Source: Dreamtime license The end of 2016 is coming up fast, and most of us want to close on a high note: healthy, fit, and on top of our weight. But a recent New York Times article was depressing: “Why You Can’t Lose Weight on a Diet,” the lead paragraph declared: “The problem isn’t willpower. It’s neuroscience. You can’t—and shouldn’t—fight back.” Neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt explained that recent studies show dieting is an ineffective approach to long-term weight loss. One study published this spring revealed that participants on the reality TV show America’s Biggest Loser had regained 70 percent of their lost weight after their season’s finale. Having spent a lifetime struggling with her weight, Aamodt offered a solution that put the headlines in perspective. She pointed to studies and her own success with “mindful eating,” which she described as “paying attention to signals … [Read more...] about Mind Your Weight: Inside Out
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Best Restaurant In Washington: Daily Meal’s 2019 List
The Daily Meal unveiled its "Best Restaurants of 2019," and the online food and dining site included one restaurant from Washington. Roughly 15,690 restaurants are in our state, according to the National Restaurant Association. Estimated sales in 2018 were $13.5 billion, and food service jobs accounted for 10 percent of Washington's workforce. The best restaurant in the state, according to the Daily Meal's report, is Seattle's award-winning JuneBaby (located at 2122 NE 65th St). "Chef Edouardo Jordan is a veteran of Per Se and The French Laundry. He opened his first restaurant, Salare, in Seattle in 2015 and followed that up in 2017 with JuneBaby, a celebration of Southern food. The menu here looks like those of plenty of other Southern restaurants: buttermilk biscuits, boiled peanuts, pimento cheese, oxtails, catfish with greens, green gumbo with Gulf shrimp and fried chicken on Sundays. But this restaurant is so much more than that. These Southern dishes are executed perfectly, with … [Read more...] about Best Restaurant In Washington: Daily Meal’s 2019 List
NSW Rural Fire Service map shows massive extent of bushfires
A map has graphically demonstrated the extent of the fires. Uploaded to social media by NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons, the map is singed grey illustrating where land has been burned or is still ablaze. This stretches across vast regions close to the state’s coast from the Queensland border south to almost Victoria, skirting, major towns and cities. The fires have been so ferocious in northern NSW that a single patch of flame-scorched earth now extends from north of Grafton to south of Taree, a distance of more than 300kms. A second large area of bushfires has burned through a swath of land to the north west of Sydney in the Wollemi and Yengo national parks between Gosford, Lithgow and Mudgee. Several fires in this area merged last week to form one “mega fire” with a 60km front. These fires, and other large blazes to the south of Blue Mountains, have been chiefly responsible for the choking skies and terrible air quality afflicting Sydney. A … [Read more...] about NSW Rural Fire Service map shows massive extent of bushfires
The Present Status of Civil Service Reform
It is always a pleasure to be able to report definite, tangible progress in any reform movement. For a long time the voices of the men who inveighed against the foul spoils system were voices crying in the wilderness, and the bulk of our people regarded the speakers merely with that good-natured amusement too often vouchsafed by the average American to a movement which does not seem to have immediately ahead of it a paid return. But this stage has now been left behind. We have extended the national civil service law to cover so large a portion of the public service that we are past the period of agitation, past the period of mere experiment, and have reached a time when the new system exists side by side, in almost equal strength, with the old.In 1883 the civil service law was established at Washington, and in the larger post-offices and custom-houses throughout the country, taking in a total of some fourteen thousand employees. The great extensions since have all taken place during … [Read more...] about The Present Status of Civil Service Reform
National public service portal formally launched
According to the Government Office, in the last 9 months, it cooperated with related ministries & sectors, and local authorities to standardize and upgrade necessary databases for administrative procedures regarding citizens and businesses in order to integrate them for the services launched on the portal. This public service portal, an essential milestone in the implementation of the people-centered and enterprise-centered approach, aims at delivering transparent information about administrative procedures as well as actually carrying out these practical works online. The portal is supposed to save more than VND4,200 billion (approx. US$181.4 million) per year. At the launching time, the portal with the address http://dichvucong.gov.vn provides 5 online public services in all 63 provinces and cities, consisting of driving license re-issue, promotion activity notices, health insurance card re-issue due to loss or damage, low-voltage power supply to individuals, households and … [Read more...] about National public service portal formally launched