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No. 85,264
In the Matter of the Adoption of
BABY BOY M., a/k/a J.J.M.,
a minor child, born 12/28/99.
1. K.S.A. 59-2121 is analyzed and applied.
2. It is error for a district court to require adoptive parents to reimburse the Kansas State Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services for medical expenses incurred in the delivery of the adopted child and paid by Medicaid where there is no statute, regulation, or contractual agreement requiring the adoptive parents to pay those expenses.
Appeal from Shawnee District Court; FRANK J. YEOMAN, JR, judge. Opinion filed February 16, 2001. Reversed.
Allan A. Hazlett, of Topeka, for the appellants.
Before PIERRON, P.J., LEWIS, J., and BUCHELE, S.J.
PIERRON, J.: Sean and Jodi Anne Porrini, the adoptive parents of J.J.M., appeal the district court's order requiring them to reimburse Medicaid payments for prenatal care, delivery, and birth of J.J.M.
The facts are largely undisputed. The birth mother lived in Springfield, Missouri, where she attended college and became involved with drugs. She had periodic stays in jail and then participated in treatment programs. J.J.M. was conceived in March 1999 in Springfield. After the birth mother completed her treatment program, she moved to Johnson County, Kansas, to live with her sister.
On August 26, 1999, the birth mother moved to Topeka. In an affidavit, she stated that while in Topeka she registered with a temporary employment service, found an apartment, and applied for student aid at Washburn University. She indicated her goal in coming to Topeka was more than just to give birth; she wanted to remove herself from past detrimental associations.
On September 8, 1999, the birth mother applied for Medicaid. She made full disclosure of her adoption plan. Her application was approved and Medicaid paid for the prenatal care and delivery of J.J.M.
J.J.M. was born on December 28, 1999, and the petition for adoption was filed the next day. Contemporaneous with the petition, the consent of the birth mother and an accounting of consideration and disbursement were filed. The accounting detailed the Porrinis' payment of attorney fees, legal expenses, living expenses for the birth mother, and also part of J.J.M.'s medical expenses. However, the accounting stated the birth mother's medical expenses and the other part of J.J.M.'s medical expenses would be paid by Medicaid. The district court entered an order of temporary custody and the Porrinis returned to Pennsylvania with J.J.M.
On February 18, 2000, the district court conducted the final hearing on the decree of adoption and termination of the natural father's parental rights. The court approved the decree of adoption. However, the court, sua sponte, entered the following order:
"Included in that is approval of their accounting, except that I see no reason why some part of this should be paid by taxpayer dollars, whether they come from Washington or Topeka, or however you want to look at it, whatever expenses involved that was paid by Medicaid should be reimbursed by these petitioners. And that will be included in the order."
The Porrinis appeal only the district court's order requiring them to reimburse Medicaid.
The Porrinis argue the district court lacked statutory authority to order reimbursement of Medicaid payments. They contend there is nothing in the Kansas Adoption and Relinquishment Act, K.S.A. 59-211 et seq., suggesting that the district court has the authority to alter the terms of an adoption contract to include payments not contemplated by the parties simply because the court could "see no reason why some part of this should be paid by taxpayer dollars." We agree.
In Kansas, the terms and conditions of any consideration given to a birth mother in connection with an adoption are strictly controlled by statute. K.S.A. 59-2121 states as follows:
"(a) Except as otherwise authorized by law, no person shall request, receive, give or offer to give any consideration in connection with an adoption, or a placement for adoption, other than:
(1) Reasonable fees for legal and other professional services rendered in connection with the placement or adoption not to exceed customary fees for similar services by professionals of equivalent experience and reputation where the services are performed, except that fees for legal and other professional services as provided in this section performed outside the state shall not exceed customary fees for similar services when performed in the state of Kansas;
(2) reasonable fees in the state of Kansas of a licensed child-placing agency;
(3) actual and necessary expenses, based on expenses in the state of Kansas, incident to placement or to the adoption proceeding;
(4) actual medical expenses of the mother attributable to pregnancy and birth;
(5) actual medical expenses of the child; and
(6) reasonable living expenses of the mother which are incurred during or as a result of the pregnancy.
"(b) In an action for adoption, a detailed accounting of all consideration given, or to be given, and all disbursements made, or to be made, in connection with the adoption and the placement for adoption shall accompany the petition for adoption. Upon review of the accounting, the court shall disapprove any such consideration which the court determines to be unreasonable or in violation of this section and, to the extent necessary to comply with the provisions of this section, shall order reimbursement of any consideration already given in violation of this section.
"(c) Knowingly and intentionally receiving or accepting clearly excessive fees or expenses in violation of subsection (a) shall be a severity level 9, nonperson felony. Knowingly failing to list all consideration or disbursements as required by subsection (b) shall be a class B nonperson misdemeanor."
The predecessor statute to K.S.A. 59-2121 (K.S.A. 1985 Supp. 59-2278c [repealed L. 1990, ch. 145, § 38]) was enacted in 1985 and is similar to the present statute in that it prohibited any consideration in an adoption proceeding except for the six exemptions quoted above. Both the 1985 statute and the present statute were aimed at controlling exorbitant adoption fees and expanding the district court's role in insuring that adoptive parents do not pay more consideration to the birth mother than is permitted by the statute, ie. to prevent babies from being treated as a commodity. In re Adoption of J.H.G., 254 Kan. 780, 869 P.2d 640 (1994). The current statute criminalizes the receipt of any consideration not meeting one of the six exceptions and, even if one of the exceptions applies, receipt of such consideration is prohibited if the amount is unreasonable. State v. Clark, 16 Kan. App. 2d 552, 826 P.2d 925, rev. denied 250 Kan. 806 (1992).
There is no statutory authority or legal authority requiring adoptive parents to pay a birth mother's medical expenses. However, pursuant to K.S.A. 59-2121, the adoptive parents can agree to pay a birth mother's medical expenses and the district court can allow payment of actual medical expenses of the birth mother attributable to pregnancy and birth.
Additionally, there is no reimbursement requirement in the federal Medicaid statutes and regulations which would demand the adoptive parents pay a birth mother's expenses. Medicaid was originally enacted in 1965 as Title XIX of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq. (1994). The Second Circuit has described Medicaid as a "cooperative federal/state cost-sharing program designed to enable participating states to furnish medical assistance to persons whose income and resources are insufficient to meet the costs of necessary medical care and services." DeJesus v. Perales, 770 F.2d 316, 318 (2d Cir. 1985), cert. denied 478 U.S. 1007 (1986). States that choose to participate in the Medicaid program are subject to the requirements of the applicable federal statutes and to the regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant thereto. See 42 U.S.C. 1396a (1994); 42 C.F.R. § 435.116 (2000).
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has set forth qualifications for pregnant women to receive assistance with medical expenses and prenatal expenses associated with a pregnancy. 42 C.F.R. § 435.116 (2000) provides in part:
"(a) The agency must provide Medicaid to a pregnant woman whose pregnancy has been medically verified and who--
(1) Would be eligible for an AFDC cash payment (or would be eligible for an AFDC cash payment if coverage under the State's AFDC plan included an AFDC-unemployed parents program) if her child had been born and was living with her in the month of payment;
(2) Is a member of a family that would be eligible for an AFDC cash payment if the State's AFDC plan included an AFDC-unemployed parents program; or
(3) Meets the income and resource requirements of the State's approved AFDC plan. In determining whether the woman meets the AFDC income and resource requirements, the unborn child or children are considered members of the household, and the woman's family is treated as though deprivation exists."
The birth mother in the present case made full disclosure of the adoption plan when she applied for the medical card. Medical coverage was subsequently approved, and full payment of the prenatal and delivery expenses occurred. The Porrinis contend that irrespective of the beliefs of the district court, the situation in the present case is the most common method throughout this country of paying these expenses.
The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) was well aware of the pending adoption and the payment of the medical expenses. SRS is well versed in instituting actions to recover public assistance benefits when inappropriately dispersed. See, e.g. State ex rel. Secretary of SRS v. Jackson, 249 Kan. 635, 822 P.2d 1033 (1991) (SRS claimed a trust fund providing support for Jackson was an available resource to her and SRS sought reimbursement from Jackson, pursuant to K.S.A. 39-719b, for public assistance benefits paid to her in an amount in excess of $35,000.). Yet, there is apparently no effort on the part of SRS or the federal government to seek reimbursement of the medical expenses paid by Medicaid in this case.
The Porrinis cite Birth Hope Adopt. v. Az. Health Care Cost Contain., 218 F.3d 1040 (9th Cir. 2000) (Birth Hope), for authority that the district court cannot expand the scope of the Kansas Adoption and Relinquishment Act beyond the express limits set forth by the legislature. In Birth Hope, an adoption agency sought a declaration that Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 8-548.07.A (2000) violated the Commerce Clause since it required out-of-state persons who adopt children from Arizona to reimburse the State of Arizona for the full cost of prenatal care and delivery of the adopted child when those costs were paid by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS). The State argued it sought reimbursement of the same costs from in-state adoptive parents under provisions of Arizona law that allowed insurance policies that covered an adoptive mother to cover the expenses of the birth mother and also general statutory provisions requiring a person to provide reasonable support to one's natural and adoptive children, Ariz. Rev. Stat. § § 25-501, 36-2903.G (2000). 218 F. 3d at 1044-45.
The Birth Hope court found Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 8-548.07.A was discriminatory on its face because it required only out-of-state adoptive parents to reimburse AHCCCS. 218 F.3d at 1044. The court also found Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 8-548.07.A was not a valid compensatory tax since the State could not identify an intrastate tax burden for which the State was attempting to compensate. 218 F.3d at 1044, citing Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality, 511 U.S. 93, 103, 128 L. Ed 2d 13, 114 S. Ct. 1345 (1994). In examining the relevant statutes, the Birth Hope court stated that the scope of an agency's action is measured by its statutory authority and that Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 8-548.07.A violated the Commerce Clause. 218 F.3d at 1045.
It appears the district court is attempting a cost containment policy concerning financial assistance to pregnant mothers where the baby will be given up for adoption. We agree there is a decreasing availability of public assistance funds, but we cannot, through judicial fiat, control those costs in cases like this.
We find the district court erred in requiring the Porrinis to reimburse SRS for the medical expenses paid by Medicaid where there is no statute, regulation, or contractual agreement requiring the adoptive parents to pay those expenses.


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Life expectancy among pensioners highest in Somerset village
The great variation in life expectancy among pensioners has been highlighted in a new study by the actuarial firm Towers Watson.
Male pensioners aged 65 in the small Somerset village of Hinton St George, population 400, have the highest life expectancy in the UK, at 88.7 years.
Those with the lowest life expectancy live in Bootle on Merseyside.
The study was based on mortality rates among 1.5 million retired people in 51 final-salary pension schemes.
Female pensioners at age 65 in the Somerset village have a life expectancy of 91.6 years.
They and their retired male neighbours are closely followed by those Aldeburgh in Suffolk, Frinton-on-Sea in Essex, Seaview in the Isle of Wight and Ferndown in Dorset.
The top 15 locations for long life are mainly seaside towns in southern England.
By contrast, male pensioners in Bootle aged 65 are expected to live to 84.9 years and women pensioners to 89 years.
The list of those towns with the shortest life expectancy is dominated by places in Scotland and Northern Ireland, such as Castlederg, Strabane, Belfast, Saltcoats, Londonderry and Prestonpans.
Apart from Bootle, the only other English location among the worst 15 places for life expectancy is Salford, at number 14.
Matthew Fletcher, a senior consultant at Towers Watson, said: "Where people live can be a powerful predictor of how long they will live.
"Of course, this does not mean that a man could extend his life by four years simply by moving from Merseyside to Somerset.
"Instead, a pensioner's address provides clues to other things linked to life expectancy, like their lifestyle and how much money they have from sources besides their pension."
Towers Watson looked at the addresses of the 180,000 people who died among the 1.5 million private-sector pension scheme members it studied between 2006 and 2011.
The actuaries then worked out the life expectancy for people living in clusters of postcodes with similar characteristics.
They then deduced what the life expectancy of 1,446 towns and villages across the UK might be by comparing their social characteristics with those of different postcode clusters.
The geographical location of towns or villages will not necessarily explain why there are different death rates among the retired.
The job someone did while working, their wealth and income during retirement, and their social class will all play a big part.
This is a point suggested by Keith Hurse, the sub-postmaster of the village Post Office in Hinton St George.
"The strange thing is, about 80% of the people here come from the south east of England," he said.
"Many of the retired are former barristers, school teachers and former members of the clergy."
However it is not all down to well-to-do incomers, skewing death rates among the locals.
According to Keith, the village is an ideal place.
"It is a lovely place to live, there is a society for everything, a group of us here took over the village shop and Post Office last July," he said.
"It is a very busy community but there is not the stress and pollution here – it is a very stress-free environment.
"The village has an award-winning gastro pub and even has an almshouse providing accommodation for the elderly," he says.


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Regular Dental Check Ups Important for Early Oral Cancer Detection
A trip to the dentist can sometimes give you more than you bargained for: In some cases, it's a dentist who may be the first to discover that a nagging sore or odd-looking white patch is not merely an annoyance, but an early form of oral cancer.
Dentists are the very best when it comes to finding early lesions in the mouth that could eventually wind up being cancerous. Studies show that dentists and dental hygienists may be the most thoroughly trained and the most sensitive to early, subtle changes in the mouth that could signal trouble later on. In other words, they may be able to spot problems that other primary care providers may miss.
And when it comes to oral cancer, the earlier it's discovered and treated, the better the chances of making a full recovery.
Oral cancers make up only a small fraction of the number of new cancers in the U.S. every year, but they are some of the deadliest. Currently, about half of all oral cancers are first detected after they have already had opportunity to take root and spread. At that point, they are difficult to cure. The American Cancer Society estimates that only about half the people diagnosed with oral cancer will survive longer than five years.
New treatments are desperately needed. A variety of agents that range from targeted therapy drugs such as cetuximab, to natural products like extracts from freeze dried black raspberries are being investigated to see if they may be able to suppress the conversion of precancerous to cancerous cells. Recently a clinical trial was approved to see if the black raspberry extracts can block the progression of precancerous oral lesions in humans.
Since the risk of oral cancer increases with age, clinicians are expecting an increasing number of cases in the coming years because large numbers of baby boomers are just beginning to enter their most vulnerable, cancer-prone decades.
This is a time when increased attention to periodic screening is so important.
While oral cancer is still more prevalent among men (60%) than women (40%), dentists are seeing an increasing incidence among women, probably because more women are choosing to smoke. People at higher risk of developing oral tumors include anyone who uses tobacco products in any form and who drinks alcohol on a regular basis.
Catching oral cancer in its earliest phase is critical, as shown by the success of screening in reducing deaths from other types of cancer.
What has happened with cervical cancer in recent years is a good example. In many, less developed countries, cervical cancer still takes a terrible toll among women. But here in the United States, where there is about a 75-80 percent compliance with regular and routine screening, the incidence of cervical cancer has dropped significantly, and deaths have declined dramatically.
About 90 percent of oral malignancies are squamous cell carcinomas, meaning they originate in the lining of the mouth or tongue. And some sites in the mouth – particularly where pooling of saliva may occur – are more vulnerable than others. These include the sides and undersurface of the tongue and the floor of the mouth. Along with the tonsils and the soft palate at the back of the mouth, these areas are the most common cancer sites, representing about half of all cases.
Cancer in its earliest stages can make the lining of the mouth or the tongue look just a little bit different – maybe red or white, or with little bumps. Patients need to be on the lookout for any of the following signs or symptoms:
- A sore that bleeds easily or does not heal
- A change in the color or texture of any part of the mouth or tongue
- Pain or numbness in any part of the oral cavity
- A white or velvety red patch that does not wear off
It is tragic that so many people develop oral cancer when it's so easy to spot during a checkup. We may not be able to catch or cure every single case, but regular screenings would help us be much more effective in controlling this terrible disease.
Dentists Most Effective in Early Oral Cancer Detection (Video)
This article is based on information provided by The Ohio State University Medical Center Media Relations Office and was adapted for use on NetWellness with permission.
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Goldschmidt lifts Diamondbacks over Cardinals in extras
St. Louis, MO – Paul Goldschmidt scorched a go-ahead single in the top of the 14th inning to lift the Arizona Diamondbacks over the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-6, in the second test of a four-game set Tuesday at Busch Stadium.
After the Cardinals left runners on the corners in the bottom of the 13th, St. Louis reliever Victor Marte (0-1) issued a pair of walks around a fielder's choice bunt before Goldschmidt ripped a base hit up the middle to plate the deciding run.
"He's been on a role this year for us and we've kind of ridden him," Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said of Goldschmidt. "We got in a situation where they had to pitch to him. He's just got a great approach."
Josh Collmenter (2-0) earned the victory after striking out five over four scoreless innings of relief work. Heath Bell worked around a leadoff double in the bottom of the 14th to secure his 10th save.
Goldschmidt finished with three hits, two RBI and a run scored, while A.J. Pollock belted a three-run blast for the Diamondbacks, who had won two straight before dropping Monday's series opener by a 7-1 count.
David Freese collected four hits to extend his hitting streak to 14 games, while Allen Craig clubbed a two-run homer and Shane Robinson added a solo shot for St. Louis, which went a woeful 3-for-16 with runners in scoring position.
"You want to win these games, especially these long nights," Freese said. "You have to hand it to those guys over there. They want to win every inning. They took care of business tonight."
Neither starter made it through six innings, as St. Louis right-hander Michael Wacha was chased after giving up six runs on 10 hits over 4 2/3 frames, while Arizona southpaw Tyler Skaggs was tagged for five runs on six hits over 5 2/3 innings.
The Cards got to Skaggs in the first on Matt Holliday's sacrifice fly, but the young left-hander helped his own cause with an RBI single in the second to tie the game.
Pollock clubbed a three-run shot in the fourth to put the visitors in front before the Cardinals countered with a longball of their own in the bottom half, as Craig launched a two-run shot to left-center field to bring St. Louis within 4-3.
Arizona created some separation in the fifth, as Didi Gregorius smacked a leadoff single and scored on Goldschmidt's double to center.
Goldschmidt then moved to third on a groundout and scored two batters later on Jason Kubel's single to make it 6-3.
However, St. Louis scored a run in each of the next three innings to tie the game, starting with Robinson's leadoff blast in the bottom of the fifth.
In the sixth, Carlos Beltran led off with a single and moved to second on a fly out before stealing third two batters later and scoring on Yadier Molina's base hit to right.
After Ty Wigginton walked and Matt Carpenter was hit by a pitch with one out in the seventh, Beltran laced a game-tying single to left to make it 6-6.
St. Louis had a prime opportunity to win the game in the 13th with runners on the corners and two outs, but Craig flied out to left field to end the inning.
Game Notes
Carpenter extended his hit streak to 13 games and was hit by a pitch three times in the game, marking the first time a Cardinals player has been hit three times in one game ... Skaggs was recalled from Triple-A Reno before the game ... Arizona went 4-for-13 with RISP and left 10 runners on base.


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Susan Needham
Analytics Manager
New Zealand Post works with SAS® to create Genius™
A SAS powered New Zealand Post initiative delivers a Customer Intelligence solution that segments consumers down to a sub-meshblock level.
New Zealand Post is a state owned business enterprise established in 1987 with the corporatisation of the New Zealand Post Office, then a government department. New Zealand Post continues in its traditional role as the nation's main postal service and has diversified into banking and courier services; managing the country's electoral rolls; and providing technology systems and data management services in New Zealand, Australia and, more recently, a presence in Asia. In addition to over 300 New Zealand Post-owned and franchise PostShop and Kiwibank sites, New Zealand Post has arrangements with over 600 private retailers for providing PostCentre postal services, and over 1,500 stamp resellers.
Using SAS, we are able to segment the data to offer our customers the ability to more accurately pinpoint new prospects or merchandising catchment areas; to better help [marketing] uncover and pursue potential cross-selling and up-selling opportunities; and to design more effective tailored campaigns.
Susan Needham
Over the last few years New Zealand Post has grown its one to one marketing capabilities, by introducing a specialist team and a range of direct, digital and data-based marketing solutions for its customers. Part of its expertise is in providing market segment intelligence to businesses engaging in mass marketing campaigns –such as retailers, banks, insurance companies and other financial industry institutions, telemarketing bureaux; and charities; the service is also used by government departments.
Utilising SAS's leading business analytics software, New Zealand Post has recently enhanced these services with the creation of Genius™, a highly sophisticated, purpose-built marketing tool.
While conventional population demographic databases typically segment consumers into geographical units called meshblocks, Genius™ drills down to either the sub meshblock or individual household level. Where other databases may cluster households within a specified geographic boundary, using high level factors such as family size, ages and income, Genius™ uses more than 1,300 variables to profile consumers at a granular level.
Publicly available national Census information provides the core data, but the richness of Genius™ comes from New Zealand Post's annual Lifestyle Survey, which drew more than 200,000 individual consumer responses in 2009, its inaugural year. The database is continuously updated with feeds from a range of commercially available sources such as BNZ MarketView and PropertyIQ, as well as New Zealand Post's own proprietary data.
New Zealand Post engaged SAS solutions and expertise to maximise the application and value of all this data.
Genius™ offers marketing organisations a very high level of intelligence says New Zealand Post Analytics Manager, Susan Needham. "Using SAS, we are able to segment the data to offer our customers the ability to more accurately pinpoint new prospects or merchandising catchment areas, to better help them uncover and pursue potential cross-selling and up-selling opportunities and to design more effective tailored campaigns."
Using SAS, New Zealand Post separates 1.4 million households into nine profile clusters and 36 different segments, each with a distinct personality, which Susan says gives Genius™ users a very accurate picture of where and how they can best target a proposition.
"Whereas other market services can display the location of a target segment of, say, 40 or 50 households within a general geographic area, SAS-based Genius™ can filter to sub-meshblock level and in some instances, down through city, suburb and street to precisely target a single household."
Genius™ has been extremely well received by both existing and new users of New Zealand Post's services, and extensions are already being developed.
Increasing the revenue from supplying consumer profile segmentation services to New Zealand Post's mass marketing customers.
Development undertaken using SAS software for database segmentation and analysis:
Very positive initial acceptance of the new solution by both existing and new New Zealand Post customers.


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30 Gorgeous and Innovative Bookshelves
This week, we read a short article over at NPR about Bookshelf, a blog-turned-book by Alex Johnson about — you guessed it — the bookshelf in all its glory. It's no secret that we're suckers for a little book-related design here at Flavorpill, so we took the occasion of the book's publication as an excuse to round up thirty gorgeous, innovative, and otherwise amazing bookshelves and bookcases for all your book display needs. Some of them are even available to purchase, but even if the one you like best isn't for sale, we daresay you'll get some decorating ideas — or at least a yen to pick up your favorite novel. Click through to check out our gallery, and let us know which bookshelf you're dying to cram all your paperbacks onto in the comments.
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Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
U.S. Department of Labor
Employment Standards Administration
Office of Labor-Management Standards
New York District Office
201 Varick Street
Room 878
New York, NY 10014
(646)264-3190 Fax: (646)264-3191
January 8, 2007
Mr. Anthony Mangano, President
Letter Carriers, Natl Asn, AFL-CIO
Branch 41
2262 Bath Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 12214
Re: Case Number
Dear Mr. Mangano:
This office has recently completed an audit of NALC, Branch 41 under the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to determine your organization's compliance with the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). As discussed during the exit interview with Anthony Mangano and Robert Marrow on January 5, 2007, the following problems were disclosed during the CAP. The matters listed below are not an exhaustive list of all possible problem areas since the audit conducted was limited in scope.
Title II of the LMRDA establishes certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements. Section 206 requires, among other things, that adequate records be maintained for at least 5 years by which each receipt and disbursement of funds, as well as all account balances, can be verified, explained, and clarified. As a general rule, all records used or received in the course of union business must be retained. This includes, in the case of disbursements, not only the retention of original bills, invoices, receipts, and vouchers, but also adequate additional documentation, if necessary, showing the nature of the union business requiring the disbursement, the goods or services received, and the identity of the recipient(s) of the goods or services. In most instances, this documentation requirement can be satisfied with a sufficiently descriptive expense receipt or invoice. If an expense receipt is not sufficiently descriptive, a note can be written on it providing the additional information. An exception may be made only in those cases where 1) other equally descriptive documentation has been maintained, and 2) there is evidence of actual oversight and control over disbursements.
In the case of receipts, the date, amount, purpose, and source of all money received by the union must be recorded in at least one union record. Bank records must also be retained for all accounts.
The audit of Branch 41's records revealed the following recordkeeping violations:
Branch 41 failed to maintain various invoices, bills and receipts from union related business expenditures. This is a violation of Section 206 of the LMRDA (Failure to Maintain Records).
As agreed, provided that Branch 41 maintains adequate documentation as discussed above in the future, no additional enforcement action will be taken regarding this violation.
Additionally, the audit revealed a violation of LMRDA Section 502 (Bonding), which requires that union officers and employees be bonded with a coverage that does not contain a deductible. During the audit period, Branch 41 had a commercial crime policy (CCP) which contained a $2,500 deducible. During the CAP, the Investigator provided the union with compliance assistance regarding this issue. Inspection of the current CCP disclosed no deductible and the union is now in compliance with this provision.
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Plans for the Stonehaven Flood Protection Scheme will now go before Scottish ministers having been approved with modifications.
The plan was discussed at a meeting of Aberdeenshire Council's Infrastructure Services Committee yesterday, where Philip McKay, head of roads and landscape services, as well as numerous objectors, talked with councillors about the merits of the scheme.
Talking of the scale of the project, Mr Mckay said: "We are attempting to protect against an event that nobody living in Stonehaven will have seen before, and I'm entirely confident that this scheme will offer that level of protection."
David McDonald, speaking on behalf of the Flood Action Group of which he is secretary, was the first to speak. He said: "We urge the committee to approve the scheme with modifications at the earliest possible date.
"The balance must lie in favour of the scheme to address some recent negative impressions of the town to attract investment in the flood risk area."
He added: "While the Flood Action Group is sympathetic to the objections, this is for the residents who watched their Christmas presents floating down the river back in 2009."
John Briggs, also a member of the Stonehaven Flood Action Group, has his own objection lodged due to a lack of clarity as to how the plans will affect his property and his business - Persian Rugs Scotland at 19 Briedgefield.
He said: "My building is one of the most adversely affected by the flood scheme. It's been around for 300 years and is listed by Historic Scotland.
"I'm concerned because I have been presented with three seperate plans that affect my building."
The first plan involved working inside his premises, and subsequent plans involve a flood defence wall extremely close to his own wall.
"The problem I've got is that I've received no definite proposal," he explained. "I can't withdraw my objection with the proposal as it currently is.
"I'm dependent on that building for my living, and my business is under threat by this scheme."
He added: "I don't want to hold this scheme up, and I do not want to object, but as it stands, I do not have any other option."
Mr McKay explained that at the present stage, the details were only about four fifths complete. He said: "There will be consultation with Mr Briggs, he is the building owner, but we have to protect a number of buildings and everything has to be taken on balance and we will have to make some difficult decisions."
Many of the objectors that came to speak argued in favour of more natural flood defences, citing the example of Pickering in Yorkshire.
Addressing this, Mr McKay said: "Natural flood management works by slowing the river flow down and to do this, you need to keep the water somewhere, which will prevent it from getting down at its natural pace and cause problems at the lower levels of the river.
"There are insufficient opportunities for us to do this in this case.
"A hybrid scheme was looked at as an option but it was more expensive. And when you look at the predictions of 30 per cent higher river levels - and we've not had an event like this yet - natural schemes would not provide sufficient protection."
Councillor Peter Argyle said: "Scrapping the scheme in its entirety is not an option. I look at it very much from the point of view of one whose ward includes Ballater.
"And to confirm it without taking on board the objections would be a non-starter.
"I think we have no choice but to progress the scheme with modifications."
The committee was in unanimous agreement, and so it now goes to Scottish ministers to either consider it themselves or refer it back to the council. They must take their decision within 56 days.


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Despite reports of year-to-year gains of 14% to 15% in nonresidential spending and investment in nonresidential structures, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently reported a year-to-year job gain of only 1.5% in its three nonresidential categories — nonresidential building, specialty trades, and heavy/civil engineering. Even more baffling is that the Census Bureau reported a 16% year-to-year decline for residential construction spending, yet the BLS estimates a conservative drop of only 3.4% for residential building and specialty trades employment. What could be behind these discrepancies?
The mislabeling of workers, in part, may explain the contradictory reports, says Ken Simonson, chief economist for The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), Arlington, Va. Many subcontractors who formerly concentrated on residential work are now performing commercial work. These companies may still be using their former industry code, causing the workers — as many as 400,000 — to be miscounted as part of the residential trade industry by BLS. These numbers — about one out of six residential specialty employees — would bring the decline in residential employment into line with the decrease in spending, potentially explaining the increase in nonresidential projects without an increase in nonresidential employment.


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The stunning firing of Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Juan Castillo is one of those fascinating stories that can only happen in the NFL. It's not just a game of inches. It's a life of inches. A profession.
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If Michael Vick converts a third-and-four with 2:41 left in the fourth quarter on Sunday during the Eagles' eventual loss to the Detroit Lions, Castillo still has a job. One more first down from the Philadelphia offense would have put the game away. There's simply no way Reid would have fired Castillo if the Eagles were 4-2, sitting atop the NFC East.
Vick is the biggest reason why Castillo was fired. The Eagles defense has been good this year, albeit not great. It's certainly carried the offense overall. Andy Reid's offense is 31st in the league in points and turnovers. Philadelphia's last two possessions Sunday were three-and-outs. In overtime, the offense went 21 yards backwards. They had three turnovers overall. Vick and Reid have been the problems.
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Andy Reid doesn't make this move unless he had Todd Bowles in place. Bowles was viewed as a potential future head coach under Bill Parcells in Dallas and then as an assistant head coach/secondary coach in Miami. Castillo hasn't done a bad job by the numbers since midseason of last year.
Cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha's comments after Sunday's game, however, indicated some player unrest. It sounds like they didn't believe in the coaching. Perhaps Castillo was in over his head. Only the men in the building truly know.
Philadelphia's defense played well down the stretch last year. They have been slightly above average this year. Reid said Tuesday that "average wasn't good enough." The Eagles have been the definition of average since the start of 2011: 11 wins. 11 losses. They wish their offense was average.
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These are the moves you make when you know your job is on the line. Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie made it clear that anything short of a playoff appearance this year will get Reid fired. Reid has ten games to save his own job. He looked at this coaching swap just like he would look at his depth chart.
Bowles is a more experienced defensive coach than Castillo. He should be an upgrade. Even though Castillo may be one of Reid's closest friends in the profession, he got released just like any player who has a more talented backup behind him.
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Ferris State University men's ice hockey assistant coach Mark Kaufman starts his 13h year with the Bulldogs in the 2018-19 season after being named assistant coach at Ferris State in July 2006.
Kaufman, who was also an assistant at Ferris State from 1992-94 under current head coach Bob Daniels, is involved in all facets of the program with specific emphasis on coaching the defensemen, recruiting, and player strength and conditioning.
Recently, in 2015-16, Kaufman helped lead FSU to the school's first postseason tournament championship ever as the Bulldogs claimed the WCHA Final Five Championship during a memorable postseason run. FSU advanced to the national tournament for the third time in five years while reaching the NCAA Final Eight.
In 2011-12, Kaufman helped lead the Bulldogs to the program's second-ever league regular-season championship and a historic first-ever trip to the Frozen Four where FSU reached the national championship game.
In 2013-14, he helped lead the Bulldogs to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Regular-Season Championship in FSU's debut season along with an NCAA Elite Eight appearance.
Kaufman has played a vital role in Ferris State boasting the nation's top NCAA Division I penalty-kill unit for two seasons (2009-10 and 2010-11). The Bulldogs posted a national-best .884 percentage in the 2009-10 campaign and a school-record .886 efficiency rate for the 2010-11 season.
Prior to his second stint at Ferris State, Kaufman had spent two seasons (2003-05) as head coach and general manager of the United States Hockey League's (USHL) Sioux Falls (Iowa) Stampede after serving as the director of hockey operations and head coach of the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Wings in 2000.
A native of Pittburgh, Pa., Kaufman spent 1998-02 with the Richmond (Va.) Renegades of the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) as the organization's head coach/director of hockey operations. He was chosen as co-coach of the 1999-00 Northern Conference All-Star Team. In the 1998-99 season, Richmond was Kelley Cup Playoff finalists and playoff champions of the Northern Conference.
Following his two seasons (1992-94) at Ferris State, Kaufman served as an assistant coach for the International Hockey League's (IHL) Kansas City (Mo.) Blades in the 1994-95 campaign. He helped the Blades become a Turner Cup Playoff finalist and win an Eastern Conference Playoff title. The following season (1995-96), Kaufman moved up to the NHL ranks with the San Jose Sharks in an assistant coaching capacity. He then spent two seasons (1996-98) as an assistant with the Kentucky Thoroughblades of the American Hockey League (AHL).
Kaufman arrived at Ferris State in Bob Daniels' first season (1992-93) as head coach and the Bulldogs went on to register a 21-16-4 overall record and competed in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) Championships. He then was promoted as the top assistant on Daniels' staff for the 1993-94 campaign.
Prior to Ferris, Kaufman was the general manager and head coach of the USHL's Rochester (Minn.) Mustangs where he compiled a 116-95-7 record and coached the 1989-90 team to its third Junior A national championship. He coordinated all of the scheduling, budgeting, recruiting, game staging, off-ice training, housing, fund raising and public relations at Rochester.
From 1986-88, Kaufman served as an assistant coach for U.S. International University, a former NCAA Division I independent located in San Diego, Calif. His responsibilities included monitoring the academic progress of the student-athletes, admissions, housing and the administration of financial aid.
Kaufman was head coach of the Reford (Mich.) Junior B team in 1984-85 and guided the Royals to both league and playoff championship titles. He was also an assistant coach for the USA Hockey Junior Olympic Festival in Lake Placid, N.Y. in 1992.
As a collegian, Kaufman earned a bachelor's degree in urban planning from Michigan State University in 1984. In 1987, Kaufman received his master's degree in physical education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He was a graduate assistant coach for the RedHawks during the 1985-86 season.
A 1979 graduate of Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, Kaufman competed in ice hockey as a prepster.
The son of Eugene and Jean Kaufman of Pittsburgh, Pa., Mark is married to the former Catherine Peacock and the couple has a son (Brett). The family resides in Portage, Mich.
Kaufman holds membership in the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA).


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SALINA — Leslie Marion Ollenberger, 93, of Salina, completed his journey on Earth March 17, 2013.
Les was preceded in death by his sister, Eldena Dunn, and three brothers, Albert, Ron and Billy Ollenberger.
His survivors include daughter Rosemary Hawver of Charlotte, N.C.; daughter Sydney Teeter of San Diego, Calif.; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
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We flew down to Napier last Thursday for a couple of days, picking up a rental car at the airport to get around in. The main purpose of our visit was to visit an elderly Aunt. Aunty May is 97 years old!! And look at the photo – she looks at least 20 years younger.
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Whilst down there we visited Pauline – a very talented Stampin' Up demonstrator - who has been so kind and supportive and it was so great to finally meet her face to face.
Thanks Pauline for the morning tea and tour of your craft room (not long enough!!) and Nev enjoyed meeting Pauline's husband, Garry who shares the same interests. A really lovely couple. Would love to live closer and join in some of her classes – I adored all her creations, they're just beautiful.
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Data on nuclear submarines has been made available on the internet, after a technical error by Whitehall departments.
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The second expansion for The Lord of the Rings board game adds a whole new dimension to the game play. With the Sauron expansion, the fellowship of Hobbits are no longer competing solely against the game and its boards. In Sauron, one player takes on the role of the dark lord and seeks to thwart the fellowship's crucial mission.
The dark figure of a black rider joins the eye of Sauron on the master board, racing towards the fellowship with the help of new cards that are the domain of the dark lord alone. Now when the fellowship discusses plans of how to pass the next board or event and compare resources, the dark lord is listening, and using that knowledge against them!
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Reiner Knizia
Fantasy Flight Games, Asmodee North America
John Howe
Year: 2002
Players: 2 - 6
Ages: 12 and up
Weight: 585 grams
- 1 Black Rider figure
- 1 Sauron Character card
- 30 Sauron cards
- 9 Nazgul cards
- 2 Gandalf cards
- 5 Fellowship cards
- 6 Resource cards
- 12 Resource chips
- 4 Sauron Event tiles
- 1 bag
- 23 Dark Event tiles
- 1 One Ring card
- 1 Watchful Peace card
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Average Rating: 5 in 4 reviews
If Reiner Knizia's Lord of the Rings board game set a new standard in co-operative gameplay while also giving us a great Lord of the Rings game and a unique and enjoyable gaming experience -- and it did do all of these things -- what would an expansion that converted one of the players into the Opponent do to the game?
It made it even more terrifying!
I can't say enough good about this series of games. True, the base game gets fairly easy with repeated plays (but surely you've picked up the incredible Friends & Foes expansion by now haven't you?) but even the base game holds up very well to repeated plays. Tough decisions bring up heated discussion about what cards to use and when to use them.
But what if by talking about your cards, the game could overhear you? What if Sauron could listen in and try and deduce the weaknesses of the different member of the Fellowship and exploit them?
Well, now he can. Now one player taked the role of the Dark One and tries to bring to the soujourn of the Fellowship to a quick and brutal end. Whereas in the original game, players often faced the dreaded 'roll of the Sauron die', now instead they must face 'Sauron' in the form of a player who has a two different decks of cards that he tries to use to exploit the Fellowship.
Sauron is equipped with a Black Rider piece that goes onto the corruption track at the furthest space (15), and he also has in front of him a small deck of Nazgul cards (extremely powerful action cards that cause mush grief) and a larger deck of Sauron cards (which depict 1, 2, or 3 consequences including a new consequence which allows the Black Rider piece to move on the corruption track.) Throw in 4 more 'bad' tiles into the bag, and the Fellowship is in for some trouble.
At the beginning of a turn a player must face Sauron. Sauron may play either a Sauron card, or a Nazgul card (if he has any face up at that time), or he may draw another Sauron card to his hand. If he plays a Nazgul card, the Fellowship is in trouble! If he plays the Sauron card, the target hobbit chooses one of the consequences to bear. If he draws a card, the hobbit breathes a sigh of relief...for now.
But if a player encounters the always dreadful black square, now instead of rolling the die, he must face Sauron. Sauron may either restock his hand to 6 cards, or play a Sauron card, onmly this time the hobbit must bear all the consequences on the card!
The strategy of Sauron is interesting as he 'eavesdrops' on the conversation of the hobbits trying to get a feel for which cards would devestate which players the most. If Sauron can, he wants to use many of his powerful Nazgul cards. But those are hard for him to come by. He gets one at the beginning of each board, and one each time he reaches the Ring-Bearer on the corruption track (which is only possible once per board). So the counterstrategy of the hobbits is to try and frustrate the Black Riders. For if Sauron can get the Black Riders to the Ring Bearer, Sauron gets a card and the Black Riders turn around to face Mordor. And if Sauron can return the Black Riders to Mordor before the hobbits finish the scenario, Sauron wins the game! Dark fiend!
The Fellowship has some new tricks up their sleeve though. 4 special help tokens get put on the secondary tracks of the first 3 boards, so when a hobbit reach the appropriate space he gets the normal reward as well as the bonus. And players also get one very powerful special action card to use once during a game to help keep Sauron at bay. Make no mistake though, With Sauron listening to everything you say, the game becomes a lot more nerve-wracking and a lot more challenging.
The addition of Sauron brings new challenges to the hobbits. Do they try and slow the Black Riders to prevent a new Nazgul card being supplied to Sauron? If they spend too much time fighting the Black Riders they might become overply distracted and make poor time on the scenario board. How much should they reveal when discussing their cards? What consequence should they take when Sauron plays a card against them? Tense decisions abound.
This expansion also includes two 'micro-expansions': one a 13-tile 'blcak tile' expansion, and the other two very powerful special cards for the fellowship to use with no cost (unlike Gandalf cards). The black tiles double the amount of bad tiles, but allow players to reject a tile they don't like with the condition being they must act on the next one drawn. It adds a lot of randomness to the game, and bad streaks of luck abound. The 2 card expansion makes life a little easier on the hobbits.
Honestly, when I heard about this expansion, it sounded lame: convert a co-op game back into a competitive one? And the contents are a small pile of cards, a small pile of tiles, and a black cloth bag to draw tiles out of. A rip off, I said to myself. But you know what? This expansion is wonderful. It's adds a new dimension to the game, new strategies, more tension, increased difficulty -- and it's all very much worth it.
Worth it? Well, Lord of the Rings isn't like any other book, and this game isn't like any other game. It is unique, incredibly well thought out, appeals to many people because of the co-operation and discussion, it has great theme integration, and it is wonderfully rendered by Tolkein artist John Howe. Sure, by the time you buy the base game and both the Friend & Foes expansion and this, the Sauron expansion, you will have shelled out a pretty penny. But keep it in good shape and see if you still aren't playing it 30 years from now. A wonderful experience.
LotR the board game, on its own, is a fascinating form of solitaire. The artwork is lovely. The play is novel. Really, though, it's solitaire. One player who knows the game well enough can simply instruct the other players in what to do, and if you have players with differing levels of experience in the game, this is what tends to happen.
The Sauron expansion fixes this. Now, the more the fellowship discusses how to solve the game, the more their opposition knows how to stop them. You get a lot of bluff and counterbluff, and if playing vs Sauron as a die was challenging before, it's terrifying now. LotR on its own I would have called a 3.5 star game. Throw the Sauron expansion on, and it becomes a classic.
This expansion is not for the faint of heart, but it is for anyone who wants a fun challenge to add to an already rocking game.
The new difficulty of playing against an actual player, as well as the game system, is a worthy addition to the quest.
It doesn't change what the fellowship has to do, but it does affect how you do it. Strategies that once worked now fall by the wayside as you try to stay alive to complete your quest.
You still work as a team, but now darkness can listen in on your huddle.
I cannot emphasize how much my friends and I love this game. Just when it seems you've mastered it, a new challenge like this comes along and a game you thought you knew becomes more complex and interesting...and fun.
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Reiner Knizia started by convincingly translating the grand design of Tolkien's novel into a board game in which players cooperate to defeat the Dark Lord. The Friends & Foes expansion offers both sides additional ways to win.
The Sauron expansion sees one player assume the role of the Dark Lord against the others. He is assisted by a deck of belligerent cards and a Dark Rider. The steed outpaces the slow but implacable Sauron on the path toward the Hobbits. The Rider unleashes Sauron's wrath by reaching the Ring Bearer and, after immediately changing direction, wins for Sauron by returning to Mordor before the end of the current scenario.
Knizia's epic continues to offer more heart-pounding adventures for the Fellowship--and for the discerning gamer.


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Dutch youth soccer linesman dies day after being attacked by players
THE HAGUE, Netherlands A Dutch man working as a linesman during his son's youth soccer match was beaten and kicked by several soccer players after the game and died the next day.
Richard Nieuwenhuizen collapsed and was rushed to the hospital hours after players from Amsterdam club Nieuw Sloten punched and kicked him. Nieuwenhuizen's club, Buitenboys, said the 41-year-old linesman died Monday evening but did not announce the exact cause of death.
"You can't believe this could happen. That kids of 15 or 16 are playing football, you come to watch and see something like that," Buitenboys club chairman Marcel Oost told national broadcaster NOS.
Three players, whose ages range from 15 to 16, were arrested earlier Monday for alleged involvement in the beating Sunday in the town of Almere.
Dutch sports minister Edith Schippers told NOS before the news of Nieuwenhuizen's death that "it is absolutely terrible that something like this can happen on a Dutch sports field."
Nieuwenhuizen had been officiating a match in which one of his sons was playing, NOS reported from Almere.
"He did it every week," Oost said. "He enjoyed doing it. He was a real football man; he was always here."
Parents and other volunteers regularly referee and officiate at sports matches involving their children in the Netherlands, where sports such as soccer and hockey are incredibly popular and well-organized for young players.
Police spokeswoman Leonie Bosselaar said shortly before the linesman's death was announced that the players were still in custody and investigations were ongoing. She added that police would not rule out arresting more suspects.
Nieuw Sloten said in a statement on its website it has banned the players involved and pulled their team out of the league. The statement said such incidents "do not belong on a football field."
Both clubs canceled all training scheduled for Monday.
The Dutch FA said all 42 of Nieuw Sloten's matches for next weekend had been cancelled at the club's request.
The death came almost exactly a year after a Dutch amateur soccer player fatally kicked a 77-year-old supporter following a match.
Amsterdam District Court last week sentenced the player, identified only as Silvester M. in line with Dutch privacy law, to three years' imprisonment for kicking the supporter so hard in the chest that his spleen ruptured. He died of his injuries a month later.
The attack in Almere was even discussed at a news conference in Spain on the eve of Ajax's Champions League match against Real Madrid.
"You can't imagine it happening," said Ajax coach Frank de Boer. "That boys of 15, 16 years short circuit like that. You wonder about the parenting.
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- Serves: 4; 2 toast triangles and 2 tablespoons mushroom filling per serving
1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms, such as button, shiitake, wood ear, oyster, or a combination, stems removed from shiitakes
2 medium garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon minced fresh thyme
1 tablespoon water
1/8 teaspoon pepper
4 very thin slices whole-wheat bread, halved diagonally
2 tablespoons shredded or grated Parmesan cheese
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Preheat the broiler.
Lightly spray a medium skillet with cooking spray. Cook the mushrooms and garlic over medium-high heat for 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in the thyme, water, and pepper. Cook for 2 minutes, or until the mushrooms are tender, stirring frequently.
Arrange the bread triangles in a single layer on a baking sheet. Broil about 4 inches from the heat for about 1 minute, or until the tops are toasted. Turn over. Broil for about 1 minute, or until toasted. Remove from the oven. Spoon the mushroom mixture over each triangle. Sprinkle with the Parmesan. Broil for about 1 minute, or until the Parmesan is melted. Serve hot or warm.
Cook's Tip
- Nutritional Analysis
- Per serving
- Calories Per Serving
- 52
- Total Fat
- 1.0 g
- Saturated Fat
- 0.5 g
- Trans Fat
- 0.0 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat
- 0.0 g
- Monounsaturated Fat
- 0.5 g
- Cholesterol
- 2 mg
- Sodium
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- Carbohydrates
- 7 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Protein
- 3 g
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12 starch
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U.S. Department of Education Under Secretary to Address SCU's Graduate Students at Commencement June 15
Deborah Lohse
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 13, 2012 —The woman President Obama is counting on to help educate America's workforce of the next decade, Martha J. Kanter, will address SCU's graduate students at their 2012 commencement ceremony Friday, June 15. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the University's Leavey Events Center.
Kanter is the under secretary of education for the U.S. Department of Education, nominated to the post by President Obama and confirmed in 2009. She was formerly chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, which serves more than 45,000 students with a budget of about $400 million.
In attendance will be about 600 students receiving advanced degrees from the School of Engineering, the Leavey School of Business, the School of Education and Counseling Psychology, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
In her role at the DOE, Kanter oversees policies, programs, and activities related to postsecondary education, adult and career-technical education, and federal student aid. She also oversees five White House initiatives: for Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders; Hispanics; historically black colleges and universities; tribal colleges and universities; and faith-based and neighborhood partnerships.
President Obama has tasked her with implementing his goal for the U.S. to have "the best-educated, most-competitive workforce in the world by 2020," as measured by the proportion of college graduates over the next decade. She and her team are also working to implement President Obama's American Graduation Initiative, designed to bolster community college attendance, access, affordability, and quality.
"We are looking forward to welcoming Under Secretary Kanter to SCU," said Michael Engh, S.J., president of Santa Clara University. "She has dedicated her career to improving both access and quality of higher education—goals that have also been part of Santa Clara since its founding."
In 1977, after serving as an alternative high school teacher in Massachusetts and New York, Kanter established the first program for students with learning disabilities at San Jose City College. She subsequently served as a director, dean, and vice chancellor for policy and research for the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office in Sacramento. In 1990, she returned to San Jose City College as vice president of instruction and student services until she was named president of De Anza College in 1993, serving in this position for a decade until her appointment as chancellor.
She is the first community college leader to serve in the under secretary position.
Since taking her post, Under Secretary Kanter has overseen the successful scaling up of the Direct Student Loan program, resulting in a 50 percent increase in college enrollment of Pell Grant recipients, to nine million students. She works closely with postsecondary partners across the nation to boost American innovation and competitiveness, improve the quality of teachers and adult education, and modernize career-technical education.
Her many awards and honors over the years include being named Woman of the Year by the 24th Assembly District; the Excellence in Education award from the National Organization for Women's California chapter; the John W. Gardner Leadership Award from the American Leadership Forum-Silicon Valley, and Woman of the Year for Santa Clara County by the American Association of University Women.
In 2011, Kanter was appointed to the U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a federal advisory committee to the Department of State that supports worldwide humanitarian development and values.
Under Secretary Kanter holds a doctorate in organization and leadership from the University of San Francisco; a master's degree in education with a concentration in clinical psychology and public practice from Harvard University, and a bachelor's degree in sociology from Brandeis University. She holds honorary degrees from Palo Alto University, Chatham University, Lakes Region Community College, Moraine Valley Community College, and the Alamo Colleges.
About Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California's Silicon Valley, offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, theology, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu.
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Virginia Ward is no stranger to drug crimes.
In her 11 years as a Salt Lake City justice court judge, Ward has tried countless cases against defendants facing misdemeanor drug charges.
But last week, the judge entered a courtroom to face drug charges of her own.
Ward was charged this month in 3rd District Court with two counts of drug possession with intent to distribute, second-degree felonies that each carries a prison sentence of up to 15 years.
The charges were filed July 5 more than three months after Ward was arrested on suspicion of drug possession in late March and she was arraigned last week.
Ward, 46, whose case will be heard by a judge from Tooele County to minimize conflict, was the subject of a federal investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration that began early this year.
According to a probable-cause statement, the DEA was investigating packages believed to contain Oxycodone, a highly addictive and oft-abused prescription drug.
For weeks, DEA agents staked out the UPS Store, 358 S. 700 East, where they knew Ward was receiving mail.
On five occasions, the documents state, agents witnessed Ward pick up parcels from the store. One time, agents said, she opened the box, pulled out a pill and swallowed it while sitting inside her car.
On March 30, the day she was arrested, Ward had received two packages containing 338 tablets of Oxycodone, the documents state.
She told agents that she had been taking the drug to treat her neck pain and also admitted that she had traded "controlled substances that she had received in order to obtain Oxycodone and other controlled substances," according to court documents.
Ward allegedly told investigators that the pills she had received March 30 belonged to someone else someone named Jose or Josh Anderson. She said she was planning to meet Jose and give him the packages, and in exchange, he would supply her with some of the Oxycodone, according to court documents.
Documents state that Ward admitted to knowing the pills were meant for illegal distribution to others, and said she had conducted a similar transaction with Jose once before.
Investigators suspect Ward has received about 170 packages from various senders around the country during the past seven months, including one that arrived six days after Ward was arrested.
Inside the box addressed to Ward, DEA agents found an additional 60 pills of Oxycodone, documents state.
Ward has not presided as a judge since she was arrested.
Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Matthew B. Durrant said Ward would remain on administrative leave until the criminal investigation was complete.
If she is found guilty of committing crimes, she will also be subject to court sanctions after an investigation by the state Judicial Conduct Commission.
The commission has declined to comment on Ward's case, citing the ongoing investigation, but Colin Winchester, the commission's executive director, said the commission typically makes a recommendation to the Utah Supreme Court for disciplinary action ranging from a public reprimand to removal from the bench.
The Supreme Court ultimately decides what disciplinary action actions are taken against a judge.
According to a biography on the Utah State Courts website, Ward received a law degree from the University of Utah in 1993 and worked as a senior assistant prosecutor in Salt Lake County from 1994 to 2000. She has managed the Salt Lake City Justice Court's Focus Program, which handles repeat DUI offenders, according to the bio, and is the chair of the board of directors for the Utah Law-Related Education Project.
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