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In the early '90s, most diet books focused on the theory that reducing dietary fat was the single most important variable for producing weight loss success. In response to that belief the food industry introduced thousands of new reduced fat products designed to slim waistlines. Ironically, America experienced a dramatic rise in the incidence of obesity during that same time.
No wonder we see a fresh batch of new diet books on the shelf every year. Clearly, there is no shortage of theories when it comes to successful weight management. If you read any of the weight loss books that have been published in the past decade, you might wonder why we have not eliminated obesity as a public health threat.
Unfortunately, in America we have a history of getting things wrong when it comes to weight management. Every January your members are exposed to all sorts of promising new diets, exercise gadgets, drugs and dietary supplements only to suffer through another year of expanding waistlines. America's current obsession is with cutting carbohydrates. In fact, we are so obsessed with low-carbohydrate diets that entire stores are dedicated to selling only low-carbohydrate foods. But despite the barrage of media coverage, advertising and products targeting members about low-carbohydrate diets, many are still confused. Those confused members are turning to your staff — everyone from the front desk workers to personal trainers — looking for information on this red-hot trend. That is why it is important to arm staffers with as much information as possible — even though the best answer may be, "let's ask the nutritionist."
Following is some objective data surrounding the preoccupation with low carbohydrate diets:
Many American's adopt a low carb diet under the misguided thinking that they can consume as many calories as they want and still lose weight. In some cases, consumers are led to believe that they can consume more calories than they were previously consuming while losing weight in an effortless fashion. This notion is untrue and unproven. At best, it is a theory that someone can go from eating 2,000 calories per day to consuming 2,000+ on a low carb diet and lose body fat. There is no published research showing this. In fact, in his book, "The New Diet Revolution," Dr. Robert Atkins states that you will probably eat fewer calories when following his low carb diet. Members need to be informed on this issue of carbs vs. calories. Biologically speaking, fat and protein consumed in excess of what your body needs can lead to the formation of larger fat cells (weight gain).
Researchers from Stanford University and Yale University analyzed 107 low-carb studies and found that weight lost while following these low-carb diets resulted primarily from consuming fewer calories, not through restricting carbs. The results of this analysis were published in the April 9, 2003 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In one of the most well publicized studies to date, researchers at Duke University compared the low-fat American Heart Association diet to the low-carb Atkins diet. The Atkins subjects ended up losing more weight because they consumed fewer calories. In fact, those following the Atkins diet ate fewer than 1,500 calories per day. The weight loss was a direct result of consuming fewer calories.
All of the published studies that have shown greater weight loss by following low-carb diets have generated that weight loss because subjects have complied better with the diet. The greater compliance results in fewer calories consumed. Low carb diets are structured and specific. Numerous published studies have shown the value of structured diets for facilitating greater compliance and greater weight loss. Historically, most low-fat diets have been unstructured (they provide the dieter with greater flexibility and more food choices). More choices typically result in greater decision anxiety and less overall compliance, which leads to more calories consumed.
In the first study of its kind, researchers from Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston compared four popular weight loss diets (Atkins, Dean Ornish, Weight Watchers and The Zone). The findings from this study were presented at the November 2003 American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in Orlando. There was little difference in weight loss among the four diets. Subjects who complied best with the diets lost the most weight. Once again, weight loss came down to compliance and eating less (cutting calories).
The message is clear. Calories really do still count when it comes to weight management. If members make changes in their diet to reduce carb intake, they still shouldn't expect to see weight loss unless they consume fewer total calories. The only exception to this rule would be the first two weeks of a low carb diet that produces significant water loss.
Richard Wolff is a registered dietitian and is licensed to practice medical nutrition therapy. He has served as a consultant to the American Cancer Society and the Discovery Health Channel. Richard can be reached at 847-456-0451 or at WOLFFfitness.com.


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It's been a roller-coaster year so far for rising star, Newton Battenberg Faulkner (or Sam, as he's better known to his friends). The 19 year old from Salfords, Surrey has one aim in mind - to put the musician firmly back at the forefront of popular music. The total antithesis of the 'Fame Idol', 'Pop Academy' school of artists, Newton is a young guy who can actually play and sing and do both at the same time! His outstanding guitar technique has already attracted interested from the prestigious Lewes International Guitar Festival, M Channel TV, Total Guitar magazine and a sponsorship deal with Ovation Guitars. Newton's unique approach to acoustic guitar playing together with self-penned songs that range from the totally chilled to the furiously funky make for a "once seen never forgotten" experience. Oh, and did I mention the voice? It's hard to believe that a voice as mature and expressive comes from one of such tender years……..but we are talking about Newton here so I guess, as with everything else about his music, the rules don't apply!
He finished 2003 on a high, being the featured solo artist at the finals of the Riffathon - a nationwide competition to find the best rock guitarist in the UK - performing for the likes of Jimmy Page and Brian May. The question was how to maintain the momentum through 2004? The answer was simple – produce his first album! Never one to approach things half-heartedly Newton spent April in the world-renowned Jacobs recording studio along with his producer, Bob Cranham, working on 15 new songs.

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HANG TIME, Texas — When word spread that Tracy McGrady had announced his retirement, how many folks went straight to YouTube?
There were those 13 sizzling points in 35 sensational seconds that defined a career. Memorable and yet fleeting.
For 16 tantalizing NBA seasons, he was never the main event in the center ring under the big top when championships were to be decided, but always in a booth just outside on the carny midway — T-Mac next to the bearded lady.
Oh, there was never any doubting his ability to put the ball into the basket from any angle and from anyplace on the court. He was a deft and willing passer, could be a strong rebounder for a guard and could get after it defensively out on the wings.
Yet after all those years we're left with a legacy that is lighter than cotton candy and with just as much substance.
While making the announcement on ESPN and looking back on his career, McGrady made the Hall of Fame case for himself that at one point in their careers there was debate about whether he or Kobe Bryant was the better player. And that is exactly the point, there came a fork in the road and their resumes went in distinctly different directions.
The price of admission to the Hall of Fame should not merely be the gaudy jewelry of a championship ring. But it should matter that a perennial All-Star performer, a franchise's foundational player lifts his team up in the playoffs and, despite a scoring average that often increased in the playoffs, McGrady could not do that. Not in Orlando, not in Houston, where he had his chances.
Until he was a decorative ribbon on the Spurs' machine as they marched to The Finals last spring, McGrady was the only NBA scoring champion (two times) to never advance past the first round of the playoffs.
For all of the improbable 3-point shots he made, high-rising slam dunks he threw down, thread-the-needle passes that he delivered right on the money, what McGrady could never do was close the deal. He was the front man of teams that blew 3-1 leads in Orlando and Houston and another pair of 2-0 leads with the Rockets.
"It's all on me," McGrady said prior to the 2007 series against the Jazz.
"It was never on me," he said when the Rockets lost.
McGrady never understood how or what it meant to lead, even though he pretended to embrace the role.
It is not enough to say that, because another prolific scorer from another era — Walt Bellamy — was eventually voted into the Hall of Fame, McGrady should be, too. It would be wiser to see Bellamy's inclusion as a mistake and move on.
Indeed, there were injuries to his back and knees. But there was an ugly end to McGrady's tenure in Orlando when he sat out the end of a 21-61 season and the microfracture surgery that signaled the end of his relevance as a star or even as a starter in Houston came again with much recrimination and little remorse.
How very fitting then, for comparison's sake, that McGrady's retirement comes within days of Allen Iverson calling an end to his career. They entered the NBA a year apart and for nearly a decade they were the yin and the yang of the league for nearly a decade. Passion and passivity. Fire and ice.
Iverson was the rail-thin waif that seemed to be held together by pipe cleaners who threw himself into every game he ever played and constantly went crashing to the floor like grandma's finest china, only to always pick up the pieces and come back even stronger. Iverson was voted MVP of the league in 2001 when he carried the Sixers to The Finals with an indomitable will. McGrady was cooler than an ice cube, but just as prone to melt.
The Hall of Fame should be a place for enduring greatness, a career masterpiece like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
We looked up at T-Mac like fireworks on the Fourth of July. Oooh, isn't that pretty?
Good thing we'll have those 13 points in 35 seconds on YouTube to remember him.


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- Fixed a minor settings detection bug in the profiler.
- The code completion dialog now hides its tooltips when the user chooses so by unticking "Enable editor hints", preventing an access error.
- Reorganized parts of the interface: now makes better use of free space.
- One can now select and copy the information in the file properties window.
- Added a link to GCC's compiler documentation below the compiler options.
- Added a few more options to -march, -std and -O. Note: this might change settings in pre-220.127.116.11 projects, please reapply them!
- The code tooltip is quite a bit faster now.
- Fixed a bug in the brace completion code, reported by garywho.
- (RC2+) The function tooltip now does not show up when no prototype could be found (making it a lot faster).
- The Environment Options UI font selector now properly shows the available fonts in an MS Word like manner.
- Updated the compilation progress window layout.
- Added profiles for both x86 and x64 compilers.
- Above profiles now properly update the makefile and other settings.
- Generic gcc and g++ errors like unrecongised command line options are now properly displayed in the list box.
- Slightly lowered the (first time) launch speeds.
Important notices
- The options format has changed. If you want to reuse an old pre-22.214.171.124 config file (NOT recommended), or, more importantly, when you're overriding Compiler Options in your project, you need to re-set these project settings once and save the project. You'll then have an updated 184.108.40.206+ project file.
- This version has GCC built-in instead of being an aditional package. It also contains D3D9/10/11, GDI, Win32 and OpenGL headers and libraries in that flavor.
- This version is now fully portable. If you also don't want Dev to leave anything behind in the registry, please select "Portable" or "Minimal" in the setup options.
- For ultimate portable programming, please launch devcppPortable.exe located in the main folder of the portable zip download. This will make dev save its configuration files in the same folder as the executable.
The setup can be downloaded here. The Portable zip version can be downloaded here. The source code can be found here.
Progress implementing the 64-bit compiler
- It's working.
- Dev-C++ now automatically sets paths when it finds an 'MinGW64' folder.
- The XP style manifest files now also work with 64-bit executables.
- The 64-bit compiler now also create 32-bit executables.
- GDI+, DWM API and D3DX are working too now.
Beta update
The 18.104.22.168 Beta 1 update can be found here. Its source code can be found here. This version fully supports 64bit compilers. I've decided not to include the full compiler with this beta version yet, but don't worry: getting it to work easy:
- Download and install the latest full release of Dev-C++. Setup and portable versions will work.
- Download and install this overwrite update and extract it in the Dev-C++'s main folder.
- Download and install TDM-GCC 4.6.1 x64 to 'MinGW64'. This folder should be placed next to devcpp.exe.
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- 2) Launch Dev-C++ and create a new Compiler Set in Tools >> Compiler Options. Then manually set paths for this compiler.
Problems / Upcoming changes / TODO
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Hamilton is a spirited trio of designs, each fitting as many characters per line as weight will permit. Original designs were patented in 1887 by William Hamilton Page, a self-taught genius who came to dominate wood type manufacture in the U.S.. Nos. 508, 510, and 513 are each lighter and narrower than the last.
Thomas Rickner followed No. 508 for Bold, adapting Medium and Light. A series for display and short measure text
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I, Lorrie Byrom, of Camp Betsy Cox, hereby accept the desktop and mobile design files, as presented to me by Union Street Media, today December 14, 2016, as the final design that will be used for my site through launch.
With this sign off, I permit Union Street Media to move forward into the production portion of the process. I fully understand that that any revisions I request to the design files after this sign off may result in incremental costs above the high end of my initial contract budget of and extend the timeline of my project.
Note: Once the site has launched, you will have complete control of the navigation and can make edits such as adding, deleting, renaming, and reordering main and sub-navigation items at will.


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Yingqun Huang, PhD, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Departments & Organizations
Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences: Reproductive Sciences: Discovery to Cure Internship; Huang Lab
Integrative Cell Signaling & Neurobiology of Metabolism (ICSNM)
Yingqun Huang, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree in 1988 from Fudan University School of Medicine and Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences 1997 from the University of Connecticut Health Center. During her postdoctoral training she focused on the rules and mechanisms that govern the transport of messenger RNAs from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, a critical step that controls gene expression in mammalian cells. Her current research centers on the mechanistic understanding of the H19 long noncoding RNA in endocrine disorders including type-2 diabetes and infertility, in addition to reproductive tract cancers, with the ultimate goal of discovering new molecular signatures and pathways for preventing and treating these diseases.
Education & Training
|University of Connecticut Health Center (1997)
|Shanghai Medical University (1988)


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The place to be for dental students and dental professionals who have graduated from any European university within the last two years. At our international student events, you'll meet like-minded people, attend an iTOP seminar, improve your practical skills and enjoy great networking. It's a great way to expand your oral hygiene knowledge – with tons of socialising and outdoor action. Check out our events and decide whether you'd prefer a short city trip or want to join us for a whole week – fun and learning guaranteed with both!
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CURADEN has cared about future generations of dental professionals for many years now. We believe that they are key in making the preventive mindset part of today's dentistry.
Highly educated dental students mean great coaches, life-long tooth preservation and, last but not least, improved overall health for all patients. Our investment in the next generation is a great opportunity for you as a dental student!
iTOP for Students – Plaque away in Prague
Spend one weekend in the beautiful city of Prague while participating in an iTOP seminar for students. Meet other future dentists and dental professionals while learning all about iTOP. iTOP - 'individually trained oral prophylaxis' means learning about proper oral hygiene and the right motivation to implement these redefined skills on a daily basis both on yourself and on your patients.
This helps you keep on smiling, as well as supporting you in your job as a dentist. Think about it: what dentist would you choose? One that needs your teeth to be unhealthy in order to make money, or one that can instruct you on how to keep healthy and brush your biofilm away?
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ITC Avant Garde Gothic® was designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase in 1970. They based it on Lubalin´s logo for Avant Garde Magazine - an exciting construction of overlapping and tightly-set geometric capitals. ITC Avant Garde is a geometric sans serif; meaning the basic shapes are constructed from circles and straight lines, much like the work from the 1920s German Bauhaus movement. The early versions of ITC Avant Garde became well-known for their many unique alternates and ligatures that still conjure up the typographic aura of the 1970s. These fonts contain the basic alphabets (without the old unusual ligatures). Still strong and modern looking, ITC Avant Garde has become a solid staple in the repertoire of today's graphic designer. The large, open counters and tall x-heights seem friendly, and help to make this family work well for short texts and headlines. The condensed weights were drawn by Ed Benguiat in 1974, and the obliques were designed by André Gürtler, Erich Gschwind and Christian Mengelt in 1977. ITC Avant Garde® Mono is a monospaced version done by Ned Bunnel in 1983.


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Steve Hughes isn't happy with his phone, which keeps beeping to tell him he has a text message.
"Technology is the downfall of mankind," he grunts down the sketchy connection.
"It's the satanic creation that demons are going to swim through and turn man into a robotic android, a soulless piece of shit, locked into concentration camps, microchipped children...
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It's an outburst only fitting from Australia's heavy metal comedian, who parlayed a career in 80s thrash bands into a successful but still under-the-radar career in stand-up.
He's well-known enough to be performing for a second time at the Brisbane Comedy Festival, with Big Issues following up a stint at the 2011 event.
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Hughes uses his platform to rail against bureaucracy, nanny states, aggressive governments, unquestioning general masses and bland pop culture.
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"[Australians] find the darkness of their own culture embarrassing... so the comedy is inoffensive, because we don't really have an understanding of ourselves."
But technology remains a big bugbear for Hughes, who admits he's only on Facebook because his agent demanded it.
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Brisbane audiences have the chance to see a potential Steve Hughes tantrum when he performs Big Issues at the Brisbane Comedy Festival from Tuesday March 5 to Sunday March 10 at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Tickets cost $25 - $35 and are available online.


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New Art Work Takes Deer License Plate from Pink to Macho
Big Game Lovers Encouraged to "Show What Drives You!"
AUSTIN, Texas — The white-tailed deer specialty license plate that benefits big game management and research in Texas now sports new and improved artwork depicting a white-tailed deer, an image based fittingly on a trophy buck from a ranch served by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department technical assistance program.
The white-tailed deer license plate used to have art that was, well, pink. The new art portrays a true "venado macho" depicted in original hand-drawn art by TPWD artist Clemente Guzman.
The photo on which the art is based was obtained by TPWD Wildlife Biologist Jimmy Rutledge, who has worked with private landowners in South Texas on some of the state's finest white-tail ranches for more than 20 years.
"John R. Nelson of Cotulla took that photo, a friend of mine and the department," Rutledge said. "He took it on the Wright Ranch in La Salle County, which happens to be one of our cooperators operating under a department-approved wildlife management plan. So to me, that photo really symbolizes our department philosophy of sound habitat management to achieve healthy wildlife."
Since it debuted in March 2002, the white-tailed plate has grossed more than $440,000 to benefit big game management and hunting programs. That includes helping fund efforts like TPWD's Pronghorn Antelope Aerial Survey, Mule Deer Aerial Survey, Pronghorn Antelope Genetics Study, Comparison of Deer Survey Techniques for Small Acreages, White-tailed Deer Surveys and Texas Wildlife Information Management Services (TWIMS).
The deer plate is one of five specialty plates that support the TPWD mission. Others include the bluebonnet license plate benefiting Texas State Parks, the largemouth bass license plate benefiting largemouth bass management and production, the Texas horned lizard license plate benefiting wildlife diversity and the Ducks Unlimited plate benefiting wetlands habitat and diverse waterfowl. All told, the plates have raised more than $4 million for conservation work since 1999.
An expanded Texas Conservation License Plate Web site not only makes it easy to order the plates, but it includes a big section called Projects Funded: Where The Money Goes that details how the money from each plate is used.
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The space tardigrades have been listed Number 1 on "Top 10 Things Launched into Space in 2008" at Wired Science http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/top-10-things-l.html. The tiny tardigrades left behind such big things as the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (with a size of a double-decker bus), and the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope.
We are of course very proud of this honorable award!
Friday, January 9, 2009
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Two weeks of virtually non-stop protests by tens of thousands of workers in Madison, Wisconsin, represent the epicenter of a fight to defend workers' rights from a wave of unprecedented legislative attacks. That fight has now spread to other states in the Midwest and across the country, sparked by attempts by newly-elected Governors to eliminate collective bargaining rights of public sector workers including teachers, nurses and other public employees. But it's not just about the unions. It's about much more than that. And whether you are employed or unemployed, union or non-union, if you're a worker this is your fight too.
In a terrific piece on AlterNet, titled '12 Things You Need to Know About the Uprising in Wisconsin', well worth reading in its entirety, Joshua Holland writes:
That workers can still negotiate from a position of strength somewhere in the US is simply unacceptable to the right, and that's what this is about.
If workers' bargaining rights are eliminated, then the primary defense of decent pay, benefits and workplace standards for the middle-class will be wiped out. And that would give employers free rein to further drive down wages and benefits for all workers.
So now, under the bogus banner of "deficit reduction", the ideologues who gave you tax cuts for the rich, financial deregulation and the Great Recession are attacking workers' bargaining rights. But that's not all: they're also seeking to privatize the public sector and widen the already abyss-like income gap between the wealthy and everyone else.
As Holland explains:
At the beginning of this year, the state was on course to end 2011 with a budget surplus of $120 million. As Ezra Klein explained, newly elected GOP Governor Scott Walker then " signed two business tax breaks and a conservative health-care policy experiment that lowers overall tax revenues (among other things). The new legislation was not offset, and it turned a surplus into a deficit."
Walker then used the deficit he'd created as the justification for assaulting his state's public employees. He used a law cooked up by a right-wing advocacy group called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC likes to fly beneath the radar, but I described the organization in a 2005 article as "the connective tissue that links state legislators with right-wing think tanks, leading anti-tax activists and corporate money." Similar laws are on the table in Ohio and Indiana.
And, as Paul Krugman points out in his column today, the so-called budget repair bill being pushed by Gov. Walker in Wisconsin would also give the Governor and his appointees broad powers to impose massive cuts in state health care programs and to privatize public services and facilities:
For example, the bill includes language that would allow officials appointed by the governor to make sweeping cuts in health coverage for low-income families without having to go through the normal legislative process.
The state of Wisconsin owns a number of plants supplying heating, cooling, and electricity to state-run facilities (like the University of Wisconsin). The language in the budget bill would, in effect, let the governor privatize any or all of these facilities at whim. Not only that, he could sell them, without taking bids, to anyone he chooses. And note that any such sale would, by definition, be "considered to be in the public interest."
The agenda is pretty clear: demonize the workers and the unions; privatize public services; cut the budgets for anything that helps working families in a struggling economy; and wield the power of government to enhance the wealth of corporations and the rich. When the Gov. Walker-type Republicans say they want "less government" it's not really true. They want less government — and less democracy, less freedom of association — for you and me, but plenty of government power wielded on behalf of the wealthy. They want their corporate and wealthy investor tax cuts to increase budget deficits. Then they want to use the deficits as an excuse to cut services, go after workers' rights and wages, and even cut unemployment insurance.
The attack on workers in Wisconsin is an attack on all of us. And we're fighting back. Citizen Action of Wisconsin has a great new website We Are Wisconsin — where you can sign their petition supporting Wisconsin workers and calling for good jobs for all Americans. The site also has frequent updates from Wisconsin and around the country, including links to rallies and events. A broad coalition has formed to organize rallies in every state starting tomorrow — Saturday, Feb. 26. Click here to find the rally nearest you.
Workers are under attack — but we are fighting back.
This was originally published on the blog of UnemployedWorkers.org.