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Who coined the term reverse swing? I think it was Imran, but it would be good to have it verified.I'm afraid that you will have to go back quite a bit further than the early 1990's - the tour which had Alan Lamb up in arms about 'one or two things'.Why does a ball reverse swing?
I have studied film of many fast bowlers over the last 30 years and (unless I am mistaken) the 'first' exponent I ever saw of reverse swing was Sarfraz Nawaz with his 'in-ducker'.
As far as 'who first used the term "reverse swing"', that's more difficult. It's a term which has crept into cricket in the last 10 years and everyone uses it. I have conducted searches through my cricket books and the internet and cannot find a single reference to the term before about 11 years ago.
There was a scientific study of the mechanics of cricket ball flight published in 'New Scientist' in 1980, and this deals with 'smooth v rough' sides of the ball, but the modern phenomenon is 'wet v dry'.
I would guess that the first time anyone discovered the phenomenon would have been a total accident. When I was at Derbyshire's indoor nets about 30 years ago, it was like an old 'nissan hut' - a prefabricated structure with a metal roof. In winter, it used to get pretty steamy in there with plenty of condensation.
I could envisage a scenario where a ball had been 'left behind' in there, and a damp or wet area of condensation had formed overnight (say under an old polythene sheet). The next day, someone comes in for a 'net' and finds the ball. One side's dry, one side's heavy with water. The bowler holds the ball as if to swing the ball conventionally, delivers it and it goes 'the other way'.
Now, it wouldn't surprise me if someone (e.g. Sarfraz down at Northants) discovered this phenomenon quite by accident. It would then become a closely-guarded secret. Unfortiunately for bowlers, the whole issue was blown wide open in the early 1990's with accusations, counter-accusations, recriminations and the like.
The 'mystery ball' was no more, and scientific studies eventually confirmed the reason for reverse. Not (necessarily) ball-tampering, but the 'loading up' of one side of the ball with perspiration.
Didn't really answer your question Roy, but I had fun researching it as much as I could.
Did it answer Mr Perko's? Not totally, but there are many studies which have been performed, and I don't feel right just reproducing their work here. Just use a search engine, plug in 'reverse swing' and away you go. If there are bits you don't understand regarding the aerodynamics and so on, feel free to ask us again.


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Minecraft Creator Says 'No Such Thing As A Lost Sale'
from the give-people-a-reason-to-buy deptLast year we wrote about how Minecraft developer Notch (Markus Persson) had been quite vocal in saying that worrying about piracy was a waste of time, and it was much more important to focus on giving people a reason to buy. And has he ever. The game keeps selling like crazy, and we detailed how he was raking in a ton of money, despite not caring if people were using his software for free.
In a short presentation at the Independent Games Summit he elaborated on those positions and again told people to stop worrying about "piracy" and focus on giving people reasons to buy. He dismissed the standard party line on these issues:
Piracy is not theft. If you steal a car, the original is lost. If you copy a game, there are simply more of them in the world.The "lost sale" point is one we've raised a bunch in the past, but people have a lot of trouble grasping it. There is no such thing as a lost sale, because a lost sale just means a failure to get people to buy. And that's a marketing issue, not a legal one. If a "lost sale" is illegal, then anyone who gives you a coupon to buy their product instead of a competitors is "causing a lost sale." But that's ridiculous. And that's the point Notch is making. There are all sorts of reasons people might not buy from you -- and most of them may be your fault. So it's your job to convince people to pay for something -- which he's clearly done. As he notes:
There is no such thing as a 'lost sale'... Is a bad review a lost sale? What about a missed ship date?
If you just make your game and keep adding to it, the people who copyright infringed would buy it the next week.Another report of the talk showed he expanded on the "copying isn't theft" concept:
A lot of big companies try to make piracy like theft; I wouldn't steal a car, but I would 'steal' a good design. If I liked another person's apartment, I would try to make mine look like someone else's... but that's not stealing.And, of course, he's still making money like crazy. While it doesn't look like he posts historical data any more, he does show a running tally of the past 24 hours, and as of me writing this, he's sold 10,348 copies in the past 24 hours (out of 36,612 registered). At 15 euros a pop, that's over 150,000 euros in the last day -- for a small indie game. And these numbers have been going on for months. It's not even a situation where there was a big boom and then sales dropped off. It appears that the game just keeps on selling.
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Putting butter on a burn is a popular folk remedy that has probably been around about as long as the term "old wives tale". In fact, the butter remedy is just that. Putting butter on a burn quite likely does more harm than good. The same can be said for applying most any lotion to a burn (except lotions with significant amount of Aloe vera juice).
While most household burn remedies lack scientific support, at least one, honey, may soon earn some respect.
Evidence for the Health Claim
The butter-for-a-burn remedy likely owes its origin and persistence to the soothing nature of a cool, greasy substance like butter. It is also has immediate availability where minor burns often occur—the kitchen. However, no clinical studies exploring the healing or pain-reducing properties of butter could be found.
The most closely related scientific inquiry actually offers hope for another natural substance. In 2004, the publishers of the New Zealand Ministry of Health's Complementary and Alternative Medicine website evaluated six cases in India in which honey was used as a primary dressing for burn wounds. The publishers concluded that superficial and deeper (so-called partial thickness ) burns treated with honey dressings healed faster and were less likely to become infected than similar burns treated more conventionally. They also reported no side effects. It is important to note that this report described a very small study, and that the healing properties of butter and honey cannot be reliably compared.
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The well accepted first aid instructions for burns include: 1) prevent infection by cleaning the area, and 2) relieve pain. While butter may afford some temporary relieve from the sting of a recent burn, it has no known antiseptic (cleansing), antibiotic (infection fighting), or long-term analgesic (pain-relieving) properties.
Since burns are the result of tissue injury caused by excessive exposure to heat, it makes most sense to treat them by cooling the area as quickly as possible. Cool water, not ice, has been found to stop the burning process, numb the pain, and reduce swelling. Placing butter or similar greasy ointments directly on a burn is counterproductive since it can seal in the heat.
After initial cleaning and cooling, applying antibiotics will protect against infection, particularly for deeper burns. Daily cleaning and dressings are also recommended for continued treatment until the area is healed. Butter may actually promote an infection by discouraging the use of running water and entrapping local contaminants.
A variety of popular burn "remedies" exist. The only one that seems to have modest pain-relieving properties is the topical application of Aloe vera juice, in liquid or gel form. However, Aloe vera juice is generally recommended for use only after the burned area has been thoroughly cleaned.
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30 boycotting ACB officials demand Mashal resignation
KABUL (Pajhwok): Thirty officials of the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB), including Media Manager, Development Manager, Senior Advisor to the Chairman have boycotted the board and demanded chairman resignation, a media report said on Wednesday.
The unhappy group cited differences with Mashal as the primary reason for their decision. Elaborating on the same, they told the media that the Chairman is a conservative person and wanted to recruit and establish his own group of people in the governing body.
According to Aziz Gharwal, ACB Media manager, Mashal fired some top technical official and brought his own people who don't know what cricket is.
Gharwal added further, "Mashal is using ACB as his campaign office for his own publicity and yet to work on Infrastructure plans which are must needed for ICC Full membership."
Only recently, Afghanistan, along with Ireland, has been confirmed as a full member of the International Cricket Council after a unanimous vote at the ICC Full Council meeting. This move has breathed life into the country's cricketing aspirations. According to reports, Afghanistan may as well be on course to playing their first ever test match, against Zimbabwe early next year.
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Zac Efron Suffers Broken Jaw
Ouch! Handsome, hunky actor Zac Efron, who quietly underwent a stint in rehab earlier this year, has broken his jaw after a fall.
Efron, 26, sustained the shocking injury after he fell at his home in the L.A. area on Sunday, Nov. 10.
A source told PEOPLE that the actor, known for his incredible good looks, slipped on a puddle of water. According to E!, Efron did not see the puddle at the entrance of his home and that's how he ate it.
As a result, the former 'High School Musical' actor had to have his jaw wired shut and got stitches, as well.
All promotional efforts for his upcoming film 'That Awkward Moment' are on ice while he recovers.
It sounds like Efron took a pretty bad fall. Having his jaw wired shut should cause him to lose weight as well.
We hope that Vanessa Hudgens' ex is okay! We send our best out to Efron during the recovery phase. Falling on your face is no joke.


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MyAnna Buring (born MyAnna Margaretha Buring Rantapää on September 22, 1979) appears in both Breaking Dawn movies as Tanya. She has also starred in the 2005 horror film The Descent.
Buring was born in Sweden but grew up in the Middle East. She attended high school at the American British Academy in Muscat, Oman with actor and producer Stegath Dorr, who was a childhood friend. When she turned 16, she moved to England. Buring graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2004. She is also the associate director of the MahWaff Theatre Company.
In 2006, Buring guest-starred in "The Impossible Planet", the first episode of a two-episode Doctor Who story. Her character, Scooti, perished in the vacuum of space; the scenes of her body floating towards a black hole were filmed in an underwater tank in Pinewood Studios, to create the effect of weightlessness. Buring also starred as Debbie in Much Ado About Nothing (BBC1), Midsomer Murders (ITV), Casualty (BBC1) and Murder Prevention (Channel 5). In 2012 she starred in White Heat, Blackout and The Poison Tree. She also starred as Long Susan in Ripper Street and as the scheming Edna Braithwaite in Downton Abbey.
Also in 2006, Buring played Olivia in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Exeter's Northcott Theatre Company, alongside Sara Weymouth and David Gwillim, and appeared in a new play, Seduced by Michael Kingsbury at London's Finborough Theatre. For MahWaff Theatre Company, she starred in Guardians, Monologue For An Ensemble, and An Inspector Calls. She is currently starring in Strangers on a Train at the Gielgud Theatre, London until March 2014.
In her first film role, Buring starred in The Descent by director Neil Marshall. She appeared in the sequel in 2009. She starred in the 2008 film Doomsday, linking her again with her Descent director Neil Marshall. Buring also starred as Alice in the independent film Credo, also known as The Devil's Curse. In 2009, Buring appeared as the female lead in the film Lesbian Vampire Killers opposite James Corden and Mathew Horne. In May 2010 she appeared as Jozefa in Witchville for SyFy alongside Sarah Douglas. In 2011 MyAnna appeared as Shel in Kill List. In 2014 she will appear in Epic.


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I like to put inspirational quotes at the top of the white board in my classroom. When I went back to school today after my 2 week vacation, I wrote across the board "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten." That about sums it up. You can make all the resolutions in the world, but unless you change the way you do things, you'll never attain your desired goals. Making goals without putting a plan of action in place is like telling your kids to stop talking and go to sleep. It ain't gonna happen. (Or maybe that's just how it is in my house.)
This year, I only made one resolution and I took steps to make sure I can reach that one goal. My resolution was to put God first. It's not exactly that I stopped believing or anything, but admittedly, I've been wavering this past year or so. For some reason it's really easy to get swept up in all the negative that surrounds us day in and day out. It's easy to focus on all the bad. It's easy to get overwhelmed and depressed. But when you stop focusing on all the crap that keeps getting dumped on you and look outside yourself, it's amazing how things start to fall into place.
I remember the pastor at my church demonstrated this many years ago. He took a large glass jar and filled it with sand, then pebbles, then small rocks, larger rocks, and one very big rock. The last several rocks he tried to put into the jar, tumbled out of the overflowing container. They wouldn't fit. He dumped the contents out and started putting the rocks in once more. This time, however, he put in the largest rock, representing God, first. Next he dropped in the big rocks, representing family and friends. After that, he put in the small rocks - your job, and other important commitments. He then filled the jar with the pebbles - those hobbies and things that fill your time, but aren't really all that important. Finally, he poured in the sand which represented everything else in your life, all the trivial stuff. And guess what. Everything fit in the jar perfectly. When you put the important things first, everything else falls into place.
I got a new devotional book and read it every morning to start me off in the right frame of mind. I got a ring inscribed with Jeremiah 29:11, For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future as a reminder when I'm feeling hopeless. (The ring is a mobius strip and mostly I just look at it and get a headache trying to figure out how it's possible. I'm convinced it's witchcraft.) I said goodbye to relationships that only brought me down. I put inspirational quotes all around my computer monitor at work in case I ever forget that I have the opportunity to be a blessing and an inspiration to everyone I come into contact with every single day.
Already I feel a little lighter. The burdens that have been weighing me down aren't quite so heavy. The headaches and sore jaw that I've been waking up with every day seem to have disappeared. Some exciting opportunities have come my way. A renewed passion for writing has flooded through me. Some amazing people have reached out to me in wonderful ways. It's just amazing what a little change in perspective can do! No longer do I feel filled with dread. I'm looking forward with anticipation to what this year will bring! And I hope you are too! Just remember, if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. If you want something different, maybe it's time for a little change.
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A US academic has warned the administration of US President Barack Obama not to sell F-16C/D aircraft to Taiwan, in case China reacts in an unpredictable and extraordinary way.
"Don't sell F-16s to Taiwan — not now, anyway," George Washington University professor Robert Sutter said.
"This is not a good time. If you push you might get an extraordinary reaction not bound by international norms," he told the 41st Taiwan-US Conference on Contemporary China in Washington.
Asked later by the Taipei Times just how he thought China might react to a sale of the fighters — Taipei has been trying to buy 66 of them for many years now — Sutter said he did not know and could not speculate about it.
"That's the thing — we don't know," he said.
Sutter caused something of a flap at the Carnegie Endowment conference with his controversial paper and statement over the fighter jets.
Senior associate in the Carnegie Asia program Michael Swaine — acting as moderator of the panel on which Sutter spoke — went out of his way to disagree with Sutter's conclusions about Chinese foreign policy.
Swaine said he did not share Sutter's sentiments and that China's recent behavior was understandable.
Sutter argued that Beijing's reaction to the Philippines and developments around the Scarborough Shoal (Huangyan Island, 黃岩島), and to Japan over the Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台), was unexpected and unpredictable.
However, Swaine said the Chinese would argue that both the Philippines and Japan had changed the rules governing the contested areas and that Beijing thought these changes were "unjust and unfair."
He said China did not like the changes and was determined to show that it was not going to accept them.
"The context makes a difference," he said.
Sutter said he found the mix of assertiveness and peace and development in Chinese foreign policy to be "perplexing."
"Looking at the past and what they actually do, can be more helpful than interpreting their statements of what they might do," Sutter said.
"This makes me cautious right now because I am a little concerned about the rounds of assertiveness," he said.
Sutter said the goals of Chinese foreign relations were clear, but that they conflicted with each other.
The strategy on one hand is peace and development, but at the same time they have "core interests that conflict with this peace and development."
"The result is that you have constant tension in Chinese foreign policy. In the past this tension has been pretty well managed, but over the last four or five years, with the ascendance of assertiveness, you have an era of uncertainty. What will the Chinese do?" he said.
Sutter said that China was using extralegal measures to "intimidate and enforce" its position with the Philippines and Japan, while still talking about peace and development.
"Countries in the region are intimidated, they are not going to take chances," he said.
Sutter then raised the potential sale of F-16C/Ds to Taiwan — a sale that China strongly protests and objects to.
"I would tell the Americans to be careful in this part of the world, because if you do something, you might just set the Chinese off," he said.
"The implications of this are that we cannot really assume that the peaceful approach is going to continue," Sutter said.
The professor concluded that recent Chinese behavior showed that the direction of Chinese foreign policy on sensitive issues and security could change sharply toward assertiveness.


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Ladies and gentleman, the book on the 2013 big league season officially closed with the Boston Red Sox reveling in the glory of their franchise's eighth World Series title.
Oh, what a year it was.
From Opening Day through the season's final out, baseball enjoyed a remarkable ride replete with fantastic feats, unforeseen ascents and superb storylines.
But questions remain from the recently completed campaign. Namely, by which players and moments will the year be remembered?
Many are clamoring to know, and MLB.com has just the way to find out. Yes, that's right, voting for the Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards has commenced for the 12th year.
Major League Baseball's A-listers will take home 2013 GIBBY trophies -- the ultimate honors of the industry's awards season -- based on votes by media, front-office personnel, MLB alumni, fans at MLB.com and the Society for American Baseball Research.
"The GIBBYs are the most comprehensive season awards in baseball," said Cubs broadcaster Len Kasper, a longtime member of the GIBBYs voting panel. "Not only can you vote on Player of the Year and Starting Pitcher of the Year, but also categories like Walk-off, Postseason Moment and even Fan Moment ... they all highlight some of the season's great moments."
This year's GIBBY Awards feature nominees in 22 categories. Individual honors will go to the MLB MVP, in addition to the year's best Starting Pitcher, Hitter, Closer, Setup Man, Rookie, Breakout Hitter, Breakout Pitcher, Comeback Player, Defensive Player, Manager, Executive and Postseason Performer.
GIBBY trophies also will be awarded for the year's top Play, Storyline, Hitting Performance, Pitching Performance, Oddity, Walk-off, Cut4 Topic, Regular-Season Moment and Postseason Moment, with video available via MLB.com's Must C highlight reels.
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All 30 clubs are represented among the award candidates. In fact, every team has multiple nominees in 2013 -- a testament to the parity of talent around the game.
Retiring Yankees legend Mariano Rivera could come out of the GIBBYs with some serious hardware, having been nominated as a candidate for the year's top Closer and Comeback Player trophies. Baseball's all-time saves leader is also up for awards in the Moment, Storyline and Cut4 Topic categories, making his way into the latter group as a direct result of his successful return from season-ending knee surgery in 2012.
The Cardinals' Matt Carpenter and the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig received a great deal of GIBBYs love, too. They're up for four awards apiece.
Who else is being considered for GIBBYs glory? Let's take a look.
Where to begin the debate about the Majors' Most Valuable Player in 2013? In one corner sits Miguel Cabrera, who arguably performed better than he did during his Triple Crown campaign of 2012. In another corner stands Mike Trout, who shot down any notion of a potential sophomore slump. The aforementioned men finished first and second in MLB MVP balloting last year, with Cabrera taking the crown after all votes had been tallied.
Fans seeking fresh faces will not be disappointed, as Carpenter, the Pirates' Andrew McCutchen, the D-backs' Paul Goldschmidt and the Orioles' Chris Davis all hit their way into consideration for the top GIBBYs accolade.
The MLB MVP category also includes a pitcher this year, with the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw making the cut behind his 1.83 ERA, 0.92 WHIP and 232 strikeouts.
There was a great deal of turnover on the starting-pitcher list, as well. A bevy of young talent stepped up to the plate -- proverbially, of course -- to fill the vacated spots. In addition to Kershaw, youngsters Jose Fernandez and Matt Harvey -- his season-ending injury, notwithstanding -- overpowered hitters during most of their 2013 outings.
This category also includes the Tigers' Max Scherzer -- who won a big league-best 21 games during the regular season -- and strikeout specialist Yu Darvish.
The top rookies list features a plethora of young talent that burst onto the scene in 2013. Marlins phenom Fernandez and the precocious Puig, a true five-tool rising star, will likely garner attention from GIBBY voters.
But for all the plaudits earned by Fernandez and Puig, their speedy ascents preclude them from consideration in the GIBBYs' breakout categories. The breakout hitter list includes a run-scoring and base-hit machine in Carpenter, a record-setting slugger in Davis and an all-around stud in Josh Donaldson.
In the breakout pitcher category, Harvey appears again after starting the 2013 All-Star Game for the National League. He should face intense GIBBYs competition from fellow starters Hisashi Iwakuma and Patrick Corbin, as well as reliever Koji Uehara, who posted the lowest WHIP in baseball history among hurlers with at least 50 innings pitched (0.57).
The Red Sox stopper is not the only reliever eligible for a GIBBY. The closer category features a mix of veteran names -- Rivera and Joe Nathan come to mind -- and young flamethrowers in Craig Kimbrel, Aroldis Chapman and Kenley Jansen.
The game's elite setup men have their own category, which features a bevy of baseball's unsung heroes. Sure, Trevor Rosenthal may not have many saves, but his importance to the Cardinals is practically impossible to overstate. This sentiment is indubitably shared by the Yankees toward David Robertson.
The game's greatest glovemen have their own place to shine. Braves shortstop Andrelton Simmons was a defensive clinician all season. Outfielders are well-represented here, too, with the Brewers' Carlos Gomez and Boston's Shane Victorino up against other infielders, outfielders and catcher Yadier Molina.
Two individuals are up for the comeback player GIBBY: the aforementioned Rivera, who recovered fully from an ACL torn in 2012 to excel in 2013 and the Pirates' Francisco Liriano, who bounced back from years of mediocrity to post a career high in wins and his lowest ERA since 2006.
All 10 postseason managers are up for GIBBYs, too. Will you vote for one of the Cinderella stories (Clint Hurdle, Terry Francona) or the last skipper standing (John Farrell)? Ask yourself the same question with the general managers, who are listed under the Executives tab.
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These awards date back to 2002, when there were five categories. One of them had been bloopers, which is now known as oddities. Remember when Evan Longoria caught Juan Uribe on a hidden-ball trick? Todd Helton did the same to an MLB MVP candidate in Carpenter. There are other great choices, and part of the GIBBYs fun is the clicking of links to watch all the clips.
If oddities are your cup of tea, you will enjoy toggling through the Cut4 category. Who could forget the famed standoff between the Cardinals' Joe Kelly and the Dodgers' Scott Van Slyke before Game 6 of the National League Championship Series?
The "Must C" category also contains many of the season's most memorable performances. If you want to vote for a pitcher, there were three no-hitters from which to choose. For those who dig the long ball, we have a slew of sensational one-game feats for you. Just don't forget about Alex Rios or Jean Segura -- who each posted six-hit performances -- or cyclists Trout and Brandon Barnes.
Fans can vote as many times as they want through Dec. 1 by visiting mlb.com/gibbys, and winners will be presented their GIBBY trophies at the MLB.com Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards during December's Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla.


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Looking back at those who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012.
Charlotte "was going to go some places in this world," her uncle told Newsday. "This little girl could light up the room for anyone." In a statement, Charlotte's family said their daughter loved Taekwondo and had wanted to be a veterinarian since she was two years old, and they recalled "the unique way she expressed her individuality, usually with the color pink." After she had begged her mother for a new outfit she was supposed to receive as a holiday gift, her mother relented on Friday and allowed her to wear the outfit: a pink dress and boots, The Associated Press reported. Charlotte's older brother Guy, who was also at Sandy Hook on Friday, survived the shooting. Photo: Associate Press.
Daniel Barden was the youngest son of a devoted mother and father who took him to swim practice and other activities, friends and neighbors told The Washington Post. Neighbor Peter Bernson recalled often seeing the small, laughing, brown-haired boy atop his father's shoulders, heading to the bus stop for school every morning, according to the Post. "Words really cannot express what a special boy Daniel was. Such a light," his family said in a statement. "Daniel was fearless in his pursuit of happiness and life." His father Mark, a musician, had been scheduled to play a show Friday night, the New Haven Register reported. The show was cancelled. Photo: Associated Press.
Intern Rachel D'Avino was about to become a board-certified behavior analyst — and possibly a fiancée to her boyfriend Tony Cerritelli. The 29-year-old, a behavioral therapist with autistic children, had just finished the requirements for analyst certification, and Cerritelli planned to propose to her on Christmas Eve, the Lower Hudson Journal News reported. She loved baking, cooking, photography and karate, according to the Journal News, and was remembered as a devoted therapist. "I think she taught me more about how to be a good mother to a special needs child than anyone else ever had," Lovetere Stone, the mother of a child with whom D'Avino had worked, told The Associated Press. "I'm heartbroken. I'm numb." When D'Avino was killed Friday, trying to shield students, she had been working at Sandy Hook Elementary for just a little over a week, her aunt told FOX 13 in Tampa Bay, Fla. Photo: Associated Press.
Olivia Engel was supposed to perform Friday night in the Christmas pageant at St. Rose of Lima Church. "She was supposed to be an angel in the play," Msgr. Robert Weiss told congregants Saturday, the Daily Beast reported. "Now she's an angel up in heaven." Olivia was a "precocious and completely endearing" Daisy Girl Scout who was learning to say the rosary and who loved school, musical theater, drawing, tennis, soccer, dancing, swimming and the colors purple and pink, her parents said in a statement. Dan Merton, a longtime family friend, described Olivia to The Associated Press as "the teacher's pet, the line leader" with "perfect table manners." On Friday, she was excited to make a gingerbread house after school, he said. "Her only crime," he said, "is being a wiggly, smiley 6-year-old." Photo: Associated Press/Engel Family
Josephine Gay, who turned seven just three days before she died, liked riding her bike and setting up lemonade stands. Her favorite color was purple, according to The Wall Street Journal. She was nicknamed "Boo" because she looked like the larger-than-life child in the film "Monsters Inc.," according to Carole Laude Pechi's Facebook post. Photo: Associated Press.
Sandy Hook Elementary principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung is being remembered as an energetic and dedicated educator. Hochsprung had been principal at Sandy Hook Elementary since July 2010 and had taken on that position with 12 years of administrative experience behind her, according to The Newtown Bee. She took pride in her work at Sandy Hook, regularly tweeting photos of school activities, and was "likeable" and "extremely charismatic," a former colleague said, according to The Associated Press. When gunman Adam Lanza began firing at the school Friday, Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach ran toward the barrage of bullets and lunged at him in an effort to protect students. One witness said the last thing Hochsprung said was a shouted warning to lock the door, just as she confronted Lanza, the Newtown Bee reported. NBC Connecticut has more on Hochsprung. Photo: The Newtown Bee
Dylan Hockley lived with his family across Yogananda Street from the Lanza family's house, according to The Washington Post. They had moved there almost two years ago from Britain, choosing Sandy Hook because of the schools, Dylan's grandmother Theresa Moretti told the Boston Herald. Moretti said the 6-year-old loved garlic bread, video games and jumping on his family's trampoline with his older brother Jake, who was also at Sandy Hook Elementary but survived, and in a statement Dylan's parents said the 6-year-old was proudly learning to read. An aunt in Britain told the Daily Telegraph her late nephew was "a model pupil, an academic boy" who "just loved going to school," and Moretti said he "had the most mischievous little grin. To know him was to love him." "We will always be a family of four, as though Dylan is no longer physically with us, he is forever in our hearts and minds," his parents said in their statement. Photo: Associated Press
Karen Dryer, a neighbor of the Hsu family, told the Wall Street Journal that Madeleine "was a sweet, beautiful little girl," adding that she was "very upbeat and kind" and favored bright dresses. Madeleine's family declined to comment on Saturday.
Catherine had nine cousins, a big brother, "a passion for animals and [a] constant smile," her family wrote in a Newtown Bee obituary. In lieu of flowers her family requested donations be made to a local animal shelter. Her parents released a statement asking for privacy to grieve and thanking first responders for their efforts. "We are greatly saddened by the loss of our beautiful daughter, Catherine Violet, and our thoughts and prayers are with the other families who have been affected by this tragedy," Jennifer and Matthew Hubbard said. "We ask that you continue to pray for us and the other families who have experienced loss in this tragedy." Photo: Associated Press.
Cub Scout and first-grader Chase Kowalski loved playing baseball with his dad, neighbor Suzanne Baumann told The Wall Street Journal. "He did nothing but smile," she said, calling him "an amazing child" and "the apple of his parents' eye." Another neighbor, Kevin Grimes, recalled to The Associated Press that the boy, who was always outside playing or riding his bicycle, had recently won his first mini-triathlon. And neighbor Keeley Baumann recalled an endearing conversation with the first-grader, who was missing his two front teeth. "I saw him two days ago, and I asked him if he wanted to see Santa, and he told me that he wanted his teeth back, and it was really sweet," she told the Connecticut Post. In a statement, Chase's family recalled him as "a fun-loving, energetic boy [who] had a true love of life." Photo: Associated Press
Jesse Lewis was raised in Sandy Hook and was called "boisterous and imaginative" by friends and family, according to the Wall Street Journal. In an email to the Journal, Jesse's family called him "an incredible light" who "lived life with vigor and passion," and family friend Barbara McSperrin called him "a typical 6-year-old little boy, full of life." Speaking to Danbury, Conn., newspaper The News-Times, neighbor called Jesse an intelligent child who was "older than his years" but still loved playing with the horses kept in a pasture and barn in his backyard. Photo: Associated Press
Ana Marquez-Greene was "an incredibly loving and spunky kid" and "really vivacious and affectionate," family friend Noah Baerman told the West Hartford News. The child and her family moved back to Connecticut just two months ago from Canada, choosing Newtown because of the quiet and easygoing nature of the community, her grandmother in Puerto Rico, Elba Marquez, told El Nuevo Dia (linked story in Spanish). "Ana strengthened us with her loving, generous joyful spirit," her family said in a statement, remarking on her love of singing, dancing and reading the Bible. "She never walked anywhere — her mode of transportation was dance," they said, NBC Connecticut reported. Ana's 9-year-old brother, with whom she was very close, was also a student at the school but survived Friday's shooting. Photo: El Nuevo Día
James, known as "J" to his family, was a "curious and wonderful" boy, recalled the owner of a local horse stables where he often rode. "He would ask about the saddles and the brushes. He wanted to know how to take care of the horses. He was a boy that wanted to know how everything worked," Annette Sullivan told the Connecticut Post. In his obituary, his family said he loved baseball, basketball, swimming, arm wrestling, riding his bicycle, diving from the high dive, math, French toast, cuddling with his mother and "the concept of 'Googleplex.'" The mayor of his mother's hometown of Sherrill, N.Y., told the Utica Observer-Dispatch that "everybody will be there" for the family. Photo: Associated Press.
Grace was a "free spirit with dancing eyes," as her grandmother Mary Ann McDonnell told the Boston Herald, and "a real little doll," as a neighbor told the Washington Post. The girl's parents, Chris and Lynn, and her older brother Jack issued a statement calling her "the love and light of our family. Words cannot adequately express our sense of loss." Photo: Associated Press/McDonnell Family
Special education teacher Anne Marie Murphy, 52, died shielding her students inside Sandy Hook Elementary School. Her father, High McGowan of Katonah, N.Y., told Newsday that first responders had found her body on top of her students' and had called Murphy a "hero." Her father called Murphy, a talented painter and mother of four, "witty" and "hardworking," and her mother Alice MacGowan called her a "happy soul." Alice MacGowan said her daughter had "died doing what she loved. She was serving children and serving God." Read more. Photo: Associated Press.
Emilie Parker "could just light up a room," her father, Robbie Parker said during a news conference. As the big sister to two girls, aged 3 and 4, she loved to teach her sisters how to read and dance. "She was always willing to try new things," her dad said — "other than food." She also loved to draw and would carry markers and pencils with her and write cards for people when they were feeling frustrated or sad, Parker added. The family has set up a fund in their daughter's memory to aid other families of Sandy Hook shooting victims. Photo: Parker family.
Jack Pinto was a huge New York Giants fan and a big admirer of star receiver Victor Cruz. Jack's family told the player they were thinking of burying their son in his jersey, according to a report on the NFL's website. Cruz, who spoke with the family Saturday, said he would honor Jack by wearing his name on his cleats in Sunday's game with the Falcons, according to the Washington Post. On Sunday morning, Cruz tweeted photos with the words "Jack Pinto, My Hero" written on one of his cleats and "RIP Jack Pinto" on the other. Photo: Pinto family.
Noah Pozner was "an impish, larger than life little boy," his family wrote in his obituary. "Everything he did conveyed action and energy through love. He was the light of our family, a little soul devoid of spite and meanness." The first-grader had a twin sister, Arielle, and an 8-year-old sister Sophia, both of whom also attended Sandy Hook Elementary, but escaped the carnage, the Danbury News Times reported. His twin sister was his "best friend," and "they were always playing together, they loved to do things together," his uncle Alexis Haller told the paper. Photo: Associated Press
Caroline Previdi was known by the nickname "Silly Caroline" because of the way she made people laugh The Wall Street Journal reported. The first-grader also used to sit with a nervous kindergartener on the school bus each day "so he wasn't scared," the boy's mother told the Journal. Photo: Associated Press.
Jessica Rekos "loved everything about horses," her parents Krista and Rich said in a statement — "watching horse movies, reading horse books, drawing horses and writing stories about horses." The oldest of three, Jessica was a "ball of fire" who loved orca whales, writing and being the big sister to her two little brothers. "We can not imagine our life without her," her parents said, calling her "our rock" and "our little CEO." After her death Friday, they vowed that they would live their lives in her memory. "We will make sure her brother knows what an amazing person she was," her mother, a sixth-grade teacher in a nearby school district, told ABC News. Photo: Associated Press/Rekos Family
Avielle Richman's family moved to Newtown from San Diego last year, NBC San Diego reported, and her family documented its new life in Connecticut in a playful blog called Avielle's Adventures. The curly-haired first-grader loved archery and tending horses, the blog showed. In a Newtown Bee obituary, her family described her as a lover of storytelling with a "spitfire personality." It added that she loved "music, horseback riding, archery, kung fu, swimming, ice skating" and "super hero adventures."
Lauren Rousseau had only been a full-time substitute teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School for about three months before Friday's shooting. The 30-year-old Danbury woman loved teaching, according to her family. The Danbury News Times reported that Rousseau planned to see "The Hobbit" with her boyfriend Friday after work and had baked cupcakes for a party they were to attend afterward. Rousseau went to the University of Connecticut, then earned a master's degree from the University of Bridgeport. NBC Connecticut has more. Photo: Rousseau family.
School psychologist Mary Sherlach, 56, a wife and mother of two, was just a year away from retirement. She had worked at Sandy Hook Elementary school for more than 20 years and was planning to soon have more time to spend at the Finger Lakes cabin she and her husband owned, Newtown Patch reported. According to The New York Times, her husband is a financial adviser with Morgan Stanley in Fairfield, Conn. One of her daughters is a high school choral teacher in New Jersey, while another daughter is a chemistry doctoral student at Georgetown University. Photo: Associated Press/Mark Sherlach
First-grade teacher Victoria Soto loved working with children. Soto, 27, was in her third year of teaching at Sandy Hook Elementary School and was working toward her masters at Southern Connecticut State University. A Yankees fan, she loved spending time with her brother, sisters, cousins and black lab Roxie. "She loved her family more than anything. Teaching and her family was her life," her mother Donna Soto told CBS' "This Morning." On her school website, Victoria Soto had written that she was looking forward to "an amazing year in first grade with my amazing students of room 10!" The Hartford Courant reported that by hiding her 15 or 16 students, some in a bathroom, Soto saved their lives. Photo: myschooldesk.net
Benjamin Wheeler wanted to be an architect, but also wanted to be a paleontologist, because that was his older brother's dream. That's one of the last things the 6 year old told his mother before heading to school the day of the attack, according to an obituary in The Newtown Bee. He was "a devoted fan" of his 9-year-old brother Nate, but was coming into his own. He was accumulating first-grade friends, he was becoming a stronger swimmer, he was playing soccer, "often running across the field long after it was actually necessary, but always smiling and laughing as he moved the ball." Taking his place in his musical family, he was learning to play the piano. He loved lighthouses, the Beatles and New York City's above-ground 7-train that ran out of the city in Queens. Photo: Associated Press.
Allison was a " kind-hearted little girl," her family wrote in a statement to the press. She loved her family and teachers especially, but would often surprise us with random acts of kindness - once even offering her snacks to a complete stranger on a plane. Allison loved drawing and wanted to be an artist, often turning parts of the house into an "art studio" with rows of pictures taped to the wall. She loved to laugh and was developing her own wonderful sense of humor that ranged from just being a silly six-year old to coming up with observations that more than once had us crying with laughter. Photo via Cheyanne & Ben Wyatt,


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For the tenth consecutive year, both the Valparaiso men's soccer and women's soccer teams were awarded with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Team Academic Award, as announced by the organization on Friday.
The award is presented to soccer programs annually with a composite grade point average of 3.00 or better for the academic year, including both fall and spring semesters. The award is for the previous academic year, making this year's award for the 2011-2012 school year.
The Crusader women's squad posted a team GPA of 3.35 during the 2011-2012 school year, while the men's team recorded a team GPA of 3.17. All eight Horizon League women's soccer programs earned the team academic honor, while Valpo's men were joined by Detroit, Loyola and Wright State in receiving the award.
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One key aspect of assessing progress? Being sport specific. A fast runner is not necessarily a fast cyclist. To provide a simple and easy-to-understand measurement for progress for Suunto users, we provide automatic analysis for the most popular endurance sports.
Assessing progress at various intensity levels is also important. For a triathlete, it's most important to be able to see how the base level (aerobic level) is improving, while a road cyclist aiming to win sprints needs to follow how top-end power output in short bursts is improving.
The challenge with progress analyses is that progress is usually quite slow – especially for elite athletes – so it is really important to be able to evaluate data over long periods of time.
For each endurance sport, Movescount looks for the best value for key metrics from each Move. These values are checked from each new Move that is recorded with any of the Movescount compatible Suunto products. For example: when a runner runs 22 kilometers with a Spartan or an Ambit, the run is automatically analyzed for fastest 1 km, 1 mile, 2 km, 3 km, 2 miles, 5 km, 10 km, 15 km and 21 km sections.
In this case the runner has done a 22.5 km run with quite high intensity. We have identified the fastest kilometer from this run. This run has the fastest 1 km section at the start, at 3min 05s.
From the same run also the fastest 1mile, 3km, 2miles, 5km, 10km, 15km and half marathon sections have been identified. In this case the fastest 3km was 9min 25s with an average pace of 3:08.
Each section has been analyzed with altitude change and heart rate (if available). All this is done in Movescount automatically for each run.
The athlete whose Move was illustrated above, has 598 running Moves in Movescount between the years of 2010-2015. This means there are over 5000 metrics for Movescount to analyze.
With the best sections from each running Move identified, the progress trend tool provides the view on how the runs have changed over a long period of time.
In this example, the user is looking at 3km times between 2010 and 2016. The best times from each year are drawn as a trend graph, where the values are changing from 13:20 to 11:20. Each dot represents a Move with its best 3km section.
To provide real understanding of progress, one needs to look at the trends with comparable intensities. So if the heart rate measurement has been used during the run, the values can be filtered based on heart rate range.
The example above shows how this athlete has selected the average heart rate range of 125-131, which is his aerobic zone.
Based on this graph, it is possible to see that the aerobic level in running has improved over 3 km sections from 15:50 to 13:13. This equals an average pace improvement from 5:18/km to 4:24/km.
The conclusion? Over his best 3 k segment, the athlete is 54 seconds faster with the same effort.
We can do the same analysis for high intensity runs. Let's take the athlete's anaerobic heart rate zone of 147–154. In the higher intensity efforts, his progress is also quite evident. We can see that he improved from 14:40 to 11:51 for 3 km, which equals a pace change from 4:53/km to 3:57/km.
Of course, we're not all just runners – we're cyclists and swimmers, or often all three. The following metrics are automatically identified and analyzed in Movescount:
Fastest time for 1km, 1mile, 2km, 3km, 2miles, 5km, 10km, 15km, 21km (half marathon), 42km (marathon)
Trail Running
Fastest time for vertical 50m, 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 500m, 1km, 1.5km, 2km, 5km Fastest time for: 1km, 1mile, 2km, 3km, 2miles, 5km, 10km, 15km, 21km (halfmarathon), 42km (marathon)
Highest power for 10s, 30s, 1min, 5min, 10min, 20min, 30min, 1h, 2h,3h
Fastest time for 1 km, 10km, 20km, 30km, 40km, 50km, 90km, 100km, 160km, 100km
Fastest time for 1km, 10km, 20km, 30km, 40km, 50km, 90km, 100km, 160km, 100km Fastest time for vertical: 50m, 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 500m, 1km, 1.5km, 2km, 5km
Fastest time for sprint distance, Olympic distance, half distance and full distance
Fastest time for 500m, 800m, 1000m, 1500m, 1900m, 2500m, 3000m, 3800m, 5000m
Openwater swimming
Fastest time for 500m, 800m, 1000m, 1500m, 1900m, 2500m, 3000m, 3800m, 5000m
How you use this insight to augment your training is up to you – but one thing we're sure about: knowledge has always equaled power. Now it's time to turn knowledge into progress.


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In the quiet foothills of Kentucky, a massive supercomputer is churning through data. It is hunting for new drugs to fight cancer.
Every week, the DataseamGrid processes 300 man-years worth of calculations. Yeah, that's 300 years of calculations every week. Drug discovery usually takes 10 to 15 years, but the DataseamGrid blazes through that work in a fraction of the usual time. It is one of the largest pipelines of potential new cancer drugs in the country. Researchers here are about to start human trials this year of a new drug discovered by the supercomputer, which, if successful, may lead to an entirely new class of cancer drugs.


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Using Calculators on the SAT
When taking the SAT, you're allowed to use a calculator. Calculators can save a lot of time on the SAT if you save them for when you can't quickly and easily do a calculation in your head. The more complicated a single calculation is, the more likely you are to enter it incorrectly, so if possible, break down complicated calculations into several steps before keying them in.
Make sure you know how to use your calculator to do the following (check out your calculator's manual or reference card if you're having trouble):
Perform basic numerical operations. Make sure you feel very comfortable doing basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on your specific calculator.
Work with decimals. Locate the decimal point key and make sure you know how to use it.
Make numbers negative. On many calculators, the key for negating a number is distinct from the key for subtraction.
Find a square root. Locate the square root key and make sure you can find square roots.
Square a number. Your calculator probably has a key that looks something like x2, used for squaring a number.
Raise a number to the power of another number. Your calculator may have a key that looks something like ^ or xy, which allows you to raise a number to the power of another number.
Following are a few other skills that are likely to come in handy:
Fractions: Some calculators allow you to perform operations on fractions and specify that the answer be provided as a fraction. This feature can be useful when a multiple-choice question provides fractional answers.
Parentheses: Knowing how to group numbers using parentheses allows you to tell the calculator which operations to do first.
Higher-order roots (radicals): Some calculators have a key that allows you to find higher-order radicals such as cube roots, fourth roots, and so on. But many calculators require you to calculate higher-order roots as powers of a fraction. Find out how to do this so you can repeat it on the test if needed.
Solving equations: The equations that you need to solve on the SAT aren't designed to be too complex, but if your calculator allows you to solve an equation for a variable, you may find this feature useful.
Graphing functions: In some cases, you may find graphing a function helpful for answering a question. For example, graphing may save time solving a quadratic equation: Just graph the function and zoom in on the zeros to find x.
Using input-output tables: Graphing calculators usually have a feature allowing you to make an input-output table for a function. This feature may come in handy on the SAT, so check it out.


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|Balsamic Roasted Beet and Dried Plum Salad
|Serve as a side salad or enjoy as a main dish.
|Barbecue Grilled Tempeh with Onions
|Throw this tasty dish together in minutes.
|Bean & Shrimp Risotto
|Beef and Bean Kabobs
|Serve with a brown rice pilaf and steamed artichokes.
|Black Bean Cakes with Fruit Chutney
|Make a double batch of the bean cakes and freeze half.
|Chicken and Sun-Dried Tomatoes over Spelt Ribbon Pasta
|This assertive sauce is good to use with any whole grain pasta.
|Chicken Breasts with Apricot Sauce
|Quick, easy and delicious, what more could you ask for?
|Chicken Saute with Balsamic-Dried Plum Sauce
|This is a quick one skillet gourmet meal.
|Chicken Scampi
|Be sure not to marinate more than 30 minutes otherwise the lemon juice will toughen the chicken.
|Chili-Mustard Turkey Breast
|Serve with a tomato-avocado salad and corn on the cob.
|Corny Whitefish and Cabbage Salad with Spicy Walnuts
|Serve with a warmed, folded tortilla.
|Crunchy Walnut Red White and Greens
|Small red potatoes, smoked whitefish, and a variety of greens are the base of this very flavorful dish.
|Curried Lentil Soup
|Similar ingredients, but different seasonings make this a completely different soup.
|Curried Walnut Chicken
|A chicken dish that will satisfy your craving for Indian food.
|Dried Plum Waldorf Salad
|You can easily convert this into a tasty vegetarian dish by substituting tofu chunks for the turkey.
|East Meets West Stir-Fry
|Add some oriental flare to your menu this week.
|Easy Moroccan Chicken with Dried Plums
|For a very traditional meal, serve over couscous.
|Flax Fried Rice
|Excellent as a light meal or a side dish....and kids like it!
|Fresh Tomato Greek Pizza
|A much lighter, fresher version.
|Garlic Roasted Chicken
|Halved carrots, onions and potatoes can cook along with the chicken in the same pan for an easy way to add vegetables to your meal.
|Golden Walnut Couscous Salad
|Full of flavor and nutrition with orange juice, bell peppers, radishes and cumin.
|Grilled Snapper with Light and Hot Sauce
|Make the sauce the day before to allow flavors to blend, then dinner is a breeze.
|Grilled Turkey Tenderloins with Orange and Rosemary
|This marinade works nicely for fish as well.
|Grilled Vegetable Salad with Walnut Baked Goat Cheese
|A delicious way to try goat cheese.
|Ground Tofu Skillet Casserole
|Everyone needs a macaroni meal once in a while.
|Grouper and New Potatoes with Dill Sauce
|Serve with steamed broccoli and a tomato-sweet onion salad.
|Half and Half Turkey Loaf
|This is a tasty way to introduce tofu into your diet.
|Healthy Turkey Salad Pocket
|You can sub chicken or tofu for the turkey.
|Indian Beef Salad
|A light dinner for hot times.
|Jerk-Style Pork
|This highly seasoned marinade can also be used on chicken, fish, tofu or tempeh!
|Kamut® Chili
|The large kamut grain has a chew to it similar to ground beef.
|Kamut® Minestrone
|Kamut is an ancient grain making a comeback due to its superior nutritional content.
|Lime-Ginger Steak
|This assertive oil-free marinade is also good for pork or chicken.
|Mango & Black Bean Salad with Tuna
|A salad that satisfies with plenty of protein and fiber.
|Mexican Beef Stir-Fry
|Roll leftovers up in whole wheat flour tortillas for a fast lunch the next day.
|Mexican Black Bean Pizza
|A fun way to use a bean dip.
|Mexicana Fish with Dried Plums
|Serve fish over rice and don't forget the cilantro for its distinct flavor.
|Mojo Roast Pork
|The juices in the marinade tenderizes the pork so that it melts in your mouth.
|Moroccan Couscous Salad
|For a vegetarian dish use cubed tofu rather than cubed chicken.
|Moroccan Roast
|Assorted root vegetables are baked along with the roast for an easy dinner.
|Mushroom-Leek Tofu Quiche
|Serve with a crisp green salad with lots of summer-ripe tomatoes.
|Orange Trout Salad with Spiced Walnuts
|A delicious blend of flavors with visual appeal as well.
|Oven Fried Chicken with Flax
|Crowd-pleasing spicy dish.
|Pasta with Beans and Greens
|Pork Chops with Ancho Chili-Plum Sauce
|Serve with a chilled tomato and corn salad.
|Pork Medallions with Maple Sauce
|Serve with some steamed cous-cous with asparagus tips and a red cabbage cole slaw.
|Pumpkin Walnut & Orange Ravioli
|Serve with a spinach and tomato salad and whole grain bread.
|Quinoa Pasta Primavera
|Relive those alfredo days without the guilt.
|Rasberry & Avocado Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette
|This is a beautiful salad to serve to company. The colors make it especially appropriate for the Christmas holidays.
|Rice Pilaf with Lentils
|I have tried making this pilaf by cooking the rice and lentils together, but I prefer the flavor when they are cooked separately and then combined.
|Salmon Omega Salad Supreme with Walnuts and Asparagus
|You will get over 2.5 grams omega-3s in this nutrient rich salad.
|Salmon Salad Nicoise
|A visual delight.
|Salmon Teriyaki
|This will start an Omega Mania!
|Salmon with Spiced Marsala Plum Sauce
|Cinnamon, allspice and cloves are the secret to this excellent sauce.
|Sauerkraut and Tempeh Skillet
|Serve with noodles and a Cucumber-Parsley salad.
|Savory Asian Noodle and Walnut Salad
|Ginger, cilantro, onions....so much flavor!
|Savory Marinated Tofu
|Use as a sandwich filling or cut into cubes and toss them in a salad.
|Seasoned Turkey Burgers
|Since turkey is lower in fat than ground beef, it needs the extra punch of seasonings used in this recipe. Serve on a whole grain roll with lots of lettuce, tomatoes and onions. Delicious!
|Seitan Jambalaya
|Make this as spicy as you like.
|Seitan Satay with Peanut Sauce
|A great recipe for entertaining.
|Seitan Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
|Create new childhood food memories with this old comfort food.
|Seitan with Orzo and Broccoli
|Serve with a crisp green salad.
|Seitan-Asparagus Sauté
|Simple and quite elegant.
|Shepherds Pie
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|Shrimp Fried Quinoa
|Replacing traditional rice with Quinoa makes this stir-fry so special.
|South of the Border Pot Pie
|Serve with a cucumber, tomato and olive salad.
|Soy Macaroni & Cheese
|Kids love this.
|Spaghetti and Tofu Balls
|Make extra tofu balls and freeze.
|Serve with a sliced tomato and cucumber salad.
|Spelt Pasta with Broccoli Rabe and Navy Beans
|Rich flavors of the broccoli rabe and herbs and the creamy texture of the beans make this a wonderful dish.
|Spicy Lime Grilled Seitan Kabobs
|This is a wonderful marinade for tofu or tempeh kabobs as well.
|Squash Rings with Chard and Walnut Pasta
|Enjoy the winter squash harvest with this recipe.
|Steamed Orange Roughy and Couscous Salad
|A wonderful dairy-free dressing.
|Sushi In A Bowl
|A guaranteed "umm" with every bite!
|Taco Salad
|Serve with corn tortilla chips or spoon into whole wheat tortillas.
|Tangy Bean and Spinach Salad
|This simple salad will provide you with nearly half of your folic acid requirements for the day!
|Tempeh Dijon
|Simple and delicious.
|Tempeh Kabobs with Sweet and Sour Sauce
|Tempeh holds up well for kabobs on the grill.
|Tempeh Marsala
|Healthy elegance.
|Tempeh Salad
|A great sandwich stuffing or salad topper.
|Tempeh Tuna
|A simply delicious sandwich stuffing.
|Tempeh Turkey
|Don't wait until November to enjoy this dish.
|Tempeh With Spicy Peanut Sauce
|Serve over brown basmati rice.
|Tempeh with Wine and Rosemary
|Invite someone over for this delicious dish.
|Teriyaki Chicken, Walnut & Vegetable Wraps
|A convenient way to have stir fry on the go.
|Tofu A La King
|Frozen tofu gives a good texture for this dish.
|Tofu Cacciatore
|Serve over rice or pasta with garlic bread and a crisp green salad.
|Tofu Egg Foo Young
|Make extra and freeze.
|Tuna Steaks Provencal
|Serve with a brown rice and asparagus pilaf and a mixed green salad.
|Tuna Steaks with Cucumber Sauce
|The assertive seasonings are mellowed by the Cucumber Sauce. Wonderful!
|Tuna with Balsamic Glaze
|An Omega-3 favorite. Leftovers are wonderful on a bed of salad greens the next day.
|Turkey Fajitas
|The longer the peppers cook the better.
|Vegetable Fried Rice with Tofu
|One of the tastiest and healthiest ways to use leftover rice.
|Vegetable Paella
|Vary the vegetables to suit your taste; but the saffron is a must for its distinct flavor.
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|Veggie-Bulgur Salad with Citrus Dressing
|A zesty dressing of lemon and orange juice enlivens this broccoli and bulgur combo.
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|Walnut Omega Harvest Salad with Cider Glazed Salmon
|A great tasting way to get those omega-3s in your diet. This recipe contains over 2.5 grams of omega-3s.
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Calf's Brains Fritters
Clean brains, and cook twenty minutes in boiling water, to which is added one-half teaspoon salt, one tablespoon lemon juice, three cloves, two slices onion, and one-half bay leaf. Remove from range, and let stand in water until cold; drain, dry between towels, and separate into pieces. Make a better of one-half cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder, one-fourth cup salt, a few grains pepper, one egg well beaten, and one-fourth cup milk. Add brains, and drop mixture by spoonfuls into greased muffin rings, placed in a frying-pan in which there is a generous supply of hot lard. Cook on one side until well browned, turn, and cook other side. Arrange on serving dish and pour around Sauce Finiste .
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Opinion: Nanny Bloomberg
Editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz on why she thinks NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is mentally deranged. Photo: Getty Images
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... I ... it was tobacco products display restriction law ... which would be the first of its kind in the nation and cigarettes and other tobacco products would have to be stored out of sight ... in cabinets drawers and on to become a behind a curtain or concealed in some other way ... back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... that was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg explaining his latest public health Dick's spots ... editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz is here to talk about nanny Bluebird as he's known ... of ... Dorothy what's what was hiding the cigarettes ... well if you've ever gotten up in the middle of the night to look for that leftover piece ... of pizza ... you know that every you go to to throw everything out until you find it ... think about persons driven by need for Cedric you actually think but still about the pragmatism ... of this bizarre excuse ... it does not work ... but ... it just adds to the mayor's repertoire ... of ... not very useful things I didn't complete credit ... for having been smoking ... and you know it without on his way to put the rest of it ... is up ... you know ... if we were back in and they say twenty years ago a journalist ... and psychology honest about reducing ... Gail Sheehy use to do it they would go back to the background ... I think you can handle the flow of material ... about Mayor Bloomberg's ... know where the show we call it ... on ... concentration ... on things like soda ... and size of soda ... and to listen to this ... I think psychologists may be listening to ... on it ... there is a kind of love ... well this close to obsession ... now I have to say that I worry about who was going to succeed I ... was I go there and just yet because of yours you ... are living in your in a not knowing anime Bloomberg ... Arik Arabian Furia marries the sauce announ ... bio or disgust or quick let's he has time ... and trans fats ban smoking in public places and tried to ban big gulps ... there's talk about the ending styrofoam cups although he backed away from that one ... that or seeking to force big chains for example like McDonald's which I ... love to frequent on a regular basis ... on which to show the calorie counts now ... that's empowering citizens with information isn't that a good thing ... what you know there are two sides this new YouTube and power and how is it weird that I think should be stock for my book and I have two new meaning ... but ... it is ... not empowering to look a false report of the calorie counting and ... make citizens feel good but ... its funny and nice to know you get ... is when you get to some extreme version of events ... like the focus ... to you than they speak ... in silver and meaningful tension about the children whose lives he saving because we can no longer have a large dose of sweet has a large dose of sweetness ... it is seen as a mayor who we we we have several problems with that the next one ... maybe even worse editorial board member


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Eastern Conference Quarterfinals – Game Three
Madison Square Garden, April 17, 2011
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Team Notes:
– The Rangers defeated the Washington Capitals, 3-2, today at Madison Square Garden, in Game Three of their Eastern Conference Quarterfinal match-up. New York trails in the series 2-1.
– New York improved to 198-214-8 all-time in 420 playoff contests, including a 110-82-2 record at home, and are 15-17 in 32 postseason contests vs. Washington. The Rangers have now posted a 33-42 record all-time in Game Threes of playoff series.
– The Blueshirts out-shot the Capitals, 35-25, including a 27-18 advantage in the final 40 minutes.
– The Rangers were credited with 41 hits in the contest, and won 45 of 80 faceoffs (56%).
– New York notched one power play goal in seven attempts (10:33), and tallied one goal in three, four on four situations (2:42).
Player Notes:
– Brandon Dubinsky notched the game-winning goal (unassisted) with 1:39 remaining in regulation, added an assist, was credited with a game-high, seven hits and led all skaters with 25:45 of ice time. It is his fourth career multi-point performance in the postseason, and his second career playoff game-winning goal. Dubinsky also posted a game-high, plus-two rating.
– Henrik Lundqvist made 23 saves in net to earn First Star honors, and improve to 1-2 with a 1.84 goals against average and a .921 save percentage in three playoff games. He has now appeared in 29 consecutive games dating back to Feb. 11 at Atlanta, and has started in each of the Rangers' last 32 playoff contests.
– Vinny Prospal notched one goal at 8:01 of the third period, and was credited with three hits and four shots on goal. He has now recorded a team-high, 15 points (seven goals, eight assists) in 17 career playoff contests vs. Washington.
– Erik Christensen opened the game's scoring with a power play goal at 5:30 of the second period, and won six of nine faceoff attempts (67%). During the regular season, the Rangers posted a record of 9-1-0 when he tallied a goal and 15-4-0 when he registered a point. The goal was Christensen's first career playoff tally.
– Marc Staal registered the primary assist on Prospal's third period goal, and was credited with two blocked shots in 23:10 of ice time. He has now recorded two points (one goal, one assist) in 10 career playoff contests vs. Washington.
– Wojtek Wolski tallied the primary assist on Christensen's power play goal at 5:30 of the second period, and has now registered a team-high, two assists in the series. Including the final three games of the regular season, Wolski has now recorded five points (one goal, four assists) in the last six games.
– Bryan McCabe recorded one power play assist and three shots on goal, and led all skaters with 9:01 of ice time on the power play. Since being acquired from Florida on Feb. 26, each of McCabe's seven points (two goals, five assists) have been tallied on the power play.
– Dan Girardi led all skaters with five blocked shots, and was credited with five hits in 21:59 of ice time. Girardi, who led all NHL skaters during the regular season with 236 blocked shots, ranked third in the league with nine blocked shots in the playoffs entering today's contest.
– Brian Boyle led all skaters with a career-high, nine shots on goal, and was credited with four hits in 18:31 of ice time. He currently leads the league with 15 shots in three playoff contests. Boyle led the team with a career-high, 218 shots on goal during the regular season.
– Chris Drury won a game-high, 15 faceoffs in 19 attempts (79%), and now leads the league with a 77.1% faceoff winning percentage in the playoffs (27-35).
– Brandon Prust was credited with five hits, and is now tied for the team lead with 14 hits in three postseason contests. Entering today's game, Prust was tied for 14th in the NHL with nine hits in the playoffs.
Post-Game Quotes:
– John Tortorella on today's game…
"We scored some goals. I don't think we did much different. I thought we got to the blue much better today. Again, it was a tight checking game. The chances were hard to come by for both teams. We found a way to score a couple of goals. There is no magic potion. We found a way to score three goals and they scored two."
– Henrik Lundqvist on playoff hockey at Madison Square Garden …
"It is so fun to come back to New York and play playoff hockey – to feel the atmosphere and excitement is great. That is what you work so hard for all year. It was great. We just have to keep it going."
– Brandon Dubinsky on today's game…
"I thought we were better than we were in the first two games. We got our forecheck going and we were able to make more plays, get more shots, bring our bodies more than we did in the first two games of the series."
– Chris Drury on the team…
"It is a gutsy group of guys. Another example of not giving in, or getting down and a huge goal by Dubi (Brandon Dubinsky)."
Team Schedule:
– The Blueshirts are scheduled for an off-ice practice at 12:00 p.m. tomorrow, April 18, at the MSG Training Center, with availability to follow.


text: American adults would most like to be neighbors with country music power couple Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton in 2013, a Zillow poll indicates. Twenty-one percent of respondents to the sixth annual Zillow Celebrity Neighbor Survey voted the cast of the reality TV show "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" the least desirable neighbors of 2012. About 45 percent of surveyed adults said they would not want to live next to any celebrities listed in the poll, up slightly from 42 percent last year. Lambert and Shelton were voted desirable neighbors by 10 percent of respondents, followed by actress Reese Witherspoon and singer Taylor Swift, who tied for second place, each receiving 9 percent of the vote. With 8 percent of the vote, talk-show host Jon Stewart was voted the third most desirable neighbor. Eighteen percent of respondents predict couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West would be the worst neighbors, while 12 percent would least like to share a backyard fence with Donald Trump. "This year we noticed a trend on the worst-neighbor side; for three years in a row now, the casts of reality television shows have dominated the top of our worst celebrity neighbor list. Not surprisingly, celebrities with full-time camera crews, in addition to paparazzi, aren't America's top choices to live next door," real estate website Zillow's chief marketing officer Amy Bohutinsky, said in a statement. "But it isn't just reality television stars that are getting the neighbor boot. Most people don't want to live next to any celebrity, regardless of why they are famous. In fact, more people voiced their desire not to have a celebrity neighbor in 2013 than in any of the past years we've run this poll." The online poll was conducted Nov. 29-30.


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BALTIMORE – Following a year of record-setting and breakout performances in 2011-12, the UMBC track and field teams look to continue to move up the standings in the America East Conference. The Retrievers open the 2012-13 indoor season this Saturday, Dec. 1, at the Bison Opener, the ninth-straight year UMBC has started at Bucknell.
"We have a lot of good performers, so we're just going to try to cover all of our bases with a great all-around cast," said head coach David Bobb, now in his 15th season as the head man at his alma mater. "I hope we can continue our success and that our team can come together as one."
Behind freshman phenom Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) and junior Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen), the women's team earned a program-best third place finish at the 2012 America East Indoor Championships. Jackson, the meet's Most Outstanding Female Rookie, won the gold medal in the 60m dash with a school-record, as well as facility-record time of 7.49. She also set a new UMBC standard in the 200m dash en route to winning a silver medal.
"We knew that she would be good, but maybe not that good, that fast," coach Bobb said of Jackson. "Now she understands what she can do and she's on the right track to achieve some great goals."
Deller, meanwhile, swept the throwing events, winning the shot put for the third straight year, while also taking top honors in the weight throw.
"As for Amanda, coach [Pete] Koumlelis has done as great job to hone her skills, pushing her in the shot put, but also making her into a two-dimensional athlete with the other events."
In addition to Jackson and Deller, the Retrievers welcome back senior Chowan Brightful (New Market, Md./Linganore), who is the school record holder in the high jump. As a junior, Brightful placed third at the conference meet in the event to go along with a fifth-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles.
In the mid-distance running events, juniors Deborah Adelola (Lanham, Md./Blandensburg) and Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K. Magnet), as well as sophomores Kalane' Abbey (Laurel, Md./Laurel) and Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara), return for UMBC. Last season, the foursome combined to break the school record in the 4x400 relay while earning a third-place finish at the conference meet. Each of the athletes also currently hold a spot in the UMBC top-ten for the 400-meter run, with Adelola and Fogle also earning a spot in the 500-meter event.
Junior Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md./South Carroll) and sophomore Mary Katherine Kulp (Vestal, N.Y./Vestal) return to lead the Retriever pack in the distance events. Mezebish earned a fifth-place finish at the America East meet last year with a personal-best 2:14.95 in the 800-meter run, a time which ranks as the second-fastest in school history. Kulp meanwhile posted top-ten marks in both the 800-meter and 1,000-meter runs as a freshman. Sophomore Julie Gessler (Ellicott City, Md./Institute of Notre Dame), who led the Retrievers across the line at the NCAA Cross Country Mid-Atlantic Regionals, and freshman Nicole Dawson (Jessup, Md./Hammond) will also key UMBC's success in the events.
For the men, the Retrievers look to bounce back after dropping one spot to fifth place at last year's championships. With a deep, veteran team on hand, coach Bobb expects just that.
"We have a lot of new faces, but if we can get them to perform, along with the guys we already know, I think we can continue our success and move back up."
Two-time defending champion Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone), now a senior, is back for UMBC, looking to make it a three-peat in the 60m hurdles. His winning time of 8.02 last year was a personal-best and slots him second on UMBC's all-time list. The Retrievers will also look to senior Dennison Long (Greenbelt, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt/FIU) to contribute in the sprints. At last year's Bison Opener, Long posted a career-best 6.93 in the 60m dash, the fifth-fastest time in the conference for the season.
In the mid-distance events, junior Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) looks to break into the medal winners at the conference meet after placing fourth last year with a personal-best time of 1:52.98 in the 800-meter run. Classmate Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley), who missed last year's indoor season due to injury, will pace the Retrievers in the mile.
After an All-Conference performance during the cross country season this fall, junior Brandan McGee (Hiram, Ohio/Crestwood) looks to lead the pack again inside. During the fall cross country season, he broke the school record in the 5K and 8K distances and earned a top-ten finish at the America East Championships. Junior Vinny DiSalvo (Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville), sophomore Eric Schuler (Columbia, Md./Reservoir), and freshman Hassan Omar (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) will provide depth after all scoring at the conference cross country meet.
The jumps and vaults should be strong for the Retrievers as senior Shioma Obemeata (New Rochelle, N.Y./Iona Prep/St. Francis) looks to claim a conference title in the triple jump after winning a silver medal last year. He will also aim to score in the long jump and high jump competitions.
"Shioma is a great leader for our team on and off the track," said coach Bobb. "He's the perfect teammate and someone that everyone can look up to."
Senior thrower Cameron McDearmon (Owings Mills, Md./Franklin) is back for his final season, looking to turn his previous success into medals at the conference meet. Last indoor season, McDearmon posted the longest weight throw toss in the conference (18.81m; 61-9.5) at the Lafayette/Rider Winter Games, but finished sixth in the event at the America East Championships.
Following the Bison Opener, UMBC will not compete again until the 2013 calendar year when the Retrievers travel north for the Penn State Relays on Saturday, Jan. 5.


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SALEM, Mass. (courtesy Salem State sports information) - Nate Simpson (Lowell, MA) scored 20 points and grabbed 13 rebounds to lead Salem State to a 65-57 win over Brandeis in the opening round of the New England Big Four Challenge. Simpson scored 15 of his points in the second half to propel the Vikings into the championship game. Brandeis head coach and former Salem State mentor Brian Meehan was denied his 300th career win.
The Vikings took an early lead, 19-10 on the strength of two three-pointers by Justin Nieves (Lawrence, Mass.) and three hoops by Brian Clark (Deerfield, Mass.). The Judges rallied, and behind the hot shooting of sophomores Derek Retos (North Attleboro, Mass./Brimmer and May School) and Ben Bartoldus (Hillsborough, N.H./Proctor Acad.), who combined for all of the points in a 17-7 run, Brandeis took a brief 27-26 lead. Ryan Salvadore (Lynn, Mass.) scored right before the half, and SSU took a 28-27 lead into the locker room.
Simpson sparked an early second half run, scoring nine of the Vikings first 13 points after intermission. A Clark jumper with 13:30 remaining gave SSU its largest lead of the game, 46-36.
The Judges began to chip away at the deficit, and drew to within two, 53-51 with 5:20 left. Simpson hit his only three-pointer of the game to expand the lead to five, 58-53, but Bartoldus hit a runner to bring Brandeis to within three, 60-57 with two minutes remaining. However, the Judges could not get any closer, as Simpson and Apollos Wade (Taunton, Mass.) connected on 5-of-6 free throws from the line in the final minute.
Clark joined Simpson in double figures for Salem State, finishing with 14 points, while Wade had six assists. Bartoldus (17), Retos (16) and Youri Dascy (Fall River, Mass./St. Andrews, R.I., School, 14 points) accounted for 47 of the Judges' 57 points. Dascy also had 13 rebounds for his third double-double of the season.
Tufts defeated Babson 54-48 in the earlier game.
Salem State (6-1) advances to the championship game where it will take on Tufts at 3 p.m. Brandeis (2-5) will play Babson in the consolation game at 1 p.m. The loss is the first for Brandeis in five Big Four Challenge games.


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A beautiful brown leather double strand bracelet with Feng Shui Coin and an assortment of lucky charms including hearts, green evil eye protection charm and a horseshoe charm.
Dimensions: The Feng Shui coin is approximately 0.75" across and the bracelet is 7" in length. Custom lengths can be requested when making an order at no extra charge.
Feng Shui Amulets Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese discipline also called The Law of Heaven and Earth, a practice of arranging your space to achieve harmony with the environment. The coins are said to combine the heaven and earth, the inner square of the coin and the outer round shape. Feng Shui amulets are used to attract money, providing good luck and financial wealth.


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First tattoo (wrist)
I'd wanted a tattoo for a good couple of years before I turned 18. I'd toyed with numerous ideas but couldn't seem to settle on any design for long enough. When I finally reached my 18th birthday, I was still undecided so I didn't think about it too much. I ended up getting my nape pierced instead and that preoccupied me for long enough to forget about getting a tattoo. About a month later, I started to get bored again and started to scour BME for inspiration. I decided I'd quite like something on my wrist and not long after that, my idea finally came to me.
I decided to get the name 'Florence' (as in Florence & The Machine) in black in the same font as is used in the band logo. To me, it was more than just the fact that I loved her music as it represented the fact that I was finally beginning to accept and like myself. I knew that I didn't need to wait to see if this idea stuck because I was so certain and I prefer getting my body mods on impulse. Because it was so personal, I hardly told any of my friends that I was going to get it done and went to make the appointment alone.
Pierced Up are by far the best tattoo studio in Bristol and they came highly reccomended. My Mum had got two amazing tattoos done there, as well as a few of my friends with absolutely no problems so I trusted them completely. They work by appointment only and prefer it if customers make them in person, which I really like as it makes you feel safe in their hands. I had got all my piercings done at different branches of another big studio in the city, Holey Skin and probably would have gone there but they had a bit of a reputation for tattooing underage and the girl who did my nape piercing hadn't done a very good job so I didn't really trust them. I walked into Pierced Up (really, really nervous) on my way home from college and was greeted by a woman behind the counter with a crazy haircut and lots of ink and piercings. Despite there being a few big scary guys around, she was really nice and made me feel totally at ease. I made an appointment for the following week and paid a deposit of £20. She told me I would need to pay another £20 on the day and reminded me to bring ID with me.
I had originally planned to go to the appointment on my own but one of the only friends I had told about what I was going to do offered to come with me. Strangely, I wasn't at all nervous and on the way to the appointment, I discovered I had an offer from one of my first choice universities so I was really happy and excited about that, which took my mind off what I was about to do. With my nose and nape I'd been so nervous I was shaking, so I was surprised that I wasn't worried at all about this.
I was really relieved to find that the studio was empty apart from the staff and another guy who was waiting because I was worried there'd be loads of big intimidating men around! The artist, Marcus, got me to fill out a consent form and went to set up the equipment. The woman behind the counter recognised me instantly and took my form before asking for ID. My friend and I went to sit in the waiting area for a few minutes before Marcus called us into the room.
He got the position right second time which I was relieved about because I felt a bit embarrassed asking him to change it; even though I'm sure he wouldn't have minded. Once he'd done that, he got me to lie down on the bed and took my wrist. Even at this point I wasn't really nervous. He said he was going to do a small line t check it was okay then go ahead. He asked me if I was ready and off her went. At first, I was really surprised, it didn't hurt half as much as I thought it would. It got steadily worse as it went on and I was holding my friend's hand pretty tight. The worst bit was when he was getting closer to the bone but even that was bearable. I think it was made easier by the fact that he kept stopping and starting so the pain was less constant. My friend talked to me about uni and the party I was haing soon to take my mind off things. For some reason, I kept laughing when it hurt, probably due to suppressed nerves! All in all though, the pain was completely manageable and I'd even go as far to say that my nape piercing was worse.
It can't have taken longer than about ten minutes and when it was done I was scared to look at it. I only took a quick peep but my friend said it looked really good and the woman behind the counter came in to see and talked to me a bit about Florence + The Machine. She said she liked it but that now everyone would think my name was Florence which made me lauhg. Marcus cleaned my wrist up and wrapped it in plastic, which he told me to remove after six hours.
He told me to clean it with lukewarm water and soap and to use the nappy rash cream Bepanthen, which luckily I already had at home as my Mum got a tattoo not so long ago. He said to avoid submerging it in water and to just use common sense. He explained that in a few days it would start to scab and that I should continue usi the cream and soap/water until it was healed.
I got up and was surprised to find I didn't feel faint, as I had nearly fallen over after my nape piercing. I went to the counter and pain the woman the remaining £20. She told me that due to the area, there was a chance of ink drop out and that if it happened, I could come back and have it touched up free of charge.
After the six hour waiting period, I gently cleaned off the excess ink and gunky stuff with soap and water as advised then applied a small amount of Bepanthen. For the first few days it was sore to the touch and four months on, it's still a tiny bit raised. The scabbing stage was the worst as it was so itchy but eventually it healed and now it's fine. It looks great and I'm really glad I got it done. Most people find it odd that I have a random girl's name tattooed on my wrist but to me it's a permanent reminder that I shouldn't always do what everyone wants me to do.
I'd completely reccomend Marcus and Pierced Up. Marcus himself was pretty quiet but he was completely professional and all the staff are friendly and helpful. I'd definitely go back there for any future tattoos.
submitted by: Anonymous
on: 05 April 2010
in Tattoos
Artist: Marcus
Studio: Pierced Up
Location: Bristol, UK