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Why Do Fox Scream?
Why Do Fox Scream?
Most often than not, foxes are fond of screaming primarily when they are in their copulation period. This season is one reality that pisses off most of the neighbourhood since their sleep or resting time may be disturbed by the loud and almost eerie scream of these foxes. Most of the times it is the female fox which do the screaming, yet contrary to the usual belief, even male foxes are also capable of screaming though the reason may vary in one way or another.
The female screams as her own way of attracting would be mate and this is their way of getting the attention of the other gender. Once the female fox catches a male gender to be her mate, she will then create a loud annoying scream to signal of their copulation and in less than 20 seconds, she will again make such loud noise to mark that their intercourse is finally over.
The male fox however do scream as an indication that he might have been injured in some way or the other. This particular noise will signal to other foxes to come to his rescue and do the necessary things in order to help him or at least alleviate his suffering through tongue licking. In so doing, the injured male fox will eventually feel better and taken care of by his fellow foxes.
Territorial issue can also trigger these foxes to create the loudest sound or scream that they can possibly make in order for they to call the attention of all of their members that a threat against their territory and safety is at hand. Because of this very distinct and particular noise, the other foxes wandering somewhere else will hurriedly go to the area where they heard the sound and offer their help in combating the enemies. Screaming hence plays a very vital role in the lives of the foxes
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Shuffling in alongside existing gel lead-acid system...
I started a thread on FieldLines: some of the text below is extracted from there and edited.
I'd been having another serious think about boosting my off-grid storage from ~0.25kWh (with a ~0.1kWh/d steady load) and experimenting with Lithium-chemistry batteries, such as LiFePO4 (aka Lithium Iron Phosphate aka LFP), for better round-trip efficiency too. (A whole-house load-shifting experiment that I'm plotting as a follow-on probably isn't much worth doing with a whole-cycle battery efficiency anywhere less than 90% for example.)
The thousandsuns 'LiFePO4_-_12v_30A_Battery' pack as was (link dead as of 2012/08/29): claimed to have an integrated BMS*, and from its 10V--14.6V range looks as if I may simply be able to drop it in instead of my 40Ah SLA gen with one of my Morningstar PWM solar controllers.
(*Unlike SLA, Lithium-chemistry batteries always require some sort of smart Battery Management System (BMS) for safety, eg avoiding fires, as well as to get the best performance out of them.)
Has anyone done this? Am I (or the battery) going to die horribly if I do this?
Also, for Li packs with integrated BMS is it likely to be safe to parallel them up to increase the storage at a given voltage, eg I'd like to get 3x30A 12V to give me ~1kWh of usable storage.
I'm itching to do it, but if it goes wrong it may (a) fry my server and (b) my family since these things would be in the kitchen by the exit door unless I take steps to relocate them...
I visited Thousand Suns office on 2010/10/04 and bought a 12V 20Ah prismatic battery pack (so ~0.25kWh usable or a bit more) at ~£200+VAT. Not advertised on their site, and considerably more compact than the 20Ah shown.
It looks like a bomb all bound with tape and with wires hanging out, and I've worked out a way to hook it into my system to sorta kinda double up storage capacity.
It's about 1/3rd the size and weight of my 12V gel SLA 40Ah (ie same usable capacity), so I was able to plonk this in my backpack with my laptop.
But it's an odd one, with a common +ve rail for its separate charge and discharge connections...
Basically I'm going to detach a small portion of my off-grid PV and use it to directly charge this pack via its BMS, then preferentially power my server from this falling back to the SLA c/o a couple of Schottky diodes.
I shall be keeping it at a very low SoC in this config, and primarily relying on the SLA for system stability for now.
The new battery should take all the load from the SLA until the LiFePO4 (LFP) is virtually exhausted or the SLA is floating nicely.
It should test how well the Li battery copes with being completely drained, and should keep the Li battery in a low-ish SoC and the SLA in a high-ish SoC, which should suit both of them.
Installed the morning of 2010/10/05.
The SLA solar controller LVD was about to operate anyway (flashing red this morning), so this is a 'just-in-time' lash-up.
Already the now-unloaded SLA was recoving noticably within an hour of the LiFePO4 battery taking the strain. Given the approx day's worth of energy in the new battery, the SLA has a day to build up some charge...
After half a day the LiFePO4 battery on-load voltage has declined from about 13.4V to 13.3V and then stayed fairly flat overnight.
After most of two days on load (minus a few hours when there was enough sunshine to bring the SLA voltage above the LiFePO4 voltage, so the SLA would have been powering the load) voltage was about 13.1V.
After another half day, though with the load mainly supported directly through the SLA side, the LiFePO4 battery was still at about 13.1V. The SLA voltage is high enough after a thorough charge that load is likely to be shared between them.
I note that after dark the charge input from its private set of panels is showing 13.1V also and allows enough current to light a 3W LED for example, and thus might allow charge leakage at night and/or cause hot-spots on parallelled panels. At the very least if connecting panels directly to the input a blocking diode should be used. The panels in this set already contain one, but would not protect me from loss due to (say) damp getting in external wiring.
Morning of 2010/10/08, LiFePO4 output voltage still ~13.1V, carrying the entire load as the SLA at ~12.8V! Evening of 2010/10/08, back carrying the load after about 4 hours' break, and still ~13.1V!
On the morning of 2010/10/09 the voltage had dropped to match that of the SLA, ie with the SLA now taking the load.
Early days yet, but some small changes that might help a lot:
Some possible more radical changes:
2010/10/11: I took delivery of another (100Wp, mono-crystalline) panel, to put south-facing and plumb into the main MPPT/SLA circuit.
I also took the opportunity to re-arrange the system substantially to shift some of the panels from the back garden to charge the LiFePO4 battery (bringing its input up to about 110Wp, though no more than about 70Wp at once), and to add the MotorWind turbine with its crowbar overvoltage protection to the LiFePO4 inputs.
The MPPT/SLA system has about 180Wp total with the new panel. All loads except the SheevaPlug server remain on the SLA.
Importantly, this means that both batteries have some south-facing panels to get reasonable input even mid-winter.
The two systems are entirely isolated until the negative/0V outputs are connected together for delivery to the rest of the house.
If the LiFePO4 battery had a common-negative rail, then I'd interconnect the negative/0V rail at other points too.See the LiFePO4 battery start charging in earnest around noon UTC (blue line) as about 70Wp+ of panel is connected to it with the sun shining brightly! Unexpectedly good sunshine the following day boosted charge of both batteries again. And the system still seemed to 'break even' on the following mainly-overcast day. The following day was even more gloomy, below average for mid-winter, but a small boost can be observed.
A few days later there seems to be a fairly fully charged system with both batteries pulled down to ~13V off-charge, falling ~0.1V overnight, and the SLA being pulled up in sunshine to "absorption" at ~14.4V falling after about 3 hours to a float of maybe 13.9V, and the LiFePO4 battery peaking at around 13.6V (3.4V/cell, vs 3.25V at night). Having looked at the weather forecast (for some sunny-ish days ahead) I'm using 12V desk lighting rather than mains, thus the downwards spikes on the measured SLA voltage after about 17:00 GMT, as the lamp I'm currently using draws about twice the power of the server!
Another few days and another surprise: in good sunshine the voltage leapt from about 14.4V to 15.5V when I'd expect the BMS to disconnect from its input (charge source) when full, capping the output voltage at somewhere around 14V. The battery was warm (not hot) to the touch as it was climbing past 15V. (See similar the next day.)
I had to adjust the upper bound on the graph to 16V, and I'll have to check that everything upstream of the DC-to-DC converter whose maximum input voltage is 28V is good to something similar, certainly over 16V which was nearly reached today and also over the 21Voc of the UniSolar panel. I may also have to move the small amorphous panel with a potentially higher Voc back to the SLA string. The cap on the input of the DC-to-DC converter is rated 25V.
After several very dull days in early November the batteries largely recover on one sunny day.
After a very dismal and cold end of November the batteries conk out after dusk with the LiFePO4 moments after the SLA LVD, supporting the notion that below ~13V the LiFePO4 has very little energy left. The next day the LiFePO4 voltage was rising quite rapidly but the SLA SoC (11.96V after dark) was still too low for the LVD to reset and so was still showing solid red on the solar controller and OV on the graph. The following day I'm still letting the batteries recover with some unexpected sunshine though I did put a small load on the SLA when the sun was out. Still recovering very slowly in dull conditions; the SLA charge controller has been back on amber for over a day after a brief period of 'green'. Recovered after some sunshine: SheevaPlug going back off-grid after 6 days.
The ageing 40Ah gel SLA seemed to be performing very poorly in December 2010, not helped by very poor insolation (less than half of that expected), so I took the decision to upgrade the SLA side with 400Ah of SLA (purchased as 4x100Ah@12V so could be re-arranged into a 24V or 48V system).
20110101: proposed upgraded off-grid power system circuit diagram .SHX, PDF.
The LiFePO4 battery has the capacity for a couple of days' server consumption, and with it being discharged preferentially, ie should be exhausted before the SLA starts being significantly discharged, the LiFePO4 should take away a lot of the need to cycle the SLA daily, at least when there is significant sunshine at least every other day. This may prolong the SLA life significantly.
The system still takes its main view on storage state-of-charge (SoC) and thus available energy reserves primarily from the SLA, but as of January 2010 now also is forced into 'very low power' mode if the LiFePO4 battery seems exhausted regardless of the SLA state. This basically indicates that we've had no decent sunshine for a couple of days.
See the k8055 poll script as of 20110103.
2011/01/14: 400Ah@12V of new SLA (gel) integrated into the system.
2011/01/16: watching the voltages seen on the graph, close to the load, as the LiFePO4 battery is exhausted and the SLA takes on the load at about 8am, suggests that the voltage drop from SLA to load is ~0.2V--0.3V, or that taking off the "surface charge" with a light load accounts for that, and indeed at ~16:30 (after dusk) measuring close to the battery gives 12.46V while close to the load shows 12.40V and is read by the k8055 at 12.4V. (The LiFePO4 had taken the load for about 1.5 days from only partially full.)
2011/01/18: after some decent sunshine, both LiFePO4 and SLA are much better, with the SLA measuring 12.80V close to the battery a ~18:30. At since the LiFePO4 did not charge enough to get above the SLA voltage they are sharing the load staying close in voltage with a slow drift down. The LiFePO4 will probably need to get a full charge to take all the load/cycling from the SLA. (Next day, more sun.) (A relatively healthy couple of days in Feb.)
2011/01/28: with the sun up and the battery charging, at 08:44 the MPPT controller's LVD suddenly cut off the power from the SLA having read 12.0V. The system coasted long enough on the LiFePO4 for me to switch to mains. A little after 11:12 and some deent charging on both batteries, the LVD disengaged and I was able to go off-grid again. I speculate that the new battery connection was a little flaky (high resistance) and the controller saw a problem and played safe. I tightened all the connections in the system, especially between battery and controller, and have not had a repeat up until 2011/02/23.
2011/03/05: adjusted the internal power-level thresholds so that LiFePO4 below 13.2V is regarded as 'low' and forces the system into low-power mode. It often hovers for a while after dusk at ~13.1V when it's had a good charge, so this tweak is to better detect sun-down in practice. See the k8055 poll script as of 20110305.
2011/03/07: replaced the Si diode (with a Schottky) that piggybacks the LiFePO4 to the 36Wp amorphous panels at the front of the house to in effect give the LiFePO4 priority charging until it is completely full, leaving little charge current for the old 40Ah gel SLA unless relatively empty. The batteries are getting tip-top full in good sunshine, even competing with the laundry hanging out to dry in front of the panels!
2011/04/15: adjusted MotorWind turbine crowbar trip to 18V (by putting a 10k 22-turn pot in parallel with the voltage divider), ie above max output voltage from LiFePO4 battery and below Voc of the PV inputs, so presumably 'safe' for the BMS input, to try to reduce spurious and potentially-damaging repeated operation a little when the battery is full. (Will soon be adding dump load down-stream of battery to help soak up excess input energy more aggressively so the crowbar should never activate at all.)
2011/04/16: wired in dump load (currently only ~16R/15W) for the LiFePO4 battery (c/o ghurd). Can increase load with another FET and/or more resistors (more than 50W to hand) with proper heat sinking and dissipation. LiFePO4 battery reaching ~15.5V and SLA 14V+ nearly every day, and SLA overnight voltage mainly below 13V after ADSL load (>12W) was moved to it off-grid on the 10th.
2011/04/17: dump load operating from around solar noon but not able to hold voltage down to 15V with ~70Wp+ of PV working, so may need to add extra load. Current load making system warm but not unreasonably so; however any significant extra dump load should be sited better and heatsinked.
2011/04/22: moved 12Wp panel from LiFePO4 to SLA input so former is dumping less and latter is full more, ie better balancing.
2011/07/25: current upgraded off-grid power system circuit diagram .SHX, PDF. Simplified the system and moved input from 36Wp amorphous panels at front to main battery bank to help support the off-grid ADSL and brings the input to the main controller to just less than 180Wp nominal.
2011/09/15: note that as the LiFePO4 voltage rises and passes the SLA here, the SLA voltage apparently suddenly rises about 0.2V as the LiFePO4 takes over supplying current to the server via the diode-OR and eliminates the voltage drop in the SLA route. More generally, this tends to yoke the output voltages of the two batteries together, sharing the load, unless being driven otherwise by large charge currents.
2011/12/31: the SheevaPlug has been off-grid since the battery upgrade, with no sign of the controller's amber or red status lights even this month. I have also tweaked software settings to reduce work done in 'extreme' shortage as measured by either battery (Li or LA) not being fairly full. In December the Li battery is usually low enough to trigger 'extreme' mode. The main server now also regards any period over about 48 hours without reaching a 'good' power level as similar to 'extreme' shortage for most purposes. 14:20 UTC: voltage measured at main LA battery bank terminals 12.70V, in (astonishing) agreement with 12.7V as seen by k8055 at SheevaPlug.
2012/01/07: made it into January in spite of sunless interval from before Christmas into the New Year: see the lack of lead-acid spikes to over 14V and the sub-13V state of the LiFePO4 battery.
2012/02/02: Li battery up to 15V, balancing, for first time for a couple of months at least!
2012/08/29: Li battery has regularly gone over 15V (but below 16V), though runs of gloomy weather clearly show up as days in a row without. Generally the Li battery subsystem continues to 'just work' well.
2013/06/24: reconnected after major kitchen works, assuming C- is charge (-ve) and D- is discharge!
2014/04/27: ADSL auto-off-grid hardware finally wired up today after keeping an eye on software/w control behaviour for a while. Battery levels seem to be more stable and healthier of late. The ADSL is perhaps 50% off-grid at the moment, including in evening peak demand time. If the ADSL were off grid 100% of the time, given a measured 7.7W consumption, savings (ie extra energy not taken from the grid) would be ~67kWh/y. ~20kWh/y (ie ~30%) off-grid may be realistic, ie 1.5% of total gross household consumption (~1500kWh/y), which starts to be noticeable!
2015/05/04: MacBookAir running directly from Li battery via Mikegyver.comcustom adaptor lead works well and can run indefinitely off-grid given current levels of sunshine.
At the same time as I contacted thousandsuns I emailed M2Power about its SLA-emulating 2-terminal batteries, eg the 12.8V 40Ah 0.3C-charge-rate device, with BMS built-in.
I'd already bought my thousandsuns battery by the time M2Power responded, but M2Power confirmed that:
In particular M2Power confirmed that "An external BMS is not needed, it is integrated in our battery packs. The only requirement is that [the battery] is charged to 14.6V."
I imagine that an existing SLA controller/charger could be adjusted for an 'absorption' voltage of 14.6V and duration of ~3 hours, a little high for a flooded cell, and it might work well.
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Let us bow our heads on Monday to honor and remember our war heroes. Their full measure of devotion is responsible for our ability to live as we choose in these great United States.
Paraphrasing Father Dennis O'Brien, a former U.S. Marine sergeant, it is not the pastor we owe for freedom of religion, the poet for freedom of speech or the journalist for freedom of the press. It is the soldier we must thank. It is our boys and girls in blue, green, khaki and serving in some god-forsaken corners of the globe that do the heavy lifting that keeps the rest of us free.
The next time you see one of our sons or daughters in uniform thank them for their service. Pay their check on your way out of the restaurant. They and their families sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy and too often take for granted.
Our Memorial Day services begin at 11 a.m. at the Madera County War Memorial in Courthouse Park. Music, speeches and prayers at the public gathering bring a sense of community to our hometown, everyone is welcome...


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Being highly sensitive is a common experience for many, if not most, gifted people. It is related to intensity and excitabilities such as emotional, intellectual and imaginational – and especially sensory.
Mary-Elaine Jacobsen comments in an article of hers about the high sensitivity aspect of giftedness. Here are a few excerpts:
"It appears that highly gifted adults may be more finely tuned in to the subtleties of life and more easily aroused than others around them.
"Their attention is drawn to stimuli others seem to ignore, which begins to explain why a highly gifted person might appear fidgety or edgy, adjusting and readjusting the thermostat, a sweater, or couch pillow.
"This kind of ultra-awareness can be a valuable contributing factor to their qualitatively different experience of life in terms of heightened tone and color and meaning, not simply thin-skinned peevishness. Yet the same sensory alertness can render the gifted more vulnerable and uneasy, and may result in stimulation overload.
"The pressure to respond to the slightest shift in barometric pressure, a bright light or loud noise, a pungent aroma, commotion or emotional upheaval, or tiny blips in the way their body is working, can make the life of a gifted adult a rich tapestry of experience."
From her article Encountering the Gifted Self Again, For the First Time.
Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, PhD is author of The Gifted Adult.
For more on overexcitabilities, see multiple articles on my various sites, including Too Much to Contain – Intensity and Creativity.
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Photo: 'For some of us, even a little Times Square is too much' by Nina Berman, used in article ADD, Stress and Overstimulation – Living Too Close to Edge, by Susan Meindl. She writes, "More and more adult clients arrive at psychologist's offices suffering from stress and an inability to concentrate that makes them worry that they may have ADD. Often they are just overstimulated and overwhelmed."
The photo was originally in the article "Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast" by Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, Nov. 17, 2002 – which refers to the book Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight: What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World, by Sharon Heller.
Note: Sensory Defensive Disorder – a term Heller and other psychologists use – sounds to me like the diagnostic label Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD).
Elaine Aron, PhD addresses such labels in an issue of her newsletter, commenting: "Simply put, high sensitivity is not a disorder. It is found in about 15 to 20% of humans. Further, some trait like it, usually termed differently but with close to the same ratio, is found in almost every animal species studied. So it is a normal temperament variation that has evolved for a reason."
She thinks that with descriptions of SPD, "You are going to see considerable overlap with what I would call normal sensitivity."
And she adds, "We HSPs [highly sensitive people] know, however, that 'normal' can be in the eyes of the beholder. HSPs and HSCs can seem strange and even dysfunctional to non-HSPs — always a problem when a non-HSP is making a diagnosis."
From her newsletter: February 2009 Comfort Zone ONLINE, HSP Living: More Answers to Some of Your Questions.
Her books include The Highly Sensitive Person.
For more on the topic, see my Highly Sensitive site.
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Two of many related articles:
Misdiagnosis of gifted adults: Dysfunctions versus aptitudes.
Mis-Diagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children: Gifted and LD, ADHD, OCD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder By James T. Webb, Ph.D.
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Tag Archives: NOLA
Welcome back to NOLA!
So, Ciera and I have moved back to NOLA… Here is a 10 minute video we made on our way down. Hope yall enjoy it, tell me what you think.
Shot on Canon 5DMK3 and GoPro Hero HD
Posted in D.I.Y., NOLA, Photography, Travel, Video Also tagged boston, Canon 5D MKIII, Ciera Holzenthal, GoPro, Lobsters, maine, moving, music video, Photography, Shenandoah Valley, The Hub, time lapse, Virginia, zander white 1 Comment
Red Beans & Rice
Been workin on my red beans recipe for a while. Can't get pickled pork outside New Orleans, so I substitue boiled ham which I fry up with the trinity. This time also couldn't get a ham hock, but ham shank seemed to work just as good. Next ima start working on a gumbo recipe.
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Jazz Fest 2012
Posted in Music, NOLA, Photography, Travel Also tagged Fuji X-Pro1, Jazz Fest, Music, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, zander white Leave a comment
One of New Orleans' best restaurants sits inconspicuously on Oak St. Just look for the painted truck…
Posted in Food, Photography, Tych Also tagged food, Jacques-Imos, Photography, restaurant, southern, tych 1 Comment
Taceaux Loceaux
A great spot to grab some tacos in NOLA. You can generally catch this food truck uptown across from Whole Foods on Magazine St.
Posted in Food, NOLA, Photography Also tagged food truck, Fuji Finepix X100, taceaux loceaux, taco, zander white 1 Comment
SaintsforSinners.com Commercial
A great local New Orleans company… Look it's me!
Posted in Photography Also tagged commercial, hand painted medals, Saints for Sinners 1 Comment
Of Montreal Live @ Howlin Wolf in New Orleans
Posted in Music, NOLA, Photography Also tagged Concert, Howlin Wolf, Live Music, Music, new orleans photographer, Of Montreal, Photography 1 Comment
Photography for Free: No Pay Only Shots for Portfolio
"Do you want to work this awesome gig?"
"Hell yes."
"Great, you'll be on the list with a press pass."
"Cool, whats the pay?"
"No pay, just shots for your portfolio…"
Too often this dialogue transpires for the emerging photographer. The responses vary but all photographers feel the same way: USED. Clients in this situation are taking advantage of something new in the freelance photographer's market: everyone has a camera and to some degree know how to use it.
What clients do not understand is the difference between the amateur and professional. A professional photographer will shoot an event and take, lets say 100 photos, of those 100 maybe 75 will be "keepers". Had an amateur covered the same event and taken the same 100 photos maybe only 25 will be "keepers". For my purpose the actual ratio does not matter, it is simply the difference between the two.
A pro photographer is like a lion waiting to pounce on moments and situations using a carefully crafted balance of creativity and skill to capture and create. Unlike the pro, an amateur will approach the same situation optimistically yet without the confidence, knowledge, or experience necessary to get equal results. What ends up happening is moments/photographs are missed (to a variety of reasons) or overall quality suffers. Simply put, a pro MAKES photographs, an amateur TAKES photos.
Because of the advancements of modern cameras, anyone is easily capable of getting good to excellent photos (in ideal situations) without any working knowledge/experience, but in order to do this on-cue repeatedly requires a professional. Sure there are times when there is no budget and a student must be found on craigslist who will work for exposure/experience/something-to-put-in-their-portfolio, but this is an inherent risk to the client. Before looking for a "free photog" you must be absolutely willing to receive sub par results. If you require quality, you must hire (pay) a professional. And please, do not give me the line, "to better your portfolio", I do that everyday.
*Side Note*
To ALL photographers: You have a skill and should be paid well for it. Wether or not you consider yourself qualified you must understand that the service you are providing is not cheap and anyone cannot do it. Find out what other photographers are charging. If you want to be cheap, be cheap, but don't sell yourself, and the industry, short by working for nothing. Many potential clients like my work, but can't afford to hire me. I always try and work with a client and their specific budget, but there must be a point of no return. No one likes to turn down work, but this is how we make our living. Working for free is not better than not working.
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City Park New Orleans
Now that summer is finally upon us it's time to get outside. There are two major parks in New Orleans: Audubon and City Park. For comparison's sake, City Park is much better. Audubon is a beautiful park in uptown New Orleans with many attractions including a golf course, zoo, track, and riverfront chill spot but offers no way to "get away form it all". Since Katrina, City Park has lost its golf course, which is now an excellent off-road bike heaven. But without a zoo, golf course, or Mississippi River view City Park offers enough space (second only to Central Park, NY) to lose yourself for hours. And for all you dog lovers, City Park has a brand new dog park!
Somewhere inside of me there is a little country kid from the coast of Maine. Only in City Park can I feel like I'm not in the city for a while. Amidst its many bike/walking trails, winding bayous, and lush gardens are a million spots where you can hang without running into anyone. For those looking for "things" to do, City Park offers Storyland for the kids, Botanical Gardens, and the New Orleans Museum of Art as well as Pan American Stadium, Tad Gormley Stadium, and a running track. If there is one spot that makes City Park special it's the Peristyle. Like something out of ancient Greece, this temple-like building is a great place to take a few photographs, feed the ducks, or just watch the clouds go by.
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Jazz Fest 2010
Another year of Jazz Fest is upon us. As usual, ticket prices have risen to $60 per day (thanks Quint Davis) and beers are now $5 a pop. Expensive as Jazz Fest is, it's still worth every penny to see Simon & Garfunkle, My Morning Jacket, and eat Crawfish Monica with a side of Crawfish Bread. 2010 Jazz fest began with rain, but by Saturday the clouds parted and the sun finally poked through during Better Than Ezra.
As happens so often at Jazz Fest many were faced with an awful decision, "Do we see the aging Simon & Garfunkle reunited after so many years, or do we catch My Morning Jacket, a band in their prime?" I opted for the latter and was not disappointed. MMJ played a flawless set complete with popular classics and obscure favorites.
Next week I will be missing my favorite Jazz Fest act of all time, Van Morrison, who will be playing directly before the Neville Brothers close out the fest (expect a quest appearance from Van the Man). Instead I will be in Colorado catching NOFX @ The Aggie in Fort Collins.
Posted in Music Also tagged Concert, Crawfish Monica, Jazz Festival 2010, My Morning Jacket 1 Comment
Tipping Etiquette
My friend is always chewing me out about my tipping etiquette. Today we grabbed an iced coffee at a local place and I paid with my credit card. As we leave he asks, "How much did you tip?" Well, I didn't tip, and didn't think twice about it. He said he would have tipped $2. I think it is ridiculous to tip for a $3.75 coffee. If I pay cash I usually leave the change, but businesses are getting out of hand with the tip line on credit card purchases. To my relief someone else is not crazy.
When I have a sit-down meal I tip anywhere from 15-20% based on the service (not the food). I tip a bartender a buck or two every time I order a round, not $5 for 5 drinks… As a rule I don't tip for take-out, as I don't tip at a drive-thru!. The same friend thinks I am being "cheap". I think he has his head in the clouds, coincidentally so do the folks at MSNBC.
I do not feel the need to prance around town proving that I'm not cheap. A freelance photographer's budget does not allow me to tip for my morning joe!
Posted in Everydayness, Food, Photography Also tagged budget, coffee shop, freelance photographer, photo, take-out, tipping, tipping etiquette 6 Comments
iPhone Photography and iPhone 4G Wishlist
When I first got my iPhone 3GS I was utterly disappointed with the camera. Being a photographer, my expectations were not exactly high, but I did expect on having a usable camera in well-lit situations. On first inspection I immediately wrote the "3 megapixel auto-focus camera" off as nothing more than a gimmick. For months I seldom used the camera for more than MMS, which was cool for pranks and what not but nothing worthy of Flickr.
Recently I have been pushing the iPhone further trying to squeeze some quality out of its nanosensor. It actually is quite good if the right tools/technique are used. The trick to the iPhone is holding it steady. Darkroom (free) is a great app that uses the accelerometer to shutter release when the phone is steady. Also know that the iPhone's shutter fires when you lift off the button not when you press it.
The App Store as many free or cheap apps to post-process your iPhoneography. My favorite is Photogene, which really is the closest thing to Photoshop for the iPhone (sorry Photoshop.com Mobile). Photogene ($1.99) is the one stop shop for exposure levels, RGB levels, crop/straighten, and sharpening. Sharpening is probably the most important aspect to processing iPhone photos. The photos are always soft.
Is the iPhone a toy? Yes and no, it does toy-like things and smart-phone things, but the camera really is a toy. Toy cameras have always been the smallest, cheapest, most quirky cameras around and they produce fantastic one of a kind results. The iPhone is similar to a Holga or Lomo in that you never really know what your going to get. For more creative aspects of iPhoneography check out CameraBag ($1.99), which offers many toy camera filters, Polaroid borders, and other one-touch effects.
The all-in-one app is Best Camera, whose slogan says it all, "The Best Camera is the one thats with you". The guys at Best Camera hit the nail on the head, the iPhone is excellent for being unnoticed. Paul Strand used to use trick lenses so his subjects didn't know he was photographing them. Regardless of whether or not this type of photography is exploitative or dishonest the iPhone is perfect for this. Street photography is about timing, confidence, and speed/preparation. The "problem" with street photography is that once your subject sees a camera pointed at them the scene is often lost. The iPhone allows you to snap photos of people unknowingly anywhere. People are so accustomed to seeing iPhones they don't think twice about it. Best Camera ($2.99) offers exposure filters, creative effects, and crop/border tools.
That said, the iPhone 4G camera should have some obvious additions. I would like to see a quicker controllable shutter, 5 megapixels would be nice, ISO control, and if possible a larger sensor (yeah right). There are other more gimmicky things I don't really care for. Likely additions are a flash (a sensor that small will always be useless in low-light), auto-focus tracking, or even a front facing camera for video chat, digital zoom (a one way ticket to horrible photos). Who knows? I am looking forward to see what Apple comes up with.
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Just a quick triptych from this weekend's French Quarter Fest. Live music, food, and great weather make for a perfect beginning to 2010 festival season in New Orleans.
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Photo Shoot: Skip 'n Whistle
Skip 'n Whistle is a local T-Shirt company in New Orleans, LA. We did a series of the models wearing printed tees and blank tees. Check out my favorites from the shoot here.
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On 25 May, the world celebrates Africa Day. In Cape Town, the day sees a new wave of citizen activism taking hold in the Mother City, with civil society reclaiming the right to cultural production, to public spaces and the right to express themselves and their creativity.Read more
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I bought a set of SKS 35mm commuter fenders from Nashbar
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Adult Basic Education program stresses literacy development from beginning reading to pre-GED study. Conventional basic literacy instruction emphasizes a general competency in basic word identification, reading comprehension, and vocabulary skills and basic knowledge in the social studies and science area. Functional literacy, math and English skills are also developed. Instructional methods and materials appropriate for adults are used to help promote more meaningful learning experiences. Pre-GED instruction provides further study in the math, English, social studies, science and general-reading areas. The program provides the student with a basic foundation to enter high school equivalency classes or to take the General Education Development (GED) examination.
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I frequently get e-mails or phone calls asking questions about the number of parks in the area. Another question has to do with places to exercise or swim.
The Triangle area prides itself in a large number of both small and large parks. Some are owned by the counties making up the Triangle while many are also city managed. Every park has it's own unique features whether it be lake access, ball fields, soccer fields, walking paths and several even have aquatic centers for family swimming. One unique feature is the Capital Area Greenway System which will eventually connect many of these parks and is part of a system designed to eventually run from Maine to Florida. There is currently over 100 miles of finished trails that are perfect for running, walking and riding bikes. I personally live right on a section of the greenway which runs along the Neuse River. Below is a picture of my daughter, Courtney, running on a trail bridge cossing the river with one of our 'foster' dogs, Simon.
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The YMCA of the Triangle also brags as one of the largest YMCA systems in the country, all with pools (some multiple) and affordable rates so the entire family can enjoy the amenities. Competitive swimming/diving is a major activity in the state and especially the Triangle. North Carolina boasted one of the largest contingincies of swimmers/divers to qualify for the Olympic trials and eight from our state made the trip to London. My daughter swam competively from a young age and while in high school was a member of a swim team that were state champs all four years she was there.


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It is itself a cliché to state that all clichés contain a kernel of truth. That said, James Gardiner's Who's a Pretty Boy Then? (Serpent's Tail, $25.99) amply proves two of the oldest clichés in the book to be absolutely true--one picture is worth 1,000 words, and every picture does tell a story. Subtitled "150 Years of Gay Life in Pictures," Gardiner's book is not intended to be a comprehensive history of English gay life. Based on his own and others' collections of photographs and supplemented by a wide range of archival material, Gardiner has amassed what he calls "my own personal and idiosyncratic view of what it has felt like to be a gay man in England." Gardiner wisely lets his pictures do the talking and they provide a fascinating glimpse into many aspects of gay life and culture. From Edwardian fops (think Merchant-Ivory) to Tom of Finland, from Greco-Roman statuary to the physique magazines of the 1950s, these photographs trace the evolution of gay ideas of male beauty over the past century and a half. The photographic history of cross-dressing runs from the transvestite aristocrats of the 1890s, to the "Soldiers in Skirts" revues popular during both World Wars, to contemporary London drag queens. Gardiner rounds up the usual suspects--Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward--but what gives this book its depth is his inclusion of such figures as Alan Turing, the brilliant Cambridge mathematician who cracked the Nazi's Enigma Code and who committed suicide in 1954 rather than risk exposure as a homosexual. While Who's a Pretty Boy Then? focuses mainly on England, Gardiner shows how British queer culture has been influenced from outside by including scenes of '20s Paris, '30s Berlin, '50s Amsterdam, and the pervasive "Castro Street clone" style of '70s San Francisco. With over 600 photographs, Who's a Pretty Boy Then? is a rich visual documentary, one that proves that, to quote one more cliché, We Are Everywhere.
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HOUSTON, Dec. 29, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Francesca's Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq:FRAN) today announced that it has signed a lease for a new headquarters and distribution facility.
The Company will relocate its headquarters and distribution facilities to an existing nearby building. The relocation and consolidation from the Company's current facilities should be completed no later than November 1st of 2012. Initially, the Company will occupy approximately 218,000 square feet, housing its headquarters staff, warehousing, distribution, ecommerce operations, and ecommerce fulfillment. The Company believes that the new facility will be sufficient to support the Company's growth plans for several years. The lease for the new facilities includes an option to add as much as an additional 122,000 square feet if necessary.
The Company will incur expenses of approximately $700,000 pretax, or approximately $0.01 per diluted share in costs for moving, duplicate rent and write-offs of existing leasehold improvements at the existing facilities. The primary lease term of the new facility expires on April 30, 2020; however, the Company has options to renew the lease for an additional period of up to ten years. Annual rent expense for the new facility will average approximately $575,000 per year over the primary term of the lease. The capital expenditures for the new facility are estimated to be approximately $3.6 million including building interior construction, distribution equipment, relocation and improvement of the corporate data center and other related costs.
John De Meritt, President and CEO stated: "I'm pleased to announce that we are leasing a new home office and distribution center that will enable us to consolidate all our operations back under one roof. This will provide additional distribution and office space to support our growth objectives for the next several years. The new location is within six miles of our existing facilities, which is convenient for our current work force and will reduce the risk of disrupting our operations. We expect to move to our new building in late summer or early fall of next year."
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Francesca's Collections is a growing specialty retailer with retail locations designed and merchandised to feel like independently owned, upscale boutiques providing customers a fun and differentiated shopping experience. The merchandise assortment is a diverse and uniquely balanced mix of high-quality, trend-right apparel, jewelry, accessories and gifts at attractive prices. Francesca's Collections appeals to the 18-35 year-old, fashion conscious, female customer, although the Company finds that women of all ages are attracted to the eclectic and sophisticated merchandise selection and boutique setting. Francesca's Collections' boutiques carry a broad selection but limited quantities of individual styles and new merchandise is introduced five days a week.
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These days, for many, a coupon is something that comes to their email inbox and is specific to goods and services in the region where they live.
Restaurants, spas and other businesses in the Frederick area have used modern coupon or "deal" distributors, sites such as LivingSocial.com and Groupon.com, to bring customers through their doors.
Some say it's a great way to create or build a business fan base.
At least one local restaurant owner has had a less-than-successful experience.
No matter what business owners and marketing professionals believe, both sites are growing. And their customers are generally happy, according to the Better Business Bureau of the United States and Canada.
As of Dec. 31, Groupon's worldwide active customer base was more than 33 million people, according to the 3-year-old company's website. According to the BBB, Groupon Inc. has an A rating (the highest possible is an A+). One factor in the rating system is complaint volume compared with the size of the business. Within the last year, 144 complaints against Groupon have been closed.
According to LivingSocial's website, it has more than 60 million members worldwide. The company started offering daily deals in 2009. It also has an A rating with the BBB and 209 complaints have been closed in the past year.
The Mount Airy Inn started working with LivingSocial in September.
"The goal was to bring in new guests that had never been to our restaurants or to bring people back," said Karin Muise, a spokeswoman for the Main Street inn.
Through the site, the inn offered a $10 voucher that would buy customers $25 worth of food, as long as the bill came to at least $35, Muise said.
The business did well with the promotion, she said.
The Frederick Keys also had a good experience when they used Groupon last summer, according to assistant general manager Adam Pohl.
"We were really trying to reach fans outside of Frederick and have them come to a ball game," he said of their buy one, get one free ticket deal.
Nearly 1,000 tickets to "non-prime" games were sold through the promotion that went out to the Baltimore and Montgomery County regions, Pohl said. The Keys plan to offer another deal this summer.
"It's all about having that consumer fall in love with your product," he said.
He hopes customers who come to a game through the promotion will come back even when a deal is not offered. "You're going to leave thinking, 'We gotta do this more often.'"
When the coupon fails to fit
While Groupon brought spectators to Frederick Keys games, Pohl said he was skeptical a similar deal would work for businesses with a local, rather than regional, draw.
"If I were running the marketing efforts for many businesses here in Frederick I don't think it would be a great fit," he said.
Terri Reiter, owner of Terri's Cafe & Bakery in Mount Airy, agreed.
Reiter said her restaurant opened in June and Groupon "was another network in which to advertise."
During a three-day offer on the site, approximately 454 coupons were bought for a half-off meal. According to Reiter, her independent eatery was overwhelmed by customers, and she only made one-fourth of what each coupon-carrier spent on the deal. She and Groupon split the profits.
"I totally accept responsibility of what I did," she said. "I should have involved someone more knowledgeable to advise me."
The deal was offered to customers from as far as Baltimore, Gaithersburg, Hagerstown and Rockville. Reiter doesn't expect many of them to become repeat customers.
"The customers that came in here were people who wanted a meal for half off," she said. "They were not looking for new places to dine [regularly]."
Reiter did get some locals in the door as a result of the deal, "but those customers would have come in here anyway," she said.
The misstep caused her to lose momentum in regards to growing her business, but she expects she'll be able to recover eventually. And while she believes the coupon sites work well for other businesses, she does not believe she will ever consider using Groupon again.
Groupon's press office did not respond to messages for this story, but a spokeswoman for LivingSocial, Jody Gavin, said the company tries its hardest to make deals a success for businesses and buyers.
"In every market, our dedicated on-the-ground experts work directly with each local merchant designing a tailored experience to help drive that businesses forward," she wrote in an email.
"During our face-to-face meetings with a merchant, we'll–ask questions about their business and work to identify factors that will make their promotion successful.–With a restaurant merchant, for example, we'll want to understand how many tables–they typically turn in a night, their busiest times of the day, and any seasonality factors we should keep in mind."
"Daily deal" websites might be a gamble for some, but Lucia Simmons of Linganore Winecellars in Mount Airy said it was one worth taking for her employer.
"We have gotten a lot of new clientele," the marketing director said of the multiple Groupon deals the winery has offered.
When it comes to growing a business, she said, "you can't play in the sandbox that you've always played in."
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Hi, I'm Max. During office hours I'm a boring copy-writer, but in my spare time I plot to either write novels or make games. I end up doing both! My aim is to introduce real story telling into computer games instead of another iteration of clichéd plots that get watered down by pragmatism. I joined the community because I like what I've seen so far, and hopefully I can participate and maybe offer something back from my point of view.
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I was born in London, England in 1982, and I suppose I've always had a passion for music. I enjoyed playing traditional instruments at school, but my interest in music composition really got started when I found out about computer music sequencing, and when I got access to a suitable machine back in the mid-1990s.The technology has changed almost beyond recognition over the years, but my love of music has remained constant.To understand music theory, and to learn more about the technical and professional aspects of music production, I attended University in Ealing, home of the famous Ealing Film Studios, and got a graduate qualification in Music TechnologyI've been lucky enough to compose music for movies, and video games since then. I like to work in a variety of styles. With each new piece, I try to remain stylistically and culturally authentic to the genre, but I always try to add whatever the secret formula of musical herbs and spices is that makes up the trademark Charlie Armour sound.I love to make music with other people, using the global reach of the internet to maintain collaborative relationships and friendships with independent music and video artists from all corners of the globe. I have been credited as producer and composer on a number of projects, and gained priceless opportunities to expand my own artistic horizons in doing so.This year I received some international recognition in the form of 3 awards with help from a great composer Ian Henderson for our composing and my production work, as voted for by the global internet community. (Which was nice.)I suppose the fact that I have made it so far is something of a miracle, given my battle with Leukodystrophy, a neurological disorder which (in my case) affects the use of my legs and hands - not an ideal situation for a musician, but I don't get distracted by little things like that. I believe that persistence is the main component of success, both in music, and in life - and I hope that my example will encourage other people to ignore their own distractions, and remain persistent in their own attempts to achieve their goals.
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Hey everyone! Names Marcus, a 18 year old guy from Sweden. I play Amnesia and have played alot of custom stories and decided to start making my own one day, so I downloaded level tools and got started. I created my first story, but decided to not realse it becasue it wasn't good enough. I am working on my second story right now (Alma) and will, if everything turns out alright, realse it. (I have an unrealsed version of it here at the site). What it will be about is something you can check out at the map describtion (pretty obivous).
I have also played alot of left 4 dead 2 maps and have alot of reviews at l4dmaps.com, but is currently taking a break from l4d2 playing due to trolls and becasue I didn't have enough space to install other games. I also have a few reviews at this site. Sad enough, some people dont put any effort in their maps at all... like they want to upload something and rush to finish it. I'm still new, so my scripting and story in overall might not be "spectatular", but at least I take the time to think of something I want people to test. A story behind it and enviroments that actully makes some sense. But there are alot of awesome maps here as well. Maps I will never have a chance to beat (mapping wize)
So, with that said, nice to meet you all!
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Hi I'm TenaciousXL and I really loves games.
I have a little freeware site for listing great freeware games:
And a page for listing game development tools and stuff, which I hope to add new stuff as time goes on:
BTW great website INDIEDB ROCKS!!!
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|Oct 15 2012 Anchor
Errrr. I don't know how to start things here so..
|Oct 18 2012 Anchor
Hi! I'm hypermike, an artist for spotcat studio
I joined this forum to get some networks and to meet fellow indie devs. I'ld like to post some games we are producing too.
|Oct 18 2012 Anchor
Hey I'm Metal been following indie DB for some time but made an account recently. I been a gamer my whole life and love seeing innovation and new game concepts and just dig the indie community. I decided to join because i'm interested in learning more about game development and hopefully learn a thing er three. I have minor programming knowledge but would to enjoy to do 3D modeling and spriting. My main strength is music and writing (despite my bad grammer).
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Haha good call wasn't even intentional
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|Oct 18 2012 Anchor
Hi all!
Anyway, I'm a writer mainly, though I do various other art-forms ranging
Quite a while back I had an idea for a game, but lacked the skills to
|Oct 19 2012 Anchor
I'm Stephen, and I've known about Desura for awhile but was happy hanging out on Gog instead. Found out recently that not only do you guys have Linux, but stand-alone downloads as well, so between that and no DRM, here I am.
Other than that I'm a 28 year old software developer, martial artist (Wing Chun), married, and a contributor to the corsix-th open source engine for Theme Hospital.
|Oct 19 2012 Anchor
Hey, I'm Ari.
Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm an indie dev from Miami, FL.
|Oct 20 2012 Anchor
Hey, I'm Michael Roe, a young indie developer
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Heyo! I'm Andrew, running Ubuntu Linux 64-bit. This is an awesome service so far. I have purchased Postal 2 on here over GOG because it's cross platform. I hope to make even more purchases here in the future, as well as getting to know the community.
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Hey, everyone. Nice to meet ya. I'm your new neighbour here so please guide me here as well.
A long-time gamer like others but the experiences I kept is my only advantage in game writing/programming. I have a little or some logic & creativity skills in drawing & literature (although my grammar is pretty bad) which motivate me to do my best in any works. Moreover, I have many idea in writing a storyline for game. But I am not good like everyone else . For now, I'm looking forward to be acquainted with other community members.
grouchbag I art grouchier than thou.
|Oct 21 2012 Anchor
HI! I'm fairly new,but just call me grouchbag.
"sweet" little old lady
|Oct 21 2012 Anchor
i serching team which wont create cool RPG game like WOW. I working in this artstyle,and full of ideas how to make rerfect RPG.
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|Oct 27 2012 Anchor
Hello, I am TheAspired. I am a 15 year old aspiring writer and creative designer. I do not have much experience working on a team, this is really the reason I joined. I do however, like some people, have a bit of experience using the Hammer and Unreal editors. My main goal on this site is to attempt to bring ideas I have to life! I figure that there are countless people here more talented and experienced than I, and I could really use some advice on how to get started. I am glad to have joined this site, and hope now to contribute to games by not just playing them, but by making them!
Thank you!
|Oct 29 2012 Anchor
FullMetalFox (you win FullyMetals approval) ^^
|Nov 8 2012 Anchor
Hello everyone !
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|Nov 11 2012 Anchor
Hey everyone,
my name is Jan and I've been around quite some time in the modding/mapping game, having done lots maps & mods only for my friends and me besides loads of unpublished/unfinished projects (see my blog here for more information). But now, with the announcement of the Witcher 2 REDkit, I believe time has come for me to start working on a serious RPG project. So expect to hear from me in the not to distant future.
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.


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Every once in a while I'll get this insane pain on the lower left side of my belly, just about at the base of where my round belly comes out, and I'd say it's centered directly over my thigh (hard to describe). I typically get them at night, and as you know it's already difficult to move in bed. It starts out with a light pain, and in a matter of 15 seconds escalates to one of the most painful experiences of my life... it's so bad I can't talk. I try to breathe through it but if I don't move around I end up in worse pain and screaming. A nurse from my doctor's office told me not to worry about them, and said it's probably just my muscles stretching. I've learned that the best way to immediately alleviate the pain is to jump up out of bed and stand upright, which is a feat in itself. I've gotten better at controlling them when I first feel it coming on, but last night I was awake 3 times because of these pains and they were uncontrollable. I just want to know if there is anyone else experiencing this... I've remained fairly calm and unworried throughout my pregnancy, but this is getting me nervous.
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Sounds like ligament pain. I get it on both sides occasionally and it hurts like hell. I seem to get it most when I am laying down and turn from one side to the other. It's normal, but very, very unpleasant.
sounds like round ligament pain. ive had them too, off and on, usually correlating with belly growth spurts, and often in the last few weeks of pregnancy. sitting, rather than laying or standing works well for me. Unless youre getting tightening or hardening of your belly with them , i would assume thats all it is. but call your OB if you cant handle the pain. they may have more advice. =)
Ashley (30), Roger (DH30), Isaac (DS 9), Haley (DD 7), Preston (DS 5), Zoe (DD3), Baby Girl (Due 6/16/13)
I have been having a sharp pain on the lower left side of my belly the past week. It isn't as severe as you are describing, but sometimes when I stand up it takes my breath away for a minute. I have found that wearing a maternity support belt helps a lot. Do you have one?
:( hopefully its just a growth spurt and next week they will dissipate. I have been having really bad pains too, but in other places. The muscle pains in my calves and feet freak my husband out when i wake up yelling about how much pain i'm in lol i have been eating bananas everyday and other things with lots of potassium and drinking tons of extra water and it has helped a bit.
I've gotten them recently, too. It first happened when I was driving, but ever since then, it has happened when I lie down in bed (as you described). I have no idea what causes it, but I assumed it had something to do with the baby being much lower in my pelvis now... lots of fun new sensations have started since he dropped lol.
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A Bronx-based coalition is successfully leading the fight to transform the Sheridan Expressway and to create affordable housing and green open space where it used to be
For decades, the Sheridan Expressway – a 1.25 mile remnant of the Robert Moses era – has severely impeded the quality of life in Hunts Point and the surrounding communities in the South Bronx.
The Expressway restricts access to the revitalized Bronx River, new parks such as Concrete Plant Park and Starlight Park, and the South Bronx Greenway. It forces trucks to drive through neighborhood streets and cars to idle in traffic, harming pedestrians and restricting safe biking. Local asthma rates are among the highest in the nation and are exacerbated by poorly configured roadways in the area. Development around the Expressway is hampered by poor pedestrian and traffic connections, which limit the prospects for new affordable housing, small businesses, and jobs.
In 1999, the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance (SBRWA) was formed to work for the removal of the Sheridan Expressway and the transformation of the South Bronx into a model of sustainable land use, environmental progress, and economic viability., In addition to Pratt Center, SBRWA includes Mothers on the Move, The Point CDC, Sustainable South Bronx, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, We Stay/Nos Quedamos, and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice. We believe the transformation of land use around the existing Expressway provides the greatest potential to save lives, improve environmental health, encourage climate resiliency, and support jobs and affordable housing in this distressed community.
In 2006, SBRWA initiated a visioning process that resulted in a community plan to transform the neighborhoods surrounding the Sheridan Expressway. This plan laid the foundation for New York City's receipt of a $1.5 million competitive Federal grant in 2010 to study potential land use changes to the Sheridan Expressway corridor and Hunts Point area.
In June 2013, heavily influenced by SBRWA's work, the City unveiled a series of land use recommendations that will begin a transformation of the Sheridan Expressway Corridor and surrounding neighborhoods— if City and State agencies advance the recommendations. After 14 years of advocacy, we have a unique opportunity to work with City and State officials to implement a land use plan with shared consensus and address decades of neglect. SBRWA is continuing to advocate for an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for the City's highway and land use recommendations, build a broad base of political support for decommissioning the Expressway, push for local legislation in support of decommissioning, and continue to educate and mobilize community members around this crucial issue.


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Traylor Champion, vice president of environmental affairs, Georgia-Pacific
A key component for achieving our vision for environmental excellence is having a culture that champions innovation.
Georgia-Pacific relies on wood and wood fiber to make the paper and building products that people want and need. We are committed to helping maintain healthy forests now and into the future.
Environmental protection is a key component of Georgia-Pacific's overall approach to sustainability. We believe creating real value for our customers, consumers and society makes us sustainable.
Georgia-Pacific defines sustainability as "meeting the needs of society today without jeopardizing
our ability to do so in the future."
Georgia-Pacific believes sustainability has three dimensions – social, environmental and economic. In making business decisions, we try to find the right balance among these dimensions.
To respond to growing market demand for supply chain verification, Georgia-Pacific has chain of custody programs in place at many of our locations to track our wood fiber. These programs are certified by SFI, Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC) and Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFCTM).


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A common mistake I see beginning students make is to try and start a new exercise regimen and a diet at the same time. Most of the time, depending on the approach, they experience low energy, cravings and ultimately a crash. They fall off the diet for a few days or weeks, begin to feel better and then step on the scale in a couple of months only to find they gained weight. The cycle continues into obesity.
Eating is a reflection of your inner and outer life. It determines the type of athlete you are now and will determine much of your future improvements. Often eating is wrapped around family rituals and long ingrained habits.
You already know how to lose weight, but being aware is different from knowing and much easier than understanding.
"to know, but not to do is not to know at all."
Incremental change is key to long-term success. You don't become a member of the Lardassian Nation over night and not without great effort. There is no magic or science that will make you get fit without some real effort. At some point you have to take action and get moving.
The basic formula is {calories taken in}-{{calories burned}-{calories required}=a positive or negative number which reflects weight loss or gain.
The type of calorie consumed makes a big difference in how it is burned. Why are you fat? You eat too much for your current body weight and metabolism. You eat the wrong foods—your exercise program if you have one at all is ineffective.
Where to start?
- start with strength training. Adding muscle will help you in many areas of your life, and it will in the long run help you stay trim. The rate at which you burn calories just staying alive (metabolic rate) is largely determined by your total amount of muscle mass. If you have more muscle you will burn more calories just sitting on the coach.
- Avoid excessive cardio. Cardio alone as a long term weight loss strategy is a mistake. It does burn calories quickly, but it comes with many drawbacks. The main drawback is that it does not build muscle and in many cases it burns muscle. While maintaining a good cardio routine will help you lose weight and then maintain weight, during periods when cardio activities are limited unless you decrease your eating you will begin to gain weight almost immediately. For most people changing their eating habits quickly enough during an injury time is very difficult. For most people, especially runners they will get an injury and put on 10 or more pounds in just a couple of months because their burn rate was dependent on the activity and not their resting metabolic rate.
- Make small incremental changes to your diet every 2 weeks. Over the long term, DIEting will hurt your metabolism and make you fatter. The #1 issue with dieting is that it is not sustainable and eventually you will go back to the habits that made you happy. Caloric restriction sends a signal to your body that it should store fat. If you want to lose weight start eating 4 meals a day and keep your calories very steady. If you diet hard your metabolism will slow down and as your old eating habits increases your calorie intact back to pre-diet levels you will begin to gain weight. Your old calorie intake combined with a slower metabolism = weight gain.
- Limit your weight loss to 3-4 pounds a week. You see some of the contestants on the biggest loser make dramatic weight losses. Sometimes as high as 10 or more pounds. They are extreme cases. If you weigh 400+ pounds losing 8-10 pounds is not the same as someone who weighs 200 pounds losing 6-8 pounds. In general 3-4 pounds is very sustainable and your body can adjust to it easily without being thrown into starvation mode.
So, get moving on some strength training today!
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Brooklyn based singer/songwriter Ian Isiah's debut video was just banned from YouTube, another reminder of how thankful we should be that Vimeo is out there. The hyper-sexual clip features boychild and is an impressive first glimpse of what we are to expect from the next-level-R&B artist, who used to sing gospel back in his hometown Baltimore and now after modelling, dancing for Le1f and performing at the Opening Ceremony 10th Anniversary party is about to release his debut LP on the emerging New York based label UNO. For more information more about Isiah, who is also closely affiliated to Hood By Air and the GHE20G0THIK crowd, please check out the interview with him in the current issue of BAD GRAMMAR magazine or stream this episode of the Universopolis show on East Village Radio, in which he talks about his background has an artist and plays more of his songs and some of the music influencing him. The video "M1NDFVCK" was directed by Mitch Moore.
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Article Date: 8/1/2003
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Reducing Trauma from
Penetrating Keratoplasty
Surgery is trauma to both the body and the psyche. Ocular surgery is even more so. This is not so difficult to understand when you consider that a large part of our lives centers around and
depends upon our eyes and visual sensory input.
Corneal transplant surgery (or penetrating keratoplasty
[PK]) is one of the most traumatic ocular surgeries. While the procedure itself is over in a few hours, the recuperation and healing process can take years. Not to mention that essentially the graft-host boundary can never be as strong as a cornea that has not been cut.
You can ease your patients' PK surgical trauma through several stages of information gathering. Advise your patients to:
1. Acquire full and complete information about the procedure before surgery
2. Develop a good relationship with the surgeon and his staff
3. Know whom to turn to when they require more information
4. Understand how to help themselves recover from the trauma of surgery most comfortably and safely (for the graft)
What Patients Need to Know
To help PK patients gather the information they need, I have compiled a list of questions to serve as guide. These questions are designed to encourage surgeons and other hospital staff to work constructively with their patients rather than to "lose them between the benches," which is what often happens.
I have provided no answers to these questions. Many of the answers will most likely differ among institutions and even from case to case. It is the surgical candidate's responsibility to ask and investigate so he can reach a composed state of mind before entering the operating room.
The suggested questions are:
Advice for Post-graft Care
I have also collected some pearls of advice for the care and well being of the grafted cornea:
The National Keratoconus Foundation (NKCF) addresses many of these issues in its Corneal Transplant Surgery: A Reference Guide for Patients and their Families, which published in 2002. I recommend that practitioners distribute this guide to their
pre-PK patients.
The author wishes to acknowledge members of KC-Link, which is a part of
NKCF, and firstname.lastname@example.com. These currently active Internet support groups suggested many of the questions and points in this article.
Many patients have serious concerns about the severity of their
keratoconus. I propose the following scaling grades to help you classify keratoconus patients. I have found that in most cases this grading scale can relieve some of the psychological trauma that patients experience when they suddenly learn that their eyes are diseased.
Nearly every keratoconic patient will receive a grade of two or three out of five according to this system:
Spectacle correction continues to provide sufficient visual
Eyeglasses and/or contact lenses provide adequate eyesight
Only contact lenses can compensate for reduced vision
Pre-surgical with reduced quality of life, reduced length of
continuous lens wear and significant corneal scarring.
Dr. Schendowich is a preceptor in the Optometry Clinic at the Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, Israel and adjunct assistant clinical professor of Optometry of SUNY Optometry based in the Optometry Clinic at the Sha'are Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem,
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February 1, 2008
Ron Bailey
February 2, 2007 - Pirates throughout antiquity have always used speed to overcome larger maritime foes; the adage 'speed kills' certainly applies, as one web resource notes many buccaneers, particularly in the Caribbean, "preferred small, fast vessels such as sloops, brigantines and schooners", all known for speed and maneuverability. Seton Hall University's men's hoops team can be considered akin to those marauders of old, as the squad, coached by Bobby Gonzalez is chock full of fast ball players capable of driving to the cup or shooting long distance shots. For a case study in how this game, gutsy group of Pirates have run off five straight victories, see their recent 84-71 overtime victory at Rutgers. To a man, Georgetown, itself pasting St. Johns 74-42 in New York Wednesday, is quite aware of what challenges Seton Hall presents today at noon, inside D.C.'s Verizon Center. (For exclusive audio regarding the Johnnie win, see HoyaReport.com's message board community, Premium Court. Audio regarding the Pirate game can be accessed by clicking the links below). ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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