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Murder suspect, prosecutor duel
Defendant again denies shooting Eddie Stanley at chaotic house party
Published 10:40 pm, Friday, March 15, 2013
SCHENECTADY — At the urging of the prosecutor, James "H-O" Wells stood in the witness stand and demonstrated for jurors how he clutched the .357 magnum pistol along the right side of his body while trying to see if there were bullet holes in the front door of 730 Bridge St.
The Brooklyn drug dealer, on trial for murder in the June 2011 shooting of Schenectady High School basketball player Eddie Stanley, on Friday recalled his panicked reaction after hearing gunfire followed by the lights going off and then back on as he stood at the bottom of the stairs near the door in the cramped stairwell.
He denied, during a full day of cross-examination by Chief Assistant District Attorney Philip Mueller, that he ever had a .44 caliber revolver at the time or that he killed anyone.
"At no point in time did I have two guns," he told Mueller as the prosecutor displayed the .44 caliber gun.
The prosecution contends Wells, now 33 and a member of the Bloods street gang, shot the 15-year-old Stanley at least four times with two guns after a fight broke out in the stairwell of the residence when one of the youngsters at the party refused to be frisked as Wells and his friends from Brooklyn searched for rental car keys one of them had misplaced.
The defense maintains one of Wells' buddies, Jeremy Battle, known as "J," had the .44 caliber revolver in his hands seconds before the deadly shooting. Stanley died at the hospital.
"So you didn't see 'J' with this gun?" asked Mueller on Friday while questioning Wells about what he saw after the gunfire ended and the lights came back on.
Wells said that he only recalled seeing "J" put the gun back onto his waist as he walked back up the stairs after trying to calm down an unruly crowd congregated outside the door, many of whom still had friends inside.
Wells also admitted he never saw "J" point or re-holster the weapon after the shooting.
Mueller also showed other prosecution exhibits, including the baggy athletic shorts Wells wore on the night of the shooting, and a lightweight black jacket authorities have said the guns were wrapped in when they were found in October buried in back of a home on Bridge Street, not far from where the slaying occurred.
The prosecutor highlighted the testimony of several prosecution witnesses, including two men who said they saw "J" at the bottom of the steps pass a long-barrelled revolver to Wells.
He dismissed their testimony as "completely inaccurate."
Wells also disputed the account of another prosecution witness who told jurors that he made it back inside the stairwell just in time to pull his friend to safety before the shots rang out.
Mueller accused Wells of being deceptive as he was when he told a city police detective after being detained that "everybody knows me as James," even though most people in Schenectady knew him by his nickname, "H-O." Mueller insisted that he knew the investigator was questioning him about the Stanley murder and "he didn't want to be H-O" anymore because his name was being mentioned by eyewitnesses.
"I wouldn't call them deception, I'm nervous," Wells said.
He insisted that he fled Schenectady after the shooting because he didn't shoot anyone and didn't want to be involved in a police investigation.
The defense rested its case Friday and closing statements are likely to be delivered Monday before Visiting Schenectady County Judge Michael Coccoma gives the jury its legal instructions and the panel begins deliberating.
Wells also is charged with four counts of weapons possession, reckless endangerment, unlawful imprisonment and tampering with evidence, plus three counts of misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child. He faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted of murder.
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Actress optimistic about extradition of Mexican drug lord El Chapo
An actress holding the rights to make a movie about Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has welcomed the latest step towards his intended extradition to the US.
Kate del Castillo said: "Today's news that El Chapo may be extradited to the United States is good news in that it will allow my team greater access to him in order to tell a full and accurate picture of his unbelievable life and work."
Mexican judicial authorities said a judge had ruled that legal requirements had been met for sending Guzman to the US to face drug charges. The country's Foreign Relations Department must still approve extradition, and Guzman's lawyers can appeal.
Del Castillo arranged actor Sean Penn's interview with Guzman in October while the leader of the Sinaloa cartel was on the run after his second escape from prison. She has said she was able to do so because of a relationship that developed around Guzman's interest in having a film made about his life.
Mexican authorities have said they are investigating whether del Castillo received any money from Guzman. She denies that happened.
Her optimism that Guzman would be more accessible in the US after extradition could be misplaced.
"I think that her statement is wishful thinking," said David S Weinstein, a former prosecutor who oversaw the narcotics division at the prosecutor's office in Miami.
"She will have little to no access to him prior to his trial or the resolution of all the cases for which he is extradited to the US to stand trial."
After a conviction, del Castillo would have to request an interview through the Bureau of Prisons. With such high-profile inmates, such requests are not routinely granted.
Guzman's lawyers have confirmed that del Castillo has the rights to make a movie about his life.
On Monday, notary public Gabriel Ezeta said he was the one who issued the document in which Guzman gave permission to del Castillo and two others to use his name. The document was issued in January last year and signed by Guzman inside the Altiplano maximum-security prison from which he escaped through a tunnel the following July.
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The Glorious People's Republic of China is leaning on outfits that do business with Google for pulling out of the country over the issue of censorship.
China Unicom has announced that it will not use Google's search function on its smartphones, even those using the U.S. search giant's own Android mobile operating system.
The outfit said that will work handset manufacturers to develop a few Android-based phones for its subscribers, however it will leave the choice of an alternative search engine to those manufacturers.
According to an official statement from the company, it is "willing to work with any company that abides by Chinese law."
However, Google is not co-operating. Lu Yimin, president of Unicom, was quoted as saying in the Financial Times.
However there is a measure of show to Lu's comments. He is not ordering the spiking of Android projects which are lucrative, simply the use of the Google search engine which would not be anyway. If Google withdraws from the search market, in China then China Unicom would not have a search engine at all on its handsets.


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New Catholic Mass Translation Raises Doubts
This Sunday, a new translation of the Roman Catholic Mass was introduced into parishes throughout the English-speaking world. The new English version of the Roman Missal, the book of texts and prayers used in the Catholic Mass, is intended to be more faithful to the Latin original. Reactions to the new translation have been mixed, with some wondering whether the more Latinate, more formal, somewhat stilted and still very unfamiliar translation might make it more challenging for the Church to attract young people while alienating worshippers who have, over decades, come to associate the saying of certain words with the Mass.
Roman Catholics worshipped in Latin until Vatican II in the 1960s, when the Church decreed that the Mass could be celebrated in the vernacular. The English translation used until this very weekend was published in the early 1970s and modified in 1985. While a new translation was completed in 1998 and approved by the the bishops' conference, the Vatican never agreed to it. In 2001, Rome issued new guidelines for a new translation that would follow not only every Latin word, but also the Latin syntax, as closely as possible, "a dramatic philosophical shift from the more flexible principle of 'dynamic equivalence' that had guided the earlier translations."
Emotional Reactions to the New Mass
Debate about using the new translation has been so heated that the Rev. Michael Ryan, pastor of St. James Cathedral in Seattle, started an online petition on the website whatifwejustsaidwait.org to call for postponing the use of the new translation of the Mass. The requirement to use the new translation has led to a debate that
…has been angry and bitter, exposing rifts between a Vatican-led church hierarchy that has promoted the new translation as more reverential and accurate, and critics, among them hundreds of priests, who fear it is a retreat from the commitment of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s to allowing people to pray in a simple, clear vernacular as they participate in the church's sacred rites.
Danielle McGinley, 31, a parishioner at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles, said she thought the new translation sounded "more like a Spanish Mass" and liked it. Lucy Teves, a vice-principal at a Catholic school in Kingston, Ontario, voiced other concerns:
"I think there's a real disconnect for the young people. I feel this is a step backwards. The language is going to be difficult for them to connect. I'm just thinking about my 20-year-old son and others like him who are struggling anyway."
73-year-old George Lind in New York said he became so "angry" when trying to say the words of the new translation that he actually stopped speaking and expressed frustration with the top-down imposition of the new Mass:
"I am so tired of being told exactly what I have to say, exactly what I have to pray. I believe in God, and to me that is the important thing. This is some attempt on the part of the church hierarchy to look important."
But Frank Spezzano of the Toronto area, who can quote from the original Latin Mass used in pre-Vatican II services, said he found the new translation not so different from the older one.
The congregation of Corpus Christi Church in Morningside Heights on the Upper West Side in New York never fully adopted the more modernized version of the Mass that church authorities had required after Vatican II. As Brenda Fairaday, who has been worshipping at the church (the parish church of Columbia University) since the 1970s, "There are a lot of us who feel that the last 35 years of translation has been very banal and pedestrian, and the way that one wants to address God in a liturgy should not be pedestrian." While she feels the news translation is an improvement, she still thinks it is in need of some "severe editing."
Something Is Always Lost in Translation
As a college teacher of Latin, and a translator of Latin poetry to English, I'm inclined to find any translation of the original Latin to be in need of at least a little editing. I've studied Latin for decades. I am not Catholic but have attended Catholic masses and witnessed how readily people speak the words of the liturgy. The new translation is more faithful, in the most literal sense, to the Latin original. In response to the priest saying "The Lord be with you" (Dominus vobiscum), the congregation is now to say "and with your spirit," which almost word for word follows the Latin et cum spiritu tuo (in Latin, word order is not as crucial as it is in English, so the adjective tuo can be placed after spiritu).
Most of the changes are within the prayers the priests say, but there are some notable differences in the responses by worshipers. The Nicene Creed, the central profession of faith, now starts with "I believe in one God" instead of "We believe in one God." Jesus is now "consubstantial with the Father" rather than "of one Being with the Father." Communion begins with the words, "Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof," instead of "Lord, I am not worthy to receive you."
The Latin phrase from the Nicene Creed credo in unum Deum indeed says "I believe in one God." Saying "consubstantial with the Father" might seem a bit of a tongue-twister. The Latin reads consubstantialem Patri and "consubstantial" is about as literal a translation as you can get to consubstantialem. "Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof" is definitely much more literal a rendition of Domine, non sum dignus ut intres sub tectum meum, with intres the Latin word for "enter" and tectum meum meaning indeed "my roof" — though, in some ways, "roof" is itself a far too literal rendering of tectum whose basic definition is "roof," but which is often used to mean "house."
That is, some aspects of the translation of the new Roman Missal are too literal. Translating a text word-for-word is the most basic kind of translating; it is what you often get when you use Google Translate. Just converting the words of one text into the equivalents of another is not necessarily a translation or, that is, a translation that is more than basic "translatese," a clunky-sounding text that rings odd in the language it's been translated into, while still missing something from the original. Latin is a very different language from English in its sounds and its syntax and capturing the sound and sense of the original Latin requires more than just offering the English equivalents of Latin words.
Consider again the determinedly literal translation of consubstantialem Patri as "consubstantial with the Father" rather than "of one Being with the Father." The word consubstantialem itself means "of like essence, nature or substance." A literal translation of the phrase consubstantialem Patri could indeed be "of like essence with the Father": Which version does this sound closer to?
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The savings yield from the leader in online banking is suffering just as competitors also struggle to remain relevant to consumers.Cash hoarders are becoming more common due to the repulsiveness involved with highly unattractive savings rates by online banks, which have been long known to consistently offer the best savings returns.
Last week, ING Direct cut the rate on its popular Online Savings account from 1.00% APY to 0.90% APY. The rate at the beginning of this year was 1.10% APY.
ING Direct is the top player among online banks with over $82 billion in consumer deposits. Because of its place in the banking industry, ING Direct's actions – in terms of interest rates – often makes a statement for the entire field of online banks.
While the online bank has not frequently changed the savings rate throughout the year, updated rates tend to linger for several months. The near-term future for online savings rates doesn't hold a pretty picture neither, since the Federal Reserve expects to keep benchmark interest rates at historic lows until the middle of 2013.
At 0.90% APY, annual savings yield on every $1,000 is $9 for ING Direct customers with the Online Savings account.
Falling in Tandem
Many customers would speculate that the drop in the interest rate is somehow tied to the sale of ING Direct to Capital One. However, the acquisition is not yet completed and is expected to close sometime later this year or early next year so Capital One does not yet have control over ING Direct pricing.
Whether ING Direct is just catching up with the rest of the competition or leading the way, other online banks are cutting their savings rates too. Ally Bank recently reduced its savings rate from 0.99% APY to 0.85% APY. Last month, FNBO Direct's savings rate feel from 0.85% APY to 0.70% APY.
As of October 25, 2011, the top savings rate available nationwide is from UFB Direct, a division of Bank of Internet, which is paying 1.30% APY.


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Lowest Car Rental Prices with Capital One Travelocity
When I wrote about how to get a free honeymoon convertible car rental, I mentioned using Costco Travel to search for a cheap car rental since I've been using that for years, and it consistently gave some of the lowest prices. A couple years ago, however, I learned that the Capital One Travelocity portal may offer even lower prices than Costco Travel thanks to this investigation by Rapid Travel Chai. The only issue is you need a Capital One miles rewards credit card to access this special Travelocity search engine, and I only had a Capital One cash back credit card. Recently, however, I opened the Capital One Venture credit card during a promotion where I would receive 50,000 bonus miles (worth $500 towards travel charges) after spending $3,000 in the first 3 months. After personally testing the Capital One Travelocity portal, I can say that it does in fact offer some of the lowest car rental prices available. Capital One Travelocity To access the Capital One Travelocity portal,...Read More


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Kadey-Krogen Yachts today, in a monthly newsletter to clients and interested followers, casually mentions that it is offering an entirely new model, the Krogen 52′. As you can see from the profile rendering above, the new trawler is definitely a Kadey-Krogen, with the tall, ship-like bow, classic pilothouse amidships, and rectangular portholes in the hull. In size, the new model fits nearly in the middle between the 48′ and 55′ Expedition.
In the newsletter, Kadey-Krogen says that it began discussing the boat with potential customers at the recent Trawler Fest in Fort Lauderdale, and that five hulls are already reserved. That should mean that construction on hull #1 should begin soon. I have heard from industry sources that the company will likely announce more details of the new Krogen 52′ soon, perhaps as early as the end of this week. I expect at that time we'll have the initial specs for our readers, as well as some more light shed on the design particulars and features of the yacht.
Any way you look at it, this is a good sign for the industry. It means there are buyers out there for the right products.
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5 Lightweight Jackets for Early Spring
April means transition weather - the awkward space between the cool winter days and the weather we associate with spring. You don't want to be hauling your winter parkas around, but it's not quite warm enough to be headed out without a jacket in tow. What to do? Choose a lightweight jacket to throw over your tees and button-down shirts. Neutrals, khakis, and browns are big this season - and will pair well with the rest of your wardrobe. But, if you're up for it, we encourage you to try something a bit different - a chambray parka or a deep green Baracuta jacket will certainly anchor your spring wardrobe.
1. The Smooth Company Chambray Shawl Collar Parka | $200 at Urban Outfitters
2. Members Only Racer Jacket | $78 at Urban Outfitters
3. Cadet Jacket | $128 at J Crew
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5. Baracuta G9 Harrington Jacket | $275 at J Crew
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The World is Non-Stationary
The world, well, just about everything in the universe, is non-stationary. Non-stationary means it is constantly changing, what is, in one moment in time, isn't quite the same a bit later. This is a problem opportunity.
This is an opportunity especially in data analytics. You spend a lot of time getting data together, synchronized, cleaned, converted into something useful, you build a model and put that model to use. Then, non-stationarity starts eating away at your model like langoliers (if you've seen the movie). Bit by bit, the system you modeled changes. It happens everywhere: Demographics shift. An industrial process corrodes or fouls. Resources and energies deplete. Instruments drift and fall out of calibration. Consumer trends change. Data interrelationships change… you get the idea.
This happens always everywhere with rare exception. You MUST deal with it otherwise the performance of your solution degrades, becoming less and less useful over time until it becomes useless.
How to Deal With It
Stage I: Adapt Your Models
Monitor the performance of your solution and calculate its "bias", how far off it is, on average, using a walking window of time. Use that bias to adjust up or down your model's output to keep it aligned. This will work fairly well for quite a while, until the inter-relationships, the functional relations, between the inputs to output(s) change enough to be notable. A that time your models are not just "off" but going wrong.
Stage II: Rebuild Your Models
After adaptation has run its course, when the inter-relationships in the data have notably changed, then rebuild your models with more recent information, dropping older data if necessary. Since rebuilding a model is actually an optimization process, this sometimes can cause a discontinuity in your results.
Stage III: Run an Ensemble
One way around having rebuilding discontinuities is to run an ensemble of models, dropping older lower performing ones while adding newer top performers, thus getting a smoother blend of results as
Do It Autonomously!
If you need a human to maintain your models, re-calibrating them by hand, it's not going to be done, or there will be resistance… who like to do work?! People might actually not want to do performance testing because then they might have to recalibrate models. In that case, things go bad fast. Instead, do model maintenance automatically by the system. We can in our Intellect server. If your technology does not support it, it's time for some new technology! Set it up, let it run, just check in on it every now and then.
Wrapping Up…
Just about everything in the universe is non-stationary, constantly shifting through time. This is a problem opportunity to be a self-maintaining top performer, using autonomous self-maintenance.
What is YOUR experience and how did you deal with this analytical challenge? Comment below.
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Cardinals Win Third DC Classic Title
Four CUA players earn all-tournament honors
WASHINGTON - The Catholic University women's soccer squad (3-1) defeated the Roanoke College Maroons (4-1) Sunday afternoon in the championship game of CUA's bi-annual DC Classic. The Cardinal women beat the Maroons 6-3 and also had four players named to the all-tournament squad including Kelly Donnelly (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City), Suzie Peters (Nanuet, N.Y./Albertus Magnus), Katelynn Chambers (Montclair, N.J./Montclair) and Diana Spadaro (Stony Point, N.Y./Albertus Magnus).
Peters started the scoring early with a header sailing into the goal on a long cross from Spadaro to make it 1-0. Roanoke quickly answered off of a free kick to knot it at one. At 15:14 Elyse Bellardini (Wayne, N.J./Wayne Valley) found the back of the net when the ball went off of a defender's foot right to hers. Then just 14 second later Peters had her second goal of the day after forcing the keeper out of the box and sliding it paster her. Roanoke struck back with just second to go in the half off of a corner kick to make it 3-2 at the break.
Donnelly started the second half out right hustling down the middle of the field past her defender and receiving the ball right outside the box. She made one move to get by keeper Erin Hanson and recorded her first goal of the day. Spadaro then got into the act putting one away off of a sailing cross from her sister Michelle (Stony Point, N.Y./Albertus Magnus), this was the second sister to sister connection of the weekend for the pair. Roanoke scored off of another free kick late in the half but with just minutes remaining Donnelly sealed the 6-3 victory with a goal off of her own shot.
CUA dominated offensively outshooting Roanoke 21-11 however the Maroons did hold a 4-2 corner kick advantage. CUA keeper Tere Rossi (Annandale, Va./Falls Church) got the win with three saves while Hanson took the loss but notched six saves for Roanoke.
The Cards will have a break before they play Cabrini on Saturday. The game is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m., at Cardinal Stadium. It is one of the many events for CUA's Women's Sports Week which celebrates women's athletics with all home events featuring the female Cards from Sep. 9-15.
CUA DC Classic Results
Marymount 1, Ferrum 0
DC Classic All-Tourney Team
Jaime Nguyen- Marymount
Dana Zalowski- Marymount
LaQuinta Garrett- Ferrum
Kelsey Walters- Ferrum
Kelly Donnelly- CUA
Diana Spadaro- CUA
Suzie Peters- CUA
Katelynn Chambers- CUA
McKenzie Garst- Roanoke
Jessica Welfare- Roanoke
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School lunch questions and fish free pitfalls?
I just found out that the school my DD will be attending come September is not only nut free (all nuts, not just peanuts), but they have a severely fish allergic child in attendance, so no seafood products either. So I'd like to pick some brains, if you ladies wouldn't mind.
1) Any products that have fish in them that I might not be aware of? I know I can't send caesar dressing, but are there any others? The nut stuff is labelled, but not so much the fish.
2) DD won't eat most meats, and I'm trying to get more protein in her - tuna and peanut butter are my standbys and they're now both out for school lunches. Any other ideas? And no, no such thing as a hot lunch in any elementary school around here. I've only ever seen an elementary cafeteria on television.
Re: School lunch questions and fish free pitfalls?
For a while you are just going to have to read labels on everything. After a month or two, you should have a good idea what will or won't be ok.
Protein ideas
cheese and crackers
string cheese
bean burrito or bean dip with chips
soups (chicken noodle with tiny pieces of chicken or even none at all-if you make your own broth, there's still quite a bit of nutrition there, chili, ham and bean or split pea soup)
black bean and corn salsa with chips or veggies to dip
hard boiled egg
egg salad sandwich or with crackers
scrambled eggs in a thermos
fried egg sandwich
hummus and veggies or crackers
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Sunbutter is a great sub for pb! I actually just made some gf sunbutter and choc chip cookies last night that were good, so you can bake with it too!
And all of the above are great ideas!
Ds won't touch meat so for lunches I have to think hard.
Waffles, fruit, yogurt
Homemade lunchables- crackers, cheese, carrot sticks, celery
Muffins (I make all kinds and keep them frozen, today he got a apple muffin)
Fried rice
Tofu nuggets (make like chicken nuggets but tofu
Plain pasta with parm cheese
Garlic bread
Tofu scramble with veggies
Asian style veggies (veggies in a simple soy sauce)
Corn bread
Veggie chicken patties
Veggie sausage (why he won't eat meat but eats the veggie kind is beyond me)
I normally pair with fruit and yogurt and a fun side. He eats like a bird. If peanut butter and tuna are a staple for protein try switching what is eaten for breakfast and lunch. Who says you cannot have a tuna sandwich for breakfast and waffles for lunch? Or peanut butter on toast for breakfast. That is if you eat breakfast at home.
Re: School lunch questions and fish free pitfalls?
Worchestershire sauce has fish- anchovies.
Does she like hummus- maybe with some veggies and pitas? Egg salad?
Re: School lunch questions and fish free pitfalls?
This may not help you right away, but maybe is an idea to bring up to the principal and/or school board. Our small private school has a seperate table in the cafeteria where the children with severe food allergies sit together. That way they are not exposed to the allergens and the other kids still have the right to eat what they like/want. Our school used to be peanut free and this just works out so much better all around as there were constant complaints about the peanut free situation due to so many kids that won't eat anything else for lunch.
Re: School lunch questions and fish free pitfalls?
Great lunch ideas so far!
My kids love the homemade lunchables.
Hard boiled eggs, or egg salad might be a good addition, as well as pretty much any bean (my kids love plain black beans or garbanzos).
Bean and cheese quesadillas (or if you can sneak in some shredded chicken)
Cream cheese and jelly on bread, roll, english muffin, bagel, tortilla roll-up, etc.
My kids LOVE veggie burger patties
Veggie kabobs and fruit kabobs with fun dips (and you can hide purees in them)
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Re: School lunch questions and fish free pitfalls?
For the one little guy with peanut allergies his condition isn't limited to 'if he eats a peanut'. If my kids eat a PB sandwich and reach for a doorknob with sticky fingers and the child with the allergy touches that SAME doorknob, his throat can close up.
His mama carries around a little red bag ALL THE TIME with his Epi pen and other medical necessaries.
I feel for my mama friends and so we NEVER bring things to group that could harm our friends.
I get that schools are large and it's a LOT to ask for to change up lunches.
But, is it the BIGGEST deal in the world to have your child eat something other than PB&J? It's one sandwich. And there are SO many other choices out there (that PPs have already offered up!) :thumbsup:
I think it's a shame that your school chooses to sit the kids at a different table. So, not only do they have a life threatening problem, but now they are ostracized from their classmates. :cry:
"the other kids have a right to eat what they want"...how about the allergy children have a right to LIVE?
Re: School lunch questions and fish free pitfalls?
Just wanted to add that my kids nut/fish free lunch today was:
Homemade cornbread
Nitrate/Nitrite free Turkey dogs (my kids love 'em cold in their lunch cut into "wheels" with ketchup)
Homemade applesauce
String cheese cut into "wheels" with toothpicks so they could make them into snowmen
Leftover watermelon that MUST GET EATEN!
I know you said your LO won't eat many meats, but what kid doesn't like a dog??? Also, my kids REALLY like when I send all finger foods, like a muffin tin meal or easy lunchbox, so chunks of veggies, fruit, cheese, meat, crackers, olives, etc.
The other thing my ODS is into right now is making his own yogurt parfait -- with yogurt, granola, honey, and fruit if he's in the mood. That would be a filling lunch! (It's his usual breakfast). Just make sure the granola is nut-free or make your own.
Also my kids really like ANYTHING they can scoop up with chips, and they don't mind stuff cold, so leftover white chicken chili, seven layer dip (mmmm.... guacamole!), chicken stew (I send crackers with this), hummus (we make it at home, you might want to check with the school if tahini is allowed, if not, just leave it out), cottage cheese with seasonings.
We also eat bagels with cream cheese for lunch all the time. The ones made by Sam's are made in a nut-free facility and if you get cream cheese with veggies in it, I can justify that it's "healthy", lol.
Oh, and I always forget about pierogies!!!! YUM. (yep, my kids would eat 'em cold if I sauteed them in the morning.)
ETA: Will your DD eat pasta with meat sauce? You could send cold pasta, or chicken and/or cheese tortellini.
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Thanksgiving is coming up and many of us are finalizing our menus. Most of us have tried and true recipes we fall back on every year, but what if a few simple tweaks can turn your Thanksgiving into a fat burning dinner?
Dr. Rachel Yan shares her Thanksgiving secrets and answers common questions.
The key is carb control without deprivation. Humans have a bottomless pit when it comes to eating carbohydrates. That's why you can sit down and eat an entire bucket of popcorn or giant bag of chips without noticing. You simply can't do the same with a plateful of steaks or entire roast chicken. And we all know that eating excessive carbs translates to bad blood sugar management and putting on fat. The key to having a fat burning thanksgiving involves transforming typically carb heavy items into protein and fat centric recipes. This way, you can still enjoy all the components of your Thanksgiving feast and feel satiated faster.
How would we transform carb heavy Thanksgiving items like rolls, stuffing and bread into something better?
Transform your carb heavy wheat flour into a grain free, protein rich flour.
2 cups almond flour, sifted*
1 and ⅓ cups tapioca flour/tapioca starch
⅔ cup coconut flour
You can use this flour to replace anything you would use wheat flour in- pie crust, stuffing, rolls, gravy, cake, bread.
How else can we indulge without overeating?
Eat good fat and get full faster. This is a key strategy to making sure you don't overeat on Thanksgiving. Fat helps us feel satiated and full faster, which is what we want on a Thanksgiving feast. We know that eating proper fats helps promote fat burning in the body. One of my favorite fats to use in recipes is coconut milk. You can use it to replace cream in any recipe without compromising the richness of flavor, while catering to any dairy intolerant guests. There's nothing worse than being full and bloated after a meal because of dairy problems.
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Lastly, remember to relax and enjoy. Thanksgiving can be a hectic event where accomplishing our kitchen agenda takes precedence over the true purpose of the holiday. We now know the profound impact of stress causing weight gain, and there's no magical diet which can the effect of stress on our waistline. So, breathe, relax and enjoy yourself for a healthy Thanksgiving.


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Florida is made up of a wide demographic of people with varying religions. The Christian faith by far is the most celebrated and recognized among the citizen residents of Florida (nearly 72%). So saying MERRY CHRISTMAS (or someone saying it to you) is not an insult – it's a tradition!
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We were talking about dancing at my ill-fated wedding, and my Mom mentioned to him that there were gay couples going to be there, that he might see men dancing with each other, and that was fine, because everyone should get to dance with the person they love.
My brother thought about it for a moment, then said "And if they need to, they can dance with me. No one should have to dance alone."
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Byron Cook swore an oath to uphold the Texas and US constitutions. Yet as a legislator he has pushed legislation that violates that oath by targeting citizens, churches, and conservative groups, opposed restrictions on abortion, worked to strip "mother" and "father" off of birth certificates, and supported giving state benefits to illegal aliens.
Sadly, Byron Cook is…
Byron is Bad on the First Amendment
Cook, who serves as the Chairman of the powerful House Committee on State Affairs, gutted Gov. Abbott's landmark ethics legislation and replaced it with provisions designed to suppress the rights of citizens. Cook took out provisions aimed at limiting him from leaving office to be a lobbyist and replaced them with provisions that would regulate the speech rights of churches and other citizens groups, and that would unconstitutionally prohibit citizens from recording interactions with lawmakers.
Byron is Bad on Life Issues
Cook has fought pro-life conservatives from his perch as chairman of the State Affairs Committee. According to Texas Right to Life, Byron Cook "derailed Life-saving legislation" while supporting measures that allow third-trimester abortions of babies with birth defects.
Byron is Bad on Family Values
Cook worked with liberal Democrats to advance legislation that would strip "mother" and "father" off of birth certificates. Their goal was to change the certificates in order to accommodate more adoptions by homosexual couples.
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Cook's biggest priority over the past two sessions has been passing a law to give drivers permits to illegal aliens. Cook justifies the law by arguing that giving state recognition and benefits to illegal aliens will lead more of them to get car insurance, but his own committee acknowledged in a study that illegal aliens are able to purchase car insurance without state identification.
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