Blueberry-Lemon Coffee Cake

Cake:
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt ½ cup sugar 1/3 cup almond paste
2 tablespoons chilled butter, cut into small pieces
1 large egg
1 tablespoon lemon juice
¾ cup fat-free milk
1 ½ cups blueberries
2 teaspoons grated lemon rind

Topping:
¼ cup sugar
3 tablespoons sliced almonds, chopped
1 ½ tablespoons butter, melted
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350.

To prepare cake, lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine four, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl, stirring with a whish.

Place ½ cup sugar, almond paste, and 2 tablespoons butter in a larger bowl, beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended. Add egg and lemon juice, beating well. Add flour mixture and fat-free mile alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Fold in blueberries and rind. Spoon batter into a 9 inch square baking pan coated with cooking spray.

To prepare topping, combine ¼ cups sugar and remaining ingredients in a small bowl, tossing with a fork until moist. Sprinkle topping evenly over batter. Bake at 350 for 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pain on wire rack.

How can you beat a staph infection? Just wash your hands.
by Cathy Hamblen

MRSA
Also called: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It causes an infection that is resistant to several common antibiotics. There are two types of infection. Hospital-associated MRSA happens to people in healthcare settings. Community-associated MRSA happens to people who have close skin-to-skin contact with others, such as athletes involved in football and wrestling.
Infection control is key to stopping MRSA in hospitals. To prevent community-associated MRSA

• Practice good hygiene
• Keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a bandage until healed
• Avoid contact with other people’s wounds or bandages
• Avoid sharing personal items, such as towels, washcloths, razors, or clothes
• Wash soiled sheets, towels and clothes in hot water with bleach and dry in a hot dryer

If a wound appears to be infected, see a healthcare provider. Treatment may include draining the infection and antibiotics.
*National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
It is recommended that infected students with staph return to school unless directed by a physician or if an open wound with drainage cannot be covered. These students should only be excluded from activities with high risk of skin-to-skin contact, such as sports, and not use public swimming pools, whirlpools or other common tubs.
Students who have immune system deficiencies and are more likely to get sick  should not be in the same room with someone who is infected with MRSA. Parents who are concerned about immune status of their child should contact the school nurse or a physician for further information.

EXCEL TIPS (from the University of Washington):
by Craig Ray

Copy without overwriting:
Instead of using Ctrl-V to paste copied cells, use Ctrl+Shift+= (equal sign). It will
prompt you for the direction to shift the existing cells

Format quickly:
Open the Format dialog box with Ctrl+1 (the number 1 from across the top of the
keyboard, not the keypad)

Line-break within a cell:
Use Alt+Enter

Managing your Task Pane:
Turn this list of last-used documents on or off with Toolbars - Task Pane. Turn it off permanently with Tools - Options - View - Startup Task Pane.

Insert the date or time:
Insert the date with Ctrl+; (semicolon); insert the time with Shift-Ctrl+;.

Select a block of cells:
click in the first one, hold down the Shift key, click on the last one.

Pick and choose your cells:
hold down the Ctrl key as you click each cell.

Change row and column sizes in Print Preview:
Click Margins to show black marks aross the top representing your side margins and column widths. Position the cursor arrow til it's a double-headed arrow, then click and drag the marker to a new position. You can reposition your top/bottom margins as well: your cursor turns into a double-headed arrow when over either margin, and you can then drag it to a new position.