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On Monday, Van Ha To-Cowell marks a grim anniversary.
On Monday, Van Ha To-Cowell marks a grim anniversary.
It will have been exactly one year since her husband of 30 years, Dana Cowell, lost his fight with cancer.
Keeping her spirits up is her day job as a fourth grade teacher at Lodi Unified's Wagner-Holt Elementary School in Stockton and her night job as a Lincoln Unified School Board trustee.
No stranger to struggle, To-Cowell's life has been a journey marked by tenacity and fierce determination.
She came to the United States from Vietnam as a college student in the 1970s. After Saigon fell to the Communists, her father was interned in a re-education camp where he died in 1983.
She met her future husband at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. They married and raised two sons together - Evan, 25, and Andrew, 21 - while she pursued her goal of becoming an educator.
Today, she's focused on learning how to live happily as a single person. It's a slow process that this empty nester is taking one day at a time.
Question: How are you handling the grief?
Answer: I have my ups and downs. Sometimes I can go through days without crying, and then something triggers my emotions. Weekends and holidays are hard. When I want to feel close to him, I look at his pictures, our pictures together. I found a box of his old letters to me when I was cleaning out our closet over the holidays. They gave me a good cry when I reread them, but they somehow lifted me up through the holidays. There's so much love in them. Right now, I'm preparing for his first death anniversary with my family. I'm combining our Vietnamese's Buddhist way to commemorate our loved ones and the Methodist way. He was Methodist. Instead of incense, we'll use candles. We'll say our quiet own personal prayers when we light the candles. There will be food offerings to the altar. For the kids, they're going to release balloons.
Q: What do you miss most about your husband?
A: I tell my sons that I don't think there is another person who is so sweet and gentle. He was always so calm and thoughtful. I miss most our conversations we would have. He was so accepting and supportive.
Q: What is your favorite childhood memory?
A: In the back of our house growing up, there was a big man-made pool - like a lake. Our friends would come over and we would pump up inner tubes and float all day. At night, the fireflies would come out.
Q: Tell me something your students are going to learn about this year?
A: I love social studies in the fourth grade. They are going to learn all about California missions. I like to teach about the importance of community and paying it forward.
Q: If you could have anything you want for your classroom, what would it be?
A: Money for field trips. We have this jar of money in our classroom that we are saving up for a field trip. It costs about $700 for a field trip. So many of my students don't have the opportunity to go anywhere. I want to give them experiences and take them to a play or to the symphony.
Q: It took a long time before someone hired you as a teacher but you didn't give up.
A: It was frustrating because I really wanted to be a teacher. Some people suggested that it would be easier if I changed my name to something American or tried to lose my accent. But I don't let people define me. I always know exactly what I can do and I know that I can get there by hard work.
Q: Did you always know what you wanted to be?
A: When I was growing up, I would secretly tutor kids in the neighborhood and I adored my fifth-grade teacher. But my father thought I should be a doctor and I always did what he said. Then the war ended and I lost contact with him and my family. I couldn't afford medical school and my father wasn't there to tell me what to do. So I changed my major and I never regretted it.
Q: How did you put yourself through school?
A: I knew my parents sent me here to get my education so I took it very seriously. I worked two or three jobs and kept my grades up. I cleaned people's homes, worked in the cafeteria, babysat. I even delivered newspapers.
Q: What compels you to serve as a school board member?
A: I never thought about going into politics. I just thought of it as an opportunity because as a teacher, I saw things that I felt needed to be fixed. And this was a way to become a policymaker, so when I was asked to run, I did.
Q: What makes you happy these days?
A: My favorite thing to do is to hang out with my girlfriends when they are not busy. We text each other, go on walks, and go to movies. I also appreciate time with my younger sister, Ly Ha, who comes to visit from Sacramento. We cook and do chores together.
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Former Assemblyman Albert Coutinho was sentenced today for his theft of funds from his own family's charity, as well as filing false financial disclosure forms with the state Legislature.
According to an announcement from the attorney general's office, Coutinho, 44, was sentenced to three years of probation by Superior Court Judge Gerald Council in Mercer County. He must also perform 50 hours of community service and repay tens of thousands of dollars he stole from the foundation.
Coutinho pleaded guilty Sept. 12, one day after resigning from his Assembly seat, to third-degree theft by unlawful taking and fourth-degree falsification of records charges.
In addition to serving probation and community service, Coutinho is permanently barred from holding public office or public employment in New Jersey.
According to the announcement, Coutinho's crimes occurred between 2008 and 2012, when he diverted donations to the Bernardino Coutinho Foundation — a nonprofit charitable organization run by his family and devoted to community development and cultural education in the Portuguese community of Newark's Ironbound district.
The former Assemblyman personally took checks from contributors to a check-cashing store to accumulate $32,500 during the four years in question.

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Meet MacKenzie's Leah Callahan, 2012 Olympic wrestler and soon-to-be film star.
Well, Olympic wrestler and inter-active, digital documentary star is more like it.
Over the past year Vancouver-based filmmakers Josephine Anderson and Brittany Baxter have been following the 25-year-old Callahan's bid to become a 2012 Olympian. From Edmonton to Calgary to Winnipeg to MacKenzie and Prince George, Anderson and Baxter have been filming Callahan for The Sticking Point, a film that will be available online at thestickingplacefilm.ca starting today.
"It looks amazing. I'm quite happy," says Callahan, who was friends with Baxter, who saw her compete at the 2011 Canadian championships in Edmonton.
Baxter was so impressed with Callahan's tenacity and the excitement of the match that she pitched the idea to Anderson about making the film. Initially, Anderson didn't know what to think.
"She was taken aback when I pitched her on this new idea but after I explained the premise of the story - it's like watching a ballet but there's so much more adrenal-in involved because it's combative - she came around pretty quickly," says Baxter.
"Wrestling just wasn't on our radar," adds Anderson. "It took me a few minutes. The more Brittany described the match and Leah, how she was trying to earn this [Olympic] spot and how it all comes down to a two-minute match, it was a two-minute suspense hook.
"Before this film we knew next to nothing about wrestling. We thought it was cool to watch but we just became obsessed with it. It's one of the most intense sports I've ever seen."
Callahan didn't know what she was getting into but says now the process was beneficial.
"I didn't think it was going to be such a really big production," says Callahan, who wrestles in the 72-kilogram category.
"At first I was like, 'yeah, go ahead and film me.' It was a little bit challenging but overall it was a big help because the girls became my sounding board during the process.
"They were objective people I could talk to about the pressures and the stresses that were going on. It also added that external pressure that I wasn't used to, like talking in front of the camera and doing inter-views, which you don't get a lot of exposure to until the Olympics. Now I'm very grateful for that experience."
The documentary isn't really a movie. It's not a linear production with a clear beginning and ending. Viewers can watch the film at their own pace.
"You can focus on the parts of the story that are the most interesting to you," says Anderson. "It's like a series of web screens and you guide your own way through the story."
The project had a $25,000 budget. Baxter and Anderson filmed Callahan at Olympic trials in Winnipeg and during training sessions in Calgary. They went to MacKenzie to talk to some of Callahan's friends and former coaches and to Prince George, where her parents are now living.
A lot of the interviewing was done on Skype.
Baxter and Anderson came up with the documentary's name, The Sticking Point, a name for the place where a person feels the most ground-ed. That point can be in the mind through meditation. Or it could be an actual place like a trail, a yoga mat or a church pew.
"We wanted to avoid the cliché of the goal being the point," says Baxter.
"It's about the journey and the journey changes and you have to change with the journey, we thought it was a great visual ... to imagine them-selves when they're the most calm, that's their sticking place. Everyone should make time to do that in their life."
"It was definitely a journey of me finding where I was grounded amidst all the hoopla of the Olympic trials and the Olympics," says Callahan. "It's about learning where you're grounded and finding your sticking place."
The film offers about 60 minutes of footage. Baxter estimates that the average viewer will spend about 20 minutes on the site.
And because it's only available on the Internet, it's free and has the potential to have an impact globally.
A goal is to inspire women of all ages.
"There's a lack of stories involving women as the lead subject, in sports especially," says Anderson.
"The Olympics is one of the times when women are getting a lot of coverage. We were really excited about the opportunity to tell Leah's story as an athlete, as a person and as a woman for others to see and be inspired by.
"It is [limitless]," she says of the film's potential reach. "And that's what's so exciting. It's free for anyone to see. There are way less barriers to access and it's global. You can see it no matter where you are in the world. We wanted to make something that could inspire people regardless of geographic barriers."
The next stage, of course, would be for the filmmakers to watch Callahan in London. Funding's an issue.
This film isn't exactly The Avengers. Baxter and Anderson are looking for support so they can attend the Games and continue following Callahan's journey.
Keep up to date on the London Olympics by visiting theprovince.com/olympics


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The fourth film in the Mission: Impossible film series, "Ghost Protocol" stars Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Jeremy Renner & Simon Pegg. When a terrorist bombing destroys the Kremlin, the U.S. government initiates a black ops "ghost protocol" and disavows the entire Impossible Mission Force. Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his team are to be blamed for the attack, but are allowed to escape as part of a plan to enable them to operate in the dark, outside of their agency. However, Hunt is warned that if any member of his team is captured during their mission, they will be charged as terrorists planning to incite global nuclear war. Ethan is then forced to work with ex-IMF agent Brandt (Renner), who knows more about Hunt and his past than even Hunt himself.
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My Son Is the Greatest Football Player Ever
Sportswriter Larry Fitzgerald Sr. says he can cover his son objectively. Why does Rick Reilly believe him?
The Arizona Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald is Jerry Rice on fast-forward, a receiver with baseball gloves for hands who outruns, outjumps, and outmuscles defenders. Not only will Fitzgerald be the best athlete on the field in Super Bowl XLIII, he also makes for the most irresistible story for idea-starved sportswriters. That's because his father, longtime Minnesota sportswriter and radio host Larry Fitzgerald Sr., will be watching the big game from the Raymond James Stadium press box. In the last two weeks, the Washington Post's Michael Wilbon, USA Today's Jarrett Bell, and ESPN's Rick Reilly, among others, have written up the Fitzgeralds, reveling in the serendipity of a sportswriter raising a world-class jock.
Wilbon, Bell, and Reilly lay out much of the same material. All the stories note father and son's shared grief over the loss of Fitzgerald Jr.'s mother to cancer, as well as Fitzgerald Sr.'s belief that it's inappropriate to cheer in the press box—even for your own progeny. "You've known me long enough to know I'm not going to show up with pompoms," Fitzgerald Sr. says to Wilbon. "I understand there's no cheering. … I'm there as an objective journalist," he explains to Bell. Reilly, too, fixates on Fitzgerald Sr.'s objectivity, writing:
[I]t's going to be murder for Larry Sr. not to violate that no-cheering-in-the-press-box rule.
"I won't cheer," Fitzgerald says. "I'm going to stay objective. I've come too far to suddenly show up in the press box with pompoms. But if you could put a monitor on my insides, you'd find a whole fan club in there."
If it were my son, I'd go into the bathroom every three minutes and scream into the blow dryer, but not Fitzgerald. He's so old school he's going to be two people during the big week, parent and sportswriter, and never the twain shall meet. "I'm not crossing any lines," he says. He'll take Larry Jr. to dinner at night off the record and interview him during the days on, the first sportswriter anyone can think of to ever cover his own son in the Super Bowl. "I'll be at his interview table, trying to get my questions in, just like everybody else."
All of these stories create an image of a sportswriter obsessed with journalistic etiquette, a reporter who pounds out scrupulously honest, evenhanded, undemonstrative copy. Once you dip into Fitzgerald Sr.'s collected works, however, it's hard to escape the conclusion that Reilly and his cohorts haven't read a word the man has ever written.
Fitzgerald Sr.'s column in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, a weekly African-American newspaper, is less a work of journalism than a proud parent's scrapbook. Judging by the last two issues, the Spokesman-Recorder doesn't run straight game stories, meaning that Fitzgerald Sr.'s columns represent the bulk of the paper's writing about football. As such, the Spokesman-Recorder sports section is essentially a Larry Fitzgerald Jr. tribute page—since 2003, the elder Fitzgerald has written about his son at least 23 times.
Last week, on the occasion of the Cardinals' victory in the NFC championship game, Fitzgerald Sr. argued that no one "has played better in these playoffs than Fitzgerald. ... [He] has raised his game each and every playoff game like the great athletes he grew up watching: Michael Jordan, Kirby Puckett, Kevin Garnett, Jerry Rice, Randy Moss and Cris Carter." The previous week, he wrote that the highlight of Arizona's win over Carolina was "the remarkable prime-time performance of wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald Jr." In both articles, more than half of the copy is devoted to detailing Fitzgerald Jr.'s exploits; in neither story does the author disclose that he's writing about someone who shares his DNA.
Although there are a few exceptions, the vast majority of Fitzgerald Sr.'s articles lack any kind of disclosure, instead identifying Fitzgerald Jr. as a local boy made good. Even so, I wouldn't go out of my way to criticize Fitzgerald Sr. if Bell and Reilly didn't build him up as a media ethicist fit for the chairmanship of the Poynter Institute. (Wilbon gets a pass, as his piece doesn't belabor the point.) After all, he's writing for a small paper where most of the readers are probably aware of the columnist's filial ties to the receiver. It's also hard to argue with what Fitzgerald Sr. has been saying—it's true that nobody has played better in these playoffs than his flesh and blood. It's easier to find fault with Bell and Reilly, who've concocted a fable about the impartiality of a man who basically acts as his son's PR rep. Fitzgerald Sr. might not cheer in the press box, but he fashions the written-word equivalent of minutes-long standing ovations.
Why does Reilly want us to believe that the author of 2004's "Fitzgerald shines at workout" ("The consensus is that Larry Jr. should have won the 2003 Heisman Trophy") and 2008's "Arizona's Larry Fitzgerald hits all escalators" ("He is just 24 years old, and he's already one of the best in the game today") is "going to be two people during the big week, parent and sportswriter, and never the twain shall meet"? I suspect it has something to do with that sportswriterly tendency to turn good people into faultless paragons of virtue. The point isn't that Fitzgerald Sr. is a bad guy because he failed to disclose a relationship. It's that he's always happily blurred the very line that Reilly et al. say he refuses to blur.
Thankfully, there are some sportswriters who can tell a story without feeling compelled to sanitize it. Joe Lapointe's thoughtful, well-researched piece on the Fitzgeralds in the New York Times ignores the no-cheering-in-the-press-box canard and restores a handful of other complicating details that Wilbon, Bell, and Reilly buffed out of their accounts. Lapointe explains that his mother's passing was especially hard on Fitzgerald Jr. because they were estranged at the time. He also takes note of the recent domestic violence accusation by the mother of the wide receiver's young son.
"No matter what happens on Sunday," Lapointe concludes, "Larry Sr. will evaluate his son's performance not as a journalist but as a parent." After paging through Fitzgerald Sr.'s articles, that sounds about right. Further confirmation of where the sportswriter and father's priorities lie came during last Thursday night's college basketball game between Purdue and the University of Minnesota. At the start of the second half, the ESPN cameras caught Fitzgerald Sr. studying the game from press row, a sportswriter completely in his element. He was wearing his son's Arizona Cardinals jersey.


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Good morning!
I first just want to say that I have found this forum EXTREMELY helpful over the past 5 weeks.
I have a 5 week (and 3 day) old daughter - Alaina - that I am breastfeeding.
The whole experience is new to me because my older daughter - Nora - (now 4 years old) never latched on, so I ended up pumping for a full year for her. I have flat nipples and she was just never able to latch on. Alaina, however, has been doing fairly well with breastfeeding.
It's been much more difficult than I ever imagined and I have struggled with the idea of switching her to milk that I have pumped for her in a bottle, but the past couple of days seem to be going better and I feel like I am getting the hang of it finally -- I've had a hard time with the on demand aspect of nursing because I am such a "scheduler". But, I really am trying to keep in mind all of the positives of actually breastfeeding instead of giving her my milk in a bottle and also keeping in mind that (hopefully) it will continue to get easier.
So, I have a couple of questions regarding pumping.
When Alaina was born, I was pumping for a few minutes before she nursed in order to draw out my nipples for her.
When she was 5 days old, I got mastitis -- the NP that I saw advised me that I should pump after she eats in order to empty the breasts.
Since then, I have been pumping after she nurses. I have spaced it out so that I pump every 3 to sometimes 6 hours apart; I try to stick to around 4 hours in between, but sometimes have to go a little longer depending on when she nurses.
I pump both breasts using my Medela Pump In Style for about 5 minutes at a time. I typically get anywhere between 5-10 oz per pumping session and at the end of the day end up with between 24-32 oz going in the freezer.
I have a great stash built up in the freezer for when I return to work in a few weeks. I had a great supply when Nora was a baby as well -- I ended up donating a large portion of what I had.
I am questioning whether I am pumping too much -- I find that, especially at night, my breasts get really full.
Alaina typically only eats from 1 side, occasionally during the day she will have a little off of the other side as well, but that doesn't happen very often.
Should I only be pumping the breast that she did not nurse from even if she did not "empty" the side she was nursing from?
I guess I just worry about having my supply drop - especially since I'll be going back to work soon.
Any thoughts/suggestions that you have are greatly appreciated.
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As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, How can we identify who might have served in the Civil War? Perhaps we know some of them, but maybe not all of them.
Here is how to Filter your file down to identify those people.
The first screen is in the People Workspace, Family View, with the Index in the Left Hand Panel. In this file, I have 8,252 people. At the Bottom of that screen is the FILTER feature.
Clicking on Filter, will bring up a window where we will start to Filter people who meet our parameters. The first thing we need to do, is to click on Include All. This will move those 8,252 people from the Left Window to the Right Window. This is like Selecting ALL or everyone.
Notice the same number is in both sides of the window. Now we want to Filter OUT certain groups of people. In this case, we will Filter Out all Females. So, select Sex from the list of Facts, then Equals, and select Female and click OK.
We have a new number (4,343) (see below). Our next Filter will be to Filter OUT everyone who was born BEFORE 1818, in this example. Selecting the Birth Fact, "is before", and entering 1818. (you can use any date you wish).
Again, we have a new number (3,101) (see below). Next, Filter OUT everyone who was born AFTER 1846. Again select the Birth Fact, "is after", and enter 1846.
Down to 2,491. Will Filter OUT anyone who Died Before 1861. Selecting the Death Fact, "is before" 1861 will do this.
Reduced to 2,338. Now to Filter OUT anyone without a Birth Date. Birth Fact, "is blank".
This reduced the 8,252 people in my file to 2,304.
To remove the Filter, remove the Check Mark, on the Filter Line, and that will restore your file to everyone.
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Maybe you're a local who is tired of your old favorites and looking for a new taste sensation. Or maybe you're a famished visitor unsure of where to get the best eats. Whatever the case may be, there is a great variety of dining options in Kernersville, NC.
At Don Juan's Mexican Restaurant, visitors are often surprised by the level of polish and service the restaurant offers, relative to the prices on the menu. Excellent, speedy service; generous portions; and of course, delicious enchiladas all add up to a great value for those craving that south-of-the-border flavor.
This long-standing Kernersville eatery offers affordable, tasty American faire with a smile. Mickey's is known for their banana splits, and what many locals insist are the best hot dogs in town. Looking for a guilty pleasure? This mom 'n' pop shop has just what you need.
Carnivores in the know call ahead for reservations at Outwest, Kernersville's premiere steakhouse. Here, the steaks are cooked to perfection, the salads are fresh as can be, and the service is friendly. Outwest is not the least expensive place in town, but fans say you certainly get what you pay for.
This local favorite is tucked away from the main drag, so tourists often miss it. The hidden gem serves up Mediterranean-Latin fusion cuisine that leaves visitors hungry for more. The Greek, Spanish, and French tapas are worth the wait, and the wine pairings are excellent. There's truly nothing else in Kernersville like it.


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Suresh Dhaniyala Receives Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor at Clarkson University
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Clarkson University President Tony Collins has announced that Suresh Dhaniyala has been granted tenure and promoted from assistant professor to associate professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering.
Dhaniyala and his group are working on developing several next-generation instruments for improved real-time characterization of submicron aerosol and nanoparticles. These instruments, in combination with modeling efforts, are being used to better understand the effect of particles on human health and global climate.
Dhaniyala has received more than $1.2 million in funding from several agencies including, the NSF, NYSERDA, NASA, the U.S. Navy and the EPA. Dhaniyala's dual commitment to research and teaching has been recognized by the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. He has also received Clarkson University's John W. Graham Jr. Faculty Research Award.
Prior to joining Clarkson, Dhaniyala was a post-doctoral scholar in Chemical Engineering at California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota (1998) and has a master of science degree from the University of Delaware (1994), and a bachelor of technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India (1992).
Dhaniyala is a director on the board of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR). He also served as the education committee chair and tutorial chair in AAAR in 2005 and 2006, respectively. He serves as the faculty advisor for Clarkson's AAAR student chapter.
Clarkson University crosses the boundaries of disciplines, nations and cultures in order for discovery, engineering innovation and enterprise to come together. As a result, faculty and graduates grasp the full impact of their calling, direct their research to the world's pressing issues and lead with confidence and distinction. One in seven alumni is already a CEO or other senior executive. Located in Potsdam, N.Y., just outside the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, Clarkson is home to 3,000 students preparing for rewarding careers through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, science, and health sciences, as well as unparalleled outdoor recreation and life experiences beyond the classroom.


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Our Washington State Cougars insider Britton Ransford weighs in on this week's football matchup against the Eastern Washington Eagles in NCAA football week 2 action. He thinks after having a week to examine what went wrong against BYU, the Cougars should bounce back impressively against a rather inferior Eastern Washington football team. Jeff Tuel made some very questionable decisions in the passing game. He must be better at home.
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Hey, Hungry Girl! I'm pretty sure I have a peanut butter addiction. I find that after a meal, I crave something sweet -- most of the time something consisting of chocolate and peanut butter. Got any suggestions? Thanks! Liz Loves PB&C P.S. 300 Under 300 is incredible. Way to go!
Hi, Liz!
Yup, peanut butter plus chocolate is one crave-worthy combination. Here are my suggestions for an after-dinner fix...
Vitalicious Fudgy Peanut Butter Chip VitaTops - No way around it -- having one of these is THE best way to kick a chocolate and peanut butter craving to the curb. You do have to order the Tops online, but it's worth it. Just 100 calories and a PointsPlus® value of 3* per VitaTop.
HG Hot Couple! Athens Mini Fillo Shells + Snickers - If you want to make a REAL peanut 'n chocolate candy bar go far, chop it up and melt it into fillo shells! You can have two of these for 83 calories and a PointsPlus® value of 2*. That's NUTTY!
Skinny Cow Chocolate Peanut Butter Low Fat Ice Cream Sandwiches - True lovers of PB&C know that portion control is important! That's why I love these individual sandwiches for an ice cream fix. Each one has 150 calories and a PointsPlus® value of 4*.
Teeny Weeny Creamy Oreo Peanut Butter Poppers - Don't let the "teeny weeny" part get you down; you can eat TEN of these mini frozen treats for 188 calories and a PointsPlus® value of 5*. Or have five for 94 calories. Your call!
Fiber One Chocolate Peanut Butter 90 Calorie Chewy Bars - Toss one of these in your bag and enjoy it after any meal, anywhere! Each fiber-packed, 90-calorie bar clocks in with a PointsPlus® value of 2*.
P.S. I am so happy to hear that you are enjoying the new book! What's your favorite recipe!? I'm guessing it's the PB & Chocolate Oatmeal Blitz!
Hi Hungry Girl,
I'm curious why your recipes call for powdered creamer that gets dissolved in water instead of calling for liquid creamer. Are the stats different, or is it because the shelf life of powdered creamer is longer, or is it for a whole different reason? I love your recipes, your website, and the daily emails!
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Hi Cream of,
There are a couple of reasons, actually. The creamer we call for most often is sugar-free French vanilla. Both the liquid and the powdered versions are creamy and sweet with impressive stats. But the powdered variety is a MUCH better kitchen staple. Why? For one thing, portion control. While recipes make it easy and call for specific amounts of creamer, it's WAY too easy to over-pour liquid creamer into your coffee, causing calories to rack up quickly. (Who uses just ONE tablespoon?! Come on!) With the powder, a little goes a long way, and it's easier to keep the amount you're adding in check. Also, like you said, the powdered creamer has a much longer shelf life; so if you're not someone who drinks coffee daily but you want to make an HG recipe or two with the stuff, you're much better off buying the powdered kind. I feel the same way about plain, unflavored creamer -- just make sure to get the fat-free version. BTW, Coffee-mate makes the best creamers. Consider yourself Cream of Informed!
Today, April 13th, is National Peach Cobbler Day. Hey, we've got a recipe for that! Click and chew...
Have a question for Hungry Girl? Send it in! She answers new Qs each week (but cannot respond to emails personally).
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Hey ya'll,
I was on the Support-gang conference call (1.0 and 2.0) on sunday, and several folks mentioned I should touchbase here (and with Kate, etc..). I have a great interest with the wiki and helping to organization/reshape the site to something more friendly, and easier to navigate.
I have lots of ideas and experience, and would like to put our heads together with a group for a good cooperative plan of wiki attack.
As the wiki is quickly expanding (at the rate of 10 to 15 new pages a day), how about create a group of folks who want to help coordinate with keeping content organized and consistent ?
And idea, is creating a section for wiki content curators/coordinators .... on the curators wiki page?
Some ideas for a starting points, create
1) Site Map (good consistent/maintained/watched pages for the public),
2) List/category of outdated pages (to be avoided, or archived, or moved into a specific archive User Space?))
3) Collection of 'User Boxes' for self-identification of interests and areas where they want to help.
I also found an older Wiki Page Restructuring and OBX proposals (last updated by Xavi and MitchellNCharity )
Let me know if you are interested helping, I'll connect up with Kate and see about getting a group of identified volunteers going.


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A Holly Drive woman faces charges after allegedly beating and biting her husband and trying to attack him with an ax.
Elaine N. Brenn, 42, of 117 Holly Drive was arraigned Thursday in Gardner District Court on charges of assault and battery, assault with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. She was released on $1,000 bail to appear for a pretrial hearing Feb. 5.
In a report filed with court records, police said Mrs. Brenn�s husband, Marc J. Brenn, told them his wife arrived home intoxicated Dec. 28. They began arguing about money and bills. In an attempt to calm her down, he brought her a plate of food. The peace offering did not work. Police said he told them she became more agitated and tried to punch him in the face.
As the victim attempted to back off and turned to move away, the police report continued, Mrs. Brenn allegedly bit him in the back and pushed him down a flight of stairs. He went back up the stairs and begged her to calm down. Her response was to throw a wooden stool at him, which he blocked with his arm. He then began to run down stairs as she followed, punching and scratching him. Mr. Brenn then ran back upstairs and locked himself in a bedroom. She tried to kick the door in, yelling that she would kill him.
When she could not kick the door in, the report said, she got an ax from a wood pile and tried chopping through the door, missing her husband�s head by a few inches as he pressed against the door to keep it closed. Before she could break into the room, Tim Grim, who lives with them, grabbed the ax from her and told her he saved her from going to jail. Her response was that she was trying to bury the ax in her husband�s head. She then reached through a hole in the door in an attempt to open it, but injured her arm with splinters from the door. She then headed to the bathroom to clean the wound and then went down to the living room to rest on a couch, according to the police report.
Mr. Brenn told police he held off reporting it until Wednesday, hoping his wife would improve. She continued to drink and started an argument Tuesday night, and he decided to go to the police station. He told police he did not want a restraining order.


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Musicians collaborate all the time; so do actors. But artists, not really — and that goes double for street art, where making an individual mark is the name of the game.
That's why one of Baltimore's best-known street artists had to try it.
The result is a head-turning show called ZimZum, opening Saturday at the Creative Alliance. It features an expansive indoor and outdoor group effort between Baltimore Love Project founder Michael Owen and the artists Gaia and Momo.
"Most street artists just want to put their voice up on a wall," Owen says. "It's interesting and pretty unique to really force these people together into a space and a concept. It's losing a bit of your style to make a better work, a very unique idea in the graffiti scene."
ZimZum, sometimes spelled Tzimtzum, is a term from Kabbalah used to explain how God creates by first removing his essence from an area. The artists like to think of it as God breathing in inspiration from the environment and then creating with the exhale.
Owen got to know Gaia working with him at the Creative Alliance. He met Momo through Open Walls, the mural program that started this year in Station North. The three weren't close, and their styles are utterly different.
Momo, who's 37 and based in New Orleans now, is known for painting a winding orange line though downtown Manhattan, what The New York Times called "possibly the biggest graffiti tag in the world."
Gaia, 24, is a Maryland Institute College of Art graduate known for pasting fanciful animal figures onto buildings in some of the most blighted parts of Baltimore. As street artists, he and Momo try to preserve their anonymity.
Owen is best known for creating the Baltimore Love Project, his effort to paint the word "love," spelled out on murals, throughout the city. He's about to turn 30.
The merger wasn't easy.
Momo was concerned that his graphic work would become the background. Gaia had to leave town and met with the others via Skype. Owen wanted everything planned out before anyone got out a paintbrush — the others were more freewheeling.
And more than anything, it was hard for the artists to let go of their original ideas.
"People have to be willing to forgo certain starts, then enter down other routes," Gaia says. "It really has to be a balance of input and a cutting of the chaff, and you can't be hurt by the chaff."
It came together fast, in less than a month. ZimZum-style, the three drew inspiration for their work by walking the neighborhoods that surround the Creative Alliance: Highlandtown, Canton and Patterson Park.
Gaia chose to paint a classical-style horse, inspired by the Casimir Pulaski Monument in the park.
Inspired by a steel bridge that runs over train tracks in Highlandtown, Owen painted a bridge laid over splashes of bright pinks, greens and blues.
Momo's piece is an abstract linear melange in primary colors.
They decided on an installation that reflected their struggle to blend. First, inside the gallery, they would each have a piece of their own hanging on canvas.
Then they painted replicas of those works on cinder blocks, dismantled them and used the blocks to build a wall, mixing the various works together. The wall is six blocks high and spans nearly the length of the gallery, cutting through the middle.
Finally, they took the work outside, painting a mural onto the side of the Creative Alliance and using elements from each of their pieces.
"In the end," Owens says, "we've got something with three individual parts screened on top of each other so that it becomes one piece."
"I was blown away when I saw our cinder block wall," Momo says. "Somehow the different parts were just enough to play off each other well."
Recently Gaia and Momo were outside, up on a scaffold, spray-painting the horse and using housepaint to fill Momo's stripes. Owen handled the lower end of the stripe from the sidewalk.
All three were covered in paint. Music blasted from a boombox.
The mural, which covers the East Avenue side of the Creative Alliance, stretching from roof to sidewalk, became a neighborhood focal point well before it was finished — an impossible-to-miss tableau for riders of the No. 13 bus.
A young man in camouflage pants bicycling past gave it a double take — twice — before pedaling on his way. A woman who works in a business across the street kept her eye on it while sitting on a smoke break. Someone all but stopped their car in the middle of the street to have a look.
The Creative Alliance commissioned the trio to create the piece. Megan Hamilton, the organization's program director, loves the artists' "crazy young energy" and hopes it will not only draw young people to the Alliance but continue to engage people from the neighborhood.
"Our raison d'etre is to create art that's contextualized in the history and dialogue of the neighborhood," she says. This piece is "really rooted in a sense of place."
If you go
ZimZum: Gaia, Michael Owen and Momo
When: Opens Saturday, Sept. 15, with a reception from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and then a Sweatboxx dance party in the space featuring Baltimore club music starting at 9 p.m. The show runs through Oct. 27.
Where: Creative Alliance, 3134 Eastern Ave., Highlandtown.


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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. --- Maybe it's the spring weather but there are lots of reports of area filming, according to On Location Vacations.
In White Plains, the CBS drama Madame Secretary" starring Téa Leoni is filming at 1133 Westchester Avenue on Monday, April 17.
Meanwhile, in Hartsdale, at Old Colony Road, HBO's "Divorce" is doing shoots.
Film crews are also around West Sandford Blvd and South 7 Avenue in Mount Vernon for either "Billions" or "Seven Seconds," said the website.
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Most search engines, such as Google's, find things that want to be discovered. Websites go to a lot of effort to bring in visitors, the equivalent of putting out the red carpet and a big sign that says "Free Lobster Buffet." But a lot of things that are connected to the Internet don't want visitors -- say, a local printer, or the control valves on a power plant, or devices using machine-to-machine code to watch over some aspect of an agency.
Devices whose operators want them left alone use their obscurity as a cloak. If they don't put up a flag that says "find me," they are ignored by typical search engines. But not the one run by Shodan, which specializes in discovering the undiscoverable. It's designed to find all the things you thought that isolation made safe, potentially giving access to your agency through a million back doors.
CNN Money recently called Shodan, "the scariest search engine on the Internet." Editors there did some quick searches and found traffic lights, home heating systems and security cameras. Apparently, security expects also have used Shodan to discover the command and control system of a nuclear power plant and a particle-accelerating cyclotron.
What makes this issue potentially dangerous is that many of the devices found by Shodan have no security, because they were never designed to host visitors, other than perhaps an authorized user once or twice over the unit's lifetime. Most others have default passwords, which the Shodan site helpfully points out how to find.
Launched in 2009, Shodan (an acronym for Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network) crawls the Web and logs every undiscovered device it finds. The site says that it catalogs more than 500 million devices every month.
The owner of Shodan does try to limit the site's effectiveness as a terrorist or hacker tool. Search results are limited to just 10. A subscription is required for 50 results per search. Apparently there is a hidden level of access, that delivers unlimited results, but users have to convince the site's owners of the validity of the search, and likely pay another fee.
But the limitations are more an annoying than a real barrier. I spent a few hours searching for devices and found that with a refined search, those 10 results are more than enough. For example, I was able to discover a security network for a jail in Canada. More locally, one of those flashing information signs at a business popped up in just a few minutes of trying.
As reported by CNN, traffic networks are quite easy to find using Shodan, especially once familiar with how cities name devices on their grids. In fact, by understanding the naming conventions and knowing the IP ranges, a dedicated hacker might be able to do almost anything within a specific city.
Power and water plants and other parts of the infrastructure are potentially vulnerable. In 2010 ICS-CERT issued a warning about it, specifically for SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems used in industrial settings.
It might be easy to say that such a site should be shut down. But the technology is out there already, and at least Shodan operates in the light. Also it's potentially dangerous only because the devices it finds aren't secured or are protected by default passwords, and it could be put to good use.
Agencies sometimes do penetration testing on their systems to identify weaknesses. Shodan could be another tool, looking for unsecured devices, those protected by default passwords and those devices that don't really need to be connected to the Internet.
Look around your office right now. See all those devices? How many of them are potential back doors for hackers? Even if you don't know the answer, Shodan does.
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Hey Ralph, Im pretty sure your phone needs to be connected to the Internet or it might not work, especially if you are on a PBX. Things this search engine can find (I fooled around with it a bit) are mostly devices that do need some human intervention from time to time, like a traffic signal. If it gets out of sync or needs to be tested, someone has to log into it. That means that someone could probably change the signal lights and all that, but I dont know what we could do to stop them other than add security to all of these necessary machines. I'm pretty surprised that most of the ones I found were wide open.
This kind of reminds me of the start of a Steven King book. I wonder if the phone will suddenly leap up and try to strangle me, only it will not be some alien intelligence but a hacker calling the shots. Seriously, if something does not need to be connected to the Internet, UNPLUG IT.
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Minecraft PC passes 8 million sales
Minecraft PC sales have surpassed the 8 million mark. That's a lot of blocks, and a lot of money.
PCGamesN has reported on the sales stats, although exact figures have not been made available in the wild.
The initial alpha build launched in 2009 and quickly put creator Markus "Notch" Persson on the map. Word of mouth led to the notoriety of Persson's studio Mojang and eventually spawned Xbox 360 and mobile versions. It has since become a cultural phenomenon worldwide.
Interviews with Notch are rare, but earlier this year the world was given a rare glimpse of Mojang's studio when it was nominated for a Swedish award for one of the country's best-looking offices. See the photos here:
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Enjoy clear sound and wireless streaming with the NR1603 Slim Line AV Receiver from Marantz. This 7.1-channel receiver features built-in networking capabilities and AirPlay technology, so you can stream music and other content from a mobile device or your home computer. The multi-zone feature lets you watch Blu-ray movies in one room while listening to music in another. Part of Marantz's Slim Line series, the NR1603 features a sleek design and a small footprint--making it well suited for audiophiles with space constraints.
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With the NR1603 Slim Line AV Receiver, you can experience optimal sound through your home theater system and play music, movies, and more from a variety of sources, including Blu-ray players, game systems, and mobile devices. The NR1603 is a 7.1-channel receiver, so you can power left, right, and center speakers along with four surround speakers for optimal surround sound. It's well suited for family rooms, play rooms, dedicated TV and entertainment rooms, and even bedrooms.
Audyssey MultEQ for the Most Clear and Balanced Sound Possible
The NR1603 supports playback of the latest high-definition audio formats and has discrete power amplifiers for all seven audio channels. Award-winning Audyssey MultEQ technology helps create an optimal acoustic profile for your home theater system, resulting in clear and balanced sound. In addition, built-in 3D pass-through technology allows the receiver to route 3D video signals from a Blu-ray player to your HDTV--making this great for enjoying Blu-ray 3D discs.
Multi-Zone Feature Sends Different Signals at Once
The NR1603 receiver features multi-zone capability, which allows you to simultaneously send different audio signals to different locations in your home. Watch the ball game in the living room while playing music in the patio --all through one receiver.
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The NR1603 is a network-ready product that allows you to stream music, photos, and more from your computer over your home network. As a result, you can enjoy thousands of Internet radio stations from around the world as well as music streaming services like Pandora or SiriusXM through your home theater system. The NR1603 also includes AirPlay wireless technology so you can stream music wirelessly from your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or iTunes library on your computer.
The optional Marantz RX-101 Bluetooth Adapter (sold separately) enables the NR1603 to receive Bluetooth wireless signals.
For users with Spotify Premium accounts, the NR-1603 offers direct access to more than 18 million music tracks. Spotify streams music content with a high-quality 320 Kbps bitrate, offering high-fidelity listening through your home-audio system.
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Thanks to six HDMI inputs--including one on the front--you can enjoy high-quality, high-definition audio and video from a variety of sources. The HDMI input on the front panel allows you to quickly and easily connect an HDMI-ready portable device, such as a camcorder or a tablet computer.
The receiver is also equipped with an Ethernet port, a USB port on the front panel for connecting a mobile device, and two component video inputs and one output to support your legacy video sources and displays.
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Marantz offers a free remote app named the "Marantz Remote App" that enables you to operate the NR1603 using your iOS or Android device. The receiver also comes with a remote control (batteries included).
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Like other products in Marantz's Slim Line series, the NR1603 features a stylish black finish along with a slim profile and a small footprint, making it easy to fit into tight spaces. An intuitive, on-screen "Setup Assistant" simplifies the installation process.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Geoff Johns, executive producer of "The Flash," says the upcoming CW series is probably the most faithful DC Comics adaptation ever.
Grant Gustin stars as Barry Allen, who becomes the fastest man alive, known as The Flash. He was introduced last fall on two episodes of The CW's "Arrow."
The cast and executive producers spoke to journalists Friday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour about the show set to premiere Oct. 7.
Here are some highlights:
— Wentworth Miller (formerly of "Prison Break") will be introduced in the show's fourth episode as Leonard Snart (otherwise known as Captain Cold, a villain with a freeze gun.)
— Look for a wink to DC Comics villain Gorilla Grodd in the pilot episode. Grodd is an enemy to The Flash.
— Expect crossovers with characters from "Arrow" and "The Flash." Gustin said in an interview the two sets are across the street from each other in Vancouver, British Columbia. He teased that those appearances will likely happen more than people might anticipate.
— Art released from The CW shows The Flash wearing a purple costume. This will change. "Our hope is to augment it and change it over time ... We'll be evolving the suit," executive producer Greg Berlanti said.


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Police make arrests in Manchester robberies
January 12. 2013 5:58PM
MANCHESTER — A city man was arrested Saturday and charged with committing four armed robberies in a five-day span on the city's West Side, police said. A second Manchester man also was charged with one of those robberies.
Danien Brousseau, 34, of 704 Montgomery St., was charged with four counts of armed robbery between Jan. 5 and last Wednesday.
Oscar Grande, 36, of 199 Kelley St., was charged with one count of robbery.
Both are accused of robbing the Bremer Street Food Mart last Wednesday, according to police Det. Michael Lavallee. The other three robberies occurred at the 99 Cent & Cigarette Market on Kelley Street, Crosstown Variety on Bremer Street and Crosstown Variety on Amory Street.
About $500 was taken in the robberies, and no one was hurt, Lavallee said.
Police found the men walking along Kelley Street, just east of Grande's residence, around 1:35 p.m. Brousseau took off and was apprehended after a three-block foot pursuit, he said.
Both men are being held on probation/parole violations, he said.


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Independent Musicians Radio (IMRadio) will become
a revenue-share internet radio station,
revolutionizing the age old royalty based model of
traditional radio stations. Instead of paying
royalties on the original songs that it airs,
IMRadio will put money directly into the
musicians� pockets. At absolutely no cost, any
artist in the world can upload their original
songs for airplay, as well as creating their own
online store for their merchandise. With IMRadio,
every artist, singer, songwriter, band, poet and
comedian gets free airplay. As an �open source�
radio station, IMRadio has attracted a huge
audience that is growing daily. IMRadio features
original music by independent artists from all 50
states, as well as over 75 countries, performing
in 80 different genres, meaning our listeners will
never be at a loss. However, as opposed to other
internet and terrestrial radio stations, the
listener is always in charge. Turn on IMRadio and
let it play all day, or change locations, genres
or songs as many times as they want. IMRadio is a
station where both artists and listeners can
interact, review songs, add to forums, enter
contests and place a widget on their home page to
share their music with their fans. Artists receive
a profile page where they can communicate with
their local fans and introduce themselves to a
worldwide audience. It is also a great place for
artists to promote their upcoming concerts. Also
in the works are plans for an industry changing
technology, Live Interactive Virtual Events (IM
TV). �I love hearing new songs on the radio,
learning more about musicians and eventually going
to see their concerts,� said Paddy Noonan. �That�s
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Sue Simmons
Who: WNBC lead anchor Sue Simmons has been reading the headlines to New Yorkers alongside Chuck Scarborough for more than a quarter century.
Backstory: The daughter of jazz bassist John Simmons, who collaborated with legends like Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, and Billie Holliday, Sue began her journalism career as a correspondent for WTNH-TV in New Haven, Conn. In 1974, she moved to WBAL in Baltimore to anchor the station's "Action News," before heading to Washington to co-anchor the evening news on D.C.'s WRC-TV. In 1980, she joined WNBC in New York. That's where she's been ever since.
Of note: As familiar a part of the late-night television landscape as Letterman and Leno—at least as far as New Yorkers are concerned—Sue and Chuck have co-hosted WNBC's 11 p.m. news broadcast for close to 30 years. Shortly after her arrival in 1980, she picked up the co-anchor slot on the channel's "Live At Five" newscast and bantered with a rotating cast of co-anchors over the years that variously included Jack Cafferty, Matt Lauer, Dean Shepherd, Jim Rosenfield, Perri Peltz, and Scarborough. These days, Simmons—who reportedly earns $2.5 million a year for her services—can be seen co-anchoring the news at 6pm and 11pm.
Drama: In May 2008, the normally mild-mannered Simmons gave family-values types something to complain about when she screamed "What the fuck are you doing?" in a teaser for an 11 p.m. broadcast, not realizing she was live. The query was apparently directed toward Chuck, who'd failed to read his lines because he was distracted by something on his computer screen.
Personal: There's long been speculation surrounding Simmons' sexuality, although she's never discussed the issue publicly. She did take time to blurb Paws and Reflect, a book about the relationships between gay men and their dogs: "I was stunned by the emotions this book shook out of me." She lives in a Midtown East co-op.
For the record: Each year on Groundhog Day, Simmons shows her soft and furry side, doing an on-air impression of a groundhog.
Vital Stats
Full Name: Susan Simmons
Date of Birth: 05/27/1943
Place of Birth: New York, NY
Residence(s): New York, NY (Midtown)
Filed Under: Media, News, Television
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42 U.S. Code § 247b–15 - Surveillance and education regarding hepatitis C virus
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The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may (directly and through grants to public and nonprofit private entities) provide for programs to carry out the following:
(1) To cooperate with the States in implementing a national system to determine the incidence of hepatitis C virus infection (in this section referred to as "HCV infection") and to assist the States in determining the prevalence of such infection, including the reporting of chronic HCV cases.
(2) To identify, counsel, and offer testing to individuals who are at risk of HCV infection as a result of receiving blood transfusions prior to July 1992, or as a result of other risk factors.
(3) To provide appropriate referrals for counseling, testing, and medical treatment of individuals identified under paragraph (2) and to ensure, to the extent practicable, the provision of appropriate follow-up services.
(4) To develop and disseminate public information and education programs for the detection and control of HCV infection, with priority given to high risk populations as determined by the Secretary.
(b) Laboratory procedures
The Secretary may (directly and through grants to public and nonprofit private entities) carry out programs to provide for improvements in the quality of clinical-laboratory procedures regarding hepatitis C, including reducing variability in laboratory results on hepatitis C antibody and PCR testing.
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 317N, as added Pub. L. 106–310, div. A, title XVIII, § 1801,Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1152.)
Study and Demonstration Projects Regarding Cases of Hepatitis C Among Certain Emergency Response Employees
Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title XVII, § 1704], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–365, provided that:
"(a) Study Regarding Prevalence Among Certain Emergency Response Employees.—
"(1) In general.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this section as the 'Secretary'), in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, shall conduct a study to determine—
"(A) an estimate of the prevalence of hepatitis C among designated emergency response employees in the United States; and
"(B) the likely means through which such employees become infected with such disease in the course of performing their duties as such employees.
"(2) Designated emergency response employees.—For purposes of this section, the term 'designated emergency response employees' means firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians who are employees or volunteers of units of local government.
"(3) Date certain for completion; report to congress.—The Secretary shall commence the study under paragraph (1) not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 2000]. Not later than one year after such date, the Secretary shall complete the study and submit to the Congress a report describing the findings of the study.
"(b) Demonstration Projects Regarding Training and Treatment.—
"(1) In general.—The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, shall make grants to qualifying local governments for the purpose of carrying out demonstration projects that (directly or through arrangements with nonprofit private entities) carry out each of the following activities:
"(A) Training designated emergency response employees in minimizing the risk of infection with hepatitis C in performing their duties as such employees.
"(B) Testing such employees for infection with the disease.
"(C) Treating the employees for the disease.
"(2) Qualifying local governments.—For purposes of this section, the term 'qualifying local government' means a unit of local government whose population of designated emergency response employees has a prevalence of hepatitis C that is not less than 200 percent of the national average for the prevalence of such disease in such populations.
"(3) Confidentiality.—A grant may be made under paragraph (1) only if the qualifying local government involved agrees to ensure that information regarding the testing or treatment of designated emergency response employees pursuant to the grant is maintained confidentially in a manner not inconsistent with applicable law.
"(4) Evaluations.—The Secretary shall provide for an evaluation of each demonstration project under paragraph (1) in order to determine the extent to which the project has been effective in carry [sic] out the activities described in such paragraph.
"(5) Report to congress.—Not later than 180 days after the date on which all grants under paragraph (1) have been expended, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report providing—
"(A) a summary of evaluations under paragraph (4); and
"(B) the recommendations of the Secretary for administrative or legislative initiatives regarding the activities described in paragraph (1).
"(c) Authorization of Appropriations.—For the purpose of carrying out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2001."
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Work Schedule Flexibility Policy
Date Issued: 04/17/95
Date Revised: 08/01/98
While most campuses and departments have established standard business hours, these schedules vary throughout the University, depending upon the services provided. Many are finding that flexible work schedules help them provide better service to their clients without incurring the expense of overtime. More employees can be scheduled to work during peak activity periods while fewer employees are scheduled for non-peak hours. This scheduling process is workable for routine weekly operations or seasonal operational requirements.
This policy applies to all hourly paid staff of Saint Louis University. Salaried/exempt employees are not eligible for overtime or compensatory time off. Salaried employees may enjoy greater scheduling flexibility than is true for hourly-paid staff; however, the tracking of hours worked over 40 per week and the use of compensatory time is not permitted.
Supervisors are responsible for establishing and informing staff members of specific work schedules. Upon hire, employees will be advised of the work schedule to which they will be assigned and the number of hours they are to work each day and week. The information provided will include: start time; break periods, if necessary; lunch periods; and normal ending time.
When the work schedule must be changed, the supervisor will give as much advance notice as possible so that personal arrangements can be made to meet the new scheduling requirements. While the operating requirements of the department must be the primary consideration in establishing work schedules and requiring overtime, supervisors are expected to consider the personal requirements of staff members in making such decisions.
Hourly-paid employees will be advised by supervisors to record each day the actual hours worked that day. This record will include the time work begins, the time work ends each day, and the amount of time for the lunch period.
Hourly-paid staff may be required to work extra hours on a given workday. If this occurs, the supervisor may permit or require the employee to take an equal number of hours off within the same work week. Time off in lieu of overtime pay must be taken within the same work week and must have prior approval of the supervisor. SLU does not permit the accrual of compensatory time in lieu of payment for overtime; however, work schedules may be modified. The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that overtime hours worked in a week be paid at the overtime rate and not carried forward to future weeks as compensatory time.


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STOCKTON - Lincoln had about a week to prepare for Davis' full-court pressure defense and frenetic offense.
STOCKTON - Lincoln had about a week to prepare for Davis' full-court pressure defense and frenetic offense.
The practice paid off, as the Trojans held on for an 80-78 win over the Blue Devils in the first round of the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs on Wednesday at Lincoln High. The No. 6 Trojans (22-5) will play Friday at No. 3 Fair Oaks-Bella Vista, which beat No. 14 Chavez 77-49 on Wednesday.
"We just saw the openings and took them," Lincoln senior forward Julio Muao said after scoring 21 points on 10-of-12 shooting with 13 rebounds. "They started really up-tempo."
The shot clock rarely was a factor, as both teams aggressively attacked the basket in the open floor.
Lincoln was especially effective passing over Davis' full-court press, which frequently set up with four defenders in the front court.
"Our guards did a good job keeping their heads up and looking down the court," Trojans coach Gary Greeno said.
Muao was on the receiving end of several long, downcourt passes for layups. He also played solid interior defense and blocked four shots.
The Blue Devils (16-11) fought back from a 74-65 deficit in the fourth quarter, and made eight free throws in the final 34 seconds.
The final two came with 0.8 seconds remaining by Hayden Russell, which created a somewhat suspenseful finish, as Lincoln had to inbound the ball cleanly from underneath Davis' basket after a timeout to secure the victory.
"I think everybody in the gym counted us out in the last minute or two," Blue Devils coach Dan Gonzalez said. "I think we really gave them everything we had."
Contact sports editor Bob Highfill at (209) 546-8282 or email@example.com.


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My son is 5, and he doesn't quite seem to grok switching amongst open applications yet. He _always_ goes back to the Home screen and then launches his desired activity, and he never quits them. This causes memory problems, and some apps (like the maze game) just refuse to run if launched a second time.
Is there a way to
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If only they had enough "big" races to ride in the UK, outside of ToB and Cycle Classic, just 6 Premiers at the moment, plus the Nationals. 16 days of proper road racing, plus 10 or 11 Tour Series, and 6-8 Elite Crit races, plus a crit championship.
The programme does look a bit thin for 2013. I can see them all being off abroard quite a bit, just to get the quality races.
Not since the late 1980's and the epic duels of the ANC, Ever Ready and Banana teams has the UK domestic cycling scene shown such promise and strength in depth.
This preview takes in the big three of Rapha/Condor/Sharp, UK Youth and newcomers Madison/Genesis, but we could talk about Raleigh, Knights of Old and so on. We have some big teams now competing on our shores. Of course with Endura stepping up there has been a bit of movement in the transfer market as some of their riders are not going on their European adventure.
Here are the line ups confirmed so far for the teams mentioned above and (my own brief) comments about key riders.
Aaron Buggle
Hugh Carthy
Ed Clancy
Mike Cuming
Felix English
Luke Grivell-Mellor
Richard Handley
Kristian House
James McCallum
Elliot Porter
Will Stephenson
The big departure is Dean Downing who we will come onto with his new team. Star billing is shared by Ed Clancy of Olympic fame and Kristian House who is a former GB road race champion and who lit up both the Tour Series and Tour of Britain with some great attacking displays.
James McCallum is an interesting rider who has bubbled under the top layer for some years now and should have some great opportunities in this team.
Team UK Youth
Yanto Barker
Marcin Bialoblocki
Niklas Gustavsson
Tobyn Horton
Josh Hunt
James Lowsley-Williams
Greg Mansell
Jon Mould
Chris Opie
Rob Partridge
Richard Tanguy
Ian Wilkinson
With 2004 Paris-Roubaix winner Magnus Backstedt yet to confirm his ride for 2013, the UK Youth team haven't been slow in looking to add depth to their top line of riders.
Quick is the main adjective to describe Rob Partridge who is a demon in events such as the Tour Series. Ian Wilkinson also arrives from Endura Racing and the former East Midlands CiCLE Classic winner will be a real strong man for this team. Yanto Barker needs no introduction and has probably the most class of all the domestic riders currently riding.
Marcin Bialoblocki is another great criterium rider and will be a factory in the Premier Calendars less hilly events.
Madison Genesis
Dean Downing
Andy Tennant
Ian Bibby
Sebastian Baylis
Alex Peters
Brennan Townshend
Dominic Jelfs
Jack Pullar
Liam Holohan
Chris Snook
Last but not least in this preview are the new Madison squad managed by former professional rider Roger Hammond. An ex-GB road race champion with a podium place in Paris-Roubaix, Hammond needs no introduction to UK cycling fans. He has wasted no time in getting the sort of talent assembled to trouble the other teams in criteriums and road races.
Dean Downing is a legend on the domestic scene and will be keen to continue his prolific record on our roads. Ian Bibby has been touted as the next big rider from these shores to break through and make it in Europe. Jon Tiernan-Locke seems to have overtaken him in that ambition and Bibby will need to ride strongly in 2013 to get back in prime position in the UK.
Liam Holohan was a regular sprint winner in the last two seasons Tour Series events and will add some firepower to a team who will be looking to get noticed early in their existence.
Of course we haven't touched on other established teams and a domestic scene that includes the likes of Tony Gibb and Graham Briggs.
2013 is shaping up to be an epic with real comeptition amongst teams for key prizes like the Lincoln Grand Prix and Tour of the Reservoir.
My pulse is already quickening...
James has been blogging for road.cc for 5 years and racing bicycles (averagely) for 20 years.
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If only they had enough "big" races to ride in the UK, outside of ToB and Cycle Classic, just 6 Premiers at the moment, plus the Nationals. 16 days of proper road racing, plus 10 or 11 Tour Series, and 6-8 Elite Crit races, plus a crit championship.


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ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) — James Everett Dutschke is not going easily.
The Mississippi man who pleaded guilty in January to sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others changed his mind Tuesday, asking a judge to withdraw his plea just before sentencing.
U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock did not rule immediately on the request, telling the defense and prosecutors to lay out arguments about whether she should hold Dutschke (DUHS'-kee) to his plea, which she repeatedly described as a "contract."
"Your filing the motion to withdraw does not necessarily mean the court will grant it," Aycock told Dutschke. "I do want you to understand that your withdrawal is in the discretion of the court."
Dutschke's withdrawal came at the end of a hearing meant to determine his sentence on one count of making ricin and three counts of sending it through the mail. His targets were Obama; U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.; and Mississippi judge Sadie Holland. Poisoned letters addressed to Obama and Wicker were intercepted before delivery, but one letter reached Holland. She was not harmed.
Aycock repeatedly rejected arguments from Dutschke's lawyer, Ken Coghlan, aimed at lessening his sentence. Court officials recommended Dutschke should serve from 20 years to life.
Aycock was about to sentence Dutschke when she let him speak. The former martial arts instructor, animated throughout the hearing, launched a half-hour speech that left Aycock holding her head in her hand. She called a recess so Dutschke could consult with Coghlan. At the end, Dutschke asked to withdraw his plea, possibly setting him up for trial.
Dutschke said federal prosecutors lied when they said he made the poison and about finding his DNA on a dust mask. Dutschke said he was guilty only of using castor beans to make a fertilizer that couldn't hurt anyone.
"There is no poison, there is no ricin and my DNA was not on that mask," Dutschke said.
He was so confident that the powder was harmless that he offered prosecutors the "ultimate free shot" at killing him by letting him eat the remaining substance in evidence.
"I will dump the contents of the two remaining letters on a peanut and butter sandwich and eat it and wash it down with a glass of chocolate milk," said Dutschke, who was eventually cut short by Aycock.
The defendant turned accusations back at Paul Kevin Curtis, the Elvis impersonator and Corinth, Mississippi, performer who federal officials originally arrested.
Dutschke also denied guilt on state fondling charges to which he has pleaded guilty. Prosecutors recommended he serve his sentence in the unrelated fondling case at the same time he served any penalty on the federal charges.
While jailed, Dutschke claimed, he was enticed by another inmate to write a letter that federal prosecutors said was evidence he was still trying to frame Curtis.
Curtis has sued Dutschke and is also seeking to sue the federal government over his arrest in the case. Curtis wasn't present Tuesday, but his lawyer was.
"That's just silly," said lawyer Christi McCoy, dismissing Dutschke's claims against Curtis.
Federal prosecutor Chad Lamar said an FBI agent didn't lie and he did not encourage perjury. Lamar said that while the mask tested negative for one form of DNA, another form was found.
"The defendant is simply mistaken," Lamar told Aycock. "The mask he threw in the coffee grinder box was the mask that tested positive."
Lamar argued earlier that the level of poison didn't matter if Dutschke meant harm, an argument Aycock ruled in favor of.


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There are many things to be thankful for as we approach our annual holiday ritual of assigning thanks for the abundant bounty we all have in this country. One of the things Lenawee County can all be thankful for is an amazing corporate citizen.
Most people think of auto racing when they think of Michigan International Speedway. Perhaps they thought of it again this week when Michigan native Brad Keselowski of the Penske Racing team won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship.
MIS deserves attention as well, though, for a variety of other reasons.
First, its events have an enormous financial impact on our state and region. MIS remains Lenawee County's largest taxpayer. Thousands of people drive and fly in to enjoy what is now the fastest NASCAR track in the nation. These visitors primarily are from a 300-mile radius and many are our friends from Canada.
Second, MIS became the fastest NASCAR track in the nation because it invested millions of dollars on "bricks and mortar" capital improvements to the track. Part of that investment is the new pavement that led to some of the most exciting and fastest NASCAR races ever. This capital investment enabled many local and regional businesses to put their people to work on their construction and improvement projects.
Third, MIS engages the services of dozens of local service groups, athletic teams, scout troops, dance programs, church youth groups, etc., to help before, during and after its races to enhance and improve the experience for our race fan guests. These groups generated $630,000 in donations (most of it cash) last year from MIS and its sister company, Americrown. That incredible amount is being poured back into our communities to make them stronger. This money will help ensure that area youth get the most out of their activities.
Finally, MIS and Americrown have created and developed the MIS Cares Foundation. It's a relatively new foundation and falls under the umbrella of the NASCAR Foundation, a 501c3 charitable entity. Although the MIS Cares foundation is young, it's making a huge impact on our community. The board recently announced the donation of $64,500 to local organizations this year. They include The Boys and Girls Club of Lenawee, Family Counseling and Children's Services and Catherine Cobb Domestic and Sexual Assault Program, ProMedica Bixby Hospital Foundation's Hillard Massage, Track and Explore (an educational partnership between Adrian College and MIS) and Columbia Middle School PTO. These and other regional organizations benefited from these cash donations.
This spirit of giving is something to be thankful for. True, MIS has tremendous resources. Yet perhaps we can all adopt its spirit of giving. MIS President Roger Curtis regularly pushes off credit to his terrific team executives and workers. Curtis' leadership and his team are something we can count on our "Thankful for" column this year.
Our View: Add MIS to the list Lenawee County can be grateful for
There are many things to be thankful for as we approach our annual holiday ritual of assigning thanks for the abundant bounty we all have in this country. One of the things Lenawee County can all be thankful for is an amazing corporate citizen.


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Belmont man charged with assault, threateningBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
May 09. 2013 5:18PM
BELMONT - A local man has been arrested for allegedly seriously injuring a man during an altercation involving alcohol on Tuesday.
Sean P. Baker, 26, was seen fleeing from a second-floor window at his 88 Fox Hill Road home by officers who had come to his house with a search warrant, said Belmont Police Lt. Richard Mann.
Baker was arrested a short distance from his home as he tried to flee, police said, and he was charged with first-degree assault and criminal threatening, both felony-level offenses.
Police said the incident occurred at Baker's home sometime Tuesday. The vitctim, who was not named by police, was also 26.
Police were advised that the victim was at Lakes Region General Hospital, arriving Wednesday morning and seeking treatment for a head laceration.The victim reported that he had been bleeding since the event took place the day before, Mann said.
Investigators say the victim was injured after a verbal altercation and a fight.


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To learn more about the JavaMail API, consult the JavaMail web site at http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/.
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Band Asks Fans To 'Donate Sounds' For Next Album
from the connect-with-fans... dept
First, it's just a neat way to connect with fans in general, and actually make them feel truly engaged with the upcoming album. Second, it's a neat way of showing how some new technologies are making things that used to be difficult quite easy today. Soundcloud is a relatively new service, but the simple ability for an artist to quickly and easily get sounds from their fans, used creatively, allows Uniform Motion to offer something really cool. I'm excited to see what they end up coming out with in the end.


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Catholic New York - New York, NY
Several thousand New Yorkers, undeterred by distance, icy winds or a blizzard the previous day, traveled to Washington, D.C., Jan. 24 to participate in the 32nd annual March for Life.
Buses departed from more than 30 locations, including parishes and high schools, in the early hours of a brutally cold morning. George Gredell, who chairs the pro-life committee at Sacred Heart parish in Monroe, said that when the bus left at 4:45 a.m., the temperature was around zero.
But if the thermometer hit a low, spirits went the other way. A big reason was the large number of young people who participated. Adults who have been in the pro-life movement for years said they are deeply impressed by the commitment and reverence - for God and for life - of the youngsters who are becoming involved.
The total number of marchers was estimated to be about 100,000.
President George W. Bush, speaking to marchers via telephone from Camp David in Maryland, said that the federal government is "working to promote a culture of life, to promote compassion for women and their unborn babies."
The president spoke for about five minutes at the beginning of the rally. "We know that in a culture that does not protect the most dependent," he said, "the handicapped, the elderly, the unloved or (those who are) simply inconvenient become increasingly vulnerable."
Bush pointed to laws passed during his first term in office, including the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2003. Implementation of the law has been held up by three separate federal district courts - in New York, Nebraska and California - which have declared it unconstitutional.
In an allusion to federal funding for cloning and for stem-cell research, Bush added, "We're also moving ahead in terms of medicine and research to make sure that the gifts of science are consistent with our highest values of freedom, equality, family and human dignity. We will not sanction the creation of life only to destroy it."
The March for Life usually takes place on the Jan. 22 anniversary date of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton decisions that legalized abortion virtually on demand. When the anniversary date falls on the weekend, as it did this year, organizers choose the following Monday so participants can lobby their respective legislators on life issues.
On the eve of the March for Life, Cardinal Keeler celebrated a vigil Mass opening the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. He told a capacity congregation of more than 5,500 people not to give up hope in their efforts to change the country's abortion laws. "The evil must end," he said.
Brother Paul O'Donnell, a member of the Franciscan Brothers for Peace, addressed the rally the next day on behalf of Terri Schindler Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court Jan. 24 refused to reinstate a Florida law that permitted her feeding tube to remain in place over her husband's objections. The decision clears the way for the tube to be removed; the woman's parents, who want her on a feeding tube, have been battling her husband over the matter.
"Terri Schiavo has a right to life," Brother O'Donnell said. "Today is not the final word."
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said he and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., would introduce in their respective chambers the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act to require in part that women seeking abortions at 20 weeks' gestation or longer be informed that the child in their womb can "feel excruciating pain, two to four times more pain than you or I would feel from the same type of assault."
Eileen Peterson of Stony Point has seven children; five went to the march with her. She told CNY that through the years she has seen an increase in the the number of children and teens who make the trip.
"But this year," she said, "the ratio of young people to senior citizens was incredible. And their spirit, their love, their energy! The youth are going to win this victory for God."
The young people joined in reciting the Rosary and singing hymns such as "Ave Maria" and "Immaculate Mary." Although marchers were packed tightly together, there was no shoving or rudeness.
"Such respect and reverence and politeness," she said. "The love just touched your heart."
Gredell also was heartened by the sight of young marchers.
"It's encouraging to us who are in our mature years," he said. He added that the youngsters "really seem to understand what they are talking about" on pro-life issues.
Rosemary Tirone was the march organizer for Our Lady of the Rosary parish - known as Holy Rosary - in Port Chester. On board the bus were students from the parish school and St. John the Evangelist School in White Plains. They watched a pro-life video en route to Washington, and they received a printed list of responses to common arguments in support of abortion. The objective, Mrs. Tirone explained, is to drive home the lesson that abortion takes a baby's life.
She said that the children were impressed by the size of the crowd and the number of young people like themselves. But it wasn't only youth who reacted favorably. Mrs. Tirone said that several adults on the bus were marching for the first time.
"They were so enthusiastic," she said. "They said, 'We're going to do this next year.' "
The archdiocesan Family Life/Respect Life Office had distributed a gift for each marcher before the event: a large, kelly green scarf made of soft, warm fleece. Several coordinators told CNY that the scarves not only kept out the cold, but also allowed New Yorkers to spot one another.
"Whenever we saw people wearing the scarves, we said, 'Hey - New York!' " Mrs. Tirone remarked.
Gredell said that the driver on his bus kidded riders, "You can't get back on without your green scarf!"
Inez Niblo, chairman of Rockland Right-to-Life, told CNY that this year's march, like the previous ones, was "very peaceful."
"People associate this issue with confrontation," she said, "but there is none."
Also marching were the Sisters of Life, including Sister Mary Elizabeth, S.V., director of the Family Life/Respect Life Office. She said that the mood was "positive, upbeat and very hopeful." She was particularly moved by the "Silent No More" demonstration by women carrying signs with the message "I Regret My Abortion."
"They gave witness to the devastating and tragic effect their abortion had on their lives and the lives of their families," she said. She added that many of the women said that had been pressured or coerced into having an abortion, and that many had found post-abortion healing through faith, especially in "an encounter with the healing Christ." She also remarked that Pope John Paul II, in his encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" ("The Gospel of Life") told women who have had abortions that after they find forgiveness and healing, they will become the most eloquent defenders of life.
"We're seeing a real shift in the march and the movement now," Sister Mary Elizabeth said. "Not only are we speaking of the incomparable value of the unborn child, and the tragedy that abortion is. Thirty-two years later (after Roe vs. Wade), we're keenly aware of how abortion hurts women, and of the deep suffering that both men and women experience after an abortion."
Gredell looks forward to the day when "we'll be going down to celebrate the end of Roe vs. Wade."
"I think that will happen eventually," he said.
Catholic News Service contributed to this story.