jose has been shut out three times this season, dropping 1-0 decisions to Boston on Jan. 11 and Los Angeles on Monday while also being blanked in a 1-0 shootout victory at Detroit on Oct. 21. Alex Stalock had his shutout streak stopped at 178 minutes, 55 seconds - a franchise record.
ABOUT THE OILERS (17-32-6): With his hat trick on Monday, Perron eclipsed the 20-goal mark for the third time in his career and raised his season total to a career-high 22. The 25-year-old tallied 21 times in 2011-12 while with St. Louis. Perron's other career hat trick also came against Vancouver on Nov. 10, 2009, when he was a member of the Blues.
1. Stalock eclipsed the previous club-record shutout streak of 170:58 set in 2009 by Evgeni Nabokov.
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I have only recently got into contact with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). As a newbie, one of the things I struggled with at first was securing a WCF service with self-signed certificates. Never having used certificates and not knowing how it actually works, it was challenging task to say the least. Looking back now it makes me feel a little silly …
For this post we will use a common business-2-business scenario. We will create a transport-secured (HTTPS) WCF service with certificate client-credential authentication.
1. Create the solution setup:
For this scenario, we will build a solution called "WCF.Tutorial.TransportSecurity"
There are 2 projects in this solution: (both are default template projects)
- WCF Service Application called "WCF.Tutorial.TransportSecurity.Service"
- Client console application called "WCF.Tutorial.TransportSecurity.Client"
The service contract looks as following:
2. Configuration of the Service
1. Add the EmployeeService service configuration:
2. Add the EmployeeService binding configuration
On the transport node we set clientCredentialType to "Certificate" .
IMPORTANT: Notice that the Employee service endpoint configuration has bindingConfiguration set to "EmployeeBindingConfig". This bindingname matches the binding we just configured in the image above. This means the service endpoint will use the basicHttpBinding configuration we defined above.
3. Add the EmployeeService behavior configuration
3. IIS configuration for the service and Transport security certificate configuration
When you visit our service by web browser, you will most likely get the following error:
4. Creation and configuration of the HTTPS self-signed certificate
We will execute following command:
makecert –pe –n "CN=localhost" –sr localmachine –ss my –sky exchange
IMPORTANT: If you copy it from this blog post, it might fail and say too many parameters are used. Try to write it manually and execute it then. The quotes are being changed by this blog post.
After executing the command, it should say "Succeeded" at the command line.
What does it mean in a nutshell: Create a self-signed certificate for exchange purposes (https) in the localmachine store with the name "localhost".
Since our domain is "localhost", we create a certificate with "CN=localhost". If your domain would be "www.dummiesforlife.com", your certificate would be created with "CN=www.dummiesforlife.com".
Self-signed certificates are good for development purposes. Once you want to go to production environment, please get verified certificates from certificate vendors like VeriSign.
There are a lot more options available for "makecert". You can find more on the msdn documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bfsktky3(v=VS.100).aspx
We created the certificate which we will use for the HTTPS transport security, so let's see if the certificate was created. At run enter "mmc" and press enter.
Go to File – Add/Remove Snap-in … and you should be at the following screen:
At the Local computer certificates in the Personal Store (=My), in the certificates folder you should see a certificate called "localhost", which is the certificate we created by command line for the https security.
Select the localhost certificate in the SSL certificate list and press OK to add the binding
Let's set the correct SSL settings in IIS for our "WCF.Tutorial.TransportSecurity.Service", which should match our configuration of our service.
Well this is an error we like. To access the service, we need to have a client certificate to authenticate ourselves, and the client certificates has to be recognised and trusted by the web server.
What has to be done for our Client Console Application:
- Create a proxy that can consume the secured WCF Service
- Have the correct configuration for our proxy and service endpoint
- Create a client certificate that our proxy can send to authenticate to the WCF service
- Make sure our web server, which hosts our WCF Service, recognizes the client certificate and trusts it, so access is granted
With other words, we are close to have a running solution. Our WCF Service is configured correctly and is hosted within IIS now.
But before we can finish our client application, we should look a little deeper into certificates, what they are and what they are used for.
5. Certificates, what are they and what are they used for
- Assures the identity of the provider
- A point-to-point encryption between the service and the client
Actually I found a great and easy YouTube video which explains the basics of SSL certificates in human words and only in 3 mins. I suggest you watch the video first:
There's a few important things to notice here.
- A certificate contains a public and a private key
- The browser ensures that the certificates is unexpired, unrevoked, issued by a trusted party and that its common name matches the website that it is connecting to
- The private key is used to decrypt the symmetric key created by the client, which was encrypted by the certificate's public key.
When the client requests a secure conversation with the server, the server returns its certificate and its public key. The client generates a symmetric key and encrypts this symmetric key with the certificate's public key and passes this encrypted symmetric key to the web server. This encrypted symmetric key can only be decrypted by the private key of that certificate, and the private key is never being traded, it always remains on the server. The private key is highly confidential and the web server is the only one having the private key. As the symmetric key encrypted with the exchanged public key is only decryptable with the private key, the server is the only instance able to decrypt this encrypted symmetric key and get the same symmetric key as the client has. If someone would have been sniffing the handshake, he would only get an symmetric key, which he can not decrypt because he does not have the private key … As only the server can get the symmetric key by decryption, we are setting up a secure channel. Both the client and the server will have an identical symmetric key, which nobody else can have if the private key is safe, and all communication can from this point on be encrypted with the symmetric key, which both sides have and which people with bad intentions do not have.
As mentioned above, one of the issues which might arise when using transport security, is that the web server does not have enough rights on the private key. At some point, the web server will get an encrypted symmetric key which it has to decrypt with its private key. If the web server does not have enough rights to this private key, it will fail to decrypt the encrypted symmetric key and the handshake will fail, resulting in an error.
If this issue would occur, you can solve this by managing the Private keys of your certificate that you use for the transport security as following:
If your application pool under which your IIS application runs is for example "Network Service", then you would have to add Network Service to the users that have access to this private key and make sure it has read rights to the private key, so that it can retrieve the key from the local machine to decrypt the encrypted symmetric key.
As also mentioned in the things to notice, the common name of the certificate has to match the domain name of the website it is connecting to. In our case our domain is localhost as we are running it in IIS locally. If our website would be hosted on a domain http://www.website.com, our certificate subject would be "www.website.com".
There are 2 ways to get a certificate. One is creating a self-signed certificate and the second is to buy a certificate which is issued by a trusted certificate authority, like VeriSign.
Self-signed certificates are only good for development purposes. Thus once you want to go into production with your application, you will need to get a certificate from a verified certificate authority. These authorities will issue the certificate for you and the subject of the certificate will be your website domain name. This way the certificate will also guarantee the identity of the website to the client by the SSL certificate, as these authorities will not issue multiple certificates for one and the same domain.
These certificates are issued by authorities, like VeriSign, Thawte, GoDaddy and a few others. These are "recognized" certificate authorities. If you want to have a valid certificate which can be trusted by clients, your certificate will have to come from one of these recognized certificate authorities. These recognized certificate authorities is what we call a "trusted root certification authority", a global trusted authority that issues SSL certificates for secure communication.
You can find these trusted root certification authorities in your certificates MMC:
If we now look at our self-signed certificate called "localhost", which we created in one of the previous steps.
Go to personal certificates on your local computer certificates, and double-click the localhost certificate, which we use for our Transport security of our WCF service
In the image above you can see our certificate image has a red cross added to it and there is a notification "This certificate cannot be verified up to a trusted certification authority". It also says it is Issued by "Root Agency". Root Agency is the default Root authority your self-signed certificate belongs to, if you have not created your own self-signed root authority certificate, which we have not.
So this actually means when the client tries to set up a transport secured channel with our service, it will most likely get an exception because the SSL certificate used by the server is not verified by an instance that is at the "Trusted root certification authorities"!
If you look at the Certification path of the localhost certificate properties, you will see that the "Root Agency" certificate shown the following error:
"This CA Root certificate is not trusted because it is not in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store".
It says the root authority of our self-signed certificate is not present in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities.
Our default Root Authority is called "Root Agency" with our self-signed certificate.
If we looked in our Trusted Root Certification Authorities in our local computer, we see there is NO "Root Agency" certificate installed, which means our "localhost" certificate will not be trusted if we have a client on this computer trying to set up a secure transport channel with your service.
If we could have a client proxy and we try to consume the service (and pass a valid client authentication certificate), we would get the following error:
It will say "Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority 'localhost'" because the root authority that localhost has is not installed on the Trusted root certification authorities on the machine the client is on (In our case this is the same machine as the service).
To be working with self-signed certificates, it is useful to have a self-signed root authority which issued the self-signed SSL certificate. There are 2 ways:
- First create a self-signed root authority and install it in the "Trusted root certification authorities". Secondly create a self-signed SSL certificate (like localhost) but with the private key of that root authority your created. This way the self-signed SSL certificate will be linked to a trusted root certification authority, which you also self-signed.
- Do it the same way as we did with our self-signed certificate. Create first your self-signed certificate and afterwards make sure the default "Root Agency" certificate is installed in your Trusted root certification authorities.
Since we first created the SSL certificate, let's go with the second method and make sure our "Root Agency" is a valid Trusted root certification authority.
If you want to create your own Root CA certificate and Root CRL certificate, you can find how to on this post at section 8.What if you insist on creating your own ROOT CA certificate and ROOT certificate revocation list (CRL)
WCF Message Security and client certificate authentication with self-signed certificates
Go to the personal certificates of your local computer, where our SSL localhost certificate is, double hit the localhost certificate and go to the Certification Path of the certificate properties:
Double click the "Root Agency" in the Certification path, which will open the Root Agency certificate:
Note how it says "This CA root certificate is not trusted. To enable trust, install this certificate in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store". How nice, it actually says how we can solve the trust issue
Go to the tab Details and press the button "Copy to file", which will start a wizard to export the certificate, so that we can import this certificate in the Trusted root certification authorities:
Press next:
Press Next, Select a location on your machine where to store the certificate and call it "Root Agency", Select Next and Press Finish:
It should say "the export was succesfull". At the location where you stored the certificate, you should have a .cer extension certificate:
Now we exported this certificate, so we can import it into the Trusted root certification authorities:
Go to the Trusted Root certification authorities, right click the certificates folder, go to all Tasks and press Import:
Press Next on the start of the wizard and on the next window select the certificate we just exported in the steps above, so we can import it now:
Press Next:
Notice that the certificate store in which we import this certificate is "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" is, the store where all trusted root authorities are that issue trusted certificates.
Press Next and press Finish. The import should succeed. Now you should be able to see the "Root Agency" certificate in the root authorities store:
If you go back to the localhost SSL certificate, which we created ourselves and go the properties of the Certification path, you should see the Root Authority is not valid for our SSL certificate:
There are a few very important things to remember:
- Every certificate has a Root authority. If it is self-signed and it does not have a valid Trusted Root Certification Authority, an exception will be thrown at the client which is trying to consume the service, that it could not establish a trusted TLS/SSL channel, because that Root authority is not present in the trusted root certification authority of the client. Once it is, the trusted TLS/SSL channel will be established.
- If you create or import, like in this tutorial, the root certificate authority in the root authority store of your machine of the service, and your client is on another machine (somewhere over the internet, we don't know where), your client will not be able to establish a trusted TLS/SSL channel, because the client does not have this Root Authority certificate we created into this trusted root authority store!! Only the recognized certificate authorities, like VeriSign and Tawthe etc are by default in the Trusted Root Certificate Authorities. Your self-signed or imported root authority certificate is not, so it will fail, unless you add some code to the client like this, though this is not advised: ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback(delegate{return true;});
- PeerTrust: the certificate that the client provides to authenticate, should be at the "Trusted People" certificate store.
- ChainTrust: the certificate should be issued by a trusted root certification authority and that authority has to be present at the "Trusted root certification authority" certificate store.
- PeerOrChainTrust: both the above combinations are possible.
6. Consume the WCF Service by the client and authenticate with a client certificate to the service
- System.ServiceModel
- WCF.Tutorial.TransportSecurity.Service (Projects tab at the Add Reference dialog)
We are adding a reference to the service project because our interface for our service is there. We can easily create a proxy to consume the service by ChannelFactory<interface> without much hassle.
In a real scenario, you would put your interface in a separate library, so that you could share the interface only with other businesses, or you would just share the WSDL of the service with other businesses. But since this is a demo, we just add a reference to our service project.
If there is no Application Configuration File present yet, add a new one (app.config).
Now we need to configure the client app.config so that it can communicate with the WCF service hosted on https://localhost/WCF.Tutorial.TransportSecurity.Service/EmployeeService.svc
As always, our configuration comes within . Since we are at the client, and not the service, we need to add a section with an defined of which the address is the absolute uri of the WCF service we created. The binding is a basicHttpBinding, the same binding as our WCF service and the contract is "WCF.Tutorial.TransportSecurity.Service.IEmployeeService" which points to the Interface of our EmployeeService at the Service project. We also set the bindingConfiguration to a basicHttpBinding config, which matches the same binding as the one on the service, defining we use Transport security with clientCredentialType of certificate.
The configuration above should look familiar, as it looks almost the some of the configuration we defined at our Service. The only thing left we need to add at the configuration of our client side, is the client credential certificate, specifying what certificate our client application should use to authenticate to our WCF Service. However before we can do that, we will first need to create a certificate the client can use for authentication.
We create a self-signed client certificate for authentication with the following command (in the visual studio command line prompt again):
makecert -pe -n "CN=client" -sr localmachine -ss my -sky signature
- Signature: Indicates that the key is used for a digital signature
- Exchange: Indicates that the key is used for key encryption and key exchange
The above scenario is almost equal to exporting and importing a certificate as before, so I will not include screenshots. Execute the following steps:
- Go to the Personal store on the local machine certificate store on the Client machine
- Right click the "client" certificate, go to All Tasks and press Export
- Press Next
- Leave it to "No, don't export the private key" and press Next
- Leave it to "DER encoded binary X.509 (.CER) " and press Next
- Select a location where you want to store the client certificate and call it "client" and press Next
- Press Finish and the certificate should be created at the location you specified
- Go to the "Trusted People" certificate store on the Server machine where we host the Service (in our case the same machine), right-click, go to All Tasks and hit Import
- Press Next
- Select the client.cer certificate at the location you chose before at the export (or if you traded it with an admin, where-ever the admin placed it after trade) and Press Next
- Press Next, again Next and then press Finish
Now that we created the client certificate for authentication, set it at the right store, we need to configure our client console application so that the endpoint at our <client> uses the certificate to authenticate to the service.
We will add an endpointBehavior (Note this is an endpointbehavior, and not a servicebehaviour as it is on the service side) that specifies the clientCredentials for the client to connect to our EmployeeService. We set the clientCredentials to a clientCertificate (aka authenticate by certificate to the service) and therefore we need to specify 4 values.
- StoreLocation: At what store our client certificate is. In our case this is LocalMachine. You can choose between CurrentUser and LocalMachine
- StoreName: At what store our client certificate is, depending on the storelocation. In our case this is "My", which means the Personal store
- X509FindType: Defines by what certificate detail you want to search for the certificate. We use FindBySubjectName, which searches the certificate by subject
- FindValue: The value it searches for on the certificate details, depending on what detail we want to search on, which is defined in the X509FindType
We set it to look for a certificate by subject name "client", which will return our client certificate:
We defined the endpointBehavior, now we need to make sure our endpoint also references to that behavior we created. This is the result:
Now we only need to add some code at our program.cs, that will create a proxy that tries to connect to the WCF service, authenticates to the service by the client certificate, calls the GetEmployee operation and gets a result back. If all this works, we have set up Transport Security with certificate clientcredential:
In code we create a channelFactory<WCF.Tutorial.TransportSecurity.Service.IEmployeeService) with the endpoint "serviceEndpoint", which is the endpoint name we specified in section of our client configuration and we create the channel for communication. On the next line we call the operation GetEmployee and we pass my name along. The result that is returned we write to the console to see if the communication works.
If we now set our client console application as startup project and we run the client, we get the following:
Considering the following:
We should have gotten as result "Employee information: Robbin Cremers", which was also the result we gotten. This means the channel was secured with Transport Security and the client has to authenticate by a client certificate, which is trusted by our service's web server. If you try to create a client which attempts to call this operation without providing the client certificate, access will be denied!
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Pollock is on the menu tonight when I'll be the guest server at this Lenten season's first fish fry put on by the East Grand Forks Sacred Heart Men's Club. (The annual fundraiser for the Sacred Heart High School's athletic department will continue each Friday night until Good Friday on April 2.)
For those of you interested in attending, we will start serving meals that also include coleslaw, a baked potato and homemade buns beginning at 5 p.m. I believe the cost is about $7 or $8, which is quite a bargain considering you get two nice fillets (and homemade tartar sauce).
It will be my second meal of fish this week. On Ash Wednesday, we had baked walleye and shrimp. I used some store-bought coating made by Shore Lunch. It's pretty good, although not as tasty as the breading at the Sacred Heart event.
What I did find out, though, was that the coating worked well with the shrimp, which were baked for about 15 to 20 minutes at 400 degrees. (You dip them in egg first.) They came out nice and crispy and reminded me of the deep-fried version that I enjoy at some Chinese buffets. But what made them better was that the coating for the shrimp wasn't laden with oil.
I have another bag or two of shrimp in the freezer and hope to fix them the same way shortly. It will be a good way to celebrate the Chinese New Year. (Incidently, it's the Year of the Tiger.)
Speaking of Chinese cooking, here's a stir-fry recipe for shrimp that also looks like it might be worth trying.
Stir-Fried Egg Noodles with Shrimp, Chili and Bean Sprouts
¼ cup vegetable oil
12 large shrimp, peeled, deveined, tails left on
3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
1 small red onion, thinly sliced
1 piece (1½ inches long) ginger root, cut into 12 slices
1 16-ounce package fresh, flat egg noodles, cooked al dente
2 tablespoons each: Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry, soy sauce
1 tablespoon malt vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
½ teaspoon sesame oil
1 bunch green onions, thinly sliced
1 large red chili, thinly sliced on the diagonal
1 cup bean sprouts (optional)
Heat wok or skillet over high heat. Add 2 tablespoons of the oil to the wok; heat until shimmering slightly. Add shrimp; stir-fry until pink, about 2 minutes. Remove from wok or skillet; set aside. Add remaining 2 tablespoons of the oil; stir-fry the garlic, red onion and ginger 1 minute.
Add the noodles, reserved shrimp, wine, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and sesame oil; stir-fry 30 seconds. Add half of the green onions, half of the chili and the bean sprouts. Stir-fry until the shrimp are just cooked through and noodles are hot, about 30 seconds. Remove ginger; discard. Serve in bowls; top with remaining green onions and chili.
Yield: Serves 4.
Approximate nutritional analysis per serving: 625 calories, 26 percent of calories from fat, 18 grams fat (2 grams saturated), 32 milligrams cholesterol, 94 grams carbohydrates, 22 grams protein, 700 milligrams sodium, 6 grams fiber.


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It looks as though it was R.I.P to the heavily made up Rita Ora we usually see yesterday as the star arrived at London's Heathrow airport with out any make up on at all!
The singer is back in the UK after spending some time in Malta, where she performed at the Isle of MTV event held in the country.
The usually glammed up Rita however decided to ditch the make up in favour of a more natural look as she arrived back home, and she actually didn't look too bad, if a little tired!
Is that cap attempting to cover some tired eyes Rita? (WENN)
And it wasn't just her make up that was plainer than usual, the Radioactive singer famed for her slightly eccentric sense of fashion, looked rather bland given her usual outlandish style credentials and love of bright colours! Rita sported a black crop top, that showed off her toned tum, leather leggings, a baseball cap and an oversized grey hoodie.
We reckon the hoodie was an attempt at blending in, one that sadly failed as the star was pictured by waiting paps and was asked for pictures by doting fans.
The singer's look was certainly a far cry from the look she demonstrated on the island of Malta. The Hot Right Now hitmaker posted pictures on her Twitter of her parading around in a cheeky bikini, with the top half reading 'Tomboy' whilst Rita's naughty smile and womanly physique looked anything but!
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A new option for 162 acres in the Wildwood Commerce Park will accompany a grant application to the Virginia Tobacco Commission, after the regional economic development authority acted Tuesday.
Just last week, the Blue Ridge Crossroads Economic Development Authority formalized a new partnership with the Carroll-Galax-Grayson Solid Waste Authority to pursue developing the area just off Interstate 77's Exit 19 in Carroll County.
Part of the goal was to apply for grant funding for the effort from the Tobacco Commission.
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has refused to hear Clinton Eric Burke's appeal of his the double murder conviction.
Defense attorneys attempted to appeal the case to the supreme court based on insufficient evidence and gory crime photos.
A Carroll County jury tried and convicted Burke of the Nov. 12, 2007, fatal shooting of George Adam Fulton, 19, and Dustin Bond, 17, at a mobile home on Frog Spur Road in Fancy Gap.
A trucking company that employs more than 200 in the Twin Counties was named Twin County Regional Chamber of Commerce's Business of the Year on Saturday, during the chamber's annual awards banquet.
Hill's Coal & Trucking began in the early 1960s in Fries, hauling coal and fertilizer, said Raquel Lyons, the chamber's executive board attorney, before presenting the trophy to co-owner James Hill.
James and Gus Hill are the original founders of the business.
The armored vehicle that the Galax Police Department is slated to receive in November could have been used to get some people out of the cold during a fire at an independent living complex in Hillsville in January, Galax Police Chief told city council on Monday.
That's just one example of how the vehicle could be used.
Clark said it could have been used to extract individuals from two high-risk search warrant executions in the area, such as the hostage crisis at the Wytheville Post Office in December.
In a move unprecedented in the Southeast, nine counties across two states have come together to promote themselves as a single tourism entity.
The area has been branded Cascade Highlands for the way the Blue Ridge Highlands of southwest Virginia cascade into the Yadkin Valley of northwest North Carolina.
Participating Virginia counties include Carroll, Grayson, Patrick and Smyth, along with the City of Galax. The North Carolina counties are Alleghany, Stokes, Surry, Wilkes and Yadkin.
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Attorneys for the county have discovered the document in which AmerLink transferred 32 acres of land to its sister construction company, according to court documents. That land was used in a failed economic development deal between Carroll and AmerLink for the log home company to build a sawmill and create 200 jobs in the county.
Work could begin as early as July to replace the Carico Bridge across the New River on Virginia 94 in Grayson County.
The Virginia Department of Transportation announced this week that it has contracted with R.R. Dawson Bridge Company of Lexington, Ky., to build a new bridge, at a price of $9.3 million.
The 20-by-28-foot permanent stage that Branson Construction's crew has been working on in Felts Park for the past few weeks should be complete in time for the Galax Moose Lodge-sponsored fiddlers' convention in August, if not sooner, said Galax City Manager Keith Barker.
The permanent stage is being built as part of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention.
Tino Sauter, Beth Galyean and Taylor Edwards autographed their torn and tattered ballet shoes — one of the last pairs they will wear at the Conservatory of Dance & Theatre in Galax — to display them as memorabilia from now on in the office of dance instructor and studio owner Barbara Johnson.
As they prepare for one last production at the conservatory, they talked about how much they'll miss Galax and the dance studio as they pursue their passion for ballet at college and other intensive dance programs. They will leave in just a few weeks.
INDEPENDENCE — Few people in Grayson County remember when Sheriff Charles C. McKnight was shot and killed in the line of duty in 1933.
There were no plaques that honored him, which concerned Sheriff Richard Vaughan.
Several weeks ago, he started a project to remember the late sheriff and, after extensive research, a large bronze plaque bearing McKnight's picture and the date he was killed now hangs in the front lobby of the Grayson County Courthouse.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration has obtained a court order that imposes several requirements on Sullivan Granite Co. LLC, which operates Brown's Meadow Quarry in Franklin, Maine.
Following a hearing on Dec. 7 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, which resulted in an agreement between the parties, Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. ordered mine owner and operator Conrad Smith to cease operating the mine until all cited and outstanding safety and health violations have been corrected, and a federal inspector has verified that the operator is in compliance. The judge also directed the operator not to take any action to impede or interfere with MSHA inspectors in completing their inspection duties.
Problems with the mine date back to a series of inspections MSHA conducted beginning last June. MSHA inspectors asserted that the mine operator violated withdrawal orders issued by MSHA; denied them entry to the property; failed to abate violations; and refused to allow access to equipment at the quarry, provide documents and information on request, and assist with the inspection.
On Nov. 19, the court issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the operator from mining in violation of withdrawal orders, denying entry, hindering inspection and failing to abate violations. In that order, the court noted that Smith claimed he was currently working alone and extracting granite solely for his own use.
On Nov. 24, the Labor Department's Boston Regional Solicitor's Office, which represents MSHA and other Labor Department agencies, filed a supplemental memorandum of law supporting its pleadings, citing the cases that hold that all activity at a mine is subject to the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, that owner-miner mines are covered, and that mining for personal use is likewise covered.
One of the principal objectives in this action was to obtain the federal court's order that Smith stop interfering with them in their attempts to inspect the quarry and enforce the law.
"When a mine operator interferes with authorized representatives in their attempts to inspect a mine, it constitutes a continuing threat to the health and safety of the miners," said Joseph A. Main, assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health, in a written statement from MSHA. [1] "The court's ruling will enable MSHA inspectors to carry out their duties as set forth in the Mine Act."
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Eh I knew I shouldn't have came back to this forum . Yes I do have another account but I havent posted on this forum for a while so I forgot my horse_luver4e password.
There's no point in arguing with you guys but whatever. It's not like I have this poorly grade mare I have a full paint and I will be breeding her to a full paint and I'm not selling the foal I'm keeping it. I understand why you say why not just buy a foal, but I could ask you the same question, why not just adopt your kids? There are tons of unwanted children out there as is horses but you choose to have your own. I didn't say I wanted just color I'm saying that's something I want but not if I have to sacrifice conformation and personality. I really wouldn't care if the foal came out with blue and green spots I would still love it. I helped my friend bring up her foal and start it on the ground and Angel is two this year so we are saddling her soon and getting her used to the saddle and it's been amazing so I want to bring up my own.
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