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Bella's Café
896 Whalley Ave., New Haven
203-387-7107, http://www.BellasCafeCT.com
Tucked into the Westville section of New Haven, there is a neighborhood café with a cozy international feel. But don't let the word "café" fool you, Bella's Café has much more to offer than coffee and a bagel.
THE VIBE: With black ceilings, mustard-yellow walls, rich brown wood floors and bar, and music parked on jazz, Bella's draws diverse customers. Its patrons range from young families, to hospital workers in scrubs, to retirees, so it's safe to say once a customer, always a customer. Wrought-iron chairs along the outside of the restaurant suggest that in warmer weather there is outdoor seating, to take advantage of the quaint downtown area. The all-black uniform of the waiters lends an international feel along with the Italian interior design and wall décor.
THE FOOD: Breakfast, brunch, and lunch foods are the specialties at Bella's. When ordering my breakfast I shied away from traditional eggs and bacon, or pancakes, opting for the "Old Fashioned" Cinnamon Sugar Donut French Toast. I was pleasantly surprised when my dish arrived with roasted apples in sauce, brie cheese slices, and whipped cream along with my "Old Fashioned" Donut drenched in a rum toffee sauce. Breakfast was a perfect match for the peppermint mocha latte that tasted just how the holiday season smells. Being slightly over ambitious I ordered sweet plantain on the side. When only half of the main dish and the side were gone, I was full.
My breakfast companion ordered the stuffed cinnamon raisin French toast, which arrived at our table tiered, beautifully presented with mounds of whipped cream also, and fresh raspberries and sauce adorning the plate. The presentation and size of the breakfasts meant that each of us began with a "Where do I even begin with eating this?" feeling. Our second side order was the chicken and apple sausage. It was enough food to feed four, at a table of two.
THE BILL: The traditional breakfast menu ranges from a stack of buttermilk pancakes that cost $5.25 to breakfast sandwiches under $5 to omelets between $10 and $15. , The daily specials cost a bit more. The stuffed French toast and "Old Fashioned" donut were $11.95 each. But it is money well spent. The lunch menu includes dishes that are far from ordinary. The Grilled Potrabella for example, according to the menu, is "grilled with oven dried tomatoes, caramelized onions, crushed avocado, melted Finlandia Swiss, and sautéed baby spinach on Rosemary olive Oil Focaccia" anything but boring. The dishes are quite filling and fairly large, so if you were to split a plate with someone chances are you would both leave well satisfied, ( there is a $3 charge for splitting a plate). Brunch features more filling dishes that branch the meals of breakfast and lunch. Lunch offering salads, wraps, sandwiches, and burgers under $15 for the most part. The specialty drinks cost more than a traditional cup of coffee ($2.25) and can cost a hefty $8, including a delectable vanilla chai latte.
THE PARTICULARS: The staff is attentive but leaves plenty of time to enjoy breakfast. Bella's is closed on Mondays. Breakfast is served Tuesday to Friday 8 a.m. until 3 p.m.; lunch also Tuesday to Friday 11:30 a.m until 3 p.m. Brunch is served Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m until 4 p.m. There are about 10 seats at the bar and the indoor tables collectively seat about 30. Strollers not allowed, although the staff helped a couple folded theirs up and they settled into a table with their baby one recent morning. There can be lines at this popular eatery.
THE VERDICT: Bella's was featured in Connecticut Magazine's 2010 list of 23 great places for breakfast and brunch and it's no surprise. Wonderful food in a small comfortable atmosphere at a fairly reasonable prices makes Bella's an ideal breakfast, brunch, or lunch spot.


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The easy way to drive your food truck business to success
A new generation of street food lovers are lining up at food trucks and food carts. Though the idea is a long-standing part of American and world culture, the street food industry has never enjoyed so much popularity or publicity. With lower start-up costs than traditional "store front" restaurants, food trucks offer a unique opportunity to entrepreneurs in a business climate where credit is tight and capital is scarce. In Running a Food Truck For Dummies, you'll get all the delicious details needed to start your own food truck business quickly, affordably, and successfully.
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Microsoft's fight against Apple's attempt to trademark the phrase "App Store" took on new significance last week when Apple sued Amazon.com over its use of the phrase — and tried to get the MiKandi adult "app store" to stop using it, as well.
Those developments mean Microsoft is no longer waging this battle just for itself, but effectively representing would-be "app stores" everywhere.
And in a legal filing today (PDF, 13 pages) Microsoft cites Amazon's new "Appstore" for Google Android devices as evidence that other companies need to be able to use the phrase to accurately describe their mobile application marketplaces.
Microsoft argues that Apple's bid for exclusive rights to "App Store" is "at odds with the growing list of competitors using 'App Store' in their names and 'app store' to describe their stores, including the Amazon Appstore, launched March 22, 2011, by Amazon.com, Inc., the world's largest online retailer. The filing continues, "These uses, despite Apple's continuing enforcement campaign, show beyond dispute that there is a competitive need for the term."
Microsoft's core argument is that "App Store" is a generic term — like "shoe store" or "toy store" — that shouldn't belong to one company. The company reiterated its position in its legal filing today.
Apple strains to keep "App Store" for its exclusive use, even claiming that its online stores are not real stores, only metaphorical ones. But Apple cannot escape the hard truth: when people talk about competitors' stores, they call them "app stores." You don't have to look far to find this generic use – The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and even Apple's CEO Steve Jobs. And generic use of "app store" is not obscure or occasional as Apple would have us believe. It is prominent, ongoing and, by Apple's own measure, hundreds of times more frequent than the thin generic use in the cases upon which Apple relies.
In previous filings, Apple has argued that the public associates "App Store" with its own mobile marketplace, and that many of its competitors have had no problem finding alternative terms — including Microsoft with its own Windows Phone Marketplace.
Apple has also noted the irony of the situation, given Microsoft's past battles over one of its most famous trademarks. This was Apple in a Feb. 28 filing in the case (PDF, 63 pages).
Having itself faced a decades-long genericness challenge to its claimed WINDOWS mark, Microsoft should be well aware that the focus in evaluating genericness is on the mark as a whole and requires a fact-intensive assessment of the primary significance of the term to a substantial majority of the relevant public. Yet, Microsoft, missing the forest for the trees, does not base its motion on a comprehensive evaluation of how the relevant public understands the term APP STORE as a whole.
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You know that new cartoon series on Disney XD called Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja? Well, I thought I would upload a series of characters from the show because I have a feeling that it might be a big hit, and if it is, I will be bombarded with requests for me to make various characters from the series. So let me start with this lesson on "how to draw Howard Weinerman", step by step. Of course everyone just calls him Howard, but I thought you would want to know his last name as well. Anyways, Howard is Randy's best friend. Not only does Howard do anything for Randy, he is also a humungous fan of the ninja. When he finds out that Randy is the new ninja guardian, he goes absolutely bananas. I like his goofy look and his aloof personality. Even though I have seen a ton of characters that look like Howard, he was still entertaining to draw. With all that said, if you like the series on Disney XD called 9th Grade Ninja, you will enjoy drawing Howard as well. Adios people and be sure to lock your doors because there is a ninja that is loose.
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Even if you manage to enforce a diet on your child, the minute they are out of sight you may find they "cheat." In the long term, tight control over your child's diet is not going to work. So what do you do instead?
Some might call it manipulation or brainwashing, but I prefer to think of it as empowerment. To feel empowered about their diet, people of all ages need a few things:
- To believe their diet will keep them healthy or has the potential to make them feel better
- To know what they need to do to stay safe and stick to the diet
- To be given control over what, when, and how they eat
- Bonus: It also helps if they like the food!
Give these things to your children (and yourself while you're at it), and you'll have a much happier family life and a much healthier relationship to food! So… how do you do it? We'll lay out the steps in this series!
A Precaution
Before we get started, though, I'd like to elaborate a bit on the reasons one may or may not decide to put their kid on a special diet. In general, I think dieting as it is typically undertaken in our culture is a bad, bad idea, especially where kids are concerned.
Weight Loss
If you are putting your children on a diet to get them to lose weight STOP RIGHT NOW! It's been shown time and again that dieting for weight loss, especially as a child, is a good way to create low self-esteem, eating disorders, and a dangerous long term pattern of weight cycling.
If you are concerned about your child's amount of fat, you may want to look into potential underlying health issues. Just remember – your child's size is not the problem, and not the focus. When seeing health care professionals, protect your child from their fat-shaming ways!
Here are some of the potential reasons and underlying health issues you may want to screen for if your child may be fat:
- Food allergies, intolerances, or other digestive problems (even celiac disease).
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Hypothyroidism – can cause a puffy appearance, weight gain, and short stature
- Growth Hormone Deficiency – these children will stay short but sometimes put on weight anyway.
- Prader-Willi Syndrome – this very rare condition makes people ravenously hungry.
- Cushing's Syndrome – elevated cortisol levels lead to weight gain.
- Poor quality diet – processed food, nutrient deficient food, lots of sugar, salt, preservatives
- Not enough physical activity
- Emotional eating due to life stress
- Getting ready for a growth spurt – kids often grow "out" before they grow "up," especially at the onset of puberty
Of course you will want to treat any medical condition that you uncover, and that may include making dietary changes. You may also want to change your family's lifestyle to include more nourishing foods and exercise. Just remember – this isn't about size. It's about health. Whether your children stay fat or slim down isn't your measure of "success."
Weight Gain
Some kids are very small for their age and don't gain weight. I've seen doctors prescribe "whatever you can get in the kid" diets to picky eaters, without even checking for potential root causes of their size. They call it "Failure to Thrive" – a meaningless diagnosis, since it only describes the child's growth pattern, not the cause!
If a child is not growing, or is dropping percentile lines on the growth chart there is cause for concern. While tracking a child's size can give insights into health, solving the underlying problem – not just growth) needs to be the goal of a diet. Here are some of the conditions your health care practitioner should look into if your child is not growing as expected:
- Celiac Disease – the villi in the small intestine become damaged, leading to malnutrition.
- Hyperthyroidism – the child will often have a strong appetite if this is the cause.
- Infection – when fighting off an infection a person may lose their appetite and lose weight.
- Diarrhea or Vomiting – these can be caused by infections, food poisoning, food intolerances, allergies, celiac disease, Crohn's disease, ulcers, or other digestive problems.
- Turner's Syndrome – a chromosomal abnormality in some girls which causes short stature among other things.
- Kidney Disease – nutritional deficiencies and hormonal imbalances can be caused by kidney disease.
- Growth Hormone Deficiency – causes shorter stature, often with increased weight for height.
- Sores in the Mouth – canker sores can make it painful to eat. These can be caused by allergies or celiac disease. Any other sore in the mouth or esophagus could have the same effect.
- Sensory Integration Issues – if overwhelmed by flavors, smells, or textures, sensory integration issues may be preventing your child from eating.
- An Eating Disorder – it is possible your child has an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulemia which causes them to restrict calories, purge them, or exercise excessively. It's important not to jump to the conclusion that a child who doesn't like to eat is anorexic. There is often a physical cause!
The underlying cause of small size can dramatically change whether dietary intervention is warranted, and what that intervention should be! As when adjusting diet and exercise for fat kids, tiny kids need the focus to be on their health rather than their size.
IgE Allergy
IgE allergies are also known as "true allergies." The most severe can cause anaphylactic reactions to the slighted exposure. This is the sometimes fatal type of reaction people have come to associate with peanut allergies. IgE allergies can also show up as sinus pain, a runny nose, itchy eyes, eczema, hives, swelling, and more. Some people find that they can have a small amount of the food they are allergic to without a problem, but more will set them off. Most people with IgE allergies find that when their system is more overloaded, their reactions are more extreme.
For example, our son has an IgE reaction to corn. He also has "hay fever" – he used to test positive for all weeds, all grass, all trees, dust, mold, and more. When pollen counts are high, he is more sensitive to corn. When he's been eating corn, he's more sensitive to pollen! By taking corn out of his diet, we were able to dramatically reduce his reactions to environmental allergens.
The more severe your child's IgE food reaction is, the more important it is to make a rigid dietary change.
Food Intolerances
Food intolerances can cause symptoms like vomiting, constipation, or diarrhea, or cause kids to be tiny or huge for their age. They can cause ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, and mood swings. Some people notice no symptoms at all.
Testing for food intolerances (typically IgG reactions on an ELISA test) is controversial. The tests are not extremely sensitive and accurate. A positive result doesn't necessarily show an innate intolerance to a particular food. Rather, it shows that the gut is damaged and partially digested food is making it out into the blood stream. The body then attacks those proteins, creating the IgG antibodies. For this reason people show higher reactions to the foods they recently ate.
So if you have test results that show food intolerances, or suspect a food, the way to test whether it is a problem is to cut all suspected foods from the diet for a couple weeks until symptoms are dramatically reduced then reintroduce them one by one, every few days. It's important to space out introductions of new or suspected foods because reactions are not always immediate.
The typical recommendation for people who show IgG reactions is to go on a rotation diet. In these diets, you only eat small amounts of the foods that you showed moderate reactions to, and then you don't eat that food again for several days. This allows the inflammatory response to that food to die down before you introduce it again.
Another approach is to go on a diet such as GAPS to heal the "leaky gut" and resolve as many food intolerances as possible.
Doing these kinds of diets for your children requires good communication and teamwork. You will be relying on your child to tell you or show you their symptoms, and to stick to the diet so that you can get good information about what is or isn't causing reactions!
There are two kinds of diabetes, and while both can be helped by dietary changes, their requirements are different. There is no dietary solution for Diabetes Type 1.
Type 1 Diabetes (formerly known as juvenile diabetes), is
believed to be an autoimmune disorder in which the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas are destroyed attacked and so can't produce insulin. Without these cells, the body can not produce the insulin necessary to metabolize food. That results in high blood sugar. To control diabetes type 1, your child needs to eat regularly with a consistent balance of carbs, protein, and fat. Keeping good records is also important. edit to add: Choosing a diet that includes regular eating times and a consistent balance of carbs, protein, and fat, and keeping a food journal may help them avoid extreme swings in blood sugar; however, this will not change the fact that they will still need to monitor blood sugar and take insulin. Blood sugar is also affected by stress, activity levels, and more. Your child also may be able to learn to recognize the feeling of high and low blood sugar to help with monitoring. Children with Type 1 Diabetes should be told that there is nothing they did to cause their disease. A good diet is not a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. Until a cure is found, they will need to use insulin, no matter what foods they eat.
In Type 2 Diabetes there is plenty of insulin, but the body doesn't respond to it properly. Supplements or medications may be prescribed, and blood sugar will need to be monitored throughout the day. As with type 1 diabetes, good records of diet need to be kept, and your child will need to eat regularly with a consistent balance of carbs, protein, and fat. As with diabetes type 1, blood sugar highs and lows need to be recognized and treated to prevent serious problems.
"Cheating" on a diet as a diabetic can be very dangerous. Getting fingers stuck several times a day and getting injections of insulin isn't fun. Kids with diabetes need to understand as much as possible about their condition in order to be able to cope with these realities of treatment.
ADD/ADHD, Mood Disorders, Autism, Learning Disabilities, etc.
Many now believe that people with psychological or behavioral issues may be helped by a change in diet. Some popular diets for these conditions are:
- Feingold – This diet eliminates exposure to synthetic food additives and reduces salicylates.
- Gluten-Free/Casein-Free – Gluten and casein can break down and cross the gut lining as opioids which interfere with brain function. This diet removes gluten and casein to prevent that from happening.
- GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) and SCD (Specific Carbohydrate Diet)– These diets have the aim of healing a leaky gut and restoring the balance of flora in the gut so that partially digested food molecules and toxins no longer cross into the blood stream and nutrients are better absorbed. Unlike Feingold and the GF/CF diet, these diets do not include any processed foods and only allow certain forms of sugar. They are similar to the Paleo way of eating.
Unlike with diabetes, where response to diet and insulin is well documented and easy to track, or a food allergy with obvious and immediate symptoms, dietary changes for these kinds of disorders can be harder to evaluate. We had amazing success with the GAPS diet – but it took time. Having the children's cooperation and commitment to a diet like this is critical to its long term success.
Overall Health
If there are no known health issues and you simply want your family to eat real, whole, organic food, we heartily approve! But these are also the kinds of diets that get a bad rap. You've no doubt heard adults talking about how their mom made them eat health food and now all they eat is candy and frozen dinners. That's definitely not the end result you want!
Next step – get a fresh start and have a transformative conversation with your kids!
Here's a list of the posts in this series:
- Empowering Kids On Special Diets
- Empowering Kids Part 2: A Fresh Start
- Empowering Kids Part 3: Make It Easy
- Empowering Kids Part 4: On Their Own
What are your reasons for wanting to start your children on a special diet?
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Loup not thrown for loop on Opening Day
TORONTO -- Aaron Loup got his first taste of what it's like to pitch in front of a sold-out crowd during his 1 1/3 innings of work on Tuesday night versus the Indians.
Loup managed to fight through the nerves by not allowing a run. It was Loup's first time being on the mound for Opening Day following last year's mid-season callup.
The pressure might have gotten to other second-year pitchers, but not Loup, who has an even-keel approach on the mound and never seems too rattled. But it was still an adjustment, and one that Loup's glad he now has under his belt.
"The buzz that has been around the city and the whole time I played here last year, the stadium definitely wasn't packed like that," Loup said. "To be out there in front of the fans that were rooting for the team, the excitement around the team, it was definitely fun.
"It's kind of tough. I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't excited and had a little bit of adrenaline going. But you just try to collect yourself and stay as calm as you can out there, just go out there and pitch the way you know how to pitch."
Loup received an unexpected surprise from the hometown crowd prior to the eventual 4-1 loss to Cleveland on Opening Night. When Loup was introduced, the crowd started a loud "Loooooooup" chant that couldn't help but bring a smile to the face of the middle reliever.
It's a chant that the Blue Jays have tried to start before, but Tuesday night marked the first time the crowd embraced it on their own.
"Casey Janssen and Darren Oliver, they always mess with me and when they see me they go "Looooup" and it was like 'Man, we gotta get that started in the stadium,'" Loup said. "When they introduced me last night, they did it and it took me back for a second and you go, 'Oh, that's pretty cool.' I wasn't expecting it at all."


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In September 1997 DFSORT Release 13 was shipped (to coincide with the release of OS/390 Release 4). It took a nice idea from Syncsort and extended it. In case you didn't know OUTFIL allows you to read an input data set (and perhaps sort it) and write to multiple output files from the resulting records - perhaps selecting subsets of the records and reformatting them (and differently to each output... [More]
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Horn is the next iOS effort from Dark Meadow dev
Phosphor Games has detailed its next mobile gaming effort, a fantasy adventure called Horn. According to IGN's hands-on report, the third-person action game is fully navigable and explorable, unlike the on-rails experience offered by similarly beautiful rival Infinity Blade. The screens look pretty damn shiny and so does the commitment to pure tap controls – […]
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As revealed the the VGAs over the weekend, indie iOS horror title The Dark Meadow is on the way to Android devices with enough grunt – namely, a Tegra 3 – to power its Unreal Engine-powered graphics. This Deluxe Edition version isn't a straight port, but will feature upgraded graphics and tech; crossbows at the […]
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Is it morbid fascination with the deceased Midway and its not-quite-swansong Hero that makes us so interested in Awakened? Not, it's that is sounds bloody brilliant. Two trailers have turned up, in their rough-and-ready pre-alpha state, and you may gaze on them through the jump.


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In Vietnam in 1968, two separate mine explosions left Chuck Hagel with shrapnel in his chest and burns on his face and arms.
This is not a man who is going to shrink from a fight with the chicken hawks of the Senate.
President Obama hit the right theme in nominating Hagel on Monday to be secretary of defense — the first enlisted man and the first Vietnam veteran to be so honored. "To this day, Chuck bears the scars — and the shrapnel —from the battles he fought in our name," Obama said during an appearance with Hagel and other officials in the East Room.
"Maybe most importantly," Obama added, "Chuck knows that war is not an abstraction. He understands that sending young Americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that's something we only do when it's absolutely necessary."
Behind the men was the Washington Monument, concealed by the East Room's gold curtains. In front of them, on Pennsylvania Avenue, workers were finishing the parade reviewing stand for Obama's second inauguration. For the president, who has too often shied from forceful leadership, the Hagel nomination was a welcome sign that he is willing to pick a fight in his second term.
And Hagel is worth fighting for. The Republican former senator from Nebraska should and probably will be confirmed by the Senate, despite irresponsible claims that he is anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-gay and a coddler of Iran. Most of that is false and the rest is irrelevant: As head of the Pentagon, Hagel would not determine foreign policy.
What he would do is lead the people who fight wars — and for that, the old infantry sergeant is uniquely qualified. When he says that war should be the last resort, he speaks with a moral authority that few of those senators who would judge him can match.
In accepting the nomination, Hagel spoke of the troops as his top priority, the "men and women in uniform and their families . . . who have sacrificed so much over more than a decade of war." The only agenda item he mentioned was to "strengthen our country and strengthen our country's alliances."
Alliances were a Hagel trademark in the Senate, where, although he voted to authorize the Iraq war, he became a scalding critic of the George W. Bush administration's unilateralist policies and bungled prosecution of the conflict. His criticism of the administration antagonized many of his Republican colleagues, who are now returning the favor.
Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.) called Hagel's record "extremely concerning." Sen. David Vitter (La.) said Hagel's confirmation "would send exactly the wrong message." Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) said Hagel's views send "the worst possible signal."
Neither Cornyn nor Vitter lists military service in his biography. Graham was an Air Force lawyer.
Even some Republicans who once praised Hagel view him differently now that Obama has embraced him. When Hagel left the Senate four years ago, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) praised his "clear voice and stature on national security and foreign policy." But on Sunday, the Senate minority leader retreated, telling ABC News's George Stephanopoulos only that Hagel is "outspoken" and that it is necessary to "take a look at all the things that Chuck has said over the years."
Hagel, who fought from foxholes, knows better than to expect loyalty from former Senate colleagues, and he reacted with equanimity when neoconservative critics, hearing rumors of his nomination, put out word that he is anti-Semitic. "What a town!" he remarked at the time.
Standing to Obama's right in the East Room on Monday, Hagel wore a slight frown beneath his droopy eyes as the president lavished praise on him. "As a young private, and then a sergeant, he served with honor alongside his own brother," Obama recounted. "When Chuck was hit by shrapnel, his brother saved him. When his brother was injured by a mine, Chuck risked his life to pull him to safety."
Hagel, hands at his side, continued to wear his unimpressed frown as the man he would succeed, Leon Panetta, said Hagel is "a patriot, he's a decorated combat veteran, and . . . his deep understanding of the security issues facing this country make him the right choice to be secretary of defense."
Panetta said he will return home to his California walnut farm to deal "with a different set of nuts."
It will now be Hagel's task to crack the nuts Panetta leaves behind — beginning with those in the Senate.
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I am REALLY proud of this quilt, and I am really excited to share it with you! I spent a long time designing, cutting, sewing, quilting and binding this beauty, and I am so happy with the way it turned out!!
Quilting has been really fun for me over the last few of years. Made even more fun by the fact that my mom has a long-arm quilting machine!
After finishing up several antique quilt tops into quilts, I decided that I wanted to make a quilt, from the beginning, all myself!
I really love many of the scrap quilts I've seen, and I needed to pare down my scrap pile, so I decided to create myself a pattern, and put together my own HST (half square triangle) scrap quilt!
Using triangle shapes in a powerpoint document, I started to arrange them, and came up with several different designs that I liked. Below is the design I settled on.
Using this wonderful tutorial for making HSTs in bulk, I started the long process of sewing and trimming the hundreds of HSTs that I needed.
I had quite a few blue and green scraps of fabric, so I arranged them according to those colors.
Then, I started laying out my quilt.
After I had my layout just the way I wanted it, I stacked the squares in each row, from left to right, and pinned them all together - including a piece of paper with the number of the row.
That way, I was able to get it up off the floor, and keep it in order.
I sewed each square in the row together, as you see below. It took a long time :) I made sure to re-attach the number to the row once it was sewn together, so that I could remember the order.
You can see below I would check to make sure I had sewn things together correctly by laying each row side by side to look at the pattern again. Once all the squares in each row were sewn together, I sewed the rows together.
I also used some HSTs to create a pattern for the backing.
Then, the fun (but stressful) part. I agonized over what designs to quilt using the long-arm quilting machine. I wanted the quilting to reflect the time I had taken to make it, so I was careful quilting it myself, and I spent a long time on it! It was worth it!
I did swirls on the outer edge, pebbles in the squares, sunburst things in the pinwheels. I did scallops between the zig zag border.
Then I bound it with a bright color to complement the zig zag border. I really LOVE how it turned out. I'm willing to use most of the quilts I finish, but this one I've decided will just be for looking at, no for using :)
What do you think? Are you a quilter? Have you made your own pattern before?
It's a lot of work - but a ton of fun!
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At a recent academic conference, Michigan State University professor Natalie Phillips stole a glance around the room. A speaker was talking but the audience was fidgety. Some people were conferring among themselves, or reading notes. One person had dozed off.
Phillips, who studies 18th- and 19th-century literature, says the distracted audience made something pop in her head. Distractability is a theme that runs through many novels of Jane Austen, whom Phillips admires. It occurred to Phillips that there was a paradox in her own life when it came to distractability.
"I love reading, and I am someone who can actually become so absorbed in a novel that I really think the house could possibly burn down around me and I wouldn't notice," she said. "And I'm simultaneously someone who loses their keys at least three times a day, and I often can't remember where in the world I parked my car."
For Phillips, Jane Austen became both a literary and a neuroscientific puzzle.
Could modern cognitive theories explain character development in one of Austen's most famous heroines — Pride and Prejudice's Elizabeth Bennett? Phillips thinks Bennett's distractability was key to Austen's characterization of her lively mind — and that Austen herself was drawing on the contemporary theories of cognition in her time.
If neuroscience could inform literature, Phillips asked, could literature inform neuroscience?
She decided to conduct a study, looking at how reading affects the brain. She had volunteers lie still in a brain scanner and read Austen. Phillips sometimes instructed her volunteers to browse, as they might do at a bookstore. Other times, she asked them to delve deep, as a scholar might read a text while conducting a literary analysis.
Phillips said the experiment produced some surreal moments: "If you asked me on a top 10 list of things that I did not expect to find myself doing as an 18th-centuryist when I first started this study on the history of distraction, I would say lying on my back in an MRI scanner trying to figure out how to position paragraphs by Jane Austen so that you wouldn't have to turn your head while reading with a mirror."
Phillips and her collaborators scanned the brains of the volunteers using a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine. The scanner paints a rough picture of brain activity. A computer program simultaneously tracked readers' eye movements across the page, and researchers kept tabs on the volunteers' breathing and heart rate. At the end of the experiment, Phillips asked each volunteer to write a short essay based on the passages he or she read.
Neuroscientists warned Phillips she wouldn't see many brain differences between the casual reading and intense reading.
"Everyone told me to expect these really, really minute and subtle effects," she said, "because everyone was going to be doing the same thing, right? Reading Jane Austen. And they were just going to be doing it in two different ways."
Phillips said she mainly expected to see differences in parts of the brain that regulate attention because that was the main difference between casual and focused reading.
But in a neuroscientific plot twist, Phillips said preliminary results showed otherwise: "What's been taking us by surprise in our early data analysis is how much the whole brain — global activations across a number of different regions — seems to be transforming and shifting between the pleasure and the close reading."
Phillips found that close reading activated unexpected areas: parts of the brain that are involved in movement and touch. It was as though readers were physically placing themselves within the story as they analyzed it.
Phillips' research fits into an interdisciplinary new field sometimes dubbed "literary neuroscience." Other researchers are examining poetry and rhythm in the brain, how metaphors excite sensory regions of the brain, and the neurological shifts between reading a complex text like Marcel Proust compared with reading a newspaper — all in hopes of giving a more complete picture of human cognition.
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
And I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning.
You know, if I say the name Jane Austen you may think of a number of things. You might think of novels like "Pride and Prejudice" or "Mansfield Park." You might think of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," a novel that was inspired by Jane Austen. You may not think about neuroscience. But you will after you hear NPR's Shankar Vedantam, who joins us regularly to talk about social science research.
Hi, Shankar.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hi, Steve.
INSKEEP: What is the connection here?
VEDANTAM: Well, the story begins a few years ago. There's this literature professor who studies 19th century British novels, specifically Jane Austen. Her name is Natalie Phillips. She works at Michigan State University.
And she's been interesting in the theme that runs through many Austen novels, which is the theme of distractibility and getting distracted. And as she was thinking about this theme, it made her think about a paradox in her own life that has to do with the issue of distractibility. Here's how she put it to me.
NATALIE PHILLIPS: I love reading. And I am someone who can actually become so absorbed in a novel that I really think the house could possibly burn down around me and I wouldn't notice. And simultaneously, I'm someone who also loses my keys at least three times a day and I often can't remember where in the world I parked my car. And I often feel like I'm thinking so many things at once, that I lose track of what I was saying mid-sentence.
INSKEEP: OK. So distraction and distractibility, which sounds like the title of a little known Jane Austen novel, come to think of it.
VEDANTAM: The one that you should write, Steve.
INSKEEP: OK. So she's deeply reading, reading in a different way, a more intense way. And that makes the book feel more real than reality to her.
VEDANTAM: So this is the question, right. Why do these fictional events that took place more than 100 years ago feel more real than the real events that are happening in your own life? And what's the role of the attention that she is brining to the novel in changing her experience of what the novel has.
Now, Phillips is someone who's interested in interdisciplinary work. And so she teamed up with a bunch of neuroscientists at Stanford University to conduct this experiment where she had volunteers read a chapter of "Mansfield Park." But she had the volunteers read the novel in two different ways. She had them first read the novel in this very casual way that you might to at a bookstore while you're browsing - skipping paragraphs, skipping sections.
INSKEEP: Checking Twitter on your phone.
VEDANTAM: Checking Twitter, making sure you're updated. And then she had them read it in a very sustained and close manner, in a very focused way. And when she talked to a neuroscientist, a neuroscientist said, look, you're probably not going to see very much difference in the brain between these two types of reading.
PHILLIPS: Everyone told me to expect these really, really minute and subtle effects, because everyone was going to be doing the same thing. And they were just going to be doing it in two different ways.
INSKEEP: That's what people expected, but what?
VEDANTAM: So she started to find some really interesting things about the brain imaging. And, you know, I should say that we're fairly early in the study. The study hasn't been completed. But what she expected was if the difference between casual reading and closed reading is attention - in one case, you're paying attention, in one case, you're not - then the difference in the brain - areas of the brain that control attention should be heightened in one situation.
PHILLIPS: What we found was actually something else entirely. What's been taking us by surprise in our early data analysis is how much the whole brain - global activations across a number of different regions - seems to be transforming and shifting between the pleasure and the close reading.
INSKEEP: So wait a minute. She is saying that when you are really absorbed in a book for a sustained period of time in a sustained way it engages your entire brain, which is what allows you to think that you could keep reading even as the house burned down.
VEDANTAM: It looks like that. I mean, so if we step back for a second and think about brain imaging, a lot of brain imaging results are intuitively obvious. But in this situation, I think what's striking is that it wasn't just the part of the brain that focuses on attention that was different in the close reading.
What Phillips is finding is that there are heightened emotional responses. There's heightened activation in the motor cortex, parts of the brain that are involved in movement, in perceiving where you stand in space. And all of these come to life when the reading is done in this close manner with close attention.
INSKEEP: OK. So what are the implications for us in this world where there are constant distractions, from television to e-mail to everything else?
VEDANTAM: Well, I think what the study is showing, Steve, is that reading with you're your mind is not half as good as reading with your full focused mind. And the implications for kids is, you know, you should turn off those iPhones, turn off those iPads, turn off the television if you really want to get the experience of what a book is, you need to give yourself time to become completely immersed in it.
INSKEEP: NPR's Shankar Vedantam here with the results of some ongoing research. Shankar, thanks as always.
VEDANTAM: Thanks, Steve.
INSKEEP: You can follow him on Twitter @HiddenBrain. You can also follow this program @MorningEdition and @NPRInskeep. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The future course of global business is digital. But increasing obstructions to the flows of data, IT products, IT services and IT talent are jeopardizing the journey toward global digital business models. We call this process digital fragmentation.
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- Penn State Chosen to Lead $10 Million NEWBio Regional Bioenergy Project
The USDA AFRI program recently announced its selection of Penn State to lead a five year, $10 million bioenergy project. Called "NEWBio", the combined research, education, and extension project is designed to help create a northeast biofuel supply chain based on non-food cellulosic crops to learn more, visit http://www.newbio.psu.edu.
- Biofuels research and teaching facility dedicated at Harrisburg campus
Penn State Harrisburg has opened its new $1.6 million biofuels research and teaching laboratory and greenhouse. Dedicated during a recent ceremony, the facility serves a center for the study of second- and third-generation biofuels, with the goal of bringing environmentally friendly energy alternatives to the marketplace.
- Tree geneticist John Carlson receives $3.7 million grant for hardwoods research
A plant geneticist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has received a $3.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop genomics resources to address forest-health issues affecting hardwood trees. Carlson, professor of molecular genetics in the college's School of Forest Resources, is principal investigator on the project, "Comparative Genomics of Environmental Stress Responses in North American Hardwoods," funded by the NSF Plant Genome Research Program.
- Amerigreen Blog: Penn State Bioenergy in Practice
Penn State University's "Fields to Fuels" bioenergy crops display is a field-scale demonstration of several new and proven bioenergy crops for Pennsylvania. These crops are not merely display samples; "they are being grown at field scale to test their productivity and growth characteristics for use by Penn State and others." The site is available for tours.
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If you heard that director James L. Brooks ("Broadcast News") was teaming up with Steven Spielberg's favorite cinematographer (Janusz Kaminski) for a brand new movie budgeted as $120 million, wouldn't you expect something more than a romantic comedy built almost entirely on static conversation scenes?
So it's probably a good thing "How Do You Know" took a different marketing route.
Brooks is like the comedy Terrence Malik - he lets years float by in between projects only to re-emerge just when the world threatens to forget about them. It's been seven years since "Spanglish," but we're sorry to say that Brooks hasn't used that time to sharpen his considerable comedy skills. Not that "How Do You Know" is bad - the relationships are just complicated enough to keep your interest, and a few jokes land with Brooks' trademark dryness perfectly delivered - it's just not very remarkable for a director who made something like "Broadcast News" that isn't just hilarious, but almost chilling and oddly prescient when you watch it today.
The biggest victim of "How Do You Know's" mediocrity is star Reese Witherspoon. Saddled with a love triangle alongside two actors not asked to do anything they haven't done in a million other movies ("Paul Rudd, you play nice and nebbish, Owen Wilson, you play cocky and dim"), she's forced to dig deep to make her former softball player turned lost soul something resembling a likable human. And she does. Her first date with Rudd's character is a great scene deserving of a less "meh" overall movie. Not to mention an often excruciatingly long and, um, "casually paced" (121 minutes) "meh" movie. Oh, and after this and his overly hammy performance in "The Departed," is it safe to start adding Jack Nicholson alongside DeNiro and Pacino in the pantheon of the once great, now phoning it in?
The special features on offer are pretty expected (Blooper Reels? Is there anything you can't do?), but we'd suggest checking out the feature commentary with Brooks and Kaminski. It's not often you get the guy who shot one of the greatest, most epic battle sequences in film history (the opening of "Saving Private Ryan") discussing his struggles with shooting a rom-com.
Overall, "How Do You Know" ends up being much like its title - generic, easily forgotten, and slapped together without a real eye for sharper details (like, say, a question mark).


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Parents Need to be Concerned with Campus Safety
I am going to start this the way my 20-year-old daughter started her phone call to me several weeks ago. With a phrase that as a parent makes your heart pound the moment you hear the tone in your child's voice even before the words come. "I'm OK, everyone is ok but . . ."
This is how my daughter a junior at UC Berkeley, told me that she and two girl friends had been mugged the night before while walking home from her work study job on campus. No one was hurt badly, but there was a struggle and physical contact. The girls were frightened, freaked out, but it could have been worse. Much worse. My daughter and her friends called 911 and made a full report of the crime, but I also encouraged my daughter to tell everyone she knew what happened, including posting it on Facebook. To let people know it can and does happen.
Which it turns out is advice given in a brochure by the Berkeley Police Department (www.cityofberkeley.info/police), written by the Crime and Violence Prevention Center at the California Attorney General's Office and downloadable at www.safestate.org. Other advice, from the Berkeley PD, includes carrying your phone in your hand to have it at the ready, and separating your valuables and ID so that if you are mugged, you don't lose everything in one grab. Keys, ID and credit cards in pockets, phone in hand — not wallet and purse inside a backpack, as was the case with my daughter's friend who was beaten up in a struggle over the backpack.
College students, our children, wearing the backpacks we bought them, filled with the latest technology, computers, cell phones, iPads and cash cards loaded so they won't want for anything, are targets of crime. We unknowingly make them prime suspects for urban crime. According to a story on Here and Now, "University campuses, cities and retailers around the country — and around the world — are dealing with a massive up-tick in thefts of Apple products. The crime trend has become so pronounced, it's been given a name: "Apple picking.
I urge you, as a parent, if you do not know about this new wave of crime, or the crime statistics of your child's university, you should. So should your child. And I say this not as one of those helicopter moms. I know that it is our children who are attending these universities, who live both on and off campus and who ultimately need to take responsibility for their own safety. But as parents, it is our job to help them be as aware and prepared as possible. And as parents, it is up to us to hold the universities and the leaders of surrounding communities responsible for the safety of our children. Let's face it, our bank accounts are bigger, that makes us influential. We need to get involved, if not in making safety one the reasons our children choose a college campus but certainly in their safety once they do decide.
We need to start by asking questions about safety both on campus and in the surrounding communities while on tours of prospective universities. We need to insure that news of crime on college campuses is public, widely available and of concern to all involved in the college experience, our children, the other parents and the educators. We need to insist that crime against college students is a statistic that universities feel responsible for and take pride in keeping low. We can do this now, while high school seniors are touring campuses, meeting with university staff and making a choice for their future. Speak up and let these institutions know that the likelihood of our child becoming the victim of a crime while in their care and tutelage is as important to us as the number of Nobel Laureates, or the ratio of professors to students.


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I pride myself on being able to argue reasonably, listen respectfully, consider new perspectives thoughtfully and — most of the time — withhold judgment.
But I just don't get it. Anyone who uses a newer iPhone without a case must be completely nuts.
This includes close friends, tech geniuses, GeekWire's Todd Bishop and all kinds of people I respect. Hell, my husband is one of these lunatics. Every time I spot his iPhone 4, shielded from a cruel world by nothing more than a thin film on the front, I cringe, look at him and think, Good lord, WHY?
I love you all, but really. I've heard your reasons and they don't make sense. You're out there, way too many of you, defending your naked iPhones with a casual pride I've tried and failed to understand.
Snap out of it, people, 'cause this is madness.
Here are five reasons why:
1. It's. Made. Of. Glass.
An iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S is a steel frame surrounded by not one but two panels of a smooth, sleek, fragile substance called glass. Is it that geektastic Corning glass? Yes. Is it stronger and more damage resistant than a lot of glass? Apparently. Is it oh-so-cleverly called "Gorilla" glass? You bet. It's still glass. That stuff that shatters when you throw a rock at it. Or hurl a bad guy through it. Or set a mug on it too hard. Or, you know, drop it. Apple gets away with making mobile phones out of glass because Apple is God. The rest of you should face facts.
2. You are not God
You're responsible, you're consistent, you're disciplined. You've never dropped a phone in your life and you never will. Ha! Funny. If you haven't been there, you'll get there, and let me tell you — it sucks. You only have to be clumsy or careless or a total idiot once.
The only reason my iPhone 4 escaped certain death when it flew off the roof of my car getting on I-5 that luckiest of unluckiest days last year (total idiot) was because it was in a case.
You can take a shattered phone to Apple for top-of-the-line, wallet-busting surgery or search for a bargain at a local repair shop or down the back alleys of eBay or Craigslist. Or you can get a case.
3. Ive won't mind.
Deep in the mythical land of Apple lives a man — nay — a legend of insurmountable genius named Jonathan Ive. Ive led the design of the iPod and the iMac, the Air and the iPad, and yes, the absolutely ravishing iPhone. Newer models don't curve for grip and can slip from your hands, but that's OK, you say, because Ive forged not just a phone but a work of art, and you'll be damned if you keep it under a case. Here's the thing, though: Ive's all set. Everyone and their grandmother knows what an iPhone looks like and that it's glorious. Yours isn't a thing of beauty as much as it's just another iPhone. Want to honor its splendor? Great. Protect it.
4. Bulk is beautiful
Put in for a case and you won't be assigned some stuffy standard issue rag. This is the free market, thank goodness, and cases compete on aesthetics and lightness as well as portability and practicality. My phones have worn all kinds of cases, most of them swag from one conference or another. My iPhone 4 is currently sporting a green and gray OtterBox that's keeping me worry free. Type "iPhone" into Google's search bar and "iPhone cases" is the fourth suggested search. Translation: you've got choices. Will all these choices add bulk to your phone? Of course. It pays it back in peace of mind.
5. Your phone is too big to fail
Face it: If you have an iPhone and you love your iPhone you're going to have a bad day when the naked little guy falls and breaks. It may shut down outright, interrupting your busy schedule with an emergency trip to a repair shop where you can't check your email while you wait. Or it'll suffer some screen damage or camera casualty you'll swear is no big deal until it digs into your skull in a slow, geeky form of torture. Either way, ick. You can expose the ruling gadget of your life to technological tragedy, or you can save yourself a full stop in your mobile grind in the future with a little prevention today.
Think I'm crazy? Tell me why. This could get interesting.
Previously from Mónica: Let's admit it: We're still using our phones when we drive; Today food trucks, tomorrow the world? Mobile app LevelUp targets Seattle geeks.


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Man oh man, I hope Goodell shows hes got some cajones and sticks to his decision. Whether Jones is guilty or not, hes set a track record for screwing up, his suspension is a message to the rest of the league. To bad " Pac-man" woke up too late, he needs to be a man, suck it up and drive on.NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The NFL Players Association is supporting Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones' appeal for leniency to league commissioner Roger Goodell.
"Your suspension of Jones without pay for the entire 2007 season is clearly excessive and much greater than discipline imposed upon other players for the same or similar incidents," the NFLPA said in a letter to Goodell on May 23.
The letter, obtained Tuesday by ESPN and other media organizations, was signed by staff counsel Thomas J. DePaso.
The union generally supports players when they are disciplined by the league or teams -- it's a standard part of protecting players' jobs. Two years ago, it took Terrell Owens' suspension by the Philadelphia Eagles to arbitration.
Goodell suspended Jones April 10 for a series of off-field incidents in two seasons with the Titans. Jones and his attorneys appealed the suspension May 11; Goodell has not issued a decision on the appeal.
Jones had been suspended partly because of pending charges, which the union wrote "violates clearly established principles of employment and labor law."
The letter said "no player has ever been disciplined by the commissioner for conduct relating to criminal charges while they are pending."
Jones' punishment stemmed from arrests in February for obstruction of police in Georgia and public intoxication and disorderly conduct last August. Goodell also cited Jones for failing to report the February arrest and a March arrest on marijuana possession charges. The marijuana charges were later dismissed.
In Las Vegas, police have recommended charges against Jones for inciting a fight inside a strip club in February that resulted in a triple shooting and left one man paralyzed.
The Georgia case has been postponed until fall.
Manny Arora, Jones' lawyer, said Tuesday the letter "speaks for itself."
"The NFLPA has outlined their position in their letter," he said, declining to comment further.
The Titans, meanwhile, have signed veteran cornerback Nick Harper and used their top draft pick this year on safety Michael Griffin, who may be shifted to cornerback.
Jones, in two seasons, became a shutdown cornerback and dangerous punt returner. He was the sixth overall selection and first defensive player taken in the 2005 draft.


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