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Super Why (Watch Super Why Online - yidio.com) is an animated TV program that helps kids learn to read. And sometimes nutrition is used, for example in the recipe for applesauce carrot cake, which does not include added table sugar, table salt, baking powder, yeast, or baking soda as ingredients in baking the cake. When it comes to showing children healthier nutrition through animated cartoons that teach them to recognize letters, read, and learn about recipes at the same time, you may wish to check out the TV cartoon series "Super Why! | PBS Kids." At least that's what was shown in this Sunday morning's animated cartoon on reading and following a recipe to bake a carrot applesauce birthday cake. You may wish to take a look at "Watch Super Why Online - Find Full Episodes, Reviews & News."
The focus is not only on teaching children to read and to follow a recipe, but the emphasis is on dense nutrition as the cake is sweetened with 'mushed' carrots and applesauce used as liquids added to flour. The recipe does call for butter and eggs to go into the cake. For vegans the butter can be substituted by mashed prunes and the two eggs shown in the recipe can be substituted by two tablespoons of flaxseed meal. In Sacramento, check out, "KVIE Kids-SummerSchedule- 2014 - KVIEkids.org."
In the animated cartoon on learning to follow a recipe to bake a birthday cake for a sibling, kids learn where to find information in a cookbook and what type of instruction is in cookbooks, based on recognizing the letters of the alphabet in an ingredient, then learning to recognize the word and see the item in a picture at the same time as learning to bake a cake step-by-step with easy guidelines to follow, suited well for the three to six-year old. The animated cartoon shows the cake iced when it's served, but does not mention any recipe or instruction on how to ice the cake.
In the cartoon, the cake is taken out of the oven by the parent or 'chef' in the cartoon, and then a scene shows the cake being served already iced as a candle is put into the birthday cake, placed on front of a younger sibling, who then blows out the candle. But no mention in the cartoon is made about how to ice the cake, which appears as iced in white with carrot decorative candies on top.
The focus then is on the hand-held computer device which refers to the words, letters, and emphasizes the reading skills and how to look up information wanted, such as how to find a recipe or solve a word puzzle that helps the child understand how to read letters and words related to a goal, such as finding how-to information on a super computer hand-held device that looks like a tablet.
At the same time, the child learns to participate in baking a cake with healthier ingredients, carrots and applesauce, introducing kids to vegetables and fruits at a preschool age. The cake baking also shows the child how to help a sibling, since the cake is baked for a younger sibling's birthday, not merely as a sweet treat for the child doing the mixing and baking or learning. So it promotes the act of creating a healthier edible treat for another person's enjoyment.
There's no mention of sugar or syrups in the cake. The idea of flour is left to the imagination, since there's no insistence on cake flour, white flour, wheat flour or any particular type of flour. For example, if a child is gluten-sensitive, which is not mentioned in the cartoon, garbanzo bean flour, amaranth, quinoa, lentil, almond meal, rice flour, sweet potato flour, or any other non-gluten flour could be used. The cartoon shows a generic container marked 'flour.'
In the cartoon, the ingredients are mixed together in a bowl, poured into a cake pan and baked
The cartoon shows the mom putting the cake into the oven. The animation features a chef whose photo appears on the cookbook cover actually baking the cake. See, "KVIEkids.org - A Place for KVIE kids to learn, play, and grow." The cartoon did not show how to melt the butter before putting it with the eggs and flour, 'mushed' carrots, and applesauce in the bowl and stirring. Nor did it show a whisk or mixer, just a mixing spoon with a long handle.
The carrots, already pureed, came in a jar from a pantry, not a refrigerator. The same steps occurred with a jar of applesauce from a pantry, rather than complicating a cartoon by showing fresh apples being pureed in a blender or food processor, since the audience is presumed to be kids from three to six years old.
To discourage kids from putting things in the oven and turning it on, the oven in the cartoon has no knobs to show kids how to light the oven. And the storyline shows the part of putting the cake pan with the batter into the oven being done by the mom. Noticeably, the mom makes no gestures of turning on the oven, which doesn't give the age three to six year old audience any ideas of what knobs turn on an oven, just in case kids try to "do this at home" when a parent isn't in the room supervising.
Even though the objective is to teach kids how to read and provide a word puzzle to figure out the main point of the story line or 'plot' of the cartoon, the puzzle answer is the word 'recipe'
Kids think of what letters to fill into a magic super computer to complete the word 'recipe,' which is the main point of the story, how to read a recipe and follow it to bake a birthday carrot applesauce cake for a younger sibling. The emphasis of the show is learning to read letters and words with a purpose, to learn how to follow a simple recipe on baking an apple sauce carrot cake.
What's healthy nutrition about the cartoon is that the ingredients of the cake are healthy, that is, healthier than most cake recipes you find in daily and Sunday newspaper recipes for various types of carrot cakes. Applesauce is used as the sweetener. Since carrots also are somewhat sweet, the two together in a cake are sweet enough not to condition preschool-to-first grade-age taste buds to crave intense sweetness found in table sugar, which usually gets added to commercial cakes, at least in most cookbook cake recipes.
Noteworthy is the instruction that kids don't have to add any ingredient to the cake to make it rise such as baking powder, which usually gets added to commercial cakes and pancake mix
Instead, the two eggs in the cartoon seem to be used to make the cake rise, at least to the height of the average brownie or chewy cookie. Historically, eggs were the only ingredients used to make cakes rise before baking powder became popular in commercial cakes. On the other hand, natural yeast spores from fermented bread or grains were used to make cakes and bread rise in past centuries, when eggs weren't available to make sponge cakes.
If you check out the recipe site, "Carrot Cake Recipe Recipe : Food Network," you can see that the stick of butter used in the cartoon wasn't necessary at all to have that much saturated fat in a carrot cake. The reason is because you can replace the oil or melted whipped fat with plain applesauce (plus an additional 1/4 cup), then add about 1/2 to 1 cup of pureed carrots.
This makes a denser cake but it's super moist. The recipe also calls for 2 ounces room temperature margarine. But since if you don't know whether or not the margarine you have contains transfats, it's not necessary to add oils or fats to cakes with the exception of ground flaxseed meal, which takes the place of eggs and contains omega 3 fatty acids (oils) of its own.
The recipe at this website calls for 2 teaspoons baking soda and 1 teaspoon salt. But the recipe in the cartoon doesn't mention adding any salt, which is great for salt-sensitive people whose blood pressure rises (or kidney issues are affected) from eating salt or baking soda added to foods, since most vegetables have their own natural salt the body uses, since some salt found naturally in foods for most people is enough, unless you're an athlete who loses lots of salt while exercising and needs electrolyte replacements from something more than natural foods.


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Disguised Burlingame Bank Robber Sentenced To Probation
Man On Probation Arrested For Showing Genitals To People In Palo AltoA 46-year-old man serving probation was arrested Friday in a reported indecent exposure incident where a suspect showed his genitals to two people on a downtown Palo Alto street, a police spokesman said.
California Releasing Thousands Of Inmates Early To Relieve Overcrowded JailsMore than 13,500 inmates across California are being released early each month to relieve crowding in local jails -- a 34 percent increase over the last three years, according to the Los Angeles Times.
San Jose Stowaway Sentenced To 177 Days In Jail After LAX ArrestA woman who was arrested twice last week after sneaking onto a flight from San Jose to Los Angeles and then returning to Los Angeles International Airport days later has been sentenced to nearly six months in jail, a city attorney's office spokesman said Wednesday.
San Carlos Man Busted Selling Pot In Single Scoop Cups At His Ice Cream ShopA manager at a Belmont Baskin-Robbins pleaded no contest Wednesday to selling marijuana through the ice cream shop and received a sentence of 90 days in jail and five years' probation
Vallejo Caregiver Who Sexually Assaulted Disabled Adult Among 104 Fugitives US Marshals Arrested In 2 WeeksThe U.S. Marshals in the Northern and Eastern District of California arrested a caregiver who assaulted a person in a wheelchair along with a hundred other violent fugitives from throughout the region during a two-week operation.
Report Finds BART Cop Accidentally Shot, Killed Fellow Officer On Duty Prosecutors say a California police officer accidentally shot and killed a fellow officer when he mistook him for an armed assailant.
UC Berkeley Law School Graduate Sentenced To Work Animal Shelter After Beheading Bird In VegasA University of California, Berkeley, law school graduate was sentenced to up to four years' probation and monthly work at an animal shelter for beheading an exotic bird at a Las Vegas Strip resort in October 2012.
Probation Office May Be Moved Near Oakland SchoolsParents in one Oakland neighborhood said they are outraged as Alameda County looks to move a probation office next to two schools.
Santa Rosa Man Arrested On Multiple Charges After Motorcycle ChaseA Santa Rosa man was arrested Sunday evening after a high-speed motorcycle pursuit, according to police.
Reno Man Gets Probation, Fine For Shooting GolferA Reno man has been placed on probation and fined $1,000 for shooting a golfer whose errant ball broke a bedroom window at his home.
Former San Mateo County Probation Chief Sentenced For Child Porn ChargeA former San Mateo County probation chief convicted of possessing child pornography was sentenced Friday to 10 months in county jail and was led away from court in handcuffs.

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Guilty Plea for death of Fort Collins cyclist
Submitted by Kris Thompson on
Found on TheGroupRide
This summer a cyclist was taken away from us in Fort Collins
The case went to court and the driver plead guilty.
Keep on reading the Full Story
Daniel Price, who hit and killed cyclist Rebecca Allen with his car in July, pleaded guilty Friday to vehicular homicide under a plea agreement.
Price, 21, will likely receive eight years in prison, five years mandatory parole and two years of supervised probation under the stipulated sentence.
The maximum sentence for vehicular homicide, a Class 3 felony, is 12 years and a $750,000 fine.
Price is a former student-athlete at Rocky Mountain High School, where he graduated in 2006.
Allen, 32, worked for Colorado State University's journalism department.
Price was 20 when, in the early morning of July 22, his car hit Allen, 32, and cycling partner Jennifer Garvey, 36, near the intersection of West Drake Road and Moore Lane. Garvey was injured in the crash.
Blood tests showed Price's blood-alcohol limit was above the legal level for someone old enough to drink, which Price was not.
Under the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a driving-under-the-influence charge against Price, though the vehicular homicide count includes elements of driving under the influence, District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Linda Jensen said.
Price also pleaded guilty to careless driving causing death or injury, a Class 1 traffic misdemeanor that carried a maximum sentence of one year in county jail.
Price spoke softly as he answered Judge Jolene Blair's questions on the plea agreement.
The courtroom overflowed with friends and family on both sides. Family and friends of Price and Allen declined to comment after the hearing.
Price's sentencing is set for 1:30 p.m. Jan. 16. He'll remain out on a cash bond until sentencing.
An October hearing revealed that Price was not only intoxicated but also had THC, the active compound in marijuana, in his blood when the fatal collision occurred.
According to court records, Price had blood-alcohol levels of 0.091, 0.078 and 0.067 in the hours after the crash. The tests did not reveal the amount of marijuana Price was accused of consuming, nor when he is accused of smoking it.
Garvey, who works as a coordinator for the applied human sciences department, has said Price left the scene of the collision but returned a short time later. She has said she heard him talking on the phone, saying, "I told you, man, I shouldn't have been out driving."


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Content Tagging
Implement a tagging system available for content. Use the search index as a common location for content to be tagged.
Completed in the Tags component in version 3.1. Thanks!
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TastyMouse commented
The new tagging system in 3.2 is great. However the way it is used in the smart search could be better. Tags are show as tags in the results. While it would be better to list the articles that are tagged.
Clément Wam commented
Ideally, the tags should be classified in categories in order to create different taxonomies
Mark, you ought to mark this idea as completed. This helps with idea pool organization.
TeaConcept commented
content tagging : 729 votes Vs multi categories 1409 votes
The winner is ... tagging > please don't vote....:-(
Tagging has now been released for Joomla 3.1
Aqua CS4 commented
i still waiting for this feature.
David Goldstick commented
Please consider this idea modeled after Google Docs. It combines both simplicity and flexibility that Joomla currently lacks:
Google has found a new way to decide the eternal dispute between fans of folders and tags - invented a new concept - "collections." Google Docs developers say that these collections combine the advantages of tags and folders. You can add a document to different collections and store collections hierarchically, just like folders.
Discussion here: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=575&t=636602&p=2558211
Node-0 commented
@Nicholas Dionysopoulos
I totally agree about needing to set the tags implementation on a solid architectural foundation and I'm going to need to take a cold shower after writing what I'm about to write but...
I would like to take the time to say that the tags aspect of a CMS is more than simple labels, a tags system could simply have tag words and phrases as discrete fields, but if only the following where there as additional fields, amazing things could easily materialize...
A "rating" field, A "rank" field, A "like" field, A "vote" field, these could all be relatively small and unobtrusively tucked away into the tags many to many table. I know it looks like heresy from a "carefully thought out" approach.
It reeks of amoeba-scale intelligence, of a wishful "wordpressian" coup d'état (a coup which I do NOT harbor in any way shape or form), of possibly horrible crimes against sanity (in design).
On the other hand... We don't have to use it. The fact that such fields be in the table and related to all entities in Joomla would open the "mindedness" of Joomla's design and allow people who have no wish to implement a full component-scale solution, to implement a plugin-scale solution.
Sometimes I see new feature additions to Joomla as similar to a fiercely
evolution-resistant species, whereby old traits are very strongly conserved and any new possibilities are simply born into an environment too hostile to foster any new explorations.
I do not mean to make it seem that I want "every feature under the sun" in Joomla, rather what I mean to say is that the "potential" to experiment by allowed by some small provision.
In my opinion, I think a JSON-clad (and API accessible) tinytext field in the tags many to many table would be an excellent way to enable that "experimentability" without having to "debate every last permutation" of a tags system.
I also do NOT mean to imply that either you or anyone else here was engaging in such a debate.
I was simply expressing what I'd like to see, a "little bit", perhaps a "tiny bit" provision to let in a little chaos, so that maybe just maybe someone out there might implement something really cool in a plugin or module, without having to march through component development boot camp.
It wouldn't ruin Joomla to provide a meager "umph" of room 'somewhere' in a tightly integrated table, an "umph" of "Here's a JSON workbench, go nuts!"
Is this a proposal for the primary tagging mechanism, of course not, far from it. This is a proposal to "let in a little light" so that maybe someone out there with a bright idea, could play with that idea in a non-threatening (architecturally speaking) way.
I said I would need to take a cold shower after uttering such heresy, so off I go...
Nicholas Dionysopoulos commented
Comma delimited fields are very ineffective. First, MySQL doesn't natively support them (for a good reason). Doing a full text search on the field is not only slow, it is also very error-prone. Therefore, you have to implement a manual post-filter to the full text search which is memory intensive and dead slow. Would you like to see a feature which completely kills performance?
The architecturally sound way to do that is to implement many-to-many relationships. One table holds the tags as (id, tag). Another table holds the many-to-many relationship, e.g. (article_id, tag_id).
Please remember that multi-value fields ARE NOT designed for searching and indexing. Just because a whole generation of users is abusing that sorry excuse of a database called Microsoft Access doesn't mean that they are doing it right.
Also remember that XML is not a database. It's a data description metalanguage. You can't "search" data in an XML file. You have to load it, parse it, convert it to an in-memory object format and then apply your search algorithms. Therefore, the data dump representation need not be the same as the structure of the working data. Think about a MySQL dump. Can you use it to efficiently search for records. Not by a long shot, you can't.
MikeFromHC commented
"Nicholas Dionysopoulos
It's about data normalization"
Everything you say is true and I suspect that the nested category solution will have problems because they use a delimited field to store the hierarchy (Animals/birds/ robins)
But tags could be handled in a many to one relationship and displayed as comma delimited, MSFT Access does this with "Multivalued" fields.
Note also that Pick uses multivalued fields to great effect, so does XML.
Node-0 commented
Tags are vital to the future of Joomla.
We need a robust tags API and pervasive tags support for ALL
Joomla entities (not just content), we also need a fast tags indexing
system alongside a content indexing system.
The above features are essential, yet I'd like to suggest an "expansion oriented" feature set for the tags system. One that would enable Joomla
to adapt and grow in unexpected directions with the mere addition of a few
I'd like to see an indexed field for adding a JSON string for custom data associations.This could be a Tinytext field for a small footprint.
Please Note: When I say "indexed" I'm referring to the MySql field convention and not some other type of "indexing system" much as one would be useful for Joomla, just FYI...
You'd be surprised how much functionality a programmer could realize with a 255 character long "anything goes" JSON block, a whole lot of cross referenced data could be stored and utilized to bring very powerful applications to Joomla.
As it stands, I find myself taking over the X Reference field in the content table for storing custom JSON data, and that's more like a hack than I'd like.
Please, I'd be happy with an indexed, cross referenced tinytext field, with API implemented programmatic access, a set of methods for basic access would be awesome.
Michael commented
Yes Tagging is very important and Useful, also API for 3rd-Party extensions...
getimo commented
Yes, tagging id definitely the most important thing. Give us an API for 3rd Party extensions too! Imagine how jReviews and Jomsocial would benefit from that.
Gerry Cervenka commented
Both front- and back-end access to applying tags and creating new tag definitions would benefit collaborative websites. Authors are often best suited to select or add tags, not site administrators -- esp. for specialized content. Allowing only certain User level access to creating tags would keep the tags list from becoming unmanageable. And checkbox lists work great, so the Author is presented with terms instead of having to key them and possibly introduce typos, which would render the tags search less effective.
newart commented
What discussing or commenting... ? It's natural to finish the work started in 1.6 version about categorization! We have a nested one but Joomla lacks of a real tagging system. So I think Joomla 1.6 after ACL & nested categories must get the best tagging system than ever. The focus in the future is still on contents - J is a CMS first of all - and contents deserve tags and tags. J deserves a showing / searching contents by tags because i's just a different approach than our actual categorization system. Sorry but the nested one is already old and little flexyble. Joomla needs a complete new and integrated system for managing contents... the content is the king! Please remember...
Provia commented
It's important to have a tag / keyword system perfectly integrated into the core. We have now unlimited "vertical" categories but no "horizontal" ones. The keywords are like a category but also a special quality of content. It's very important to see what tagged in an article and how to search that tag in our joomla site, very important!
Gabe Wahhab commented
Tagging should be integrated into the Joomla core library not just for content. So developers can use a central tagging system. What good is it if i create a tag in calendar component and create the same tag in a content component but when i click the tag it only shows results from one or the other. It should be centralized and give the integrator the option to choose how they want ti to work.
Krycek.lx commented
Thanks Nicholas for this explanation. Understand that I'm also developer (even n00b I'd say) and that I understood those. I also do know what means "developing for users" when users don't even know what they really want.
Now, to go further on this, why isn't it possible for J! to have some tags handled by a DB table (say 1=chocolate;2=candy) and thus used for tag browsing articles ? Then use the same articles tags for meta-tags (like "chocolate, candy" ?
That was my point (though I'm not very clear when speaking in english) : reversing the purpose of the tag in J! article editor and fulfilling meta tags need the same way. Can't the most do the least ?
(this is a non-rhetorical question)
Nicholas Dionysopoulos commented
It's about data normalization. In the meta tag field your tags would be stored as "international, stories, foobar" or "International; STORIES fOoBaR" and search engines would understand them equally. However, if you want to *search* for those tags you have to query your database with a case insensitive regular expression which can handle the different separators you might be using and which is slower by a whole order of magnitude than an integer search (the normal search if you use a table of tags). As a result, your idea would make Joomla! slower than a snail making its way through fly paper.
And, no, daydreaming IS for developers and I have personally proven it time over time the last four years. However daydreaming is one thing and developing something is another. We can develop anything the user asks, but the problem is that we will develop *exactly* what the user asks. So, if you ask for a cumbersome, inconsistent and useless feature, we can develop it. But then you will start whining that this feature was not what you thought it would be, because you hadn't thought of a, b, c and d. So, the job of a real developer is to foresee those issues and warn you whenever you're daydreaming something that we know you won't like if it's implemented. Not trolling, just laying down the harsh truth of 10+ years of writing software used by other people ;)
The bottom line is that you have mixed the two "tag" things in your head. Meta tags' (properly called "keywords") sole purpose in this life is to hint search engines about keywords on the page. They were invented long before Google and the modern sophisticated search algorithms. They may be obsolete now, but they're still in the HTML spec so we have to have a way to define them should we need to.
Content tags are used as a secondary, many-to-many organization of the content items. The classic section-category-article or the newer nested category-article scheme only allows a tree-like structure, i.e. a content item can belong to exactly one category. Tags allow you to assign a content item to multiple "tags". So, many tags can belong to a single content item and multiple content items can belong to a single tag. This is what Drupal's taxonomy and WordPress' multiple categories per post do.
As far as the interface goes, please take a look at how K2 tackles this in the most intuitive way possible. Content are upfront and very easy to attach to an item, whereas the obsolete meta tags are tucked away from view.


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I breaking these up this week to cover more guys as I figure each of the positions needs it's own list.
A couple of the guys I had the most concerns about top today's list as both Aaron Rodgers and Ben Roethlisberger had outstanding days throwing the ball. Both looked like they had good arm strength and velocity – though at times they both looked like they were in a bunchy of pain. I marked Orton as having a great matchup and he took advantage of it while Kurt Warner looked much better against Buffalo than the Jets. Romo was Romo and while I thought his numbers could have been even better, you can't be unhappy with them this week.
- Aaron Rodgers – 313 yards, 3 TDs, 4 rushing yards, 1 INT
- Ben Roethlisberger – 309 yards, 3 TDs, 2 rushing yards, 1INT
- Kyle Orton – 334 yards , 2 TDs, 10 rushing yards
- Tony Romo- 176 yards, 3 TDs, 7 rushing yards, 1INT, 1 fumble
- Kurt Warner – 250 yards, 2 TDs, 10 rushing yards
Eli & Peyton Manning, JT O'Sullivan, Matt Ryan and Jake Delhomme also made their fantasy owners very happy Sunday. WRs comign soon.


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Internet televangelist, Rev. Bill Keller claims he is the latest victim of 'Anonymous', the famous internet hacking group.
Keller, claims he has been under attacks for weeks on his popular TV program and website Liveprayer.com, for simply "preaching the Gospel".
." He commented, "Jesus didn't say sit in the temple and hope people would come in. He said go into the highways and byways and bid them (the lost) to come in!" Keller went on, " We have the better percentage of the past two generations who have never even been inside of a church, whose beliefs have been formulated by the lies of this world without ever hearing biblical truth. Now more than ever, the church needs to be in the marketplace to bring God's truth to the lost and hurting masses who have been abandoned by the church!"
Keller concluded, "It is not profitable and certainly not worth the constant harassment and death threats for the vast majority of today's ministers to go into the public arena and literally battle the minions of satan for souls. This generation of spineless pastors and Christian leaders is why our nation is in the spiritual abyss we find ourselves. However, Liveprayer is leading a charge to bring God's people back to His truth, and a lost and hurting nation to the only answer and hope there is, biblical truth and faith in Jesus Christ!"
'Anonymous', known mainly for targeting government agencies around the world, originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan. Dozens of people have been arrested for involvement in 'Anonymous' cyberattacks, in countries including the US, UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey.
The controversial televangelist, Bill Keller, recently made headlines for reportedly telling a cancer patient to commit suicide. Keller later denied making the claim and said suicide is a sin.
Launched in 1999, Liveprayer.com has over 2.4 million subscribers worldwide and features a Daily Devotional written by the famous internet televangelist for over 15 years.


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No. 4
Get referrals from friends, family members and physicians. Word of mouth is best. Beware of the Internet: Docs can pay search engines to have their names pop up on "best plastic surgeon" lists.
Ask to see before and after photos to get a sense of what your doctor thinks is beautiful. Keep in mind that doctors usually put up their best pictures, and these can be altered with Photoshop. What you want to check out is your doctor's overall aesthetic judgment. "Every doctor has his own brand of rejuvenation. They're kind of like fashion designers whose clothes have a certain look," says Wells.
Heed warning signs. Lynne McPhail, an occupational therapist in Colorado, realized she was in the wrong place for an eye-lift when she noticed that the surgeon had pictures of a very famous, very altered country-western singer all over his office. "I just wanted to look a little more rested," McPhail says. "It's not like I'm performing at the MGM Grand." Try to find someone who's conservative, cautions Rodan: "It's hard to get back to your old face if it's been overdone."
Inspect other patients in person. "It's very fair to ask the doctor if you can meet people who've recently had the procedure you're considering," says Rosenberg. Look around the office, too: Almost every doctor has done work on his staff.
Make sure your doctor specializes in more than one treatment. You need someone who can do what's best for you, not what's best for him. "A good dermatology practice should own at least two or three lasers," says David Goldberg, MD, who practices in New York and three other states. "Find out which machine the doctor plans to use on you, and then Google it."
Think worst-case scenario. Find out what side effects and risks are involved. (Beware the doctor who offers only good news.) What about complications? Will the doctor be available if anything goes wrong? Also important to know: How much will the procedure cost? Are there any additional expenses—such as for a surgical facility or hospital—that you should factor in?
Don't trust imaging machines that are supposed to predict results. "They're a joke," says Rosenberg. "Every one of them has a disclaimer: 'This drawing may have nothing to do with your ultimate results.' " The problem is that the images can overpromise what procedures can deliver. "If you want a preview of face or neck surgery, the easiest thing is to sit on the edge of your bed with a hand mirror, lean forward and jiggle your face to loosen things up, and then lie flat on your back and hold a mirror up over your face," Matarasso says. Considering an eye-lift? Take a Q-tip and push in on the upper lid to see what a smooth crease would look like, or iron out your lower lids with your fingertips.
Earn bonus points by bringing your doctor a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. "That can help us determine which treatment plan would be the most appropriate for making you look like a better, younger version of yourself, not someone else," Katchen says.
No. 5
There's always a patient who exercises or hops a flight too soon after surgery (causing her stitches to pop) or, worse, goes swimming (cue rusty staples and an infection). But by and large, complications are incurred at the time of treatment. Use common sense and listen to directions. With certain fillers, like Sculptra, you're required to massage your face five times a day for five days to prevent lumps and bumps. Tanning before or after any laser treatment spells disaster. And don't schedule a massage right after getting fillers: If you lie facedown on a massage table for an hour, you move the material injected and mess up its placement.
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Last night at 6pm, "Mom, I want to bring gifts to school for my friends. Some of the other kids are. Can I?"
Saner people would have said, "Sure, we'll get everyone a candy cane." I did not even think of this?
A quick search through the beloved Family Fun site revealed some promising options like a candy north pole, a candy airplane, and the candy sleigh.
The sleigh won. Thankfully, only one wanted gifts for his whole class. The other two just wanted a couple for good buddies. One little has "friends who are girls." I was roundly corrected when I called them his girl friends and got to hear the whole "girlfriends vs friends who are girls" discussion from my little kids. Sorta surreal. They need to stop growing up.
The "friends who are girls" got the two bigger sleighs. Everyone else got the little matchbox ones. And I have a lot of new matches. A lot. Also, unused matchbox covers en masse. Ideas for these?
I also found out that the Santa Claus Squadron is incapable of arranging in any other way than the Christmas Tree Formation.
How's your Christmasing going? I'm off to do whatever it was that I was supposed to do last night before we rerouted to candy sleigh making….


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Julie Garwood
2009, Romantic Suspense
Ballantine, $26.00, 320 pages, Amazon ASIN 0345500776Part of a series
There are no shades of gray in Julie Garwoods books of late. The villains twirl virtual mustaches and the good characters are nothing less than saintly. Still, the author remains one of the best storytellers in the business and the one she tells in Sizzle is largely a good one.
Lyra Prescott is a breathtakingly beautiful and oh-so-nice young film student in Los Angeles. While working on a documentary film project, she inadvertently gets caught up in murderous events perpetuated by a confederation of mustache twirlers. When her roommate who just happens to be Sidney Buchanan is attacked in the apartment they share by mustache twirlers who say theyre looking for Lyra, its time for the Buchanan boys and FBI Special Agent Sam Kincaid to enter the picture.
See, the Buchanan boys are worried about their baby sister and her roomie. So, they recruit super hunk (and super hero) Sam to act as Lyra's bodyguard while they try to figure out who's behind the attack. And, since Julie Garwood isn't really big on character surprises, you can just bet that sparks fly between the guard and the body he's assigned to protect.
A Julie Garwood reader will recognize those bolded names because, yes, the characters feature in previous books and are descendents of families from the authors classic historicals. Still, if Ms. Garwood hasnt yet worn out the family's welcome by hammering the connections to death, she does make extensive use of authorial shorthand. All the Buchanan boys are interchangeably stalwart, protective, stubborn, and breathtakingly gorgeous. All of them.
And that goes double ditto for Sam Kincaid. However, since hes our hero in this one, its hardly a good thing that I cant come up with single adjective to describe him that isnt generic. Because he is. And the same is true of Lyra. Good, nice, brave, talented, beautiful. And generic.
But heres the flip side: If I found the characters shallow and sadly black and white, I enjoyed the ins and outs of the plot that largely kept me interested. In fact, I read the book in a fast afternoon and evening, meaning that I didnt want to put it down and set aside other stuff so that I didn't have to. But theres no getting around the fact that the romance has a distinct been-there-done-that feel to it, not to even mention that it's kind of hard not to roll your eyes as character cliché after cliché keeps piling on. And on.
Bottom line? Julie Garwoods romantic suspense outings are largely hit or miss for me and, for the most part, this one was a hit. If the characters didnt rise above clichés and they didnt I enjoyed the time I spent with them. In other words, though it's fair to say that Sizzle doesnt even come close to a slow burn, I had fun reading it. And theres something to be said for that.
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Gears of War: Judgment Goes the Prequel Route
Videogame Developers like Epic Games often run into a problem when closing the narrative of a popular series that could still conceivably remain a commercial powerhouse for another few releases. If the core of the Gears of War experience is the dynamic relationship between its two central characters—Marcus and Dom—how can you recreate it yet again now that one of them is dead?
At E3 this week, Gears of War publisher Microsoft answered any remaining speculation over the future of the series: you don't. Gears of War: Judgment will instead be a prequel and focus on two of the lesser characters featured in the original trilogy—Augustus Cole and Damon Baird.
But other than that, not much has changed. The player still controls a number of grunting and inhumanly oversized beefcakes known as "COGs." They still fight equally beefy but slightly less articulate and moldy-looking enemies known as "Locusts." And most of these fights are still taking place in the hollowed-out refuse of a flat, gray post-apocalypse that bears an unsettling resemblance to late-night New York City subway stations.
The one major innovation the game offers is in its new multiplayer mode, Overrun, which allows human teams to play against each other as COGs and Locusts. You could already play as either side of beef in the last game's Horde or Beast mode, but Overrun combines the two. Similar to a game like Team Fortress 2, each side offers several types of playable characters for strategic interaction—soldiers shoot things, for instance, while medics stand at a distance and heal the soldiers so they can keep shooting things.
Despite Microsoft staking a large part of its PR for E3 on Judgement, it's hard to see the new Gears as little more than a direct-to-DVD sequel—the kind of movie you idle over for a minute on Netflix until you realize it only stars one original cast member and wasn't even made by the same director. Epic itself is handing the title's development over to People Can Fly, the Polish developer that previously made the publisher's other experiment in hypermasculine shooters, Bulletstorm. The prolific writer and sci-fi lore expositor Karen Traviss who wrote the last Gears and five corresponding novels is also gone. And a Gears game without the guttural artistry of John DiMaggio (the voice of Marcus Fenix and Futurama's Bender Rodriguez) is almost no Gears game at all.
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Bella Cupcake Couture Blog Party – Kickin' Cowboy Cornbread Muffins – Plus so much more!
I was honored to have been asked by my good friend Carrie, of Bella Cupcake Couture, to participate in her "Bella Back to School Blog Party". Carrie rallies some of the most talented bakers from all over the world to participate and share their delectable recipes, always gorgeously wrapped in Bella Cupcake Couture wrappers of course, which takes them over the top.
I was up for the challenge! But wait…I'm not really a baker. Besides my Healthified Any-Fruit Muffins which I bake up often for breakfasts and snacks on the go, I am a cook. I'm not really into measuring or following recipes exactly, I like the flexibility of throwing in whatever I want. Plus I leave the good desserts to the experts usually. I may make an apple crumble, maybe a fruit and yogurt parfait, but baked goods are something we go buy and enjoy once in awhile….because sometimes you just NEED a cupcake! I thought "what if I make something savory?" I am all about savory and nothing goes better with chili than cornbread!
Cornbread is super easy, I make mine with mostly whole grains and simple, all-natural ingredients. Plus, of course I have to kick it up a notch flavor wise! We sauteed up some jalapenos (check out the cool technique for minced jalapeno perfect for this and other recipes, like salsa), red onion and garlic to give this muffin some kick! A bit of shredded cheese (optional) and you have something really special. Since my stomach loves me much more when I choose gluten free foods so I made these muffins with a gluten free flour (I really like the one from Trader Joes or Bob's Red Mill). Feel free to use white whole wheat flour if you don't have gluten free requirements. You can also make it dairy free if you wish.
Part of the Bella Back To School Party is to get into the kitchen with your kids...you know I'm all about that! My son is always in the kitchen with me (actually at 7 years old he has made many complete dinners for us on his own) and my 12 year old daughter likes to do some baking with me when I do it. Carrie has these really wonderful white cupcake wrappers available that the kids can decorate. What a great idea! My tweenager is excited to have these at her next sleepover, when the girls often make up a batch of cupcakes at 10:00 at night. My son loved them also and I thought that decorating these wrappers at his birthday party would be a fun activity. For these muffins the kids were inspired by the Southwestern influence of the corn muffin recipe we created. They decorated them with really beautiful and intricate (a.k.a. very time consuming…I was able to fold a load of laundry while they worked!) Southwestern design. My son was looking at one of his favorite books, The Toughest Cowboy, for inspiration and drew some arrows, guns, targets and hand cuffs on his cowboy wrapper. Super cute, he was really proud of his creation!
I hope you enjoy these delicious cornbread muffins the next time you want a little somethin' somethin' next to your bowl of chili, stew or soup! Want my recipe for my healthy and delicious classic chili, or my kickin' black bean and chicken chili, or my vegan super foods chili – click on the recipe and check them out!
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Makes 10-12 muffins
1 tsp healthy oil/fat of your choice
1/2 red onion, finely minced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 jalapeno, finely minced (check out my technique here!) optional if you like it mild (ours had pretty much no heat with one jalapeno) or add some more if you like it spicy!
1 cup flour (gluten free flour blend, or white whole wheat flour)
1 cup cornmeal (I of course get mine organic and in the bulk food department – not suitable for those with diagnosed gluten free requirements – get yours packaged and certified gluten free)
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp Kosher/sea salt
1 cup milk (organic or dairy free alternative)
1/4 cup healthy oil/fat of your choice (olive oil or butter)
1 egg, beaten lightly
2 Tb honey
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese (optional)
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees
1. Saute the onion, garlic and jalapeno over medium heat, stirring often until softened (about 5 minutes.) Remove from the heat. Meanwhile
2. Combine the dry ingredients in a large bowl, whisk to combine
3. Whisk together the wet ingredients
4. Pour the wet ingredients, sauteed onion mixture and cheese into the dry ingredients. Stir gently (don't whisk) using a rubber spatula or wooden spoon until just combined
5. Place 1/4 – 1/3 cup batter into prepared muffin tins (sprayed/oiled/lined with muffin tin liners)
6. Bake for 20-22 minutes until the top is golden brown
Gobble up and enjoy!
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11 responses to "Bella Cupcake Couture Blog Party – Kickin' Cowboy Cornbread Muffins – Plus so much more!"
Thank you so much for participating in the blog party. I always love your healthified recipes. I'm looking forward to trying this next time I make chili. Love how cute the cupcake wrappers turned out. Your kids did a great job creating a Southwestern style.
Great muffin recipe and your kids did an awesome job on the wrappers!
Mmmm….those look amazing and so healthy! I love seeing kids in the kitchen cooking.
I just love that you went savory with these! My family gobbles up cornbread. Great recipe!
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I love that you made savory muffins and they sound delicious! Love the colorful wrappers!
Love the savory muffins for this! Cute wrappers too!!
I love those southwest wrappers. Your kids are adorable!
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Denim is such a durable material. Usually the knees in my jeans wear out faster than any other part of them–the waistband, pockets, and hems last forever! Laura from Laura Kelly's Inklings took advantage of this durability in this cute refashioning project.
Laura basically turned a pocket from an old pair of jeans into a coin purse. She simply cut the pocket out of the back of the jeans, flap and all. She embellished it with buttons from her own collection and some embroidery thread. It's a cute and easy project that would be perfect for making with kids during Spring Break, this year!
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Tosa teams on different paths
Trojans focusing on playoffs, but Red Raiders are setting a tone for the future
Wauwatosa West football coach Matt Good probably knows what Jake Wolter, his counterpart at Wauwatosa East, is going through.
Good took over a struggling football program two years ago which was coming off a 1-7 season in the Woodland Conference, 2-7 overall. Things got worse before they got better, as the Trojans were winless in Good's rookie season (0-8, 0-9). But then Tosa West turned it around last year, going 3-5 in conference play and 4-5 overall.
Wolter takes over a Red Raiders team that was winless last year (0-7, 0-9), and he will be looking to break an 11-game losing streak when they open against Cudahy at 7 p.m. Friday at Hart Park. Tosa East finished 2-5 in the Greater Metro Conference and 3-6 overall in 2008, last making the playoffs in 2007 when they were 4-3, 7-4.
Each team has different goals this year. Good is focusing on making the playoffs, and Wolter is setting a tone for the future. Here is a closer look at each program.
Wauwatosa West
When Good talks about this year's team you can hear the pride in his voice.
"They are a very blue-collar group of kids," he said. "They come to work everyday, come with the right attitude. They take care of everything in-house. They are an outstanding group of kids to coach. They listen. They respond to what you ask them to do, and they give you effort."
This year's seniors will play a key role toward the Trojans' success.
"Every year we challenge our seniors to leave this place a better place," Good said. "We have a big challenge for our seniors this year. The next goal in our program is to make the playoffs. These seniors have set that goal and will accept nothing less than that at this point."
Like a lot of coaches, Good doesn't put a specific number on the win column. A winning conference record usually will get you in the playoffs.
"We don't care if it is five wins, six wins, seven wins, eight wins, nine wins, we just want to make the playoffs," he said. "Whatever it takes to get to that point. Whatever it takes to get to the right win-loss numbers on our team."
The Trojans open with a nonconference game against Milwaukee Hamilton at 7 p.m. Friday at home.
He definitely sees his defense being ahead of his offense right now.
"We expect our defense to carry us," he said. "We have a lot of experienced players back. We have a lot of talented players. It's our goal as coaches to put them in spots to be successful. As long as they continue to work hard, I think they can be one of the better units around."
The offense is a different story.
"Offensively, every year, it takes time," Good said. "We're plugging in some players in new positions. They're doing an outstanding job. We feel our offensive line is doing an outstanding job for us. Most of those players are back and the players filling in have played in our system last year. We feel that will eventually be a strength."
Good has seen the progress from year one to year two and he expects it to continue. He credits his coaching staff for it.
"I've been extremely satisfied," he said. "A lot has to do with our coaching staff and how they work in the off-season. We've been together in the off-season for a year and for the first time in 15 years we didn't lose a coach for this year. When you put your blood, sweat and tears into an off-season of preparation, the organization in practice really shows."
Wauwatosa East
Wolter not only had to get ready for his first season at the head coach, but he had to learn with all the details that he didn't have to worry about before.
"As an assistant you have your one position," he said. "As the head coach, you have to make sure everything is set. I get home at night. I look at my e-mails, the phone is always ringing. The administrative part of it, that's the biggest thing."
Wolter feels that having been on the coaching staff has been a big plus for him, knowing about the ins and out of dealing with Hart Park. Who to deal with, who to talk to.
"Being inside already has definitely been an advantage," he said. "Someone who came in fresh, I don't think they would understand everything that goes into it being the head coach at Tosa East."
One of the goals Wolter has is to not only set the tone in football, but to help change the attitude of the school and the community as well.
"The biggest thing is going out there on a Friday night - seeing the kids, the excitement. I want to bring that back. Seeing the kids being excited to play football again.
"I want to bring that community involvement and the school involvement, getting the school - not just football - more involved in sports in general."
Wolter feels his athletes can play a big role in that as well.
"I told them at our first meeting, 'We have to change the atmosphere for our kids at school. As a football team you have a chance to start early so you set the tone,'" he said. "So when they get to school they're the leaders of the school - in the hallways, study halls and classrooms."
Wolter sees some winnable games on the schedule, but his bigger goal is to see his team improve - offensively, defensively and special teams - as the season goes on.
"A long-term goal for us is that within three-five years we're back in that mix where people are talking about us being a conference contender," he said. "We need to build and set a tone for the future, not be focused just on this year. This is the way we're going to do it."
And Wolter feels the seniors are a big part of the school's future.
"We have a great group of seniors what have bought into our program," he said. "I met with the seniors right away. I said I'm not guaranteeing you guys the playoffs and so many wins, but if you guys buy in, then that sets the tone for the whole era.
"Four or five years from now when we're successful it's because you guys bought in and set the tone. If you guys don't buy in, then the sophomores won't and now we're already three years behind."
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I am, like many of you readers, supremely lucky to be able to buy and to drink a wide variety of wines. Certainly the selection of wines here in California is exceptional, unfettered as we are from state-run liquor monopolies. Despite such an abundance of wines from all over the world, it never ceases to amaze me how many people seem to be stuck in the rut of only ever drinking a few basic California-produced varietals. While the number of different types of wine produced in California is growing all the time, it still pales in comparison to somewhere like Northern Italy, where hundreds of different (many indigenous) grape varieties are being made into wines that are refreshing (and often surprisingly affordable) alternatives to whatever it is that we find ourselves drinking all the time.
Anyone who has ever visited the far Northeast of Italy knows that things get a little wonky up there when it comes to languages, geography, and political affiliations. One town will speak perfect Italian, and you'll find risotto on every table and then a few kilometers away, another town will speak German and serve you knockwurst. Such diversity is actually quite entertaining and makes for a really interesting variety of food and, as luck would have it, wine, too.
At the broadest level, the winemaking region of Northeast Italy is known as Friuli, which along with the Trentino Alto-Adige is the most well known and largest producing area for making white wines in Italy. Within the Friuli, the appellation which covers Italy's border with Slovenia is known as Collio, or more properly, Collio Goriziano, after the Italian for hill (colli). This area of the country has really only been part of Italy proper since the end of the First World War, when maps of the region were redrawn. It should come as no surprise that when those maps were negotiated at Versailles, they didn't exactly think about where the vineyards would end up.
Subsequently, it was a matter of luck, or fate, or just plain bureaucracy that the Kristancic family wine estate would end up pretty much straddling the border of Italy and Slovenia, with 20 acres on the Italian side and 18 acres on the Slovenian side. It's only really due to the fact that the family mailbox is in Slovenia that the whole operation bears that country's name. I'm sure for the Kristancics, who have owned their estate since 1820, this is just one more in a series of geopolitical identities, which shall too pass in time.
The Kristancics have better things to worry about than what flag flies over their vineyards. These are serious winemakers who have been doing their thing in the Collio, and now the Brda (the Slovenian name for the same region) since before any of them can remember (at least three centuries). The Movia estate is currently under the stewardship of Ales Kristancic, who grew up working alongside his father in the vineyards. It is largely under his father's guidance that the winery moved first to organic production and then to full biodynamic production, which they have maintained for nearly the full 20 years that Ales has been working the estate.
The winery produces around 13,000 cases of wine each year, all using the extremely high effort biodynamic practices that were handed down to Ales from his father. This includes racking the wine by hand according to the phases of the moon so as to remove sediment without need for fining or filtering. The estate produces mostly white wines from Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Blanc, Tokaj, Pika, Glera, as well as this Ribolla Gialla, which is also known as Rebula in Slovenia.
Ribolla, as everyone seems to call it for short, is one of the oldest indigenous grape varieties in the Fruili region of Italy. According to the Oxford Companion to Wine, It appears in written records as far back as 1289 in the city of Udine, a city which later past civic ordinances regulating the preferred way to make wine from the grape.
The estate also produce smaller quantities of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Pinot Nero. All Movia wines are aged in mostly Slovenian oak casks, with some French oak mixed in, and age on the lees (the sediment left over after fermentation) for sometimes up to several years before bottling.
Tasting Notes:
Light gold in the glass, this wine has a comforting nose of floral and mineral aromas mixed with the scent of flan and warm toasted brioche. In the mouth it has a very mineral character, with nice acidity and a silky texture that wraps around flavors that don't quite have the bitterness of pine sap, nor the sweetness of sarsaparilla. This is a refreshing, unique wine that doesn't quite taste like anything else, but is deliciously drinkable in its eccentricity.
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I've now had this wine several times with everything from seafood to pasta in cream sauce to charcuterie to salads. I'm amazed at its versatility and how it comes alive in different ways with different foods. If I had to pick a single pairing, I might go for this dish of grilled squid with lemon, garlic, and cumin.
Overall Score: 9/9.5
How Much?: $20 (can be found as low as $18)
This wine is available for purchase online. It is imported by Domaine Select in New York.
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Distressed hiker dies after rescue near Julian
SAN DIEGO - A teen that suffered a medical episode while hiking Tuesday in the Julian area died after being rescued.
The victim was identified Wednesday as 18-year-old Yasmen Vidales.
The San Diego County Sheriff's Department reports that a woman called 911 at 4:13 p.m. Tuesday to report that her hiking companion Vidales was suffering from heat-related physical distress at the Three Sisters Falls trailhead.
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2011 Patriot League Rowing Webguide
Center Valley, Pa. - Winners of the last five Patriot League Rowing titles, Bucknell was unanimously picked by opposing coaches and sports information directors to claim the crown again in 2011, it was announced on Friday.
The Bison garnered 50 points and all 10 possible first-place votes, as coaches and sports information directors were not allowed to vote for their own team. Bucknell was followed by Navy, which totaled 41 points and a first-place vote, and Colgate with 28 points and the remaining first-place nod. Holy Cross, MIT and Lehigh rounded out the poll.
The seventh Patriot League Rowing Championship will be contested on April 24 at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., and the Bison will try to win the title for the sixth year in a row. The Bison narrowly won the crown last year, holding off Navy by just over two seconds in the varsity eight race to edge the Mids by four points at Cooper River in Cherry Hill, N.J. on April 25, 2010.
Bucknell won the varsity eight race for the fifth year in a row, taking the Boat of the Year award that comes with that victory. Stephen Kish won his fourth Patriot League Coach of the Year honor in the last five seasons. Victoria Dudley and Jillian O'Mara are back after earning first-team All-Patriot League honors last year, while Christina Cabiati was a second-team selection.
The only other program to win a Patriot League title, Navy continues to push the Bison for the crown under veteran head coach Mike Hughes. In addition to nearly beating out Bucknell in last year's varsity eight race, the Mids have won the varsity four race for two of the past three seasons. Navy won the Patriot League title in 2005, and has won at least one race at four of the six Patriot League Championships. The Mids have finished second to Bucknell in each of the past five seasons. Michelle Romero returns after a first-team All-Patriot League nod last year, while Christina Lanouette was a second-team All-Region pick by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA).
Colgate came in fourth place at the League Championship for the third consecutive season in 2010, though the Raiders finished in third place and less than 10 seconds behind Bucknell in the varsity eight race.
Holy Cross has the advantage of racing at its home course on Lake Quinsigamond, where the Crusaders will race seven times leading up to the Patriot League Championship. Holy Cross came in third place at last year's League event, and returns second-team All-Patriot League selection Meaghan Pedlow.
After making its Patriot League debut in 2010, MIT hopes to move up the standings this time around. Led by Head Coach Holly Metcalf, the Engineers placed fifth overall and fourth in the varsity eight race at last year's League Championship. Catherine Crowley was a first-team All-Patriot League selection last season.
Head Coach Brian Conley is in his first season at Lehigh. The Mountain Hawks finished sixth at the 2010 League Championship, and return second-team All-Patriot League pick Jackie Ogden.
The 2011 Patriot League Rowing Championship is a full-field event that consists of a varsity four, second varsity eight and varsity eight race. The event is scored on a weighted scale, with six points for the winner of the varsity four race, 12 for the second varsity eight and 18 for the varsity eight. In the event of a tie in point total, the winner of the varsity eight race is crowned Patriot League champion.
The race will be held at Lake Quinsigamond for the fourth time after being contested there for the first three seasons from 2005-07. The Patriot League Championship had been held at Cooper River for the past three years.
Patriot League teams begin spring competition on Saturday, with Bucknell, Colgate, Lehigh and Navy at the Murphy Cup in Philadelphia, Pa. Each team has events with Patriot League competitors in the field leading up to the League Championship on April 24.
For more information on Patriot League Rowing, read the 2011 webguide and visit the sport's home page here
2011 Patriot League Rowing Poll
1. Bucknell, 50 points (10 first-place votes)
2. Navy, 41 (1)
3. Colgate, 28 (1)
4. Holy Cross, 25
6. Lehigh, 12


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When it comes to planning a wedding, most of the focus is on how much the bride and groom will have to pony up for their big day.
But what about the people who pay just for the pleasure of wishing them well?
A new American Express survey found wedding guests and bridal parties expect to spend more than $500 on average this year –– a huge bump over 2012.
Between tux rentals, dress fittings, bachelor(ette) parties and pre-wedding showers, br idal party members will shell out $577 per person these days, compared to $377 in 2012.
As for the 69 million wedding guests expected to attend nuptials this year, they can expect to spend $539, up 59% since 2012.
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The much-decorated speed skating world champion will focus on marathon strategies, training tips, the double push technique and more.
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Eleven Students Arrested for Disrupting Speech at UC Irvine
Eleven students were arrested at the University of California-Irvine for interrupting an address about Middle Eastern affairs by Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S.
Oren left the stage for twenty minutes after four interruptions, and six more times after returning to the stage.
Students shouted statements such as, "Michael Oren, propagating murder is not an expression of free speech!" After the event, both the UCI Muslim Student Union and the Muslim Public Affairs Council defended the arrested students' actions, but it is unclear whether the students were affiliated with either group.
The University's Director of Political Science, Professor Mark Petracca, opened the event.
"We expect and we relish spirited discussion…But we also have the highest expectation for civility and respect," he said.
Each time a student stood up to yell in protest, they were allowed to finish their statement prior to being escorted from the building amid cheering and applause from neighboring audience members.
Professor Petracca returned to the podium several times after the outbursts, and became visibly more upset as they continued.
"This is Irvine, California; you have a point of view; we would all appreciate it if you would ask good questions," he said. "And as the person who's going to call on people, I guarantee that if you raise your hand I will allow you to ask a question when the ambassador has finished speaking."
He, too, received applause.
After another outburst, Petracca returned to the microphone and did not hold back. "This is beyond embarrassing," he said, "We have an opportunity to hear from a policymaker relevant to one of the most important issues facing this planet and you are preventing not only yourself from hearing him but hundreds of other people in this room…Shame on you! This is not an example of free speech."
Oren finished his speech, and protesters gathered outside the building afterwards to chant, "Michael Oren, you will see, Palestine will be free."
The eleven students who were arrested for interrupting the speech may face misdemeanor charges along with university disciplinary hearings, which could bring suspensions or expulsions.
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FDA Aims to Add Tanning Bed Warning Labels
Although health advocates and experts have warned consumers about the dangers of tanning beds, people still continue to lie under high levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in order to achieve their idea of a perfect tan. Tanning beds have been linked to skin cancers and skin damage, yet, people do not seem to be worried as they choose tanning over their own health. Due to the fact that people are still ignoring the dangers of tanning beds, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it plans on added warning labels in the attempt to dissuade young people from picking up this habit.
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"Using indoor tanning beds can damage your skin and increase your risk of developing skin cancer," Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, the commissioner of the FDA said in the statement. "The FDA's proposed changes will help address some of the risks associated with sunlamp products and provide consumes with clear and consistent information."
The American Academy of Dermatology stated that people who frequent tanning beds and expose themselves to UV radiation increase their risk of developing the deadliest type of skin cancer, melanoma, by 75 percent. Due to the dangers tied to indoor tanning, the FDA proposed this past Monday to reclassify sunlamp products so that these items would need to inform people of the possible dangers in using them. The sunlamp products would be reclassified from a class I low risk device to a class II moderate risk device. If approved, the new warning labels would not prevent people under 18-years-old from using it, but they would present labels of the possible consequences of using these products.
Back in 2009, the International Agency for Research on Cancer stated that tanning beds should be considered a human carcinogen. In April 2012, a study conducted by Mayo Clinic found that between 1970 and 2009, melanoma cases increased eight times in young women and four times in young men. These men and women were in the age range of 18 to 39. This study stated that tanning beds could expose the skin to seven times the dose of UV radiation in comparison to the sun.
The FDA has opened up a 90-day period for people to comment on its new proposal before a final order is issued. If the proposal is approved, tanning-bed companies will have up to a year to follow the new rules.


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IFES will honor Nay Lin Soe, a disability rights advocate and founder and CEO of the Myanmar Independent Living Initiative, with its 2016 Charles T. Manatt Democracy Award. This is the first time that IFES has honored both a disability rights advocate and an Asian citizen with the Democracy Award.
IFES' Charles T. Manatt Democracy Award is presented each year in a special ceremony to one Democrat, one Republican and a member of the international community who demonstrate the dedication to democracy and human rights embodied by the award's namesake, former IFES Board of Directors Chairman Charles T. Manatt. The 2016 Democracy Awards Dinner will be held on September 13 in Washington, D.C.
On May 10, 2016, IFES Middle East and North Africa Regional Director Zeinab Abdelkarim addressed a regional forum that brought together representatives from electoral management bodies in the Arab world.
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The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is deeply saddened by the June 16, 2016 murder of Jo Cox, a British member of Parliament.
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Much of our country's simmering dialogue on immigration sooner or later turns to the question of hiring people to perform certain "jobs Americans won't do." Rarely, however, do policymakers address why Americans apparently refuse to do certain jobs while immigrants go to great trouble and expense to come here to perform those very jobs. Many [...]
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BREAKING: PMA Cancels 2011 Photo Show; Moves Event to January 2012 Alongside CES (Updated)
PMA's annual photo industry trade show will be cancelled for 2011 and moved to January 2012 to be held alongside the massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV, PDNonline has learned.
The PMA show, which had been rebranded as CliQ earlier this year, was slated to be held in Las Vegas on Sept 6-11, 2011. CES is booked to take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center, January 10-13, 2012.
It was not known, at press time, where the PMA show will fit into CES' plans during the event and whether the two shows will share space. (UPDATE: In a press release posted below, PMA announced its show will be held at the Sands/Venetian hotel and conference center in Las Vegas. The event will be called PMA@CES and will be sponsored by PMA.)
One of the largest photography shows in the world, PMA has been an international showcase for some of the latest photography gear. The retooled CliQ show was designed to draw in more photographers and was slated to include feature presentations from several professional photographers.
While in the past PMA mainly attracted photo retailers from across the country and featured seminars on how to sell more photo gear, CliQ was scheduled to include photography workshops, photo walks, and how-to talks on ways to become a better photographer.
PMA just issued the following press release about the scheduling switch.
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JACKSON, Mich. – The Photo Marketing Association International (PMA) today announced a partnership agreement with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), owner and producer of the International CES, to move the September 2011 PMA International Convention and Trade Show (aka CliQ 2011) to colocate at the 2012 International CES, scheduled for January 10-13 in Las Vegas. PMA@CES will offer industry-specific content and display products representing all aspects of digital imaging. PMA will also offer its well-known educational seminars, complementing and enhancing CES programming.
"PMA colocation with CES creates a great opportunity for our combined audiences to learn from each other, grow, and take full advantage of the integration and connectivity of personal content (in the form of digital photography) and home entertainment," notes Ted Fox, executive director, PMA. "This convergence will expand with continued enhancements to camera phones and tablets."
"This collaboration will significantly enhance the 2012 International CES digital imaging product offerings for our retail and other audiences," says Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, CEA. "Technology is speeding the rapid convergence of digital photography and home entertainment systems. The breadth and scope of digital imaging product offerings that PMA will now bring to CES will complement and further expand the extensive growth of CES in this product category."
According to Fox, "Our agreement [with CES] is an excellent example of two trade associations coming together to constructively and proactively address challenges and provide new opportunities."
PMA@CES will be located at the Sands/Venetian and will be sponsored by PMA.


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Friday, July 12, 2013
So I'm currently reading Food: The Good Girl's Drug
What have I learned so far? Well, I've reinforced that I do, in fact, have an eating disorder. This darn book is written like the author knows me all too well. Of course, just as the book predicted last night, I'm waiting for the part that "heals" me so I can get skinny. Yep, that's disordered thinking, y'all. So far there have been no answers, just a lot of head nodding and, as of last night, a little sadness. I know I'm broken, but I want to be fixed...but I don't know that this book, or any book, is going to do that for me. Silly me, I always thought I'd just one day break the cycle. I've fought so hard in my life to break every cycle and statistic. I knew buying a house would be one big step in proving I had moved on from the expectations of a pregnant 18 year old whose life seemed completely out of control. But the more I read the more I think that I will never be "fixed" and will never NOT have an eating disorder. So maybe this book will help me learn how to live with my eating disorder...and maybe, just maybe, it will help me forgive myself and allow myself the freedom to love myself no matter how fat or skinny or out of control my life seems.
While I read this book, I'm a little afraid and a little put off dieting in the way that I know. I know it's a symptom of my eating disorder to be overly restrictive and overexercise. It's likely how I sustained my injury in the first place. So I'm trying to be patient with myself and work through this first. And when this book is done, I have another in my Amazon cart.
I guess the only good thing that is coming out of this is that I'm no longer content with simply losing weight. I want to heal. I want to love myself. I want to feel okay in my own body. I look at pictures from just a couple years ago when I was running and working out religiously and I think, "Man! I wish I was back there again!" and then I think, "But I was still SO fat!" I realize that I'll never be okay with myself, never be fully confident with myself at any weight until I learn to be confident and loving toward myself at EVERY weight. It's something I thought I had down last time I started this journey, but I guess I was just fooling myself. I was letting my eating disorder lead me and I'm just not ready to keep doing that for the rest of my life.
The truth is, I've learned this behavior from everyone around me. Part of it might be genetic. I honestly believe both my parents have suffered and may continue to suffer with binge eating disorder. I used to watch my mother sneak spoonfulls of frosting straight from the jar. I watched my father eat way more food than any normal person needed. My entire family celebrates and loathes food at the same time. We get together for Thanksgiving and either stuff ourselves full or restrict ourselves...and then we praise those who restrict themselves and sit and talk about how we're all fat and need to lose weight. As far back as my Grandmother, this has been our tradition...and I picked it up easily. My perfectionist nature made it even more dangerous a habit for me to learn. The constant dieting I was pushed into as a child probably didn't help. And I don't even have to guess how the fact that I have always been a constant disappointment to my real father plays a role in all of this.
So, I guess for now I'm understanding myself more and why I am the way I am. I understand a little better why I binge and restrict and overexercise. I understand the driving forces behind that...now it's time to learn how to cope and overcome those urges and become a HEALTHY person. Not skinny. Not "normal"...whatever that is. I need to learn to have a HEALTHY relationship with food.
I'll let you all know how that turns out! *lol* Maybe somewhere along the way I can help someone else feel like they aren't alone or a failure for not being able to lose weight like they "should".... But really I'm just hoping to help myself here. I need to show myself some love and attention for a bit and stop blaming myself for everything.
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I've always believed that my mental struggle is WAY more challenging than the physical one. Unpacking all of that stuff is painful but so enlightening.
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Glad to see you found a book that has spoken to you. I think sometimes we all just need that trigger (I've had a couple of books that have done that). You are right, you need to heal both mentally and physically in this journey! And love yourself! I'm glad you are finding the way that works for you :)
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Sounds like a lot of brilliance to me...we move forward when we learn to love ourselves where we are and work on improving ourselves while we love ourselves.
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Sometimes the mental part of this journey is SO MUCH HARDER than the physical part...hence why we get caught up in exercise-exercise-exercise to feel powerful and then eat, eat, eat still. I do the same thing. So this epiphany is VERY IMPORTANT and I think you are right - this is the beginning of learning how to deal with it in a healthy way! You can do this, girl!!!
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I am so glad to see you back! I was wondering about you. I'm gonna have to catch up. I've been out of commission myself, with a nasty cold (bronchitis?).
I am going to check out this book too. Congrats on the house -- I will be catching up on your blogs!
back! -Connie
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hey!! i'm back. i love this blog post because i can so relate to it and i'm definitely going to check out that book.
have you read women food and god by geneen roth?
i recommend "a hunger so wide and so deep" by becky w thompson. that book changed my life. it was incredibly illuminating and to me felt really empowering.
i'm so glad to see your regular blog posts - i am cruising the "neighborhood" to catch up on people.
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Understanding is the first step toward healing. Yay you!
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Esther, bravo, I just know you are strong enough to heal yourself! Stick with it every step of the way, use every resource you can and I know you will get the results you want!!
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Great blog, thanks for sharing your journey with us!
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Oh Esther, nice to see you again. Congrats on the new house and job.
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This is brilliant. I am looking at this entire journey as healing on several levels. My self image was destroyed, literally, over the last decade and I know that a huge part of the work I'm doing now isn't about the food. It's about the self worth to nurture and care for myself. I come from a food dysfunctional family as well. Your Thanksgiving story describes us perfectly. Not to mention my dh has issues as well. So while going through this self discovery can feel isolating, remember you're not alone. If you ever want to reach out, please do so. You're doing amazing things with your life right now just by stopping the cycle of self blame.
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Great blog....loving yourself is the doorway to a happy life :)
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Blair Armstrong Kiel
Position: QB
Height: 6-0 Weight: 209 lbs.
Born: November 29, 1961 in Columbus, IN
Died: April 8, 2012 in Columbus, IN
High School: East
College: Notre Dame (school history) (Kiel college stats)
Drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 11th round (281st overall) of the 1984 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 4 (9949th overall since 1950)
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