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Planning Meals
You eat in a variety of places - your home, work, restaurants, maybe even your car. For some of these places, you have more control over what choices are available than others. Since high-calorie foods are everywhere, it's important to take the time to plan ahead to make sure you have healthy options available.
Meals at Home
Whether you are cooking for just yourself, one to two people, or a larger
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Taking the time to plan a healthy evening meal can help you avoid a less
healthful "drive-through" dinner.
To start, grab a pencil and paper and list your favorite meals. It may help to talk to your family or thumb through a favorite cook book. Some of the meals will be healthier than others, but for now, just write them all down.
This paper menu planner (PDF-68k) is one way to sketch out your meals. You might want to try MyPryamid's interactive meal planner which gives you the approximate calories in your meals and shows whether your meals are balanced for the day. It can help you plan your upcoming meals to meet your weight goals and suggest ways to improve choices.
Once you've planned your meals, make a grocery list. Take some time on your visit to the grocery store to choose lower-calorie ingredients. Here are some ideas that may help:
- Many casseroles and meat sauces use cream soups as a base. Use a low-fat cream soup.
- Substitute a low-fat cheese in casseroles and vegetable sauces. When using sharply flavored cheese, such as cheddar and parmesan, you can usually reduce the amount in a recipe to save calories without sacrificing flavor.
- Try a non-stick cooking spray or a small amount of cooking oil for sautéing instead of frying with solid fat.
- If you're using ground beef for tacos or meat sauce for spaghetti, look for a lower-fat variety such as ground round or ground sirloin or try using skinless ground turkey breast. Once you've browned the meat, drain to remove excess fat.
- Instead of full-fat versions of mayonnaises, butter, and salad dressings, try those that are lower in calories, total fat, saturated fat, and trans fat.
- Check out the frozen food aisles for quick, low-calorie vegetable side dishes. You can find cut green beans, sliced carrots, and other chopped vegetables in the frozen food section. Avoid the ones with added cream, butter, or cheese sauces as these ingredients can add calories. You can steam these vegetables quickly in the microwave.
- In some soups and entrees, you may also be able to add dry beans to extend the recipe and improve the nutritional value. This is easy to do in vegetable-based soups and chili. You can just add a cup of canned white beans, kidney beans, or pinto beans to the recipe. As another example, if you are making enchiladas, rinse a can of black beans and add these to the ground meat.
Research shows that people get full by the amount of food they eat, not the number of calories they take in. You can cut calories in your favorite foods by lowering the amount of fat and or increasing the amount of fiber-rich ingredients, such as vegetables or fruit. Eating fewer calories doesn't necessarily mean eating less food. To learn more, visit Eat More, Weigh Less? And see How to Use Fruits and Vegetables to Manage Your Weight for more information.
At first, you may find you only get a lower calorie meal planned for one or two nights a week. Don't criticize yourself; you're making steps in the right direction. Over time, you'll figure out meal-preparation short-cuts and it will become easier to make healthy family meals a regular occurrence.
Meals on the Go
For the places where you might grab a snack or have a meal on the go (such as the car or at your desk), make sure you have nutritious snacks available or at home that you can take with you. For example:
- "Grab-and-go" fruits: apples, oranges, bananas, canned fruit without added sugars, and raisins
- Washed and chopped fresh vegetables: celery, carrots, and cucumbers
- Low-fat and fat-free milk products: yogurt without added sugars, milk, and low-fat cheeses
- Whole-grain crackers and breads
- Protein choices such as low-fat deli turkey slices or almonds and other nuts and seeds
Take the time to make a shopping list and re-stock your cabinets and fridge with healthy options. It's also a good idea to think about stocking your office cabinet or car glove box with healthy shelf-stable treats if these are places where you snack. You'll find it's easier to make better choices when you have a good variety of nutritious foods available in the places where you eat.
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Healthy Eating for a Healthy Weight
Tips on how to eat healthfully and enjoy it.
Cutting Calories
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Links to healthy recipes with calorie counts and nutritional information.
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The career of Stephen Hawking
The world celebrated Prof. Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday on 8 January 2012. We take a look back over his life and work.
A brief history of Hawking
Hawking first shot into the public consciousness with the 1988 release of his popular-science book A Brief History of Time, which would remain on the Sunday Times bestseller list for an unprecedented four years.
Early in his career, Hawking and his Cambridge colleague Roger Penrose had developed new mathematical tools for use in Einstein's general relativity.
Using these, they showed that singularities – such as those thought to be at the centre of black holes – are a common feature of the theory, and that, if the effects of quantum mechanics are ignored, the universe must also have begun at a point of infinite density and energy.
It is perhaps for his work on black holes that Hawking is best known.
First, he mathematically proved a theorem by the American physicist John Wheeler that any black hole can be completely described by just three properties – its mass, angular momentum and electric charge.
He then formulated a set of principles that would apply to black holes and be analogous to the usual laws of thermodynamics. Until then, the concept of black holes had presented a problem in that it appeared they allowed the second law of thermodynamics to be broken.
The second law of thermodynamics says that the amount of entropy in a system will always increase. As entropy is a measure of disorder, it would be possible to decrease the total entropy in the universe simply by throwing mass into a black hole.
Hawking's discovery that the area of a black hole also never decreases led the Mexican-Israeli physicist Jacob Bekenstein to suggest that in some way the area is the entropy of the black hole. The problem with this was that if a black hole has an entropy then it must have a temperature, and must therefore radiate heat – so it would no longer be black.
Black holes are thought to do precisely this through what is now known as Hawking radiation, which arises due to quantum fluctuations at the black hole's event horizon. 'Empty' space is actually filled with pairs of virtual particles popping into and out of existence, and whereas they would normally vanish effectively instantaneously, in this case, for each pair, one is trapped by the black hole and the other escapes.
If enough time passes, black holes will radiate away all their energy and completely evaporate. The lifetime of a black hole is proportional to the cube of its mass – for a solar-mass black hole it would be around 1067 years.
Cosmology and space advocacy
Hawking then turned his attention back to the universe as a whole.
Along with Jim Hartle of the University of California, Santa Barbara, he developed a cosmological model in which the universe has no boundary in spacetime – overturning his own earlier theory that it must have begun with a singularity.
He later proposed a "top-down" cosmological model in which, rather than the universe beginning with a specific set of initial conditions from which it involved into the state that we see today, the present in some sense "selects" the past in much the same way as the observing of a quantum system causes its wavefunction to collapse from superimposed states to one definite condition – such as a living cat or a dead one.
More recently, Hawking has become involved in "space advocacy", arguing that colonising space is vital to the long-term survival of humanity.
Long-term survival is something that Hawking is very familiar with – having now reached 70 years of age despite a prognosis in his early 20s that, with motor neurone disease, he would only have a few years left to live. Physics has been much better off for his longevity.
An exhibition, Stephen Hawking: A 70th birthday celebration is running at the Science Museum until 9 April

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Stijn Stijnen – the man behind the posts?
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The social networking phenomenon amongst footballers has divided many. Some see it as a chance to talk to their heroes, some prefer to ignore the banal 'banter' between the so-called professionals (I'm looking at you, Messrs Ferdinand and Savage).
But Rule No.1 of using a social networking platform is not to bring the game into disrepute and undermine any person within football.
We've seen it recently with former Liverpool player Ryan Babel displaying some shoddy Photoshopping skills, with a picture of referee Howard Webb sporting a Manchester United shirt. Yesterday, albeit funny, Wojciech Szczesny tweeted "Is it a bird? Is it an aeroplane? No, it's just Ashley throwing Chelsea out of the FA Cup" as Ashley Cole skied a penalty against Everton.
Now this is all very minor in comparison to goings-on in Belgium this weekend. Club Brugge keeper Stijn Stijnen has been demoted to the reserves after it was found that he had been posting messages on the unofficial Club Brugge blauzwart forum defaming not only his competition for the No.1 spot, but also the management too. Not exactly the smartest career move.
Club Brugge have had a season to forget. Out of the title race quite early on and their best player Ronald Vargas suffering a severe knee injury, Adrie Koster has somehow held onto his job throughout the season when it appeared he would lose it. Brugge enjoyed a renaissance recently, with Ivan Perisic banging in the goals for them but it only takes a bit of scandal for everything to unravel.
Former international keeper, Stijnen has been at the Brugge club for more than a decade but has been rotated with Colin Coosemans and veteran Geert De Vlieger this year, with no keeper showing enough to maintain his place in the side. But on the forum, he anonymously questioned the ability of Coosemans claiming he looked uncertain between the sticks, whilst also glorifying himself.
Stijnen didn't stop there though, saying "shame on you Henk and Sven" which most likely referring to Club Brugge's youth coaches Henk Mariman and Sven Vermant who train 18-year old Coosemans. Just possibly.
Strangely, on Club Brugge's website, there's a video entitled – Stjin Stijnen – I'm 100% behind Coosemans. Hmmm.
Now, unfortunately for Mr Stijnen, it soon became obvious who was behind the smear campaign as Sporza's Peter Vandenbemptlaan exposed his trolling. A recent statement to Sporza from revealed that it was his brother and his girlfriend who had been behind the forum posts. Whether this is merely a cover-up, we are yet to know.
So, moral of the story kids, if you want to remain at a top Belgian club, don't masquerade onto internet forums to defame those challenging your spot. It's just not a good idea. He would have got away with it too if hadn't been for those pesky meddling fans. Or hadn't done it all.
On a serious note, this does expose Club Brugge's inner policies and an apparent disharmony. This weekend they faced Lokeren and won, but the interesting point was that as well as Stijnen, Wilfried Dalmat (brother of Stephane) was fined for comments against manager Adrie Koster, despite his recent impressive form.
All in all, one of Belgian's premier clubs looks a mess after these revelations. Koster's role at the club seems almost untenable, and it will be interesting to see what Stijnen has to say once he inevitably leaves.
Here's the posts he sent within this Facebook group. Dutch fluency helpful
UPDATE: Stijn Stijnen was released from his contract on Monday 21st 2011. If you'd like to read more of the posts made on the Club Brugge forum, they are translated here. Some quite shocking, some absolutely hilarious


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This New York Times story makes me want to throw a chair:
Some people are so rude. Really, who sends an e-mail or text message that just says "Thank you"? Who leaves a voice mail message when you don't answer, rather than texting you? Who asks for a fact easily found on Google?
Don't these people realize that they're wasting your time?
Of course, some people might think me the rude one for not appreciating life's little courtesies. But many social norms just don't make sense to people drowning in digital communication.
And, in case this didn't piss you off quite enough — here's some more wisdom from the Boy Wonder of techno-communication:
Now, with Google and online maps at our fingertips, what was once normal can be seen as uncivilized — like asking someone for directions to a house, restaurant or office, when they can easily be found on Google Maps.
I once asked a friend something easily discovered on the Internet, and he responded with a link to lmgtfy.com, which stands for Let Me Google That For You.
In the age of the smartphone, there is no reason to ask once-acceptable questions: the weather forecast, a business phone number, a store's hours. But some people still do. And when you answer them, they respond with a thank-you e-mail.
Pardon my intemperate tone, but for fuck's sake!
If someone asks me for directions, which is rare because I generally offer them, unless I am in a huge rush, I'm happy to help. The weather forecast is also available (fogey alert!) on the front page of the Times, on television and usually on the radio.
But God forbid we should waste one another's time. Because the time you waste reading my tedious thank-you email is exactly the time you were planning to spend
playing Angry Birds curing cancer.
This sort of pretentiousness makes me want to vomit.
If you want to communicate with other people, try to understand a basic concept — we do not all communicate in the exact same way, nor using the exact same language nor the exact same tools. If you text me, you've just wasted your time. I don't read texts, ever.
Is this rude of me? Quite probably. It also marks me as someone who prefers to use email, far more than telephone. If someone texts me, I won't even see it. Not because I think I'm so important, but because I'm so goddamned busy that an email is, for me, the easiest way for me get on with things. I generally reply to emails promptly and I also reply to phone messages. I even make phone calls. (Feel free to face-palm in horror.)
I don't wish to communicate in syllables, so I don't tweet either.
Yet, somehow, I'm able to maintain friendships and business relationships with people in their 20s, 30s and 40s, all younger than I. Maybe because they get the basic premise — we're here to have relationships, not hand-flap our Huge Importance at one another and tell others exactly how they must communicate with us or risk their wrath.
How do you communicate: text, email, phone?
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Debian isn't anything new, and I'm pretty sure people here use it because, well, I've seen people say they have. Anyway, I've personally used Debian before, but it wasn't really something I used all the time. Since I've been testing out new stuff I decided to try the new Debian out as well.
I downloaded the Net Install ISO because well, it lets me start out with a bare bones installation, and then add to ti whatever I want. So, I grabbed the CD after doing my Vector Linux review, and decided to try it out.
The installation has changed for the first time in a while. It now contains a GUI based installer for those who like that sort of thing (I personally think a well done GUI is nice) and I'm sure it'll make a lot of people possibly try it out since they won't be turned off by a text only installation, even though Windows still does text based. XP installs were harder to comprehend for me than some Linux installers.
Anyway, this isn't a who's better thread, it's simply going to be my opinion on a distro that doesn't need a sales gimmick to be good. Debian for me has always been nice. I didn't always use it because I wasn't really in need of a new OS because I had SUSE, FreeBSD, Slackware, and the new Mandriva, all of which were great, but I wanted to try some new ones out and see what they had done new.
I had Debian 3.0R1 on CD (LOTS of CDs) and I also have 4.0, but when I checked to see what the newest one was, I saw that 5.0 was out, and 5.0.1 was ready for download. As I pointed out already, I chose the Net install only. I sometimes grab the full CD collection, but 700 MBs x 7 CDs.... I didn't feel like waiting. And besides, the Net install can do the same thing the others do, I just don't have to change disks.
The installation went great, and as usual, Debian installation tools are of high quality. The partition editing was simple, straightforward, and easy to comprehend.
After doing this, I let the install go, and then I decided to finish up and just do bare bones so I had a fresh clean OS to work with, and then I could add what I wanted afterwards.
I can do this because Debian has one of the best software adding tools ever with not only dpkg, but the front end, apt-get. So I started adding software. As usual, adding software took VERY little. I decided on what I wanted first, and grabbed it, and then I decided to look at what software was available, and started browsing with Ice Weasel (Firefox without something or other) and opened a bunch of tabs with software categories to look at, and started adding more software. This can take time to do, but it's nice to be able to, because then, I have a system set up with EXACTLY what I want, and nothing else.
It's very nice.
So, what else? I downloaded and installed a bunch of Window Managers to play with too, so I installed those, and when I logged out, I saw that all the Window Managers I had added were put in the list of Window Managers I could pick at the GDM screen when logging in. I saw KDE was added for me, so I chose it to see if it worked, and well, I'm using it right now to write this.
I didn't have to edit any configuration files, or anything. I simply logged out after installing them with apt-get, and they were ready for action.
Final Verdict? I think I'm going to be using this for a while. I REALLY like it. It for sure gets the GORE STAMP OF APPROVAL.
Also of interest for those coming from other Linux or BSD based OSs; I popped in a music CD in one of the drives in the machine, and instead of being told I couldn't open it do to permissions, it popped up and let me look at it right away without editing any configuration files.
Basically it does the easy to use no set up required stuff Mandriva and SUSE and Fedora and RedHat do, but with the edge of Slackware, which does still require you to edit /etc/fstab by hand to use CDs and, if you have one, a floppy.
Not that I think that's a problem, it's not hard to do or anything, but it's a time saver.
Anyway, I HIGHLY recommend Debian 5.0.1 for anyone. It's great. And if you're one of those Ubuntu sissies, why not try out the REAL version of your OS?
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It beats the heck out of a 12Mpx point & shoot that requires me to transfer images to a computer in order to do anything with them.
Not a bad place to spend your life..I can think of far worse fates.
Your life goes upside down.Rob C
I don't go there...
Funny, I never use the cellpix without downloading them to the computer and into PS as quickly as possible. I don't think I have sent such virgin images - I mean un-PSd ones - more than twice at the most. Not sure when I first bought this thing, but I do remember using it on New Year's Day this year.
I certainly don't think of the 'phone as an easy option: in most ways it's a damned sight more difficult to use, especially with the dreadful visibility you get on the screen in bright daylight conditions. That is followed, or shared, by the lousy way that focus is attained. I'm also permanently in doubt about the moment of exposure. I tried some panning shots to induce movement blur, and in some cases, I'd passed right beyond the subject!
I can offer one: when you run out of available/affordable boobs to photograph. Your life goes upside down.
Brave or foolhardy; close call.Rob C


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At Special Occasion Spot Canlis in Seattle, Don't Forget Dessert
Canlis is often mentioned as the classiest restaurant in Seattle. It's the place that forces me to find a sport jacket to wear, act on my best behavior, and consider the condition of my car (embarrassing!) ahead of valet service.
The restaurant consistently gets all kinds of accolades. This year, in fact, chef Jason Franey was a Beard nominee for Best Chef: Northwest. But here's a lesser-known fact: Canlis' Baruch Ellsworth was just a nominee for Food & Wine magazine's Best Pastry Chef award. So desserts here are as fantastic as the rest of the food.
A special someone's birthday was cause for a recent visit to Canlis. For dessert, we started with the Mille-Feuille ($12, above). The description read "milk chocolate, bananas, caramel and peanut butter," so the elements were compelling and comforting. Each bite offers different flavor combinations, sometimes reminiscent of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, sometimes Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream, and sometimes something like Elvis' favorite sandwich. The plate includes a banana macaron and banana-caramel ice cream, and feuilletine contributes a Cornflake-like texture. While not a mille-feuille in the traditional sense, this dessert uses modern flavors to its benefit.
Next up was Rhubarb Sorbet ($8), an appropriate "intermezzo" between richer desserts. The menu almost undersells the dessert in its simplicity, reading "bergamot and grapefruit," but the presentation is picturesque and shows off its complexity. The sorbet sings of spring, simple and yet punchy with its tartness. I'm told it's just rhubarb and sugar, with a little water and some seasoning. Despite a lack of dairy, the sorbet is delightfully creamy in body. Along with the sorbet, sous vide-poached rhubarb pieces are on the plate. The bergamot makes its appearance in the meringue, giving a somewhat bitter, citric note to these crunchy clouds. Liquid gels of Campari accentuate the bergamot's bitterness, while fresh grapefruit adds juicy citrus.
Finally, the Canlis Soufflé ($14). The tell-tale "C" for "Canlis" is missing in center of our soufflé as there was a candle there, but typically, after allowing for admiration of the soufflé, the server pours crème Anglaise over the letter. The soufflé itself is light and fluffy, eager to soak up the sauce, and contains orange zest and some Grand Marnier. Well-worth the half-hour wait, the soufflé has a cloud-like texture and is flavored with orange.
Canlis just announced a change in menu, switching to a prix fixe format. But here's another lesser-known fact about Canlis: You don't have to go for a formal dinner. In fact, it can be more fun to simply stop by for drinks in the lounge. You can order off the lounge menu which includes any of the desserts on offer.
2576 Aurora Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109 (map) (206) 283-3313; canlis.com
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Carpet of Flying: This rug is able to fly through the air as if affected by an overland flight spell of unlimited duration. The size, carrying capacity, and speed of the different carpets of flying are shown on the table below. Beautifully and intricately made, each carpet has its own command word to activate it—if the device is within voice range, the command word activates it, whether the speaker is on the rug or not. The carpet is then controlled by spoken directions.
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A carpet of flying can carry up to double its capacity, but doing so reduces its speed to 30 feet. It has average maneuverability, but a carpet of flying can still hover.
Moderate transmutation; CL 10th; Craft Wondrous Item, overland flight, permanency.
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Wall Street Banks Lift Pay for Junior Bankers
Wall Street banks, under pressure to improve working conditions for junior employees, are raising salaries.
A host of big banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., GS 1.45% J.P. Morgan Chase JPM 1.06% & Co., Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. BAC 0.39% and Morgan Stanley MS 2.99% have decided to raise pay or are seriously considering the move for many junior bankers. The pay hikes, which are generally coming in the form of salaries as opposed to year-end bonuses, could hit 20%-25% at some firms.
Goldman Sachs will increase starting salaries for many first-year analysts by about 20%, according to a person familiar with the bank's plans. The pay raise, slated to go into effect next year, will apply only to analysts in the U.S., the person added.
The move comes as Wall Street continues to bounce back from a financial crisis that put it in the crosshairs for the lavish bonuses. Politicians and regulators argued the industry's pay policies pushed employees from the CEO on down to take risks that left the financial markets on the brink of collapse. Big banks responded by moving to lower yearend cash bonuses, while paying a bigger slice in company stock and boosting salaries, viewed as a more stabilizing means of pay.
For the junior employees, Goldman Sachs made the decision in order to remain competitive among graduating college seniors, who will likely be faced with other offers in finance, according to a person familiar with the decision. Junior analysts will now make about $85,000, not including bonuses, up from about $70,000, the person said.
In recent years, Wall Street firms have faced pressure to pay their junior employees more, while cutting back on their hours, as recruiting has suffered from the reputational damage of the financial crisis, the long hours of working at an investment bank and a challenging revenue environment for the industry.
Last year, discussions about working conditions on Wall Street came to the fore after a 21-year-old Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern in London died of an epileptic seizure that an inquest found could possibly have been brought on by the long hours he was working.
Goldman's pay raise, which will likely include first-year and second-year analysts, comes along with other efforts to improve incentives for junior bankers. Last fall, Goldman added a protected weekend for investment-banking analysts in which they aren't allowed to work from Friday evening to Sunday morning.
Bank of America is boosting the pay of its junior investment-banking and trading employees by at least 20% next year, a person familiar with the matter said. The bank included the higher salaries in the offers it made this month to summer interns who were invited to return as full-time employees in 2015, the person said.
J.P. Morgan may raise some employee salaries by at least 20 percent as well, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday. Internal discussions are continuing on the subject, though a pay raise for some is likely since rivals have raised pay to try to make their offers more attractive.
Citigroup is also considering a pay increase for analysts and associates, a person familiar with the bank said.
Last month, Morgan Stanley told junior bankers and junior workers on its capital-markets desks it will raise their base salaries by as much as 25%. The Morgan Stanley move, which affects associates and vice presidents in the bank's global markets and investment-banking divisions, won't affect bonuses, which are determined separately around year-end and could fall even as salaries move higher, said a person familiar with the matter.
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Rehabilitation and Human Services Student Serves as College Marshal
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.— The College of Education named Alyssa Helen Scala as its summer 2014 student marshal. She will lead the College's procession of graduates during the Penn State Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony at the Bryce Jordan Center on August 16. Wendy Ann Coduti, assistant professor of education, will escort her as faculty marshal.
Scala, a Rehabilitation and Human Services (RHS) student, will graduate with a 3.99 cumulative grade point average. She was honored for her academic success during her junior year when she received the Evan Pugh Scholar award.
Scala's Penn State experience extended far beyond just academics. Scala said her role as a teaching assistant for an RHS case management and communications skills class especially afforded her the opportunity to work closely with faculty and other students in her major. Additionally, Scala experienced unique responsibilities at her part-time job at downtown clothing store Connections.
"Working downtown and being a teaching assistant helped me develop my time management skills and gave me responsibilities outside of my own school work."
Scala was also involved in Athletes Helping Athletes, an organization that honors student athletes with disabilities at high school sports events. She was also a member of Phi Eta Sigma National Honors Society, Rehabilitation and Human Services Student Organization, and the Rules and Regulations Committee of the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon.
Scala has known that she wanted to major in RHS since she was a high school senior.
"I knew I wanted to work in health care and to help people, but I was unsure of which specific profession," Scala said. "I chose RHS because it had many career path options including occupational therapy, physical therapy, counseling, and drug/alcohol rehabilitation, so I was able to learn about those options and make a more informed decision on which specific profession I would choose."
During her time at Penn State, Scala said she had numerous mentors who have been instrumental in her development. Scala's freshman and sophomore year adviser Deirdre O'Sullivan helped her tremendously up until O'Sullivan went on leave.
"Luckily for me, Dr. James Herbert became my adviser for my final year of classes and put up with me as I stressed about getting my summer RHS internship approved throughout the year. Having both Dr. O'Sullivan and Dr. Herbert as my academic advisers definitely helped make my experience as a Penn State student an enjoyable one," Scala said.
Alyssa's parents, Mike and Kathy Scala, her sister, Lauren, and her aunt and uncle will attend the ceremony.
Scala currently works at Holy Name Hospital as an intern in the Center for Rehabilitation. Upon graduation, she will then start as an aide at the same place. Scala plans to attend graduate school in fall 2015 to obtain a degree in occupational therapy.
"Throughout my internship, I have seen all of the things I've learned in my RHS classes come to life. While working at the hospital during the year, I hope to continue learning about occupational therapy treatments through observation and to gain more experience and responsibility working in a physical rehabilitation facility."
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Tapestry Weaving for Wearable Textiles with Judith ShangoldLearn to paint with yarn using tapestry techniques. We usually think of tapestries as densely woven, weft-faced weaves used for wall hangings and rugs. The same techniques can be used with finer yarns and balanced weaves, however, to create textiles suitable for clothing and accessories.
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Marty spent nearly a decade working for software consulting companies in Australia, during which time many large corporate clients discovered he had a knack for being patient and methodical in even the most high stress software development teams. He considers himself a programmer at heart, regularly cutting code in both Java and Ruby (on Rails), but also spends a lot of time coaching in agile processes to improve team effectiveness over time.
Having left Thoughtworks in late 2006 to pursue a career as an independent consultant, Marty is now a member of Cogent Consulting. He spends much of his time collaborating with Steve Hayes and other Cogent associates in his work. He lives in the suburbs of Melbourne with his wife Simone, and manages to find some spare time playing competitive 8-Ball.
What happened to "Wry Tradesman"?
Wry Tradesman is an anagram of Marty Andrews. This site used to be hosted at wrytradesman.com, but Marty ultimately changed it because silent letters in domain names suck. So this new site was born instead. The old site will redirect to this one for a while, so links should still work.
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- Sara said...
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- September 17, 2010 at 10:34 AM
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- September 17, 2010 at 12:01 PM
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- September 17, 2010 at 12:20 PM
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A pleasure, Sean.
It's a great invention and you can't beat the price.
And it's truly unique. It's something that would stop a passerby in their tracks. Kinda hypnotic. Crafty and fun.
- September 17, 2010 at 12:32 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
Such a cool idea. I think you posted this last year also...
- September 17, 2010 at 12:37 PM
- Rot said...
Yep. I posted it a couple of times. Based on the neatness factor.
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- September 17, 2010 at 12:47 PM
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- September 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- William said...
I painted the image of the Halloween Tree that appears at the top of the page. Please give my name, William Fahey, and put in this link: http://www.deathless-art.com. Thanks.
- October 8, 2011 at 2:31 PM
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TEHRAN, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Pro-reform activists and Iranian security forces clashed Tuesday following sporadic violence overnight amid an increased police presence, witnesses said.
The Iranian News Agency reported Iranian lawmakers Tuesday demanded two of the most prominent opposition leaders -- Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Mussein -- be prosecuted and sentenced to death for fomenting the anti-government protests.
IRNA said 233 members of Parliament issued a statement criticizing the call for protests and urging legal action against the two opposition leaders.
"While the lofty message of the Islamic revolution after 32 years is now inspiring people in Tunisia and Egypt undermining the pillars of global hegemony, Mousavi and Karroubi invited people to come to streets in support of people in Egypt but in fact they have served the agenda of the U.S. and Zionist regime," the lawmakers said in a statement.
"You should know that the patience of nation is running out vis-a-vis your wrongdoings and all call for judicial action against you."
As the statement was being read, members of Parliament chanted "Down with Mousavi and Karroubi" and "Mousavi and Karroubi should be executed ...," IRNA said.
Protesters marched and ran through central Tehran for a second day as riot police beat and fired tear gas at them, witnesses said. Security forces patrolling on motorcycles were seen chasing demonstrators through the streets as they did Monday.
The unrest, in sympathy with Egypt's recent popular uprising, followed a night of protests, attempted street blockades, burning of trash and other acts of defiance, including rock-throwing at pro-regime volunteer paramilitary Basij militia, online videos from Tehran indicated.
The overnight videos viewed by United Press International did not show protesters attacking or setting fires to cars or businesses. Foreign journalists and photographers are prohibited by the government from covering street protests.
Iranian Parliament speaker Ari Larikani condemned the anti-government protests and accused Israel and the United States of being involved, the state-supported Press TV reported.
Ghola-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, prosecutor general and Justice Ministry spokesman said those responsible for Monday's protests will be dealt with "firmly and swiftly," the television report said.
Brig. Gen. Ahmad Reza Radan, deputy police commander told reporters that nine members of Iran's security forces were injured in Monday's protests and said a number of demonstrators were arrested, the report said.
Amnesty International issued a statement condemning the Iranian authorities' efforts to prevent the protests.
At least one demonstrator was killed and dozens were wounded during daylight hours Monday, when 20,000 to 30,000 demonstrators in at least three major cities defied strong government warnings and took to the streets. Iranian police used electric prods and tear gas to crack down on the country's biggest anti-government protests in a year, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Iran's semi-official Fars news agency -- linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, an Iranian military branch founded after the Iranian revolution to prevent internal dissident and military uprisings -- confirmed the death and said numerous demonstrators had been arrested.
It described the demonstrators as "seditionists," or people deemed by authorities as wanting insurrection against the established order.
"Mubarak! Ben Ali! Now it's time for Sayyid Ali!" videos of protesters chanting in Persian indicated. The chants referred to ousted Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iranian leaders had described Ben Ali and Mubarak's toppling as triumphs of popular support for Islam over secular leaders in the Arab world.
Cellphone service was shut off in central Tehran, in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, 210 miles south of Tehran, and in the southwestern city of Shiraz, and the Internet was slowed to a crawl, activists said.
Mir Hossein Mousavi and fellow opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi remained under house arrest after they asked the government last week for permission to hold Monday's Tehran rally, supporters said.
Protests also took place in Isfahan and Shiraz before security forces dispersed demonstrators by force, the opposition Web site kaleme.com said.
U.S. President Barack Obama voiced support for the Iranian demonstrators and criticized the country's leaders.
"I find it ironic that you've got the Iranian regime pretending to celebrate what happened in Egypt, when in fact they have acted in direct contrast to what happened in Egypt by gunning down and beating people who were trying to express themselves peacefully in Iran," the U.S. leader said.
"Real change in these societies is not going to happen because of terrorism. It's not going to happen because you go around killing innocents. It's going to happen because people come together and apply moral force to a situation."


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How to Pick a Good Roadside Eatery in India
Rocky Singh and his friend Mayur Sharma have spent much of the last seven years on a culinary road trip across India, stopping at wayside eateries in search of the best local dishes.
Mr. Singh, a pony-tailed, bespectacled hardcore carnivore, and Mr. Sharma, a tall and broad-shouldered devout vegetarian have sampled more than 7,000 different recipes at more than 1,000 roadside restaurants, called dhabas, across the country.
Until November last year, the men hosted a food and travel show on India's NDTV called "Highway on my Plate."
Last week they released a new book called "Highway on My Plate-II: The Indian Guide to Roadside Eating," which documents their dhaba-hopping journey of almost 75,000 miles.
The book -- a follow-on to the pair's 2011 "Highway on My Plate" -- is divided by state, with a map showing the rough location of the dhabas and a brief note about the state, its food culture and signature dishes.
On a recent afternoon, the dhaba veterans sat with cups of raspberry-flavored tea and shared some tips on how to spot a promising dhaba.
Clean is Relative. Hygiene is the first thing most people look for when they contemplate stopping at a roadside eatery, but the standards vary depending on where you are in India, Mr. Singh said.
"Down south," said Mr. Singh, "the places are a lot cleaner. In the north, they get dirtier and as your move towards the northeast, it gets worse."
If you are driving through Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, it might be best to pack some sandwiches, since some eateries are "spectacularly unhygienic," Mr. Singh said.
Follow the Crowd. The most obvious sign of a good dhaba is often the number vehicles parked outside, Mr. Singh said. Look for a mix of both trucks and cars. Truck drivers know the best food, and the presence of civilian travelers means that the place probably has a good reputation.
Beware of the Dhaba-Restaurant Hybrid. When a dhaba loses its jute cots (manjis in Punjabi and chaarpais in Hindi) and clay tandoor ovens, "it's safe to assume it's losing the plot," Mr. Singh said.
"The moment you see five plastic chairs around a colored table with a plastic cloth, you'd know they're confusing themselves and their customers," said Mr. Singh.
A dhaba should "maintain the character that defines it," he said. An authentic dhaba will also have a small bathing area for truckers to clean up and at some places the additional service of an in-house laundry man (or dhobi).
Mr. Sharma said that the cluster of decades-old dhabas in Murthal, located about 27 miles north of Delhi and famous for their stuffed paranthas (fried or grilled flatbreads), have fallen victim to the restaurant creep.
Sometimes the food survives the dhaba-to-restaurant transition. Gulshan Dhaba in Murthal is one such example with a four-star rating in the book.
While the owners have made the place look "swankier," the review said, the paranthas are "grilled to perfection in the tandoor" and served with dollops of fresh white butter.
Spot the Friendly Host. A large number of dhabas in India are family-run and passed down from generation to generation. Being able to spot the owner is a good sign that the place is authentic, said Mr. Singh.
The owner need not be cooking the food, "but he needs to be around," Mr. Sharma said.
The worst is when nobody really knows who the owner is and more than half of the serving staff claims to be a manager, said Mr. Sharma.
"And the best is when the owner tells you about what's going on in the kitchen with the correct assumption that you know nothing about it," said Mr. Singh.
The duo remembers a man named Bharat (they don't, however, recall his last name), as one of the more exceptional hosts they met during their travels. Bharat is the third-generation owner of Hotel Amrut, in Karwar district in northern Karnataka near the border with Goa.
At Hotel Amrut, Mr. Singh ordered the "Bangda Kitkat," a freshwater fish. Bharat explained that the fish is always fresh because sandbars in the area slow the flow of the water, insuring a steady supply. Hotel Amrut has four stars to its credit and a meal costs between $5 and $6 a person.
The Veggie Trail. If you are looking for vegetarian heaven, head to Gujarat, said Mr. Sharma. Anand, the so-called milk capital of the state, has dhabas serving distinctive Kathiawadi food, from the Kathiawar peninsula on the Arabian Sea coast. "Some of these places have an open kitchen with firewood cooking and the food in this region is very different from the standard Gujarati food, which is distinctively sweet," said Mr. Sharma.
Carnivore Delights. For meat, head south to Kerala, said Mr. Singh. The state is "a food powerhouse" and a "Pandora's box of evil food." Mother's Kitchen is his favorite. The dhaba is on National Highway 47 in Karunagapalli, approximately two hours from Kerala's capital, Thiruvananthapuram.
"The Meena Polichatu, prepared by slathering fish in a thick paste of spices and steam cooking it in fresh banana leaves, is so tender that the meat almost falls off before you touch it," said the review, which gave Mother's Kitchen a five-star rating. (There are four more featured eateries in the book's Kerala section with five stars to their credit.)
Worst Food Destination. Chhattisgarh. There are few places to stop in the jungle state, the men said. The state is missing variety in its local food eateries. It's challenging, said Mr. Singh, because it's a dense forest region and there aren't very many organized pit stops.
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Fine, maybe I should stop saying that I'd post more often than I used to. Pft. So sorry, dolls! I'll try my best, though. :) Now, let's move on to my outfit. I wore this last week when my family and I went to Eastwood. My dad and my brother watched Die Hard while my mum and I, plus the baby, of course, hung out at Caffé Bene, a newly opened Korean coffee house. Loved the place! Anyway, this look is perfect for times like those. Feeling like a model-slash-Hollywood celebrity off duty again! Harhar.
I love the effortless and edgy but at the same time, stylish vibe the tartan print and combat boots combo achieved! You see, tartan, or plaid, just never goes out of style. I've actually had this top for years and I still get to wear it once in a while. What do you think of this look? ;-)
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(Reuters Life!) – Gao Mingyuan has found joy at age 66.
Joy, in his case, consists of bending himself double and hooking his legs around a pole that runs behind his shoulders, in a Chinese meditative martial arts tradition.
Gao is one of many Chinese seniors, freed from the rigors of work and raising children, who are turning to martial arts such as tai chi, bopping to trendy beats or singing patriotic songs as they seek health and friends in parks across the country.
"We forget all our troubles when we practice," he said as he contorted himself at the Temple of Heaven, where seniors exercise beneath the gnarled trees at dawn.
China has over 140 million people over the age of 60. Many lost out on an education, thanks to the Cultural Revolution, and have retired early as state-owned factories went bust or to help care for grandchildren.
About 54 million engage in some sort of physical activity to enliven their golden years.
"Sportswear companies would well take heed of that figure, given how obsessed they are with the youth market," said Kunal Sinha, who studies the aging demographic for Ogilvy & Mather in Shanghai.
The elderly Chinese who swarm to the Temple of Heaven are a treasure-trove of traditional folk arts, martial arts and Chinese opera, sung in cracked voices that are still in tune.
Crowds of other seniors bop to a trendy beat, try their hand at Indian dance, waltz or join a chorus of patriotic Communist songs rarely heard any more.
"In India, seniors pass on traditions and social norms. In China, they're an untapped resource, because so many young people want to turn toward what's modern," said Sinha.
"On the other hand, because China is so in flux, we see a lot of old people picking up customs from young people. For instance, the phenomenon of the hip-hop granny — you don't see that in India."
For 63-year old Wang Yongzhen, a grandmother who swing-dances in large gold-rimmed sunglasses and a traditional purple velvet cheong-sam, retirement is a time to indulge talents she never had time for when she was young.
"I liked singing and dancing when I was young but never had a chance, because work was busy and the kids were little. Now when I dance at the park, my heart opens up."
(Editing by Sugita Katyal)


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24 April 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Sygnis Pharma's flagship product, Qualiphi, gets US patent
Singapore: Sygnis Pharma has been granted a patent by the US patent and trademark office (US PTO) for its flagship product, Qualiphi, which is a polymerase that can be used for complete DNA amplification. Polymerase proteins are the main tool for amplifying long DNA fragments and whole genomes, and are a basic need for research involving the analysis and modification of DNA.
Qualiphi is an upgraded version of the Phi 29 DNA polymerase used in isothermal amplification, which provides enhanced properties compared to similar polymerase proteins on the market. Being less time-consuming and having highly superior performance characteristics, the method developed by Sygnis enables DNA amplification from concentrations as low as those found in a single cell. This is extremely useful in cancer research, and many other applications.
Mr Pilar de la Huerta, CEO, Sygnis, "Certainly, the need for amplification of nucleic acids from minimal concentrations as present in single cell applications will be a critical issue in the coming era of personalised medicine and NGS. We expect Qualiphi to become an essential tool for the DNA amplification needed in these markets."
There has been a significant growth in the field of DNA amplifications. The market of whole genome amplification with polymerase proteins is also expected to grow at over 20 percent per annum over the next few years. In 2012, Sygnis granted an exclusive global licence to Qiagen, including sublicensing rights, for the commercialization of Qualiphi in the DNA amplification market.


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Google engineers defend source code, email in Oracle lawsuit over Java
The Lindholm draft
Oracle has put forth drafts of an email by Google engineer Tim Lindholm as a vital piece of evidence that the company knew it needed to license Java from Oracle when it was developing Android.
"What we've actually been asked to do (by [Google founders] Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin]) is to investigate what technical alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome," Lindholm wrote. "We've been over a bunch of these, and think they all suck. We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need."
Google had previously sought to have the email suppressed due to attorney-client privilege, but the judge on the case denied the request.
The email is apparently so damning that the judge claimed "a good trial lawyer would just need that document 'and the Magna Carta' (arguably the origin of common law) to win this case on Oracle's behalf and have Google found to infringe Oracle's rights willfully," as reported by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents
When questioned in court by an Oracle attorney on Thursday, Lindholm said he did not mean that Google should get a license from Sun, The Wall Street Journal reports.
"It was not specifically a license from anybody," he said.
The engineer's defense, however, is not helped by the fact that he served as one of the original developers of Java at Sun before joining Google in 2005. Oracle acquired Sun, and the rights to Java, in 2010. Lindholm did admit that he worked on Google's negotiations with Sun at one point because of his background with Java, but he added that most of his work has actually been focused on Google's data centers, rather than Android.
I don't recall
Joshua Bloch, informally known as Google's Chief Java Architect, also served as a witness at the trial on Thursday. Oracle questioned Bloch on whether he had copied nine lines of "rangeCheck" code that he had contributed to Android from his previous work at Sun, as noted by The Verge.
"I don't recall," Bloch testified. However, he suggested in a deposition from 2011 that the fact that the code is in the same order and has the same name is "a strong indicator that it is likely" that he did copy the code. Bloch went on to say that he doesn't remember accessing copyrighted code, but that it might have happened.
"Under the circumstances I wrote the code, yes, I'm perfectly willing to believe it," he said. "If I did, it was a mistake, and I'm sorry I did it."
Google claims to have created a "clean room" for its engineers as they were developing Android. It's not clear, though, how Google would have created a clean environment for an engineer who had written the code himself.
"According to Bloch, nobody at Google ever spoke with him about whether it was appropriate for him to work on Android given his prior employment at Sun," the report read.
Google removed the code in question from Android with the release of version 4.0 of its software.
Oracle has sought an injunction against Android, claiming it is an "incompatible clone of Java." The company had previously argued for billions of dollars in damages from Google, but it has since lowered its demands.


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Chemical and thermal resistance
The most important factor when selecting the appropriate elastomer for a radial shaft seal is its chemical resistance to the medium to be sealed or excluded. The operating temperature is another important factor. Heat accelerates ageing of the elastomer and increases the reactivity and aggressiveness of the sealed medium.
Radial shaft seals are mainly used to seal lubricating oils and greases as well as hydraulic fluids (including non-flammable fluids). Guideline values are provided in the table for the permissible operating temperatures, i.e. temperatures at which the SKF seals are still chemically resistant. The temperature range stated for a group of media means that the sealing material is resistant when continuously operated within this particular range.
The □ means that, within the group, there are some media that are compatible with the elastomer, but also some that have a detrimental effect on the elastomer.
The ■ means that the seal material is not resistant to media belonging to this group.
For the resistance of seal materials to media not listed in the table, refer to the section Chemical resistance or contact SKF.


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