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NEW YORK - Kim Bondy was in New Orleans seven years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, and scores of patients died in flooded hospitals cut off from power. She never thought that she might face that danger herself.
But on Monday night, as superstorm Sandy submerged parts of New York City, Bondy was one of 215 patients evacuated from New York University's Langone Medical Centre after basement flooding from the East River cut off its electricity.
"Knowing everything that happened in New Orleans hospitals, I'm thinking, 'I am not going to be that story,'" said Bondy, 46, a New Orleans resident who was hospitalized in New York over the weekend with a blocked intestine. "Did you not pay attention to what we learned from Katrina?"
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"I've been asking hospitals to look at their own survivability" after a natural or manmade disaster, "and I just can't get it on their radar screens," said Dr. Art Kellerman, an expert in emergency preparedness in healthcare at the RAND Corp.
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For most hospitals, "emergency preparedness" means being ready to treat a surge of patients from an earthquake or terror attack - disasters outside their walls.
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For hospital administrators trying to keep their institutions in the black, disaster-resistant infrastructure is expensive and lacks the sex appeal of robotic surgery suites and proton-beam cancer therapy to attract patients.
"People don't pick hospitals based on which one has the best generator," Kellerman said.
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A recent survey by the Joint Commission, a non-profit group that accredits more than 19,000 hospitals and other healthcare facilities, found that only one-third planned to upgrade their infrastructure, said head engineer George Mills.
"Two-thirds said they were going to keep going with what they had and hope it was enough," he said. "Unfortunately, many of our hospital buildings are 50 or 60 years old."
No national assessment has determined whether hospitals can survive a disaster, said a high-ranking HHS official.
Storm-hardened infrastructure is not cheap. Continuum Health, which operates St Luke's Hospital in New York where Bondy was sent, spent about US$10 million (S$14.7 million) over the last decade on generators and other emergency measures.
Mount Sinai Medical Centre, next to Manhattan's Central Park, is replacing four basement generators with four on higher floors for US$12 million.
And many hospitals do not factor in all of the potential threats. As Sandy barrelled toward New York City last weekend, hospitals tested their generators and assured city officials that they had enough fuel to run them for several days, according to all the hospitals interviewed.
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By Monday night, the NYU basement that houses one of its generators and fuel tanks for the seven on higher floors was under eight feet of water. Sensors shut down the fuel pumps, and the generators fell silent.
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By all accounts, it could have been much worse had other preparations not been in place.
The staff used flashlights to carry out the evacuation. Police officers fanned out through the building and on stair landings as staff members carried patients to safety, including critically ill infants.
Waiting ambulances - organised days ahead by the Federal Emergency Management Agency - had come from hundreds of miles away. Bondy's driver was from Ohio, and needed to ask directions to the hospital that was due to receive her.
At St. Luke's, staffers meeting evacuees had her checked in and settled in a room within 10 minutes. "Cupcake, don't worry about it; we've got you," a nurse told her.
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The response at nearby Bellevue was less coordinated. On Monday night, the power grid failed in its neighbourhood and then its backup power stumbled as basement pumps meant to deliver fuel to the main generators on upper floors were flooded.
Staffers hand-carried fuel for hours, but by Tuesday the situation was desperate. Bellevue began what became a full evacuation of some 725 patients.
Other city hospitals went into overdrive to receive Bellevue and NYU evacuees, and no patient deaths were reported. Around midnight on Monday, Zahava Cohen, nurse manager of the neonatal intensive care unit at Montefiore Medical Centre, was roused by a knock on her office door.
"They're calling from NYU," a colleague told her. "They want to know how many babies we can take," Cohen recalled.
Hospitals that remained functional were either lucky or better prepared. They didn't lose power. But many were prepared if they had.
Montefiore built a 5-megawatt co-generation plant for heat and electricity in 1995, said Ed Pfleging, vice-president of engineering and facilities, and doubled its capacity a few years later. The plants now supply 90 per cent of the power at its main campus, allowing the hospital to run for days if the electrical grid fails.
"During the 2003 blackout, we were the only New York hospital with fuel power," he said.
Mount Sinai took in 64 NYU patients and some two dozen from Bellevue. It did not lose utility power this week, but was prepared with 13 back-up generators and several separate power systems if it had. Instead, communications were an Achilles heel.
Mount Sinai's chief medical officer, Dr. Erin Dupree, was on the phone with her NYU counterpart on Monday night to discuss the evacuation, But they were repeatedly cut off as landlines and mobile phones failed throughout the city.
"We literally had no communications with these people," she said. "They were in the dark, and we didn't know who was coming here."
Emergency drills light on detail
That also could have been predicted. Loss of communication contributed to the scope of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York, when emergency responders were unable to receive instructions and information in the minutes before the collapse of the World Trade Centre towers.
"We all lost telecommunications on 9/11," said Gail Donovan, chief operating officer of Continuum. "After Sandy we had limited cellphone capabilities at Beth Israel," one of Continuum's Manhattan hospitals, "so we used walkie-talkies."
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What hospitals must do to harden themselves against disaster is determined by a patchwork of federal, state and local regulations. The Joint Commission mandates a long list of preparedness steps, including running disaster drills.
But many hospitals just go through the motions, said Dr. Dan Hanfling, special advisor on emergency preparedness at Inova Health System: "Until events of Sandy's magnitude come along, emergency preparedness is just a box that has to be checked."
Virtually no emergency drills simulate a disaster inside a hospital. "I can't remember the last time a hospital ran a disaster drill where the hospital itself was the site of the disaster," Kellerman said.
The Commission also requires hospitals to maintain back-up power equipment and test it 12 times a year for half an hour and for four hours once every three years. There is no requirement for war-gaming a situation that knocks out that equipment.
Only with "new construction or renovation projects" are hospitals supposed to place such equipment above flood level, explained the Commission's Mills, and even in those cases it is something that "should" be considered but is not required. That means the stricken New York hospitals are not unusual.
"We are definitely making progress in preparedness, but many hospitals are still trying to figure this out," said Inova's Hanfling. "They would fare about the same" should another storm like Sandy roar ashore.


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Aronheim has found companies willing to make his other large dog, a 16-incher. "I may have to settle for that, very reluctantly," he said. The business closing means he also has to replace the entire line of hot dogs at Doogie's affiliated franchises: the Clam Digger restaurants in Waterbury, Bristol and Manchester.
At the Berlin Turnpike restaurant Friday afternoon, a steady lunch crowd filed in, with a line out the door at times. "We've been crazy busy," said manager Kim Cornell, as she rushed to wipe down tables between customers. "Everyone's been calling."
Some customers weren't yet aware of the hot dog's imminent departure. Among them were Tony and Steve Sullivan, contractors from Enfield. The father and son said they stop into Doogie's a few times a year, when working in the area.
"It's good, the service is good," said Tony Sullivan. "It's an old-fashioned greasy hot dog. You spend a little more, but it's worth it."
Sullivan said he was surprised by the news of Grote & Weigel's closing, but said he couldn't imagine the big dog disappearing altogether.
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At another table, Northeast Utilities colleagues Steve Testa and Martin Bartel said they'd come in specifically to bid farewell to the two-footer, after seeing the email blast Aronheim sent to his customer base late Thursday. They're relatively regular customers, Testa said, but he'd never had the big dog.
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His two dining companions, Jon Rowe of Manchester and Jeff Morton of Norwich, followed his lead while trying their first bites.
"We heard it was the end of an era," said Rowe said, eating a two-footer for the first time. "So we decided to come down here and get it before they were gone."
Though the loss of the monster dog is a blow to Doogie's, Aronheim doesn't think it'll hurt business, "as long as I get a very good hot dog to replace Grote & Weigel, and I don't think that'll be a problem….I think people may come in and be disappointed, but we'll have to explain that we can't get it. But no matter what it takes, I'm going to do the 16-inch hot dog anyway."
The restaurant enjoyed record sales in 2011, Aronheim said, due in part to carryover interest from "Man v. Food" and active email promotions.
Doogie's plans an "honorable funeral" for the big dogs over the next two weekends. Customers who order the 16-inch or 24-inch hot dogs (while supplies last) will be entered to win gift certificates in different denominations.
"It's bittersweet…but it's part of being in business," Aronheim said. "You deal with setbacks."
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Sec. 220-20; Table 220-20 10 units allows 65%
Step 2: Applying demand factors 150A x 65% = 97.5A
Solution: The demand load is 97.5A
Step 1: Finding the existing total load Sec. 220-10(a)
100A + 80A + 97.5A = 277.5A Step 2: Add the new load 277.5A + 42A = 319.5A Step 3: Rate the service elements Art. 310, Table 310-16
400kcmil ampacity is 335A; overcurrent device given as 350A.
Solution: The new load can be added.
Optional calculation
For the purposes of allowing additional load to be connected to an existing service or feeder, you can also use actual maximum kVA demand figures to determine the existing load instead of using the standard calculation. You must, however, comply with all of the following conditions:
* The maximum demand data is available for a minimum period of one year.
* The existing demand at 125% plus the new load is not greater than the ampacity rating of the service conductors.
* The service-entrance conductors have suitable overcurrent protection.
If that small office/restaurant building has good demand records, you can use the optional calculation. If the highest demand recorded over the past year is 78.4kVA, could the new load be added?
Step 1: Calculating demand per NEC Sec. 220-35 78.4kVA x 125% = 98kVA
Step 2: Conversion to amperes
98,000VA/208V + [square root of 3] = 272A
Step 4: Calculating new total load
Solution: The new load can be added. This approach, when possible, is much faster and easier.
Next issue
When can the service overcurrent protective device be sized higher than the ampacity of the service conductors?
James G. Stallcup is the owner of Grayboy & Associates in Fort Worth, Tex., a consulting firm specializing in the NEC.


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Ryan comes to New Britain from Holy Cross where he spent the 2009-10 season. Prior to his time with the Crusaders he coached for two seasons at Boston University helping them improve to a 17-14 record in 2008-09. He was involved in all areas of the Terriers' program, including on-court coaching, recruiting, practice and game preparation, scheduling, compliance, academic advising and counseling.
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Calpers Head of Global Proxy Voting Todd Mattley joins The News Hub with his agency's take on a push by David Einhorn to get Apple to share more cash with its investors. (Photo: Getty Images)
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 28, 2013) – Looking to snap their third losing streak of at least two games this season and aiming to take down the Jacksonville Dolphins for the first time since Feb. 14, 2011, the ETSU Lady Bucs host JU on Monday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletics Center.
ETSU (4-11, 2-6) hopes the usually friendly confines of the MSHA Athletics Center become a bit friendlier as they search for their first win in the Dome since Nov. 30 against Memphis. After struggling with shooting from the field, and most notably from behind the arc, against North Florida, the Lady Bucs at least have the Destiny Mitchell (Bluffton, Ga.) of old back as she has posted three-consecutive double-doubles in the past three contests. The search for complimentary scorers to aid Mitchell still continues but it took a step forward vs. UNF with Serena Clark (Tucker, Ga.) and Cara Bowling (Elizabethton, Tenn.) each tallying 14 points. A more efficient offense, with less emphasis on the outside shot, may prove beneficial going forward for an ETSU squad that has averaged 33 points in the paint in their last five contests.
The matchup between the Lady Bucs and the Dolphins will be the 18th all-time meeting between the two schools, a series in which ETSU leads with a 13-4 overall series advantage. JU swept the season series last year and are riding a three-game winning streak against the Blue and Gold. The most recent meeting was on Feb. 9, 2012 when the Dolphins bested ETSU, 88-82, in Johnson City.
For more on Saturday's game, read the game notes below. For more on ETSU women's basketball throughout the 2012-13 season, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women's hoops link.
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ETSU (4-11, 2-6) looked to gain their first home victory in almost two months when they welcomed the North Florida Ospreys to the ETSU/MSHA Athletics Center. In the first half, the Lady Bucs relied way too much on the three-point shot, firing up 13 attempts and making only one. This reliance, and the inability to get anything going from the field, resulted in a 29-18 deficit at the break. In the second stanza, ETSU used a combination of attacking the basket and finally getting some triples to fall. The Blue and Gold took the lead with four minutes remaining, but settling for threes proved costly as the Lady Bucs went cold, while the Ospreys closed the game with a nine to five run in the final 2:30, sealing the game, 62-56. Destiny Mitchell notched her third straight double-double with 12 points and 14 rebounds.
Monday's contest in the ETSU/MSHA Athletics Center will be the 18th all-time meeting between the two teams. The Lady Bucs and the Dolphins last met last season on Feb. 9 when JU topped ETSU, 88-82. This loss made the Lady Bucs 0-2 in the season series against the Dolphins after JU dominated ETSU, 70-44, on Jan. 14 in Jacksonville, Fla. In the most recent matchup, the first half featured seven ties and nine lead changes, but a 12-4 JU run over the final 2:56, resulted in a 41-34 Lady Bucs deficit at the break. This close play continued into the second period with six more ties and two additional lead changes, but with the Dolphins shooting efficiently from the field and knocking down clutch free throws during the final three minutes, the deficit became too much to overcome, ending in an 88-82 decision in favor of JU. Destiny Mitchell posted her second straight double-double with 21 points and 10 rebounds, while Cara Bowling came off the bench to record 11 points and three steals.
After being inserted into the starting lineup at the beginning of conference play, Shawn Randall (Orlando, Fla.) has answered the call and has been stellar in league play. In her first start of the season at USC Upstate, Randall tallied 16 points and was 4-of-6 from behind the arc. The junior guard followed this performance with strong showings at Lipscomb (13 points, 4 rebounds), at Northern Kentucky (9 points) and at Kennesaw State (18 points). Randall is currently averaging 8.8 points per game in Atlantic Sun action.
In addition to running the team as a true freshman point guard, Brianna McQueen (Bluffton, Ga.) has shown no fear at the free throw stripe with the game on the line. At Lipscomb and at Kennesaw State, McQueen stepped the line and buried clutch free throws down the stretch to seal the game in the Lady Bucs' favor. McQueen currently is tied for sixth in the A-Sun in free throw shooting at 75 percent.
The Blue and Gold have outrebounded the opposition in 10 of the 15 games this season and enter Saturday's game with a plus-3.8 rebounding margin (40.6-36.8), ranking first in the A-Sun … in its game at Morehead State, ETSU out-rebounded the Eagles by 20, 46-26 … the Lady Bucs' plus-3.8 rebound margin currently ranks in the top 80 nationally.
Currently the Lady Bucs are currently averaging 4.6 blocks per contest, good for tops in the Atlantic Sun. ETSU swatted a season-high eight shots in their win against Memphis on Nov. 30 inside the MSHA Athletics Center and tied this season-high rejection mark in a loss to Stetson at the Dome. The Blue and Gold have blocked five or more shots in eight games this season and are led by Tosha Austin's (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1.1 blocks per game which ranks in the top five individually in the league. Austin also currently ranks 19th all-time in blocked shots in Atlantic Sun history with 117 rejections.
Destiny Mitchell has scored in double figures in eight out of the fourteen games she has played in this season and is averaging 12.6 points per contest … Mitchell scored a season-high 26 points in the opener at High Point back on Nov. 10 and added 14 points and 16 rebounds in the 10-point win vs. Memphis to close out the month of November ... Mitchell is currently sixth in the A-Sun in scoring (12.6), second in rebounding (9.3), fifth in steals (2.1) and tied for third in field goal percentage (50.0).
Mitchell is well on her way to become the 21st Lady Buc to join the 1,000-point club ... She is on pace to break the 1,000-point mark near the end of February as she registered 347 points as a freshman and 367 points as a sophomore for 714 total points... through ETSU's first 15 games of the 2012-13 season she has scored 176 to move her career total to 890 .. if Mitchell scores in similar fashion in the next two years as she did as a rookie and a sophomore, she will put herself in the top-10 in Lady Buc history.
After a solid start to the season for the now eligible transfer, Serena Clark (Tucker, Ga.) has really turned it on when it comes to Atlantic Sun action. Through the first eight games of league play, Clark is averaging 8.9 points and 7.6 rebounds per game, including back-to-back double-doubles at Lipscomb and at Northern Kentucky with 10 points & 14 rebounds and 16 points, 10 rebounds & seven steals, respectively.
The Lady Bucs have been a tough team to beat when it comes to the second half of the season (games played from January-March) … since January of 2008, ETSU is 78-35 (.690) in the months of January through March, including a program-best 19-3 mark in 2009-10.
The Lady Bucs have enjoyed a lot of success since joining the A-Sun in 2005-06 … since joining the league, the Lady Buccaneers have averaged 15 conference wins a year, including a league-best and school record 18-2 mark in 2009-10, three Atlantic Sun Tournament titles (2008-2010), and two regular season championships (2008 and 2010) …in total, ETSU is 101-39 (.721) against conference foes since moving into the A-Sun … the Lady Bucs have also won 81 of their last 110 games against conference foes (includes the 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 A-Sun Tournaments).
Through the early portion of the season, ETSU has gotten strong contributions from its bench. On the season ETSU averages roughly 20 bench points per game, including a season-high 57 points off the bench against Morehead State. Key reserves Cara Bowling (7.9 ppg), Maria Bond (Macon, Ga.) (6.1 ppg) and Tiana Burley (Camilla, Ga.) (5.8 ppg) have been vital for the Lady Bucs.
Destiny Mitchell recorded 11 double-doubles in her rookie season and she finished the 2011-12 season with four consecutive double-doubles before going down with her knee injury against UNF on Feb. 12 … in those 11 games, Mitchell averaged 17.5 points, 11.5 rebounds, and 2.7 steals in 33.5 minutes of work, while also shooting 53 percent from the field (81-152)... Mitchell had 10 more double-doubles in 2011-12... after earning her first double-double of this season on Nov. 30 against Memphis (14 pts., 16 rebs.) and after posting three consecutive double-doubles at Kennesaw State (18 pts., 10 rebs.), at Mercer (17 pts., 13 rebs.) and vs. North Florida (12 pts. 14 rebs.), Mitchell now has 25 so far in her career.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - In their final home meet of the year, the Yale women's gymnastics team fell to Rutgers Saturday afternoon, 192.250-192.725. Despite trailing after the first two events, the Bulldogs had strong performances in both balance beam and floor that kept the meet close.
Yale Captain Jamie Green (Los Angeles, CA) and freshman Suchitra Paul (Orinda, CA), along with Elizabeth Fittery of Rutgers all tied for first in all-around competition with scores of 38.475. Kathryn Fong (Brooklyn, NY) was the first event winner for Yale, placing first in bars with 9.875. Anne McPherson (Montagnola, Switzerland) placed first in the balance beam with 9.825. Paul became Yale's third first place finisher of the day after she won the floor exercise with 9.900.
"We had a tough time on the bars, so we will have to go back and concentrate on that for the future," said head coach Barbara Tonry. "However, I am ecstatic that all six of our gymnasts stayed on the balance beam and also performed well in the floor exercise. We are on our way to where we need to be and should be ready in time for Ivys."
Next Saturday the Bulldogs travel north to the University of New Hampshire Invitational which will begin at 7 p.m. Ivy League championships will take place the following Saturday at Cornell.
Top Finishers
Event Place Score Vault 1 - Lorena Johnson (R) 9.650 2 - Nicole Bradder (R) 9.575 3 - Leeron Avnery (Y) and Christine Lacy (Y) 9.550
Bars 1 - Kathryn Fong (Y) 9.875 2 - Sveta Shterenberg (R) 9.800 3 - Stephanie Zick (R) 9.750 4 - Elizabeth Fittery (R) 9.600
Beam 1 - Anne McPherson (Y) 9.825 2 - Suchitra Paul (Y)and Lisa Abrams (R) 9.800 4 - Jamie Green (Y) 9.725
Floor 1 - Suchitra Paul (Y) 9.900 2 - Anne McPherson (Y) 9.850 3 - Jamie Green (Y) and Nicole Bradder (R) 9.825
Final Team Scores
Yale Rutgers Vault 47.500 47.725 Bars 47.125 18.225 Beam 48.625 48.025 Floor 49.000 48.750 Final 192.250 192.725


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By Nicole Duciaume, Regional Sponsorship Coordinator, ChildFund Americas
In the Americas region, four of ChildFund's sponsor relations managers visited other countries for a week to observe firsthand what their counterparts do. This post concludes our four-part series about the exchange program designed to improve the sponsorship experience. Read the series.
Our weeklong exchange program for sponsor relations managers in the Americas opened the door to in-depth conversations on policies, practices, processes, operations and cultures. Each sponsor relations manager now has an action plan to implement a promising practice gleaned during the exchange.
Here are some of their final reflections on the experience:
Ana Handrez, of Honduras, who visited Mexico: In the 19 years I have worked with ChildFund, this was my first time visiting another country specifically to discuss sponsorship issues and experiences. I was very surprised to see the engagement and initiatives from ChildFund Mexico's local partner organizations. They knew their policies very well, and they were very proud to share their ideas of engaging children in sponsorship activities. It was amazing! The visit was worth every single day.
Valeria Suarez (Mexico): Ana's visit was an enriching experience for Mexico's office and especially for the sponsorship team. The national office and field sponsorship staff realized that even though each country has "particularities," both share similar conditions, processes, histories and results. We enjoyed showing Ana how things are done here in Mexico, how sponsorship processes and visions have changed in the past few years, and how results have started to be achieved. We learned from her how processing times should be improved to continue enhancing the sponsorship experience, and Ana learned from us how creativity and working closely with children can provide better information for sponsors.
Cynthie Tavernier-Jervier, of the Caribbean, who visited Guatemala: This week makes me want to continue to make the sponsorship position more and more effective. I realized again how important the part that we play in programs actually coming to fruition to meet the needs (educational, social, health) of the less fortunate of our countries. So, a wonderful thing about my job is helping to bring benefits to less fortunate children and families and making a difference.
Diana Benitez (Guatemala): The exchange is an opportunity to know in situ the sponsorship processes. I see this experience as very exciting and enriching. Although Dominica and Guatemala have very different contexts, the sponsorship processes are similar. This exchange will impact our work going forward.
Dov Rosenmann, of Brazil, who visited Bolivia: This was an opportunity to reflect on our current practices and identify key areas of improvement for immediate implementation. I consider myself a beginner in sponsorship management in ChildFund, and being in Bolivia with an experienced team is, for me, a unique chance to directly ask questions and take in knowledge. On the other hand, I hope I was able to share with my Bolivian peers more about Brazil's experience in managing sponsorship. As for what has been the best part of the exchange, for me it was seeing the youth participation at the local level and learning about Bolivia's communication corners. Both were very inspiring and definitely an initiative to be multiplied in other countries.
Rosario Miranda (Bolivia): My expectation was to learn by comparing processes and seeing opportunities of improvement. Both national offices have similar interests and efforts toward integrated sponsorship and program activities to contribute to children's development. Having Dov visit our national office and four local partner organizations was a wonderful educational exchange experience. We were able to compare operations and provide valuable information to improve each other's sponsorship processes and developmental activities with children.
Santiago Baldazo, of the United States, who hosted Ecuador: This was a great experience. Although in planning for the week, we assumed that discussing sponsorship processes when both countries were already very familiar with the procedures would be somewhat tedious. But, while we shared the "how" of the sponsorship processes, it was very valuable for us to have the opportunity to discuss the "why" as well.
Zoraya Albornoz (Ecuador): Staff in both offices work hard to give children the chance of better opportunities for their lives. Through this experience, I was able to better understand the way other offices work and realize the good things we have in our own operations as well as the importance of working closer to the local partners. In the daily work we lose the real perspective of our strengths and weakness. I saw that we have some things that can be improved in order to reach our goals.
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Tempting the taste buds - Indian and International cuisine for people who love food and cooking!!
May 15, 2008
"Happy Retirement" Cake
25 comments:
- ranji said...
that is a very sweet and kind gesture Jz....a very beautiful and delcious looking cake..how long do u take to make and decorate one?...really nice:)
- May 15, 2008 at 11:58 AM
- Rachel said...
Can I say that was a very secriptive post :D
love the rim pipings..the upper and the lower...
- May 15, 2008 at 12:04 PM
- Trupti said...
how sweet of u JZ..cake looks wonderful
- May 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM
- Madhuram said...
The cake looks so cute. Lucky Linda.
- May 15, 2008 at 12:47 PM
- Shweta said...
That is a very cute, very professional looking cake and it packs a ton of love! That's a very sweet gesture :)
- May 15, 2008 at 1:16 PM
- Mansi Desai said...
that looks wonderful JZ! I'm sure Linda must've been happy, both to retire as well as to relish that cake:)
- May 15, 2008 at 1:52 PM
- Uma said...
lovely cake! nice gesture.
- May 15, 2008 at 1:53 PM
- Cham said...
Looks perfect, how sweet u r...
- May 15, 2008 at 1:57 PM
- JZ @ Tasty treats said...
Thanks Ranji. To bake and cool the cake, it would take 2+ hours (incl cooling). Decorating, I guess, would take around 1-2 hours depending on the design.
Thanks Rachel, Trupti and Madhuram!
Thanks, shweta, it was packed with love indeed!
Hey Mansi, thanks and I guess she was!
Thanks Uma and Cham for your lovely comments!
Would love to make one for all of you!
- May 15, 2008 at 2:26 PM
- Sukanya Ramkumar said...
That is a great cake. Looks so gorgeous. love the color. Nice work.
- May 15, 2008 at 2:55 PM
- Divya Vikram said...
cake looks perfect..
- May 15, 2008 at 6:11 PM
- sowmya said...
beautiful cake..she must have loved your this gesture..
- May 15, 2008 at 7:00 PM
- ranji said...
yes JZ u are more than welcome to put the recipe and the linkback in ur blog...i am very happy to know u liked it:)..and i really appreciate u asking me:)...
- May 15, 2008 at 9:52 PM
such a touching gesture...and lovely looking cake
- May 16, 2008 at 4:59 AM
- Swapna said...
Lovely Cake!!!!
- May 16, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- Sangeeth said...
luv the cake....the white and pink combo always is a treat to the eyes...
- May 16, 2008 at 8:34 AM
- JZ @ Tasty treats said...
Thanks a lot for your compliments and support Sukanya, Divya, Sowmya, Ranji, Arundati, Swapna and Sangeeth!
- May 16, 2008 at 9:13 AM
- Hetal said...
nice cake....thats so sweet of u..
- May 16, 2008 at 4:17 PM
- easycrafts said...
Nice decorations on the cake
- May 17, 2008 at 8:26 AM
- JZ @ Tasty treats said...
Thanks Hetal and EC !!
- May 18, 2008 at 10:56 AM
- TBC said...
What a beautiful cake that is! and what a nice gesture!
- May 19, 2008 at 6:57 PM
- JZ @ Tasty treats said...
Thanks TBC!
- May 22, 2008 at 9:43 PM
- Roopa said...
Thats a very helpful set of instructions for people like me who are novice in cake decorating:)
- July 4, 2008 at 8:31 AM
- DK said...
I knew that your presentation skills were exemplary but I somehow missed the fact that you had extended it to even cake decorating until pointed out by Madhu in my post today! Mama mia! Are u by any chance in the restaurant business/pro photographer? If u r , then I am not suprised and if you are Not - GIRL YOU SHOULD START THINKING OF BEING ONE! you have immense talent. Ok ok will stop writing out "bashan"/Speech - I wanted to jus drop a comment but couldnt help letting u know of my admiration :) Great Going girl...Jus drop in some hi-funda tips on cake decorating will u - I am jus starting to go in that line - and not all give the correct tips!
- July 10, 2008 at 1:24 PM
- Shubha said...
Very nice dear... it was like a tutorial...:) Hey how to u lift the rose flower from the petal pin and put it on the cake? can u guide. Y dont u give a tutorial on that it will be so helpful..:)
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We posted a review of Stephen Meyer's book, Signature in the Cell. His thesis is that the traditional science which seeks to understand the origin of cellular information has reached a dead-end. As Meyer sees it, the alternative—cellular information is produced by an intelligence— is firmly grounded in science, not faith. But what is science, and how does it differ from other approaches to obtaining knowledge? To address this question we have asked Dr. Steven Benner, to respond to Signature in the Cell. Fortunately, he had already read the book, so he responded quickly.
Dr. Benner is a Distinguished Fellow in the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution at The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology, Gainesville FL. He is the author of Life, the Universe, and the Scientific Method. Steven Benner's work at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution seeks to join natural history to the physical sciences to address "big" questions in science (Where did we come from? Are we alone? What is our future in the cosmos?) and in technology, including the management of complex human diseases such as cancer, hypertension, and alcoholism.
Whatever "science" is, one of its characteristics is clear: It is empowering. In this respect, modern science is different from all thought, philosophical, religious, and metaphysical, that occurred in the 36 centuries of human civilization that preceded Galileo. It implies no disrespect to Euclid, Archimedes, Moses, or the builders of the pyramids to observe that models from philosophy, religion, and metaphysics did nothing for the human condition analogous to what modern science has done. The ancients could not, and we can, identify the virus that causes AIDS. Construct a nuclear power plant through the fission of synthetic elements. Extract resources from the Earth's crust using models for the history of our planet.
By the end of the 19th century, as the power of modern science became evident, people attempted to understand what science did that philosophy, religion, and metaphysics had not done. A "brief history of thinking about thought" would mention efforts to construct formal attributes that distinguished "scientific" from "non-scientific" propositions, proposals of testability and falsifiability as examples of these attributes, and the recognition that these attributes do not robustly characterize successful science.
Instead, those who study science, in particular, those who study science from the vantage of themselves being practicing scientists, have come to focus on the relation that successful scientists have with their communities, authorities in their communities, and their own desires to believe. Scientists, of course, are taught by authorities. Further, in their careers, scientists often come to want to believe certain propositions, most often the proposition that their own theories are correct. Scientists, like attorneys or other advocates, can easily cherry-pick data to defend propositions that they want to defend, ignoring data that contradict those cherished propositions.
To be successful, scientists must practice an intellectual discipline that denies them these wants. They must begin by understanding that authorities can be wrong. They also must understand that their desires to believe can corrupt their own abilities to distinguish reality from fiction. Accordingly, they understand that they need an intellectual discipline that might allow the outcome of a scientific process to be, if necessary, something other than what their communities have always believed, or what they personally might want to believe.
Different scientists have conveyed this deep understanding of scientific process with pithy aphorisms. For example, Richard Feynman, the noted Cal Tech physicist, told a convention of high school science teachers in 1966 that "science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." My recent book entitled Life, the Universe, and the Scientific Method shows how different sciences, although different in subject matter and methodologies, all have developed ways to prevent scientists from deceiving themselves. "Science is an intellectual process that embodies a mechanism to prevent scientists from believing what scientists want to believe."
This intellectual discipline allows scientists to uncover reality better than lawyers, politicians, or advertisers. These professionals decide first what they want their conclusions to be ("my client is innocent," "re-elect me," or "buy my product"). They then select data to support their preselected conclusions. They allow themselves any trick to do so, suppressing opposing data, manipulating the media, and destroying opponents through ad hominem attacks. Only a robust system of controlled advocacy, where both sides must argue before a neutral authority (a jury, electorate, or free market), can prevent such an intellectual process from going bad (and often not even then).
Unfortunately, the intellectual discipline needed to support successful science is difficult to teach. It goes against powerful sociological forces, including the need to have authorities in one's field approve grants, grant tenure, or award awards. Accordingly, scientists themselves practice this discipline imperfectly, sometimes very imperfectly. Especially in matters of public policy, one can often see scientists being advocates for their theories with skills equal to the best of attorneys.
When they do, however, scientists lose for themselves the empowerment of modern science. When scientists cease to be more critical of data that support their own hypotheses than data that contradict them, they soon lose the ability to distinguish reality from non-reality.
Nowhere is this intellectual discipline more important than when addressing "big" questions, those that concern subject matter that is not readily available for direct observation. These are not the work-a-day questions that a practitioner must answer to solve a technological problem ("Doc, why am I sick?") or that a parent might field from an inquisitive child ("Mom, what makes the sky blue?").
No, these are questions like: "Do alien extraterrestrials exist?" Or: "How do galaxies form?" Or: "How did life originate?" It implies no disrespect of the ailing patient or the inquisitive child to say that "big" questions are more interesting than the work-a-day questions. Or to suggest that their pursuit is more likely to uncover more fundamental reasons why experts are ignorant. Or to expect the pursuit of "big" questions to be more likely to ignite new beacons to guide our exploration of the cosmos. Including the life it holds.
On this matter, Stephen Meyer recently weighed in with his book, Signature in the Cell. Meyer evidently views his 508 pages (with additional pages of notes) as a "scientific" argument for intelligent design. In addition, Meyer offers autobiographical digressions showing how he learned of many of the conclusions that modern science has delivered. He provides personal stories describing how he learned of the challenges in distinguishing scientific statements from non-scientific statements, how he learned why scientists view living systems as complex, and how he learned about questions current among those who seek to understand the origin of life.
Absent, however, from Meyer's narrative is any evidence that he learned about the intellectual discipline that gave science the power that it needed to arrive at these conclusions. On the contrary, Meyer is an advocate. He knows the final result that he wants (intelligent design). He cherry-picks conclusions provided by modern science to support it (mostly of the "irreducible complexity" type). He reaches his final result with no indication that he considered (or would consider) evidence that might prevent him from believing what he wants to believe.
But it is worse. Not only is Meyer ignorant of the intellectual discipline that gives science its power. He is evidently ignorant of his ignorance. He gives no indication that he knows that by being an advocate, he has denied himself the empowerment that scientific processes might have delivered to him.
In one sense, Meyer cannot be faulted. He is trained in the philosophy of science, a field that does not have many methods to prevent its practitioners from arriving at the results that they want. He is also surrounded in his culture by pseudo-scientific debate. As Feynman observed, "we live in an unscientific age in which almost all the buffeting of communications and television are unscientific. As a result, there is a considerable amount of intellectual tyranny in the name of science."
This observation remains true today. One cant hardly turn on the television without hearing that some "science" or other is "settled," from trans-fats in the food to the role of human carbon dioxide emissions in global climate change. This despite the fact that anyone who declares that a science is "settled" has lost the intellectual discipline needed to be empowered by science.
Why does Meyer write a book that puts his ignorance on such display? He answers this question on page 450. Meyer wants to believe in intelligent design because he wants to avoid an "absence of meaning in modern life." He writes, "the theory of intelligent design … affirm[s] that the ultimate cause of life is personal."
One can certainly be sympathetic with Meyer's suffering as he becomes aware of the Faustian dilemma presented by modern society. One might also object to the cheapening of modern culture, the disaffection of the youth, or the high level of teenage pregnancy. For any of these reasons, one might hope that a belief that life emerged through the hand of an intelligent designer would be mitigating, especially if it is presented as an article of faith as a mandate from a divinity.
And indeed it might. But this is not what scientists should be doing. More to the point, if they started doing so, they would stop producing what we value from science.
And so we turn to another of Meyer's interests: Education. If what experts know today about biology, chemistry, and physics were all that is to be known, then Feynman's aphorism would no longer be correct. We should not only want to believe what we are taught in school by experts, but we should believe. Indeed, we might take a short-cut directly to knowledge by believing without having reason to believe; we should have "faith." Any intellectual discipline that might disrupt our beliefs is no longer needed; indeed, it might lead us astray.
But if there is something left to be learned about the world around us, then it is appropriate to teach the intellectual discipline that is necessary for science to be empowering. Our children will almost certainly need the power of that intellectual discipline to manage the next generation of problems that they will confront. And, as Meyer's book makes clear, there is much to be learned, especially about the origins of life.


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Two Indian Americans All Set To Be Recognized As CNN Hero Of The Year 2017December 11, 2017 11:32
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WASHINGTON: Two Indian-Americans; Samir Lakhani from Pittsburg and Mona Patel from Texas are to be among the 10 finalists picked for the prestigious CNN Heroes of the Year award for 2017. Both of them have been actively involved in community services for many years now. They are to be recognized at the "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute," on December 17th.
Lakhani runs a non-profit organization which recycles discarded bars of soap from hotels across Cambodia. They then distribute the soaps to villages which are in need of these essential items. From 2014, as a college student, Lakhani first traveled to Cambodia where he observed that this bar of soap was a much sought after luxury for people of Cambodia and which they can not afford.
"I remember quite vividly a mother bathing her newborn in a basin filled with laundry powder and water. It is an image I'll never get out of my mind," Lakhani stated. She was still studying at the University of Pittsburgh when he started the Eco-soap Bank.
This organization has now grown upto four recycling centers all across the US. This not just works in providing soaps but also is a great employer with jobs to over 35 local women. First they gather used soap bars and then they are sanitized and remolded into new bars by melting down into liquid soap first.
More than 650,000 people have benefited so far, from the NGO's soap and hygiene education. "What I love most is that we are killing three birds with one stone," Lakhani said. "We are keeping waste out of landfills, employing locals and spreading soap all over the country," he added.
While on the other hand Mona Patel's non-profit organization aims to help amputees rebuild their lives. Her organization offers peer support, resources and recreational activities for handicapped. From her experiences, she began this organization. More than 15 years ago, she was hit by a drunken driver while walking to attend a class at Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo, California. "I flew up about 12 feet," Patel said. "And then he pinned me between his car and a metal railing, and that's what smashed my leg and my foot." Patel's body, and future, were forever changed.
But this did not deter her determination, and when Patel got out of the ICU, she underwent her first amputation. She had the challenging seven years of surgeries in attempts to salvage the remaining part of her leg. Her strong will power led her to earn a bachelor's degree and two master's degrees while the turmoil in her life, and eventually she became a social worker.
Patel's nonprofit, the 'San Antonio Amputee Foundation', aims to help amputees rebuild their lives as this is not an end to their dreams. This group offers peer support, education and recreation opportunities, also the much needed financial assistance for modifications in their homes to suit their disabilities and also to pay for a prosthetic limb.
Patel has been active and pioneering in fitness and health programs for amputees. She also sponsors amputees to participate tennis tournaments and endurance climbing. In year 2015, a group of amputees along with Patel climbed the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
"When somebody becomes an amputee, maneuvering through the system is sometimes just scary," Patel, a below-knee amputee, said. "I think the big catalyst of me doing what I do to help the amputee community is because I lived it," she added.
Online voting is open for public and the Winner will receive USD 100000 for their charitable cause.
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Hey there! Can you believe tomorrow is already Halloween? Then we move onto Turkeys..and then CHRISTMAS!?!? Seriously. Crazy. Stuff. Today I'm wrapping up Halloween on Make. Bake. Celebrate by recapping many of the fun and easy Halloween treats I've shared over the past few weeks. So if your still in need of a cute and easy treat for tomorrow, no worries! I waited last minute myself, and ended up making chocolate covered pretzels for the girls dance classes as well as more cupcakes with ghost meringues. Chocolate covered pretzels are a favorite around here. Plus they were a great way to use up the mountain of Halloween supplies I have leftover :)
For the older class I simply covered pretzels in green and purple candy melts and then covered in sprinkles. Once they were dry I placed plastic spider rings over the end and wrapped them up in a pretzel bag. They were so simple and came out so darn cute. The kids really love these little rings.
For the little's class I used up my leftover PEEPS ghosts and placed them on the end of the pretzels "gluing" them on with melted candy melts. This idea came from my pal Christy over at Love From the Oven aka The PEEPS whisperer...who did these with some PEEP bunnies at Easter. Of course the littles loved these. Fast, easy, and adorable. I actually got a "you're the best mom" from one of them. I dunno about you...but when my two year old tells me I'm the best..I pretty much melt and will cave into any of her requests. Even if it's to eat the leftover ones.... :)
Now to recap some easy treats Halloween treats I shared on Make.Bake.Celebrate this year!
One of my very fav and most popular Swirly Halloween Cookies...
...then there was Candy Corn Oreo Pops and Slime Filled Cupcakes of course!
Of course Halloween wouldn't be complete without some Graveyard Pudding, watch out for bones!
Or maybe a few Monster Eyeball Cookies are just what you need...
...use up spare candy and leftover treats to make your very own Halloween Kabobs.
Here's another of my favs! Adorable melt in your mouth Candy Corn Meringues.
If cupcakes are your thing why not shape that buttercream into a candy corn ... or let some meringue ghosts spook your kiddos cupcakes?
Creepy Cupcakes that stare back are always fun...blink blink, blink blink.
Or take it really easy with some Candy Corn Bark! Just melt, pour, and break!
Baking for Halloween was such a blast, and I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have!
Everybody have a fun, and safe Halloween!