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Once there was a priest. He used to travel far and wide to deliver sermons. He would read out the Bible to the people, exhort them to say their prayers and also tell them how to pray properly. Once he reached an isolated island by a ship. There lived three old men. They were very simple, unsophisticated and ordinary people.
The priest asked, "Do you say prayers?"
They said, "We only know how to remember God. That is all. We do not know anything else."
The priest asked, "How do you remember Him?"
They said innocently, "We just sit down and say, 'protect us, protect us.'"
Giving them a dirty look, the priest said sternly, "Is this the way to pray? You have wasted the whole of your life. I will tell you the proper way to say your prayers."
The priest taught them a prayer from the Bible. The poor old people were illiterate. They would forget it again and again and the priest had to tell it repeatedly.
After teaching the prayer, the priest left their place by the ship. After a little while, when night fell, the priest noticed that three lights were advancing towards the ship.
The priest wondered what it could be.
When the lights reached near the ship, the priest noticed that the three old men, with lantern on their hands, were fast approaching the ship, walking on the water, the way we walk on the earth!
The priest gasped on wonderment at this sight.
The old men shouted, "Priest, sire please stop for a minute. We have forgotten the prayer you had taught us. Kindly say it again to us."
The priest exclaimed, "You are walking on the water!"
One of the old men said, "What is there to be surprised at? We do not have any boat but we can walk comfortably. We humbly requested God to help us to reach you; thereafter we started walking."
The priest folded his hands and said, "Holy men, please go back. You need not learn anything. You should keep on remembering God the same way you have been doing it earlier; God enshrined in your hearts, listens to your sincere devout call. That is all."
You need not have wealth, strength, prosperity or bookish knowledge to attain God. The only way to attain Him is to call Him with strong faith in Him. What did those old men possess? Nothing. The only thing they had was their strong faith in God. With that faith as their only possession, they would call God, say to Him, whatever they wanted to and ask Him whatever they needed. With that faith they attained the power, which is beyond the reach of even the great mystics.
If strong faith in God springs from your heart, nothing else will be left to be done by you. You will overcome all your miseries. God will extend His hands towards you. Do not miss catching hold of those hands then.


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Activity Rooms
From LevWiki
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This page describes the wide array of activity rooms that Leverett has to offer.
Music Practice Rooms
In addition to the grand piano in the JCR , there are also two practice rooms in the basement of McKinlock, located behind the library theater and next to the art room. Lastly, there is a piano in the dining hall for you to enjoy. In the words of the Village People, "You can't stop the music!"
Rock Music Practice Rooms
There is a practice room in the basement of G-Tower that is suitable for rock bands. You must get the key from the guard. Make sure you return the key when you're done.
Computer Labs
There is a computer room located in the library basement and there is a small one next to the JCR in C entry. (mike drop)
Fitness Center
The Leverett Gym, a.k.a. Rabbit Run, is located on the ground floor of G-Tower. All Leverites have automatic ID card access to the gym (please see Paul Hegarty, the Leverett Building Manager, if you have trouble with your gym access).
The two-room facility is air-conditioned and open 24/7. The gym is equipped with two TVs with Comcast cable, a bathroom with shower, a water fountain, and fans. Fitness equipment in the Lev Gym includes:
Cardio Equipment: Precor treadmills (2), Precor ellipticals (2), Precor upright bikes (2), Concept II rowing machine
Strength Training Equipment: Paramount PFT-200 multi-station (legs, shoulders/chest, upper back, arms), Dumbbells (2-75 lbs.), Resistance bands, Medicine balls (10-25 lbs.), Kettlebells (12-30 lbs.), Body bars (4-18 lbs.)
Other Equipment: Fit balls, Jump ropes, Ab wheel, Stretching and yoga mats, Adjustable and flat benches
Leverett Gym Etiquette
- Please keep the gym neat and tidy. At the end of your workout, wipe down cardio machines using the Clorox wipes provided. Re-rack your weights and return all other equipment to its proper place. Turn off the TV(s) and fan(s) if you are the last person to leave.
- If you notice equipment out of order or missing, please e-mail gym tutor Siri Uotila.
- Please respect House-wide quiet hours starting at 11 pm on weeknights and 2 am on Fridays and Saturdays.
- Olympic lifting is not permitted in the Lev gym. Please exercise at your own fitness level and contact your physician and/or the gym tutors if you have questions.
The Lev Gym is overseen by gym tutors Mel Leger, Raj Manrai and Siri Uotila. Please contact us if you have any questions, comments or suggestions regarding the gym. Bunny fitness is important and we hope that many of you will make use of our wonderful gym!
Art Studio
The art room in located in the basement of Mckinlock. A life without art is a life not worth living.
Pool and Ping-Pong Room
The pool table is in the basement of Mckinlock. There is a ping pong table in the G Hutch. Contact HOCO for any missing supplies.
Old Library
The Old Library, located off C-entryway, is a large space suitable for rehearsals and group meetings. Performances may not be held in the Old Library because the space is not handicap accessible.
Vending Machines
Snacks and soda can be obtained from machines in the Laundry Room in the basement of Mckinlock, F Tower common room and the F Hutch or G Hutch.
A small kitchen with cooking supplies in The Rabbit Hole is available to all students. A key to the kitchen is available in the guard's office.

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My family lives by the ancient adage that we eat "anything with four legs and a back facing the sky." Following our motto, I subconsciously prioritized red meat in all of the meals I cooked. This summer changed everything. I shifted away from this common theme in favor of healthier and tastier options.
This summer, I spent a month and a half navigating Europe on a cross-country food and sights tour. Inspired by the myriad of different cultures and dishes, I experimented with my cooking when I returned home. I made seafood risotto in an effort to emulate the creamy and flavorful rice that melted on my tongue in Italy; cauliflower rice loosely inspired by the fluffy bread expected at the beginning of European meals; carrot and cucumber "spaghetti" to mimic crisp julienned vegetable salads; carrot cake and oatmeal cookies to use up the several pounds of carrots my mom purchased because they were on sale.
I can't say everyone loved everything I made (especially the cookies), but I found joy in the uncertainty and fun that came with experimentation. I may never pursue a profession in the culinary field, but that won't stop me from creating at home! -- from a Howard County teen


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Vanessa has been working in high tech public relations and strategic communications for over 16 years. In December of 2007, she founded theMIX agency, a firm that specializes in integrated communications, digital strategy, developer relations and event production. In 2011 theMIX agency has grown to represent NYC, LA, PDX and SF markets. She also spearheaded the first-ever social gaming conference, called Interplay: The Business of Games on the Social Web, and sits on the advisory boards of a number of small start-ups. Vanessa's experience includes in-house corporate communications roles at Cisco Systems and Atomz (purchased by WebSideStory). At mid-sized agencies Niehaus Ryan Wong, The Hoffman Agency and Schwartz Communications and boutique firms NPI and Three-Forty Communications, Vanessa managed strategic communications and counsel to dozens of early and mid-stage technology companies. Her expertise spans digital content, security, mobile/wireless, gaming, entertainment and consumer internet. She has worked with top-tier brands Pixar Animation Studios, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Secure Computing, NeoEdge Networks, SGN, PlayFirst, RockYou, Boku, OutSpark, Cloudability, SendGrid, Apture, Live Gamer, Kaazing, Mobile Roadie, Appcelerator, Geoloqi among many others. At theMIX agency she leads all client communications strategy and product marketing counsel and loves every minute of it. She's got a soft spot in her heart for start-ups.


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Geek Media Expo 2014
GMX (Geek Media Expo) was held over the past weekend at the Cool Springs Conference Center in Franklin TN. The event, which was sponsored by Gamestop, is a great convention to check out for people new to conventions or long time fans. This years convention had several guests for participants to meet. Some of my… Read More »


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WOOF. It's episode 50, which is like a birthday or something. To celebrate, we got David Turners to do an episode with us. Also Sam White is there.
It's a 'what we've been playing' episode and I can't remember a single bloody thing about it because Sam took a million fucking years sending me his audio. But do watch out for the several bits where Turners' microphone fucked up and I had to improvise a bit with the edit.
Also the episode name is a reference to a thing Turners told us about when we weren't actually recording but I couldn't think of anything else I'm sorry


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Sam Bradford is one of the most injury prone quarterbacks in the NFL. Somehow, the Arizona Cardinals still have faith in him to be their starter.
When Sam Bradford is healthy, he can look like one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Unfortunately, he's also one of the most brittle players in the league. That's what makes Arizona's confident statements about him serving as their starting quarterback this season so confounding.
Cardinals coach Steve Wilks doesn't hedge one bit about who he believes will be under center Week 1. He told NFL Live that the former Oklahoma Sooner will be the "first guy out there." In fairness to Wilks, he also said that rookie Josh Rosen would have an opportunity to win the job in training camp.
Even if Rosen doesn't outplay Bradford in preseason, it's a safe bet he'll get his opportunity to lead the Cardinals offense sooner rather than later. Relying on Bradford to stay healthy for an entire NFL season just isn't a good bet. There's a reason Minnesota was happy to let him take his talents to the desert.
The good feeling about Bradford aren't just limited to the Cardinals coaching staff. Last month, starting running back David Johnson went on the record with his belief that the Arizona offense could be the top group in the NFL. At least the talented running back had the presence of mind to say that would only happen if Bradford could stay healthy for the entire year.
The cold reality is that we're just one hit away from the beginning of the Rosen era in Arizona. The organization clearly realizes that. That's why it spent a top 10 pick to acquire the former UCLA signal-caller. Drafting him wasn't just a move for the future, it was a potential solution for the present as well.
Even if Rosen is pressed into duty, the Cardinals offense has a chance to be successful. Larry Fitzgerald isn't the player he once was, but he can still make an errant quarterback look good. The aforementioned David Johnson is an above average NFL running back. The line also has some promising pieces, led by talented left tackle D.J. Humphries. It may be a year too early to expect Rosen to flourish, but stranger things have happened.
Bradford may start the year as Arizona's starting quarterback but the odds are firmly against him finishing the year in that capacity. The Cardinals can talk all they want about their faith in Bradford, but the Rosen era is near.


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This evening a man with a spiritual connection to many religions chose as his tattoo this powerful symbol from the Buddhist, Jain and Hindu traditions. Wearing symbolic representations of the icons of faith can bring the surface of the body closer to the mind and spirit, uniting them as one.
"Vajra is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond. Additionally, it is a weapon which is used as a ritual object to symbolize both the properties of a diamond (indestructibility) and a thunderbolt (irresistible force).
The vajra is essentially a type of club with a ribbed spherical head. The ribs may meet in a ball-shaped top, or they may be separate and end in sharp points with which to stab. The vajra is used symbolically by the dharma traditions of Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism, often to represent firmness of spirit and spiritual power. The use of the vajra as a symbolic and ritual tool spread from India along with Indian religion and culture to other parts of Asia."
The pattern for this tattoo is available for purchase and immediate download at


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Did you know there's an international friendship day? It's the first Sunday in August and the US Congress has declared it a holiday in 1935. Amazing, innit?
With all I've been writing about finding yourself and taking responsibility for your actions, I wanted to make sure that you know I wasn't advocating a life of solitude and sacrifice.
We define our sense of self in response to the image we see mirrored in others. Indeed, it'd be hard to say what we are and what we're not if we had nothing or nobody to compare ourselves to. Some of our ambitions might even grow out of wanting to out-do the Jones'. In a healthy adult, these comparisons don't turn into greed or jealousy, because they don't threaten the safety one feels about one's own image. Being secure in one's own skin is the best defense against prejudice and fear.
In my opinion, life is better with friends in it. They accept and love us for who we are, they stimulate our minds, they are generous with their affection and - if we're lucky - they are great sources of insight, constructive criticism and praise. They're a shoulder to cry on, the drinking buddy when we need one, and the keeper of our secrets.
The people we surround ourselves with also reflect back on us. Are your friends people you look up to and respect? Are they good role-models? Or are you sometimes embarrassed by the way they behave?
I invite you this week to think about your friends. When was the last time you told them how you felt about them? Is there maybe something you've always wanted to say but never found the words? Maybe it's even time to have a chat with old friends who don't fit the profile anymore.
The following still holds true: whatever hard times you're going through, you're the one in charge of making changes and finding your own solutions. But: you don't have to face it alone. Share with a friend, and though they may not know the answer, they'll be listening and supporting you.
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See also: Cancel
Alternative formsEdit
- cancell (obsolete)
From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler ("to cross out with lines"), from Latin cancellare ("to make resemble a lattice"), from cancelli ("a railing or lattice"), diminutive of cancer ("a lattice").
cancel (third-person singular simple present cancels, present participle cancelling or (US) canceling, simple past and past participle cancelled or (US) canceled)
- (transitive) To cross out something with lines etc.
- (Can we date this quote?) Blackstone
- A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in the form of latticework or cancelli; the phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of obliterating or defacing it.
- (Can we date this quote?) Blackstone
- (transitive) To invalidate or annul something.
- He cancelled his order on their website.
- 1914, Marjorie Benton Cooke, Bambi
- "I don't know what your agreement was, Herr Professor, but if it had money in it, cancel it. I want him to learn that lesson, too."
- (transitive) To mark something (such as a used postage stamp) so that it can't be reused.
- This machine cancels the letters that have a valid zip code.
- (transitive) To offset or equalize something.
- The corrective feedback mechanism cancels out the noise.
- (transitive, mathematics) To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- (transitive, media) To stop production of a programme.
- (printing, dated) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.
- (obsolete) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- cancelled from heaven
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- (slang) To kill.
Derived termsEdit
cross out
invalidate, annul
mark to prevent reuse
offset, equalize
remove a common factor
printing, dated: suppress or omit
slang: kill
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
Translations to be checked
cancel (plural cancels)
- A cancellation (US); (nonstandard in some kinds of English).
- (obsolete) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.
- (Can we date this quote?) Jeremy Taylor
- A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit […] desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.
- (Can we date this quote?) Jeremy Taylor
- (printing) The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
- (printing) The page thus suppressed.
- (printing) The page that replaces it.
Derived termsEdit
printing: suppression on striking out of matter
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- cancel in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- cancel in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- cancel at OneLook Dictionary Search


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> Auto Scanner Tools
> Auto Repair Software
> Cummins CEPS Plus V3.0-HHP, MR, HD
Cummins CEPS Plus V3.0-HHP, MR, HD
Parts Catalog CEPS 3.0 contains a catalog of spare parts for engines from Cummins 4B3, 9 to QSK78
The electronic parts catalog Cummins CEPS 3.0 contains detailed information on spare parts of engines
CEPS program established very simply. Works using virtual CD. Images should always be mounted, and the names of disk drives improperly changed The catalog has a Cummins 3.0 search for ESN (Engine Serial Number) and the part number, just shows all the replacements that have occurred since the release of the engine
Note: software via change due to 2019 lock time can be at ease use
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Advanced Web Security Proxy
AppBandit is a desktop-based, web security proxy, designed to help you debug and find security vulnerabilities easily with the help of our extensive security toolkit. Get the BETA today.
Multi-streaming Security Proxy
Configure AppBandit to capture traffic from more than one local or remote proxy server simultaneously. You can easily bind the local proxy to as many network cards as you want on as many ports as you need. You can also use AppBandit to extract HTTP sessions directly by sniffing network traffic captured from local or remote network interfaces or PCAP files. The possibilities are endless.
Integrated Auxillary Tools
AppBandit integrates many auxiliary functions so you don't have to break your train of thought by switching context or by switching to other tools. For example, access to common generators, hash functions, encoders and decoders are available on the spot. No more copy-pasting. Other tools integrated into AppBandit include the automatic issue discovery, a full-featured browser preview, diff viewer, a slice viewer, a powerful code generator, automated vulnerability discovery engine and much, much more.
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At the core of AppBandit there is a powerful proxy server that never buffers. The internal proxy engine is constantly streaming, asynchronously forwarding packets from the source to the destination as quick as the OS allows. This in itself is a welcome feature especially if the proxy has to be used as system proxy on a phone or the desktop where it is expected many software products to utilise the system proxy settings. AppBandit will handle this situation without stutter, relaying the packets from one end to the other consistently with great performance.
Builtin support for numerous transport encoding and decoding mechanisms make AppBandit the most future-proof proxy around. It is crash-resistant, self-updating and deeply integrated with your host OS from the get-go.


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Night Meals
Night meals for your office
Healthy meals for your team
One Hundred Hospitality's 'Moving Meals' brand offers healthy individually portioned staff meals delivered direct to your offices. The perfect solution to ordering staff lunches or night meals should your team be working after hours.
Moving Meals has been producing healthy individual meals since 2010, the range covers 3 meal types to cater for both lunch and night meals: a 'Salad Bar' range, a 'Sandwich Bar' range and our Heat 2 Eat meals. The heat to eat range are restaurant quality meals that can be conveniently heated in a microwave in 2-3 minutes. Our Heat 2 Eat meals are produced fresh every day of the week in our 5 star health rated catering kitchen in Annandale. All meals can be enjoyed up to 2 days after delivery. These perfectly portioned well balanced meals are served in Biodegradable packaging. Our 'Heat to Eat' meals come in stylish card slips with menu and reheating information, once removed it is as simple as peeling back the corner of the protective film and placing the meal in the microwave, reheating for 2-3 minutes. Then allowing the meal to stand and cool for 1 minute before enjoying.
The benefits of the Moving Meals service for staff lunches and night meals are convenience, cost control, food safety & the health benefits. Meals can be easily selected from our weekly themed specials menu or a seasonal set menu, with a minimum of 5 meals per type. All meals are priced evenly making budgeting and cost control much easier than if staff were to charge back fast food deliveries. 45 percent of the 1100 people surveyed said that the availability of free lunch or dinner would strongly influence their decision to accept a job offer.*
In addition to Moving Meals being the perfect solution for staff lunch and night meals there are many other occasions where this style of individually portioned meals can be the perfect fit. These include crew meals for conference and event set ups, rather than breaking the entire crew for hot buffet lunches, our heat to eat meals can be made available for crew to collect and heat at their leisure. Film & Television catering are also suited to this style of service. Moving Meals can also be delivered frozen on request, limited to a certain menu selection. These can be stored frozen for up to 3 months, and can be used as an 'emergency' store of meals for companies that cater for staff lunches or night meals.
The weekly Moving Meals specials menu is themed across 4 days; 'Super Food Mondays' focusing on healthy super foods, 'Tuk Tuk Tuesday' inspired by Asian street food, Round the World Wednesday visiting a different city of the world each week & 'Thursday's a Treat' with old classic reinvented. In addition to this weekly menu, we have a seasonal set menu, so there is plenty of variety.
- Our seasonal meal collection, perfect for both staff lunches & night
- meals covers most dietary requirements in addition to our main menu
- there are GF, vegetarian and vegan options available.
Organise your night meals samples [email protected]
This spring the menu features Spicy lamb balls with black mole, golden polenta chips & chimichurri (GF), Yellow chicken rice, roasted coconut, spiced yoghurt with green chilli relish (GF), Carne asada of tender steak, steamed rice with pumpkin seed sauce (GF), Moroccan lamb with golden raisins, harissa with rice & lentil pilaf (GF), Dry red curry of pumpkins, snake beans, lychees with pickled vegetables & steamed brown rice (V) (N) (GF) & Bharat-spiced tofu with falafel, zucchini hummus & quinoa (V) (GF) (VEGAN).
Moving Meals are able to create an account for monthly billing. References or PO's can be provided and added to orders should there be multiple bookers within an account. Meals can be ordered up until 3pm for next day delivery. Meals are delivered in temperature controlled styrofoam boxes, with customised hardwood presentation boxes available for standing weekly lunch or dinner orders.
Organise a tasting today with Kate 02 9698 6336
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Toba Eruption (History Channel Mega-Disasters): "Volcanic Winter"
Today (June 10) the History Channel Mega-Disasters series presented "Toba Volcano". About 75000 years ago in Indonesia, on the island of Sumatra, a supervolcano erupted, leaving a lake today in the caldera. The volcano was probably ten times as Tambora, also in Indonesia, that produced "the year without a summer" in 1815 and even inspired literature (the Frankenstein story). The ash cloud circled the world, and even worse, sulfur dioxide built up into the stratosphere. The result would not be just acid rain, but a volcanic winter. At the time, an ice age may have been underway, but the result was at least 1000 years with much expanded ice caps. Snow fell at low elevations even in Africa, and people and animals starved. Mammalian life on earth might have become extinct. The Toba eruption was 100 times as large as the Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines in 1991, the largest volcanic eruption in modern industrial age history.
There may have been a million people before the eruption, but the world's population may have shriveled to 30000. This created a "genetic bottleneck" meaning that the world's people today are unusually consistent genetically relative to other animal species. This means that the world's races are reproductively compatible, and (even given the tragedy that race has caused in history) that there are no significant differences between races in terms of basic human skills. One can imagine other planets like ours (maybe within a few hundred light years or so) where this is not so, and the enormous social and political consequences of larger genetic variations in a species of about our level of civilization. It's possible to trace the mitochondrial DNA of every human today to female ancestors, perhaps only 10000 or so, surviving the eruption.
A supervolcano results from a large dimple of magma under the Earth's crust. Tora is showing some vague signs of reawakening today, but there are alarming areas in western US that cover supervocalno calderas, such as in the Owens Valley near US 395 in California, and in Yellowstone in Wyoming. A supervolcano eruption would cover the US with an average of 4 inches of ash and would wipe everyone out for several hundred miles, as in Las Vegas. But a volcanic winter would ensue. Unlike local catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina, there would be no where to go for help. Civilization as we know it would probably perish, and there is nothing we can do to prevent a mega-disaster on the scale of a supervolcano (even though we could probably stop an asteroid). This would be The Purification, not just "The Happneing".
Update: May 5, 2009
Tonight the History Channel rebroadcast the program renamed as "Volcanic Winter". The link is here.
Posted by Bill Boushka at 8:29 PM
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Tips and Troubleshooting for EmployersPage address: https://www.mnsu.edu/cdc/employers/tipsandtroubleshooting.html
What is Handshake?
Handshake is the service the Career Development Center uses to connect students and employers. Students can use it to search for job and internship opportunities, learn about and register for upcoming events and workshops, and schedule appointments with a career counselor. Students can also make their profile public to the employers in the Handshake system, so that you can identify potential candidates and contact them directly to invite them to interview for your open positions. Get started by logging in!
For more information about the Handshake platform or to contact Handshake support click here
Handshake Quick Start Tips:
- How do I create a user account? https://joinhandshake.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/219133047-How-do-I-create-a-user-account-
- How do I create a company profile? https://joinhandshake.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/219133057-How-do-I-create-a-company-profile-
- How do I request access at a school? https://joinhandshake.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/221599447-how-do-I-request-access-to-a-school-
- How do I post a job? - https://support.joinhandshake.com/hc/en-us/articles/221565247-Video-How-to-Post-a-New-Job
- How do I search for students? - https://joinhandshake.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/219133157-How-do-I-search-for-students-
Additional Job Posting Tips
The following are some tips and suggestions for effective job posting.
- If selecting screening criteria for an opening, be careful when selecting those criteria. An example of a common mistake we see is selecting "graduate student" instead of "alumni" - "graduate student" does NOT equal "graduated student". Another is not selecting all of the applicable majors - for instance, Minnesota State University, Mankato has several IT-related majors, but these are not necessarily named similarly or grouped altogether in the list of available majors - be sure to select carefully!
- Be descriptive! Provide as complete a description of the opening's duties and responsibilities as possible, so that students/alumni are aware up front of everything the job entails. Some students/alumni may apply for a job that is short on details, but others may choose to pass it up and instead spend their time investigating and applying to other jobs with more details.
- Make sure you have listed the correct instructions/contact information for students/alumni to apply for the position.
- Spelling counts! Misspellings may cause a student/alumni to wonder if this is a legitimate job opportunity or a potential scam.
How to attach a custom application form to your job posting:
1. When creating your job posting, add the following instructions to the *Description field in the Description section:
IMPORTANT: Before applying to this position, download the applicaton form from the Attachments section below and save it to your computer. Complete the editable fields, save your changes, and upload the application to your Handhshake account as an "Other Document". Instructions on how to upload a document can be found here: https://joinhandshake.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/219426647-How-to-Upload-a-Document
After you have uploaded the application, return to this job posting and click on the "Apply Now" button on the right. Select your saved application from the Document drop-down list, then click Apply.
2. In the Requirements section, make sure to select "Other Document" for the Required Documents selection.
3. When you are ready to submit your job posting, click the "Create" button. Next, scroll down to the bottom of the Job Details tab and click on the "Attachments" link under the Location Map. Select the "New Attachment" tab, provide a Name for the document and click "Choose File" to select and Open the document. Click "Create Attachment".
Note: If you are using the Minnesota State University, Mankato "General Application for Part-time Jobs" form, a copy of that can be downloaded here: https://www.mnsu.edu/cdc/documents/generalapplicationforptjobs.docx
4. Job postings are reviewed by the Career Development Center's staff within 3 business days.


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Raytheon Company Rushes to Restock Israel's Iron Dome
War is not cheap. Defending against it can be downright expensive.
For 50 days in July and August, Hamas and Israel went at it hammer and tongs, with the former firing missiles into Israel and the latter responding with airstrikes and punitive raids on the ground. Defensively, Israel attempted to shoot down Hamas' missiles with interceptors fired from the Iron Dome air-defense system -- and it cost the nation.
Over the course of the conflict, Israel said it detected upward of 4,500 rockets and mortar rounds launched from Gaza. The vast majority of these missiles either misfired, landed in Gaza itself, or fell harmlessly in more or less unpopulated areas of Israel. According to the Jerusalem Post, though, Iron Dome "shot down" at least 735 Hamas missiles -- a number Israel said represented between 85% and 90% of all missiles heading toward population centers.
Total cost of those shootdowns: at least $40.8 million, and perhaps as much as $86.5 million.
Millions, and now more millions
We come at these figures by estimating the number of Iron Dome "Tamir" interceptor missiles that must have been fired to generate, at an 85% to 90% effective rate, 735 "shootdowns" -- then multiply each Tamir by its estimated purchase price of $50,000 to $100,000. But it turns out, the cost of the missiles Israel fired during "Operation Protective Edge" this past summer are only the beginning.
Because now Israel has to replace those missiles, and buy even more missiles to upgrade Iron Dome further for the next war. (Because in the Middle East, it seems there's always a "next war.")
And so, on Tuesday, we learned that Raytheon has just inked a contract to supply Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems with $149.3 million worth of components needed to build new Tamir interceptor missiles. The deal is the first of its kind made public to date.
Details on the contract are few at present. When I asked Raytheon to elaborate on the types of components it intends to supply to Rafael, their value relative to the cost of a fully assembled missile, and the number of missiles Rafael intends to manufacture, the company was understandably reticent to elaborate. Raytheon did confirm that this is the first announcement of an Iron Dome sales contract, with dollar figures attached, since the company announced it was "teaming up" with the Israeli company to market the Iron Dome system in the United States.
What it means to investors
Suffice it to say, this is big news for owners of Raytheon stock (such as yours truly). It's our first definitive proof that Raytheon has moved beyond the "PR" stage in its cooperation on Iron Dome, and is beginning to generate PR ... O-F-I-T-S from the business.
And not just any profits, but profits of the beaucoup variety. Missile systems such as Iron Dome are Raytheon's bread and butter and the company's largest source of revenue, accounting for more than $1 of every $4 the company takes in annually, according to data from S&P Capital IQ. They're also an above-average profit generator for Raytheon, producing an operating profit margin of 12.6% over the past 12 months, 20 basis points ahead of the company's total operating profit margin.
In missile defense, much of these profits came from Raytheon's legacy Patriot air-defense system. Now it appears Raytheon has won a piece of an even more effective weapon, which scores at least 85% effectiveness in shooting down incoming missiles (versus anywhere from 40% to as little as 9% for Patriot). And with Rafael placing a bulk order for $149 million worth of Iron Dome parts -- a value two to three times as large as the cost of all Tamir missiles fired during the recent Gazan conflict -- it appears the Iron Dome program is ramping up rapidly.
For Raytheon stock owners, that's nothing but good news.
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are infectious diseases that spread from one person to another during sexual contact. If you're a teenager (or a parent of a teen), it's important to know that people in this age group are often susceptible to these diseases since they are unaware of the consequences or the prevention techniques. This article is a guide for teens and their parents for preventing and dealing with STDs.
Teens And STDs
Many people are surprised by just how prevalent STDs are among teenagers. In fact, almost half of the 19 million new cases of STDs that appear every year are found in young people ages 15 to 24, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Additionally, certain STDs like Chlamydia and gonorrhea are more common among teens than among adults.
The ways that STDs are spread is the same among teens as it is among adults:
- Multiple partners: The more partners a teen has, the more likely they are to be exposed to an STD.
- Unprotected sex: Failing to use a latex condom during sexual activity can increase the risk of infection.
- Sexual acts: STDs can be transmitted through several types of sexual activity, including vaginal, oral and anal sex. Many teens don't realize that even skin-to-skin contact can transmit some STDs, such as herpes or genital warts.
With teens, there is one additional risk factor – becoming sexually active at a young age. The younger a person becomes sexually active, the greater their chances of becoming infected with an STD.
(For more information on STDs, see 7 Most Common STDs To Watch Out For.)
Getting Treatment For Teens
Teens are often confused about where to turn when it comes to getting tested for and treating STDs. In cases where a teen feels uncomfortable speaking to a parent about the issue, there are usually local health clinics that can provide STD testing. Most of these clinics have a confidentiality policy so that no one will know you've been tested or treated for an STD – not even your parents. Call ahead to find out more about a health clinic's confidentiality policy for minors.
If you find out that you have an STD, seek treatment as soon as possible. Abstain from sexual contact with anyone until you are no longer infectious. It's important to take the medication or antibiotics you receive exactly as specified by the doctor – failing to follow the instructions properly could cause your STD to come back.
Possible Complications
Many teens are unaware of how serious STDs are. Often, they believe that an STD isn't such a big deal because it can just be treated with medication if they find out they have one. Unfortunately, some STDs can't be cured, such as herpes. There are also several health complications that can result from having an STD, such as:
- Being more susceptible to becoming infected with other STDs, including HIV
- Joint problems
- Blood infections
- Chronic pain
- Infertility
- Pregnancy complications
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- Cervical cancer
- Meningitis
- Hearing or vision problems
- Dementia
- Aneurysm
- Valvular heart disease
- Stroke
- Paralysis
Prevention Strategies
One of the main reasons that teens contract STDs is because they have not been educated about the ways in which these diseases can be prevented. In addition, some teens have a casual attitude about STDs because they are unaware of the serious health risks they can cause.
It's important for parents of teens to be realistic about teenage sexuality. According to the CDC, almost half of all U.S. high school students have had sexual intercourse. In addition, 14 percent of high school students had had 4 or more sexual partners already. Sadly, many of these students were also not using condoms to prevent the spread of STDs or other forms of birth control to prevent teen pregnancy.
Because of these statistics, it's important for all parents to educate their teens about sex and STDs. Parents who would like assistance can contact a local health clinic about possible sex education programs in which their teen can be enrolled.
Besides education, there are several other important strategies that teens should use to prevent the spread of STDs:
- Get tested: Many people don't even know they have an STD because they aren't displaying any symptoms. If you're sexually active, get tested to find out if you have any STDs.
- Treatment: Seek out treatment for an STD immediately, even if you're not displaying any symptoms at the moment.
- Condoms: Use a latex condom every time you have sex to prevent the spread of STDs.
- Limiting sex partners: Having fewer sexual partners reduces the risk of infection.
- Abstinence: Abstaining from all sexual activity is the only way to truly prevent STDs. Teens can wait until they are older to become sexually active to reduce their risk of infection.
It's important for all teens to be aware of the risks of and prevention methods for STDs, even if they plan to wait to have sex. For more information about STDs, including where to find local clinics for testing and treatment, call the National STD Hotline at 1-800-227-8922.


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Loueva Smith, B.A.
South Loop Director
Loueva Smith realized her passion for supporting and educating children after obtaining her A.A.S degree within the field of early childhood. For the first five years of her career she led a preschool classroom within a childcare center. She later moved on to work alongside a BCBA to implement ABA therapy. Loueva has also worked in an elementary school setting where she assisted children with special needs in an inclusive classroom. As a paraprofessional, Loueva gained a strong understanding of differentiated instruction. She utilized this philosophy to support her students' individual cognitive abilities. Appealing to her student's unique growth allowed her to meet each child's academic level. Concurrent with her work, Loueva continued her education, and in May of 2018, she graduated with high honors from Ashford University, where she obtained a BA in childhood education. Throughout her education and work experiences, Loueva has learned to incorporate the values of inclusion, diversity, and independence into her philosophy. With those values in mind, she has decided to return to the early childhood field and accept the role of director of the new South Loop location. With her skills and drive, she will help advance the vision of Living the Language and provide children and families with a high-quality bilingual program.
Nana Aba Peters, Ph.D, E.C.E.
Bronzeville Director
Nana Aba has been a part of LTL since its inception, and is instrumental in our development and success. Her personal interests are in education, social change, and community development. She attended Howard University and holds a Bachelor's degree in French, a Master's degree in French/Francophone literature, and a Doctorate degree in African Development and Public Policy. She has experience teaching young children, teenagers and college students. At Living the Language, Nana is responsible for program development and implementation as well as coordination and day-to-day operations.
Adriana Spiridon, M.A.
Customer Relations Manager
Adriana is our new dynamic customer relations associate. Born in Romania, she holds a Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages (English & French) and a Master's degree in Translations. Before leaving Europe, she worked as head of international relations for two Romanian accounting and auditing institutes, so she is skilled in public relations, event planning and office management. She is full of energy and very creative when it comes to interacting with children. She loves fashion, healthy eating, and hopes to hit the lottery one day and get to travel all around the globe :) Adriana ensures the smooth operation of our daily activities and helps increase LTL visibility.
Sandie Johnson, M.S.W.
Child Therapist
Sandie is a child therapist and collaborates with Living the Language. She speaks Spanish and French and has two bilingual children. She holds a B.A. in French and Communications and a Masters in Social Work from UIC. She has worked for 12 years with children pre-K through 8th grade in the public school setting.
Sandie's work focuses around using play to assess a child's developmental milestones, and help children process circumstances in their world, and to understand better how a child is perceiving life circumstances. Play is a great way to get a glimpse inside a child's mind since the language skills for "talk therapy" are still developing.
She loves teaching social skills to preschoolers in fun, playful ways.
Dionne McKenzie M.Ed.
After-school Program Coordinator
Dionne has been with LTL from its inception and brings invaluable knowledge and experience to our team. She has worked with children of all ages for over two decades. Dionne holds a Bachelor's degree in French and is a certified teacher with a Master's Degree in Education. She has also taught in the Chicago Public School system. In her free time, Dionne practices Capoeira with her four adorable children.
Dionne oversees the day-to-day management of Living the Language to ensure a productive and disciplined learning environment.
Concepción Sandoval B.A.
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Concepción joined Living the Language in the spring of 2014 and immediately had a huge impact on the staff and kids! She has a strong work ethic and is dedicated to seeing children succeed. She received her bachelor's degree in Accounting from UIC and has worked as a bilingual tax professional and instructor. She is a mother of 4 adorable children and has been working with kids for over a decade. Concepción has a passion for creating stimulating activities, and enjoys creating scenarios to get her students engaged in the target language.
Lorena Armenta Cordero
Teach-sitter and Camp Coordinator
Lorena joined the LTL family in the summer of 2015 and was loved by the children and staff from her first day. As a brilliant artist, she loves teaching others to create their own art as she believes it to be the universal language.
Lorena is a passionate teacher, helping children express themselves through her favorite activities: art and dance. Her focus is always on child-led activities because she believes they learn best when their interests are highlighted.
She gives back to her community by painting a mural in her High School and running races! Lorena is an avid photographer, and is currently working on a degree in Pediatric Nursing.
Elsy Lopez, B.S.
Teach-sitter and Spanish after-school teacher
Elsy joined the Living the Language team in the Spring of 2016.
Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, she received her Bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management from Western Michigan University and has been working with children for the last 4 years. Elsy loves to embrace her culture and teach her native language. She believes that learning a second language is extremely important because it opens every child's mind up to ways of thinking they might not have used before and give them the key to better explore and understand cultures beyond their own.
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Google has found a way around getting your video messages across to people who usually don't answer your calls for one reason or the other. By adding a video voicemail support, you will now be able to send your message across to those contacts that are usually too busy to pick your video calls.
You can now leave up to 30-second messages for your contacts who will in turn be able to see them in the Duo app. Your contacts could decide to respond to the video voicemail message once they see it. You can also decide to either pick the video call or let it go to videomail.
"With video messages on Google Duo, you can capture and share your important moments, even when friends and family can't take your call. And like all calls made on Duo, video messages are secure and end-to-end encrypted," Google said.
Here is how video voicemail works in Duo: open the app [Duo], tap a name of a contact you want to call, while the call is ringing, tap "Leave a Video Message" or "Leave a Voice Message." After a countdown that lasts for 3 seconds, record your message, and then tap to stop once you are done. You can preview your message before sending it or just tap send and you are done. However, you can start recording your message after a call rings for 60 seconds without any answer from the other end.
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To play a received message, simply do the following: Open the Duo app, messages will show by your contact's name, tap play, and then download or delete the message or call the person back. A message will be available for 24 hours after playing it unless you download it. All downloaded messages will be saved to your device.
Some users have already started using the feature, and you can give us a feedback to help us know if it is one of those tools that can truly make Duo an exciting video calling app.
Last December, we brought you a report that Google Duo will start alerting you during video calls when your battery hits a low percentage. The low battery alert feature is part of version 25 of the video calling app launched by Google over a year ago.
This is all part of Google's plan to improve the general video conferencing experience. According to 9to5google, the alert will advise users to switch to voice mode from video in order to extend the battery life of their device.
Google also replaced or perhaps, I should just say renamed Audio mode feature to Voice mode. It's just a change of name really, and the feature still offers the same function as before. To reflect this change in name, the toggle to switch modes on the video calling app's main screen has now been updated to reflect the change.


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As the frontline of our health care system, family physicians see the importance of health coverage on a daily basis. They also see the value of ensuring each patient is able to obtain health care coverage regardless of their gender, health history, or socioeconomic status.
Our health care system is not perfect, and there are clearly areas of our insurance and health care system that require additional reforms. That is why AAFP is committed to engaging in a dialogue to identify policies that strengthen our health care system and make health care more affordable for individuals and families. Some areas of the health care overhaul were clearly beneficial, and we believe that many of them should be preserved.
As the national dialogue shifts to coverage for all, the AAFP, in coalition with five other physician organizations representing more 560,000 family physicians, support the following:
Maintaining Coverage
Currently insured individuals should not lose their coverage as a result of any action or inaction by policymakers.
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Preserve current coverage of essential benefits, as well as consumer and benefit protections.
System Reforms
The AAFP welcomes and encourages improvements upon current law to ensure a health care system optimized for patients and their physicians
Our Process Ahead
Changes to our healthcare system come with very high stakes – impacting tens of millions of our patients. Avoiding unintended adverse consequences when making legislative and regulatory changes can require a delicate balance. The AAFP therefore is hopeful that proposals to modify or improve on current law will be released in detail (including legislative language and CBO scores) before Congress votes.This can provide a valuable opportunity for analysis, review and input by our organizations and other stakeholders, by members of Congress, and by independent and nonpartisan analysts.Our intention is to evaluate such proposals based on whether they preserve and improve on the essential coverage, benefits and consumer protections described above, and on access to care for both insured and uninsured individuals, children and families.
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Lose Weight with the 20 Most Weight Loss Friendly Foods on the Planet
Every food has their own pathway of metabolism in the body, making calories created differently for different foods. These lead to them having various effects on your how much calories you burn, your level of hunger, and hormones. Therefore, knowing the 20 most weight loss friendly food on the planet can be an advantage for you when you are trying to lose weight. You can choose these foods compared to all of the other foods on the planet to make sure you are only filling yourself with the best foods to lose weight.
20 Best Foods to help you lose weight:
Whole Eggs
Even though in the past people have feared whole eggs based on the fact that it is high in cholesterol, it has slowly regained its place in the weight loss universe. More recent studies have shown that they do not have an adverse effect towards the cholesterol levels in blood and do not factor into heart attacks. Instead, they are one of the best foods for weight loss. Whole eggs are not only rich in proteins but also healthy fats. It can fulfill your hunger even though it is very low in calories.
There is a study that did a research on 30 women who were overweight, and it was shown that when they opted for eggs instead of bagels for breakfast, they more satiated and ate less for the next day and a half. Another study that was conducted for 8 weeks showed that compared to having bagels, consuming eggs for breakfast increases the amount of weight lost for those who go on a diet that restricts calories. Whole eggs are also incredible in terms of how much nutrients it has. Consuming it when you are going on a diet that restricts calories means you will help yourself fulfill your needs of nutrients. Most of these nutrients are contained in the yolks of eggs.
Leafy Greens
Spinach, swiss chards, collards, kale, are just a few of the many choices of leafy greens available for you. They are dense in fiber despite being low in carbohydrates and calories, making it a perfect constituent for your weight loss diet. Not to mention, leafy greens are also rich in antioxidants and nutrients. One of these is calcium, which according to some studies is beneficial in aiding fat burn.
There is no doubt as to how healthy oily fish such as salmon is. Not only that, they are also very satisfying. You will feel full for a long time after eating salmon, even though it is pretty much low in calories. Besides containing the different kinds of important nutrients, fish will also supply you iodine with a remarkable amount. Studies have shown that a lot of people all over the world are not yet getting the amount of iodine that they actually need when it is actually important for optimum metabolism and proper thyroid function. Omega-3 fatty acids are also found a lot in salmon, which is known to help in reducing inflammation and have a part in metabolic diseases and obesity. Other than salmon, you can have sardines, mackerel, herring, or trout as your source of oily fish.
Cruciferous Vegetables
Broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and cabbage are those among what is called as cruciferous vegetables. Just like any other types of vegetables, they have a high fiber content and tend to help you feel full. However, cruciferous vegetables also have noteworthy protein contained in it. The combination of low energy density, fiber, and protein altogether makes this type of vegetable the perfect addition to your meals if you want to lose weight.
Lean Beef And Chicken Breast
Meat is the target for unfair blame for various health problems throughout the years, even though there is actually no decent evidence that supports the claim. Even though meat that is processed is indeed unhealthy, studies have shown that red meat that is unprocessed does not factor into the increased risks of diabetes or heart disease. Instead, red meat only has a link to cancer prevalences in men, and even this is very weak.
In truth, meat is a food that is friendly towards weight loss, as it is high in protein. Among the other nutrients, protein is what fulfills most. Eating a diet that is high in protein can make you burn more calories each day. Increasing your intake of protein can also diminish your food cravings, which prevents you from unfavorable snacking that can inhibit your weight loss.
Boiled Potatoes
People have a seemingly decreasing favor towards white potatoes, even though they actually possess a number of properties that make it the ideal food not only for weight loss but also for optimal health. It has so many nutrients that there are even records of people who have eaten only potatoes and nothing else for quite long time periods. Potatoes are particularly rich in potassium, which has an important role in the control of blood pressure but people do not get enough intake of. White potatoes are also the highest on the Satiety Index, which means that you will feel naturally full eating it compared to other foods. Resistant starch will be formed if you boil the potatoes, and this is beneficial towards both weight loss and health.
Tuna is another food that is high in protein yet low in calories. There is not much fat contained in tuna, which makes it well-liked among bodybuilders and those alike who need to keep their protein intake high but a low total intake of fat and calories. If you really need high amounts of protein in your diet, do not choose the tuna that is canned in oil, but water instead.
Beans And Legumes
Kidney beans, black beans, and lentils are three of the beans and legumes beneficial for those who are looking to lose weight. They lead to the fulfill of hunger as they are rich in fibers, proteins, and also resistant starch.
Diets with meals that have a low energy density create the tendency for people to eat less calorie. Low energy density foods mostly have a high content of water, examples being fruits and vegetables. However, this also means that you can just make the addition of water to the food you eat, such as making soup. Studies have shown that when people eat food in the form of soup, they feel more full and will eat less calorie, as compared to having the same food in solid form.
Cottage Cheese
Dairy products usually have a high content of protein. Cottage cheese, for the most part, is protein and it just contains a bit of fat and carbohydrate. Eating a lot of cottage cheese can be your preferred way of increasing your intake of protein. Other than being high in protein, dairy products also have a high content of calcium, which helps the process of fat burn according to some studies.
Avocado is a special kind of fruits. Most fruits are loaded with carbohydrates, but avocado is high in healthy fats instead. Particularly, they have a high content of monounsaturated oleic acid, a type of fat that you can also find in olive oil. Even though avocados are mostly fat, it does not mean that they have a high energy density because they also have a high content of water. You can make it the ultimate addition to your salads to increase your uptake of nutrients from the vegetables. Avocado itself will provide you with potassium and fiber as nutrients.
Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar is heavily desired in the field of natural health. They are usually used in condiments. For example, they can be used in the vinaigrettes or dressings you use for your salad. Other people choose to make it a drink instead by diluting it with water. Vinegar has been shown by several studies to be useful for people to lose weight. Consuming vinegar at the same time you are having a meal that is high in carbohydrates will increase your satiety and make you eat fewer calories for the remaining of your day. Vinegar has also been proven in studies to be able to reduce the spikes in sugar levels in the blood after eating. This makes apple cider vinegar beneficial for health in the long run.
Although nuts are high in fat, it does not necessarily mean that it is fattening. Instead, it can be great for snacking as it contains fiber, protein, and healthy fats in balanced amounts. Metabolic health can be improved by eating nuts and it can also lead to weight loss. People who consume nuts have been shown by population studies to have the tendency to be leaner and healthier than the people who do not have nuts as a constituent of their diet. However, remember not to consume nuts excessively as they are quite high in calories.
Some Whole Grains
Brown rice, quinoa, and oats are examples of whole grains that you can eat in order to get high amounts of fiber and adequate amounts of protein. Oats are also filled with beta-glucans, which are soluble fibers capable of improving your metabolic health and increasing your satiety. Both brown and white rice also has a notable content of resistant starch. However, keep a look out for foods that are sometimes labeled as whole grains but are actually junk foods that are highly processed and are not only fattening, but also harmful towards your health. Avoid grains if your diet aims to be low in carbohydrates, as they are high in carbohydrates.
Chili Pepper
Capsaicin, which is contained in chili pepper, is shown in some studies to increase the burning of fat and also reduce appetite. This makes chili peppers a useful addition to your diet for weight loss. However, it might not work for you if you are already accustomed to eating foods that are spicy because some kind of tolerance may have built up and you will not have benefit from the effects it provides.
There are so many population studies that show how people who are healthier are also those who consume the most fruit and vegetables. However, the correlation between fruits and weight loss shown in these studies does not directly mean that eating fruits necessarily equal to weight loss, but fruits do contain the properties that make them friendly towards your diet to lose weight. They do have a content of sugar, but they are low in energy density and it will take some time for you to chew them. The fiber contained in fruit also keeps its sugar content from being liberated to your bloodstream too quickly.
A fruit that deserves its own attention is grapefruit because it has effects towards the control of weight and there have been studies directed solely towards it. Eating half of a grapefruit before eating your meals might help you lose weight as how it caused weight loss for study participants who did the same for the span of around 3 months. Not only that, the study participants who had the metabolic abnormality of insulin resistance that has the possibility to lead to chronic diseases experienced a reduction.see more grapefruit juice for weight loss.
Chia Seeds
One of the most nutritious foods on the planet, the chia seeds are not only friendly towards those going through a low carbohydrate diet but also a great source of fiber. With its fiber content, Chia seeds are able to absorb as much as 12 times their own weight in water, thus turning into a gel-like substance and increasing in size when they are in your stomach. Therefore, they are helpful in losing weight in terms of how they lead to decreased appetite.
Coconut Oil
Coconut oil has a high level of medium chain triglycerides which are shown to increase satiety significantly compared to other fats, so you may want to make it a replacement for the cooking fats that you use.
Full-fat Yoghurt
The probiotic bacteria contained in yogurt will help in enhancing your gut function. If your gut is healthy, then you will be protected against leptin resistance which can cause obesity.


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Due to a mix up and some seriously overzealous Amazon ordering, I have found myself with an entire case of rolled oats that I don't really need. My life is pure tragedy, I know. I've dealt with this in three ways: making granola bars, eating oatmeal for breakfast with pumpkin puree, pistachios and dried cherries mixed in (get. out. it's the greatest thing ever.), and mixing up big batches of granola.
I knew I wanted to make granola with hazelnuts, because I happened to have a lot of those too, when I ran into a problem. What should I put with the hazelnuts? Surely not hazelnuts and chocolate. I'm creative and inventive and everyone and their mother has had chocolate hazelnut something or other. So I scribbled down all my ideas. Honey hazelnut, maple hazelnut, espresso hazelnut. All of them sounded ok, but then I realized something.
The reason that chocolate and hazelnuts are always together, the reason that every European country I've been to has non-negotiable Nutella on the table at breakfast, the reason that I didn't want to eat anything besides Nutella for breakfast for years after I first tried it as a little 7 year old in Northern Wisconsin is because it is a flavor combination that's impossible to beat. Impossible. And I'm not one to argue with the laws of chocolate and hazelnut.
There seems to be a divide on how people like their granola. Some people like big clusters and some, so I've been told, like little schnibbles (but really, who are you? explain yourself, please.) If you're in the cluster camp like me, I've got a few tricks. The first is the egg white. This binds everything together and keeps it from crumbling as it bakes and gets crispy. The second is to turn the oven off after the granola is crispy but leave the granola in there for a few more hours. I've sometimes left if as long as overnight. This gives, by far, the crunchiest, clustery granola you'll ever have. If you fall into the non-cluster camp, skip the egg white step and stir the granola every 10 minutes or so while it bakes to break up any chunks.
You can mix any nuts or seeds into this that you like. If say, for instance, you have fallen into the Amazon Prime trap and landed yourself with a life time supply of a certain ingredient, mix it in. Not that I know what that's like or anything.
Cocoa Hazelnut Granola
Makes about 4 cups
A quick note: This granola is not very sweet at all. I prefer it that way. If you like it a little sweeter, you can use sweetened cocoa powder or add 1 tsp. of brown sugar to the oil and maple syrup mixture. As mentioned above, the egg white helps the granola form clusters. If can definitely be skipped for vegan or out of eggs and don't want to go to the store reasons.
| Ingredients |
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1/2 cup quinoa
- 1 cup hazelnuts, roughly chopped
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 2 tbsp. raw cocoa powder
- 1 egg white
| Instructions |
- Preheat oven to 325
- Combine oats, quinoa, hazelnuts and cinnamon in a large bowl
- In a microwave-safe bowl, stir together coconut oil and maple syrup. Microwave until the coconut oil is melted, about 30 seconds. Whisk in cocoa powder
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix until everything is evenly coated
- In a small bowl, whisk the egg white until light and frothy. Pour into granola and mix until it is evenly distributed
- Spread granola evenly onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 30 minutes or until toasty and golden brown (keep in mind that it will continue to crisp after you remove it from the oven)


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President Trump on Thursday chastised establishment media for not focusing attention on new revelations this week of corruption in the Russia uranium deal approved by the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton's State Department.
Trump's tweet came amid a new claim Thursday that an FBI informant was blocked by the Obama administration from testifying to Congress of Russian efforts to influence the Clintons and the Obama administration regarding the Russia deal. The sale of Uranium One to a Russian state-owned firm coincided with a flow of tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation from parties with a vested interest in the deal as well as a $500,000 speaking fee to Bill Clinton from a Russian bank tied to the Kremlin.
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The initial report by The Hill on Tuesday disclosed that before a government panel in which Hillary Clinton was a member approved the sale that gave Moscow 20 percent of American uranium reserves, the FBI was sitting on evidence Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to expand Moscow's nuclear business in the U.S.
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The 2010 deal for a majority stake of Canadian-based Uranium One and its plausible connection to major donations to the Clinton Foundation was exposed by author Peter Schweizer in his book "Clinton Cash" and confirmed in a 3,000 word, front-page story by the New York Times.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee has acknowledged it is investigating the claims, including Clinton "conflicts to interest," demanding several federal agencies disclose whether they knew the FBI had uncovered the corruption before the 2010 deal was completed.
Now, attorney Victoria Toensing has told The Hill she has a client who alleges Russian executives told him they "facilitated the Obama administration's 2010 approval of the Uranium One deal and sent millions of dollars in Russian nuclear funds to the U.S. to an entity assisting Bill Clinton's foundation."
"All of the information about this corruption has not come out," said Toensing, a former Reagan Justice Department official and former chief counsel of the Senate intelligence committee.
Working undercover, the FBI informant, according to court records, immediately reported that Russian officials had asked him to make kickback payments to the Russians.
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Toensing told The Hill she's trying to get the Trump administration or the FBI to allow her client to talk to Congress by releasing him from a non-disclosure agreement the FBI forced him to sign.
Trump, meanwhile, tweeted Thursday: "Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want to follow!"
As WND reported in March, while Congress was examining allegations that Trump and his aides colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, the president called on Congress to investigate the Clintons' relationships with Russia, including the donations by uranium investors to the Clinton Foundation.
Toensing said her client has memos documenting that the Obama Justice Department threatened him when he attempted to file a lawsuit to recover money Russians stole from him, which could have drawn attention to the Russian corruption during the 2016 election.
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The Justice Department threatened to bring a criminal case against him for violating the non-disclosure agreement, she said. The Hill also said it obtained emails from a civil attorney working with the witness who described the pressure the department was exerting on him to stay quiet.
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On Wednesday, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the new revelations in the Russia uranium deal.
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In a letter last week to the Homeland Security Department, Grassley said he was no longer convinced by the Obama administration's assurances in 2015 that there was no reason to block the Uranium One deal.
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Former Uranium One chairman Ian Telfer was among several individuals connected to the deal who made donations to the Clinton Foundation. Telfer made four foreign donations totaling $2.35 million, the New York Times reported.
The donations flowed as the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013. Snopes and other "fact checkers" who insist there was no quid pro quo have argued that most of the donations were made in 2008, before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state. But she was running for president at that time.
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Avalanche Advisory
Monday, February 15th 2016 7:00 am by Heather Thamm
ARCHIVED ADVISORY - All advisories expire after 24 hours from the posting date/time.
Following a three-day storm a MODERATE avalanche danger exists in Turnagain Pass. In the Alpine (above 2500') be aware of very large cornices and lingering wind slabs 1-2' thick on leeward terrain features. At treeline glide avalanches continue to threaten large amounts of steep real-estate on all aspect below 2500'. The travel advice for glide cracks and cornices are similar, avoid being on or under either, both are extremely unpredictable. Should sky cover clear earlier than anticipated today, pay attention for warming daytime temperatures and sun induced wet-loose activity at all elevations.
*Shallow snowpack zones: South of Turnagain Pass and the Summit Lake area. These areas have old weak layers in the snowpack that have received additional weight and stress from wind, warm temps, and precipitation. This is something to keep in mind if you are headed to these zones this week with the expected clear skies.
|Show the Complete North American Avalanche Danger Scale
|Travel Advice: Heightened avalanche conditions on specific terrain features. Evaluate snow and terrain carefully; identify features of concern.
|Travel Advice: Heightened avalanche conditions on specific terrain features. Evaluate snow and terrain carefully; identify features of concern.
Do you frequent Hatcher Pass? Mark your calendars!
Wednesday, February 17th a FREE Avalanche Awareness Class hosted by Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center in partnership with F-CNFAIC and the Hatcher Pass Mountaineering Huts Group. Join CNFAIC Avalanche Specialist Aleph Johnston-Bloom at the Palmer High School Library from 6:30-8pm.
Saturday, February 20th Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center is having their annual fundraiser at Gov't Peak Chalet near Hatcher Pass. This event will feature a slide show by local climber and ski mountaineer, Kirsten Kremer. Click HERE for more info on both events.
Wind Slabs: Over the last three days moderate Easterly winds and heavy snowfall have loaded leeward terrain features above 2000'. Today light winds and a trace of new snow is expected. Should visibility allow for travel into the upper elevations, be aware of lingering wind slabs in steep terrain. Expect slabs to be 1-2' thick and watch for cracking in the new snow. Hand pits and jumping on small terrain features and test slopes can be good ways to see how well slabs are bonding.
Cornices: Cornices have been growing to enormous sizes and will be tender today. Steer clear and don't put yourself directly on or under a cornice. They can break much further back along a ridge than expected and their extra large size has the potential to trigger a lingering wind slab below.
A Cornice that has formed along "CFR" ridge above Common Bowl on Tincan, estimated to be ~15' tall. The biggest its been all season.
Warm temps, rain and wet snow have been adding weight and stress to glide cracks throughout Turnagain Pass. These unpredictable hazards cover many steep slopes between 1000' to 2500' and continue to release without warning. Look for the large upside down 'brown frowns' and avoid hanging out directly underneath glides. Several glide cracks have released in the last few days including a new one on Sharks Fin.
Seattle Ridge is covered in large glide cracks that span most of the East Face along Turnagain Pass.
Southwest face of Sharks Fin as seen from the Seward Hwy yesterday. Exact timing of this glide avalanche is unknown, but likely in the last two days.
Freezing overnight temperatures are helping the lower elevations form a light crust and water continues to drain from a saturated snowpack below 1500'. Today daytime temperatures may reach the mid 30's and wet loose avalanches will be something to monitor. If the snow is wet and slushy avoid steep terrain where loose wet snow has the potential to gain momentum and entrain deeper into the snowpack.
*Isolated snow and rain showers are in the forecast for today, but should the sun find its way through the clouds, be on the look out for wet loose activity in the mid to upper elevations. I know… this seems a little premature, but since the surface snow is light and dry, it doesn't take much solar exposure to affect new snow.
Yesterday temperatures cooled to 32F at Turnagain Pass and light snowfall was observed during the day. Visibility was mostly obscured with a few periods of broken skies. Winds were light from the Northeast and ridgetop winds averaged in the low teens (mph.)
Overnight temps remained just below freezing and no new precipitation was recorded. In Girdwood light rain stopped around midnight and winds remained light from the Northeast.
Today scattered rain and snow showers are expected. Temperatures could rise into the mid 30's F with light rain to 1500.' Winds will be light from the Northeast and sky cover could clear off enough to see patches of sun by late afternoon.
PRECIPITATION 24-hour data (6am - 6am)
|Temp Avg (F)
|Snow (in)
|Water (in)
|Snow Depth (in)
|Center Ridge (1880')
|Summit Lake (1400')
|Alyeska Mid (1700')
RIDGETOP 24-hour data (6am - 6am)
|Temp Avg (F)
|Wind Dir
|Wind Avg (mph)
|Wind Gust (mph)
|Sunburst (3812')
|Seattle Ridge(2400')
This is a general backcountry avalanche advisory issued for Turnagain Arm with Turnagain Pass as the core advisory area (this advisory does not apply to highways, railroads, or operating ski areas).
Riding status is not associated with avalanche danger. An area will be open to motorized use in accordance to the Forest Management Plan when snow coverage is adequate to protect underlying vegetation. Backcountry hazards including avalanche hazard are always present regardless of the open status of motorized use areas.
(Updated: May 06, 2019 )
|Glacier District
|Johnson Pass:
|Closed as of 4.3.19
|Placer River:
|Closed as of 3.20.19 due to lack of snow.
|Skookum Drainage:
|Placer access closed as of 3.20.19 due to lack of snow.
|Turnagain Pass:
|Closed as of 5/6. Thanks for a great season all, see you next winter!
|Closed as of 3.20.19 due to lack of snow.
|Seward District
|Carter Lake:
|Lost Lake Trail:
|Closed as of 3.22.19 due to lack of snow
|Primrose Trail:
|Closed as of 4.3.19 due to lack of snow
|Resurrection Pass Trail:
|Closed for the 2018/19 season. Next season will be open to motorized use.
|Snug Harbor:
|Close as of 5.1.2019
|South Fork Snow River Corridor:
|Closed as of 3.20.19 due to lack of snow.
|Summit Lake:
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Found this poem unexpectedly last week and had never read it before, so thought I'd share.
"Rapunzel, from your chamber
In the air,
Let down the flowing tresses
Of your hair;
From my dappled charger bold
I would clamber as of old
Up that mass of shining gold,
Oh, so fair."
"Dear knight, to my chamber
In the air,
No longer may you clamber
When you care;
For the fashion caught my eye
As the other maids passed by
In the morning—and so I
Bobbed my hair."
by W. A. Hanway
From The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 82, Issue 7 (April 1917)
And the artwork is by stabstabstab aka Becky Cloonan who does work for various comic books among other things.
(Does the poem make you think of Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald or is that too obscure these days? I'm not that old, really, I just had an old-fashioned education.)
Monday, August 24, 2009
Poetry Break: Irene Rapunzel
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- AnonymousAugust 24, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Bernice Bobs Her Hair is the ONLY Fitzgerald story that I truly truly love. I am so glad someone else knows it.ReplyDelete
Beautiful poem by the way. Do you know if Hanway did any other fairy tale work? I did a simple google search but came up with nothing.
Oh that poem is so cute! xReplyDelete
I found this looking for something else in Google Books. I doubt there is much by Hanway around, appears to be a student piece.ReplyDelete
Makes me laugh more since I went from years of waist length hair to a bob when I was in college.
Oh, and I agree that my favorite Fitzgerald is Berniece. The rest simply hasn't aged well for me.ReplyDelete
Nice poem, thanks for share it.ReplyDelete
What really caught my attention it's the picture you put here, I like it a lot.
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Also it is the first time that I read it. I think that My niece could like it because she enjoys everything that it is about Rapunzel.ReplyDelete