- 2009-07-16 :
- summer
Summer Cocktails--your choice
We scoured the menus of national restaurant chains and researched popular drinks to find out how many calories are really in your favorite refreshers. Let's just say that mudslide might sink you in the deep end of the pool.
To the rescue: Christine Avanti, Los Angeles certified nutritionist and author of Skinny Chicks Don't Eat Salads (Rodale, 2009). Here she reveals calorie-trimming tips and swimsuit-friendly alternatives for top summer sippers. And remember, drink ingredients and portion sizes vary widely across locations so ask how it's made and then customize accordingly.
Whether you'll be sipping daquiris by the pool, gossiping over gimlets at brunch, or serving up a pitcher of something special at your outdoor party, cooling down with a cocktail is one of summer's great pleasures—and a surefire way to pack on the pounds!
Get rid of the ice cream, whipped cream, and the chocolate syrup or go very light on the syrup, says Avanti. Ask the bartender to use only 1 oz. of each liquor.
If this is your once-a-year treat and you won't settle for a lighter version of it, at least tell the bartender to only whip up a half-portion of the drink or split it with a friend.
Bartender, lighten it up!
Ask for only 1 oz. of each serving of alcohol and skip the syrup. If you really want to trim calories but keep the orange flavor, Avanti suggests swapping the orange-flavored liquor for 1 Tbsp. of orange juice.
Dodge it: Long Island Iced Tea
Don't be fooled into thinking this "tea" is good for you. This cocktail combines vodka, gin, rum, tequila, triple sec, sweet and sour mix, cola and sometimes additional juices or sugar.
Bartender, lighten it up!
Switch to diet cola and cut the alcohol servings in half. Eliminate all added sugars and juices. Swap triple sec for orange slices to keep the orange flavor, says Avanti.
Drink it: Strawberry Daiquiri
Average calories: 220 to 320
This blender drink is usually made with light rum, lime juice, sugar or sugar syrup, and frozen strawberries. Strawberry schnapps or triple sec can also be added.
Bartender, lighten it up!
Cut out the added sugar, strawberry schnapps or triple sec, and keep the rum to 1 oz., suggests Avanti. Skip any whipped cream topping. If the drink isn't sweet enough, add a packet of zero-calorie sweetener to taste.
Try our virgin refreshing berry smoothie for only 95 calories per serving.
To the rescue: Christine Avanti, Los Angeles certified nutritionist and author of Skinny Chicks Don't Eat Salads (Rodale, 2009). Here she reveals calorie-trimming tips and swimsuit-friendly alternatives for top summer sippers. And remember, drink ingredients and portion sizes vary widely across locations so ask how it's made and then customize accordingly.
Whether you'll be sipping daquiris by the pool, gossiping over gimlets at brunch, or serving up a pitcher of something special at your outdoor party, cooling down with a cocktail is one of summer's great pleasures—and a surefire way to pack on the pounds!
Get rid of the ice cream, whipped cream, and the chocolate syrup or go very light on the syrup, says Avanti. Ask the bartender to use only 1 oz. of each liquor.
If this is your once-a-year treat and you won't settle for a lighter version of it, at least tell the bartender to only whip up a half-portion of the drink or split it with a friend.
Bartender, lighten it up!
Ask for only 1 oz. of each serving of alcohol and skip the syrup. If you really want to trim calories but keep the orange flavor, Avanti suggests swapping the orange-flavored liquor for 1 Tbsp. of orange juice.
Dodge it: Long Island Iced Tea
Don't be fooled into thinking this "tea" is good for you. This cocktail combines vodka, gin, rum, tequila, triple sec, sweet and sour mix, cola and sometimes additional juices or sugar.
Bartender, lighten it up!
Switch to diet cola and cut the alcohol servings in half. Eliminate all added sugars and juices. Swap triple sec for orange slices to keep the orange flavor, says Avanti.
Drink it: Strawberry Daiquiri
Average calories: 220 to 320
This blender drink is usually made with light rum, lime juice, sugar or sugar syrup, and frozen strawberries. Strawberry schnapps or triple sec can also be added.
Bartender, lighten it up!
Cut out the added sugar, strawberry schnapps or triple sec, and keep the rum to 1 oz., suggests Avanti. Skip any whipped cream topping. If the drink isn't sweet enough, add a packet of zero-calorie sweetener to taste.
Try our virgin refreshing berry smoothie for only 95 calories per serving.
- 2009-06-25 :
- polo clothing
Custom embroidery digitizing
"Custom embroidery digitizing," "embroidery digitizing," or simply "digitizing" is a necessary step for embroidering your company logo or other custom design on promotional products like t-shirts, polo shirts, jackets, caps, and other wearables as well as non-wearables like banners, tablecloths, and car seat covers.
The term "digitizing" is not exclusive to the machine embroidery industry, thus people outside the industry have preconceived assumptions of what it is based on the context outside of machine embroidery. Generally speaking, "digitizing" or to "digitize" means to make a digital format or representation of something. For example, taking a drawing on paper and scanning it into a computer.
Let us assume you already have a clean and crisp raster or vector file of your logo. Popular raster file formats include JPG, GIF, and BMP. Popular vector file formats include AI, CDR, and EPS. Whatever image file format you may have, unfortunately, computerized embroidery machines will not be able to embroider your logo using any type of "image" or "graphics" file due to the simple fact that embroidery machines do not understand them.
In machine embroidery, digitizing involves the use of embroidery digitizing software to turn your company logo into a digital file that contains instructions for embroidery machines. This digital file is stored just like any other computer files and is referred to as an embroidery file, embroidery design, stitch file, embroidery tape, embroidery pattern, or embroidery program. When the embroidery file is loaded to an embroidery machine, it embroiders the logo at an amazing speed and accuracy as instructed by the embroidery file.
The term "digitizing" is not exclusive to the machine embroidery industry, thus people outside the industry have preconceived assumptions of what it is based on the context outside of machine embroidery. Generally speaking, "digitizing" or to "digitize" means to make a digital format or representation of something. For example, taking a drawing on paper and scanning it into a computer.
Let us assume you already have a clean and crisp raster or vector file of your logo. Popular raster file formats include JPG, GIF, and BMP. Popular vector file formats include AI, CDR, and EPS. Whatever image file format you may have, unfortunately, computerized embroidery machines will not be able to embroider your logo using any type of "image" or "graphics" file due to the simple fact that embroidery machines do not understand them.
In machine embroidery, digitizing involves the use of embroidery digitizing software to turn your company logo into a digital file that contains instructions for embroidery machines. This digital file is stored just like any other computer files and is referred to as an embroidery file, embroidery design, stitch file, embroidery tape, embroidery pattern, or embroidery program. When the embroidery file is loaded to an embroidery machine, it embroiders the logo at an amazing speed and accuracy as instructed by the embroidery file.
- 2009-06-07 :
- polo clothing
Men's summer dress to "reveal a leg"
Who said "reveal a leg" is just a woman's patents? This season, boys shorts wind driven all the way from Paris, Milan and New York hit, it is measureless limelight. Actual combat with the following may have been the best summer-type wear law, saying that short pants, but the cool taste but it will greatly increase!
POLO shirt and shorts?
Every summer, mens polo shirts or T + shorts but most of the most unusual summer job of male dress, it's the perfect solution to the "working time can not wear collarless T-shirt" and "hot and humid it is difficult to resist the" struggle between the pain. polo clothing to all men to find a perfect export, it can be dressed wave can also be formally dressed.
POLO shirt and shorts?
Every summer, mens polo shirts or T + shorts but most of the most unusual summer job of male dress, it's the perfect solution to the "working time can not wear collarless T-shirt" and "hot and humid it is difficult to resist the" struggle between the pain. polo clothing to all men to find a perfect export, it can be dressed wave can also be formally dressed.
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It is not just the junior golfers who benefit from polo shirt fashionable range of clothing, it is their parents who are able to purchase wholesale polo shirts that are finished to a high standard, with quality fabrics and above all offer great value for money.
mensclothingus.com is an internet polo clothing specialist which has the most extensive ranges of cheap polos for men, ladies and juniors.
In a brightly lit kitchen, students in white chef hats and aprons are glazing pork, tasting cheddar cheese grits and checking on a Caribbean black bean side dish in the oven.
Once dropouts, discipline problems and failures at high school, they now talk about owning restaurants, writing cookbooks and supporting their families.
Executive directors Myra J. Sampson and Gladys Simpson take that mission to heart. They are veterans in the world of offering alternative schooling for students at risk of dropping out.
They applied to the Chicago Public Schools and got a five-year contract to run the culinary arts high school, housed in a nondescript brick building that happens to have a gleaming, well-stocked kitchen. There are two additional rooms for classes. Students wear navy polo shirts as part of their uniforms.
A bulletin board in the hallway showcases pictures of all the student chefs, below the words "History in the Making."
As a "contract school," the culinary arts high school has to meet performance measures in a number of areas, such as graduation and attendance rates and test performance. Last week, the juniors were taking Illinois' Prairie State Achievement Examination just like other 11th graders across the state. The exam measures whether students meet state standards in reading, math and other subjects.
Once dropouts, discipline problems and failures at high school, they now talk about owning restaurants, writing cookbooks and supporting their families.
Executive directors Myra J. Sampson and Gladys Simpson take that mission to heart. They are veterans in the world of offering alternative schooling for students at risk of dropping out.
They applied to the Chicago Public Schools and got a five-year contract to run the culinary arts high school, housed in a nondescript brick building that happens to have a gleaming, well-stocked kitchen. There are two additional rooms for classes. Students wear navy polo shirts as part of their uniforms.
A bulletin board in the hallway showcases pictures of all the student chefs, below the words "History in the Making."
As a "contract school," the culinary arts high school has to meet performance measures in a number of areas, such as graduation and attendance rates and test performance. Last week, the juniors were taking Illinois' Prairie State Achievement Examination just like other 11th graders across the state. The exam measures whether students meet state standards in reading, math and other subjects.
