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Muffin offers a sweet (potato) side
When I told my mother - a fiend for candied ginger - I was testing a batch of these muffins, she said she wished she could fly right over and dig in. She's not the only one.
There's just something about the combination of sweet potatoes and sweet spices that makes us happy. Every time my grandmother Ruth made her signature spice balls - wonderfully chewy cookies filled with every possible sweet spice - all the grandchildren wafted into the kitchen from miles away.
These muffins start with cooked sweet potatoes, which not only provide great flavor and sugar, but also a tempting moistness. Slowly baking sweet potatoes in the oven intensifies their sweetness. For expediency, we chose to microwave them for this recipe. But if you'd rather do it the old fashioned (and tastier) way, plan to bake them for 1 to 1 1/2 hours at 400 F.
However you cook them, consider making extra. You can freeze the pulp for future batches of muffins. And I don't bother to puree the potatoes; I just mash them. It leaves the texture slightly and pleasantly chunky.
By the way, if you're wondering about the difference between sweet potatoes and yams, don't expend much energy on it. In the United States, just about anything labeled a yam (or a sweet potato) is really just a sweet potato. True yams, a staple of the Caribbean diet, are rough-skinned, starchy and not very sweet. The vegetable we love at Thanksgiving - and the right potato for this recipe - is the true sweet potato.
Though there still are plenty of die-hard devotees of white flour, I have snuck some whole-wheat flour into this recipe because it is a healthier choice. And the finished muffin's golden color will camouflage the whole-wheat flour. As a practical matter, when a baking recipe calls for white flour, you can almost always swap out half of it for whole wheat with little effect on the color, taste or texture of the finished product.
Another important player in this recipe is buttermilk, one of my favorite ingredients, especially for baking. I like buttermilk's creaminess and its tang. And, contrary to the impression made by its luxurious texture, it's actually very low in fat. Buttermilk is a great item to keep in the fridge; you can use up any extra by adding it to smoothies.
Finally, these bad boys are topped off with some chopped, crystallized ginger (also called candied ginger). But if for some reason you're not a fan, you can top these with the chopped nut of your choice. Just don't tell my mother.
Sweet potato buttermilk muffins with candied ginger topping
White whole-wheat flour is available in the baking aisle of most grocers. It has all the nutrition of regular whole-wheat flour, but it is made from a different variety of wheat that produces a flour with a lighter taste, texture and color.
Start to finish: 1 hour (30 minutes active)
Servings: 12 muffins
3/4 to 1 pound sweet potatoes (2 small or I medium)
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1 cup white whole-wheat flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon table salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, preferably freshly ground
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, room temperature
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped crystallized ginger
Heat the oven to 400 F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper cupcake liners or lightly spray the cups with cooking spray.
Prick the sweet potatoes several places with a knife. Microwave on high (or on the baked potato setting) until tender, about 10 minutes. Let cool, then peel and, in a medium bowl, mash with a fork. You should have about 1 1/4 cups of mashed sweet potato. Mix in the buttermilk, then set aside.
Meanwhile, in a medium bowl stir together both flours, the baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and allspice.
In another medium bowl, combine the butter and both sugars. Use an electric mixer to beat until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Using a spatula, scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the egg and vanilla, then mix on medium speed for about 1 minute, until thoroughly combined. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Add half the flour mixture and beat the batter on low speed just until the mixture is partly mixed. Add half the buttermilk-sweet potato mixture and mix until combined. Add the remaining dry ingredients and mix until just combined, then mix in the remaining buttermilk mixture.
Divide the batter among the prepared muffin cups. Top it with the crystallized ginger and bake on the middle rack of the oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the tops are golden and a toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean. Remove the muffins from the pan and tip on their sides on a cooling rack; this prevents the bottoms from getting soggy. Let cool 10 minutes before serving. They are best eaten while still hot.
Nutrition information per serving: 180 calories; 45 calories from fat (25 percent of total calories); 5 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 30 mg cholesterol; 29 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 11 g sugar; 4 g protein; 240 mg sodium.
Sara Moulton was executive chef at Gourmet magazine for nearly 25 years, and spent a decade hosting several Food Network shows.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the fiscal cliff wars, a pivotal battle is raging between Democrats demanding to raise revenue by boosting tax rates on the nation's highest earners and Republicans insisting on eliminating deductions and other tax breaks instead. Which is better for the economy? Analysts say it depends.
Economists generally agree that a simpler tax code with lower rates and fewer deductions, exemptions and credits would help the economy. With fewer tax preferences, people would be more likely to seek the best investments for their money instead of the most lucrative tax breaks. And lower rates would leave them more money to spend. Both would add oomph to the economy.
But ask whether the higher tax rates that President Barack Obama wants would hurt the economy more than curbing deductions, as Republicans assert, and the picture is less clear. While many economists say the economy theoretically would work more efficiently if the tax code provided fewer preferences, many said it would depend on which deductions lawmakers curb — a complicated exercise in a world where one person's wasteful loophole may be viewed by others as an economic lifeline.
For example, one of the biggest tax breaks is the widely popular deduction for interest on home mortgages below $1 million. Because of it, the government this year will take in $87 billion less than it would if the deduction didn't exist.
That deduction allows many to buy homes they otherwise couldn't afford and is strenuously defended by the housing industry. But critics say it does little to help lower-income people while it encourages others to go into debt for costlier homes than they need — an activity they say taxpayers should not subsidize.
"I'd definitely go for cutting deductions first, especially if I have the opportunity to make the choices about which deductions go," said Alan Auerbach, director of the Robert Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.
The clash is a key part of negotiations for a deal to avert big tax increases and spending cuts due to begin in January — the fiscal cliff — unless Obama and Congress reach an accord on some other way to rein in the government's ballooning debt.
Obama wants to raise $1.6 trillion in revenue over the next 10 years, partly by letting decade-old tax cuts on the country's highest earners expire at the end of the year.
He would continue those Bush-era tax cuts for everyone except individuals earning more than $200,000 and couples making above $250,000. The highest rates on top-paid Americans would rise from 33 percent and 35 percent today to 36 percent and 39.6 percent.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has offered $800 billion in new revenues to be raised by reducing or eliminating unspecified tax breaks on upper-income people.
There are more than 100 tax breaks with a cumulative price tag estimated at $1.1 trillion yearly. They range from huge breaks like the deduction for charitable contributions and the income exclusion for employer-provided health insurance to obscure tax incentives for capturing carbon dioxide emissions or maintaining railroad tracks.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a report last month that raising tax rates would dampen people's incentive to work and reduce the nation's labor supply. Raising the same amount of revenue by eliminating tax breaks would probably be less negative, but the impact would depend on which deductions were erased, the budget office said.
A separate study by the same agency and in the same month, however, suggested that the economic harm from letting tax rates rise for top earners would be relatively negligible.
That report estimated that extending the George W. Bush-era tax breaks for everyone would mean the economy would grow by 1.4 percent more than if all the tax cuts are allowed to expire. Extending the tax breaks for all but the top earners as Obama wants would produce economic growth of 1.3 percent, just 0.1 percent less. In a nearly $16 trillion economy, that one-tenth of 1 percent equals $16 billion.
While higher tax rates can discourage investment, "whether or not we actually see significant changes in behavior from small changes in tax rates is another story," said Joe Rosenberg, research associate at the bipartisan Tax Policy Center, which analyzes tax policy. "We do see some, but the magnitude is probably fairly small."
Part of the dispute is grounded in politics. Obama made raising rates on the wealthy a keystone of his re-election campaign. For two decades, Republicans have made opposition to higher tax rates their party's mantra. Neither side is eager to surrender.
The present faceoff is also a tactical duel ahead of an even larger war over revamping the entire tax code that could come next year. Both sides know that if tax rates on the wealthy rise now, it will be harder to push them back down later.
In addition, the battle underscores ideological differences in the two parties' constituencies.
Republicans say raising tax rates on high-income Americans discourages investments that would produce new jobs.
"Here's how Republicans think," said Kenneth Kies, a former top House GOP tax aide and now a tax lobbyist. "If I'm a risk-taker and I'm getting ready to invest $1, if I'm successful and the top rate is 35 percent, I get to keep 65 cents."
If the top tax rate is much higher, Kies said, he would get to keep less "and my incentive to invest is significantly reduced."
For Democrats, imposing higher tax rates on people making the most money is a fair way to make them contribute to deficit reduction. They say Obama would merely return rates to levels that existed under President Bill Clinton, and the economy prospered then.
Because various tax breaks have such powerful defenders — for example, charities, churches and colleges — it's politically difficult to limit them. The subsequent search for revenue could expose the middle class to higher taxes, Democrats say.
During the presidential campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney suggested limiting itemized deductions to a dollar cap, such as $25,000. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that capping deductions at $25,000 would raise $1.3 trillion. But 29 percent of it would come from those earning under $200,000, whose taxes both parties say they don't want to increase.

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Partially because the NCAA has a penchant for alliteration (March Madness, Sweet 16, Final Four) and partially because the event consistently draws a large and diverse crowd. Whether you live for these three weeks in March or have never watched the entirety of a basketball game in your life, chances are you'll still get involved with March Madness in some way. The ritualistic filling-out of brackets allows people to interact with the event outside of watching the games and generates buzz in homes, offices, bars and on social media. As USA TODAY writer Bruce Horovitz explained it, "March Madness is a marketing mix that advertisers crave but can rarely find. It has wide appeal to a very young and desirable audience. It's live sports -- one of the few things that's TiVo proof. And March Madness is a social media gabfest."
How are big brands using March Madness in their marketing?
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Ga. executes man convicted of killing 2 college students in 1995 after apologizing to families
JACKSON, Ga. – A 38-year-old inmate convicted of killing two college students in 1995 was executed in Georgia on Thursday, apologizing to the families of both victims before being injected at a state prison.
Andrew Allen Cook was pronounced dead at 11:22 p.m., about 14 minutes after he was injected with the sedative pentobarbital. He was the first inmate to be executed since the state changed its procedure in July from a three-drug combination to a single dose.
With his last words, he apologized to the families of Mercer University students Grant Patrick Hendrickson, 22, and Michele Lee Cartagena, 19, who were shot several times as they sat in a car at Lake Juliette, which is about 75 miles south of Atlanta. He said what he did was senseless.
"I'm sorry," Cook said as he was strapped to a gurney. "I'm not going to ask you to forgive me. I can't even do it myself."
He also thanked his family for "their support, for being with me and I'm sorry I took so much from you all."
The Georgia Appeals Court on Wednesday temporarily stayed Cook's execution to consider a challenge to the state's lethal injection procedure. But the Georgia Supreme Court lifted the stay Thursday and all other appeals were exhausted.
Cook's lawyers have argued at various stages in their appeals of his death sentence that he suffered from mental illness and was being treated for depression up to the time of his death.
Mary Hendrickson, the mother of one of the victims, recently told television station WMAZ-TV in Macon she's been waiting 18 years for justice.
"I think that's what it was: the devil's work," she said. "When all that is going on, I was just thinking to myself: 'Well, the devil is not going to win. He's not going to win over my heart. He is not going to win.'"
The single-drug injection began at about 11:08 p.m. Cook blinked his eyes a few times, and his eyes soon got heavy. His chest was heaving for about two or three minutes as his eyes closed. Not too long after, two doctors examined him and nodded and Carl Humphrey, warden of the state prison in Jackson, pronounced him dead.
Corrections officials said Thursday evening that Cook had received visits from family earlier in the day and ate the last meal he had requested — steak, a baked potato, potato wedges, fried shrimp, lemon meringue pie and soda.
A jury sentenced Cook to death after he was convicted in the January 2, 1995 slayings at Lake Juliette. Cook wasn't charged until more than two years later. He confessed to his father, a Macon FBI agent who ended up testifying at his son's trial.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reached out to John Cook in December 1995 because they were interested in speaking to his son. When he called his then-22-year-old son to tell him the GBI wanted to talk to him, he had no idea the younger man was considered a suspect.
"I said, 'Andy, the GBI is looking for you concerning the Lake Juliette homicide. Do you know anything about it?'" John Cook testified at his son's trial in March 1998. "He said, 'Daddy, I can't tell you. You're one of them. ... You're a cop.'"
Eventually, Andrew Cook told his father that he knew about the slayings, that he was there and that he knew who shot the couple, John Cook recalled.
"I just felt like the world was crashing in on me. But I felt maybe he was there and just saw what happened," he said. "I then asked, 'Did you shoot them?'
"After a pause on the phone, he said, 'Yes.'"
As a law enforcement officer, John Cook said he was forced to call his supervisor and contacted the Monroe County sheriff.
At the trial, as he walked away from the stand, the distraught father mouthed "I'm sorry" to the victims' families who were sitting on the front row of the courtroom. Several members of both families acknowledged his apology.


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Review of safety programs for nation's deadliest jobs receives top marks
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Program shown to reduce
child deaths and injuries on U.S. farms, among other successes.
An independent five-year review by members of the National Academies of Science has given the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Program (AgFF) the highest score for relevance, 5 out of 5, and a 4 out of 5 for impact on worker safety and health. These are among the highest scores ever awarded to a government program of its kind.
Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing occupations are the most dangerous in the United States, with a fatality rate eight times higher than all other U.S. industries combined—twice as great as in mining or transportation; two-and-one half times greater than construction. In 2011, 557 workers died and tens of thousands were injured while doing farm, forestry or fishing work at a cost of $4 billion in direct and indirect costs.
"The NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Program is the most significant federal initiative today to seek to secure a safe workplace for agricultural workers," says Paul Gunderson, Ph.D., director of the Dakota Precision Agriculture Center and lead reviewer. "Our evaluation panel found that the program conducts high priority, sound research."
The NIOSH AgFF Program consists of nine regional Centers for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention and one national center to address children's farm safety and health.
The mandate of the AgFF Program is to reduce work-related injuries, illnesses and deaths in the United States among workers in the agriculture, forestry and commercial fishing industries. Work is conducted at relatively minimal cost. In 2012, nearly $22 million was distributed among the regional centers. The AgFF Program has seen an overall reduction in injuries and deaths in agriculture, forestry and fishing since its inception in 1990. Deaths have decreased 40%, from 931 in 1992 to 557 in 2011.
"In our current environment of budget austerity, this is an example of a relatively low-cost program that is making a significant impact on public safety and at the same time saving farmers, insurers and government considerable costs related to injury and damage,' says John May, M.D., director of the Northeast Center for Agricultural Health.
Life-saving programs cited by the review committee include:
Reduction of child deaths and injuries on U.S. farms. More than 1 million young people (under age 20) work on U.S. farms and ranches. More than half perform farm work or chores. Research conducted and interventions implemented by the National Center for Children's Farm Safety and Health, an AgFF Center, as well as other private and public organizations resulted in a 59% decrease in the rate of childhood agricultural injuries between 1998 and 2008.
AgFF research has shown that the use of tractor rollbar protective structures (ROPS) and seatbelts can prevent 99% of overturn deaths. Its New York program has increased the installation of ROPS by 10-fold and recorded more than 100 overturns and accidents with no injuries among farmers who installed ROPS.
The Commercial Fishing Safety Research & Design Program developed the award-winning E-stop for hydraulic machinery, equipment that previously caused severe injuries and fatalities on fishing vessels. This innovation now saves lives.
In 2011, the NIOSH AgFF Program was named one of the "Ten Great Public Health Achievements" for 2001-2010 by the CDC in part because of the drastic reduction in deaths for Bering Sea crab fisherman, 770 deaths per 100,000 workers to 260 deaths.
Scientists who have conducted AgFF research and directors of the nine centers from throughout the United States will convene in D.C. this week to request that Congress maintain the NIOSH budget at the $22 million level as part of the Fiscal Year 2014 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill.
"There is no other program of its kind; this is the organization that protects forestry workers, fishermen and farmers, the people who produce food for all of us," Dr. Gunderson says. "Eighty-five percent of agricultural worksites are exempt from workplace safety standards of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA); they are excluded from the …National Labor Relations Act. Even today, federal agencies are absolutely prohibited from collecting information about non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses on the vast majority of agricultural worksites."
The National Academies of Science review committee was comprised of experts from industry, government, labor, academia, medicine, and public health. The assessment was led by Dr. Paul D. Gunderson. The period covered by the review was 2007 through May 2012.
The NIOSH AgFF Centers are located in Davis, Calif,; Fort Collins, Colo.; Iowa City, Iowa; San Antonio, Texas; Lexington, Ky.; Cooperstown, N.Y.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Marshfield, Wis.; Omaha, Neb.; and Seattle, Wash.


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Lake Placid's Mirror Lake Inn, an Adirondack jewel
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — When Lise Luckie and her husband, Len, need to flee the hustle and bustle of their advertising business in Montreal, they make a beeline for the Mirror Lake Inn.
"It's so welcoming," said Luckie. "The people here are so nice. Every time we walk in, it's like they haven't seen us in five years."
That's saying a lot, because the Luckies have stayed at the inn more than 90 times since the early 1980s.
Welcome to the Mirror Lake Inn Resort and Spa, where hospitality is personal — but it's not just about the guests.
"I used to preach to everybody, 'Treat the guests like they're the most important person in the world,'" said Ed Weibrecht, who owns the inn with his wife Lisa. "Then I changed it. I said, 'No, treat the employees like they're the most important person in the world, and they'll take care of the guests.' "
That philosophy is evident to all. "It seems like everybody who works here feels like they died and went to heaven — and it's genuine," Luckie said.
Many of the inn's 165 employees stay for years. Maintenance supervisor Aaron Karpp has been on the job 17 years. Cathie Cusick, marketing director, was hooked the first time she visited a decade ago and ended up moving here from Connecticut. Housekeeping manager Steve Wyle also has worked here 10 years; in his other life, he's a musician, and a CD of music he curated plays in each room.
The inn's reputation has resulted in many awards. Readers of Conde Nast Traveler rank it the No. 1 ski hotel in the East, and it's on the magazine's gold list for 2013. The inn has received AAA's Four Diamond Award of Excellence for 28 consecutive years; its View Restaurant was honored with its fifth consecutive AAA Four Diamond Award, and Wine Spectator Magazine has given its Award of Excellence to the inn for 13 straight years. The Weibrechts have even been honored for recycling.
Being meticulous helps. The Weibrechts are everywhere — Ed patrolling the grounds and conducting meetings, Lisa often in the dining room pouring coffee and greeting guests. It almost feels like a bed-and-breakfast instead of a 131-room hotel: You walk in and see the owners.
"It's part of who the inn is," said Lisa Weibrecht. "I've known so many of the families that have been coming to the inn for 30-plus years, and it's kind of neat to watch their families grow and the new families start coming."
Many guests tell friends about the place, giving the inn a referral rate of 70 percent, stunningly high in the industry.
"That really is what makes us," Cusick said. "We're so different."
The inn opened in the mid-1920s. As the story goes, when the telephone company brought Alexander Graham Bell's invention to the rugged Adirondack Mountains, the linemen needed a place to stay. They knocked on the door of Climena Alford Wikoff, who took them in and eventually created the Mir-a-Lac Inn with her husband, William.
Renamed the Mirror Lake Inn in 1933, it quickly became known for fine food as well as hospitality. The Wikoffs grew their own vegetables, raised their own pigs, cured their own bacon and got other produce from local farmers.
Ed Weibrecht was a mechanical engineer who moved to the area to ski at nearby Whiteface Mountain, where he's still a part-time ski instructor. He purchased the inn from the Wikoff family in 1976 and built on their emphasis on fresh, local food, inviting farms to truck produce in so executive chef Jarrad Lang can hand-pick what he wants.
"To me, it's just common sense," said Weibrecht, whose son, Andrew, won a bronze medal in downhill skiing at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. "I traveled a lot, stayed in a lot of hotels and ate at a lot of restaurants, and I knew what I liked and what I didn't like."
A decade of hard work literally went up in smoke on Jan. 10, 1988 when fire destroyed the inn. Staff stayed up for 48 hours, sneaking inside without firefighters knowing in an effort to salvage what they could. A grandfather clock and grand piano, in the lobby today, were among the items saved. The Weibrechts sent guests on a shopping spree in town to replace lost possessions while Ed Weibrecht "wondered how we were going to serve breakfast." But they did.
In the long run, the fire proved a blessing, allowing the Weibrechts to rebuild with state-of-the-art luxuries like a beauty salon; spa with exercise room, sauna, and whirlpool; and a 60-foot indoor lap pool bounded on one end by a waterfall that looks like an Adirondack Mountain stream.
The Weibrechts also expanded the once-tiny bar off the lobby into a larger bistro, renovated two lakeside buildings to offer luxury suites, and in winter the inn is festooned with more than 100,000 holiday lights.
The inn's lakeside Cottage Cafe is the most popular local après ski spot, with its wood-burning fireplace and panoramic view.
"A lot of people who come here just come to relax," said Lisa Weibrecht, a former national luge champion. "They don't come necessarily to go downhill skiing or skating or hiking. They come here to get away from whatever their lifestyle is."
Those who do want to ski, skate or hike need not go far. Once Mirror Lake freezes, the inn creates a skating rink for guests with music and lights. The inn also offers free snowshoes and trail recommendations. (It's canoes and kayaks in the summer).
Brian Stacey of Connecticut-based Tauck Tours, who worked at the inn when the fire struck, said the inn's "personal touch" — even following up on comment cards — is key.
"In this day and age, if you're not part of a consortium, your chances of success are more limited," Stacey said. "The way to fight against those guys is to bring something really unique and with great quality."
Even on days when Main Street, a block away, is jammed with people and cars, the inn is an island of serenity. Guests are reminded to refrain from using cellphones in common areas like the mahogany-trimmed lobby, where tea and cookies are served free to guests each afternoon.
On a recent day, Lee McAvoy of Rochester, N.Y., cuddled with a book in the inn's library before a roaring fireplace and explained why she and her husband have come back for their anniversary each year since spending their honeymoon here four years ago.
"Of any place we've ever been," said McAvoy, "this is the most peaceful and rejuvenating."
Where: 77 Mirror Lake Drive, Lake Placid, N.Y. Rates: Rooms start at $350-$450, depending on the season and accommodations Information: www.mirrorlakeinn.com or 518-523-2544


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Four vie for top Pitching Performance of July
Bailey, Lincecum no-hitters in running with Marlins' Fernandez, Dodgers' Greinke
After half a season of no no-nos, two no-hitters were delivered in July.
On July 2, the Reds' Homer Bailey ended the drought and faced just one batter more than the minimum, throwing the first no-hitter in the Majors since he last did the trick on Sept. 28, 2012.
Eleven days later, two-time National League Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum of the Giants regained his dominance to throw his first career no-hitter.
Marlins rookie sensation Jose Fernandez and Dodgers standout right-hander Zack Greinke will be competing against Bailey and Lincecum, as voting is under way to select July's Pitching Performance of the Month presented by Head & Shoulders.
Here is a closer look at your candidates for July:
Bailey: July 2 vs. San Francisco
No-hitter, 9 IP, 0 R, 9 K's, 1 BB
Bailey became the first pitcher since fellow Texan Nolan Ryan in 1974 and '75 to throw two no-hitters without another big league pitcher accomplishing the feat between his. Bailey also joined Mark Buehrle, Roy Halladay and Justin Verlander as the only active pitchers with multiple no-hitters.
"This one's a little different, being in Cincinnati," Bailey said. "We just kind of went one pitch at a time. At the end, I just kind of looked at the glove and threw it as hard as I could, I guess."
Bailey entered the seventh inning perfect after striking out the side in the sixth but walked Gregor Blanco, the first batter he faced in the seventh. It was the only baserunner he allowed all night.
Bailey finished the no-hitter by forcing Blanco to ground out to third base.
"The ball went to [Todd] Frazier, and any time it's put in play in those situations, you get a little bit nervous. But once Joey [Votto] squeezed it, it was all over," Bailey said.
Fernandez: July 28 vs. Pittsburgh
W, 8 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 13 K's, 0 BB
Fernandez began his 20th game by striking out Starling Marte on three straight fastballs. He went on to strike out each Pirates hitter in the starting lineup at least once. His 13 strikeouts set a Marlins rookie record.
Fernandez is the eighth pitcher since 1916 to have a game with at least 13 strikeouts and no walks during his first 20 games.
Fernandez has thrown three games with at least 10 strikeouts through his first 20 starts, tying him (and Tony Cingrani) for the 18th-most K's in that span since 1916. Dwight Gooden and Hideo Nomo lead the way with eight apiece.
After the eighth inning, Fernandez approached his manager, Mike Redmond. "I told him, 'I'm going out,'" Fernandez said afterward. "He said, 'We'll see.'"
Redmond pulled Fernandez (then still 20 years old, now 21) after just 97 pitches because the Marlins have placed a 170-innings limit on their promising rookie.
Greinke: July 13 vs. Colorado
SHO, 9 IP, 2 H, 9 K's, 1 BB
Greinke took a perfect game into the fifth inning, but Todd Helton broke it up with a one-out single to left field. Greinke allowed just one other single, off the bat of Jonathan Herrera.
Of Greinke's nine strikeouts, six came against the top of the Rockies' order: Dexter Fowler (two), DJ LeMahieu (one), Carlos Gonzalez (one) and Michael Cuddyer (two).
It was the 28th time since 1916 a Dodgers pitcher went the distance in a 1-0 win and allowed no more than two hits while doing so.
Before this effort, Greinke had last thrown a shutout in his American League Cy Young Award-winning season in 2009.
"I stayed good all the way through, I haven't done that in a while," said Greinke, who won his eighth game of the season and 99th of his career. "I felt good out there. It was a fun game."
Lincecum: July 13 at San Diego
No-hitter, 9 IP, 0 R, 13 K's, 4 BB
For a night, Lincecum was again the Freak. His fastball may have lost several miles per hour, but Lincecum still bewildered the Padres, striking out 13 batters, the second most for a Giants pitcher in a no-hitter, after Matt Cain's 14 in his perfect game in 2012. The Padres' hitters swung and missed 29 times in the game. Lincecum's 13 strikeouts tied Fernandez's total for the most strikeouts in one outing in July.
The Padres forced Pablo Sandoval and Hunter Pence to make big plays under pressure in the seventh and eighth innings to keep the no-hit bid intact.
"That was really special," Lincecum said of Pence's play. "To be honest with you, I thought that was a hit off the bat. Hunter comes flying out of nowhere and makes a Superman catch."
The Padres also worked four walks, which drove Lincecum's pitch count high. His 148 pitches left him one shy of Edwin Jackson's tally in his no-no on June 25, 2010. Jackson's 149 are the most for any no-hitter going back to and including 1988.
Lincecum is the seventh pitcher to throw a no-hitter against the Padres, and the first since his former teammate Jonathan Sanchez did it on July 10, 2009.
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I've posted before how I've never participated in NaNoWriMo and how I've never had the slightest desire to and how I applaud those wacky writers who do.
But this is a rhino of a different color. Ninny can be any color I want him to be. He may even have polka dots or stripes. Who knows? Point is, Mini-Wri-Mo's a different sort of challenge, as Ms. Amazingly Prolific Peach explains in her post.
March is looking like a difficult month for me but, eh, which one isn't? And that clichéd quote "It's never a good time for…" is cliché for a reason. (It's true, people. That's what I'm saying here.)
So off I go. Ready to take on this month-long writing challenge. Wish me luck, fellow writers. I'll need it.
My not-so-random thoughts in 200 words or less.
Joining in Diana's challenge? Why not, right? Set your own goals and celebrate your accomplishments. You get to create a Rhino that's all yours. (And you get a badge. I mean, honestly, who can resist a badge? With a rhino. And a star.) ✍ 🦏
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HILLSDALE — A two-car collision Tuesday morning resulted in the death of 45-year-old Mick Obenour and caused injuries to two others.
"It was a two-car accident, head-on in front of Beck Chevrolet," said Det. Brad Martin of the Hillsdale City Police Department. "One driver was killed and one was life-flighted to Toledo."
Obenour's vehicle appeared to be headed southbound on M-99 north of Moore Road when he collided with a 17-year-old male's northbound car at 7:58 a.m.
Obenour was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other driver was flown to Mercy-St. Vincent Hospital in Toledo.
A department press release said two young males were also in the teenager's car. One was taken to the Hillsdale Community Health Center for non-life-threatening injuries.
Martin said slippery road conditions were a factor in the accident.
Michigan State Police and Reading Emergency Unit were also on scene.
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Syria's cross-border salvos send a message to Turkey, West to keep away
BEIRUT – Syria's cross-border attacks on Turkey in the past week look increasingly like they could be an intentional escalation meant to send a clear message to Ankara and beyond, that the crisis is simply too explosive to risk foreign military intervention.
With Turkey eager to defuse the crisis, the spillover of fighting is giving new life to a longshot political solution, with the Turks floating the idea of making President Bashar Assad's longtime vice president, Farouk al-Sharaa, interim leader if the president steps aside.
A military option — which would involve foreign powers that already have expressed a deep reluctance to getting involved in the crisis — is still not on the table, analysts say, despite six consecutive days of Turkish retaliation against bombardment from inside Syria.
"Syria is aware that Turkey cannot go a step further," said Ali Tekin, assistant professor of International Relations at Ankara's Bilkent University. "The Turkish people don't want a war and there are no vital national interests at stake to warrant a war. Syria sees this."
The Syrian conflict has taken a prominent role in the U.S. presidential election at a time when the U.S. and its allies have shown little appetite for getting involved.
On Monday, Republican candidate Mitt Romney said the U.S. should work with other countries to arm the Syrian rebels, allowing the rebels to drive Assad from power themselves. Romney did not call for the U.S. to directly arm the Syrian rebels.
The most recent flare-up between Syria and Turkey started Wednesday, when a shell fired from Syria slammed into a house in the Turkish border village of Akcakale, killing two women and three children. That set off the most serious and prolonged eruption of violence along the frontier since the uprising began nearly 19 months ago.
Although it was not clear whether Wednesday's shelling was intentional, Turkey responded swiftly by firing back and convening parliament for a vote that authorized further cross-border military operations if necessary.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cautioned Damascus not to test Turkey's "limits and determination." But the Syrian shelling has continued every day — leading many observers to conclude the acts are intentional provocation.
"It's not an accident. You can't send shells across the border by mistake five days in a row," said Mustafa Alani, a Middle East analyst of the Geneva-based Gulf Research Center, just hours before Syrian shelling struck Turkey for a sixth day.
There have been no other reports of casualties from the shelling since Wednesday's deaths.
An activist group said Monday the number of people killed in the conflict crossed the threshold of 32,000 over the weekend, and the pace is accelerating.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it counted 32,079 dead as of Sunday — among them 22,980 civilians and civilians-turned fighters, 7,884 members of the Syrian military and 1,215 army defectors fighting alongside the rebels.
In the past week alone, more than 1,200 people were killed, according to the head of the Observatory, Rami Abdul-Rahman, who said he only counts named victims or those whose death is verified by other means, such as amateur video.
According to Alani, escalating the crisis serves as a reminder to NATO, Turkey and the West that Syria's civil war can inflame the region with lightning speed. The threat of a spillover is likely to pressure Western powers into drafting a political solution, part of which could involve Assad's exit from power, rather than his being toppled by force.
A political solution, Alani said, could prevent Assad "ending up like Gadhafi."
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was captured and killed by rebels on the outskirts of his hometown of Sirte last year, and his corpse was put on public display in a refrigerated locker for several days.
While Ankara maintains that the shells are coming from the regular Syrian army, Paul Salem of the Carnegie Middle East Center, a Beirut-based think tank, did not exclude the possibility of "other sources, a rebel unit, firing across the border, trying to create conditions for Turkey to intervene in Syria."
As the border skirmishes intensified over the weekend and the world began to consider whether Turkey would respond more forcefully, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu tried to redirect attention away from the military developments.
On Saturday, Davutoglu said Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Sharaa was a figure "whose hands are not contaminated in blood" and therefore was a possible figure to head a transitional administration.
Abdulbaset Sieda, the head of the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group in exile, said Monday his group is willing to consider Ankara's proposal.
Sieda's comments appear to be a softening of the opposition's stance that it will accept nothing less than the ouster of the Assad regime and the president's inner circle. But this apparent change in heart could be a way for the opposition to appease its Turkish allies rather than a major shift toward a political settlement of the conflict.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi scoffed at Davutoglu's proposal, saying it reflects "obvious political and diplomatic confusion and blundering."
"Turkey isn't the Ottoman Sultanate; the Turkish Foreign Ministry doesn't name custodians in Damascus, Mecca, Cairo and Jerusalem," al-Zoubi said Monday.
Turkey, which shares a 566-mile (911-kilometer) frontier with Syria, nearly went to war with its neighbor over Syrian support for Turkish Kurdish rebels in the 1990s. The relationship improved dramatically since Assad came to power in 2000, and the two countries reached out to build economic ties. But now, Turkey has become one of the most vocal critics of the Assad regime, accusing it of savagery.
The rebels who are trying to bring down Assad have used Turkey as their base, enraging the regime.
Turkey, NATO's biggest Muslim member, became a regional power in the past decade, backed by a growing economy, emerging democratic credentials and historical and cultural links to neighbors. It pursued pragmatic links with authoritarian leaders, but shifted to a pro-democracy position as uprisings swept the Middle East and North Africa.
From the outset of the Syrian crisis, Turkey has tried to position itself as a major player and power-broker — something some observers say was a miscalculation based on overconfidence in Ankara's influence over Damascus. As recently as April, Davutoglu told Parliament that Turkey "will continue to guide the wave of change in the Middle East."
On Monday, Turkish President Abdullah Gul pushed for a Syrian transition, warning that "the worst-case scenario we have all been dreading" is unfolding in Syria and along its borders.
"Sooner rather than later there will be change, a transition," he told reporters in Ankara. "Our only hope is that this happens before more blood is shed, and before Syria self-destructs more than it already has."
AP writers Barbara Surk and Bassem Mroue in Beirut and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.


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At a recent presentation at the Greenhorn Grange in Yreka, rancher Todd Nash discussed what it is like living and working among the Wallowa Oregon wolf pack. When he checks the herd every day, he looks for tell-tale signs that wolves have been there: nervous cattle; unusual movement; "tight bagged" (udder) cows; the presence of scavenger crows, magpies, hawks, eagles or coyotes.
According to Nash, wolves have one and a half times the bite strength of a grizzly bear. They like attacking behind the shoulder in the arm pit of the cow. They will dismember the animal and drag off the limbs. There will be blood at the kill site and tracks will circle the carcass. Sometimes a wolf will attack just the rear of a live cow, taking its unborn calf.
Sometimes, the bite will not be perceptible on the outside, but will crush bone and muscle. Nash spoke about a cow that had experienced such a bite. He estimated that the loss of her aborted calf ran around $800. She also lost about 400 lbs. in weight – a $1,220 impact to the rancher.
A protocol has been established for the ranchers in Oregon when they find a livestock kill. They are not to disturb the site (don't let ranch dogs run around it.) They are to treat it like a crime scene and cover the carcass with a tarp. About 50 percent of the evidence comes from the carcass and about 50 percent from the scene, such as blood spatter and tracks. The Wallowa County Sheriff has been specially trained on wolf kills. He will respond to a kill report 24/7 and will contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife and Oregon Department of Wildlife to come out and verify the cause of death within 24 hours.
The Oregon plan allows for the issuance to a rancher of a "caught in the act" depredation permit. However, it has never been used as one has to actually see the wolf biting the cow. If the wolf is spotted but there is no carcass, it is too early. If the wolf is just feeding on a carcass, it is too late under permit terms. A kill order was issued by the management agency for the alpha male and one other in the Wallowa pack, but several environmental groups stopped the order in court. (The alpha male is the father of OR-7, the wolf that strayed into California.)
Research has established that in addition to depredation losses, animal weight loss and a substantial increase in ranch management costs, the biggest impacts of wolves in cattle country are the emotional stress and psychological depression felt by the rancher and his family.
Nash stated that the Canadians had a very successful strategy for dealing with wolves that are found killing livestock. These wolves are hunted down and killed, along with every other wolf found with them. Canadians believe it is the only successful way of handling chronic depredators.
When questioned about local government's efforts to protect local ranchers from wolves, Nash indicated that their county commissioners had passed an ordinance in 1999 declaring the county a "wolf free zone." Subsequently, the commissioners were informed that the ordinance was "not worth the paper it was written on."
Historically, the main purpose of government has been the protection of the people from substantial injury to their health and safety. Ironically, in 1843 in Oregon, it was decided to call a general assembly of settlers in what has come to be known as the "first wolf meeting" to discuss protection from wolves. At the second "wolf meeting" called to discuss a voluntary tax for wolf bounties, a resolution was offered and passed to form another committee to take "measures for the civil and military protection of the colony." The committee came back with recommendations for an elected government. Sadly, it seems modern government protects the predators, rather than the people.
Endangered Species
Jenny Ericson and Brian Woodbridge from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) briefed the board of supervisors on the review of information concerning two Black-backed Woodpeckers being considered for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act. Currently, USFWS is seeking the "best scientific and commercial information available for its species status review. www.fws.gov/sacramento
These birds are of particular interest because their habitat loss is being attributed to "salvage logging, fire suppression and forest thinning."
– Marcia Armstrong is the Siskiyou County District 5 supervisor. Her website is users.sisqtel.net/armstrng/.
Editor's note: This is an opinion column and does not necessarily represent the opinions of the Daily News. No effort has been made to verify the accuracy of statements or accusations within.


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Jenks says he's not worthy of the All-Star Game
Bobby Jenks may well be the lone representative from the White Sox at the All-Star Game next month, but he doesn't even think he should be there.
"Right now? To me? No," Jenks said when asked if he's an All-Star. "I could be better right now."
The Sox closer is 2-3 with a 3.14 ERA and 18 saves in 20 chances, but blew his last save opportunity Wednesday and was tagged with a loss Saturday.
Numbers notwithstanding, Jenks knows the main way he can get better is to somehow regain his electric fastball that has disappeared.
"My true fastball hasn't been there all year," Jenks said. "I've been anywhere from 90 to 96 (mph), I've hit 97 once or twice this year, but I'm the guy who usually sits at 97. For me, the velocity isn't the biggest issue, it's just being able to put that in the same game plan as being efficient."
Dye-ing to know
Jermaine Dye said his strained right quad felt just as bad Sunday as it had Saturday. The right fielder showed up at 8:30 a.m. Sunday to get treatment, which the Sox hope will allow him to avoid a stint on the disabled list.
"We have to wait a few more days to see if he can recover," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "Maybe in the next couple of days, we will make the decision if he will go to the DL or be back in the lineup."
Scouts' honor
The Sox named Doug Laumann director of amateur scouting. He has been with the organization since 1990 - including a stint as director of scouting from 2001-03. He replaces recently fired Duane Shaffer.
"I've always considered scouting directors as somewhat of purchasing agents," Laumann said. "You're purchasing the raw materials for your company, and that's exactly what we're doing. We know what we want now, and those are the type of players we're going to get for the organization."
General manager Ken Williams said he will continue to be hands-on in the drafting process, but he trusts Laumann.
"I've relied heavily upon him over this past summer and over the last number of years in the professional scouting and the amateur scouting part," Williams said.
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In hopes of correcting the high-pitch-count problems that have plagued him recently, John Danks has changed his starting point on the mound.
"The only thing we've done is I've moved over on the rubber," Danks said. "We noticed when I miss, it's more times than not arm side, so we've moved over to the third-base (side) to maybe counter that."
Starting now
One-time reliever Andrew Sisco has been put in the starting rotation with Triple-A Charlotte, a move Williams said would be permanent.
In his first start Saturday night - which lasted 3 2/3 innings - the left-hander gave up four hits and two runs, walking three and striking out three.
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Hitting coach Greg Walker: "Believe it or not, it could get worse." ... The Sox were swept at home in an interleague series for the first time ever. ... The Sox were 0-for-14 with runners in scoring position over the weekend. ... Their .222 winning percentage in interleague play this season is the lowest in club history.
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May 14, 2013
|Father Mitch Pacwa signs a book after a presentation he gave at St. Mark Church in Denton April 13. (Photo courtesy of Ray King / Fr. Mitch Pacwa team)
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Renowned Jesuit priest and EWTN personality Father Mitch Pacwa visited St. Mark Church in Denton April 13 to discuss the Year of Faith. Fr. Pacwa, host of EWTN shows "EWTN Live" and "Threshold of Hope," addressed topics such as secularism, evangelization, sin, and the Eucharist.
A bi-ritual priest who has ties to Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Rite Parish in Lewisville, Fr. Pacwa opened the day with Mass and began his first talk, educating participants on aspects of Church history and how secular ideologies became dominant in Western society. Fr. Pacwa also spoke about the significance of the Mass as a sacrifice, relating it to the Old and New Testaments. He concluded the day with a question-and-answer session followed by informal visiting with those in attendance, before he celebrated the parish's 5 p.m. Mass.
During his first presentation, Fr. Pacwa encouraged participants to "look the culture in the eye" and say, "We as people of faith are going to teach the truth that Christ teaches us and not cave to your antagonism to religion.'"
In his second talk, Fr. Pacwa discussed the relation between Old and New Testament worship. "Christ used Old Testament language at the Institution of the Eucharist to show that it is a sacrifice. He uses specifically sacrificial language in establishing the Eucharist," said Fr. Pacwa.
Fr. Pacwa added that we should continue to see the Mass as an unbloody sacrifice representing Jesus' sacrifice on Calvary. "In this way, we see that our life of faith in Jesus Christ is in complete continuity with the life of faith that goes back to Abraham," he said.
Fr. Pacwa then discussed elements pertaining to sin and how it affects God and those around us. Sin is such a serious matter, he said, because of who we are offending. "If hitting the president is a federal offense, what kind of a sin is it to hit the Almighty and all-loving God? It becomes an infinite offense … even when we sin against one another, He counts it as sin against Him."
Kellie Schlosberg of Holy Family Church in Fort Worth said she appreciated Fr. Pacwa's directness in proclaiming the truth. She said she was taking seriously his challenge for the laity to learn more. "It's up to us as Catholics to really take on the Church's teachings, especially in our marriages and in our families," said Schlosberg. "We need to educate our children in apologetics and make sure that when they do go off to college, they're not influenced by the people who don't have an understanding of the truth."
Charles Hopkins, a parishioner at Immaculate Conception Parish in Denton, a convert to Catholicism, said he thoroughly enjoyed Fr. Pacwa's talks. He described him as an inspiration to those struggling with doubts about the nature of the Eucharist. "I think he shed a great deal of light on the Eucharist," said Hopkins.
Stella Mourer and her husband drove from St. Philip the Apostle Parish in Houston to hear Fr. Pacwa speak. "I think we grow every time we hear him because we learn a little bit more about our faith and how to stand up for it," said Mourer. "When we learn, we're able to share with other people."
Silvia Lesko, Director of Religious Education for St. Mark, who helped coordinate the event, said she hopes the participants grow in their experience with the Mass and with Catholicism. "I hope they heard something here that touched them and deepened their understanding of the mysteries we celebrate," said Lesko. "I also hope that through the book and CD sales they will learn more, and that their appetites are whetted for future adult education opportunities within the parish."
When he concluded the conference, Fr. Pacwa encouraged the faithful to stand up for the truth. He said when we focus on Christ Jesus Our Lord, "we stare the culture down; we don't let them intimidate us," said Fr. Pacwa. "They're trying to say we're passing away — that we're going to cease to exist. That's not the case. In fact, they will cease to exist."
Renowned Jesuit priest and EWTN personality Father Mitch Pacwa visited St. Mark Church in Denton April 13 to discuss the Year of Faith. Fr. Pacwa, host of EWTN shows "EWTN Live" and "Threshold of Hope," addressed topics such as secularism, evangelization, sin, and the Eucharist.


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NEW YORK – A nursing home and an assisted living facility are under scrutiny by state officials and an advocacy group after The Associated Press disclosed that hundreds of elderly and disabled people forced to evacuate by Superstorm Sandy were still sleeping on cots in cramped and sometimes oppressive conditions almost two months later.
New York's attorney general sent two investigators to the Bishop Henry B. Hucles Episcopal Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Brooklyn last week after the AP reported that the home was swollen to nearly double its 240-bed licensed capacity with evacuees from the storm-damaged Rockaway Care Center on the Queens seashore.
As of Christmas, many of those patients were still sleeping, field-hospital style, on rows of cots squeezed into community rooms, a rehabilitation gym and the nursing home's tiny chapel.
The state's Office of Long Term Care Ombudsman also dispatched a representative to check on conditions. State Health Department officials were independently investigating how one patient walked out of the facility unnoticed on a cold Friday night, only to turn up at a hospital two days later.
Separately, a legal aid group, MFY Legal Services, is questioning why disabled and elderly residents of Belle Harbor Manor, an adult care home in Queens, were still being asked to sign over most of their monthly Social Security checks to the facility to cover room and board even though they have been flooded out of their rooms since Halloween.
After the storm, those residents were sent to an emergency shelter, then to an overcrowded hotel, and finally to a halfway house for the mentally ill. During that time, many residents have continued to pay rent to Belle Harbor Manor.
'We haven't had any services in the last three months. But he has been getting our rent. What I want to know is, `Where is this money going?" asked resident Alex Woods, 57. 'After what we went through, he should be paying us.'
MFY senior lawyer Shelly Weizman said it isn't clear whether residents are legally obligated to keep paying when they have effectively been evicted by the storm.
At Belle Harbor and many other adult care homes in New York, residents sign an agreement when they first arrive that obligates them to turn over their Social Security checks to the facility, which uses most of the money to cover housing and care. Administrators return a small portion to the residents in the form of an allowance.
Now, Weizman said, 'they are paying, but they aren't getting the services. It is a confusing situation.'
Residents got their latest benefit checks on Jan. 3. A few did decide to withhold their January rent payment, which for many residents was around $1,200, Weizman said.
The phone rang unanswered Friday in the administrative office at Belle Harbor Manor, as it has since the storm. The president of the nonprofit company that controls the home, Samuel Aschkenazi, declined to talk with the AP and referred questions to another board member, who didn't return messages or answer his telephone. The home's accountant also did not return calls.
A spokeswoman for Episcopal Health Services, which owns the Bishop Hucles nursing home, said administrators expect the state will give the Rockaway Care Center approval to reopen in about a week, clearing the way for patients to return.
In the meantime, the number of evacuees staying at Bishop Hucles has dropped from 187 to 136, said the spokeswoman, Penny Chin. She said that the state Health Department had been aware from the start that the nursing home had taken on so many extra patients, and had approved the situation.
More than 6,200 people were evacuated from 47 nursing and adult care homes because of the Oct. 29 storm, according to state health officials. At least hundreds are still displaced, living in different nursing homes or other temporary facilities.
Several of the Belle Harbor evacuees, who are a mix of the elderly and people with mild psychiatric disorders, told the AP that they have found the staff at the halfway house kindly, but the setting isolating and overly restrictive. They cannot have visitors in their rooms. Most haven't been able to retrieve their belongings from Belle Harbor.
It was unclear when residents might return to Belle Harbor, which is undergoing a gut renovation and replacing heating, electrical and fire suppression systems ruined in the flood. New York City's Buildings Department inspected it Friday and concluded that the work was about halfway done.
'They had been telling people they were going home in a week,' said Kristine Rakowsky, a volunteer who has been serving as an advocate for the residents, visiting them daily and trying to help them with needs such as fresh clothing and medical supplies. 'Now there is no end in sight.'
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text: Kidney StonesWhat is a kidney stone? A kidney stone is a solid piece of material that forms from crystallization of excreted substances in the urine. The stone may remain in the kidney or break loose and travel down the urinary tract. A small stone may pass all of the way out of the body, but a larger stone can get stuck in a ureter, the bladder, or the urethra. This may block the flow of urine and cause great pain. A kidney stone may be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a pearl, and some are as big as golf balls. They may be smooth, irregular in shape, or jagged, and are usually yellow or brown in color. Who is affected by kidney stones? Kidney stones are one of the most painful disorders, and one of the most common disorders of the urinary tract. The National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Disease (NIDKD) estimates that about a million people in the United States are treated for kidney stones each year. Consider these NIDKD statistics: Whites are more prone to kidney stones than African-Americans. Although stones occur more frequently in men, the number of women who develop kidney stones has been increasing. Kidney stones strike mostly people between age 20 and 40. Once a person develops more than one stone, he or she is more likely to develop additional stones. What are some of the different types of kidney stones? A kidney stone develops from crystals that separate from urine and build up on the inner surfaces of the kidney. Normally, urine contains chemicals that prevent or inhibit the crystals from forming. However, in some people, stones still form. Crystals that remain small enough will travel through the urinary tract and pass out of the body in the urine without even being noticed. Calcium stones. Calcium stones are the most common type of stones. Calcium is a normal part of a healthy diet and is used by bones and muscles. Calcium not used by the body goes to the kidneys where it is normally flushed out with the rest of the urine. In some people, however, the calcium that stays behind joins with other waste products to form a stone. Struvite stones. Struvite stones are a type of stone that contains the mineral magnesium and the waste product ammonia. It may form after an infection in the urinary system. Uric acid stones. Uric acid stones may form when there is too much acid in the urine. Cystine stones. Cystine, one of the building blocks that make up muscles, nerves, and other parts of the body, can build up in the urine and form a stone. Cystine stones are rare. The disease that causes cystine stones (cystinosis) runs in families. What are the symptoms of kidney stones? The following are the most common symptoms of kidney stones. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include: Extreme, sharp pain in the back or side that will not go away. Changing positions does not help. Pain can come and go. Blood in the urine Nausea and vomiting Cloudy or odorous urine Frequent urination A burning feeling when you urinate Fever and chills Prompt medical attention for kidney stones is necessary. The symptoms of kidney stones may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis. How are kidney stones diagnosed? In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for kidney stones may include the following: Intravenous pyelogram (IVP). A series of X-rays of the kidney, ureters, and bladder with the injection of a contrast dye into the vein—to detect tumors, abnormalities, kidney stones, or any obstructions, and to assess renal blood flow. Computerized tomography (CT or CT scan). A noninvasive diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of X-rays and computer technology to produce horizontal, or axial, images (often called slices) of the body. Urinalysis. Laboratory examination of urine for various cells and chemicals, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, infection, or excessive protein. Blood tests. Laboratory examination of the blood to detect substances that might promote stone formation. Renal ultrasound. A noninvasive test in which a transducer is passed over the kidney producing sound waves that bounce off the kidney, transmitting a picture of the organ on a video screen. The test is used to determine the size and shape of the kidney, and to detect a mass, kidney stone, cyst, or other obstruction in the kidney. Please consult your doctor with any questions or concerns you may have regarding this condition. [ top ]