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The 5 Craziest Ways Famous Actors Got Into Character
Some people might think that acting is the easiest job in the world: You get millions of dollars just to read lines that someone else wrote, and at the end of the day you get to relax in a swimming pool filled with cocaine. And that might be true, if you're a really shitty actor. But if you want to get good at it? Well, you have to be a little crazy.
Actually, probably more than a little ...
#5. Tom Cruise Became a FedEx Driver to Prep for Collateral
For the casual moviegoer, Tom Cruise's versatility as an actor ranges from cocky, attractive action hero in Mission: Impossible to cocky, attractive action hero in Top Gun, while some also remember him in his standout role as a cocky, attractive action hero in Minority Report. But Cruise is kind of unfairly maligned in this way -- when he's allowed to venture out of his pigeonhole, the man can really act.
When he was cast as Vincent in Collateral, the only real villain of his career to date, he was determined to get it right. So Tom Cruise secretly murdered six homeless men.
And all of them were on Oprah's couch.
The Preparation:
Ha, no. If that had happened, you probably wouldn't just now be reading about it on Cracked. The man still went all out, though.
The problem with casting Tom Cruise as a professional assassin is that one of the necessary features of being one -- the ability to blend into a crowd -- is the one thing that Tom Cruise has no experience with. He's quite possibly the most instantly recognizable human in the world. He can't scratch his nuts without every celebrity magazine on Earth running it as a front-page spread. That was the first thing he had to fix.
To help prepare himself for that anonymous killer mindset, Cruise decided to pull an Assassin's Creed and learn how to blend in. So he dressed up like a FedEx worker and delivered packages to a crowded LA marketplace, all while trying his hardest not to be noticed by literally every person around him.
The amazing thing is, not only did he deliver the packages using the thinnest disguise imaginable ...
"So, how about that local sports team that I totally follow? Am I right?"
... but absolutely no one caught on that he was Tom Cruise, even when he sat down and had an entire conversation with a total stranger.
"So what are your favorite Tom Cruise movies? Like, if I held this gun to your head, first three that jump to mind."
And yes, Cruise did actually take it upon himself to learn the other half of being a professional killer, i.e., how to actually kill people. He did extensive training with guns, learning how to shoot quickly and accurately, all with live ammo. He got so good that, on set, he was able to draw his gun and shoot helpless extras down in just under three seconds. Luckily, that time they used blanks, but we guess what we're saying is that if Tom Cruise ever decided on a change of career, "faceless killer" is totally in the cards. Incidentally, that's why we didn't make any Scientology jokes.
#4. Adrien Brody Threw His Life Away for The Pianist
When a relatively unknown actor named Adrien Brody was asked to do a Holocaust movie, he probably knew that it was going to stretch the limits of his acting ability. When he learned that it was a Holocaust movie directed by Roman Polanski, he might have pooped a little. But although he'd yet to really show his Hollywood chops, Brody managed to win the Oscar for his role, making him the youngest actor to ever do so at the tender age of 29. The film also made him the only American actor who has ever received a Cesar, which is essentially the French version of the Academy Awards.
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The Preparation:
It's understandably difficult for any wealthy young American to get into the mindset of a Jew who has lost everything at the hands of the Nazis. In order to fully own the role of real-life Holocaust survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman, Brody had to understand what it was like to see his whole world collapse in front of him. To achieve this, he went ahead and actually gave up everything.
And we don't mean that he stopped getting his double-shot espresso delivered fresh every morning from Colombia via helicopter. He gave up literally everything. His cellphone, his fancy Porche, the freaking apartment where he lived ... he even went so far as to break up with his longtime girlfriend just so that when he cried onscreen, it was goddamn real.
"Maybe locking my entire extended family in that death camp was going a little too far ..."
We should also point out that Brody learned how to play the piano from scratch, so there's that, too. He memorized an entire Chopin piece, the one his character specialized in. So when you see him playing a beautiful four-minute piano piece, it's actually Brody's hands playing that tune. The finished film made Brody an overnight star. Of course, after his notorious Oscar acceptance, we can't be sure that the whole thing wasn't a giant scheme to hook up with Halle Berry.
"Everything has transpired as I have foreseen ..."
#3. The Cast of Saving Private Ryan Went Through a Literal Hell
When he was making Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg wanted to do a different kind of war movie. Rather than focusing on the heroics of our men in uniform, Spielberg wanted to get across the pants-shitting terror aspect of war. This unflinching portrayal of death and destruction was lauded for its ballsy approach to showing war as realistically as possible, and also for the intense performances of the all-star cast that included Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, and a pre-fame Vin Diesel. None of them knew what they were walking into.
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When push comes to shove, it's very difficult to act out a war onscreen because everyone knows in the back of their mind that all of the terrible carnage around them is really make-believe. You can throw around all the blank rounds and fake explosions you want, but at the end of the day, everyone's going back to covered trailers and warm cocoa. Spielberg's dedication to making the most realistic war film ever caused him to rightfully fuck all that noise.
And replace it with even more noise.
To prepare the stars for the "war is hell" mentality, Spielberg put his cast through hell. Almost every major cast member went through a 10-day boot camp with retired Marine Dale Dye, whose overall job was to absolutely wreck them until their hands were "like hamburger." Actor Edward Burns describes preparing for this movie as the worst experience of his life.
You can object that real-life soldiers have to live it for a hell of a lot longer than 10 days, but again, keep in mind that these people are used to eating their meals off of the abdomen of a nude Japanese woman. The level of culture shock is pretty hard to imagine. Dye would only refer to the cast by their character names, made them learn basic combat and survival techniques, and even shot at them with blank ammunition. God seemed to be in on the act as well, because on the very first day of field training, it rained like crazy, soaking everyone to the bone and turning the soft earth that they had to sleep on into mud. Eating only old canned rations and having a Marine screaming for them to move double time pretty much drove them to the brink, which helped them bring genuine mental and physical exhaustion to the screen.
Now, we did say that almost every cast member went through this training. Matt Damon, who played the titular Private Ryan, got to skip out on the horror, just showing up at the end of the whole thing with a cappuccino in hand and shooting his part in a mere six weeks. This was a deliberate decision by Spielberg, who wanted the dynamic between Damon and the rest of the cast to have a hint of animosity. After all, their characters spent two-thirds of the film just looking for this one punk-ass kid in the middle of Nazi-infested nowhere. What better way to get actors to act like they hate a character than to actually make them hate the real person playing him? Other than to, you know, just tell them to do it? Since they're actors?
"Now, to get everyone really intense, Tom Sizemore's going to eat a box of kittens."


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The February 2003 issue of School Reform News features an exclusive interview with Charlene K. Haar, president of the Education Policy Institute and author of The Politics of the PTA, published last fall. An educational consultant specializing in teacher/parent relations and education policy, Haar contends the National Parent-Teacher Association has little use for parents.
The issue features extensive coverage of recent think tank contributions to the education reform debate:
- the Cato Institute's December 10 Policy Forum, at which the president of the District of Columbia Board of Education blasted private scholarship programs, saying they dupe parents into removing their children from "improving" DC public schools;
- the American Legislative Exchange Council's release of Report Card on American Education: A State-by-State Analysis 1976-2001, a data-packed publication presenting state-by-state figures on 100+ input and output measures and more than 115 tables and figures;
- the Manhattan Institute's new study of special education "bounty" hunters, who label an increasing number of students as learning disabled in order to qualify for special education funds; and
- the Capital Research Center's EducationWatch Web site, which tracks the efforts of more than 200 political advocacy groups with an interest in education issues.
This issue also covers Nina Shokraii Rees' appointment to the U.S. Department of Education's new Office of Innovation and Improvement; DoEd's new guidelines for implementing the No Child Left Behind Act; and Dr. Herb Walberg's calculations on the cost of producing a proficient student (the U.S. average is $107,000!).
For readers who might think their suburban schools offer a "sanctuary" from the dumbing-down that takes place in public education, Kevin Killion reviews Class Warfare: Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence. Author J. Martin Rochester, writes Killion, brings "the education battleground to the doorstep of suburban America."
The Friedman Report profiles Dr. Alberta Wilson, president and founder of Philadelphia's Faith First Educational Assistance Corporation, and reports on state activities in Arkansas, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah, and Wisconsin.
Marya DeGrow summarizes voucher and tax credit programs under way nationwide, and Robert Holland reports on school choice initiatives in the works in Virginia. Colorado may get vouchers of a different sort; a nine-member blue-ribbon panel has proposed giving higher education funds directly to students rather than schools.
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I'm having this annoying problem with my Ubuntu 12.04.1, upgraded from 10.04. The thing is that my wireless connection keeps going out of connection every 15-20 minutes, and sometimes I have to reboot my laptop. I've started having this problem about 1 month ago, but back in my 10.04 I had the same problem. If anyone has any idea it would be great. Also any info you need about the laptop, please tell me the commands I need to run to give it to you. Thanks and hope you help me.
Here's how I fixed it.
Seems cumbersome, but sometimes it works just resaving the network profile.


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I live in a flat on the second floor. The building in which I live is five levels high. How do I find out if the mildew on the bathroom ceiling comes from the upper floor? I removed the mildew just a few months ago, but it suddenly reappeared. Apparently there aren't any broken pipes, but we are not sure. Any ideas?
Is the mold concentrated is a small area or cover most of the ceiling? Do you notice water condensation on any surfaces after using the shower? If the morror fogs or the tiles feel wet your shower is the most likely cause. If it were from a leak upstairs you should see ceiling discoloration in an area ajacent to the leak. If your bathroom has a vent fan or window use it. Leave the door open to allow air to circulate after showering. If you can paint the ceiling with bathroom specific paint as it contains a mildewcide. The fix is to control the moisture so that the mold can't start.


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Is this the best use of our space?
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Will we be somber or will we be glad?
We need to do something to turn our lives around.
Maybe it's as easy as shovels in the ground.
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7 Video Game Easter Eggs Designed to Screw With Your Head
#3. Saints Row 2: The Giant Bunny Doll Buried in the Sea
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Saints Row 2 is a sandbox crime game, very much in the vein of Grand Theft Auto, if Grand Theft Auto let you run over civilians while dressed as Santa Claus. Sandbox games consist of vast worlds that the player can explore, making them ideal for hiding Easter eggs -- Saints Row 2, however, gives you the whole damn bunny.
You see, while exploring the area around the prison island, you may come to a smaller island containing nothing but a sign with an arrow pointing out to sea. If you jump on your watercraft and ride in that direction, you'll find ... another island with an arrow pointing in a different direction.
Is it an extremely elaborate version of the Konami Code?
Repeat the process and you'll find a third island and a third sign. At this point, few people would blame you if you said "Fuck this" and got back to the main game, but if you're persistent and/or bored enough, you'll eventually reach a final island with several arrows. Then the island disappears, and something starts rising out of the sea. Something massive.
And purple.
So, you see, when we said that thing about giving you the whole bunny ...
... we meant it literally.
There's an underwater sea giant somewhere who doesn't know how to take care of his toys.
Unfortunately, you can't climb up it and dive off its ear like the world's most adorable diving board -- like most things in this game, the only thing you can do is shoot it, which will make it fall over and vanish into nothing, so maybe it was just a hallucination brought on by the same crazy part of your brain that made you follow all those signs.
Lay off the absinthe, dude.
Or not, because in Saints Row: The Third, guess what you'll find in the harbor:
Dear God, don't turn your back to it, you fool.
Yup, somebody dredged him up and brought him ashore. That, or he dragged himself out of the ocean, for revenge.
#2. Star Fox: The Outer Dimensional Slot Monster
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Star Fox was one of the first Super Nintendo games to feature 3-D graphics, and also the first game to feature anthropomorphic space pilot animals fighting a monkey emperor, probably. If you're an expert Star Fox player (or, like, you've looked at the map screen for five seconds), you already knows there's a secret Black Hole level. However, it turns out there's another, even more secret and completely batshit crazy level that isn't even shown on the map, so most people will blissfully go through their lives never knowing about it.
To reach it, you must go to the Hard Asteroid Belt and destroy a greenish-gray asteroid that will release a giant space bird. Now you have to fly into the giant space bird.
Once you do that, you'll be thrown into a warping and waving field of stars and planets. Planets with faces. That are grinning at you.
What the literal flying fuck, Nintendo?
The level isn't especially hard: The only enemies here are sheets of paper that float onscreen and fold into paper airplanes, and ... whatever these other things are.
The real challenge is playing through the level without losing your lunch.
When you think it can't possibly get any weirder, a giant slot machine flies in front of you as the music changes to "When the Saints Go Marching In." This is the boss. The boss is a huge slot machine in space. You beat it by shooting its lever and randomly getting three 7s, which can take anywhere from 10 seconds to all year, depending on how nice the game feels like being.
When you finally do score a jackpot, it spills a bunch of gold and silver coins and self-destructs ... but then it's over, right? Please? Nope. Here's where this level becomes truly disturbing. Unlike the Black Hole level, which would at least let you resume the normal game, this one never ends. After you beat the slot machine, the credits will fly by, ending with a scrambled "The End" while enemies fly onscreen.
You can try to unscramble the letters by shooting at them, but they'll just undescramble themselves again. Your only hope to leave this place is to let the enemies kill you, but even then, that just sends you back to the beginning of the level. So you're trapped here forever, and presumably the monkeys now rule the universe.
#1. Diablo: The Secret Cow and Secret Pony Levels
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The Diablo games are about killing Satan, so as you can imagine, the enemies are going to be things like demons and dragons and ... cows? Hordes of bipedal, axe-wielding cows?
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You're the soon-to-be-trampled guy at the center.
The "explanation" for this is that when the first Diablo game came out, a bizarre rumor started going around claiming that if you clicked repeatedly on a specific cow found outside of town, you could reach an all-cow level. It was just one of those stupid things bored kids come up with to make their friends waste entire afternoons clicking on cows. Diablo's creators at Blizzard actually went out of their way to point out that there was no cow level in Diablo ... and then they included one in Diablo II.
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And that was the day when nerds learned that if they bitch enough, anything can happen.
In order to reach it, you have to beat the main game once and then combine two specific items to create a portal. Step into the portal and you'll find yourself in a large meadow, being chased by dozens upon dozens of killer cows. Their leader is a powerful bovine warlock called the Cow King, and as long as you don't kill him, you can keep coming back to the Secret Cow Level to collect items for the normal game.
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Or for your own sandwich shop.
Even if you kill the Cow King, though, that's not the last of him. Fast forward 13 years to Diablo III, where you actually encounter the Cow King's ghost -- he will deny the existence of another Cow Level, but we're not falling for that one again. If you gather some items and combine them into a staff, a portal will open that will lead you into th-
What? No.
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That's Whimsyshire, the Secret Pony Level, a magical place in Diablo III that is filled with rainbows, happy clouds and pink teddy bears that you can violently slaughter. We give up, Blizzard. We just give up.
For more video game shenanigans from Codie, visit her site at Codiekitty.com.
For more Easter Eggs to pay attention to, check out 7 Insane Easter Eggs Hidden in Movies and TV Shows and 10 Mind-Blowing Easter Eggs Hidden in Famous Albums.
If you're pressed for time and just looking for a quick fix, then check out 4 Crucial Rules of End Zone Celebration Etiquette


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Eisner & Lubin auditorium can accommodate over 400 with row seating, and is ideal for lectures, presentations, panel discussions, and performances. With a clear floor, the space features 6,000 square feet of polished cherrywood, suitable for fairs, seated and standing receptions, and much more.
E&L has modern HD projector with a 20x20 projection screen, surround sound, and a sophisticated lighting system designed with both theatrical and LED instruments.
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Brain & Nervous System Health Center
Awake-During-Surgery Device Worth a Nod?
March 12, 2008 --Doctors don't need a widely used brain monitor to cut patients' risk of waking during surgery, a new study suggests.
Doctors call it "unintended intraoperative awareness" or "anesthesia awareness." Patients call it downright scary. It happens rarely -- to about one or two out of 1,000 surgery patients -- but it does happen: During surgery, patients become aware of things that are happening to them.
They may feel pain, discomfort, and fear. Paralyzed by anesthesia, they are unable to tell anyone what is happening to them. The experience usually is painless, and usually is brief. But once in a while it leaves patients deeply traumatized, says anesthesiology professor Michael Avidan, MB, BCh, of Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.
"Anesthesia awareness can be understood as people undergoing general anesthesia and having some sensory stimuli during the procedure -- something visual or auditory or painful -- which they remember afterward," Avidan tells WebMD. "It is often the case that it is not disturbing, that it is a brief experience, and patients do not complain of any long-term effects. But a certain proportion of patients will experience negative psychological consequences and even have posttraumatic stress disorder."
Some patients are at 10 times higher risk of anesthesia awareness than other patients. One in 100 of these patients experience a "waking" event. These high-risk patients:
- Undergo intensive surgeries such as open-heart surgery or lung surgery, or
- Are very ill with underlying diseases, such as heart conditions, that make it difficult for doctors to induce deep anesthesia, or
- Frequently use strong painkillers or alcohol.
(Have you been awake or aware during surgery? Share your experience on WebMD's Health Cafe message board.)
Does BIS Brain Monitor Cut Waking During Surgery?
The bispectral index (BIS) monitor is supposed to help doctors know when patients are waking. The device, made by Aspect Medical Systems, uses a simple array of electrodes attached to a patient's forehead to monitor brain waves.
The device then uses a secret, proprietary algorithm to calculate a consciousness-level score. On a 0 to 100 scale, where zero is no brain activity and 100 is full consciousness, patients with a score of 40 to 60 are not supposed to experience anesthesia awareness.


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I'm trying to backup my God Of War PS2 game however the ISO that I created is 7.5GB large. Normal DVD-Rs however have a 4.7GB size limit. How and with which tools can I backup a DVD dual layer on a normal DVD-R?
It is available in the Ubuntu Software Center. It has a GUI interface. It will convert dual-layer DVD images into single-layer DVD images. These split-images are compatible with many media players as well (for movies etc.). Check their website for more details.
The application is available in English, even though following image is not.
If it is just for making a backup you can use the
Another method would be to unpack the ISO and burn the files to several disc.
You're not going to be able to back up that game on a single layer disc. You simply need the storage. It's not like a DVD where you can just re-encode it to a lower quality, that game is a collection of thousands of files that need to be intact. You will need a Dual-layer disc.
If you'd like you can rip the DVD to an .iso on your desktop. Brasero could probably create one for you.


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By Kriyas Yam Suf it says that the first one to Jump in was Naḥchshon ben Amminadav. My question is: why didn't Moshe Rabbenu jump in first?
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Moshe Rabbenu already had complete faith in Gd. It was up to Klal Yisroel to show their faith.
I believe the question is backwards. The question should be, why does the midrash suggest that Nachshon, was the first to enter the Yam Suf?
It seems, that the midrash about him entering the Yam Suf, was a response to the fact that Nachshon gives the offering to the Mishkan first, while earlier, he is listed 5th. This is explained by saying that Moshe could not decide who should go first, but all the other princes and leaders pointed to Nachshon, saying that since he went first into the ocean sanctifying Gd's name, then here too, he should go first and sanctify Gd's Mishkan.
As to why the sea did not split until somebody walked into it, perhaps it was a counterpoint to the fact that Gd just fought a war for the Jewish people, and soon the Jewish people would have to fight wars themselves. A sign of trust in Hashem to split the ocean was needed by the Jewish people to prove that we could "open the eye of the needle", before Hashem would "create an opening as wide as two camels." Since Moshe had direct knowledge of Hashem's abilities and miracles, he himself could not fulfill that function, and some other leader of the Jewish people would have to do that.


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Nutrition for Children and Teenagers
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ALERT! An increasing number of teenagers are also overweight, and, if no intervention is made, approximately 80 percent of them will stay overweight or become obese as adults.
Children and teens will probably experience psychological and emotional fallout from being overweight as youngsters. They may struggle with self-esteem, and they often become the object of teasing from other children. Overweight children are also put at risk for health problems. Studies show that overweight children tend to have higher levels of blood sugar, blood pressure, and blood fats.
Children can become overweight for a variety of reasons. The most common are genetic factors, lack of physical activity, unhealthy eating patterns, or a combination. In rare cases, a medical problem can cause a child to become overweight.
Assessing whether a child's weight puts him or her in an overweight category can be difficult, because children grow in erratic spurts. If you feel your child or teen may be overweight, consult your family physician, Your doctor may use growth charts to determine if there is a problem.
Handling an Overweight Child
Children and teens should never be placed on a calorie-restricted diet to lose weight unless they are under the strict supervision of a doctor for medical reasons. Limiting what children or teens eat can be harmful to their health and can interfere with proper growth and development. It can also be psychologically stressful for a child. Helping the child to adopt healthy eating and exercise habits is more important than pounds lost. Behavior modification strategies have shown considerable success in effecting long-term weight loss. The best programs incorporate plenty of physical activity and healthy eating, including slowing the rate of eating, limiting the time and place of eating, and teaching problem-solving through exercises. The most effective treatments also involve parents.
To help your child achieve a healthy weight, try the following techniques:
- Seek the advice of a health-care professional, such as a registered dietitian or doctor. Keep in mind that adult approaches to weight loss are not fit for children.
- Give your children support, acceptance, and encouragement, no matter what their weight, and talk to them about their feelings. This will help them carry a positive self-image, making weight loss more achievable.
- Starting in early childhood, teach children proper nutrition, selection of healthy low-fat snacks, and the importance of physical activity.
- Monitor the time they spend watching television or sitting at a computer.
- Make it a point to include good nutrition, and make exercise a family affair. Plan lower-fat meals for the entire family, have more nutritious snacks in the house, and plan family activities. This will help the child feel part of the family instead of isolated (not to mention that the whole family will benefit!).
- Beware of using food as a reward for a certain accomplishment, as a substitute for affection, or as a compensation for a disappointment. Use other avenues as rewards.
- Make sure your child's portions are a child's (as opposed to an adult's) size. Use smaller plates for children so you or the child is not tempted to fill up a large plate.
- Explain to children how to recognize when their body tells them that they are hungry or full.
- Stock your kitchen with low-fat and low-calorie snack foods so they are available when the child is hungry. Be wary of bringing high-fat, high-calorie foods into the house and having them within sight of the child.
- Instead of heavy snacking, make meals their primary source of calories.
- Do not encourage continued eating or cleaning their plates when children are truly no longer hungry.
- Avoid labeling foods as "good" or "bad." Instead, help your child to learn how to fit all types of food into a healthy eating pattern, and teach them how to eat foods in moderation. Even if your child has a few pounds to lose, he or she can still eat foods such as sweets in moderation. What counts is their diet as a whole.
- Make a family rule that eating is only allowed in the kitchen or dining room to keep kids from snacking on high-calorie foods while watching television. Children will most likely eat less with this rule in place.
More on: Nutritional Resources for Families
Copyright © 2002 by Kimberly A. Tessmer. Excerpted from The Everything Nutrition Book: Boost Energy, Prevent Illness, and Live Longer with permission of its publisher, Adams Media Corporation.
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STEUBENVILLE - City Manager Cathy Davison asked City Council Monday night to consider closing the Pleasant Heights fire station and laying off five firefighters in order to balance the proposed 2013 general fund budget.
Davison also proposed laying off three additional city employees to narrow a projected deficit in the water fund. But her latest proposal to balance the 2013 budget ran into immediate criticism from council members and officials with two of the three city unions.
"The only way I see being able to balance our budget is to close the Pleasant Heights fire station. That will see a one-time $1,500 expense of relocating the security camera at the fire station. But we will see a savings in utilities at the fire station and a reduction in fire department materials and supplies," explained Davison.
She also said the city did not receive approval for a new Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant and will lay off two firefighters in March.
"We anticipate laying off an additional three firefighters when the Pleasant Heights fire station is closed. We will still be in compliance with the contractual manning level," Davison told council members.
Davison made her proposals during a council finance committee meeting Monday night that saw several council members oppose a plan to not fill a patrolman vacancy in the police department.
The committee meeting was attended by several members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2015, as well as International Association of Fire Fighters Local 229 President Chris Blackburn.
"I feel sheer disgust for whoever made this proposal and for any council member who agrees with the proposal. And my disgust should be shared by every citizen of Steubenville. The City Council is not acting in the best interests of the city but instead for their own personal agendas," said Blackburn following the meeting.
"Safety is of the ultimate importance for every resident and for our firefighters. Closing the Pleasant Heights fire station will have a negative impact on our residents' safety. I urge every city resident to attend tonight's regular council meeting to voice their opposition to the planned closing of the fire station," continued Blackburn.
"I hate to see any fire station closed. I would rather see cuts elsewhere like in the vacation pay in order to save money. We have some tough decisions to make and everyone should be part of the solution. We have done everything we can to balance the budget. The rest is up to the unions," noted 1st Ward Councilman Gerald DiLoreto.
"You have to look at the impact of closing that fire station on residents in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd wards. We need to have a game plan in place for the safety of our residents," 3rd Ward Councilman Greg Metcalf told Davison.
Davison's recommendation to not fill a vacant police patrolman position faced opposition from several council members.
"I would like to see a fully staffed police force," said 6th Ward Councilman David Lalich.
"I really have a problem not filling the police department vacancy," added Councilman at large Kenny Davis.
Davison also proposed laying off a utility billing operator, a meter reader and assistant operator as a step to reduce a projected $561,333 deficit in the water fund.
Davis opposed the proposed lay-off of three city employees paid from the water fund.
"Cutting those jobs will impact services to our citizens. I don't agree with those lay-offs at all," added Davis.
"These numbers look nice but I don't know how one person will be able to read the water meters. Seems to me you are putting a lot of work on one person," said 2nd Ward Councilman Rick Perkins.
"The meters would have an actual reading one month and an estimated reading the following month. And if someone has a question about their estimated reading they can call in the numbers from their meter," replied Davison.
"I thought the meter readers would be cut by attrition after the new meter system was in place," said Lalich.
And 5th Ward Councilman Willie Paul continued to question why the most recent meters were never installed at commercial and businesses locations.
"When we reach the point of agreeing to a contract for a new meter installation, we can ask the focus be placed first on the commercial and business meters and then on replacing the residential meters," said Davison.
Brian Young, president of AFSCME Local 2015, said he was "disgusted" by the proposed job cuts.
"We are facing a budget deficit and the council is considering getting rid of a meter reader that generates revenue for the city. It is a bad move at this time. I am also very concerned about eliminating an assistant water plant operator because it adds to the safety issues at the plant. We have guys working alone on certain shifts at the plant and the pump station," stated Young.
Lalich proposed freezing the city's budget and only making adjustments based on the inflation rate.
But Finance Director Alyssa Kerker said the city budget "has essentially been frozen because employees have not received a pay raise since at least 2009. Our budgets have been balanced each year by the estate tax payments. But that tax is now gone."
And Metcalf warned of future financial pressures if the federal government fails to reach an agreement on budget cuts.
"Their actions could have a negative impact on us. We need to be cognizant of what the federal government will do and how it will affect Ohio and then us," warned Metcalf.
Lalich cited the possibility of facing a finding for recovery by the state auditor's office because the general fund may have to pay back the city's enterprise funds as much as $339,041.
"Our independent auditors will start their testing in April and we hope to know an answer on that issue by May," said Kerker.
Lalich also suggested a budget surplus could be used to open the Belleview Pool this summer.
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The Talmud, Shabbos 19a, states:
There are I believe nine different explanations in the Rishonim about why this is (and hence, in what situations it applies). As you've mentioned, one explanation is that you shouldn't be seasick on Shabbos, so give yourself a few days to gain your sea legs!
Another answer is that being on a boat (and by extension, elective surgery) is putting yourself into a situation where you may need to violate Shabbos due to life-and-death circumstances. Now certainly once you're in such a situation, you are absolutely obligated to save a life; but it's less than ideal to choose to put yourself in such a situation to begin with. According to this explanation of the Mishna, however, you only need to think about "what situation am I putting myself in" if you're within three days of Shabbos. Any earlier, and it's not your responsibility. (Similarly, if the trip is needed for a mitzva purpose, there is an argument to allow it even within the 3 days, as that wins out over the halachic strong preference of don't-put-yourself-in-a-situation-where-you-may-be-obligated-to-violate-Shabbos.


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What antivirus would you recommend for computers used for windows development. Would you use an antivirus for these users? These users compile quite often and therefore read and write tons of files. If I deploy a slow performing antivirus, they will not be happy.
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You NEED antivirus software
It's been said a few times in these answers that developers should know better, or should only install software they need from known good sites, etc, so if you need antivirus you have a social issue, not a technical issues. A few points on that:
My recommendations
At Fog Creek, we use ESET NOD32.
I have tested Symantec, Kaspersky, Norton, ZoneAlarm, Avast, and AVG. All of them have noticeable performance issues, and many were downright unusable for our devs (blocked debuggers, caused issues when hooking into system calls, etc).
NOD32 has been deployed for nearly a year now, and I've only had a single dev run into any trouble with it (and that was fixed by checking a configuration option). It causes no noticeable performance hit, doesn't interfere with any of our tools, and is unbelievably simple to setup - I deployed it across all of our workstations and servers in the middle of the day from the comfort of my desk.
The only trouble we had with NOD32 was a big performance hit when running VMWare Workstation during our evaluation period. After exempting all VMWare files from realtime scanning, the problem disappeared.
I would not install any antivirus software on those machines assuming the following points:
On dev machines you want maximum performance and antivirus software is a known antonym of performance. Besides this antivirus are not so effective.
I have a couple opinions here...
Obviously the point of anti-virus is not necessarily to have the fastest, but simply the most effective. I prefer Symantec but to each his own.
One thing you could do is make realtime scan exclusions for a development folder (i.e. C:\Development) or something - that way it's not realtime scanning every compile. Most viruses/malware would not put anything in a C:\Development folder anyway (99% of the time it'll be going into Program Files, Windows, etc). Configure your antivirus to run a scan on the Development folder once per day instead.
On the other hand, normally developers will be pretty computer savvy (we hope). So in that case I'm not sure antivirus is needed at all in this type of environment. Best thing here is dedicate machines (virtual machines or whatever) just for development and not e-mail, web surfing, and the like. This would yield the fastest performance with no scanning overhead, obviously.
There are obviously multiple variables involved here, so there is not a one-size fits-all response. These variables include:
Existing company/corporate policies
Any policies involving security mandates (such as the requirement to run the company configured AV) may make this decision a non-issue.
Variability of the "production" environment.
If this an application that is being deployed in a controlled environment OR a limited environment then it is a good idea to duplicate that production environment for your testbeds.
If however, this is an application that is going to be released "into the wild" then there is obviously no way to test for all possible production configurations.
Development and testing environment
If there is a formal testing/QA team and environment or even just a build server, then this is likely the best place to mimic the production environment, not the developers machines.
Security Concerns
This is an book all to itself, but the security concerns may outweigh any of the particular trade-offs to the developers machines. This depends on such things as:
Developer's Machine Performance
The obvious here is the performance hit during development due to the CPU and I/O tax introduced by the virus scanner. The not so obvious is the potential impacts are: - Downtime associated with the contraction of a virus/trojan/malware and subsequent removal - Performance impact of the virus/malware if no AV software is present to detect and notify the user such that they continue to work with the virus/malware present.
If you are using virtual machines or have a development image or have regular backups, this downtime potential maybe insignificant. If the developer is going to have to reinstall and reconfigure everything on his/her machine from scratch (depending on the severity of the virus) then the downtime could be a severe penalty.
Probability of Contraction
The probability that a virus/malware will be contracted by the developers machine is a huge wildcard/unknown. However, if you are working on a closed network and don't bring in much outside media, the risk is obviously much lower than if all of the machines are directly connected to the internet.
If the development environment is Mac OSX or Solaris or Linux, etc then the probability of contraction is much lower than on the Windows platform.
Also, if the nature of the development itself increases the exposure of the developers machines to potentially unsafe traffic, this increases the probability of contraction.
Based on these status of the variables above (and probably more) there are several options (in increasing security, decreasing performance order):
There are obviously a number of variations on these four options (such as ones involving the use of Virtual Machines) but I think this covers the major options.
Personal Usage
For what it's worth, I personally use Symantec Corporate at work and Avast Free Edition at home. I have real-time protection enabled with the only exclusions being for my Virtual Machine folders/vmdk files. I do some of my development in the host and some of it in the guest. I do C# and native C++ development for the windows platform and find the performance penalties manageable.
I would deploy the same AV solution as in your production environment. That way you have one management interface and you get an apples-to-apples comparison as to impact, especially as the newer ones are incorporating more and more intrusion prevention measures with each version. One AV solution may not react the same as another as a result.
ESET NOD32 is the lightest (in terms of cpu usage) Antivirus program that I have found. It is also ranked as one of the better programs by AV-Comparatives. Just make sure to exclude the development or VM directories and you shouldn't have a problem.
You definitely want real-time scanning on these machines.
I've been out of the game awhile, but to my knowledge the three main surfaces to cover are infection by removable media like floppies & USB storage (mainly boot-sector viruses), email (mostly trojan horses), and network services (worms). A development machine is likely going to have all three.
I would advise following routeNpingme's suggestion of specific exceptions on filesystem scanning for real-time scanning.
We're using Trend Micro in production, and I've recently installed it on all our TEST VM's (after one got a virus) and have noticed no noticeable performance loss (20+ VMs on one eight core host), these machines get thrashed by our support department when trying to reproduce customer environments, it's a barebones AV and does the trick. It's picked up a couple of things that would have otherwise infected a machine after visiting the dreaded underground sites
We use Symantec Endpoint Protection at work, and I would recommend against using it. There is a pretty severe performance hit, and it didn't catch anything in the two incidents where user's computers were compromised.
Being a developer I tend to side with the I use no antivirus software route but that's finally changed this year with the release of Microsoft Security Essentials. I use that both on my home machine and my work dev machine. I exclude the project folders for my solutions as most AVs go haywire during compilation seeing a bunch of DLLs and EXEs being created and trying to scan them during the super heavy file IO operations of building.
I use Kaspersky and my desktop's performance doesn't seem to be affected by it -- unless it's doing an automatic update. It's the most bullet-proof anti-virus that I know of and have used.
I prefer not to have antivirus installed, but the average developer (and I mean 90% of the developers) sure needs it, I've been using McAfee (forced by company policy) and have had no major issues, if you have the option to filter out the folders where the source code resides that'll fix most of your problems
I personally don't run any. I have OS X and run my Visual Studios in VMs. I never got infected, but I regularly backup my VMs and in case of Windows Problems, I can always grab a fresh VM (ready to use), do a SVN checkout and start working within 15 minutes.
It happened to me that I broke my Vista Machine (Virtual) while toying with the registry and had to do the above. It can be a pain if your VM doesn't support snapshots (VMWare does) or if your backed up VM is not "up to date".
ClamWin appears to be very light on resources. No noticeable impact on performance on my machine.
Install antivirus software on the computer but give the devs permissions to activate and deactivate the scans, set up exclusion directories etc. When they are doing things that the virus scanner doesn't play nicely with (e.g. working with large managed code apps like OWB or VS2005+) they can turn it off. They then have the option of turning it on if they want to run a scan.
Best of both worlds.
One way to considerably reduce the risk of not having it: Do all your web stuff in a VM.


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"File this under 'W,' for 'Who gives a shit?'"
That is, until six years later, when another doctor found another Bruce Willis (are we going to need a plural term? Is it Bruce Willises or Bruce Willii?) who needed a hip replacement, but couldn't get one because nobody could screw the prosthesis into place. The two doctors found each other, compared notes, and realized that they had stumbled on something far more interesting than a solitary super-mutant: a secret race of super-mutants. They traced their patients' family histories and discovered that the two were related. Further investigation revealed that their entire family, scattered up and down the East Coast of the U.S., were all a bunch of indestructible supers. The world could ignore a superior form of humanity for only so long, and scientists eventually began investigating the family. Their conclusion: High bone density stems from a mutation of LRP5, the gene linked to osteoporosis and low bone density.
Holy shit, they even have an ironic origin story!
#4. A Tribe of Sea Nomads Can See Perfectly Underwater
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Have you ever opened your eyes underwater without swim goggles? What did it look like? If you can't remember, here's a hint:
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"Hey there, pretty ... lady?"
That's just us, though -- that boring old human weakness simply does not apply to the Moken, the sea nomads of Southeast Asia. They dive all the time, with eyes wide open, and see everything in crystal-clear high-def. This is especially helpful since they dive in order to catch food, and it's nice to be able to pick up a quick snack without getting attacked by a blurry shark-shaped blob.
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Just bear in mind that that crystal-clear shark can still turn you into meat-and-seawater salsa.
Researchers learned of this incredible ability by studying the underwater eyesight of six Moken children. They then compared the results to that of 28 European children. The study found that the Moken children, at the very worst, could see under the sea twice as well as the rest of us. At best, they could see better than some fish.
So how do they do it? It appears to be a simple case of learned evolution. (That's a thing? You can just learn to evolve? Are there ... classes we can sign up for?) See, because the Moken dive all the time, and have done so for just shy of eternity, their irises no longer expand underwater like ours, but rather constrict, enabling them to maintain their on-land resolution.
In other words, they decided they wanted superpowers and then practiced every day until they got them. And yet when we tied a sheet around our necks and tried to Superman off the roof, all we got was a ground sandwich.
#3. Some African Prostitutes Are Immune to HIV
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Very few clients use condoms, and STDs (particularly HIV) are an everyday workplace hazard. Well, unless you have super immunity. What? That is too a thing: There are certain prostitutes in Africa who are exposed to HIV just about every day, and yet never contract it. They won the superhuman lottery, but lost the prize draw. They didn't get laser vision or cat's paws instead of hands; they get to not die of a terrible disease. We guess it's not the worst consolation prize.
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"Lousy, rigged game. I was already alive."
Researchers visited Kenya and Gambia and studied the sexually transmitted disease history of its finest prostitutes. Thanks to barebacking with dozens of different infected men every year, over two-thirds of the prostitutes reported the HIV virus crashing on their couch.
Normally, unprotected sex with an infected partner is like diving into a pond full of alligators, but a few of these women actually survived the gator pond, then did it again, and again. After a few years, they were laughing and playing Marco Polo up in that predatory swimming pool. Despite constant exposure to HIV, a small percentage of the women studied didn't catch it for at least three years, with some evading the little bugger for even longer.
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Seriously, at this point most people would be safer actually having sex with the gator pond.
Based on blood tests, scientists determined that the immune ladies had cytotoxic T-cells working triple overtime. These cells stopped any invading HIV cells dead in their tracks, forming a natural shield against the disease -- one that science is all too eager to use as the basis for the long-awaited AIDS vaccine. There's just one issue: The T-cells work only if they're constantly in action. Many of the immune women lost their immunity shortly after leaving prostitution behind. It seems that, at the first sign of peace and quiet, their immune systems let their guard down. So there you go: If you want to be immune to AIDS, just try constantly getting a whole lot of AIDS.*
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ANDERSON, S.C. – Nancy Simpson, Anderson University Director of Athletics, has announced that women's soccer head coach Samar Azem has stepped down from her position to accept an assistant coaching job at her alma mater, Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C.
Azem returns to the place where she won Atlantic Sun Conference regular season and tournament championships in 2004 and was named to the all-Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament Team the following season. Azem also earned all-academic recognition and earned the team's Coaches Award twice during her collegiate years.
After her playing days, Azem had coaching stints at Brevard College, Mercer and Presbyterian College before coming to Anderson prior to the 2011 season. While with the Trojans, Azem compiled 21 victories and advanced to the semifinals of the SAC Tournament in her first season. In her short time with AU, Azem coached 12 players to postseason all-South Atlantic Conference honors, including three after the 2013 season.
"I am excited to go back to my alma mater and work with the administration and coaching staff, but it was a difficult decision to leave the wonderful community, administration, staff and players I've grown to appreciate and enjoy at Anderson," Azem said. "My time at AU has been extremely rewarding and I am thankful to Nancy Simpson for allowing me to represent and lead Anderson University women's soccer and for her guidance and support. I would also like to thank my players, for believing in the direction of our program and for everything they've given back to me and foundations they've set for the program. I am truly appreciative of every one of them and look forward to keeping up with every bit of their future success at AU."
Azem has also worked with youth players from the Clemson Anderson Soccer Academy (CASA) and Carolina Elite Soccer Academy (CESA) and brought players from both academies together for free clinics at the university.
"I am tremendously grateful to Samar for leading our women's soccer program in such outstanding fashion for the past three seasons," Simpson said. "She has certainly raised the bar for this program, and I look forward to continuing to build upon her body of work. I wish the very best to Samar as she returns to her alma mater."
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As a holistic veterinarian, I feel it is incredibly important to take the whole
animal into consideration when it comes to nutrition. And, whenever practical, my
preference is to provide nutrients, minerals and vitamins in their natural forms.
In this post, I'd like to talk to you specifically about vitamin E, to review both the strengths and weaknesses
of natural and synthetic forms.
Vitamin E is an incredibly complex and important nutrient that, among other things,
functions as an antioxidant. Antioxidants are naturally occurring nutrients that
promote health by slowing the destructive aging process of cells (a breakdown called
"peroxidation"). In peroxidation, damaged molecules known as free radicals steal
pieces from other cells, like fat, protein or DNA. The damage can spread, damaging
and killing entire groups of cells. While peroxidation can be useful to destroy
old cells or germs and parasites, when left unchecked, free radicals produced by
peroxidation also damages healthy cells. Antioxidants can help to stem the tide
of peroxidation, thus stabilizing free radicals.
Antioxidants like vitamin E are crucial to the health of companion animals of any age.
They can improve the quality of the immune response and the effectiveness
of vaccines in young pets, and help maintain a vital immune system in seniors.
Vitamin E occurs in one of two forms, either natural or synthetic. Natural vitamin
E is a collection of eight chemically unique compounds that are derived from plants,
including four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. More commonly used and less expensive,
synthetic vitamin E is one compound – alpha-tocopherol.
For me, the choice of using natural or synthetic vitamin E in my formulas couldn't
be clearer, and neither could the evidence. The synthetic form of vitamin E is not
as active or easily absorbed as the natural form of vitamin E. The molecular structure
of vitamin E determines how well the body can utilize it. In human trials, researchers
found that proteins in the liver specifically select the natural form of vitamin
E and largely ignore the synthetic form. In a Japanese study, scientists found that
it took three times the amount of synthetic vitamin E to equal the blood levels
of natural vitamin E. In the U.S., researchers found that body tissues and blood
retained far higher levels of natural vitamin E versus synthetic. In addition, synthetic
alpha-tocopherol vitamin E has only half the vitamin activity of the natural alpha-tocopherol
vitamin E.
Why is there such a difference between synthetic and natural forms of vitamin
E? The key to understanding how the body absorbs these two types differently lies
on the molecular level. The cellular structure of mammals more easily recognizes
natural forms of vitamins. And cellular proteins and blood plasma bind to natural
forms more readily than their synthetic counterparts. Unfortunately, synthetic vitamins
are cheaper and, therefore, are more prevalent in many products on the market today.
So, how can you determine if the products you are using contain the synthetic or natural form of vitamin E? Simply check out the ingredient labels! Natural vitamin E is listed as a-tocopherol acetate, d-alpha tocopherol, d-alpha tocopheryl acetate or d-alpha tocopheryl succinate. Alternately, synthetic forms of vitamin E are labeled with a "dl-" prefix.
Kiyose C, et al. Biodiscrimination of alpha-tocopherol stereoisomers in humans
after oral administration. Am J Clin Nutr 1997 (Mar); 65 (3): 785-9
Burton GW, et al. Human plasma and tissue alpha-tocopherol concentrations in
response to supplementation with deuterated natural and synthetic vitamin E Am J
Clin Nutr 1998; 67: 669-84
Traber MG, et al. Synthetic as compared with natural vitamin E is preferentially
excreted as a-CEHC in human urine: studies using deuterated a-tocopheryl acetate
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Yu W, Jia L, Wang P, et al. In vitro and in vivo evaluation of anticancer actions
of natural and synthetic vitamin E forms. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2008;52:447-456.
Blatt DH, Pryor WA, Mata JE, et al. Re-evaluation of the relative potency of
synthetic and natural α-tocopherol: experimental and clinical observations. Journal
of Nutritional Biochemistry. 2004;15:380-395.
Weiss WP, Hogan JS, and Wyatt DJ. Relative bioavailability of all-rac and RRR
vitamin E based on neutrophil function and total α-tocopherol and isomer concentrations
in periparturient dairy cows and their calves. J Dairy Sci. 2009;92:720-731.
Lauridsen C, Engel H, Jensen SK, et al. Lactating sows and suckling piglets preferentially
incorporate RRR- over All-rac-α-tocopherol into milk, plasma and tissues. J Nutr.
Sen CK, Khanna S, and Roy S. Tocotrienols in health and disease: The other half
of the natural vitamin E family. Molecular Aspects of Medicine. 2007;28-692-728.
Hayek MG, et al. Dietary vitamin E improves immune function in cats. In: Reinhart
GA, Carey DP eds. Recent Advances in Canine and Feline Nutrition, Vol III: 2000
Iams Nutrition Symposium Proceedings. Wilmington, OH: Orange Frazer Press, 2000;
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May 28. 2010 07:35
annnnnnd what foods do we feed dogs which contain ample amounts of E and antioxidants?
kay stewart
May 28. 2010 09:29
I think it's important that people know also that "free radicals" occur to both people and animals at an almost constant rate, when walking, playing, breathing, etc. The more active one is, the more the body is bombarded with free radicals!
Sandy Dunbar
May 28. 2010 18:50
Hi Dr. Jane,Dr. Weil talks about a group of I think 8 different vitamin E elements that he offers as his E-Complex for humans. Is that also the need of our domestic animals?Thanks,Heidi S.
Heidi Schlatter
May 29. 2010 10:36
Dear Dr. Jane,
We feed our rescue cat Smoky Life's Abundance Dry Cat Food. We also give her Wellness Food Supplement for Cats and Gourmet Cat Treats for Healthy Skin & Coat. Smoky just loves all of these products. She is approximately l3 years old.
I loved your article on the use of the correct Vitamin E, something I already had knowledge of because my Dad was very much into all of these things. You see, he received a heart transplant and later a kidney transplant. He lived for l7 years and never took for granted the gifts that he received. He was alway reading up on good things for health and wanted to take care of his gifts. I would ask him over and over again for his knowledge.
I so much love and appreciate reading your newsletters and sometimes listening on the phone line to your bi-monthly hours. You are so interesting - I just love you.
My question is, do all of the things I give Smoky have the good Vitamin E in them? Are the supplements and the gourmet treats appropriate for every day? I brush my Smoky every day. We have a ritual - I get out the brush, the gourmet treats and go to the rug in front of our kitchen sliding door. She comes to me every time because she loves to be brushed and she loves so much the treats. She used to throw up hairballs but not since she has been given these treats.
Anyway, Dr. Jane, I wanted to write to let you know that we love you and all of the information that you give us and I would so appreciate your feedback on the products in question.
Best regards,
Becky Fate
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May 29. 2010 13:33
Excellent information Dr Jane. I now have a much better understanding of Antioxidants as well as natural vs synthetic. I always felt that natural is better, now I know why.
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Tonight was another forray into meals kids like to eat. It was a smashing success--Son #1 had four servings! I would have liked it to be a bit creamier so I am upping the amount of sauce in the recipe below. Feel free to adjust to however creamy/wet you want the dish to be.
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Tofurky Tettrazini
Tonight was another forray into meals kids like to eat. It was a smashing success--Son #1 had four servings! I would have liked it to be a bit creamier so I am upping the amount of sauce in the recipe below. Feel free to adjust to however creamy/wet you want the dish to be.
11 comments:
- the vegan blog tracker said...
Dang, that looks really good - I seriously have to try that out. I've been looking for some dishes that are completely different than what I'm used to.
- February 3, 2008 at 1:10 AM
- Anke said...
this sounds like it would be a big hit not only with kids... I could dig into it right now :-)
- February 3, 2008 at 12:07 PM
- Carolann said...
This looks so much like spaghetti pie! Must try!!!
- February 3, 2008 at 2:32 PM
- the pleasantly plump vegan said...
i'm sure i could eat 4 servings too
- February 3, 2008 at 8:25 PM
- angelacf said...
how is it you don't have agar powder or such in your small town but have vegan chicken broth powder??!!
- February 3, 2008 at 8:32 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
I make my own. I think if I asked for vegan chicken broth powder at the grocery store here they would look at me like I had two heads. Kind of like the way they looked at me when I asked where they kept the soy nog. I have included the link to the recipe I use in the recipe above.
- February 3, 2008 at 8:38 PM
- Carla said...
I must say I love your blog, I don't comment much but I check it out all the time. Everything always looks so very good!
- February 3, 2008 at 11:19 PM
- Pratima said...
This dish is great. I made the following changes:
1. I cooked the pasta in veggie broth and used the leftover cooking liquid in the sauce
2. Rice milk instead of soy
Me and my husband are new to veganism and your blog is really helping us. Thank you.
- February 10, 2008 at 12:15 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Cooking pasta in veggie broth is a really great idea. Thanks, Pratima!
- February 10, 2008 at 12:26 PM
- Katie said...
Made this for dinner tonight and my fiance was determined to beat your son by eating more than 4 servings but he only got to 3. This was a HUGE hit. I didn't have broth powder so I just made the 2 cups of water with a bouillon cube. Plus I added two packages of tofurkey. Your recipes are always a hit! Thanks.
- February 25, 2008 at 12:15 AM
- newbievegan said...
I am a little late to comment, but I just made this for dinner last night and I had to let you know how WONDERFUL!!!!!! it is. The only things I did differently were use rice milk (I had some I wanted to use up) with the soy creamer instead of soymilk and I used a no-chicken bouillon mix that I get from my local coop (I adjusted the amount to use based on 4 cups of liquid). I had the leftovers for lunch today and am still amazed by how creamy and yummy this is. I served it to omni's and they really enjoyed it. I think this would be the perfect dish to take to a holiday potluck. For some reason it makes me think of a really good turkey and dressing type of taste. I love your blog, it is really helping my transition to veganism be much easier! The dishes I have made have been enjoyed by my whole family, which is saying alot since I am the only vegan. I am hoping to win over my whole family in time.
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Q: My five-year-old is having a problem with his speech, which is sometimes slurred. He had viral meningitis when he was three weeks old. Do you think this is related somehow? If not, what could be causing this problem?
A: My best guess is that your son's problem with speech is not related to his central nervous system infection during the first month of his life. It is true that meningitis can result in serious complications because it is infection and inflammation of the coverings of the brain and spinal column. However, that's usually after such an infection caused by bacterial germs. The more common viral causes of meningitis are mostly self-limiting and rarely are associated with long term problems. Although the signs and symptoms are very concerning, children tend to recover quickly and well from most cases of viral meningitis.
So what about his speech? Unfortunately, I do not have his detailed medical history. You do point out that his slurred speech is only "sometimes," but I do not know if this is a recent change or whether he has always had some problem with articulating words. It is not clear what percentage of his speech is intelligible and how others react when he is speaking. I do assume he has never had any problem with chewing or swallowing, does not have any physical changes in his mouth and throat areas, and does not have any known neurologic problems. Any of these could suggest and contribute to a speech problem.
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