September 1st, 2010 by
Charlie Belmore | Tags: Cakes, Crab Cakes, Oceanaire Seafood
Dear SOS: Last February I ate dinner at the Oceanaire Seafood Room in Washington, D.C. Can you get the recipe for the crab cakes? — Ellen, Monrovia, Calif.
Dear Ellen: Oceanaire Seafood Room was happy to share its recipe for these tender, soft crab cakes. The cakes are baked, not fried, and can be made ahead of time and refrigerated, then baked before serving. P
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August 30th, 2010 by
Sarah Leeson | Tags: Fun, Hip Again
- Images: Hooping Is Hip Again For Exercise, Fun
PITTSBURGH — Stefanie Moser hadn’t touched a Hula Hoop since she was a kid. So when she went to a wedding and the bride insisted the guests hoop instead of dance, she gave it a twirl.
Soon, the 26-year-old found herself hooping while she read books or talked on the phone. Read more…
August 29th, 2010 by
Ava Long | Tags: Engagement, Engagement Lessons
A couple of weeks ago I participated on a panel with our CDC colleagues Ann Aiken and Jessica Schindelar about Twitter monitoring, evaluation, and engagement at the CDC’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media. During this panel I spoke about “engagement” on Twitter – providing different definitions of it and how we at AIDS.gov work to engage our Twitter followers (and here are the slides ).
When it comes to defining “Twitter engagement” there isn’t just one definition. There are many websites and software programs that evaluate “engagement” on Twitter such as Klout , Twitalyzer , Tweet Grade , Tweetlevel , and many others. Some sites look a
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August 27th, 2010 by
Charlie Belmore | Tags: Anxiety
Anxiety can be a problem for some college and university freshmen, but there are a number of ways they can cope with new experiences and challenges, an expert suggests.
The first step is to get to know your anxiety, Martin M. Antony, a psychology professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, advises in a university news release.
Understanding the nature of your discomfort can help reduce your anxiety, he explains. Ask yourself what triggers your anxiety and if there are certain situations that make you feel uncomfortable, such as making friends, giving presentations, speaking with professors, or being stared at by others.
Examine the thoughts and predictions that contribute to your anxiety.
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