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A strong and engaging all online programs exists in Bridgeport's M.A. in Global Development and Peace. I started my online graduate studies in Sao Paulo, Brazil and finished in Washington, D.C. I highly recommend this Master's program. Classes are challenging and professors are committed to provide students with the tools they need to succeed in their future careers. Even though I was far from campus, I always felt part of the Bridgeport family and received all the support I needed …
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AUSTIN, Texas - The Mizzou baseball team fell, 5-2, in game two of its series at No. 8 Texas on Saturday at Disch-Falk Field in Austin. The loss drops Mizzou to 13-14on the season and 1-3 in Big 12 play. Sophomore Scott Sommerfeld knocked in the two Tiger runs in the loss as he tallied a pinch-hit one-out single to left field, scoring a pair of runs in the seventh inning.
Junior starter Matt Stites was tagged with the loss despite pitching a career-high 8 innings while throwing 118 pitches. He gave up five runs and nine hits as three of the earned runs came in the first three innings. He was unable to solve Texas' Lucas Kephart, who went 2-4 at the plate while driving in all five of the Longhorn runs.
Texas starter Hoby Milner earned the win for UT as he pitched 6.1 innings while scattering just three hits and giving up just two earned runs. In all, Mizzou totaled just four hits in the loss. Freshman Dillon Everett tallied the lone extra-base hit for the Tigers on the day, lacing a two-out double off of the left field wall.
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Cell Phone Contracts
2015 Legal Update: Please note that the enactment of Ontario's Wireless Services Agreement Act and the adoption of a new Wireless Code by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission have created significant new rights for consumers that are not discussed in the Cell Phone Contracts Webinar from May 17, 2010. For more current information, please see the Quick Tips: Wireless Services Agreements in the Cell Phones Toolkit. More information is also available elsewhere on the Your Legal Rights website, and from the Ministry of Consumer Services.
Recorded on May 17, 2010 - This webinar, presented by Margaret Capes, Legal Education Coordinator of Community Law School (Sarnia-Lambton) Inc., looks at cell phone contracts, legislation and agencies that govern the cell phone industry, the rights of consumers and remedies available to them when they find their service contract untenable, and how and where to complain about an unresponsive service provider.
To view and listen to this webinar click here or watch using the embedded player below. If you cannot see the player you may need to upgrade to the latest Adobe Flash player. To view the webinar in Quicktime format, click here (27.6 MB). To listen to the audio only, click here (mp3 format 6.30 MB) or here (WAV format).
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Show your mum how special she is to you this Mother's Day. Mums work really hard to maintain our homes and this Sunday can be the perfect time to show how grateful you are. Create a beautiful and tidy interior in which your mum can feel fully at ease.
Bedroom Ideas for Mother's Day
Many of us cannot afford to spend a small fortune on a 5* bed and breakfast for our mothers, so we have come up with a few solutions that are much more budget friendly.
Firstly, create a heavenly haven of relaxation for your mum and replace her bed and mattress. If she often wakes up with aches and pains or complains about a bad night's sleep then she is guaranteed to enjoy a comfortable new bed. With so many to choose from, you're bound to find a bed frame that suits her taste perfectly.
Then, on the day of course, cook a Mother's Day breakfast and serve it in her new luxurious bed. As she wakes up happy and refreshed, greet her with lovely warm croissants or maybe even a full English breakfast. Be sure to show her loving attention the whole day through. Just a tip; mums love regular cups of tea…
Other Mother's Day Ideas
On Mother's Day, the day begins early, so the trick is to rise before your mum does. Quickly and quietly tidy up the obvious mess in the house. Think of your mum's 'to do' list; such as washing up, vacuuming and cleaning the main rooms.
Think about adding a few new decorative items too. You know her taste and what she likes; her favourite colours; favourite animals; and the interior themes she enjoys most. Incorporate these into the whole house and create a wonderful interior that your mum will fall in love with. Finish it off by simply adding a bouquet of fresh flowers for mother's day and see her smile shine throughout the whole day.
If you realise that it's too difficult and too long to clean and maintain your house then why not buy easy to clean vinyl flooring from Carpetright for your mum to enjoy? Be sure to spoil your mothers this Mother's Day.


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I came across a quote that was posted by many on Facebook and it was my inspiration to do this card.
Many liked the quote...I looked beyond the quote and took in the nighttime blues and the stars. I thought..that would make a beautiful card!
I only used 2 stamps on it. One was a Stampin Up tree stamp from the set called "Serene Silhouettes". The other stamp "With Deepest Sympathy" came from Impression Obsession set called "Sympathy Sentiments".
To make the card, I brayered Stampin Up Pacific Point ink all over the entire white cardstock. I stamped the tree 2 times on the card. I used Black StazOn ink to stamp the tree facing up because I wanted a nice dark black color. I used Versafine Onyx Black ink to stamp the tree facing down for the reflection. The reason I used a different ink for the reflection is because I did not want that crisp black color. I wanted to ink it and stamp off some of the color on a scrap piece of paper first and I could not do that with the StazOn ink.
Next I tore a piece of towel paper with small bumps to mask off where I wanted the grassy knolls and inked up a sponge with StazOn. After I was got the area I wanted sponged with black ink, I flipped over the ripped paper towel so I could ink the reflection of the grassy knolls in the water.
With another sponge, I sponged on Stampin Up Night of Navy ink to get the darker sky along the top and along the very bottom of the water.
Finished the main part of the card with stamping the sentiment with Stampin Up Whisper White ink and using Gelly Roll Clear ink pen to make the twinkling stars. Don't forgot to add the stars in the water as well for their reflection as well!
I made 2 more with same technique. One I forgot to take a picture before it was mailed off. =(
The sentiment on this card is from the same Impression Obsession set called "Sympathy Sentiments".
The sentiment on this card is from the same Impression Obsession set called "Sympathy Sentiments".
Hope this inspired you to try brayering and sponging on your creation! Just be prepared to get some ink on your fingers!


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Chapter IV: A Day Behind the Counter
TOWARDS noon, Hepzibah saw an elderly gentleman, large and portly, and of remarkably dignified demeanor, passing slowly along on the opposite side of the white and dusty street. On coming within the shadow of the Pyncheon Elm, he stopt, and (taking off his hat, meanwhile, to wipe the perspiration from his brow) seemed to scrutinize, with especial interest, the dilapidated and rusty-visaged House of the Seven Gables. He himself, in a very different style, was as well worth looking at as the house. No better model need be sought, nor could have been found, of a very high order of respectability, which, by some indescribable magic, not merely expressed itself in his looks and gestures, but even governed the fashion of his garments, and rendered them all proper and essential to the man. Without appearing to differ, in any tangible way, from other people's clothes, there was yet a wide and rich gravity about them that must have been a characteristic of the wearer, since it could not be defined as pertaining either to the cut or material. His gold-headed cane, too, — a serviceable staff, of dark polished wood, — had similar traits, and, had it chosen to take a walk by itself, would have been recognized anywhere as a tolerably adequate representative of its master. This character — which showed itself so strikingly in everything about him, and the effect of which we seek to convey to the reader — went no deeper than his station, habits of life, and external circumstances. One perceived him to be a personage of marked influence and authority; and, especially, you could feel just as certain that he was opulent as if he had exhibited his bank account, or as if you had seen him touching the twigs of the Pyncheon Elm, and, Midas-like, transmuting them to gold.
In his youth, he had probably been considered a handsome man; at his present age, his brow was too heavy, his temples too bare, his remaining hair too gray, his eye too cold, his lips too closely compressed, to bear any relation to mere personal beauty. He would have made a good and massive portrait; better now, perhaps, than at any previous period of his life, although his look might grow positively harsh in the process of being fixed upon the canvas. The artist would have found it desirable to study his face, and prove its capacity for varied expression; to darken it with a frown, — to kindle it up with a smile.
While the elderly gentleman stood looking at the Pyncheon House, both the frown and the smile passed successively over his countenance. His eye rested on the shop-window, and putting up a pair of gold-bowed spectacles, which he held in his hand, he minutely surveyed Hepzibah's little arrangement of toys and commodities. At first it seemed not to please him, — nay, to cause him exceeding displeasure, — and yet, the very next moment, he smiled. While the latter expression was yet on his lips, he caught a glimpse of Hepzibah, who had involuntarily bent forward to the window; and then the smile changed from acrid and disagreeable to the sunniest complacency and benevolence. He bowed, with a happy mixture of dignity and courteous kindliness, and pursued his way.
"There he is!" said Hepzibah to herself, gulping down a very bitter emotion, and, since she could not rid herself of it, trying to drive it back into her heart. "What does he think of it, I wonder? Does it please him? Ah! he is looking back!"
The gentleman had paused in the street, and turned himself half about, still with his eyes fixed on the shop-window. In fact, he wheeled wholly round, and commenced a step or two, as if designing to enter the shop; but, as it chanced, his purpose was anticipated by Hepzibah's first customer, the little cannibal of Jim Crow, who, staring up at the window, was irresistibly attracted by an elephant of gingerbread. What a grand appetite had this small urchin! — Two Jim Crows immediately after breakfast! — and now an elephant, as a preliminary whet before dinner. By the time this latter purchase was completed, the elderly gentleman had resumed his way, and turned the street corner.
"Take it as you like, Cousin Jaffrey," muttered the maiden lady, as she drew back, after cautiously thrusting out her head, and looking up and down the street, — "Take it as you like! You have seen my little shop-window. Well! — what have you to say? — is not the Pyncheon House my own, while I'm alive?"
After this incident, Hepzibah retreated to the back parlor, where she at first caught up a half-finished stocking, and began knitting at it with nervous and irregular jerks; but quickly finding herself at odds with the stitches, she threw it aside, and walked hurriedly about the room. At length she paused before the portrait of the stern old Puritan, her ancestor, and the founder of the house. In one sense, this picture had almost faded into the canvas, and hidden itself behind the duskiness of age; in another, she could not but fancy that it had been growing more prominent and strikingly expressive, ever since her earliest familiarity with it as a child. For, while the physical outline and substance were darkening away from the beholder's eye, the bold, hard, and, at the same time, indirect character of the man seemed to be brought out in a kind of spiritual relief. Such an effect may occasionally be observed in pictures of antique date. They acquire a look which an artist (if he have anything like the complacency of artists nowadays) would never dream of presenting to a patron as his own characteristic expression, but which, nevertheless, we at once recognize as reflecting the unlovely truth of a human soul. In such cases, the painter's deep conception of his subject's inward traits has wrought itself into the essence of the picture, and is seen after the superficial coloring has been rubbed off by time.
While gazing at the portrait, Hepzibah trembled under its eye. Her hereditary reverence made her afraid to judge the character of the original so harshly as a perception of the truth compelled her to do. But still she gazed, because the face of the picture enabled her — at least, she fancied so — to read more accurately, and to a greater depth, the face which she had just seen in the street.
"This is the very man!" murmured she to herself. "Let Jaffrey Pyncheon smile as he will, there is that look beneath! Put on him a skull-cap, and a band, and a black cloak, and a Bible in one hand and a sword in the other, — then let Jaffrey smile as he might, — nobody would doubt that it was the old Pyncheon come again. He has proved himself the very man to build up a new house! Perhaps, too, to draw down a new curse!"
Thus did Hepzibah bewilder herself with these fantasies of the old time. She had dwelt too much alone, — too long in the Pyncheon House, — until her very brain was impregnated with the dry-rot of its timbers. She needed a walk along the noonday street to keep her sane.
By the spell of contrast, another portrait rose up before her, painted with more daring flattery than any artist would have ventured upon, but yet so delicately touched that the likeness remained perfect. Malbone's miniature, though from the same original, was far inferior to Hepzibah's air-drawn picture, at which affection and sorrowful remembrance wrought together. Soft, mildly, and cheerfully contemplative, with full, red lips, just on the verge of a smile, which the eyes seemed to herald by a gentle kindling-up of their orbs! Feminine traits, moulded inseparably with those of the other sex! The miniature, likewise, had this last peculiarity; so that you inevitably thought of the original as resembling his mother, and she a lovely and lovable woman, with perhaps some beautiful infirmity of character, that made it all the pleasanter to know and easier to love her.
"Yes," thought Hepzibah, with grief of which it was only the more tolerable portion that welled up from her heart to her eyelids, "they persecuted his mother in him! He never was a Pyncheon!"
But here the shop-bell rang; it was like a sound from a remote distance, — so far had Hepzibah descended into the sepulchral depths of her reminiscences. On entering the shop, she found an old man there, a humble resident of Pyncheon Street, and whom, for a great many years past, she had suffered to be a kind of familiar of the house. He was an immemorial personage, who seemed always to have had a white head and wrinkles, and never to have possessed but a single tooth, and that a half-decayed one, in the front of the upper jaw. Well advanced as Hepzibah was, she could not remember when Uncle Venner, as the neighborhood called him, had not gone up and down the street, stooping a little and drawing his feet heavily over the gravel or pavement. But still there was something tough and vigorous about him, that not only kept him in daily breath, but enabled him to fill a place which would else have been vacant in the apparently crowded world. To go of errands with his slow and shuffling gait, which made you doubt how he ever was to arrive anywhere; to saw a small household's foot or two of firewood, or knock to pieces an old barrel, or split up a pine board for kindling-stuff; in summer, to dig the few yards of garden ground appertaining to a low-rented tenement, and share the produce of his labor at the halves; in winter, to shovel away the snow from the sidewalk, or open paths to the woodshed, or along the clothes-line; such were some of the essential offices which Uncle Venner performed among at least a score of families. Within that circle, he claimed the same sort of privilege, and probably felt as much warmth of interest, as a clergyman does in the range of his parishioners. Not that he laid claim to the tithe pig; but, as an analogous mode of reverence, he went his rounds, every morning, to gather up the crumbs of the table and overflowings of the dinner-pot, as food for a pig of his own.
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Memphis The Musical
April 20, 2015
Monday at 07:30 pm
In the underground nightclubs of 1950s Memphis, Tennessee, the soul of a new era is dawning as the first incredible sounds of rock 'n' roll, blues and gospel are emerging into the mainstream.
Based loosely on the real life Dewey Phillips who was one of the first DJs to play black music on the radio, Memphis is the story of a young man who falls in love with a beautiful club singer. Through his determination, he brings her voice and her music out of the clubs and onto the airwaves of America.
The winner of a Tony for Best Musical, Memphis will leave you exhilarated by its explosive blend of electrifying music, soaring emotion and roof-raising energy.
Sponsored by Southern Ohio Medical Center
Tickets for lower tier seating are $55 regular, $50 senior, $42 students, $20 children under 12. Prices lower in upper tier. Discounts for families.
"The very essence of what a Broadway musical should be." –Associated Press


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CodecA codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal, the term codec coming from combination of the words coder-decoder. DVD's use an MPEG-2 Codec for its video compression as does most television signals but in order to highly compress your ripped DVD's, you should look to install and use one of the 3 main standards for this. These are DivX, Xvid and H.264.
DivX® is the name of a popular video compression technology developed by DivX, Inc. It is an MPEG-4 based codec which allows videos to be highly compressed whilst still maintaining a high quality image. The codecs delivers high efficiency and conversion speed and DVD's can be compressed up to 1/10 of their original size, fitting onto a single CD whilst still offering excellent quality video.
The DivX codec has been around for quite sometime and watching videos encoded in this format does not restrict you to the PC. DivX offers a certified program and which has a presence in over 100 million shipped devices such as DVD Players, Mobile Phones and Media Players. Using this standard format means you only have to maintain a video in one format and this can then be played across all your home media and portable devices.
In late 2008, DivX launched its newest certication program for devices, DivX Plus™ HD and in Jaunaury 2009, DivX® 7 was released, enabling playback and creation of high definition H.264 video.
DivX Convertor
DivX Converter is a commercially available product and cost about $20. It is bundled with the DivX Pro Codec but if you download the free DivX codec, DivX Converter comes with it offering a 15 day trial. It offers a very simple front end and allows you to convert your various video sources into a divx, avi or mkv format (mkv is used for HD and us available from version 7.0 and above). The current list of input file formats are:-
- MOV (if user has QT 5+ installed on their computer)
DNLADLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) is a standard used by manufacturers of consumer electronics to allow entertainment devices within the home to share their content with each other across a home network.
FreeNAS is an excellent free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting:-
- CIFS (File access from Windows Clients),
- FTP (File Transfer Server to upload/Download files),
- NFS (File Access from Unix./Linux clients),
- RSYNC(For synchronising files. Can be used to backup files from other devices)
- iSCSI protocols,
- a UPnP Media Server supporting the streaming of multimedia to Games consoles and other Media Players,
- local user authentication,
- Software RAID (0,1,5) for protecting data using more than one disk,
- a Full WEB configuration interface.
The beauty of FreeNAS is you can reuse an old PC or laptop which is now too slow to run those latest applications. The PC that has been used for the guides on this site is 8yrs old with a 700MHz Pentium processor and 128MB of memory. Internally it has a 160GB disk but an external 500GB USB drive has been added. It is possible to install your FreeNAS server onto a Compact Flash Drive or USB stick to improve security and aid in performance and power reduction. Tests on throughput (using this hardware) using FTP have shown the transfer rate at around 90Mb/s over a simple Wired Network.
H.264H.264 is a standard for video compression, and is equivalent to MPEG-4 Part 10, or MPEG-4 AVC (for Advanced Video Coding). It is one of the digital video codecs specified for the Blu-ray (BD) and High Definition DVD (HD DVD) formats but also has a very broad application range that covers all forms of digital compressed video from low bit-rate Internet streaming applications to HDTV broadcast and Digital Cinema applications with nearly lossless coding.
Handbrake is a free software Conversion which will convert practically any source video file into a format which can be played on virtually any device. It has a number of presets which take the hard work out of knowing how to configure codecs and comes with a very simple and easy to use interface although a command line interface is available too.
Orb is a free media server for Windows Vista, XP or Windows XP Media Center Edition. It is a web based front end that is built on Ajax and can give you access to all your Movies, Music, Photos and even live TV from a huge range of devices. This includes a PC, the whole range of the latest generation games consoles and hand held devices such as the iPhone or iPod touch.
Orb offers MyCasting. It turns your home PC into your personal broadcasting system by giving the users of Orb the ability to to not only access content from within their own home network but also the chance to access it via any number of external internet connected devices. To access any of your Orb content you create an Orb login, the details of which are store on the Orb central servers. For this user account, you simply set your preferences for which media folders you wished to share. As long as the PC is switched on and internet connected, it will remain in contact with the Orb Servers. You would then login to the orb mycast web site from a range of devices and since your PC is in contact with the Orb servers, the Orb servers will redirect you to your Home PC and you will then be able to access any available share media. Another excellent feature of Orb is that it allows you to share selected portions of your content to your friends and family using this same Personal Broadcast System.
NAS Server
A NAS or Network Attached Storage Server is a means of storing you files on a computer network such that they can be accessible by more than one machine whether it be Windows, Mac or Linux.
A Home NAS Server can deliver much more than this basic file sharing functionality as they usually offer other features such as a Web Server, iTunes Server, a Bit Torrent client for downloading files from Peer to Peer file sharing sites and even offer solutions for streaming you multimedia content to your favourite games consoles such as the XBox 360, PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii.
As these NAS Servers are traditionally left on for long periods or usually continuously, it is important to use low powered hardware in order to minimise the ongoing cost of these devices.
Playon.tv is a shareware software product from Mediamall technologies. If you have a Games Console such as a PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii or Media players such as a Moxi HD DVR, NETGEAR ITV2000, HP MediaSmart TV, or other DLNA-compliant device, you can use PlayOn.tv to watch video streams from multiple internet websites such as Youtube, Hulu, ESPN as part of it's core product and in it's latest beta versions, it now also offers access to your local multimedia such as Photos, Movies and Music. Other internet streams are available via user developed plugins which can be found at playonplugins.com.
Playon.tv has a 14 day free trial and can be downloaded here
PS3 Media Server
PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant UPnP Media Server written in Java. Meant for the PS3 but now offering some basic functionality to the Xbox 360, it can stream or trancode nearly any kind of media file with minimum configuration using the powerful Mplayer/FFmpeg packages to achieve this.
With no codec packages to install, this is a very simple solution to get running and the video quality seen so far has been excellent. It has come at a price though with some real time transcoding of High Definition content to an Xbox using 96% of the bandwidth available on a Wired Network. It is also highly configurable so these settings can all be tweaked to your particular set up.
It offers features such as
- Simple streaming of native formats
- real time transcoding of MKV/FLV/OGM/AVi and then giving full seeking support while doing this
- Subtitle support
- Thumbnail generation
- Support for internet feeds (Pictures/ Audio/Video)
- Many more
SmartRipper is a free DVD Backup tool which make the resulting backup Region Free and also removes the copy protection (Macrovision). It gives you the ability to rip out just the parts of the DVD you want such as the main movie, individual chapters and also allows you to select which particular Audio track you want etc.
You can download SmartRipper from here. It doesn't come as an installable package so you can just copy the files into a directory of your choice and run it from there.
TVersity Media Server is a software package that allows a personal computer to stream content to UPnP devices, such as the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii, regardless of the limitations of the device. For example, the Xbox 360 does not support certain codecs or Internet videos such as YouTube. TVersity Media Server transcodes the video on the PC into a compatible codec and then streams it to the device.
TVersity aims to:
- Deliver any media to any device
- Provide a Personal Entertainment Guide (PEG) by allowing users to create a personalized lineup of channels.
- Provide Content Guides by making it easy to access links via organized lists of multimedia content
- Multimedia Social Networking - allowing users to share links with other users
While built from open source components, TVersity Media Server as a whole is not (except for the bundled codecs), though the download is currently free to home users.
Tvix offer a range of High-Definition Digital Network Media Players, including the M4100-SH, M5100-SH, M6500-A (v2), the M7000 and their latest device, the M6600. These devices are able to play your High-Definition Movies on resolutions of up to 1080p through it's HDMI or component connections, play your mp3s, wma etc through your Ampflier via it's Optical, phono or coaxil outputs and view your phots directly on your TV. By adding in a TV Tuner(except for the M6600 which already comes with a dual tuner), you can also watch or record DVB-T broadcasts.
The Tvix devices also support a large number of file formats cover most things you would create or download from the internet.
|Format :.avi, .wmv, .mpg, .iso .vob, .ifo, .mp4, .asf, .tp, .trp, .ts, .m2ts, .mov(H.264)
|Codec : MPEG 1 / 2 / 4, AVI, XVID, WMV9([email protected]), H.264, AVC(HD) , VC-1([email protected], [email protected])
|Resolutions up to 1920*1080P
|MP3, WMA, AAC, Ogg, PCM, M4A, AC3,FLAC, WAV
Your multimedia can be played from an internal Sata Disk, via a USB connected external Hard Drive or a Samba/NFS Network share, offering enormous potential for flexibility and expansion
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols. The goals of UPnP are to allow devices to connect seamlessly and to simplify the implementation of networks in the home (data sharing, communications, and entertainment) and in corporate environments for simplified installation of computer components. UPnP achieves this by defining and publishing UPnP device control protocols (DCP) built upon open, Internet-based communication standards.
The term UPnP is derived from plug-and-play, a technology for dynamically attaching devices directly to a computer, although UPnP is not directly related to the earlier plug-and-play technology. UPnP devices are "plug-and-play" in that when connected to a network they automatically announce their network address and supported device and services types, enabling clients that recognize those types to immediately begin using the device.
Windows Media Video (WMV) is a compressed video file format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft.
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Xvid is a hugely popular codec, especially with the internet file sharing community and you will find at the majority of standard definition movies have been compressed using this format. Most of these videos will play on DivX certified devices except those that have been encoded using some of its advanced features. The Xvid codec is also free and has greater cross platform cabilities compared to that of DivX and WMV and is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Since it is Open Source, it can be compiled for any number of Operating Systems.
Xvid has also a greater number of tools available for encoding videos than DivX although the quality and difficulty of they vary greatly.


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Any cold beer on a hot Summer's day,
White wine or red, what's your taste.
Champagnes' of many, celebrate the occasion,
A toast to friends, one for life.
Gin and tonic, a screwdriver is fine,
Tequila shots, blow your mind.
Jack Daniels and coke, Bacardi and coke,
After work, a taste on the back of your throat.
Mai, Tai's or Daquerie's are a tasty drink,
Marguerita's at sunset on a beautiful beach.
Tonight!, name your poison, so many to choose,
On the rocks, drinks for two.
Whatever your pleasure, it's time to unwind,
Raise your glass, tonight's the night.
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Melissa Jolly a former student of the Oxford College of Garden Design has been awarded an RHS Gold Medal for her 2011 Hampton Court Show garden entitled 'Picturesque'
This unique and innovative installation is more art than garden, using plants to represent famous paintings. Designed as a gallery, the public are invited in to so a series of recessed pictures made up of a combination of collage, photography and planting.
As part of our online diploma course student have to design a Chelsea Flower Show garden as an exercise and are taught to think outside the box.
Melissa, who has already won several other medals for her show gardens says "that this exercise was invaluable in helping her think creatively. I wouldn't design a garden like this for a client, but this show that I can create something special for my clients."
She then went on to say "I can't quite believe it and have had some really lovely feedback from the press...esp. The Independent journalist who said I should see if I can take it to the Royal Academy"
We would like to extend our congratulations to Mel for her well deserved award and hope this spurs all are students on to bigger and better things.


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Dan Baldino scored twice and Ryan Maitone added a goal and an assist to lead the Blue Knights (1-0-1) past the Aztecs (0-2) at the New England Sports Center. Lunenburg's Dana Jones made 25 saves.
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The Alabama Sports Writers Association named its Back and Lineman of the Year finalists Friday.
Sardis running back Toby Pee was a finalist for the Class 4A Back of the Year award, while Piedmont's Jamie Major was a finalist for the Class 3A Lineman of the Year.
The award will be given Jan. 16 at the ASWA's Player of the Year banquet in Montgomery, where this year's Mr. Football also will be announced.
Pee was on the list along with Madison County's Jordan Chunn and Oneonta's Alvin Scott. Pee rushed 247 times for 1,829 yards — a 7.4 yard per carry average — and scored 31 touchdowns. He added eight more touchdowns either on the receiving or passing end.
His biggest competition for the award likely is Chunn, who totalled nearly 2,900 yards — 2,229 yards of which came on the ground — and scored 43 touchdowns his senior season. He led Madison County to the program's first state semifinal.
Scott helped lead Oneonta to its second straight 4A state championship appearance at wide receiver.
He caught 72 passes for 1,158 yards and scored 27 total touchdowns.
Major, a linebacker, just earned his third straight selection to the 3A, All-State team. He had 135 tackles — nine stops for a loss — and five sacks to go along with six
pass break-ups during his senior season.
Major joined Midfield's Torrandine Harris and Dale County's Jamarious Henderson as finalists.
Harris, a senior defensive lineman, had 67 tackles with 22 sacks, five fumbles recovered and two interceptions.
Henderson is just a sophomore but had a big season for Dale County. He made 117 tackles, including 25 for losses, and recorded 16 sacks. He forced two fumbles, recovering one for a touchdown.
Pee, Major named finalists for ASWA awards
The Alabama Sports Writers Association named its Back and Lineman of the Year finalists Friday.


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Since 2008 I have really been focusing on my pole dancing, training & teaching. I have had some life changing opportunities and have met some amazing people.
Lets go back to the beginning & explain where it all started!
As a child I always loved to dance, play the fool & generally keep active. As I grew older I stayed a fool however channelled my energy into teaching & at the age of 18 I passed my aerobics qualification & decided I wanted to motivate & encourage people to get fit & have fun doing it.
My personal view is:
"If you don't enjoy doing something, you won't do it."
(I'm sure that's why I have so many aerobics courses under my belt? The boredom factor kicks in after a while & you have to do something that you feel passionate about… for me that is Pole!!)
How did I even discover the possibilities of Pole Dancing?? Well, I did as anyone else would… I 'Googled it'
Pole Dancing, High Wycombe, Bucks.
The closest place was Milton Keynes! Yikes!
When I started thinking about it my initial reaction was… "How hard can it be?"
How naive I was! As an established aerobics instructor I found it invigorating to be stripped of my dignity as an 'instructor' and taken back to basics along with everyone else. I had so much to learn and welcomed being a student again (although rather begrudgingly).
The course I found worked brilliantly for me and the instructor was friendly and warming. Although I was quite a clumsy beginner she made me feel sexy & powerful. Yes at times there were some blinding bits of 'adaptation' from me but as a group we laughed together. My waistline pinched in after just 6 weeks & the empowering feeling & sense of achievement from just an hour each week was something I definitely wanted more of!!
And that's when the Pole addiction began!
That was over 5 years ago now, and boy have I come on a journey since then!
As soon as I was qualified I wanted to inject that feeling of empowerment & sense of achievement into others, giving women a chance to laugh and enjoy being sexy but at the same time growing their confidence by toning up those area's we ALL hate looking at in the mirror. So I took myself with my new qualification to the "golden streets" of High Wycombe & set about creating myself my very own Pole Dance school.
Which is when "I Would Rather be Pole Dancing" was created. I have gone on to teach over 1000 students, and have equally just as many new friends in the Pole Dancing industry. I think any poler would vouch for me when I say it's like one big happy family when it comes to Pole Dancing. Everyone wants to help one another and see each succeed and reach their new goals!
My words of wisdom that I've learnt from this journey;
Never say Never.
If you think you can't do another rep/trick / spin then you probably can't! – Can't is a powerful word and I have seen it make efforts on the pole crumple like paper. If your mind is thinking it, your body is doing it.
Never just give up, some days are just bad pole days… get over it,stay productive and stretch instead.
Don't expect to look like the girl on YouTube after just one class. We make it look easy because we train hard and practise harder. We are committed to our journey.
We: Eat, Sleep, Pole.
To learn more about the qualifications I have earned over the years that enable me to teach my students with the utmost knowledge and professionalism please visit the page below.


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An exploration of the unforeseen consequences attached to women's liberation.
For a book about women to start with a Jane Austen anecdote is almost trite. For a book about inter- and intra-gender equality with an economic and educational focus to start with a Jane Austen quote is less expected. It is also a perfect way to illustrate the changes that have occurred in women's lives in the two intervening centuries. Economist Wolf (Public Services Policy and Management/King's Coll., London; Does Education Matter?, 2003) parlays her interest in the intersection of education and employment into a book exploring the effects of that intersection on gender gaps. She argues that the gap between genders has all but disappeared, while the gap between the educated and the less educated within each gender has widened considerably. The book is organized into two distinct sections. In the first part, Wolf focuses on women in the workforce; though it teems with interesting statistics and useful knowledge, the writing is often lackluster. The second part, however, in which the author discusses women at home—their sexual and familial habits and choices—is more compellingly written. Wolf's research is so extensive that general readers are unlikely to be able to follow up on even a small percentage of the materials she uses for support (she includes more than 800 notes at the end of the book). Though there is plenty to process, Wolf makes most of the information easily digestible. Some sections read like a textbook, with repetitive assertions and conclusions, but others are remarkably conversational. "The shore of Utopia is a hard place to reach; but today's educated women, in developing and developed countries, are surely much closer to it than the overwhelming majority of their female ancestors," she writes.
Solid research and intriguing patterns make for a worthy, if sometimes difficult read.


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The house is purple. Inside and out: painted cedar planks on the exterior and tongue-in-groove millwork in the interior. The overarching aesthetic is startling given the setting in tall white-pine woods in East Hampton's Northwest — a setting that prompted the modernist architect Don Chappell to suggest vibrant color for dramatic contrast. At least that's how it all used to be. Today, if you take a careful look you will find a recent addition that has a calming effect.
Sandra Thorn, now a retired attorney who had the house built in the 1980s, recalls the architect's insistence. "It needs to be purple," he said.
"Are you crazy? I spend all day wearing black," was her response. But she decided to go along with it anyway.
"I had seen Don's houses and they were all white and gray, which is what I thought I'd get," she said. "It's taken me 30 years to get used to it." Thirty years — and some new wings along the way.
At first, Ms. Thorn would refer to the color as periwinkle, but others didn't recognize that nuance. When a grandson said the house was purple, his dad shushed him so she wouldn't hear it. Eventually she faced the facts. Even the fuel deliveryman identified the house as purple on receipts.
Not only did Mr. Chappell dictate the color, he chose the furnishings. "I'm not interested in interior design," Ms. Thorn said, explaining that she entrusted it to him. He gave her three choices for each piece, from sofa to side tables to a handsome coral and lavender built-in seat.
The only feature of the living room he didn't choose was an Oriental rug. "He'd kill me if he saw it," she told a recent visitor.
In the '90s, about the time Ms. Thorn and Mike Flynn, a lawyer who is now also retired, were married, they built the first of two additions, a large kitchen and pantry. The architect Kenton Van Boer took over after Mr. Chappell moved to Florida. (He died unexpectedly at the age of 55.)
The addition connects with the main house seamlessly, helped by similar cabinetry, in this case white-painted maple.
Despite some neutral hues — the ceiling is rough-hewn natural cedar — strong color is still a reigning motif. Cupboard doors open to reveal a burst of bright orange shelving.
The formidable pantry contains dovetailed cabinets built by Mr. Flynn, who humbly calls himself a "down in the basement woodworker." His handiwork is evident throughout the house, from a tricked out dressing room to a simple bench.
In 2005 the couple felt the need for another addition. This time they built an airy refuge that became the principal living area. It wasn't the color purple that drove them out of the original house, but the cube-like living room, which reflects a lovely light in summer yet becomes cavernous in winter. As they began to spend more and more time in East Hampton, they wanted space that was light but cozy year round.
When planning this addition, Mr. Van Boer suggested they choose between adhering to the aesthetic of the purple house or going with something totally different. Opting for the latter, they chose an elliptical mini house with two almost round rooms and an exterior framed in copper. The contrast is distinctive.
Unlike the main house, with the color purple inside and out, the copper siding doesn't flow indoors. There are white walls, blond bamboo floors, and lots of butterscotch basswood on a barreled, or curved, ceiling as well as on pocket doors and baseboards. And lots of skylights.
The entrance leads directly to a TV room with his and her swivel lounge chairs and a floor-to-ceiling bay window. "The whole purpose of the addition was this room," Mr. Flynn said. A wood-burning stove sits in a small alcove. Visible outside the window, and framing its top, is a copper overhang that blocks out harsh summer sun and prevents rain from coming in when the windows are open. It apparently was the couple's only contribution to the design.
The master bedroom, a minimalist, anti-purple room with whites and beiges and ethereal curtains that drift in the breeze, is in this addition. Its windows overlook the woods, and the couple often wake up to see browsing deer.
Despite the new look, brilliant color has definitely infiltrated Ms. Thorn's world. Friends have noticed a decided trend — one she had not noticed herself — as she gradually replaced much of her black wardrobe with lavenders, fuschias, and other shades of purple.
Durell Godfrey
Durell Godfrey
Durell GodfreyThe copper panels of the addition were a challenge to install.
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Here is yet another version of the coffee card...
Thanks for stopping by today!!
This is really cute! Very similar to a card my workshop made last weekend. I wish I'd thought to put the "cup ring" on them though, that would have made it even cuter!!!
Thanks for sharing!
Love the coffee ring idea! Unusual and fun . . .ReplyDelete
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I am the spirit of life and little by little I am whithering away. Not a pleasant feeling since there is nothing I can do about it. My owner seems to ignore my pleas for help. He continues to live in such a way that is slowly killing me. What he doesn't know is that once I am not longer around he will not have a reason to go on either.
No I will not die willingly or easily but if my existance continues as it is I won't be able to stop the inevitable from happening. In case you are wondering why I can't do anything to stop my owner I'll tell you. It is because God gave everyone the right to choose how they live their life. My owner and I apparantly have different gods.
See I believe in God in Heaven. The one who wants good for everyone. My owner follows an earthly god who wants good for himself. How do I know this? I will tell you.
I will call this earthly god Mr. Control. Well Mr. Control likes to run things his way and my owner follows his lead. What he wants gets changed that way. That is what is killing me. I don't get my vitamins, nor my exercise, and my freedom has been taken away.
Music gives me energy. But I like all kinds and my owner needs to watch what he listens to. If listening to what I like I must do so in almost secret or in a quietness that does not energize me. See there is no meaning to anything the ears must strain to hear.
I don't get my exercise of self expression for my owner no longer chooses to like or dislike anything. That is at least not outwardly. I am getting all squashed in my little space with all the pent up feelings that hide away in me. I am slowly losing my strength to hold them in place. If I lose them I will lose more of myself.
Mr. Control sets the rules for the day. Sometimes they change and my owner's body reacts with tension. That pinches me and I strike back calling "let me out". It isn't happening. My owner follows the rules to keep peace and in a way that is good for the wear and tear on the body and myself is decreased that way. In a way it is bad for my owner won't set me free so I can help him live more fully.
You may ask do I ever relax and I would say yes I do. I can't show myself to the world at large and I believe it is because my owner doesn't want me to be hurt. I sure wish he would have my God.
My God doesn't make people cry. He loves them for who they are and that includes me. I could come out in the open and share all my special thoughts and feelings with the world. I could help my owner feel loved and special even if people like Mr. Control are around. My God allows people to be themselves with all their unique thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. My God doesn't stop loving someone because they don't do exactly as He says.
I sure do wish that my owner would realize that no matter what he does Mr. Control will never be satisfied. There will always be faults to find, behaviors to change, feelings to manipulate, and freedoms to take away.
I know what I will do. I will pray to my God in heaven and ask that He help set my owner free from his earthly god. I know that will help. I will be able to be free and my owner will be able to be who God meant him to be. So if you know a soul that belongs to some earthly god pray for the owner. God cares and will help.


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The StoryA young woman loses consciousness at home and is unable to be revived. EMS brings her to the hospital with resuscitation in progress.
Initial ECG:
Initial labs:
What's the acid base disorder?
I look at the increased pCO2 and decreased pH and call it a respiratory acidosis. The HCO3 should go up to compensate for the increased CO2 but it is slightly decreased, so there is also a metabolic acidosis.
When there is a metabolic acidosis check the anion gap (and even when there is no evidence for a metabolic acidosis, you should check for an anion gap). Holy Ketones, the anion gap is 23!
A large anion gap in the face of only a modest drop in bicarb is unexpected. One expects the bicarbonate to fall 1 mEq/L for every 1 mEq/L the anion gap rises. So if this lady started with an anion gap of 12, her gap went up by 11, so the bicarb should have fallen by 11. In order for the bicarbonate to fall by 11 and end up at 22 it would need to start at 33, indicating a preexisting metabolic alkalosis (or compensated respiratory acidosis I suppose). The metabolic alkalosis is welcome because it fits with the hypokalemia rather well. Alaklosis and hypokalemia go together like macaroni and cheese.
So what is causing the increased anion gap? Well that is easy to determine in this case, her lactate was 12.4, almost a perfect match for an increase in the anion gap of 11. Remember the anion gap is quantifying an anion that is not in the chem-7 but is making its presence known by the unbalanced number of cations and anions. We expect the unbalance to be between 6 and 12, this is a normal anion gap. Her anion gap is 23, 11 over the limit. This means we need to find the anion that explains this gap of 11. A lactate level of 12.4 neatly explains the increased gap. If you are concerned about the difference between 11 and 12, remember that the calculation of 11 comes from assuming that prior to building up the lactic acid, her anion gap was 12, but it could have been 8 or 10 or 4.
What happens next will shock you (now I'm a real internet writer)
The potassium went down. It went way down...to 1.8, and that, my internet friends, is the lowest potassium I have ever seen. And it is the presumed cause of the cardiac arrest. The ECG normalized with correction of the potassium.
Keep in mind that the entire extracellular compartment normally contains only 56 mmol of potassium. The entire plasma compartment normally contains only 12 mmol of potassium. Also keep in mind that after 810 mmol of potassium she was still hypokalemic.
So what happened after 38 hours?
We overshot, in fact we made her hyperkalemic and needed to start dialysis. The dialysis was inevitable, she remained anuric for days after we started the CRRT, and she was also becoming volume overloaded.
The cause of the hypokalemia is unclear. The one point that I am certain of, though, is this must be a chronic process. She had a documented potassium deficiency of 31 grams of potassium! No acute event could have caused her to lose that much potassium, the process that caused the hypokalemia and metabolic alkalosis must have been going on for weeks? Months? Years? Prior to her developing the cardiac arrhythmia. She has recovered her renal function and her electrolytes remain within normal limits, she does not seem to have any renal leak of potassium that I can detect. She denies vomiting. She does have a poorly documented incident of hypokalemia that happened years ago. Her magnesium when measured on the first hospital day was normal. Since recovering her kidney function her magnesium has been low normal. She denies salt-cravings. Just after she recovered her kidney function and her creatinine was normal, she developed slight hypokalemia, right around 3.2 mmol/L. I shot off a TTKG and it was an unremarkable 3.1.
So smart people on the internet, what do you think caused the hypokalemia. The family is understandably concerned that this could happen again. I have my theory, but I don't want to bias your thoughts. Please e-mail me or DM me on Twitter.
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The other night at my writer's group I was once again reminded how important it is to journal. Not only for myself, but for others.
But I have to be honest, I've never been good at journaling. Ever. Y'all can see that by how much trouble I have keeping current posts here. (Insert deep sigh.) When I was a kid, I once had a diary however, it had lots more blank pages when I was done with it than it had filled ones. And I kinda regret that now. How cool would it be to read that diary these many years later?
Here's how it'll work. I'll post the "Ten Things" prompt here on Monday. On Tuesday, stop back by here for my "Ten Things" and leave a link back to where you have posted your "Ten Things."
I'll post to Facebook and Twitter my link using the #TenThings hashtag so we can let others know. You can follow me on Twitter at @JeanLauzier and on Facebook with Jean Lauzier. I look forward to getting to know you.
Here's the Ten Things Tuesday Prompt.
* Ten things that make me happy are...
Be sure to stop by tomorrow and leave your link in the comments!


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Western Price Survey
Week's End Edition
Low snowpack and streamflows in Washington and Oregon means that Northwest electricity markets are not likely to see the extremely low prices normally associated with spring runoff, which last year started in late May.
Last year, from late May until mid-June, Mid-Columbia off-peak power went as low as $0/MWh. In 2008, prices for Mid-C off-peak went negative, meaning some Northwest hydro plants paid others to take power.
But "we don't expect to use the words 'intense' and 'spring runoff' in the same sentence this year," said Katie Pruder-Scruggs, BPA spokeswoman. "It's hard to imagine that we will see negative prices this year."
In a robust economy, the lack of surplus Northwest hydro -- which California relies upon for about 5 percent of its yearly system power -- might lend support to higher electricity prices. But as the Northwest suffers, California has been blessed with abundant snowpack. And overall, macro-factors such as robust natural gas in storage and the recession continue to depress energy prices.
Last week, Mid-C's high trade for peak power was $40/MWh; the highest price for the hub this week was $35.25/MWh. The Palo Verde hub recorded the highest price for peak power this week -- $40/MWh. Daytime electricity traded at an average of $34 to $36/MWh at South of Path 15 and North of Path 15.
Peak demand on the Cal-ISO grid reached 28,967 MW Thursday at 3 p.m., a decrease from last week's peak demand of 29,213 MW on May 4.
Renewable energy in California saw strong contributions by both wind and geothermal sources. At peak production, renewables exceeded 3,500 MW of power on Monday, with 1,647 MW coming from wind, 1,064 MW from geothermal, and 363 MW from solar. Over a 24-hour period on Monday, renewables provided about 12.69 percent of system power, up more than 2.5 percent compared to last week.
At BPA, wind power generated approximately 2,537 MW on Tuesday, the highest amount for the week, and a whopping 40 percent of load.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, natural gas inventories gained 94 Bcf last week -- a little shy of expectations, according to Enerfax. But the 2.089 Tcf of working gas in storage as of May 7 is the earliest such a volume has been reached since EIA began recording storage data.
Natural gas consumption will increase by 3 percent to 64.4 Bcf/day in 2010, the EIA predicted in its Short-Term Energy Outlook, released Tuesday. The agency attributed the uptick to greater use by both industry and electricity generators. And as natural gas rigs pull back from production, natural gas prices should rise later this year, thus lending support for higher power prices. The agency estimated Henry Hub spot prices would average $4.48/MMBtu this year, despite trading for an average of $4.03 in April. Henry Hub spot traded for $4.18/MMBtu Wednesday, 18 cents higher than the preceding week, and an average of $4.26 on Friday, up about 35 cents from May 7.
What's ahead: Los Angeles should see daytime high temperatures in the 70s Wednesday and Thursday after starting the week with cool, dry conditions. Temperatures for Seattle and Portland are expected to remain near normal, with high temperatures in the mid-60s. Rain is predicted along the West Coast, from Seattle to Santa Barbara County, on Monday or Tuesday [Linda Dailey Paulson].
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Starting Solids
Introducing solid food is an exciting milestone for your baby and you. But it may also bring up a host of questions and uncertainties. Perhaps a relative thinks you should start feeding cereal at four months because that's what the recommendation was when she raised her children. Maybe you're anxious to start solids to help your child sleep through the night. Or maybe you're just wondering what food to start with and how much to give. For many moms, the whole feeding thing can become very stressful.
Fortunately, it's not as difficult as you may think. A lot of it is just relying on your own motherly intuition about when your baby is ready for solid food. Here are a few guidelines to help you get started.
When to Start Solids
Breastmilk or iron-fortified infant formula provides ample nourishment for the first six to nine months of your child's life (breastmilk for up to one year). So, there's no rush to add anything else. In fact, starting solid foods before six months, especially if allergies run in your family, increases the chance of an infant developing food allergies.1 At around six months, a baby's digestive system has the necessary enzymes and antibodies to handle solid foods. But that doesn't mean you have to start right at six months. Every child develops at a different pace. Rather than looking at the calendar, watch your baby for physical signs of readiness. Your infant should be able to sit upright and pick up food with his hands. He must also have lost the tongue-thrust reflex which causes him to automatically push the food right back out of his mouth. When your child is ready for solids, he will become noticeably interested in what you're eating. He may even try to grab food off your plate. Also, don't start solids for the sole purpose of wanting your child to sleep through the night. Babies wake for comfort as well as hunger and just because your baby is full, doesn't mean he will sleep.
How to Start Solids
The first tastes of solid food are mainly to help your child become accustomed to the texture, not to replace breastfeeding—so small servings are best. Offer a small amount of food on a baby spoon. Stop when she turns away or closes her mouth. One or two tablespoons of food is plenty for those first feedings. It's also wise to feed solids between regular feedings, rather than just before or after breastfeeding. Never put baby food in a bottle. The unfamiliar texture may cause choking.
Each new food you introduce should be offered alone (or with a food already introduced), so if there's a sensitivity or allergy, you will recognize it. Wait three to five days before introducing the next food. Allergic reactions may include bloating, gassiness, diarrhea, rash around mouth or anus, or runny nose not associated with a cold. Do not introduce a new food if your infant is sick. You will not know if reactions are from her illness or the food.
What Foods to Start With
The best first foods are low in protein and easy to digest. Rice cereal is a common choice because it's unlikely to cause allergic reactions. Other good cereal choices are millet and quinoa (available at natural foods stores) which are good sources of iron, as well as other vitamins and minerals. Fruits like bananas, apples, pears, avocado and vegetables such as green beans, winter squash, sweet potatoes are also excellent first foods.
For the first year, you'll want to avoid acidic foods like citrus, strawberries, and tomatoes; cow's milk; high nitrate vegetables like spinach and nonorganic carrots; egg whites; chocolate; and nuts as they are highly allergenic. It's also a good idea to avoid foods with sugar, caffeine, chemical additives, and salt as they can be detrimental to your babies health. In addition, raw honey should never be given to an infant under one year.
Is Organic Necessary?
Infants are especially vulnerable to the effects of pesticides. Children experience rapid growth in a short period of time, and their brain and immune systems are immature. Although The Food Quality Protection Act requires pesticide levels to be safe for children and infants, a study done by the Environmental Working Group found that many commercial grown fruits (including apples, grapes, peaches, pears, and strawberries) exceeded this level and that commercial baby foods contained unsafe levels of carcinogenic and neurotoxic pesticides. 2 In addition, commercially grown soybeans, and some grains, fruits, and vegetables are genetically modified. Products containing genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) are not required to divulge that information on their labels. You must buy organic to ensure your food is GMO-free. Organic food is becoming increasingly available. Check your natural food store, farmers' market, and supermarket.
Homemade versus Storebought
Although the baby food manufacturers don't want you to know it, you really don't need to feed your infant special food from boxes and jars. Babies can eat fresh, natural, unprocessed foods just like anyone else. Homemade baby food is nutritious, inexpensive, and easy to make. You don't even need special equipment. Apples, peaches, and pears can be stewed and pureed in your blender or food processor. Winter squash, sweet potatoes, green beans, zucchini can be steamed until soft and pureed with a little water. Bananas and avocados are simple to prepare. Just mash the ripe fruit with a fork until smooth. Commercial baby food is convenient but food is often diluted with water and starchy fillers. The paper-thin flakes of rice cereal hardly resemble food at all. By starting your children on processed foods, you are training their tastebuds to think that this is what food should taste like. It's no surprise that kids these days seem to prefer processed foods to fresh when that was their first food experience.
Making Homemade Babyfood
For a busy new mother, making a whole separate meal for your baby can seem overwhelming. But guess what – you don't have to. Homemade whole grain infant cereal (recipe follows) makes a great breakfast for the rest of the family too. The steamed vegetables you're having for dinner can be pureed in your blender or food processor for baby food. Or to make things really easy, get a little manual baby food grinder and just mash up whatever the rest of the family is eating right at the table. For convience, you can cook up a batch of vegetables, fruits, beans, and/or grains when you have time. Puree them in your blender or food processor, and freeze in ice cube trays. Then you'll have a prepared meal for your baby whenever you need it.
Iron Supplementation
It's a common myth that infants need iron supplementation. If you are breastfeeding your child and were not anemic during pregnancy, your child is likely getting enough iron. Though breastmilk is low in iron, the iron is very well absorbed. Infant cereal manufacturers play up the fact that their products are iron-fortified, but the type of iron they add is not absorbed well by the body.
Your best bet is to serve whole grains like millet and quinoa that are naturally high in iron. To fortify your infant's food further, you can add some dulse flakes or granulated kelp. (You can find them at your natural foods store in the Asian or macrobiotic section.) These sea vegetables are concentrated sources of minerals, including iron. As your infant becomes comfortable with solid foods around 9 months, you can add iron-rich legumes like lentils or adzuki beans to further enrich her diet.
Following are some recipes to help you get started. As you can see, these are recipes that your baby can eat and the rest of the family can enjoy as well.
Whole Grain Infant Cereal
Brown rice, millet, and quinoa are the least allergenic grains making them good choices for infant cereal. Millet and quinoa are good sources of iron. To fortify cereal further, add a pinch of dulse flakes or granulated kelp to the cooked cereal.
In a dry skillet over medium heat, toast 1 to 2 cups organic brown rice, millet, or quinoa (or a combination) for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat when grains begin to pop and give off a nutty aroma. (Lightly toasting grains makes them more digestible and prevents the cereal from become gluey when cooked.) Cool grains completely and store in a covered jar.
To prepare cereal:
Grind desired amount of toasted grain (about 2 or 3 tablespoons for an infant) to fine powder in a blender or grinder. A coffee grinder gets a particularly fine texture. In a saucepan, whisk together 1 part cereal powder and 6 parts water. Bring to a boil, and simmer uncovered for 30 to 40 minutes (stirring occasionally), or until soft and smooth. Add extra water if necessary.
Note: The rest of the family can enjoy this cereal too. Use 1 part cereal to 4 parts water. Cook 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
The whole family will enjoy this as a side dish at dinner or sauce for pancakes or French toast. Go ahead and use more fruit to double or triple the recipe. The water measurement may not need to be doubled or tripled, however. Start with less water and add more if you need it.
1 pear, peeled and diced
1 apple, peeled and diced
1/2 cup water
Place fruit and water in pan. Cover and simmer over low heat until soft. Add more water if necessary to keep fruit from scorching. Puree or mash.
Makes about 2 cups
Note: Freeze Pear-Applesauce in ice-cube trays. When firm, remove to freezer bag or container. Cubes can be stored in freezer for several months and will thaw quickly when needed.
Mashed Avocado
Avocados are an excellent first food for babies. They are easy to digest and contain lots of good fats to nourish your child's brain and nervous system. Plus, they don't cause constipation like grains or bananas might. Best of all, they're simple to prepare. Mash up what you need for your baby and then use the rest on sandwiches or salad for the rest of the family.
Mash the flesh of a ripe avocado with a fork. Add a little breastmilk or water to thin it if necessary.
L. Businco, G. Bruno, P.B. Giampietro, and M. Ferrara, "Is Prevention of Food Allergy Worthwhile?" Journal of Investigative Allergies and Clinical Immunology, 3, no. 5 (1993): 231-236.
Richard Wiles, Kert Davies, and Christopher Campbell, "Overexposed: Organophosphate Insecticides in Children's Food," Environmental Working Group/The Tides Center, January 1998.
For more information:
The Baby Book (Revised and Updated Edition), by William Sears, M.D., and Martha Sears, R.N. Little Brown, 2003.
Feeding The Whole Family by Cynthia Lair. Moon Smile Press, 1997.
Natural Family Living by Peggy O'Mara with Jane McConnell. Pocket Books, 2000.
Simply Natural Baby Food by Cathe Olson. GOCO Publishing, 2003.


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This Christmas ornament is a perfect representation of peace and a step towards a sustainable future. Hand stitched using discarded fabric, this ball is bringing peace and reconciliation to the seamstresses in our Uganda location. Hand beaded and stitched by the women of Amani Uganda. Hangs by a string.
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Al Gore and the age of hyper-change
This book review was originally published in The Washington Post.
Sprawling, earnest and ambitious — its modest title is "The Future"—Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the flaws of its author. But those hardy souls who slog past the weaknesses will be rewarded by a book that is brave, original and often fun. Inevitably, there's a lot here about the two signature Gore preoccupations — climate change and technological innovation — but what really makes "The Future" worth reading is two newer ideas.
The first is the premise. Gore believes we are living in a "new period of hyper-change." The speed at which our world is changing, he argues, is unprecedented, and that transformation is the central reality of our lives. The technology revolution, Gore writes, "is now carrying us with it at a speed beyond our imagining toward ever newer technologically shaped realities that often appear, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, 'indistinguishable from magic.' "
This is not a truth universally acknowledged — some economists, such as Tyler Cowen, argue that innovation has stalled and that our low-growth economies are the result — and that is part of what makes "The Future" interesting.
Characteristically, Gore doesn't play down his conviction that this time, things really are different. He thinks that the world is experiencing "exponential change," that the transformation is different not just in degree but in kind from previous periods of tumult and — in one of the leaps across millennia in a single paragraph that are a leitmotif of this book — that our Ice Age brains are struggling to cope with a world governed by the kind of exponential increases suggested by Moore's Law.
Gore's thesis of hyper-change is the justification for the vast, messy range of this book. It is risky to write about all of human and geological history, about the whole world, about all the important frontiers in science, about business and politics and society and nature. But Gore makes no excuses for this widest of lenses. On the contrary, his thinking demands it. If humanity is changing more profoundly and faster than ever before, you have to try to connect as many dots as your Stone Age neocortex can bear — and if the result isn't the neatest of narrative arcs, that hardly seems to matter.
Gore's second big argument is based on this first one. If you buy his view that we are living through a mind-blowing economic and social transformation, you are likely to conclude, as he does, that we need a correspondingly ambitious political response. Here again, he is thinking in ALL CAPS. He believes that business has become truly global (a phenomenon he dubs, a la New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, "Earth, Inc.") and that the nation-state is becoming irrelevant. We don't need merely a robust national reaction to hyper-change, we need an international one, and Gore thinks that needs to be led by the United States or it won't happen at all.
But in what is both the most compelling and the most depressing part of the book, Gore fears that the U.S. political system isn't up to the challenge. He can't resist drawing on his techno-enthusiasm to describe the problem: "American democracy has been hacked." That cute phrase is a little unfortunate, because his point is serious and bold: "The United States Congress, the avatar of the democratically elected national legislatures in the modern world, is now incapable of passing laws without permission from the corporate lobbies and other special interests that control their campaign finances."
Much of what is powerful about this allegation is who is making it. This isn't the rage of the dispossessed: Gore is, after all, a former vice president; a board member of the world's largest technology company, Apple; a partner in one of the world's leading venture-capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers; and a multi-millionaire who netted close to $100 million on the sale of his Current TV to an emir in democracy-challenged Qatar shortly before this book was published.
The argument is compelling, too, and that is largely because Gore gets into the weeds. Most of his book's value is in connecting dots — the bullet points are condensed conventional wisdom, a sort of Reader's Digest for the Beltway intelligentsia. The E.U.'s political and economic crisis gets four paragraphs, which precede a quick jump to the Fertile Crescent; the 2008 financial crisis gets one paragraph, and the budget deficit gets three. But when it comes to how money is corrupting U.S. politics, Gore goes beyond the Cliffs Notes.
PHOTO: Former U.S. Vice President and Current TV Chairman and co-founder Al Gore speaks during the panel for Current TV's "Politically Direct" at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, California January 13, 2012. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
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As a young man I never liked Al Gore. But I have certainly come to respect him.
Well, I've been looking for a new book, so I guess I'll go ahead and order this one. Thanks.
Mr. Gore, for once, is quite correct and his reference to Moore's Law to the ever-increasing rate of change entirely appropriate. He is also right that "…the U.S. political system is not "…up to the challenge…" of a world in which every individual of every nation is simultaneously squabbling with hands out and palms open to increase their "share" of a fixed or shrinking "economic pie".
American citizen-voters are not being asked to define what kind of government they want because to do so they need to come to consensus as to America's "needs" versus "wants" and then prioritize available funds. America remains a "work in progress" that, as a nation, has forgotten it simply can't afford to do EVERYTHING it wants to today.
The promise and the challenge of such change is that such a bunch of tigers loosed simultaneously everywhere in the world in virtually every field of human endeavor can be "ridden" by no one for long. I am reminded of the Chinese use of two characters to express the concept of "crisis". One means "Danger" The other,"opportunity.
No one has traveled so far so fast where no road or even beaten beaten path exists, so there are few, if any, rules. It's a matter of jumping on for the ride when and where you can, and hanging on for as long as you can, knowing when the dust settles you may be better off, worse off, or just older, more tired and dirty.
The emerging future is one in which the smart and lucky will become big winners, and the smart and the unlucky big losers. The great majority of "not so smart" right down to the "bottom of the pile" will get ground up and spit out of the process wondering what the heck happened.
Suddenly there is abundant energy everywhere, but it's relatively expensive to extract. If it is used too fast (such as materially increasing the standard of living for the "bottom four billion" humans already living) our big blue marble will rapidly become a big brown marble.
In some areas water will become increasingly precious. Having it means life (and food). L and lacking it means death (and starvation). The first human to live to be one thousand years of age may have already been born, but over much of the earth life will be as was common before WW II; short, nasty and brutal.
The world's poor will try to demand or take what they need and they will fail. Many will die. The world's rich will fight a defensive battle motivating those on whom the future depends to somehow preserve a way of life that allows the accumulation of knowledge to improve overall "quality of life" for perhaps a billion or two humans forward and out into the universe.
Or everything may come tumbling down in a progression of societal convulsions. The action will be in the arena, but I think I'll watch and bet from the cheap seats.
We live in interesting times.
I saw Al Gore at Trinity Methodist Church in Savannah a couple of weekends ago. Your summary pretty sums up what he had to say with the exception of some pretty funny jokes he told. Gore is still brimming with vitality and brilliance, and he seems ready to share his vast knowledge with the rest of the world. Too bad most of the world is not listening. If Bush were president, maybe he could create another Pearl Harbor, 9/11 event to shock Americans into doing something. That seems to be the only way things get done in this country.
Al Gore, President of the United States. Thank God we dodged that bullet.
Al Gore is a very wealthy man who, like many very wealthy men, is interested in what will make him even more wealthy. To that end, his latest book is largely successful in raising his brand visibility, and also in moving units of his latest product. He presents the image of social responsibility without any real social responsibility, however, and for that reason I find his arguments are not compelling in the least.
His idea that we are living in an era of unprecedented change is just another sales pitch, and nothing more. Most of the world still lives hand to mouth, just as it has for thousands of years; and all of those people do not really care what Mr. Gore has to say- because it has very little to do with them. If he wanted to be relevant though, he would have to come down off Mount Boardroom and start living in the real world with all the little people- and if he did that, then what's the point of being brought up an aristocrat?
I remember Al and Tipper's campaign against lyrics in rock songs. That was many many years ago when he was still courting the Tennessee vote. While I may agree with him from time to time, that particular series of dithering dullness makes me doubt he has a logical nature. Thus we could just be looking at a talking head. No different than say Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell, really. Some people are smart and some people are smart enough to repeat what they think people want to hear.
Yes, "Most of the world still lives hand to mouth, just as it has for thousands of years". Mr. Gore does not speak to those because they are pawns, and pawns seldom influence the "game of life" we are all part of.
Pawns are the "river of life". It takes a dam, whether natural or man made, to alter a river's flow. Those who would bring about change must convince those who will benefit from the dam and secure the necessary funding and construction priority. Pawns just supply the sweat.
In this context, "…all the little people…" are irrelevant except as one of us may at some point originate or push forward an "idea whose time has come" into public attention at a moment only 20-20 hindsight will reveal as pivotal.


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Status Report
From: Jonathan's Space Report
Posted: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Happy perihelion to all my readers in the Earth-Moon system!
International Space Station
Expedition 34 is underway with commander Kevin Ford and flight engineers FE-1 Oleg Novitskiy and FE-2 Yevgeniy Tarelkin. Their ferry ship, Soyuz TMA-06M, is docked at the Poisk module.
Soyuz TMA-07M (spacecraft 704A, flight ISS 33S) went up on Dec 19 with crew Roman Romanenko of Russia, Chris Hadfield of Canada, and Tom Marshburn of the USA. Initial orbit was 194 x 236 km x 51.6 deg. The spaceship docked with the Rassvet module at 1409 UTC on Dec 21.
Two cargo ships are also docked: Progress M-16M at the Pirs module and Progress M-17M at the Zvezda aft port.
Hobbyists have located the US Air Force X-37B spaceplane in a 343 x 360 km x 43.5 deg orbit.
North Korean satellite
Four objects have been cataloged in orbit associated with the NK launch: the Kwangmyongsong-3 F2 satellite, the Unha-3 rocket stage and two debris pieces. Optical observations by Greg Roberts in S Africa show a 16-s periodic brightening indicating the satellite is spinning or tumbling, which is the natural state of a satellite if its size and shape. The satellite was thought to carry reaction wheels or some similar three-axis stabilization system, but this does not seem to be working at the moment. News reports describing the satellite as 'out of control' could be premature, as it is possible that the stabilization system is designed to be activated some time after launch. However, the failure to pick up signals at 470 MHz by independent observers in the US and UK, including a long-time member of the Kettering Group, Bob Christy of http://zarya.info, is strong circumstantial evidence that the satellite's transmitter is not working and that the satellite is most likely dead. At this point in early January, the continuing lack of signal reports make this conclusion all the more likely.
On Jan 1 the orbits were
A (satellite) 497 x 581 km x 97.40 deg B (rocket) 496 x 589 km x 97.40 deg C (debris) 497 x 571 km x 97.45 deg D (debris) 497 x 586 km x 97.36 deg
Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL. DES. Nov 2 2104 Yamal-300K ) Proton-M/Briz-M Baykonur LC81/24 Comms 61 Luch-5B ) Comms 61 Nov 10 2105 Star One C3 ) Ariane 5ECA Kourou ELA3 Comms 62B Eutelsat 21B ) Comms 62A Nov 14 1142 Meridian No. 16 Soyuz-2-1A/Fregat Plesetsk LC43/4 Comms 63A Nov 18 2253 Huan Jing 1C ) Chang Zheng 2C Taiyuan Radar 64A Xinyan-1 ) Tech Fengniao 1A/1B ) Tech Nov 20 1831 Echostar 16 Proton-M/Briz-M Baykonur LC39/200 Comms 65A Nov 25 0406 Yaogan Weixing 16) Chang Zheng 4C Jiuquan Sigint? 66A YW-16 Subsat 1 ) Sigint? 66B YW-16 Subsat 2 ) Sigint? 66C Nov 27 1013 Zhongxing 12 Chang Zheng 3BE Xichang LC2 Comms 67A Dec 1 0202 Pleiades 1B Soyuz ST-A/Fregat Kourou ELS Imaging 68A Dec 3 2044 Eutelsat 70B Zenit-3SL SL Odyssey Comms 69A Dec 8 1313 Yamal 402 Proton-M/Briz-M Baykonur LC39/200 Comms 70A Dec 11 1803 X-37B OTV-3 Atlas V 501 Canaveral SLC41 Spaceplane 71A Dec 12 0049 Kwangmyongsong-3 F2 Unha-3 Sohae Test 72A Dec 18 1612 Gokturk 2 Chang Zheng 2D Jiuquan Imaging 73A Dec 19 1212 Soyuz TMA-07M Soyuz-FG Baykonur LC1 Spaceship 74A Dec 19 2149 Skynet 5D ) Ariane 5ECA Kourou ELA3 Comms 75A Mexsat-Bicentenario) Comms 75B
Date UT Payload/Flt Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission Apogee/km Nov 2 1755 NASA 36.255US Black Brant IX White Sands Solar X 321 Nov 14 1107 Mk 21 RV? Minuteman 3 Vandenberg LF10 Op.Test 1300? Nov 21 1055 NASA 36.260UG Black Brant IX White Sands UV Astron 291 Nov 25 1120 MAPHEUS-3 Nike Imp. Orion ESRANGE, Kiruna Micrograv 145 Nov 28 Haft-5 RV Ghauri Tilla?, Pakistan Op.Test 400? Dec 8 2100 AEB VS30/O V10 VS-30/Orion Alcantara Ionosphere 428 Dec 13 0520 NASA 36.283UH Black Brant IX White Sands XR Astron 257? Dec 17 0700 S-520-28 S-520 Uchinoura Micrograv 312
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