CivilianJobs.com recently recognized Crete Carrier Corporation as a 2013 Most Valuable Employee (MVE) for Military finalist. Marking the fifth year of publication, the MVE recognition serves to help military-experienced job seekers and veterans identify the top employers to target for civilian careers. The contest is open to all U.S.-based companies, and finalists were selected based on surveys in which employers outlined their recruiting, training and retention plans that best serve military servicemen. Winners will be selected and announced April 28.
Bacon-shell tacos:?Those who come to see the West Michigan Whitecaps play will have the opportunity to chow down on a Baco, a taco?with a specially made bacon shell.
By Associated Press / March 15, 2013
Baco, a bacon-shell taco, won the Michigan Whitecaps (not pictured) minor league baseball team's fourth annual food contest. The Baco will be available at Whitecaps games this summer at Fifth Third Ballpark, in Comstock Park, Mich.
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A Michigan minor league team plans to offer its fans an oink-tastic treat this summer.
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Looking into the mirror shouldn't be anyone's greatest fear.
To make that easier, the Ottawa Hospital is trying to find out how best to treat a common eating disorder.
With 3.6% of Canadian men and women struggling with Binge Eating Disorders (BED), researchers will test the usefulness of providing patients with self-help resources, intensive group therapy, or a combination of both.
BED is characterized by overeating with a sense of loss of control at least once a week, according to the hospital.
The trial will first offer a self-help manual to 150 men and women which will tell them about what BED is, why it happens, proper eating habits and ways to avoid binging.
During the 10-week self-help portion of the study, patients will receive little outside support.
"The idea is to mimic what might happen in a primary care setting, like with a family physician," said Dr. Giorgio Tasca, the psychologist leading the study.
Participants will also learn the common factors behind binge eating, such as relationship stress, depression, anxiety and interpersonal problems.
Following the first 10 weeks, the group will be split up. Half will spend 16 weeks receiving no follow-up care or treatment, while the other group with undergo intensive group therapy. The therapy they will get was developed at The Ottawa Hospital.
"The therapy really focuses on the issues that lead up to the binges," said Tasca, who said there is a strong correlation between people with BED and depression.
Those connections mean the total cost to the health care system for a patient with BED is 36% higher than the national average, Tasca said.
The idea is first to see how effective self-help is in treating BED on its own so primary care providers can be armed with the information to decide who will benefit from a more hands-off approach and who needs more help.
"The second part is, if we add that intensive treatment to (the self-help), is it value added? Is it worth the time and effort and money involved?" said Tasca.
The study is a rare one on a topic that is often talked about between doctors, but the practice of stepped care in eating disorders has rarely been tested in a supervised setting.
The study is partially funded by the Ontario Mental Health Foundation.
For more information on the study, e-mail bedstudy@toh.on.ca or call 613-798-5555, ext. 73011.
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Most common types of eating disorders
-Bulimia nervosa: characterized by eating excessive amounts of food in one sitting and then trying to compensate for the over-eating by ridding the body of the food.
-Anorexia nervosa: characterized by refusal to maintain normal body weight, often through starvation.
-Binge eating disorder (BED): characterized by over-eating with a sense of loss of control at least once a week, often resulting in obesity.
Source: Statistics Canada and The Ottawa Hospital
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Who develops eating disorders?
-Bulimia nervosa affects between 1% and 4% of women in Canada, while anorexia nervosa affects between 0.5% and 4%.
-Bing eating disorders affects 2% of all Canadians, men and women.
-About 90% of people with bulimia or anorexia are women, though a fairly even split of men and women suffer from binge eating disorders.
-Eating disorders most often start during the teen or young adult years.
Source: Canadian Mental Health Association
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Eating disorder resources in Ottawa
-Hopewell: Support centre for those with eating disorders, www.hopewell.ca, 613-241-3428
-Ottawa Eating Disorder Clinic: Provides outpatient assessment and treatment of a variety of eating disorders, in both adults and children, www.ocbt.ca, 613-729-0801
-Regional Centre for the Treatment of Eating Disorders, The Ottawa Hospital. Physician referral required, 613-737-8042
While plenty of Android users prefer the vanilla OS experience, manufacturer-created skins persist, like HTC's updated Sense 5 UI debuting on the latest One flagship. HTC's Droid DNA will almost certainly receive this new version in the future -- the handset maker has confirmed it's coming to the Butterfly, a DNA variant -- but if you're partial to flashing, you can get your fingers on it right now. XDA Developers member newtoroot clearly isn't lacking the expertise their handle suggests, and has taken to the site's forum to offer a beta build of Sense 5 for the DNA. Bear in mind it's a beta, but everything is said to working bar MMS and the new Zoe camera mode. If you've got the hardware, know your way around a ROM and are up for toying with HTC's latest skin, head to the source link for the file and thread.
When lightning flashes across the sky, you only get a chance to glimpse its fractal form for a split second. But when you send 15,000 volts coursing through plywood, you get a much better look at how it grows. Melanie Hoff, a student at the Pratt Institute in New York City did just that, and the result is a timelapse where you can see the patterns slowly grow out and smolder, like lightning made from molasses. [Vimeo Staff Picks] More »
Don?t let your online reputation interfere with your offline persona.
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Presidential candidate Ron Paul didn?t buy his namesake domain, RonPaul.com, and was forced into reputation management tailspin. Paul, a 2008 and 2012 contender, known for his staunch libertarian and anti-government standpoint, has filed a dispute with the UDRP, an agency of the United Nations, over the ownership of the www.RonPaul.com domain.
For reasons unexplained by the candidate or the owners of the RonPaul.com site, Ron paul did not register the domain RonPaul.com. Google searches for ?Ron Paul? bring up his official website, CampaignForLiberty.org first, and RonPaul.com in a close second, dividing his online reputation and clicks between two sites. Fans who enter in the candidate?s name followed by a ?.com? are directed to a fan page, not Paul?s official page.
Now, instead of focusing on his political and business endeavors, Ron Paul has now been thrown into a drawn-out reputation management debacle.
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Now that search results pull up hundreds of people with your exact same name, your name doesn?t hold much cachet in and of itself. Sure, people can search for your name or your company, but a casual user will opt for the ?BobSmith.Com? over ?ArchitectsLosAngeles.com? when searching for Bob Smith, an architect.
Claiming your domain name is like taking ownership of your own name. Brands with the proper domain name have one less hoop to jump through when connecting with users. A domain using your real name takes no explanation; users searching for a site with an unnatural domain will have to pass through an extra layer of confusion to find your web presence.
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Even your name isn?t the unique calling card it used to be in the pre-Internet days. Now you must struggle to differentiate yourself from the unexpected other Mac Pogues, or Channing Kennedys, in search results.
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Your online identity requires your input. Defending your web persona means playing a good offense; throw information out into the void early and often.
Have you had trouble claiming a domain or your identity online? Let us know in the comments.
