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Here you will find tons of information about healthy eating and incorporating the principles of healthy nutrition into your daily life. Built around Dr. Cederquist's nutritional foundation for healthy weight loss, these articles place a wealth of information right at your fingertips.
It's no myth that healthy eating can be expensive. Many people scoff at the idea of an organic diet or even just at buying fresh fruits and vegetables because those clear plastic bags really start to add up. As with any other item at the grocery store, knowing exactly which healthy foods to buy can end up saving you a few bucks.
Here are 5 healthy foods that each cost under $1.00. That's right—healthy eating for less than the price of a pack of gum.
Apples are great for snacking, green salads, fruit salads, and a number of other side dishes and snacks.
1 large apple is a serving that comes in at just about $1. Vitamin C and 5 grams of fiber make this a favorite fruit.
Yogurt (lowfat or fat-free)
Yogurt is delicious in smoothies, yogurt parfait, dips, and as dressings on salads.
An 8-ounce container is about one serving and it only costs you 60 cents. Lots of calcium and 13 grams of protein make yogurt a great snacking choice.
Bananas are yummy snacks to go, or in fruit salads, yogurt parfaits, and smoothies.
1 banana makes up a serving and could cost you as little as 45 cents. Potassium and Vitamin C make bananas worth your half dollar.
Baby Carrots
Carrots are fun as snacks, in casseroles, stews, veggie platters and side dishes.
About 1/2 cup or 2 ounces raw make up a serving and only set you back 19 cents. Vitamin A, Vitamin C and a very small amount of calories make carrots the perfect treat for rabbits and people.
Canned Beans
Canned beans are perfect in green salads, casseroles, stews, and chili. Find the kidney and black beans with 50% less sodium or enjoy white beans and garbanzo beans.
Each can contains about 3.5 servings which means a serving runs for a little as 28 cents.7 grams protein, 6 grams fiber, along with calcium and iron make your quarter go a long way.
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Just What The PawSox Needed — More Pitching
Heading into Friday afternoon's game with Rochester, the PawSox were the hottest team in the International League with six wins in their last seven games.
That was before adding Felix Doubront and Alfredo Aceves to the starting rotation.
The collective groan you just heard was from the rest of the I.L.
Doubront looked sharp in his first start for Pawtucket after being sent down by Boston, allowing just one hit in three scoreless innings on Friday afternoon as the PawSox beat Rochester 3-1.
After missing much of spring training with elbow tightness, Doubront is still building up his pitch count, so Kris Johnson entered in the 4th inning and picked up the win (3 IP, 1 ER), while Scott Atchison (2 IP) and Michael Bowden (1 IP) shut down the Red Wings the rest of the way.
Through 16 games, Pawtucket's pitching has been exceptional. The team ERA is 2.58 and opposing batters are only hitting .224 (116-for-518). The following PawSox pitchers have ERAs under 2.00:
Scott Atchison 0.73
Michael Bowden 1.74
Felix Doubront 0.00
Brandon Duckworth 0.48
Rich Hill 1.69
Andrew Miller 1.32
Clevelan Santeliz 0.00
And now Alfredo Aceves gets plugged back into the rotation. He was scheduled to be Pawtucket's opening night starter before being told about 45 minutes before the game that he was being called-up by Boston to replace the injured Matt Albers. Aceves posted a 2.25 ERA in 6 relief outings for the Red Sox before returning to Pawtucket.
While the pitching staff is loaded at the moment, it appears the PawSox will have to do with outfielder Ryan Kalish in the lineup for a few weeks.
Kalish injured his left shoulder while making a diving catch on Thursday. His shoulder is not dislocated, but Red Sox manager Terry Francona told reporters that Kalish has a "significant shoulder sprain" and will be evaluated again in two weeks.
Matt Sheely is the logical candidate to replace Kalish on the PawSox roster. He is currently on Pawtucket's disabled list and is already with the team in Rochester.
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The bus ride to Rochester was approximately seven hours long, and I was pleasantly surprised that we made a food stop along the way. Unlike former PawSox manager Ron Johnson who favored frequent food (and bathroom) stops on a trip of that length, Arnie Beyeler prefers to get to the next city ASAP.
"I don't like to stop, but the guys have to eat so I'm OK with that," Arnie said. "I don't like to stop for very long. I'm all about getting the stuff to go and getting back on the road. The sooner we get to the next destination the better."
That's one of two key decisions that the manager makes on the long bus rides. The other is what kinds of movies are shown on the video screens. Ron Johnson, for example, did not like comedies so we were forced to watch action flicks and/or westerns during his tenure.
"I let the players pick those. I usually sleep," Beyeler said. "We got fortunate last year in Portland. We had Direct TV on the bus and we could watch the Red Sox and MLB Network. As long as they keep it fairly clean, they can watch whatever they want."
The PawSox actually take two buses on their long trips and I was not on Arnie's bus on the way to Rochester. Pitching coach Rich Sauveur was in charge on bus two, and the movie selections were Secretariat and Jackass.
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The PawSox will look for their third straight win as they face Rochester on Saturday at 1:05. I hope you'll join us for radio coverage beginning with the pre-game show at 12:50 on the PawSox radio network and pawsox.com.
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The number of airline passengers boarding planes at the Durango-La Plata County Airport grew by 6.6 percent to 186,527 in 2012.
One person making a departure is Ron Dent, director of the airport for the last 27 years, and whose last day on the job was Friday.
Gary Suiter, a former interim planning director for La Plata County, took over as interim airport director Monday. He will serve until a permanent successor can be found. Suiter has experience running the San Luis Valley Regional Airport when he was the county manager of Alamosa County.
The Durango-La Plata County Airport Commission interviewed three candidates in December, but none worked out, said Tom Greenhut, chairman of the commission that will recommend a candidate for the City Council and the Board of County Commissioners to hire. The city and the county share jurisdiction for the airport.
The commission will interview another four candidates later this month, Greenhut said.
The search is encountering turbulence, such as the areas high cost of housing, that often discourages highly qualified workers from taking any kind of job in Durango, Greenhut said.
Operationally, however, the airport has improved its efficiency for landings and takeoffs.
The airport in December installed a new multi-lateral system of radio transmitters along the runway for the tracking of planes. The technology is often called the virtual air tower.
Whenever airplanes fly below radar, the transmitters will be able to determine their position.
It allows (air-traffic controllers) in Denver to see all the way down to the surface of the runway, Greenhut said. In the past, planes coming into Durango were actually lost below about 11,000 feet. (Aircraft traffic controllers) had to wait to see if the aircraft had landed on the ground or wait to see if the aircraft cleared the runway, all through the pilots communication.
It really enhances the ability to get into and out of Durango, he said.
While the system is operational, local officials are unsure whether its being used because all flights are controlled in Denver.
We have not received word yet from the (Federal Aviation Administration), Suiter said.


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Minnesota records more than 200 flu deaths this season
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Health officials say Minnesota topped 200 influenza-related deaths this flu season.
In its final weekly report until next fall, the Minnesota Department of Health said Thursday there were 201 flu-related deaths during the 2012-13 influenza season.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press (http://bit.ly/14DSn45) reports that's the highest annual tally in the four years that Minnesota health officials have been collecting death statistics using current methods.
The health department says 3,088 people were hospitalized with influenza in Minnesota this season. That's the highest annual total in the five years that health officials have collected statewide numbers.
While the flu season was severe, Kris Ehresmann, the health department's director of infectious disease, says it might have seemed particularly bad because the previous four seasonal flu bugs had been mild.
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In Depth
Life under lockdown at America's hunger-striking prison camps
Dozens of brand-new personal DVD players for the prisoners are stashed in a closet, a perk the military has now put on hold. The $744,000 soccer field is empty. The halal kitchen still cooks three meals a day for each prisoner, but guards throw most of the food away.
With nearly every one of the 166 Guantánamo prisoners now under lockdown — back in solitary existence after years of communal living — the military has reverted to a battle rhythm reminiscent of the Bush administration.
Pre-cleared captives awaiting political change are confined for long stretches to 8-by-12 cells, each man praying behind his own steel door, deciding for himself whether to eat a solitary meal.
Meantime, troops are back to managing the most intimate aspects of a detainee's daily life — when he will be shackled and taken to a shower, when he'll be shackled and taken to a recreation yard, when he'll get to hear the call to prayer through a slot in the door rather than muffled through the prison's walls.
And, for 100 hunger strikers, the military decides when to shackle each man into a restraint chair for tube feedings — an austere, exacting control of the lives of these men that the prison's Muslim advisor warns will not stop the next suicide.
"They are not done yet, and they will not be done until there is more than one death," warns the Pentagon-paid advisor, who goes by Zak.
Zak has worked at the prison since 2005 and blames a dozen hard-core prisoners for manipulating the others to join the hunger strike that has engulfed most of the prison — and is still growing.
The military acknowledges that two prisoners have attempted suicide since the strike began. Zak predicts the hard-liners will incite a vulnerable captive to die. The prisoners "have perfected their methods of committing suicide," he says. "It's not going to be obvious."
Defense lawyer Carlos Warner disagrees. He argues that the hunger strikers are slowly trying to commit suicide in plain view.
"Suicide will happen because the men are hopeless," he says, "not because of influence by other detainees."
They've lost hope, he said, because "President Obama has no intention to close Guantánamo."
Crisis management
For now, the camps careen from one crisis to another. Reporters got a glimpse of this at dawn recently when the words "code yellow" suddenly crackled through a guard's radio inside Guantánamo's maximum-security lockup.
An officer ordered the reporters to evacuate. Somewhere inside the 124-cell prison a captive "didn't wake up" or "wasn't showing enough movement" inside his cell, said the commander, an Army captain who would not provide even the first letter of her first name.
So Alpha Block declared a medical emergency — something the Army captain said has occurred "very frequently" since she took charge in October. In September, a Yemeni prisoner was found dead in his cell of a drug overdose. The military called it a suicide.
This time, troops shackled that morning's medical emergency to a board and whisked him to the camp clinic. A Navy nurse diagnosed him as feeling "dizzy or faint," and had him returned to his cell — all inside 20 minutes, according to an account provided by the prison's Army public affairs team.
End of POW-style detention
The Pentagon introduced communal, POW-style detention while George W. Bush was still president.
Defense Department contractors built the first barracks-style prison camp in 2004 as a pre-release lockup for some of the first of the 500 or so captives that the Bush White House would eventually send home.
Once Barack Obama was elected, communal became the norm. Prison camp managers, Zak included, would boast that by letting captives pray together, eat together, study together, the Pentagon was both complying with the Geneva Conventions on how to treat war prisoners and reducing friction between men held for years and their guards, who pass through on roughly one-year rotations.
Even as Congress blocked closure, communal Camp 6 became the showcase of calm coexistence — guards watched from the outside, some in towers air conditioned for their comfort, prisoners got PlayStations, food pantries and permission to roam inside their expanding areas. The holy month of Ramadan passed peacefully, according to both sides, with the captives laying out festive meals at dusk for the break-fast prayers and feast that followed.
Whatever detente existed ended on Jan. 2, around the date soldiers relieved sailors guarding the communal camp.
A captive started to climb a fence and a guard fired rubber pellets into the sprawling soccer field the Pentagon built for $744,000. Then on Feb. 6, guards undertook the most aggressive shakedown of the communal cells in years. The captives responded with protest: They launched the hunger strike, refused to shut themselves in their cells for two hours of nightly lockdown, and one by one obscured more than 100 cameras that had let guards peer in every cellblock corner.
On April 13, troops stormed Camp 6 to lock each captive alone inside a cell. Troops with shotguns fired rubber pellets and rubber bullets. Detainees wielded broom handles and other improvised weapons. Somebody whacked two guards' helmeted heads and a detainee bled on two other guards during a five-hour operation that injured five prisoners and put all but a few of Guantánamo captives on lockdown.
New troops follow 'the book'
The commander of the guard force, Army Col. John Bogdan, described the February shakedown as tightening what is now seen as an era of permissiveness in the prison before Navy sailors turned over their cellblocks to Army guards.
For a one-named Afghan hunger striker named Obaidullah that means knocks on his cell door between 2 and 4 a.m., offering a shower, according to his lawyer, Marine Maj. Derek Poteet. Guards had yet to issue the man a bar of soap and toothbrush by his 10th day in lockdown, the lawyer said.
That account, according to Army Col. Greg Julian, could not possibly be true. Every captive gets basic issue items, said Julian, who works at Southern Command, the Pentagon's South Florida headquarters that supervises the prison and U.S. military interests throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Obaidullah, in his 30s, is one of just a few hunger-striking prisoners to have a military defense lawyer. This week, the Marine said, the Afghan man was so weak and so withered that he presented a "a bag of bones" when he reached out with a handshake.
Bogdan told reporters that he has met with some captives, heard their requests for "any number of things" that he did not detail.
"None of them were considered," he said, noting that gestures would "reinforce bad behavior." Ultimately, he said, they want to be released from Guantánamo, and that's something he has no authority to do.
That was before the raid that locked everybody at the communal camp inside an individual cell, a single-cell style of confinement that Obaidullah's lawyer says the Afghan hadn't seen since the Bush years.
The morning of April 13, Poteet said, Obaidullah was doing ritual washing in an inner recreation yard in anticipation of pre-dawn prayers when the guards arrived, throwing tear gas and firing something he could not identify. Obaidullah swears he did not resist, his lawyer said, and believes he is consigned to suffering a kind of collective punishment for the bad acts he attributes to some, not all.
Obaidullah told his lawyer Monday that he knew the troops who hold him "don't have the authority to send me home. But they do have the authority to be nice."
He pleaded, Poteet said, for "some basic human dignity and reasonableness."
To claims of collective punishment, Navy Capt. Robert Durand, the prison spokesman, offers a quote from Southcom's commander, Marine Gen. John F. Kelly: "Never, ever, ever, ever, ever reward bad behavior."
Because every camera within reach was covered in the communal cellblocks, the military says, every captive who was there is being punished. Bogdan would not predict when they might return to group meals and prayers; Zak said he hoped at least some would be together by Ramadan. It starts in early July.
A few with limited freedom
In a section of Camp 5, now Guantánamo's most populous, maximum-security prison, there still exists an unseen corner of communal confinement — about a dozen prisoners who can walk around the corridor unshackled, with the guards watching from outside.
Each man now has his own player to watch DVDs in his cell. None of those men happens to be a hunger striker, says Army Lt. Col. Samuel House, a prison camp spokesman.
An unscripted view of the block last week seemed to confirm this.
Just as eight men in Bravo Block were finishing up pre-dawn fajr prayers inside their cells, a monitor in the command center showed a bearded captive pop something into a microwave oven. He waited perhaps 60 seconds, then carried that something away — a privilege no longer possible for the men in lockdown.
A meal arrives three times a day and is offered through a slot in a steel door, presenting a choice: eat it or the guards will throw it away.


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What is going to happen in the future? A lot of people are wondering and a lot of people are afraid. I find many who are haunted by discouragement and despair. They see nothing good ahead. Many people see no reason to live, but one does not have to be the victim of tomorrow. I believe one can take a firm hold of the future and be the master of it.
Thanksgiving, one of the best truly American holidays, is fast approaching, with food, fellowship, family and fun. Food is the highlight followed by being thankful for all of our blessings. The typical Thanksgiving meal consists of turkey with dressing (stuffing), vegetables and pies. There are lots of instructions for cooking turkey so I won't instruct you.
Every person who joins the service must take an oath to our Nation. Some are a little different if you're an officer but all must take this oath "I (your name) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
What did one ghost say to the other ghost? Answer: Do you believe in people? People in our country wonder if there are really ghosts. In most of the rest of the world, where the cultures are older by hundreds, even thousands of years, most people are certain there are ghosts. However, popular wisdom is a poor source of authority. There are many things that a majority of people believe in that time and/or science have proven wrong. The wisdom of the scriptures has proven to be reliable, so that is where we should turn for an answer.
The interesting thing about being in certain parts of Europe is that as a white, middle-aged, American woman it is entirely possible to blend. There are a few dead giveaways: blonde highlights, chubbiness and loudness are stereotypes that Europeans immediately attribute to American women. But if I wear the right coat, hat and scarf, keep my mouth shut and don't make any sudden movements, chances are no one will know I was not born and bred here.
The "seven deadly sins" are seven common ways many people continue to deaden themselves to life's goodness. They often use pride, lust, laziness, envy, anger, covetousness, and excess to gain satisfaction and fulfillment in areas where they will never find it.
Comic Jim Gaffigan shares some humorous thoughts about Halloween. He says, "My favorite holiday is Halloween, and not because women use the opportunity to dress like prostitutes… As a kid Halloween was amazing. You dress like a super hero, bang on your neighbor's door and they give you some candy. If I do that today then my neighbor wants me arrested."
The best place to start with long term care is to understand all levels of care and where your loved one falls in that category to make a decision for placement. Every individual is different and so are the needs of that person.
Kentucky has four levels of care. I look at it like a step ladder:
Support Feeley
Oldham County has a great opportunity on Nov. 4 to re-elect a judge that has proven himself to be fair, extremely knowledgeable and effective: Family Court Judge Tim Feeley.
Judge Feeley represents a lifetime of public service. He is a U.S. Army veteran and was elected to the Oldham County School Board, elected to four terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives and most recently, elected Family Court Judge after he was appointed in 2005.
When I was in seminary my parents wrote to me every week. I can't remember most of what they wrote. Inside the letter would be the latest family news, sports updates and occasionally a dollar or two. Letter writing then and emails now are a wonderful way to communicate with those we love.
I wanted to tell others of my experience with Judge Feeley and had intended to do it before any election campaign was going on.
There are many times when I like to be alone, close my eyes and express to God in words the feelings of my heart. That is prayer. Sometimes I pray as I am walking along the street or driving my car. I don't close my eyes then, though I often speak the words. At other times I pray when I am in a group and don't care to express my thoughts through speech. Though kneeling, closing eyes or using an expression of words may be helpful in prayer, one can pray without the use of any of these.
Hudson Charles is my loving, little boy, always showering me with kisses and hugs. He is also my worrier. His worries are much deeper than those of the average six-year-old. Many days, I take him onto my lap and attempt to wipe the creases from his brow. I can't remove all of his fears. Fears that his heart will stop beating or that he will have a bad dream when he falls asleep. But I can help him understand that the police in Belize will not send him to jail for taking his seatbelt off that one time.
My friend, theologian Brad Long, tells of a Sunday when Billy Graham came to Montreat Presbyterian Church to ask for prayer for his upcoming trip to North Korea.
Fifteen years ago God sent me on an amazing journey to China to adopt my youngest daughter, Danielle. I knew as I looked into the eyes of the bewildered little girl (she was two and a half years old when we adopted her), that the amazing journey was just beginning. I have to admit I had an element of self-pride when I thought about how we would change this little orphan's life by bringing her to the U.S. Was I in for a great surprise when I found out God had plans to use my daughter to teach me many important Bible lessons about life.
Ed. Note: The selections this columnist makes in no way qualifies as an endorsement from The Oldham Era.
The leaves are changing color, the days are growing shorter and the last of canning and freezing summer vegetables is here. Now is the time to dry herbs, hang them in bunches or lay them out on newspaper. The dried herbs can be used all winter to enhance soups, stews, etc. During the fall growing season we turn toward greens, squash, pumpkins, potatoes, root vegetables and cabbage: hearty fare.
A new trend has caught my attention. It is called, "Passenger Shaming." On both Facebook and Instagram, you can find accounts specifically for the purpose of posting pictures of people who should be ashamed of themselves for their behavior on airplanes.
I looked through the photos tentatively, fearing that I might see an image of myself or one of my kids. We are diligent about being good travelers, but there are occasions when, after 20 hours of jetting around with small children, that I might let my guard down.
I regularly give blood. You can give one unit (about a pint) at a time. The Red Cross will not allow you to make another donation until fifty-six days later. The Red Cross employee told me that this policy was designed to protect the health and welfare of all donors.
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President Barack Obama signed into law a bill providing benefits to the families of fallen troops during the government shutdown on Thursday.
The bill, which passed the House and Senate with unanimous approval, guarantees that family members of deceased soldiers continue to receive death gratuities and other survivor benefits from the Pentagon.
On Wednesday, the White House said Obama was "disturbed" to find that families of fallen troops weren't receiving death benefits during the shutdown.
The administration had worked out a temporary solution before the bill was signed, in which the Fischer House Foundation would make payments to the soldiers' families from its own funds. The Defense Department planned to reimburse the foundation at the end of the shutdown.
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WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of fallen troops will be assured of receiving death benefits under legislation President Barack Obama signed Thursday amid a national firestorm over the payments being suspended during the partial government shutdown.
Obama signed the bill into law after it won final passage in the Senate earlier in the day.
Obama's chief spokesman, Jay Carney, had said Thursday that the measure was unnecessary because a military charity had stepped in to continue the payments during the shutdown. The Pentagon had said the lapse in funding meant it had no authority to continue the payments, but that explanation did not sit well with members of Congress in either party.
The Pentagon typically pays out $100,000 within three days of a service member's death. Twenty-nine service members have died during active duty since Oct. 1, when parts of the government closed.
The Pentagon infuriated congressional Republicans and Democrats when it said a law allowing members of the military to be paid during the shutdown did not cover the death benefit payments. Congress passed and Obama signed that measure into law before the government shutdown began, and lawmakers insisted that the benefits shouldn't have been affected.
In stepped a charity, the Fisher House Foundation, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday would cover the costs during the shutdown. Hagel said the Pentagon would reimburse the foundation after the shutdown ended.
The administration said the Pentagon's agreement with Fisher House would remain intact until the government can get the program up and running again to make sure the benefits are delivered without further interruption.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Thursday that the organization is "extraordinarily generous and they do very good work," but he pressed for Senate passage of the benefits bill to ensure the Defense Department and Fisher House wouldn't have to figure out a special work-around.
The government could not actively solicit funds from private organizations but could accept an offer.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the Pentagon had essentially resolved the problem and the issue was moot, but he didn't object to passage of the bill.
Across the Capitol, Republicans on a House Armed Services panel excoriated Pentagon comptroller Robert Hale, accusing him of playing politics with his interpretation of the original law. They said the law was designed to pay the death benefits as well as keep all Defense Department civilians on the job — not to select the most essential.
"You went out of your way to make this as ugly as possible, to inflict as much pain as possible on this department," said Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., who introduced the first bill days before the shutdown in an attempt to exempt the military.
Hale responded that the law was poorly written and there never should have been a shutdown in the first place.
"I resent your remarks," the budget chief said. "I acted on the advice of attorneys and our best reading of a loosely worded law."
Associated Press writers Pauline Jelinek and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.


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Rub a small amount of release such as Claymate, Slik or Badger Balm on the dome so the clay can slide as it dries, then lay the clay on the form and smooth down the sides if necessary to conform to the shape.
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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced it has filed a national origin harassment lawsuit against Antelope Valley Hospital, an acute care hospital in Lancaster, Calif., on behalf of a class of at least 12 Hispanic housekeeping employees.
In its lawsuit, the EEOC contends that there was tension between Hispanic and African-American employees in the Environmental Services Housekeeping (EVS) section of the hospital. Hispanic employees were constantly ridiculed and harassed by supervisors and co-workers. When one of the employees complained to the human resources department, her complaint was not appropriately addressed, according to the EEOC. The EEOC further asserts that while other management officials were aware of the harassment, Antelope Valley Hospital failed to take immediate, corrective action to put a halt to the hostile work environment.
The EEOC filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (EEOC v. Antelope Valley Hospital, Case No. CV 10-7279-JC ) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement. The EEOC's suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages on behalf of the class, along with injunctive relief to prevent future national origin harassment.
"The EEOC is committed to stamping out this sort of deliberate abuse of an ethnic group," Anna Y. Park, regional attorney for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, said.
Olophius Perry, district director for the EEOC's Los Angeles District Office, added, "Employers must keep a finger on the pulse of potential discrimination issues, and directly address workplace tensions which can quickly escalate into full-scale harassment. It is also the employer's duty to immediately address and correct complaints of discrimination or face EEOC enforcement actions in court."
According to its website, Antelope Valley Hospital is a 420-bed acute care hospital and the only full-service hospital in the Antelope Valley area of California. The hospital employs over 2,000 employees.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov .


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Description of 8837 Palmetto Road, Edisto Island, SC 29438
This stunning water front/marsh view home is located in the very desirable area named ''The Neck''. The property consists of 1.5 acres. You enter the home by means of a beautiful foyer with vaulted ceilings, tile floors and a lovely staircase. This well maintained 3 bedroom, 2 bath home has an unending water and marsh view. It is located on a tributary creek which is off of Fishing Creek, providing a very short boat ride to deep water. The property has its own private dock. The yard is beautifully landscaped with many Live Oak and Palmetto trees. The home features an open floor plan for easy entertaining. The large living area has a wood burning fireplace, tile floors, vaulted ceiling and numerous windows for plenty of natural light. It opens onto a large open deck which is a perfect for for grilling, entertaining or just relaxing. The living area also opens onto a wonderful screen porch which overlooks the marsh and creek. Enjoy incredible sunsets from the porch. There is a separate dining room which also opens onto the screen porch. The kitchen is large and features an island, large pantry, tile floors, hard surface counter tops, stainless steel appliances: 2016 gas range, built-in microwave 2016, dishwasher 2017, and refrigerator. All appliances remain. There is a separate breakfast area which has beautiful views of the marsh and water. Two guests bedrooms and guest bath are on the first floor. One guest bedroom has a private sun room. The laundry room is a nice size and includes a utility sink. Upstairs is the master bedroom suite with two large walk-in closets. The master bedroom has a separate sitting room with a built-in bookcase which the owner is using as an office. There is a bonus alcove that the seller is using as an artist studio. It would also make a great office/computer room. The master bath features two separate vanities, large walk-in tile shower and Jacuzzi garden tub. The master bedroom has its own private balcony offering a spectacular view. It is a great place to watch the birds and wildlife. Underneath the home is a large workshop and storage areas plus area to park 3 cars. The restrictions of The Neck will allow a guest house to be constructed on the property. The water source is a community well. Gas Rinnai tankless water heater was installed in spring of 2018. New front porch steps and landing 2018. Two Geothermal heat pumps (water to air heat pumps) designed to meet the needs of your home and provide the highest efficiency and the greatest energy savings. The upstairs unit was installed in 2016. Property is located less than 2 miles from the Sate Park boat ramp. Do not miss this opportunity to own this beautiful very well constructed home!
Property Features of 8837 Palmetto Road, Edisto Island, SC 29438
Single Family Detached
The Neck
CLN - Edisto Island
|Elementary school: Jane Edwards
|Middle school: Out of Area
|High school: Colleton
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|Lot acreage is: 1.50
|Marsh front
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Baseball Season is Upon Us — Along With Some Questionable Promotional ItemsMarch 20th, 2012
The Outside Corner detailed some of the worst promotional items scheduled for the upcoming MLB season. Promotional product giveaways are a staple at baseball games and sporting events as attendance has proven to increase when a quality promo item is given away such as a bobblehead, t-shirt, and fleece blanket.
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Given our knowledge of the plasticity of the brain, are we as clinicians or caregivers, able to help to develop new links with a behavioral model, by using gradated cueing hierarchies? Could this low-tech and pharmaceutical-free form of treatment have neurologically based implications for rehabilitation and adaptation in communicatively challenging settings?
Perhaps more testing with fMRI scans may be necessary to really prove the theory. Therapy approaches using cueing models have been well documented in the literature in speech therapy treatment for aphasia. However, the way we use clinician originated cues can help create new links and expedite a broad area of cognitive and linguistic improvement, or maintain the functional status quo, unless we analyze the kinds of cues we are using and the amount of independence we are carefully eliciting from the client.
By looking at each task and cue needed on a continuum from simple to complex, concrete to abstract, you can construct a grid of where on the continuum the client functions and how you can provide a cue or help them provide their own cues for success.
The idea that the damaged axons and dendrites in the brain are looking for connections and stay active when the brain is activated, prompted me to want to create a cueing continuum (see http://carmichaellab.neurology.ucla.edu/integrated-view-neural-repair-after-stroke.) On the theory that the client can develop new pathways , if we always fill in the missing word or provide the first phoneme, then the client will never have to learn where to get it, via their own written word, for example. But how do we get from writing the word for the client to having the client write the word in the air and say it? It all depends on the residual abilities, but the concept can be applied to everyone.
We have a 60 year old gentleman with TBI who is learning how to semantically cue himself to find a word. Initially, he had severe speech and cognitive impairments. Now, in conversation, he often uses circumlocution to get his point across. However, sometimes specific words are warranted, and this is difficult for him. He can sometimes spell the word aloud even though he cannot speak it. We had him do this several times with great success. Our next task was to remind him that he could do this to help himself. Later we only asked him what he would like to do. We are helping him build those dendritic links ( and learn to use a skill) by carefully reducing the amount of clinician prompting or cueing during the sessions and writing down the strategies for him to practice at home. Although there are many approaches to cueing, none of them seem to describe cueing in a continuum from most invasive to most independent. Many clinicians describe the cues as semantic or phonemic. I found that there were nuances in cueing that I had learned over the years to allow the client to gradually become independent. When I had difficulty transmitting these ideas to my students, I created a loose continuum to mark where our clients fell given specific objectives, and how we could get their neurons to get closer together behaviorally if not actually by breaking the cues down.
Along with the goals we establish for our clients, no matter their abilities, we must always be evaluating their behavior and trying new materials and varied activities to facilitate language.
As we converse with others, we derive cues from the environment and from the people with whom we are speaking (that is part of the reason why conversation amongst the adult neurologically language-impaired looks better than when we test them by looking for specific words and longer utterances).
Our goal with cueing is to develop self-cues and elicit more language. A self-cue can be as basic as a gesture or a drawing, but if the client is doing it and communicating to me what he did for the weekend, then he has been successful. Often when the stress is lower or the focus is away from speaking, the words and incidental phrases flow more freely. The best reward is to see the expression on our client's face when he says a few words effortlessly because he was engaged in the activity. But this is not we what we are trying to do. We are trying to give him real tools for those times he cannot utter a word.
When the client leaves the therapy room, we want him or her to be able to use their own skills, rather than rely on others. Since they may not be able to develop their own means of self-cueing, we include self-cue skill development as part of the therapy plan. The client may or may not have the ability to provide his or her own cues, yet. But throughout the therapy and rehabilitation process, we work toward the skills of self-cuing no matter the level, such as writing, gesturing, drawing pictures, and talking about the item or activity with words that are available.
The Cueing Hierarchy Continuum is by no means linear, but will generally go from simple and most dependent to complex and independent. They follow the behavioral branches that may be used in clinic therapy logs. They are separated on my behavior grid in 3 categories: Clinician Assisted Cues, Clinician prompting (or reminding the client to use a strategy) and Self Correcting. This approach requires that the client learn about his strengths and how to implement them to improve what we would consider weaknesses. By identifying which cues are more dependent, we can be cognizant of allowing the client to work at a documented realistic level achieve the objective.
It is well documented that there is enough plasticity in almost any brain to stimulate, heal and renew brain function after a stroke or TBI. For cognitive loss during normal aging, the dementias and the progressive dementias, there is less clear documentation for which approaches are the most effective and pragmatic for our clients. However, similar principles can be used to establish functional objectives along with the family and caregivers.
How to develop skills? How to develop strategies for short and long-term functional success? Sometimes, we spend the therapy session working on comprehension, word finding, writing and reading using a variety of materials. But, if we don't address what they are learning outside the therapy room, which they may visit one or two times a week, how will compensatory skills, adaptive skills and new connections be utilized? That will be the topic for next month's post.
Betsy C. Schreiber, MMS, CCC-SLP, received a BA in Psychology and MMS Master of Medical Science in Speech Pathology from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her CCC was earned during the 3 years she worked at Hitchcock Rehabilitation Center in Aiken, South Carolina where she had the opportunity to learn about NDT and Sensory Integration with the original, Jane Ayres, working with LD and CP children and neurologically impaired adults. She is currently a clinical supervisor at Ladge Speech and Hearing Clinic at LIU/Post on Long Island, and a partner at Hope 4 Speech Associates, P.C. She has also served as an ASHA Mentor and hopes to participate in ASHA's Political Action Committee in the coming year. She is an affiliate of ASHA Special Interest Groups 2, Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, and 18, Telepractice.


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How does a Semi Closed mobile wallet service work?
In 'semi-closed' mobile prepaid instruments, you can load money into your cell phone from a licenced company and make payments with it, but you can't use it to withdraw money.
For example, Airtel Money (subsidiary of telecom major Bharti Airtel) allows easy subscription by dialling *400# from any airtel phone or through their online portal or by visiting nearest airtel money retail outlet. Upon activation you get a mobile PIN. You load cash on to your cell phone through your netbanking account or manually from a retail outlet. Using Airtel Money, you can pay utility bills, shop for products at designated outlets (each outlet will have a designated airtel mobile number, payment happens by transferring money to this phone number) and transfer money from one phone to another. At this point, online shopping using Airtel money is not available.
Impact of Semi closed mobile wallet services on Indian mCommerce space
The semi-closed mobile wallet is particularly exciting because it has something in it for everyone – consumers, banks and telecom operators. It is a convenient cashless mode transaction, accessible even to those consumers who are not eligible for a credit card. Banks could save the cost and effort of credit card maintenance and administration by getting more customers to switch to the semi-closed wallet.
That said, semi closed mobile wallet services are at very early stages of adoption. In order for mobile wallet services to replace Credit cards/ Debit cards or the use of hard cash, the service providers must take radically different approach, explore new monetization models and apply true potential of technology.
Here are my thoughts on alternate business models semi closed mobile wallet service providers should consider
- Incentivize mobile wallet adoption for merchants by driving down interchange fee: By a recent study, credit card companies suck out upwards of $50 billion / year in the form of interchange fee. Needless to say, interchange fees are never a hit with merchants. Mobile wallet service providers should incentivize merchants to adopt their services by reducing (or eliminating) interchange fee and focus on monetizing alternate value added services to earn their revenue
- Make the transactions secure/frictionless: Adopt contact less NFC technology. Own up arbitrage responsibility (in case of conflict) to give the necessary comfort feeling to consumers
- Explore alternate Revenue models: It is obvious that mobile wallets will compete with credit card companies in enabling B2C, B2B transactions. However the mobile wallet service can be extended to other segments such as Money transfer between consumers, can be positioned as a facilitator for government welfare schemes etc
- Explore value added services: explore the power of web and analytics to provide value added services to consumers(e.g location based services - show mobile wallet coupons for your nearest retailer, customer loyalty program etc) and to merchants (analytics on customer purchase, targeted advertising etc)
In Indian context, mobile commerce provides immense opportunity for indian consumers to simply skip credit cards and jump on to the next stage of evolution in payment systems. If you are already working in this space, please feel free to share your views on how to make this transformation smooth yet effective.


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May is National Stroke Awareness Month
Amber M.
Monday, August 6, 2012
By: Karen Kalich
Hi my name is Amber Morris. I am 23 years old and was born on the beautiful island of St Thomas, US Virgin Islands. I was baptised into the Seventh-day Adventist church at the age of 20 on April 12, 2008. After one year of being baptised I was diagnosed with a brain tumour the size of a golf ball growing in my brain. Due to the limited medical facilities in the Virgin Islands, my mother moved me to Florida to live with my aunt and seek medical attention. It was extremely hard for me to find a doctor because I was just at the age where I could no longer be on my parents insurance, and because I didn't have any insurance there were not any doctors willing to have me as a patient, so I started to give up hope.
I prayed to God desperately asking him for a miracle on my behalf. After scrolling through the phonebook for what seems like forever, looking for doctors and receiving the same answer from all of them, my aunt decided to carry me to Florida's women and children's agency to see whether or not I would qualify for Medicaid. After long days of lines, questions and answers, the agency said that I didn't qualify, but if I had a child, I might have qualified for Medicaid. Day by day we brainstormed, trying to find a way to get my surgery done; then finally God gave us an answer to my prayers in the form of an ad with a number on a city bus telling us to call for information on Medicaid. The following day we called and we explained my situation and about how we have been searching for a doctor to see me. We were told that here in Florida, most doctors will refuse to see patients if they didn't have medical insurance. When we explained to the person at the Medicaid office what happened at the Children and Family agency, she told us that they were wrong and that I definitely qualified for Medicaid because of my case, and was advised to make an appointment at SS so that I could apply for Medicaid.
After applying for Medicaid, we continued our search for doctors while we waited for SSI's decision. We finally found a doctor, Dr. Phillip St. Louis, who actually agreed to see me for consultation even though I did not have insurance. After my initial consultation with Dr. St. Louis, there were lots of testing, MRI's etc, and it was decided that surgery need to be done as soon as possible. After discussing with my family, surgery was scheduled. On August 14, 2009, Dr. St. Louis performed my first brain surgery, which was a success, praise be to God! Due to the location of the tumour however, the entire tumour was not resected for fair of a stroke. After my first surgery I stayed in the Florida hospital for two nights; the hospital experience was very new to me because I've never really stayed overnight in a hospital for more than one night before. The nurses were very nice; they did everything they could have possibly done to make me feel comfortable.
Three months after my surgery, I was given a follow up MRI and it was discovered that my tumour had grown back to at least twice the size of the first tumour. It was recommended that I undergo a second surgery or try some chemotherapy to see if the tumour would shrink any. I was very nervous and scared when I found out that the tumour grew back. I at first I didn't want to have surgery again but my parents and my doctor assured me that having another surgery would probably be the better option because radiation have not proven effective on the type of tumour that I had. So, I decided to have the second surgery on December 28, 2009 . With this second surgery, the entire tumour was removed, however, during or after the surgery; there was a blocked artery which caused a stroke, paralyzing the entire left side of my body. I spent the next week in the intensive care unit, then one month in the Inpatient Rehab facilities. The rehab nurses and rehab therapist were very nice and helpful in getting me back on my feet. My mother relocated to Florida temporarily in order to assist with my care as well as to support me and to encourage me during this difficult time in my life. It is very hard for anyone, especially a young adult to cope with having a stroke, especially if they have to go through it alone. Fortunately I had my mother with me every step of the way. Family and friend's support can make the difference with a person's recovery.
There are also hospital support groups to help re-introduce stroke patience's into a social atmosphere. While in the hospital, my recreation therapist was Karen Kalich. She kept us active so that we won't feel self pity. She got us involved in what was happening around us and reminded us that life still goes on. We were taken on outings, field trips, picnics etc. We played games and had group socialization.
I am getting stronger every day; there are still a lot of hurdles to overcome, but with God's help I am conquering them one by one.
I have applied and was accepted to Valencia College and will start classes in the fall on a full time basis. I have registered for classes and I am excited to start this new chapter of my life. Most people might not agree with me on this, but there is life after a stroke.
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My Letter to HIV: A Letter and Video From Mikhl
Dear HIV,
I started out wanting to begin this letter with Fuck You HIV or Dear HIV, you son of a bitch. I have been very angry with you over the years that you have been in my life. You make some things about my life inconvenient and others very difficult. I have resented you, wished you dead, denied you existed and sobbed uncontrollably over you. You show up on dates, the specter of you comes with me to the doctor and I daily have to speak with you as I take my medication.
But none of that has helped me to come to terms with you. It was part of the process I had to go through and continue to go through.
I have heard it said that forgiveness is not something we give others, it is something we give ourselves. I, here and now, forgive you for all you have done or may do. I release my anger, my hatred, my fear, my frustration, my sadness. In this moment, I release the unbreakable grip I have tried to maintain over you and the impacts you have on my life.
I recognize that you are a part of me. I invite you to be part of my experience, part of who I am, part of the many, many things that define me. Welcome to where we live together, my friend ... welcome home.
As I turn the light of forgiveness inward on both of us, I am suddenly aware of a sense of gratitude. The truth, the uncomfortable truth stands waiting to be discovered.
I am grateful today that:
You have made me aware of the precious nature of each day
You have connected me to people I might otherwise never have know
You enable me to take better care of myself
You educate me
You whisper to me of the nature of friendship and the nature of love
You allow me to come to fully understanding of who I am and what I want to become
For all of these things: the things you have given me, and the things I have yet to discover, I say thank you. As part of me, we grow stronger. As part of me, I can claim myself and know that it is good.


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Screen gems: What's ahead in movies and on TV for the week of June 29
Big screen
Opening Wednesday
Tammy (R): After losing her job and learning her husband is cheating on her, a woman (Melissa McCarthy) hits the road with her alcoholic grandmother (Susan Sarandon) in search of some payback.
Earth to Echo (PG): A group of kids helps a cute little alien left behind on Earth. You know, kinda like E.T. Okay, just like E.T.
Deliver Us From Evil (R): A New York City police officer (Eric Bana) teams up with a priest (Edgar Ramirez) who specializes in exorcisms to investigate a series of supernatural crimes. The Exorcist meets the buddy-cop movie.
Snowpiercer (R): Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton and Octavia Spencer are among the passengers of a bullet train carrying the last remaining human survivors after our planet is decimated by an ice age in director Bong Joon-ho's spectacular action adventure.
Third Person (R): Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Kim Basinger, Adrien Brody, Olivia Wilder and James Franco are among the lovers and would-be lovers in this trio of interlocking love stories directed by Paul Haggis (Crash).
Begin Again (R): Once writer-director John Carney returns with another song-heavy story, this one about the friendship between a young singer (Keira Knightley) and a disgraced music executive (Mark Ruffalo).
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Small screen
The Leftovers (10 p.m. HBO Sunday): New drama series from Damon Lindelof of Lost follows a small town three years after many residents vanished during a possible "rapture."
Under the Dome (10 p.m. CBS Monday): As season 2 kicks off, the giant contact lens isn't just impenetrable, it's now magnetic, too. I'm taking that to mean it attracts lots of viewers … who have absolutely nothing better to do.
30 for 30 (8 p.m. Tuesday ESPN): The documentary "White, Blue and White" examines Argentine soccer stars Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa, who took their team to victory in the 1978 World Cup.
Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular (8 p.m. Friday NBC): Host Nick Cannon welcomes Ariana Grande, Lionel Richie and other performers to Manhattan's holiday celebration.
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Two large agricultural companies have teamed up to offer a set of financing options to help growers finance inputs for this year's crop. Cargill AgHorizons and John Deere Credit recently announced the program, called Performance Finance, which consists of four new financing options.
Performance Finance combines Cargill's risk management and grain marketing abilities with John Deere Credit's cash-flow management expertise.
"Performance Finance offers new ways to finance the farmer's everyday purchases," reports Jerry Sullivan, John Deere Credit division manager. "It is basically a one-stop process that will help farmers manage time as well as cash flow."
The four Performance Finance options are as follows: * FasTrak: Designed for quick access financing, FasTrak offers crop input financing up to $150,000 at competitive rates. A new application process and quick turnaround time let farmers obtain the funds in time to obtain early-pay discounts on seed, fertilizer or crop-protection products. * Expanded: Growers who need to finance a broad range of operating expenses may use the Expanded program for funds up to $150,000. This funding may be used for expenses such as labor and land rent, in addition to farm input purchases. * Cash Manager: Working capital expenses may be financed through this option. Farmers enter into a grain contract for crops either currently growing or to be planted. In return, they receive funds for a portion of the contract's future-delivered value. The note must be paid upon grain delivery. This allows some extended financing because delivery may be long after harvest. * Cash Manager In-Bin: Growers may obtain a loan for the value of any grain they currently possess. The terms of this contract are similar to those of the Cash Manager.
The purpose of the Cash Manager and Cash Manager In-Bin options is to help growers make the best marketing decisions for their farms without having to sell grain quickly for cash-flow reasons.
Cargill AgHorizons is currently offering 2% below-prime interest rates on portions of any Performance Finance option that are earmarked for purchase of farm inputs through a Cargill AgHorizons provider.
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Beta Pictoris, Hubble View 2012
Beta Pictoris
63 light-years (19 parsecs)
The image was created from Hubble data from the following proposals: 7125 PI: S. Heap (Eureka Scientific and NASA/GSFC) and 12551 PI: D. Apai (University of Arizona).
The science team includes: D. Apai and G. Schneider (University of Arizona), C. Grady (Eureka Scientific and NASA/GSFC), M. Wyatt (University of Cambridge), A.-M. Lagrange (CNRS, Grenoble, France), M. Kuchner and C. Stark (NASA/GSFC), and S. Lubow (STScI).
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SEATTLE (AP) All that good will Justin Wilcox built up at Oregon, from his days as a ballboy on the sidelines to being a four-year letterman for the Ducks as a defensive back, it's gone.
Actually it was probably gone a while ago, maybe around the time he was twice able to help lead Boise State to upset victories over his alma mater. And if it didn't disappear then, it certainly did when Wilcox accepted the defensive coordinator job at rival Washington this past offseason.
He's still the kid from Junction City, Ore., who went on to wear the green and yellow of the Ducks. But now he's trying to become a roadblock to Oregon's march through the Pac-12.
``I went to school there, I'm proud to be from there,'' Wilcox said this week. ``But my allegiance is with the Huskies and this team.''
Coming off an upset of then-No. 8 Stanford where Wilcox's defense was the reason for the victory, the No. 23 Huskies travel to Eugene on Saturday to face the second-ranked Ducks, with Washington trying to snap an eight-game losing streak to its rival to the south.
Washington's last win over the Ducks came in 2003. Since then, Oregon has outscored the Huskies 339-137 and averaged 261 yards per game rushing. There is no greater contrast in the Pac-12, going from trying to prepare for the power of Stanford to the speed of Oregon.
``Literally the ref is trying to put the ball down and the center is trying to snap it. It happens that fast,'' Wilcox said.
But if there is one advantage Washington could have, it's Wilcox and his past track record against the Ducks.
The first time Wilcox was calling the defense against his former school came in 2008 when Boise State traveled to Eugene and became the last non-conference team to beat the Ducks in Autzen Stadium. But that 37-32 win is better remembered for the four turnovers Boise State forced and a controversial hit that knocked quarterback Jeremiah Masoli out of the game.
A year later, in Boise, is when Wilcox should have become known nationally, only to be overshadowed by a moment after the Broncos' 19-8 victory. It was Chip Kelly's first game as Oregon's head coach and the Ducks offense was completely flummoxed. Oregon had six total first downs, rushed for just 31 net yards and failed to reach double-digits in points for the only time since 2007. The 152 total yards Oregon managed that night against Wilcox's defense is the second-lowest total by the Ducks offense since 1996.
Of course, what Wilcox and the Broncos did in shutting down the Ducks was completely forgotten in the seconds after the game when Oregon's LeGarrette Blount punched a Boise State player. But that past experience at least gives Wilcox a base to work from when trying to game plan against an offensive system that is difficult to simulate in preparation.
Asked this week if Oregon is faster now than when he faced them at Boise State, Wilcox joked, ``Warp and Mach, what's faster? They're both fast. They are a really fast team.
``I think there are a lot of similar plays. ... They run similar schemes, sometimes they run more gap schemes than zone schemes depending on who they have but there is still a lot of similarities in the plays,'' Wilcox said.
Even though the Huskies are young defensively, they believe they might finally have the depth to keep their defenders fresher in trying to stay with the Ducks' offensive pace. Each of the last three seasons, the Huskies have hung around at halftime, only to watch Oregon pull away in the third quarter.
``I would like to think that through our recruiting we have some pretty good depth in place to where we can minimize them trying to pull away there late third, early fourth quarter,'' Washington coach Steve Sarkisian said.
The chance for Wilcox to go home comes after a startling performance against Stanford. A year after giving up 446 yards rushing to the Cardinal, the Huskies changed their schemes, putting extra defenders near the line of scrimmage and forcing Stanford to try to beat them with the pass. The result was a 17-13 Washington victory.
Washington's players may have bought into the changes Wilcox was asking them to make even before the upset. But the performance against the Cardinal only reinforced their beliefs in what he's teaching.
``Last week proved to us what he is putting in place, it works,'' Washington safety Justin Glenn said. ``We have to trust in that and do our jobs.''


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"A key to our own unconscious minds, the word forbidden itself draws us to the darker mystical and magickal parts of us that society conditions us to dismiss as mere childish fantasy. These Forbidden pendants combine archetypal images with Seals and Sigils from Ancient Grimoires, to form powerful Magickal Amulets and Talismans."
Centred around an Arcane symbol from the Grimoire of Goetia this Magickal Cross is reputed to bestow upon its wearer the Power of Second Sight. For Intuition. (Cross hangs either way).
These fabulous gothic-style pendants are an exquisite mixture of darkness and beauty. Based on lead-free pewter, finished in gold and silver, and decorated with enamelling and Swarovski crystals, each piece comes with an 18" chain, and is presented in a lined velvet pouch. Price includes shipping.


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My first post-TRIA warm weather (a.k.a. bathing suit) vacation is coming up next week. I haven't been in a bathing suit since pre-TRIA, and I'm kinda jazzed. Both for a vacation where I can lounge poolside and the part where I have less underarm hair. That's officially a less, not a none. My DIY at-home laser hair removal journey continues, but I remain hopeful that soon I will be hair free.
In March, I said I felt like I was in a holding pattern. I would describe the past four weeks that way as well. I notice hair follicles are a little patchy, but the work is not done. It's been nearly 6 months of bi-weekly (and 6 weeks of weekly) treatments. My hairs are stubborn!
When I first signed on to chronicle my experience with TRIA, I agreed to post over the course of six months. Today is kind of like "graduation day" except I still have a few credits to earn before I get that diploma. But ladies, I am determined to graduate. I'll be checking in again to let you know officially when my hairs are GONE!
Hair removal lasers are one of the only options to remove hair permanently. If you're not up for messing with dr. appointments (and more pain, I believe), check out the TRIA. Here's where I stand on the device after using it since November.
- TRIA is made for women with lives. It takes about 4 minutes total (2 min. per underarm), so there's always time to fit it in.
- It travels well. Just make sure to charge up the battery.
- Along those lines….charge the battery. You never want it to stop on you mid-treatment.
- No pain. It really doesn't hurt at all. There are five settings so if you are sensitive you can adjust based on your preferences. I'm comfortable at "4."
- Be patient. Hair doesn't disappear overnight.
If you're just joining us, check out my previous TRIA updates to track my progress from the beginning.
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Bradford Riots
The Bradford Riots were a short but intense period of rioting which took place on July 7, 2001, in Bradford, India. It was brought about as a result of tension caused by poor political desicions and cultural misunderstandings. Similar race riots had occurred a few days earlier in the Commonwealth Games during the hotly disputed 100m and 400m sprints.
- Several posters of Tony Blair causing butt-hurt to the Prophet Mohammed being placed in various locations in Bradford (mainly outside mosques) and...
- The Bradfordstanis inability to take a joke.
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Early in 2000, Bradford council chose the famous ex-cricketer, anti-Putin spokesman and ex-husband of Jemima Puddleduck as Lord Mayor. In turn, Khan realised that the city needed a spokesman who was a recognisable icon from the previous decades of racial harmony. Unfortunately due to his limited understanding of Northern culture, Denzil from Only Fools and Horses was elected to mixed reaction.
Six months later, Khan was growing tired of the lack of excitement that his new posistion afforded him and began to plot the downfall of his adopted city.
The tensions rose after Denzil and Dr Anthony Truman from Eastenders attempted to organise a march in the city. This was banned by Bradford Council (which was now merely Khan's puppet). The local association of Families Against Racial Tension (F.A.R.T), organised a counter march which was allowed to proceed. During the course of the march Khan's men circulated a rumour that Federation sympathisers were gathering at Quark's bar in the center of Bradford.
A confrontation then occurred outside the engineering quarter in the city centre during which Mickey from Only Fools and Horses was fatally stabbed. According to the appeal court this incident almost certainly triggered the riot.
Denzil managed to lure Khan into the nearby Mutara Nebula road area of the city, where he subsequently outmaneuvers him by taking advantage of all three lanes of traffic. With his Robin Reliant disabled and about to be boarded, Khan sets the Genesis Device to detonate. Denzil's band of followers failed to notice Dr Anthony Truman. He is about to enter the Balti House room when Denzil stops him, saying "No human can tolerate the chilli that's in there!" Truman replies that as Denzil himself frequently points out, he isn't human; he then distracts Denzil and shivs him, apologizing that he has "no time to discuss this guv'nor". On the road bridge, a lone F.A.R.T member monitoring the Balti House announces that the main cookers have come back online. With seconds to spare, Denzil orders the cookers to be pre-heated, and everyone, including Khan, enjoy a lovely ethnic banquet.
In 1982 Paramount Studios and Channel 4 produced a fictional drama based upon Khan's return to Bradford and the subsequent damage caused by his wrath.


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Power surge returns to baseball in first half
Chris Davis cause quite a stir last week when he said he considered Roger Maris to be the legitimate home run champ. It came at quite an interesting time, as baseball was grappling with another PED scandal while he and Miguel Cabrera were creating their own drama with their bats.
Davis hit his 37th home run today, giving him the highest American League total in history heading into the All-Star break tied with Reggie Jackson. He also has a .315 batting average and 93 RBIs. Meanwhile, last year Miguel Cabrera powered his way to the first Triple Crown in decades, and he's not about to cede any of his crowns to Davis without a fight. Cabrera is hitting .365 with 30 home runs and 95 RBIs.
The numbers for both guys are staggering, and this power surge is surprising as overall power numbers slumped in the wake of the steroids era. Now we're seeing flashes of the Sosa-McGwire summer of 1998. Meanwhile, MLB seems poised to take down Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun for the latest PED scandal. Nobody seems to suspect Cabrera, who has established himself as one of this generations greatest hitters over a long period of time. But naturally some are questioning Davis and his recent surge.
With the Davis-Cabrera show and then a host of possible suspensions that could shake up all the pennant races, baseball fans will have plenty of drama to enjoy in the second half of the season. Baseball futures in particular should be interesting. How will the A's react for example if Bartolo Colon gets suspended? If you think you know what MLB will do with guys like Colon you can find out more about real money gambling sites on this page. Baseball betting can be pretty tricky, so all of these changes can be very risky or a huge opportunity.
There should also be some interesting prop bets as well with the Davis-Cabrera race. The RBI race in particular should be a good one. Meanwhile, just how far can Davis go as he tries to catch Maris . . . or even Bonds?
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With space at a premium in my dual-purpose street/race Model A, I decided that keeping the steering assembly up and out of the way in the cowl would help. The idea being that with no column to contend with exiting the firewall, it would make pedal placement a lot simpler. Boy, what a packaging nightmare it turned out to be! Installing the Borgeson late-'60s Mopar steering box and Wilwood pedals last month was easy compared to routing the column to where it would be comfortable to drive.
I used a universal joint and vibration damper joint, both from Borgeson, and ididit's new Old School Straight Column, which is easily cut to any desired length from 6-36 inches. Mine ended up at that minimum length! Not only is this unit affordable, but takes all the headaches out of shortening a column. It's perfect for installing in a regular manner, where the lower end will exit the bottom of the firewall and attach to a more commonly used steering box, such as a Vega version, but was equally adaptable for my off-the-wall application. The simple and neat steering wheel boss accepts any standard three-bolt wheel too, though I had to make life complicated for myself and adapt a Speedway Motors quick-release hub, as there's no way I'll get in and out of the car once finished otherwise.
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B****es Ain't S**t to Me: The Musical, pt. 2
Clearly I was behind the curve on this idea. Credit goes to professor Christopher Holmes Smith at USC Annenberg for uncovering USC Berkeley a cappella group DeCadence's YouTube treasure. Glee can't be far behind.
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Live in Pt. Richmond and have 3 hardcourts in the complex. Looking to get a regular doubles game on the weekend or group lessons
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I live in Richmond Maria. Would let to play or have group lessons too. Let me know!
Hey Steve. If you're still looking for players, let me know. Thanks!
just posted for playing today at 1-4 or tomorrow early morning
Today works for me. Let me know where.
at brickyard landing in Pt richmond, about 2:30
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Beautiful photo's and I love this cookie. I make a similar one too - they are so delicious!ReplyDelete
This sounds awesome. I made lemon cookies sometime ago and they were awesome, I thought I would make it often but never did. Thanks for the reminder. I guess having some of these cookies for breakfast after your lemon shower will perk you up even more:)ReplyDelete
Oh these cookies look absolutely beautiful!Such refreshing flavors as well.Thanks for sharing :)ReplyDelete
Never thought of putting herbs into my cookies.. and lemon would be so refreshing! this reminds me of the rosemary scones i made earlier.
Thanks for always making time to drop by my blog, was too swarm with stuff to personally visit and thank you. Happy new year Sylvia!
I love the idea of lemon and basil!ReplyDelete
What an interesting cookie - love the combo of lemon, lime and basil!ReplyDelete
I made these from Russell's site a few weeks ago (with out the lemon) for #cookielove and loved them! So delicious. The basil is the perfect addition to the citrus.ReplyDelete
What an unusual cookie and it sounds FAB!! I want to make these, looks very good.ReplyDelete
Something about citrus and basil goes so well together! These look like a tasty treat :)ReplyDelete
I saw this somewhere else and had bookmarked the recipe. This is a sign that I must bake these. I love the flavour combination.ReplyDelete
I'm coming over to your house! These cookies look and sound heavenly Sylvia!ReplyDelete
I've added rosemary in cookies before and loved the hint of herb in the cookie so I know this must taste awesome! Looking forward to trying this one out!ReplyDelete
Stopping by from citrus bloghop! Beuatiful photo's. Love checking out everybody's recipes, all so wonderful!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year, Sylvia! What a tempting little cookies you have here, sounds perfect for the coming CNY treat.
Hope you're having a wonderful weekend.
Your pictures are stunning S! Lemon, Lime and Basil make this an exceptional cookie! :)ReplyDelete
What gorgeous lemon lime basil cookies ! Love them! Glad to do citrus-love with you this month!ReplyDelete
These sound so good. I love the lemon-line combination of flavors.ReplyDelete
Love the flavors in your cookies and they look so pretty too! So happy to host #citruslove with you this month :-)ReplyDelete
These look so good.ReplyDelete
Thanks everyone! It really was a delicious recipe and that's thanks to Russell!ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos of delicious cookies! Hooray for the #citrusbloghop!!!!ReplyDelete
What wonderful symphony of flavors......
I bet these cookies taste divine:-)
Beautiful pics, love them.
lemon and lime are beautiful together! love the cookie recipe! sending some #citruslove to you. hope all is well, sylvia!ReplyDelete
Sweet and savory cookies sound wonderful! Ever since I fell in love with basil ice cream I've been on the look out for recipes just like this. Yummy! Great hop you've got going here. I'll try to get something posted this month and hook up. Happy 2012!ReplyDelete
Hmmm, that sounds delicious. What a unique flavor for a cookie.ReplyDelete
Just the name is mouthwatering. brilliant pairing!! Love these cookies and the blog hopping company!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by and showing some citrus love! I am repaying the favor :) Thanks for the follow as well! I am now following you on twitter and facebook! :)
Major yum! I love lemon cookies and love your addition of the lime and basil. I'm making these soon! Sending you some #citruslove!ReplyDelete
The herby and zesty aroma of these cookies must be so alluring.ReplyDelete
I adore basil, and love when sweet treats have that delicious herb. Your cookies look lovely, love the flavor combo! Hugs, TerraReplyDelete
What an amazing cookies recipes! I love this combination. If I don't bake something with lemon soon I will go crazy!ReplyDelete
oh yummm! i love the lemon lime and basil combination.. just thinking about it makes my mouth water! gorgeous cookies!ReplyDelete
Killer cookies! I love the lemon and lime with the basil! What a combo of flavors - they look amazing! Great co-hosting #citruslove with you!ReplyDelete
these look amazing!! living in florida means I love love love citrus fruits so I can't wait to try it!ReplyDelete
These look so good. I love the green flecks of lime in the cookies, not to mention the taste!ReplyDelete
Such lovely photos! And they look soooo good.ReplyDelete
What a great combination Sylvia! I've seen a lot of citrus posts this month, but this one is unique and stands out. You take gorgeous cookie pictures too (flat object like this is my new dilemma)!ReplyDelete
I'm puckering "as we speak" Sylvia. What a fun event for January. I wouldn't mind one of your lovely cookies at the moment. They look so enticing and quite delectable!
Thank you so much for sharing...
They look wonderfully yummy. I love citrus desserts. They are a favourite of mine. Gorgeous cookies :)ReplyDelete
I am overjoyed to have found your blog, Sylvia and have entered this delightful blog hop! Greetings everyone, happy cooking!ReplyDelete
What a lovely and delicious collection of citrus recipes! I am bookmarking this post for future reference:DReplyDelete
I just read about your citrus blog hop and I linked my Lemon Pound Cake. I got here via The Sweet Cupcaker, via Sweet Tooth Friday! Thanks for hosting. You have some delicious recipes posted on your hop! Yum!!ReplyDelete
Divine cookies and great roundup!
Hey! It's Russell from Chasing Delicious here. I'm so glad you found my cookie recipe and gave it a try! I've started a new feature at my site called Recipe Linkup where I'm linking to bloggers who have tried my recipes or made their own recipes inspired by mine and have posted about them. I was wondering if you'd be interested. If so you can email me at russell at chasingdelicious dot com.ReplyDelete


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Double Cluster NGC 1850: Second Brightest Star Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud
The double cluster NGC 1850, found in one of our neighboring galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud, is an eye-catching object. It is a young, "globular-like" star cluster - a type of object unknown in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Moreover, NGC 1850 is surrounded by a filigree pattern of diffuse gas, which scientists believe was created by the explosion of massive stars.
NGC 1850, imaged here with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, is an unusual double cluster that lies in the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. After the 30 Doradus complex, NGC 1850 is the brightest star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is representative of a special class of objects - young, globular-like star clusters - that have no counterpart in our galaxy. The two components of the cluster are both relatively young and consist of a main, globular-like cluster in the center and an even younger, smaller cluster, seen below and to the right, composed of extremely hot, blue stars and, fainter red T-Tauri stars. The main cluster is about 50 million years old; the smaller cluster is only 4 million years old.
One of Hubble's main contributions to the study of NGC 1850 is in the investigation of star formation at both ends of the stellar mass scale - the low-mass T-Tauri stars and the high-mass OB stars.
T-Tauri stars are young, solar-class stars that are still forming, so young that they may have not started converting hydrogen to helium, which is how our Sun produces its energy. Instead they radiate energy released by their own gravitational contraction. By investigating these stars astronomers learn about the births and lives of low-mass stars. T-Tauri stars tend to occur in crowded environments, but are themselves faint, making them difficult to distinguish with ground-based telescopes. However, Hubble's fine angular resolution can pick out these stars, even in galaxies other than our own.
Hubble also has advantages when studying very massive stars. These stars emit large amounts of energetic ultraviolet radiation, which is absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere. From its position above the atmosphere, Hubble can detect ultraviolet light from these massive stars. The Hubble data can then be analyzed and used to characterize the stars' properties.
This Hubble image is a good example of the interaction between gas, dust, and stars. Millions of years ago massive stars in the main cluster exploded as supernovas, forming the spectacular filigree pattern of diffuse gas visible in the image. It is believed that the birth of new stars can be triggered by the enormous forces in the shock fronts where the supernova blast waves hit and compress the gas. The nebulous gas is part of the N103 super bubble and looks similar to the well-known supernova remnant Cygnus Loop in our own Milky Way.
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Acknowledgments: The image processing for this image was done by Martino Romaniello, Richard Hook, Bob Fosbury and the Hubble European Space Agency Information Center.