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Under the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law (Chapter 7, Article 1 through Article 3 and Chapter 2), the California Department of Health Services has adopted the federal law and seeks to protect consumers from products that could be considered adulterated or unsafe.
Complaint jurisdiction:
Its laws regulate adulterated products. Products misbranded by false or misleading labeling, errors in weight, measure, or numerical count are considered adulterated. Labels which are altered, obliterated, or missing (cause for misbranding) require consumer complaint.
California Department of Health Services
Food and Drug Branch
1500 Capitol Avenue, MS 7602
Sacramento, CA 95899-7435
(916) 650-6500
(916) 650-6650 Fax
(800) 495-3232 (Consumer Complaints)
Safety testing of cosmetics is not required by federal or state government prior to sale and Registration of cosmetic companies is voluntary and is generally done only when company is exporting products to foreign countries:
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1449 West Temple Street, Room 224
Los Angeles, CA 90026-5698
(213) 580-5720
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A rare snowy owl whose plight drew national attention after it was apparently hit by a bus in the nation's capital has been released to the wild.
The injured owl was found in downtown Washington in late January and taken to the National Zoo before being transferred to a Washington, D.C., wildlife rehabilitation center. It underwent rehabilitation at The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota, which has expertise in replacing damaged feathers.
The owl was released on Saturday into an area where a significant number of snowy owls have been observed over the past few winters.
"The snowy flew off with strong steady wingbeats, showing off the new flight feathers supplied by The Raptor Center," said executive director Julia Ponder. "He is in great condition and will hopefully head back north in the coming days," said Ponder.
Snowy owls are native to the Arctic, but were seen all along the East Coast this winter as far south as Florida.

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If The Dorchester was a drink it would definitely be champagne – it's effervescent, exclusive and ever so much fun! Since its opening in 1931, The Dorchester has been one of the most desirable places in the world to stay achieving legendary status for its exemplary facilities, immaculate service and outstanding dining. During its eighty-year history, royalty, world leaders, celebrities, musicians and cultural luminaries have graced The Dorchester with their presence so imagine my delight when a few weeks ago I was lucky enough to take a peek behind its renowned revolving door.
The Dorchester has been an essential stop for the high-profiled and well-heeled for nearly a century. From its opening in the 1930s which attracted eminent artists like Cecil Beaton, Somerset Maugham and Noel Coward, to the war years when General Eisenhower set up headquarters alongside Winston Churchill, to sensational 1960s Jet Set that included Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor, to the superstars of the Eighties, Nineties and Noughties, every celebrity worth their salt has been spotted at The Dorchester. Recent Dorchester darlings include Ben Stiller, Al Pacino, Oprah Winfrey, Sir Elton John, and Lady Gaga to name just a few.
As the doorman, in his heavy gold-braided green coat, escorted me into the lavish lobby of The Dorchester I felt like I had made it! The entrance is suitably dramatic for the establishment's celebrated patrons; reminiscent of a spectacular stage set, the marble-clad lobby resembles a proscenium arch with two splendid reception desks at its wings. Its players are provided in the form of an unending stream of models and yummy Mayfair mummies, international industrialist and suited-and-booted businessmen. The Dorchester runs as smoothly as the well-oiled Bentleys that sit outside: this is the kind of place where if Britney wants a hundred Marilyn Monroe DVDs and a selection of "chick lit", they will be carefully arranged in her bookcase, or if J-Lo turns up with sixty-six suitcases and insists on Jo Malone candles, suitable stowage will be found and the room will undoubtedly reek of Lime Basil & Mandarin. The Dorchester is, of course, much too discreet to divulge these star secrets but a quick search on the internet provides ample confidential celebrity demands that have been met with ease by the world's most agreeable hotel.
Celebrity, and non-celebrity, guests residing at The Dorchester can expect round-the-clock pleasure and delight. I was treated to some Star Treatment in the hotel's beautiful Belgravia Suite. Favoured by many celebrated guests, these suites overlook Park Lane and Hyde Park and are opulently decorated in traditional yet timeless English fashion. Rich wood panelling complements the plush furnishings, elegant fireplace and oriental rugs in the sitting room, and a four-poster bed and Italian marble bathroom, boasting London's deepest tub and a range of bespoke Floris amenities, combine to provide a truly A-list experience. Cosseted amidst such luxury it was difficult to leave my sumptuous surroundings and obvious why Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor fell madly in love in the hotel's Harlequin Suite. But duty called, so after a quick plunge in the bathtub it was time for tea.
The restaurants and bars are in a class of their own, and dining at The Dorchester is on every icons itinerary. Whether it be taking afternoon tea in The Promenade, hanging with the celebs at Tang, or enjoying some fancy French cuisine at the booked-months-in-advance Alain Ducasse, there's an abundance of taste bud titillation on offer. We opted for a champagne-fuelled feast at The Grill and, even though my Seventies-inspired jumpsuit clashed badly with the tartan-filled interiors, being a Glasgow girl originally I loved the quirky design, which looked like it had been realised by the love child of Vivienne Westwood and Braveheart! Service was, as expected, impeccable and refreshingly fun, and the adventurous menu proved to be an absolute joy.
The Spa at The Dorchester is definitely one of the most glamorous on the planet and has devotees that include Sophie Dahl, Elle Macpherson and Vanessa Hudgens. I was utterly seduced by The Spa's unashamedly opulent, navy and ivory, Art Deco inspired decor and loved the gorgeous Spatisserie where it is the custom for guests to enjoy champagne, cakes and cocktails pre and post-treatment. The sublime spa space features a show-stopping chandelier of 72,000 South Pacific white pearls, decadent blue velvet day beds and lashings of lilies – I wouldn't have been surprised if Greta Garbo had swanned out of one of the nine treatment rooms. The Spa has teamed up with some of the world's leading beauty practitioners, from the supreme facialist Vaishaly to celeb-favourite and anti-aging specialist Carol Joy London, to Aromatherapy Associates and Kerstin Florian, to offer the ultimate beauty experience. A suite for manicures and pedicures is also available, as is hairdresser to the stars, Royston Blythe.
I had some serious handbag envy going on during my visit! A glambag is de rigueur at The Dorchester so grab a Great British design like this cute clutch from Nadia Minkoff to garner some green-eyed glances.
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F-Stop Media Gallery solves this problem by using professional features such as tags, ratings, albums, smart albums, favorites and places. F-Stop also includes integrated search functionality that provides instant results based on tag or filename and the ability to read and write (PRO) metadata such as tags and ratings directly to your images.
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• Find your images fast with instant search results and lightning fast browsing
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Bobcats' Gerald Henderson to miss 2-4 weeks with injury
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Bobcats announced starting guard Gerald Henderson could miss approximately 2-4 weeks with a sprained left foot.
Henderson, Charlotte's leading scorer last season, injured the foot during Saturday night's loss to the Dallas Mavericks. The team initially didn't think the injury was going to be a problem, but further medical tests revealed Henderson sprained the mid-foot area and will miss more time than expected.
Through two games Henderson is averaging 12.5 points, 3 steals, 2.5 assists and 2 rebounds in 28 minutes. He had 18 points in Charlotte's season-opening win against Indiana last Friday night.
Either Ramon Sessions or Ben Gordon will take Henderson's spot in the starting lineup when the Bobcats (1-1) host the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday night.


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Partners need to adopt new-age security practices. The opportunities appear huge.
The proliferation of devices, virtualization woes, APTs, among others have ensured that security ranks right at the top of a CIO's to do list.
More than 80 percent of the respondents (enterprise solution providers) in ChannelWorld's State of The Mart 2013 survey expect IT spends to increase in 2013 for security solutions.
"In 2013, investment in security will surpass the current year's spending with the Government being actively involved through increased regulations," says Ekta Aggarwal, Program Manager, Information & Communication Technologies (ICT), Frost & Sullivan. Besides, traditional verticals like BFSI, service providers and government, sectors like retail, IT/ITeS, manufacturing and defence are expected to invest heavily in security, she added.
More than half of the respondents are already dabbling in the security domain and an additional one-third intend to explore this space in 2013.
"Advances in technologies such as cloud and next-gen networks will challenge enterprise architectures running on legacy systems. Investments to counter cyber threats will increase as more enterprises opt for Web-based platforms," says Aggarwal.
The Changed Landscape
According to Sanchit Vir Gogia, Principal Analyst, IDC India, CIOs have been orchestrating services as they now look at public, private clouds, hosting and application heavy server farms. They are managing the changed environment which is complex with stricter SLAs. "Enterprises want to deploy cloud resources to fuel the growth but keep the operational cost low. Security is not a traditional offering but is sourced from datacenter federation, encryption etc," he says.
Chennai-based Fourth Dimension Technologies has been implementing security solutions for the past five years. "Security has gone beyond firewall and anti-virus. SIEM, authentication and log management are the areas where we think adoption will happen as more devices invade the enterprise environment," says N. Jagannath, CEO, Fourth Dimension Technologies. "The demand has increased lately due to the security concerns around BYOD and cloud. From an end-point security, DLP is important."
2013 will be a year around application level security, database security and infrastructure platform for Bangalore-based Unisoft Infotech. "Most customers realize information is an asset. Therefore, they will look at security from multiple levels. With information going onto cloud, the concern is security. The success of cloud depends on how secure the information is," says Deepak Nakil, Executive Director, Unisoft Infotech.
"BFSI and manufacturing are focus verticals. Deep selling to loyal customers is logical as they trust us. Also, there are few tier-2 partners with expertise to execute complex security projects," says Jagannath. We expect to generate 15 to 20 percent of our revenue from security in 2013 compared to the 10 percent in 2012.
Traditional Offerings to Stay
With new age technologies for security around cloud and mobility on the rise, will traditional offerings like UTM and IPS be shunted out? On the contrary, IDC's Gogia believes, due to huge demand, the traditional market will grow although the growth rate might slow down.
Delhi-based Spark Technologies works with UTM vendors for information security, spam and virus firewall, Web application firewall and Web filter. "Web applications have increased, hence these offerings will have a constant demand across enterprises," says S.R. Nautiyal, Managing Director, Spark Technologies.
"There are rich margins available in areas like cloud security for partners. However, they need to have a balanced portfolio of high margin offerings and run-rate products like UTM, IPS among others," says Gogia.
Spark is also working in the surveillance market through an alliance with Tyco Fire & Security. "IP surveillance, intrusion detection, and transmission video surveillance is critical for government agencies and corporates.Growing bottom lines and margins are the key reason to focus on new security offerings like surveillance," says Nautiyal.
Profitability for Partners
Visibility and analytics will become the key pillars for security enterprise believes Aggarwal. "It will become critical for enterprises to achieve visibility, and to understand user behavior not only at the network layer but also in cloud environments. Secondly, the need will also arise for analytics which will enable organizations to leverage actual usage to refine policy and security controls," she says.
According to Jagannath, there is fair amount of implementation and services attached with security. There is more opportunity than just better margins in the security domain around SIEM, encryption and log management. Channel partners eventually find their sweetspot with technical expertise in the market.
More the endpoints, more the diversity and more complex is the IT architecture, says Gogia. But it means more opportunities for partners as they need to evaluate to ensure revenue streams and accordingly allocate dedicated resources for a three to five year horizon.
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A cucumber hovers on the edge of a purposeful death, following the spinach, ginger and beetroot into a centrifugal whirlwind.
Thanks to Abel & Cole my kitchen is transformed in a greengrocers. For those of you under 25, that was a shop, back in the old days, that only sold fruit and vegetables. Imagine.
I plunge and push, grin and whirr until I have ended up with twelve of these jewelled beauties...
Apple, spinach, ginger, beetroot and cucumber. Carrot, apple, courgette and cabbage. Pear, apple, ginger, beetroot and lemon. On and on it goes until I filled 12 bottles in all.
I give some of the discarded fruit pulp to the chickens and the rest goes down the sink disposal chomper thing. (More whirring and grinding and a nasty compulsion to put my hand down it to see just what would actually happen).
This is inadvisable and I suggest that, if you have a sink disposal chomper thing, you DO NOT DO THIS as you will get 'A Blockage'. I got A Big Blockage. Followed by A Small Flood and A Non-drained Dishwasher. In fact The Warren was totally blocked up with fruit pulp, dirty dishwater water, a half-drained sink and, on removing the pipe under the sink, pulpy water flooding everywhere.
Meanwhile, in another part of the house, something else was being shredded and pulped.
Small, black, Spaniel; friendlier than a paper shredder; a lot more mess.
Tomorrow all the juicing starts again because I ordered a whole supermarket veg section and 12 bottles isn't the half of it. Next week more will arrive. Eeek


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SEDALIA, Mo., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A rodeo clown Monday was banned from working Missouri's State Fair for wearing a Barack Obama mask and asking the crowd if it wanted to see a bull run over him.
The fair commission's statement also offered another apology for the unidentified clown's actions at the Saturday night rodeo, saying they were inappropriate and below the fair's standards.
KSDK-TV, St. Louis, reported the commission voted unanimously to back the decision by State Fair Director Mark Wolfe to ban the rodeo clown.
Albert S. Watkins, an attorney for rodeo announcer Mark Ficken, said the clown ad-libbed the incendiary comments about the president, not his client.
The masked rodeo clown drew heavy criticism from both political parties, fair officials and cowboy associations for his instigation of the crowd.
"As soon as this bull comes out, Obama, don't you move," he could be heard saying as music thumped in the background.
"He's gonna get ya, Obama; he's going to get ya."
Missouri State Fair officials apologized Sunday, calling the show "inappropriate," in a statement posted on Facebook. "We strive to be a family friendly event and regret that Saturday's rodeo badly missed that mark."
"The performance by one of the rodeo clowns at Saturday's event was inappropriate and disrespectful, and does not reflect the opinions or standards of the Missouri State Fair," fair officials posted.
Show Me Progress, an organization advocating the progressive movement, reported a Facebook account of the incident in which the Facebook poster said he took a Taiwanese student to the rodeo Saturday in Sedalia, Mo.
"The crowd went wild," the poster said regarding the calls to the crowd. "He asked it again and again, louder each time, whipping the audience into a lather."
One fair-goer posted on her Twitter page, "Everybody was screaming," saying the rodeo event in which the masked clown participated seemed "like some kind of Klan rally."
Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder called the performance "disrespectful" in a tweet posted Sunday.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said the state fair is "supposed to be a place where we can all bring our families and celebrate the state that we love," The Hill reported.
"But the young Missourians who witnessed this stunt learned exactly the wrong lesson about political discourse, that somehow it's ever acceptable to, in a public event, disrespect, taunt and joke about harming the president of our great nation," McCaskill said.
The Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association, one of the bull riding competition's organizers, also apologized and said the event wasn't meant to be "a political platform."


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Newly elected to Congress, Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there, his life gets turned upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions...
If someone told me they were making a sequel to Bruce Almighty without Jim Carrey, there's no way I'd be interested. But tell me you're making a movie in which Steve Carell is commanded by God to build an ark, and you can count me in. Most of the time nothing spells certain doom better than a sequel made without the original star. But Evan Almighty might be a rare exception. Trading Jim Carrey for Steve Carell is not necessarily a step down. It's a lateral move in a different direction.
If they'd brought back Jim Carrey to repeat the same shlock from the first film, or if they'd had Steve Carell stuck in exactly the same situation Jim was in the first movie, I'd be out on this one. Instead, they really seem to be trying to build on the original premise to come up with something new… and potentially even funnier.
That's the Evan Almighty on display in the movie's trailers. Steve Carell being forced to build an ark to save people from a global flood is every bit as funny as you'd think it would be. And let's face it, if Morgan Freeman were actually God the world's churches would be a lot more full.


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Ford announced today that the evergreen E-series Econoline will be replaced in 2013 with the European Transit van. The new full-size vans will be built in Ford's Kansas City plant, and will possibly debut at the Chicago Auto Show. Say farewell to the E-Series — the era of the T-conoline is now upon us.
It's not a surprise to the countless dozens who already heard the expected news, but the official announcement came in the form of this video, detailing the testing regiment for the Transit, which serves as Ford's workplace van for Europe, Asia, and other global markets. Ford's corporate goal is to prove to Americans that the new global van will be tough enough for the kind of abuse U.S. companies throw at their trusty E-Series vans — and the kind of lived-in abuse a generation of jammin' bands threw at their Econolines.
Come 2013 we will see if the conservative American commercial market will go for these new-fangled vans (which can be ordered in either front- or rear-wheel-drive), but until then we can only watch Sabine Schmitz toss a Transit around the Nürburgring again and wait until we can get one of these on the Tail of the Dragon.


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As we recently told you, Skylanders has become one of the biggest video-games for families in a short space of time. With Disney hot on its heels with a similar game called Disney Infinity, Activision are about to unveil the next game in the Skylanders series: Skylanders: Swap Force.
The new game has an innovative set of 16 new toy figures that can be separated at the waist and mix and matched. By doing this the player not only created some odd looking creatures but also combines the figures' different attacks and characteristics.
These Swap Force figures have the same tactile feel of the other Skylanders. Strong magnets hold them together and enable children to articulate the toys during play away from the game. A minor point until you see the new possibilities this creates for youngsters.
Because of this these new characters will be welcomed by players and parents alike. They epitomise the physical-virtual cross over that makes Skylanders such an interesting game to play. I spoke to Guha Bala, studio head for Skylanders Swap Force, and asked him to talk us through the new game:
Likely to be less popular are characters returning for the third time, the Series three figures. These are reposed in a similar fashion to the Series two figures last year and offer a special Wow-Pow attack. The tension here is that players may have already purchased and invested time in the old versions of these toys and now have to decide whether to miss out on new powers or buy the figure again.
There are also eight more Light-Core Skylanders in Swap Force. These popular figures light up when you put them on the Portal and have a special smart bomb effect. Players will be interested to see which of the Skylanders characters get the light-up feature this year. If Swap Force mirror's Giants approach here it is likely that some of the light-core characters will be selected from the 16 new Skylanders that are also being introduced this year.
Adding up the 16 Swap Force, 16 Series three, eight Light-Core and 16 new Skylanders this is quite a haul for those who feel the need to collect them all. Of course, as we highlighted previously, the key thing for parents to understand is that you only need to buy the starter pack to be able to complete the whole game.
This year however, there isn't the option of reusing your existing Portal peripheral. The new Swap Force figures are only compatible with the new USB Swap Force Portal. Although the new Portal will support all the old Skylanders figures the Portals from Spyro's Adventure and Giants won't work with Swap Force.
There will no doubt be more to discover when the game is unveiled fully – something anticipated to be at the upcoming New York Toy Fair. We'll report back with more details as they arise.
Andy Robertson (@GeekDadGamer) produces Family Gamer TV and the Family Gaming blog.


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TRIBUTES continue to pour in for former Observer editor and award-winning journalist Keith Newbery who has died after a short illness.
Former colleagues and friends called Keith, 65, a 'giant' who was loved by so many, and praised his amazing journalistic talent.
He was well-respected and had a huge following among readers with his weekly columns syndicated to many other English regional newspapers. He became the Observer's editor in 1992 and retired in 2007, although he continued to write his column until last year.
His no-holds-barred, trenchant observations on life struck a chord with many as he railed against injustice, pettiness and all things annoying.
At the age of ten, Keith told his mother he wanted to write 'like Peter Wilson', who was then the best-known sports columnist on the Daily Mirror.
At 16, he emerged from Sandown Grammar School on the Isle of Wight with O-levels in history and English.
His mother found a retired teacher to instil shorthand and typing skills, then spotted an advertisement for a junior reporter at the now-defunct Ryde-based Isle of Wight Times.
So began more than four decades as a reporter, columnist and editor, entirely in local newspapers for, despite winning national awards for his sports and entertainment writing, Keith realised people like himself could have much more influence on the communities in which they served than national newspapers.
Keith became a junior district reporter for the then Portsmouth Evening News in 1969 and covered events including the first Isle of Wight music festival.
A vacancy came up for his dream job on the sports desk at head office in 1971, but he returned to the island four years later as the founder editor of the Isle of Wight Weekly Post.
At the same time, he was writing sports columns, television columns, celebrity interviews and opinion pieces for a number of newspapers.
He was an associate editor of The News until becoming editor, later executive editor, of the Chichester Observer series in 1992, and later also took overall editorial responsibility for its sister titles the West Sussex Gazette, Petersfield Post Series, Bognor Guardian and the Chichester Journal before he retired.
Keith won the sports writer of the year title at the British Regional Press Awards a record four times. He also re-lived his career in his autobiographical book of memoirs and anecdotes, 'Hacking It': Tales of a Very Provincial Newspaper Journalist, which was published in 2003.
During his time at the Observer, the paper won two awards for circulation increases, and he oversaw the launch of the Observer Magazine.
He received an MBE for services to journalism in 2004 and also successfully campaigned for a knighthood for Selsey's Patrick Moore who was a close confidant of Keith's before he died in 2012.
Keith was incredibly popular among his colleagues at the Observer who affectionately knew him as Newbs and loved his enthusiasm for his work and his big, cheery personality.
A keen Portsmouth fan, Keith was also a big personality in the community, known for his regular radio hour on Spirit FM with Duncan Barkes and his participation in the tug-of-war competitions in Selsey.
He was a regular participant in the Chichester Festivities, interviewing live on stage over the years people as diverse as Michael Parkinson, Esther Rantzen, Ann Widdicombe, Mo Mowlam, George Carey and Eric Sykes – something he enjoyed greatly.
Many will also remember when he made history on the teatime quiz show The Chase in 2011 by failing to answer a single question correctly – the first contestant to have achieved this dubious distinction.
But he did not let this 'failure' get him down as he also shared an amusing tale with the audience – his story of how he once wrote the headline 'shell found on beach' when an unexploded bomb washed ashore.
Keith lived in Winford on the Isle of Wight with his wife, Denise. He also leaves two children, Mark and Samantha, and a granddaughter, Betsy.
Keith Newbery MBE.
Born September 4, 1948. Died August 1, 2014.
'I walked on hot coals for Keith Newbery'
Tributes paid to former Observer editor Keith Newbery
Award-winning journalist and former Observer editor Keith Newbery dies


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Douglas Anderson, MD, is the chair of the department of neurological surgery, director of the spina bifida clinic and co-director of the Center for Skull Base Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center. He also is a professor at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
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Dr. Anderson completed his residency in neurological surgery at Loyola University Medical Center. He has research and specialty interests in brain tumors, arteriovenous malformations, aneurysms, trigeminal neuralgia and deep brain stimulation for a variety of neurological conditions, including severe spastic dystonia, Parkinson's Disease and intractable obsessive compulsive disorder.
Dr. Bakhos first joined Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 1978 as clinical assistant professor. Today he is chair of the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, a position he has held since 1997. He earned his medical degree at Damascus University, Damascus, Syria and completed his residency in general surgery at Meridia Huron Hospital in Cleveland. He completed his fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Loyola University Medical Center.
Dr. Bakhos is certified in thoracic surgery by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and is also certified in general surgery. His clinical interests include adult cardiac surgery, adult congenital heart disease, heart and lung transplant, heart valve repair, minimally invasive surgery, robotic cardiac surgery and thoracic aortic surgery. He has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and is a frequent presenter and lecturer at scientific meetings nationally and internationally. Dr. Bakhos has held memberships in dozens of medical and scientific societies, including The American College of Cardiology, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.
Dr. Biller was named chair of the department of neurology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in 2004. He first served Stritch from 1982 until 1984 as an assistant professor of neurology and then returned in 2003 as an associate chair of the department, following more than 18 years of faculty positions with the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School and Indiana University School of Medicine where he was chair of neurology from 1994 to 2003.
Dr. Biller received his medical degree from the School of Medicine, University of the Republic in Uruguay and completed his residency in neurology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and Loyola University Medical Center/Edward Hines, Jr. VA Medical Center. He completed his fellowship in cerebrovascular research at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Dr. Biller is certified in neurology and vascular neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology and in headache medicine by the United Council of Neurologic Subspecialties. His special interests include stroke clinical trials, acute neurology care, brain hemorrhage, brain aneurysms, neurological complications of pregnancy, stroke, stroke in children and young adults, transient ischemic attack (TIA), neurohospitalist care and all aspects of cerebrovascular diseases. Dr. Biller is the editor of the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease and is also a member of several editorial boards including Stroke, Cerebrovascular Diseases and UpToDate, among others.
Dr. Biller's professional affiliations include serving as director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) from 1994 to 2001, past president of the ABPN in 2002, chair of the United Council of Neurological Subspecialties (UCNS) from 2006 to 2009 and vice-chair of the vascular neurology writing sub-committee of the ABPN (2003 to the present). He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Angiology, American Academy of Neurology and the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association and an active member of the American Neurological Association. He has published a myriad of peer-reviewed journals, books and abstracts and has been a guest lecturer at dozens of medical symposiums and conventions worldwide. Dr. Biller has earned many teaching awards and also has been named to top physician lists such as Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Best Doctors in America and Who's Who in Science.
Dr. Bouchard was named chair of the department of ophthalmology in 2003. He practices with special interests in cataract no-stitch surgery, cataracts, comprehensive eye care, conjunctivitis, contact lens complications, dry eyes, itchy eyes/ocular allergy, keratoconus, LASIK, surgery for nearsightedness and tearing. Dr. Bouchard also serves as a consultant at Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital in Hines, Ill. Dr. Bouchard received his doctor of medicine degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago.
He completed his residency training in ophthalmology at George Washington University and a fellowship in corneal and external diseases at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Dr. Bouchard is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and has held a number of positions at Loyola Medicine since 1991, including director of the cornea service and residency program director from 1991 to 2003. He has served as president of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, member of the Board of Directors at the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness and on the medical advisory board of the Eye Bank Association of America. Dr. Bouchard has received several awards for teaching and has been named Top Doctor in Chicago by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. as well as "America's Top Ophthalmologist" by the Guide to America's Top Ophthalmologists. He holds membership in dozens of medical and scientific societies, including the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Eye Bank Association of America and the Cornea Society.
Dr. Cichon has primary administrative responsibilities for the emergency medical services provided at Loyola University Medical Center. He oversees Loyola's emergency medical services system, which incorporates education program training at all levels of care in the emergency system. Dr. Cichon also chairs the Region 8 emergency medical services advisory committee, is a member of the Illinois Medical Emergency Response Team and is a bioterrorism/mass casualty consultant for the Cook County Department of Public Health, among many other related appointments. He is chair of the department of emergency medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Dr. Cichon earned his doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine/Midwestern University. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center. He is certified in emergency medicine by the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine. His special interests include disaster preparedness, pre-hospital medicine and chest pain evaluation. He is co-principal investigator for the Illinois Emergency Medical Services for Children grant with the Illinois Department of Public Health. Dr. Cichon is on the board of directors and is a past president of the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians and holds membership in numerous professional societies; he is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a distinguished fellow in the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians.
Ravi Durvasula, MD, is a world leader in global infectious diseases research. He has held senior leadership positions at Yale University and the Veterans Administration. Most recently, he was a professor of medicine and infectious diseases and director of the Center for Global Health at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. The center has partnered with 13 medical centers in India, Kenya, China and Colombia.
Dr. Durvasula has conducted groundbreaking research in global infectious diseases, pioneering a new approach to control the spread of vector-borne diseases, including Leishmaniasis and Chagas disease. Since 1994, Dr. Durvasula has been awarded 17 research grants totaling $9.6 million, including nine National Institutes of Health grants totaling $6.9 million. Other agencies that have funded Dr. Durvasula's research include the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His two most recent grants are to study environmentally friendly mosquito insecticides.
Vivian Gahtan, MD, is professor and chair of the Department of Surgery, which includes 10 divisions: colon and rectal surgery; general surgery; gastrointestinal/minimally invasive surgery; intra-abdominal transplant surgery; oral and maxillofacial surgery; plastic and reconstructive surgery; surgical oncology; surgical research; trauma, surgical critical care and burns; and vascular surgery and endovascular therapy.
Dr. Gahtan is a nationally known vascular surgeon who has held many leadership roles on regional and national levels, including president of the Association of Women Surgeons; director of the American Board of Surgery; chair of the Vascular Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery; and president of the Eastern Vascular Society. Dr. Gahtan is an author on more than 200 medical journal studies, review articles, book chapters, abstracts and poster presentations.
Prior to joining Loyola, Dr. Gahtan was vice chair for academic development and chief of the division of vascular surgery and endovascular services in the Department of Surgery of SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y.
Dr. Gahtan earned her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in general surgery and general vascular surgery at the University of South Florida and an endovascular fellowship at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell University and Columbia University.
Dr. Ghanayem, the Dr. William M. Scholl Professor, directs the academic, clinical and graduate medical education programs of the department of orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation at Loyola Medicine and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He joined Loyola in 1995 and has a joint faculty appointment as professor in the department of neurological Surgery. For the past 20 years, Dr. Ghanayem has helped establish the orthopaedic surgery department as an internationally known center for education, research and patient care.
Dr. Ghanayem's clinical expertise includes spine surgery of a variety of conditions, including the cervical (neck) and lumbar (back) spine. He earned his medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, completed a residency in orthopaedic surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University and a fellowship in spine surgery from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Gonzalez earned his medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed a urologic residency at McGaw Medical Center, Northwestern University. Dr. Gonzalez joined Northwestern's faculty in 2000 and was appointed professor in 2011. He served as chief of urology for VA Lakeside from 2003 to 2006 and earned an MBA from Northwestern in 2006. He was director of surgery for the Northwestern Medicine surgical services department from 2014 to 2015. Since 2015, Dr. Gonzalez has been chair of the department of urology and director of the Urologic Institute for University Hospitals of Cleveland.
During his more than 20 years at Northwestern, Dr. Gonzalez established strong ties to area urologists, serving as president of the Chicago Urologic Society in 2014. He also has held multiple national leadership positions, including chair of public policy and practice support for the American Urologic Association. Dr. Gonzalez is associate editor for the genitourinary reconstruction section of Urology and a section editor of Urology Times. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts, review articles, invited editorials and book chapters.
Dr. Gupta serves as the regional director of the Digestive Health Program and director of Interventional Endoscopy at Loyola University Medical Center. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine. During this time, he also obtained a master's in public health from the University of Illinois at Chicago in public health informatics. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center and his gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He then pursued additional training in advanced interventional endoscopy at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Gupta has clinical and research interests in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, malignant and pre-malignant conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, and improving the quality of endoscopy. He has published over 100 papers in peer reviewed medical journals, presented over 200 abstracts at national medical conferences, and written chapters for several medical textbooks. He teaches physicians how to perform complex endoscopy procedures at courses throughout the country and internationally. Dr. Gupta is very active in multiple gastroenterology medical societies and currently serves on committees for the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).
Dr. Sam Marzo completed a BS in biochemistry at the University of Illinois in 1987, then attended Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine from 1987 until 1991. He then completed a five-year residency in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at Loyola Medicine from 1991 until 1996. He next completed a one-year neurotology fellowship at The Otology Group/Vanderbilt University in 1997.
After two years in private practice he joined the otolaryngology department at Loyola Medicine in 1999. He became residency program director in 2005 and assumed the chairmanship of the department on July 1, 2015. Dr. Marzo's clinical and research interest include hearing restoration via medical and surgical therapy. He has one of the largest series of patients with semi- and fully implantable hearing devices in the midwest. Dr. Marzo seeks to build on the solid foundation of the department to make it one of the best otolaryngology departments in the U.S. in terms of quality, research, resident and medical student education, and clinical volume.
Dr. Mathew is a nationally renowned interventional cardiologist and director of Loyola Medicine's division of cardiology. Dr. Mathew joined Loyola in August 2016 after nearly two decades as a clinician-researcher-educator at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He is widely recognized for his clinical and research contributions in cardiology, most notably in complex coronary artery disease, aortic stenosis and peripheral arterial disease. Dr. Mathew has been an investigator in many clinical trials that have evaluated and led to the approval of new technologies, such as coronary stents, drug-eluting stents and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
Dr. Mathew is board certified in interventional cardiology and cardiovascular diseases. He earned his medical degree from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, completed a residency in internal medicine and fellowships in cardiovascular diseases and interventional cardiology at Mayo Clinic. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. He is a professor at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Dr. McGee is a cardiac surgeon at Loyola University Medical Center and a Professor in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Stritch School of Medicine. Dr. McGee is board certified in General and Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) by the American Board of Surgery. His clinical expertise includes aortic valve surgery, heart bypass, left ventricular assist devices, valve replacement and valvular heart disease. Dr. McGee is proficient in a wide variety of heart surgeries, including complex coronary revascularization, mitral valve repair, surgery for endocarditis, the maze procedure and ventricular reconstruction.
Dr. McGee earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed residencies in General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and a fellowship in Heart Transplant Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Dr. Michelfelder has a long history working for improved global health through his role at Loyola University Medical Center and the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. His research and clinical work in combining traditional and alternative medicines has made him a leader in holistic care and integrative medicine.
Dr. Michelfelder graduated from Loyola in 1997. After completing his residency, he returned as a faculty member in 2000.
Between 2004 and 2016, he served as the vice chair of the department of family medicine before becoming chair of family medicine on July 1, 2016. Dr. Michelfelder will continue in his role as co-director of the Institute for Transformative Interprofessional Education at Stritch, a title which he has held since 2013.
Dr. Michelfelder also has a strong interest in global health and has participated in 18 international service trips to nine different countries, many as part of the Jesuit Medical School Collaborative Trip. He also works locally to assist underserved populations.
Among his professional memberships, Dr. Michelfelder is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC).
Dr. Mirowitz is professor and chair of radiology at Loyola Medicine. Before accepting this post in March 2011, he was chair of radiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System for eight years. Prior to that, he was chief of radiology at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (North Campus) at the Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, co-director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and associate medical director at Health Management Partners/Washington University Physicians Network.
He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in medical management from Tulane University in New Orleans and earned his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at Washington University Medical Center, followed by an MRI fellowship at the Mallinckrodt Institute. Dr. Mirowitz has completed the graduate program in medical management at the American College of Physician Executives and the Physician Executive Leadership Program at BJC/Washington University Health Administration Program. He has been a tenured professor of radiology at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine. He has served on the board of directors of numerous organizations including the University of Pittsburgh Physicians, Health Center Development, Central Imaging Services, Main Medical Ventures and Alliance Diagnostic Ventures, where he was chief medical officer. Dr. Mirowitz has been named a fellow of the American College of Radiology, the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance, the American College of Physician Executives, and the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has been the recipient of many honors, including the Roentgen Centennial Award of the Radiological Society of North America and the Joseph Whitely Education Award of the Association of University Radiologists, among others. He has also been very active in leadership roles for several medical associations and societies and community organizations.
Ronald K. Potkul, MD, FACS, FACOG, is chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology and director of gynecologic oncology at Loyola Medicine. He is also a professor at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Dr. Potkul received his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics and was a fellow in gynecologic oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. In addition, he is a member of numerous medical societies and associations and has written extensively for peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Rao was named chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences in 2009, when he also was awarded certification by the American Board of Addiction Medicine. His clinical and research interests include affective disorders, dual-diagnosis psychiatric illnesses, geriatric psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. Dr. Rao earned his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Mysore, Mysore Medical College, India.
He completed his residency in psychiatry at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, which included a post-graduate neurology course at The Institute of Neurology, Queen Square Hospital, London, U. K., and was the chief resident in psychiatry at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in Wisconsin. Before joining Loyola, Dr. Rao served as medical director of the Regional Forensic Center at Mayview State Hospital in Pittsburgh, had a private psychiatry practice in Mysore, India and was chairman and founder of Medtek Asia Pvt., Ltd., a healthcare manufacturing unit in India and an extension of Medtek USA, Inc. Dr. Rao also has completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Electro-Convulsive and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Brain Studies at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. He is a member of many national and international associations and committees including the Teaching & Training Committee of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry and the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine. He has earned many teaching awards and is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a fellow of the American College of Forensic Psychiatry. Dr. Rao has published many scholarly articles, book chapters and editorials on psychiatry topics and has been a member of several editorial boards including the Journal of Palliative Medicine and Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases.
Dr. Small joined the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in July 2013 as chair of the department of radiation oncology. Prior to joining Stritch, Dr. Small was the vice chair of radiation oncology at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. He completed medical school and residency training at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Dr. Small has an international reputation for research and treatment of gynecological malignancies, and he also specializes in treating gastrointestinal and breast cancers. He is co-chair of the NRG Oncology Gynecologic Committee, former chair of the NCI-funded Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) Gynecologic Working Group, and the immediate past chair of the Gynecologic Cancer InterGroup. Dr. Small is a fellow in the American College of Radiation Oncology, the American College of Radiology and the American Society for Radiation Oncology. The author of over 200 publications, 26 invited book chapters, and six books, he has been the president of the Council of Affiliated Regional Radiation Oncology Societies and the Chicago Radiological Society. He has also acted as the chair of the Gynecologic Cancer InterGroup Cervix Cancer Committee.
Dr. Stiff is the director of the division of hematology/oncology at Loyola Medicine. He is the Coleman Professor of Oncology at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine; he is also a Stritch alumnus. Dr. Stiff is board certified in internal medicine, oncology and hematology. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and was a research fellow at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
He held faculty positions at Cornell University Medical College in New York and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, before coming back to Loyola in 1986. At Southern Illinois, he was also the director of the bone marrow transplantation service. He earned his bachelor's of science in chemistry at the University of Toledo in Ohio. He is also a leading member in numerous medical societies and associations and is co-chair of the blood and marrow transplant committee for the Southwest Oncology Group. His current main research areas are umbilical cord blood transplantation, ex-vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells and cancer vaccines for ovarian cancer. In addition, he has written more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed publications.
Dr. Stirling was named chair of the department of pediatrics in 2005 and has been with Loyola University Medical Center since 1992, during which time he has held numerous leadership positions, including division director of ambulatory pediatrics, pediatric continuity clinic director and director of ambulatory pediatric specialties clinic. His special interests are adolescent medicine, general pediatrics, sports injuries and sports medicine. Dr. Stirling earned his doctor of medicine degree from St. George's University in Grenada, West Indies.
He completed his pediatric internship at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia and his residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Temple University, Philadelphia. Dr. Stirling completed a primary care faculty development fellowship at Michigan State University in Lansing, Mich. Dr. Stirling also holds a physician management certificate from the Loyola University Chicago School of Business Administration and completed the Physician Executive Training Clinical Chairs Program at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is certified in pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics, is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the sports medicine section of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Stirling is well-published and has been named a scholar in the Ambulatory Pediatric Association National Pediatric Faculty Development Scholars Program.
Anita Varkey, MD, is the associate chief medical director of the division of primary care at Loyola Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinic. She is board certified in internal medicine. Dr. Varkey's areas of clinical expertise include primary care and preventive medicine as well as women's health. In addition to being a fellow of the American College of Physicians, she has also served on the board of Thrive Counseling Center, a comprehensive mental health center in Oak Park.
Keith Veselik, MD, is regional vice president of population health and an associate professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Previously, he served as the medical director of the division of primary care at Loyola Medicine.
Dr. Veselik is board certified in internal medicine and pediatrics. He attended the Center for Continuing Professional Education at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was named to Chicago magazine's Top Doctor list in 1996, 1999, 2002 and 2018, among numerous other awards. He has also been a school board member and president at Notre Dame Parish School.
Dr. Wojcik was named chair of the department of pathology in 2007. She is a renowned pathologist who has a special interest in genito-urinary pathology and has been a member of the Loyola University Medical Center community for more than 10 years. Dr. Wojcik has a medical degree from the Medical Academy of Gdansk, Poland. She completed her residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Wayne State University, Detroit Medical Center in Detroit.
Dr. Wojcik earned a fellowship in cytopathology from MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston. Besides being a departmental chair, she holds a variety of positions at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine Department of Pathology, including medical director of laboratories, director of the residency program and director of the cytopathology fellowship program. Her service responsibilities cover cytopathology and urologic surgical pathology. Dr. Wojcik is certified in anatomic pathology, clinical pathology and cytopathology by the American Board of Pathology. Dr. Wojcik is an associate editor of the Journal of Histotechnology and a member of several editorial boards including E-Cytopathology, Diagnostic Cytopathology, Cancer Cytopathology and Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She is an active member and chairperson of dozens of medical committees and societies, including the United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology, the American Society of Cytopathology and the American Society for Clinical Pathology. Dr. Wojcik has earned several awards and honors including Teacher of the Year Award from the Department of Pathology at Stritch and the Award of the American Society of Cytopathology for New Frontiers in Cytology. Dr. Wojcik has been a frequent invited speaker at numerous international, national and regional forums. Most of her presentations are dealing with recent advances in urine cytology. Dr. Wojcik lectured in Korea, Thailand, Japan, Chile, Bahrain, Canada, Spain and France. She has authored and co-authored close to 100 articles in leading peer review journals.


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Angel's Food Cake. Light, fluffy and oh so angelic, no wonder the name.
Angel's Foodcake is made so light and airy because it relies on eggs whites & sugar beaten to glossy stiff peaks, then a small amount of flour and sugar is gently folded into them, keeping the air in the mixture. While baking they'll puff up even further as the air heats and expands. Then once out the oven, they settle down but are still fluffy.
I made these, along with the naughty opposite - Devil's Food cupcakes, to make a little something different for Halloween. I had been contemplating all sorts of other goodies in the usual tone of Halloween but then my mind went wandering and these were the result of that little brain expedition.
Adorned with glittery white chocolate angel wings and halos, these cupcakes are almost too good to be true (haha!). I actually think that a Naughty & Nice theme could be fun for any time of the year!
Believe it or not, these lovely little things are almost as angelic as their name implies. Light and airy topped with sweet and sticky marshmallow frosting, they're actually fat free. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying calorie free, but they don't contain any fats; no butter, oils or margarine. Ok, I did actually make them a little bit naughty, hidden inside the fluffy sponge is a little pocket of dulce de leche. If that wasn't in there, they'd be pretty darn angelic.
And just as a note on the taste, the comment of, "Nothing that tastes this good could be fat free!" was a comment I heard a few times after handing them out at work. So there you go, tasty too.
Makes about 36 cupcakes
12 Large Egg Whites, room temperature
1 cup Cake Flour
1 1/2 cups Granulated White Sugar
1/4 tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 1/2 tsp Cream of Tartar
- Preheat oven to 190°C (170°C Fan Assisted)
- Line cupcake pans with liners
- Sift flour and combine with 3/4 cup sugar and salt, set aside
- Beat egg whites with vanilla extract and cream of tartar until soft peaks form
- Add remaining 3/4 cup sugar and beat until glossy stiff peaks form
- Gently fold in dry ingredients
- Tip: Be careful not to over fold the mixture as you want to keep as much air mixed in as possible. Sometimes I find it easier to gently fold and stir with a balloon whisk
- Fill cupcake liners almost to the top with batter
- Smooth down any peaks with the back of a spoon
- Bake for 12-15mins or until lightly golden
- Cool completely on wire racks
- Once cool, use an apple corer to remove some of the sponge from the middle of each cupcake
- Pipe or spoon caramel/dulce de leche into the holes left in the cupcakes
- Pipe with a generous kiss of marshmallow frosting and decorate as you wish.
- Tip: If decorating with chocolate wings etc, have the decorations already made so that you can stick them on to the frosting while it's still sticky and hasn't set
Marshmallow Frosting
4 large Egg Whites, room temperature
2 cups Caster Sugar
2/3 cup Water
- Combine water and sugar in a small saucepan
- Stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved
- Bring to the boil, uncovered and without stirring until syrup reaches 115°C on a candy thermometer (about 5 mins)
- Tip: The syrup should be thick but not at all coloured
- Remove from heat and set aside
- Beat egg whites until soft peaks form
- While still beating, slowly pour the hot syrup in a thin stream down the side of the bowl and into the beaten egg whites
- Beat on high speed until mixture is thick and glossy, about 10mins
To Make Chocolate Wings and Halos
- Search for a picture of angel wings in the desired shape you'd like to make
- Resize if they need to be bigger or smaller then print them out
- Place parchment or acetate on top of the printed out picture
- Temper your chocolate and cool until it's a suitable piping consistency, you don't want it too thin or thick
- Fill a piping bag or parchment cone and using the picture as a guide, pipe the chocolate tracing the picture of the wings.
- Once piped, slide the picture over and repeat
- For halos, simply pipe circles
- While the chocolate is still a little bit tacky, sprinkle with edible glitter
- Allow to set completely before removing carefully and decorating your cupcakes. If possible, wear cotton gloves to reduce the heat from your hands
Recipes adapted from:
Angel's Food Cupcake: About.com
Marshmallow Frosting: Australian Women's Weekly "Easy Cupcakes by Colour"
Other Tips:
The original recipe on about.com states that the recipe makes 24 cupcakes but I got just over 36 cupcakes from the recipe.
It is very important to make sure the bowls and any beaters/spatulas/spoons etc are completely clean and grease free before using them for your egg whites. Any small amount of grease can cause your egg whites to fail.
Makes sure your egg whites are at room temperature.
Don't allow even the smallest amount of yolk to contaminate the egg whites, this will also cause them to not whisk up.
These should be eaten within 2 days.
Don't refrigerate as they'll become gooey and sticky. Instead, store in cool place in a container that is not airtight.


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Pickellball Courts!
Pickleball continues to grow in popularity and access.
Act like a true local and hit the Pickleball courts in St. George. The fast-paced game is a cross of whiffle ball and badminton and great for the old and young.
Watch a demonstration of the game on the USA Pickleball Association's website, pick up some equipment and get outside.
We have several courts in the St. George area with the closest to Best Western Coral Hills only four blocks away at the Vernon Worthen Park.
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Rick and all, I'm sending this by email because I haven't figured out the wiki yet and I really like push technology. This will magically appear as an attachment to an email in your inbox. These are mainly preliminary thoughts as we enter ALA Midwinter. I would really appreciate your thoughts. I need to get in touch with COSLA pretty quickly about the focus groups. We do not need to decide yet which states we might want to visit but we need to start thinking about how we will choose those states.
COSLA Meeting[edit]
Rick, I told them we would only take 5 – 10 minutes. I think we should give them an overview of the project as a whole and you should do this. Then you or I can give a little more information on the telecommunication aspect including what we want to do in the focus groups on Sunday. I'll also give people an opportunity to meet individually if they want. I have the most time on Sunday morning. If Carrie is along, you or she can give an overview of the e-rate aspect. Do we have a handout about the project that we can distribute? Even a one page with bullets would probably be helpful. I can work on one but I think you have a better handle on the overall picture.
COSLA Focus Groups[edit]
I'm thinking of two focus groups on Sunday morning: 8am – 10am 10:30 am – 12:30pm Note Added by MB--Meetings will be from 9-11 and 11:30-1:30
Can we provide some refreshments?? Would Gates staff want to attend?
I've been struggling with what to ask in the focus groups and it's connected to which states we want to visit. We have the information from John Bertot. We have the information from the Davis/Ryan survey. How do we put this together to decide which states to visit for indepth information gathering? I was thinking of having the focus groups at ALA be pretty general and informal. The 2 main purposes of this focus group with state librarians is to a) give us information we might use in choosing the states to visit and writing the final report and b) get them interested in the project overall and receptive to any next steps.
These are the questions I'm thinking about asking. (Some may want to bring or send their state library IT people and that's fine with me if it's OK with you.)
1) What are the general problems and issues you face in getting high speed internet access to local public libraries?
2) How do you help libraries calculate how much high speed access they will need? Or how do they calculate this? Do you have a planning guide that helps local libraries make this decision?
3) How are libraries using high speed access or how do they want to use it if they had it or had more? What can't they do that they want to do?
4) What role does e-rate plan in high speed internet access for public libraries?
5) What are the most successful methods that libraries have connected to high speed internet access in your state? (Type of connectivity; coalitions; unique configurations, etc.)
6) If we visited your state, who should we talk to (not names but titles)?
7) If the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation were going to try and help in this arena, what could they do?
I spent a good part of the day reading the 2006 Internet report. I read or skimmed all 259 pages. I'm concerned that we don't ask what we already know and pondering how to take what they found and extend it further.
Once we decide on the questions, I would send them out in advance to the State Librarians so they can think about them. And then hand them out at ALA. Rick, can Kathy Mitchell take reservations for which focus group? I'll send the invitation via Gary Nichols in Maine and the COSLA office.
Selecting States for Visiting[edit]
Assuming we still want to do the state visits and having studied the 2006 Internet report (by the way, did you realize that Arkansas is missing?) and the most recent Davis study, I still have questions about the best way to determine which states to visit.
Our preliminary criteria included the following:
Pick states where there were a high percentage of public libraries with significant high speed access (we did not define how high was high).
Pick state where there were a low percentage of public libraries with significant high speed access (again, we didn't define how low was low)
For the high bandwidth states, interview telecommunications and government people and state library and practicing librarians about the connectivity:
- how they got the bandwidth they got
- how is the connectivity achieved
- are they in a coalition, with whom
- how much does it cost a month
- how did they decide how much bandwidth they needed
- what techniques did they use to convince whomever that they needed the bandwidth they got
For the low bandwidth states, interview the same people about the barriers they face in getting high speed bandwidth.
In looking at the data in the 2006 Internet survey that John B sent to us, I combined the lowest two columns (less that 56 kpbs and less than 128 kbps) to find the states with the lowest high speed connectivity. I also looked at which states had the least percent over 769 kbps. These two figures are shown below:
|% less than 128 kbps
|% more than 769 kbps
I'm looking for those with the highest percentages in the first column and the lowest in the second. Based on this should we choose: Mississippi? Alaska (or do they have a unique set of problems and it's not worth visiting)? Wyoming? Idaho?
I took the highest two columns (greater than 769 and 1.5 mbps) and came up with these states.
|% >769 kbps
|% > 1.5mbps
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|South Carolina
I'm looking for those with the lowest percentage in the first column and the highest in the second column.. Based on this data we could choose any of these.
Other factors that could be considered would be:
1. Where do we already have really good information from people on our team (for example, if Wisconsin were on the list, can't we get a lot of information from Bob?) Who else knows a lot about some of these states. (Linda and Iowa??)
2. Should we go to the states where the Interent 2006 did case studies? Have these states been interviewed enough?
3. For the high connectivity states, do we want to go places where there is one statewide network or where there are many different configurations to get a broader spectrum of information?
Moving to the Davis/Ryan survey, we get a different perspective. We were deliberately vague in our definition so the data are very general. Those states with the lowest connectivity are Alaska (again), Idaho (also on my list) and Texas.
There is a very large number indicating over 90% connectivity. Mississippi is high on this list while low on the Internet 2006 survey. Duplicates on the two studies include Georgia, Maryland, Ohio, and Rhode Island.
Of particular interest on the Davis/Ryan survey were some of the comments. Based on the comments alone, I was intrigued by Oklahoma, Missouri, Mississippi, Wisconsin, and Texas. I do wish we had included power companies in the list about how broadband connectivity is achieved.
Finally, John Windhausen put forth a paper for the Denver conference that was held in early September. It's called Libraries Access to Broadband Services: Issues, Obstacles and Recommendations. He presents three models of high speed connectivity: Government owned and operated Commercially-owned monopoly regulated to the government Free market Where are these models in operation in the country and could they be used to choose the states?
So those are some thoughts. What criteria would the rest of you use? Suggestions for states and why?
Random thoughts[edit]
I've been reading furiously and talking to some telecommunication consultants and public library IT staff. Here are some random thoughts:
From the Colorado telecom consultant, Jerry McCarthy: he says that rural telcos can distribute capital costs and get e-rate subsidies over multiple years but no where does it say how to do this? Is this true?
He also says that proactive development is eligible under erate but people don't know how to apply for it? Is this true?
He is also advocating for power companies to have access to erate if they are building fiber that will be used by eligible schools and libraries? Is this even possible?
Jerry has written a paper about his work getting high speed connectivity to northwest Colorado. I'll send his whole message out but you will save time if you look only at his executive summary. Be sure and read his Success Factors on the last page which echo the findings of Bertot in the 2006 Internet report about what libraries can do to increase their effectivness.
I'll quote a couple of paragraphs here to give you a flavor. The connectivity project is called the Beanpole Project.
A state official involved with Beanpole Project oversight indicated that the more successful projects generally had very strong community leadership with skills in bringing diverse groups together to further the project. When project leadership was handed over to start up companies looking to build their companies, projects didn't fare so well. Also, DOLA staff were generally deferential to local decision-making by the BP communities, even when they had doubts and concerns about the decisions. Any future effort should be more prescriptive, based on what has been learned from the more successful projects, he recommended.
Although it is difficult to compare individual community outcomes of the Northwest Beanpole project, one thing most managed to do was to add capability and value to their implementation areas. Four of the five successful implementations involved fiber optic infrastructure and the participation of an electrical or other utility provider or local government.
Due in part to the stimulus of the Beanpole Project and the CSP related investments in the region, there has been an estimated $15 - $18 million capital investment in telecommunications infrastructure upgrades [in the region] More than two thirds of this investment may not have happened without the stimulus of the Beanpole Project grant.
I wonder if there are a lot of other reports from other states that articulate success and failure factors.
Jerry also observed that high bandwidth just brings in more customers who want more bandwidth!
I also very much liked the report by Bertot and McClure called Assessing Sufficiency and Quality of Bandwidth for Public Libraries. I think they do a really good job of articulating why no one standard of bandwidth would be appropriate. It all depends on what the library really needs to do whatever it wants. To me this calls for a method for local public libraries to audit their current use and determine what their need will be over the next few years. I've seen planning guides but none that seem to get to the nitty gritty of exactly how much bandwidth is necessary and linking that to library technology goals. Bertot and McClure seem to start on this project but it could be expanded into a real audit that could be practically used in planning. There seems to be some of this in the checklist in the Internet 2006 report on what makes a successful connected library. Should this planning be different for libraries that feel they already have sufficient bandwidth and those that do not?
I also found the previously mentioned Windhausen paper Libraries' Access to Broadband Services to be very helpful, particularly that libraries really now need 5-10 mbps and will need 100 mpbs in the future.
That's all for now. I'm anxious for our team to have a chance to talk more about all of these issues.


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Here's her summation of Mattrick's personality:
Mattrick loves spectacle--he wears rainbow-stripe Paul Smith socks and once hired Cirque du Soleil to kick off a Microsoft event--but he can be painfully introverted, one of many contradictions that make the man. He's an amiable Canadian and yet an autocratic boss; a company man and yet one who's unafraid to speak his mind to his superiors; a division head who lives like a Saudi prince and jets to work; and a press-averse guy who likes to name-drop his celebrity friends.
His home is the largest in British Columbia, Canada and it's worth $27 million. It has a 10-car garage, and it's filled.
When Laporte asked Mattrick how many cars he owned, he just smiled. She said, "A dozen?" He responded, "Ish." As in, he has a dozen-ish cars. The cars he owns include Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Lotuses.
He made millions when he was at EA, and his wife is a Canadian telecom heiress.
Laporte says he preferred to work in Vancouver, and when he had to go to Microsoft's campus, he took a private jet.
He drops the names of people like Steven Spielberg and Wayne Gretzky. (Examples: I'm going to the game tonight with "my friend Wayne." Or, "Steven would just drop by" to play video games.)
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Hanno Lemke, the general manager of Microsoft Studios said, "Don has this really ambitious vision ... Then he's just relentless, dogged about pushing people beyond their comfort zones."
Yusuf Mehdi, a Microsoft lifer, who leads Xbox marketing said, "If people don't deliver, they've got to go. He doesn't have the patience for that."
Mattrick is a life-long gamer. In the '80s, he built "Test Drive," the first game that put gamers behind the wheel. At EA he led development of "The Sims." He is credited with commercializing motion-based technology in Kinect that was sitting around in Microsoft's research labs.
The Wall Street Journal reported Mattrick told people earlier this year that he wanted to be the CEO of a games company. One of the people he told was Bing Gordon, a former colleague at EA, and an influential board member at Zynga. Gordon told Zynga CEO Mark Pincus about Mattrick. From there, Mattrick and Pincus met, and now Mattrick is CEO.
Another factor in his decision to join Zynga: He was going to lead hardware at Microsoft. This sounds like a promotion to us, but Laporte claims he wanted a bigger role at the company, which is in the middle of a big reorganization.


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Seimone Augustus added 24 points for the Lynx. Minnesota led by 17 in the first half, but trailed for the first and last time at 66-65 early in the fourth quarter. Moore's 3-point play with 8:14 started an 11-1 run.
Ivory Latta scored 25 points with a career-high seven 3-pointers including six straight in the second half for the Mystics. Washington's reserves, led by Tierra Ruffin-Pratt's 17 points, outscored Minnesota's 33-6.
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Moore finished one point shy of her career high.
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