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Sunday, January 27, 2013
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"Headed out to dinner? You're not alone" by Your business
New York's restaurant sales are projected to rise 3.9 percent in the new year to more than $33.5 million, according to the leading business association for the state's restaurant and hospitality industries. National restaurant sales are expected to top $660 billion this year.
The New York State Restaurant Association released a report highlighting hospitality and economic trends New Yorkers can expect in 2013, based on interviews with 1,800 chefs across the nation.
A study conducted by the National Restaurant Association showed that 10 percent of America's workforce is represented by the restaurant industry, which continues to drive new employment with 13.1 million new positions this year. In New York state, industry employment is expected to jump 6.7 percent over the next decade, creating about 50,6000 jobs.
"The New York State Restaurant Association has worked hard in recent years with Governor Cuomo and local leaders in New York City and across the state to improve the climate for restaurateurs, caterers and other hospitality professionals," said Colleen Holmes, vice chair NYSRA's board of directors. "These numbers just out from the NRA's national research signals this work is beginning to gain traction."
The national study also identified the top five culinary trends this year ? locally sourced meats and seafood, locally grown produce, healthy kids' meals, environmental sustainability as a culinary theme and children's nutrition as a culinary theme ? along with the top five trends in adult beverages ? onsite barrel-aged drinks, food-liquor/cocktail pairings, culinary cocktails, micro-distilled/artisan liquor and locally produced spirits.
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Source: http://www.dailygazette.com/weblogs/your-business/2013/jan/25/0125_restaurantsales/
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Die-hard surfers take to the waves on Lake Tahoe | Lake Tahoe News
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By Scott Oxarart, Reno Gazette-Journal
When Brennan Lagasse is out on the water, people stop their cars and pull out their cameras. They watch in awe from Lake Tahoe?s north shores, wondering just what the heck he?s doing.
He usually just laughs and gives a friendly smile.
Lagasse is one of a handful of locals who love surfing so much, and are just crazy enough, to ride waves in Lake Tahoe in the fall, winter and early spring months in near-hypothermic water temperatures.
You can insist he?s nuts, but he?ll tell you he?s opportunistic.
?It?s the funniest thing. Every time I surf Tahoe, there?s one or two random people that show up,? said Lagasse, a professor at Sierra Nevada College, freelance writer and ski guide in Lake Tahoe and Alaska. ?People take pictures in disbelief, but it?s true: Many people surf Lake Tahoe.?
Well, it is one of the less typical activities to do in the winter.
Armed with a neoprene dry suit, booties, gloves and a hood, Lagasse takes his 9-foot Verner longboard and catches waist-high waves, some 6 feet or higher, along the north shore between Tahoe Vista and Sand Harbor when the weather is right.
Water temperature is at its warmest in the fall, near 50 or 60 degrees, after a full summer of heat. Lagasse surfed the first week of January and has gone 10 times in the past three months, when the water temperature has been around 40 degrees and the air anywhere from the high 20s to low 40s.
Still, the 32-year-old jumps from a dock into the water, surfs for an hour if the conditions are right and rides waves just like he did when he first started surfing in Australia in 2001.
He knows the dangers, but prepares accordingly ? he?s used to cold temperatures as a Lake Tahoe resident and ski guide. Lagasse keeps a few thermoses of hot water waiting for when he gets out, which he uses mainly on his hands and feet to get the blood flowing.
He also makes sure his car is nearby. He blasts the heat and changes into warm, dry clothes.
?If there?s a big storm, there can be pretty big waves,? said Ferrell Hapgood, who works at Tahoe Dave?s Skis & Boards. ?I?ve seen many people with dry suits out there. It has to be a gnarly storm, but it does happen.?
Lagasse follows the weather closely. The hours before a storm blows in are ideal surfing conditions. He said winds need to be blowing at least 25 mph, with gusts of at least 40 mph. He?s also surfed the west shore during uncommon east winds.
?It?s very fickle,? said Lagasse, who was interviewed for an ESPN story about surfing Lake Tahoe. ?There have been times when I got out to surf and it just didn?t work out. Other times, where you think you?re going to get sandbagged, and all of a sudden you get some good gusts.?
Surfing is just one winter sport that many might consider bizarre because of the cold weather.
Many people like to disc golf at North Tahoe Regional Park in the snow.
Ice camping is also catching on, according to Anne Sutterfield of the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority. The Tahoe Rim Trail group teaches a course on snow camping.
Todd Shimkus, of Tahoe Mountain Sports, said snow running is getting bigger. It?s similar to snowshoeing, but the shoes have a smaller surface area and are lighter so you can run instead of walk for better exercise.
But the most bizarre is surfing Lake Tahoe. And it?s catching on, too.
?When you?re riding a really good wave, you really don?t feel that cold,? Lagasse said. ?You catch a few waves, and it?s always worth it.?
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Female thin bodies like men more than women
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A study conducted at the University of Granada has demonstrated that men like female thinness more than women and they find female overweight more unpleasant than women. In addition, the study revealed that women who are not comfortable with their body perceive women with a "normal" body i.e. women with a healthy weight as a threat. Specifically, when these women see a "normal" body they experience feelings of displeasure and lack of control, since they feel they have not any control on their own body and cannot make it be as they want.
This research study was conducted by researchers at the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada. The authors found that women who are not comfortable with their body feel embarrassed and uneasy when they see themselves in a picture or video, especially if they are imitating the poses of a professional model.
A Study in 671 University Students
To carry out this study, the researchers performed four experimental studies with university students. As many as 671 students participated in the study. A total of 550 students participated in the first two studies (408 women and 142 men), 61 participated in the third study (28 women highly discomforted with their body and 33 moderately unsatisfied with their body) and 60 in the fourth study (30 healthy women satisfied with their body and 30 women with bulimia nervosa unsatisfied with their body).
Blanca Ortega-Roldn Oliva one of the authors of this study explained that the bodies that most like men and women are those of professional female models with a normal weight. "Men and women found these bodies highly pleasing and stimulating, although they made them feel a lack of control. This means that a sexy and stimulating body makes people feel a lack of control, as these bodies are considered difficult to attain or even unattainable".
On the other hand, the study revealed that the body of a model with a normal weight negatively affects women that are highly unsatisfied with their body. Thus, unsatisfied women consider these bodies "unpleasant, very activating and unattainable (perception of lack of control)". The reason for this perception is that these women cannot objectively evaluate a normal body in emotional terms, since they cannot avoid comparing themselves with it. This makes them feel upset, as they feel their body does not meet their beauty standards.
The Ideal Woman in Spain
In the light of the results of this study, the University of Granada researchers have demonstrated that the ideal woman in Spain does not coincide with that proposed by the media, which is currently the aesthetic and social standard. Thus, "Spanish men and women prefer the bodies of healthy models with normal weight". This fact "should be taken into account by the advertising and fashion industry and governments, so that they help prevent the growing incidence of body dissatisfaction and the associated eating disorders", the researchers recommend.
Finally, social pressure on women's body might come from men, since they prefer thin women and stigmatize female obesity more than women. "Therefore, the conclusions drawn in this study should have an impact on programs aimed at preventing body dissatisfaction among women", Ortega-Roldn concludes.
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Public release date: 25-Jan-2013[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Blanca Ortega-Roldn Oliva
bortega@ugr.es
34-958-243-753
University of Granada
A study conducted at the University of Granada has demonstrated that men like female thinness more than women and they find female overweight more unpleasant than women. In addition, the study revealed that women who are not comfortable with their body perceive women with a "normal" body i.e. women with a healthy weight as a threat. Specifically, when these women see a "normal" body they experience feelings of displeasure and lack of control, since they feel they have not any control on their own body and cannot make it be as they want.
This research study was conducted by researchers at the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada. The authors found that women who are not comfortable with their body feel embarrassed and uneasy when they see themselves in a picture or video, especially if they are imitating the poses of a professional model.
A Study in 671 University Students
To carry out this study, the researchers performed four experimental studies with university students. As many as 671 students participated in the study. A total of 550 students participated in the first two studies (408 women and 142 men), 61 participated in the third study (28 women highly discomforted with their body and 33 moderately unsatisfied with their body) and 60 in the fourth study (30 healthy women satisfied with their body and 30 women with bulimia nervosa unsatisfied with their body).
Blanca Ortega-Roldn Oliva one of the authors of this study explained that the bodies that most like men and women are those of professional female models with a normal weight. "Men and women found these bodies highly pleasing and stimulating, although they made them feel a lack of control. This means that a sexy and stimulating body makes people feel a lack of control, as these bodies are considered difficult to attain or even unattainable".
On the other hand, the study revealed that the body of a model with a normal weight negatively affects women that are highly unsatisfied with their body. Thus, unsatisfied women consider these bodies "unpleasant, very activating and unattainable (perception of lack of control)". The reason for this perception is that these women cannot objectively evaluate a normal body in emotional terms, since they cannot avoid comparing themselves with it. This makes them feel upset, as they feel their body does not meet their beauty standards.
The Ideal Woman in Spain
In the light of the results of this study, the University of Granada researchers have demonstrated that the ideal woman in Spain does not coincide with that proposed by the media, which is currently the aesthetic and social standard. Thus, "Spanish men and women prefer the bodies of healthy models with normal weight". This fact "should be taken into account by the advertising and fashion industry and governments, so that they help prevent the growing incidence of body dissatisfaction and the associated eating disorders", the researchers recommend.
Finally, social pressure on women's body might come from men, since they prefer thin women and stigmatize female obesity more than women. "Therefore, the conclusions drawn in this study should have an impact on programs aimed at preventing body dissatisfaction among women", Ortega-Roldn concludes.
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Contacting person:
Blanca Ortega-Roldn Oliva
Department of Personality
Evaluation and Psychological Treatment of the University of Granada
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AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/uog-ftb012513.php
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The flu is not inevitable
A Christian Science perspective.
The top story of every news report I had seen for weeks was ?The Flu.? (There, it just happened again, flu is at the top of this report!) Not only was it at the top of every news report, it was the subject of almost every commercial. It was the topic of conversation.
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It?s now late January, so it?s not so unusual for the flu to be in the news. But this time it seemed to me to be a little different. This time there seemed to be an intensity that I hadn?t seen before, more of a suggestion of inevitability that everyone would get it.
?Inevitable? is a word that means impossible to avoid or prevent. However, I questioned this inevitability. As a student of Christian Science I?ve learned that things are not always as they seem, disease being one of those things. I?ve learned to look for the source of something to understand its nature. What is the source of the flu? Is it germs invading a material body? Does this explanation have its source in God, the creator of all things? The Bible tells us, ?God is love? (I John 4:16). I couldn?t reconcile the thought of a loving God subjecting His creation to disease. I had a choice. I could be fearful about the inevitability of catching the flu, or I could trust that God was loving and caring for me. Could I trust God?
I had a chance to find out a few days later. I had a restless night. I awoke with all the symptoms the media defined as relating to flu. I tried my best to proceed with my day. However, in the afternoon I returned to bed. I couldn?t get comfortable enough to fall asleep, so I decided to turn my thought away from my misery and concentrate on something else. Immediately the thought came to me to think good ? as in divine good, or Godlike ? thoughts. So I thought about what God would be thinking about me, how He loved me and how He could never see me as being anything other than the way He made me, pure and perfect. I fell asleep.
When I awoke I was completely free from every symptom. It wasn?t as though I was just rested and better; it was as though I had never had a single one of the symptoms. Although the symptoms had been quite evident both to me and my family, now they were gone. I was completely and unmistakably my regular self again.
More than just a quick fix of the flu, this dramatic change indicated to me an underlying principle of perfection. This perfect state of being was understood and even required by Jesus, who said, ?Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect? (Matthew 5:48). If, in reality, our state of being is always perfect, we can rely on our understanding of this to correct any misconception that we are diseased or imperfect in any way. When we do away with misconceptions, they disappear. When we do away with the misconception of disease, it disappears from our experience.
Don?t we owe it to ourselves and others to ?be perfect? in this way, not to see disease of any kind as inevitable? Mary Baker Eddy discovered that disease was not the solid reality it claimed to be but instead was a misconception of reality, the reality that Jesus taught us about, the reality that God, good, creates. She wrote, ?To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear, ? this is the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep away the false and give place to the true? (?Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,? p. 428). She taught that as we do this that we, too, can eliminate disease from our lives and the lives of others.
This experience proved to me that I could trust God. God is Love. What is truly inevitable is God?s love for His perfect creation.
Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/3d9sIQtOWvk/The-flu-is-not-inevitable
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Google applies for license to build experimental wireless network at Mountain View
Google's learned quite a lot about internet provision through its wired Fiber service, and now it appears to be preparing a localized wireless network. El Goog has solicited the FCC for a license to build an "experimental radio service" at its Mountain View lair, which uses bands that current consumer devices don't. As the WSJ notes, Google's old buddy Clearwire holds the keys to the 2524-2625MHz range it'll occupy, and wireless networks using these frequencies are currently under construction in China, Brazil and Japan. The initial hub for the service is planned to be within the building that houses the Google Fiber team -- perfect fuel for speculation that big G wants to create its own network (possibly in cahoots with Dish), and one that's not confined to its HQ. Right now, it's just a document, so we'll have to wait and see how this develops. Even if it ends up going nowhere, it's not like the search behemoth doesn't have the money to flirt with whatever it wants.
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Source: FCC, Wall Street Journal
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/24/google-experimental-wireless-network/
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Friday, January 25, 2013
More than one brain behind Einstein's famous equation: E=mc2
Jan. 25, 2013 ? A new study reveals the contribution of a little known Austrian physicist, Friedrich Hasen?hrl, to uncovering a precursor to Einstein famous equation.
Two American physicists outline the role played by Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasen?hrl in establishing the proportionality between the energy (E) of a quantity of matter with its mass (m) in a cavity filled with radiation. In a paper about to be published in the European Physical Journal H, Stephen Boughn from Haverford College in Pensylvannia and Tony Rothman from Princeton University in New Jersey argue how Hasen?hrl's work, for which he now receives little credit, may have contributed to the famous equation E=mc2.
According to science philosopher Thomas Kuhn, the nature of scientific progress occurs through paradigm shifts, which depend on the cultural and historical circumstances of groups of scientists. Concurring with this idea, the authors believe the notion that mass and energy should be related did not originate solely with Hasen?hrl. Nor did it suddenly emerge in 1905, when Einstein published his paper, as popular mythology would have it.
Given the lack of recognition for Hasen?hrl's contribution, the authors examined the Austrian physicist's original work on blackbody radiation in a cavity with perfectly reflective walls. This study seeks to identify the blackbody's mass changes when the cavity is moving relative to the observer.
They then explored the reason why the Austrian physicist arrived at an energy/mass correlation with the wrong factor, namely at the equation: E = (3/8) mc2. Hasen?hrl's error, they believe, stems from failing to account for the mass lost by the blackbody while radiating.
Before Hasen?hrl focused on cavity radiation, other physicists, including French mathematician Henri Poincar? and German physicist Max Abraham, showed the existence of an inertial mass associated with electromagnetic energy. In 1905, Einstein gave the correct relationship between inertial mass and electromagnetic energy, E=mc2. Nevertheless, it was not until 1911 that German physicist Max von Laue generalised it to include all forms of energy.
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