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Zoo Green Class: Rewards of Recycling!
Join us for one more free green class this month, this time on the rewards of recycling! Learn exactly what you can and can't recycle in your curbside bin. Also find out how you can get great benefits from recycling such as gift cards to your favorite restaurants, stores and attractions. Get an update about the City of Cincinnati's enhanced recycling program. In the past year, the city switched from 18 gallon bins to larger 63 and 96 gallon rolling carts. As of December 2010, with just 50% of the city having received the new carts, the monthly tonnage record was exceeded, in the 21 year history of the program. Over 1500 tons was recycled, 300 tons higher than any month in history. Now, 8 months later, find out how much more has been recycled. RecycleBank will also be here to show how it pays to recycle.
Recycling rates have increased from 40% to 75% in the past year, and have saved the city over $900,000 while creating jobs and diverting so much waste from entering the landfill.
Join us in Frisch's Theater on Monday, August 29th from Noon to 1pm for this informative class! Class is free for guests with a zoo membership or paid admission, but space is limited. Please RSVP to Fia at (513) 487-3355 by Sunday, August 28th.
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- 1 Rebecca R { 08.24.11 at 5:08 pm }
I really wish that this was on a weekend or in the evening. I have a teen who is VERY interested in making a difference and would LOVE to experience this, but has school. Please try to make some of the classes like this in the evening so that people who work and interested teens can also attend.
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Twice daily toothbrushing with fluoride toothpaste helps protect against cavities.
Marker-shaped handle and battery-powered oscillating head makes brushing fun, entertaining, and motivating. Available in four Crayola™ colors, and can be personalized with any of the 75 stickers included.
Gentle to the child's developing teeth and gums.
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GUM® Crayola™ Power Toothbrush is rated out of 5 by 22.
Rated 5 out of 5 by AT 7895 from Discontinued Error I do not understand why the only child's toothbrush with refillable heads would get changed to no refillable head option. This was by far the worst move- adults have them. With children's well being in mind, to have a power toothbrush creates healthier teeth and gum results. Parents are not interested in buying a $6 toothbrush every 2-3 months times as many children they have. This is a total waste once again of a perfectly fine and functioning product going in the trash just because the bristles need replacing and sanitary reasons.
Date published: 2013-06-25
Rated 4 out of 5 by MissB 7951 from Lasted only 2 weeks We have used the older versions of these Crayola toothbrushes and they have been great for our kids because of the small size brush head compared to others on the market, but this redesign is awful. After two weeks my son's new toothbrush stopped working normally, and when I went to change the batteries water spilled out of the battery holder. I let it dry and put new batteries in and now it doesn't work at all. It seems they have to work on making the case a bit more watertight. Under the same usage conditions we are still using an older version of the Crayola toothbrush so it's not anything wrong we've done
Date published: 2013-06-25
Rated 3 out of 5 by Big Daddy 7869 from Good but not enviromentally freindly My son LOVES the toothbrush, and I'm absolutely certain he's spending longer, and being more thorough brushing than he did with the manual brush. HOWEVER, the fact that this large unit is "disposable" (with no indication of the type or hazards of the battery) isn't in keeping with the values I'd like to teach him.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by Janet 7965 from Janet we've now had both kinds of kids power brushes. The new one is only good because it comes with a travel cap and you don't have a suction cup holder that will get all moldy like the old models do. however, I dislike the fact that the heads are not replaceable, which is why I had bought the older model. Otherwise, it's good, but wasteful.
Date published: 2013-06-25
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sheila 7921 from Needs the design to be revamped he toothbrush works well, but the little cup doesn't really hold it, it keeps falling over AND it doesn't lay flat on the counter for adding toothpaste. I line up 4 toothbrushes on the counter to add toothpaste, these won't stay put. They roll off the counter. If I set them on their end, the toothpaste drips off. Bad design on a decent product.
Date published: 2013-06-25
Rated 5 out of 5 by B 7934 from Great packaging! This is a wonderful toothbrush for my kids. They loved the idea of decorating their toothbrush and immediately wanted to use it. Better yet, I didn't have to complete a mission impossible to take it out of its package. Thank you for making that part easy! Also, the suction cup on the bottom of the toothbrush is perfect to prevent it from rolling off the bathroom counter but yet keeping it close to the edge for the kids to reach.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by lulimamma 8003 from no-power toothbrush Really disappointing performance. Two stopped operating just a few weeks after purchase. Not battery issues. Replacement one I bought didn't have a suction cup that worked. Only powerbrush that I've found with a small round head - but not wasting any more money, or throwing out plastic for nothing.
Date published: 2013-06-25
Rated 2 out of 5 by Disappointed 7846 from Bummed The BEST size battery-operated toothbrush for little mouths, but incredibly wasteful unit. 3 out of 4 toothbrushes stopped working within 7 weeks and new batteries did not solve the problem. I'm bummed -- the kids love them because they are comfortable -- but won't be buying any more...
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Participating in your stimulating corporate governance roundtable recently and reading Chief Executive's article, "America's Best And Worst Boards" (CE: April 1994) provided some food for thought on this controversial topic. The discussion and article brought to mind a letter I wrote to the Harvard Business Review a few years ago, describing how a board of directors works.
At that time, corporate governance had just emerged as a new and important issue. My letter was written to counter the danger of overreaction prevalent a decade ago, but many of the points I made still hold true today. Two in particular I think were not expressed clearly at the roundtable. First, a hyperactive decision-making board can be just as bad as a passive, rubber-stamping board. At Sealed Air Corp., we believe the board's function is to shape major corporate decisions. Such decisions include those involving significant changes in the organization's strategy, resource allocation, risk levels, culture, and value system. The board's firsthand knowledge of the information on which to base decisions is necessarily limited. Therefore, except in the case of rare dramatic decisions-such as replacing the CEO or selling the company-a good director remains sensitive to his or her limitations of time and specific company/industry knowledge and also realizes the importance of board/management harmony.
The shaping process at Sealed Air works as follows: A chief executive who is sensitive to the thinking of his or her board knows intuitively what courses of action would be unsatisfactory to the hoard and typically cuts off such proposals at an early stage. If the CEO is unsure of the board's reaction-or even if he or she is sure but wants to garner maximum support-he or she can discuss proposals with individual directors and modify them accordingly. Generally, this concludes the shaping process, but sometimes an additional step takes place at the board meeting. The CEO may try to incorporate new views and opinions into the proposal. If the new views are inconsistent with it, he or she withdraws the proposal. At this point, the executive must decide whether to change the proposal and repeat the process of checking it out informally or drop the proposal completely.
Besides adhering to the belief that a board must shape corporate decisions, I also advocate that all decisions must be unanimous. We believe an intelligent director has something to contribute to every important decision. If even one director is unwilling to vote in favor of an action, we know something is wrong with it.
Having served on the boards of Sealed Air Corp., Public Service Enterprise Group, UJB Financial Corp., Formica Corp., Rockaway Corp., Loctite Corp., and several private companies, I agree with the conclusions of "America's Best And Worst Boards" regarding board structure and procedures. As authors Bob Lear and Boris Yavitz note, keeping board size relatively small with a low outsider/insider ratio and a demographic balance of independent directors will go a long way toward maintaining an effective and successful board.
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A 23-year-old massage therapist facing more than two dozen sex abuse charges stemming from allegations he inappropriately touched customers surrendered his state license last week.
The number of customers alleging they were touched inappropriately by Bryce Cioffi has grown to at least six since the first allegation came to light in early February. And while such a large number of accusers may be uncommon, such allegations about inappropriate touching aren't exactly rare.
The Oregon Board of Massage Therapists, which licenses and oversees the profession, revoked the licenses of three male massage therapists over the past year following allegations of sexual touching – the majority of it unwanted. Another two massage therapists surrendered their licenses voluntarily over similar issues.
Here's the entire list of disciplinary actions the board took in 2013 against massage therapists who were at some point licensed in Oregon, or who were licensed at the time of a disciplinary action.
Anyone advertising or performing massages must be licensed in Oregon.
To check a massage therapist's license or background, visit the board's website or call (503) 365-8657.
The Oregonian's investigative team will regularly post recent disciplinary actions that state agencies take against licensed professionals. Please contact us if you have any additional information on these or other cases.
Lucan Cody Rainwater (Case 1392): In an order dated Sept. 5, the board revoked Rainwater's license after allegations he sexually abused a client during a massage. The Beaverton licensee also was assessed the cost of any disciplinary proceedings.
Ryan M. Haynes (Case 1485): In an order dated Aug. 26, the board revoked Haynes' license after allegations he sexually abused a client during a massage. The licensee of Springfield also was assessed the cost of any disciplinary proceedings.
Andreas M. Correa (Case 1575): In an order filed Nov. 4, the board revoked Correa's license after allegations he had sexual relations with at least five clients.
Voluntary surrender of license
James C. Escobar (Case 1495): The licensee voluntarily surrendered his license on April 22 facing pending allegations of misconduct.
Zachary A. Guinn (Case 1514): In an order filed July 5, the board reported it was investigating complaints that Guinn sexually abused a client; Guinn ultimately surrendered his license voluntarily.
Jonathan P. Cook (Case 1511): In an order filed Jan. 28, the licensee agreed he would no longer practice massage in the state. No information was available about Cook's case.
Civil Penalties
Lisa Harper (Case 1406): In an order filed July 1, the board assessed a $1,000 fine to Harper of Bend following allegations she engaged in "unprofessional and dishonorable conduct" pertaining to a former client with whom she had a romantic relationship.
Kari A. Perisho (Case 1475): In an order filed Nov. 12, the board received and investigated a complaint against Perisho of Oregon City alleging "unprofessional and dishonorable conduct," including running late to appointments and in one case, using disparaging comments about a client. She was assessed a $250 fine.
Lynn E. Barnes (Case 1476): In an order filed Feb. 7, Barnes of Portland was assessed a $500 fine for advertising and performing massage with a lapsed license.
Robert M. Purkiewicz (Case 1504): In an order filed Sept. 25, the board received and investigated a complaint against Purkiewicz of Portland alleging "unprofessional and dishonorable conduct," including inappropriate touching and conversation. The board assessed a $1,000 fine along with required peer supervision and training.Fang K. Chen (Case 1512): In an order filed Sept. 25, the board assessed a $2,000 fine along with required training following a complaint against Chen of Portland alleging he allowed an unlicensed massage therapist to practice at his place of business.
Terry M. Weyers (Case 1515): In an order filed Jan. 15, the board assessed a $2,500 fine after receiving and investigating information that Weyers of Shady Cove, Ore., was advertising and practicing with a lapsed license.
Isis K. Garcia-Lopez (Case 1540): In an order filed Aug. 5, the board assessed a fine of $500 after receiving and investigating a complaint against Garcia-Lopez of Roseburg alleging she'd allowed an unlicensed person to perform massages in her home.
Ronald Snyder (Case 1547): In an order filed Sept. 6, the board assessed a fine of $2,000 after receiving and investigating a complaint that Snyder of Eugene was practicing with an expired license.
Kristina L. Hansen (Case 1551): In an order filed Oct. 4, the board assessed a $1,500 fine against Hansen of Portland after receiving and investigating a complaint of "unprofessional and dishonorable conduct," including that she'd made inappropriate sexual comments to a client and left a blister on a client following a cupping technique that she had then popped with an acupuncture needle.
License suspension
Lynne R Marshall-Brook (Case 1413): In an order dated June 4, 2012, the board ruled it had grounds for disciplinary action for "licensee being habitually intemperate in the use of alcohol or addiction to habit forming drugs" in violation of state law. Marshall-Brook of Tualatin was suspended pending further action.
Brett J. Goetz (Case 1445): In an order dated June 18, 2013, the board noted multiple attempts to reach Goetz of Beaverton to request proof of required continued education. The board reported it made multiple attempts to reach Goetz but received no response and suspended his license and assessed a $500 fine.
By the numbers
Licensed massage therapists in Oregon (active and inactive)
Licensed massage therapists subject to discipline last year.
Number who faced disciplinary action last year who had never had a state license.
Sandra K. Fox (Case 1553): In an order dated Aug. 5, the board noted multiple attempts to reach Fox of Crooked River Ranch, Ore., to request proof of required continued education. The board reported it made multiple attempts to reach Fox but received no response and suspended her license and assessed a $500 fine.Reprimands
Sergei S. Kravchenko (Case 1370): The board received a complaint about this licensed massage therapist in March 2012. The board found Kravchenko of Tigard did not include his license number in his advertisements. He was reprimanded on Nov. 18, 2013.
Sarah B. Snyder Matchett (Case 1454): In an order filed June 10, the board received and investigated a complaint alleging "unprofessional or dishonorable conduct," including statements about getting "fake breasts" and informing a male client that she had nude photographs on the internet. The complaint also alleged she had attempted to sell a client membership to a multi-level marketing company. After an investigation, the board voted to suspend Matchett's license for two years, assess a $2,500 fine and require peer supervision, community service and additional training.
Peer supervision
Erik K. Schultz (Case 1488): In an order filed March 30, 2013, the board reported Schultz had applied for an application for practical examination in which he disclosed he'd been convicted of a charge of driving under the influence in 2000 and was convicted of three counts of disorderly conduct in 2012.
The board granted the application to Schultz of Portland on a probationary status through Sept. 30, 2014, with multiple stipulations including that he only work in group settings and refrain from providing services to minors, developmentally disabled persons, or other at-risk populations.-- Laura Gunderson


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WINDSOR In his latest book, "The Nature Principal" (2011), Richard Louv, also author of the very popular, "Last Child in the Woods" (2005), speaks of lost interactive experience with nature as a strain on mental health and happiness in many people. Demands of the digital-age lifestyle cause many people to be deprived of the natural world of forests and fields, lakes and oceans, backyards and gardens to the extent that many are suffering a kind of depression as a result of this disconnect.
He suggests that "a new nature movement" might go so far as to recommend doctors and counselors prescribe nature with naturalist interpreters who would become a new kind of therapist. More exposure to nature can help with depression and health problems, and in many cases, alleviate them.
This is not a new idea by any means, but it does have a more modern twist in an age of obsessive I-phone checking and video game addiction where many actually require deprogramming at special camps. Fresh air and the effort to walk a mile or two on a nature trail can do wonders to cure many ills and bring an undiscovered joy back into being.
I think some of the problem with getting outdoors for some is the hassle, roughness, and peril. I have written about ticks and extreme weather in this column, so I know it can be rough to get outdoors. But I have also discovered that roughing it can become half the fun.
Many people feel that any perception of hardship is to be avoided at all costs, especially when it comes to their children.
Anything outside the comfort zone of air conditioning, insect-free space, physical challenge, even spending time in fascinating ecosystems can be harsh and boring to many people, at first. I notice a lot more big-screen plasma TV's in people's homes. It's easy to get planted super-comfortably on a nice couch watching sports or a movie. Everyone deserves rest, elegance, and comfort.
Coming in from the campsite to have dinner out in Truro we saw a large-screen TV at the Black Fish restaurant bar that was so clear, digitalized, and real it seemed I was more at Fenway Park than the people in the park! I haven't owned a TV in 20 years so it was fantastic! I liked it very much and I also walked outside within 10 minutes because I needed to catch the high tide in my kayak and I missed the campsite and trails at Wellfleet bay.
We enjoy grilling fish at the campsite and setting an elegant table outside under the trees as much or more than sitting a restaurant. As I get older I value peace and quiet the more I can get it and practice it. Mark Twain wrote a great book entitled "Roughing It" when he was young and developing his style. His "rough-hewn humor" guides the reader through great adventures as the young Twain avoids cities for the excitement of the open plains and the rugged Wild West! Getting out there, even for a walk on a little country road, the trails of the Pittsfield State Forest, or around the monument on Mount Greylock will inspire, excite, and renew the spirit.
Of course, outdoor adventure should be matched with experience, ability, interest, and tolerance. As far as I am concerned, any distance on challenging or dangerous. The whole idea is to have fun. Half of the fun is learning gradually about the environment, technical skills, and being aware of limitations. There are many people to admire and emulate but it is prudent to be yourself and if walking for a half hour at Canoe Meadows on Holmes Road is your limit, it's a great thing. Bring binoculars for the birding.
My friend Norman Baker is an example of a very extreme adventurer, finding himself in the Arctic regions or the uncharted wilds of British Columbia. He loves it. He was navigator on Tor Heyerdahl's Ra Expedition a long time ago.
I love the idea but I very much enjoy a day's bike ride or an afternoon hike in a scenic spot where I know I will be comfortable, moderately challenged, and treated to a little more adventure.
Colin Harrington is an educator and writer and an occasional contributor to The Eagle.


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I rewrote my blog in Go
Streamlining from Django to Go -- here's what happened
Wow, this hit Hacker News front page! Thanks for all the encouraging feedback; I added some thoughts and clarifications to the bottom of the post for those who asked.
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The full story
As part of my recent interest in learning Golang, I decided it would be a good idea to rewrite the IronZebra blog that, funnily enough, was itself the result of my venture to get acquainted with Django three years ago. The Revel framework looked like a good fit for this, and I decided to give it a go.
Overall, the experience was great. I had become familiar with the basics of Go before through writing a bunch of solutions to Euler problems, and this provided a good enough knowledge baseline for building a site in Revel.
I skimmed through the Revel docs to see how things like URL-routing work, and decided to plug mgo into it as an interface to my Mongo database. mgo is an excellent driver for MongoDB, and working with it was a breeze except for one or two surprises where the syntax deviated from the normal MongoDB structure. For one, the
FindOne method was dropped for a chained combination of
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collection.Find(bson.M{"title": title}).One(&result)
Regarding Revel: Revel's code reload is nice, and I like the way it simplified URL routing by allowing you to edit a well-structured text file which then gets compiled into Go code before serving the site. It's a good solution to a problem that might have looked much more ugly had it been done only in Go. The one downside to Revel at the moment (although this is on the wishlist) is that it only ships with the default Go template language. Documentation on this isn't all that good, and I felt like it doesn't solve website templates nearly as well as Jinja2 or Django templates. The template inheritance, for example, seems clunky and I ended up with files containing only closing html tags – ugly. Maybe I should have read the documentation more closely, but I wanted to iterate fast and get things done. Plugging in your own template system is surely also possible, but for a first-time exploratory project this prospect seemed like a bit much.
I spent most of the time creating the admin functionality for editing and creating new posts. The admin section allows for markdown input (using blackfriday) and logging in with a bcrypt-encrypted password that gets stored in a user collection in Mongo. To give you an idea, here's what the admin editor looks like:
The results
The speed improvement was staggering.
As differences between the two versions go: Both for the old Django site and for this Revel-based Go site, I never did anything along the lines of caching - no static page generation, no memcache, no groupcache - you can call it laziness, but either way, it makes for a more fair comparison between the two now. Secondly, I am now loading less static assets. I removed the Disqus comments and the many many lines of CSS from the old site and replaced it with only a couple of lines of CSS alongside a CDN-hosted copy of Twitter Bootstrap. Finally, the Go site is deployed to a free instance of Heroku and the MongoDB hosted on a developer version of Mongolab, while the old Django site was hosted on a Webfaction shared server. All these things influence the validity of a direct speed comparison between the two versions, but the speed improvement is nevertheless too overwhelming to attribute only to these small changes. And in fact, many of these changes might even have negatively impacted the speed of the new version in exchange for saving on the monthly bills.
But the end result: pages that load up to a 100 times faster on average, according to Google's Webmaster Tools. Search traffic has also been steadily increasing this last month, possibly influenced by Google giving higher weight to sites that load really fast.
If you are interested in using this yourself or contributing, or even collaborating on making this into an open blog-engine written in Go - send me a ping on Github - this project is open-source and on there in its entirety. Enjoy!
Edit on 15 August 2013:
This hit Hacker News front page yesterday and it seems like this humble post started somewhat of a flame war in the comments section. I decided not to jump in, especially since I couldn't really provide experimental answers to their very valid questions while 500 visitors were hitting the site every minute. Regardless, I also received so much encouraging feedback, emails and tweets; thanks all!
I hope to offer some small clarifications:
A lot of folks on HN commented on the Disqus removal. I'm afraid the graph was only for the time Googlebot took on average to download the HTML. I mentioned the removal of Disqus in the post, but that wouldn't have a significant impact on this graph's page load time, as others also later pointed out in the comments.
Yes, the old site was incredibly slow. Anything would be better. That's part of the reason I rewrote it. I never spent any time making it efficient, which is why I didn't even have caching. It was also hosted on Webfaction, which is, in my eyes, the most likely source for the slowness. If your Webfaction app is not in memory right now, it seems to take an incredibly long time to load it back in. User Jgrubb also wisely pointed out how much of a difference switching servers can make. He's right, those graphs look mightily similar!
All this said, I think a lot of folks missed the point of this post, if there was any point at all :) I didn't mean to imply "Go, and nothing but Go, made my blog 100x faster". I meant to just say: "I rewrote this blog in Go, streamlined a bunch of other things, and now it's 100x faster, yeay." I realize that the graph was suggestive of the first one, my apologies for that.
There are good reasons for writing a blog from scratch and not using some existing solution for serving static files. One, learning. Two, fun. Three, a blog engine of this kind is like the "Hello World" of web applications. It covers a lot of the common things you'll normally need to do in a bigger, product-oriented web application. Basic GET and POST, user login and database connections. Proving that it's easy to write a CRUD blog like this is an early exploratory exercise in determining whether it would be easy to write larger-scale applications that scale.
And hey, after all is said and done, the Go-based IronZebra blog survived being posted on the front page of Hacker News on a free Heroku instance (pretty well at that, never even taking long to load), all without caching. If this were still Django, and still hosted on Webfaction, I don't believe it would have been the case. That's all I'm saying :)
I also added some more details in a presentation on slideshare - I'll be presenting this in Tokyo tomorrow, drop by if you can!


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Kahne moves up two in title race after No. 2 finish at Talladega
When the dust cleared after the green-white-checker overtime restart and a last-lap crash that consumed most of the field on the Talladega Superspeedway, Kasey Kahne was second.
"The team did a good job with our Budweiser Dodge," the Enumclaw NASCAR Sprint Cup driver said. "We had a good handling car, but lost the draft a couple of times. We needed to be in the middle of the draft. (Brian) Vickers was pushing me really hard there before the caution. I was just in the right place at the right time."
Prior to Sunday, Kahne's best finish at Talladega came in 2006 when he finished second.
"It unfolded well for us at the end. If we got back in the pack, we'd lose the draft. We needed to have cars around us and tried to keep cars behind us mainly. If we were able to do that, we could race pretty decent. The car handled good which I think everybody's car handled good here. We just kind of shot up through there, had great track position on that restart and ran second. It was good for our Budweiser team."
It was a day of ups and downs for Kahne, who started near the front of the pack after qualifying was rained out, and then later after a near crash found himself pulling up the rear. At one time, Kahne led a lap picking up five drivers' bonus points.
After a caution inside the final laps, NASCAR red-flagged the event, while they cut driver Ryan Newman, who was unharmed, from his car. After the two-lap restart, Kahne was sitting in second and getting ready to make a move on the top spot, when a chain-reaction pile up started behind him and the race ended.
Kahne was the top Chase finisher. He moves up to two spots to ninth in the drivers' standings. Jimmie Johnson continues to lead the chase for the title.
Racing continues from Texas Sunday. Television coverage begins at 11:30 a.m. on ABC.
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Please don't forget…
The first time we said Hello.
Don't forget the sound of my voice
Or the way my smile would make you smile too.
Please don't forget…
The smell of my skin, the twinkle in my eyes
The feeling of my hand in yours.
Remember me wrapped up in your arms.
Please don't forget…
The stories you told me (the life you shared with me)
And the ones we wrote together.
Share and retell them whenever you miss me.
Please don't forget…
The true miracle of us ever meeting.
Our "firsts" (kisses,talks, phone calls, fights, dates, days of school, vacations, holidays)
Are forever etched on my heart.
Please don't forget…
Our sad times or our harsh words for one another
Just remember that "I'm sorry" and "I Love you"
Is the only good way to heal a broken heart.
Please don't forget…
That saying goodbye
Isn't always an ending
Unless we want it to be. (Just for the record, I don't want it to be)
Please don't forget…
How very much I love you…
And always will.
27 lines for the 27 lives that were taken so violently from us in Newtown, CT and Sandy Hook Elementary School last week.
I imagined every voice, from the smallest to the oldest, asking us not to forget. I heard my own voice.
Trifecta offered us the word HEAL this week.
An appropriate word for the way we need to live now.
and I felt like this was a true POURING OF MY HEART as I grieve those lives with all of you.
I will not forget the town of Newtown, or Sandy Hook Elementary.
My friend and fellow Listen to Your Mother reader, Kate, lives in Newtown.
This post she shared yesterday asks us not to forget her community and their losses.
This poem was written to promise her I wouldn't.


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Almost nothing will ruin an image more than blur that results from camera shake. Some systems have image stabilization built into the camera, but many systems choose to put it in the lens. To understand this, you first need to understand the different types of blur effects that can ruin your images.
Camera Shake
Camera shake is a common problem that can cause a blurry image. How do you tell if your images are suffering from camera shake? Take a look at the image and remember what the camera was focusing on. For argument's sake, we're going to say that you were using someone's face as your subject. Assuming that the camera focused sharply and accurately on your subject, proceed to determine if there is blur that looks like something was moving around in the frame (also called trails). If you can clearly see all the details, then you've got a sharp and blur-free image. If you can see trails of some sort on the subject you were focusing on, then your images are suffering from camera shake
Out of Focus Image
Your photos are out of focus when the details in your subject are soft. You can tell the image above is not in focus because the intention was to focus on the camera but it is blurry. However, the blur here is a nice, smooth, and creamy out of focus look that is characteristic of faster aperture lenses. This was shot with a Canon 85mm F/1.8.
When an image is in focus, you can clearly tell.
As you can see in this image, all the details of this Lomography Action Snapper are very clear. To make absolutely sure that your camera isn't misfocusing, calibrate your viewfinder's diopter by turning the dial to either + or -. Have your camera autofocus on an image and then look into the diopter until you see a clear image in the viewfinder.The diopter adjusts the viewfinder according to your eyesight.
For more technical users, their lens can also be calibrated in order to ensure their camera is focusing. In that case, the Spyder LensCal is a great item to help.
The following images were shot after six cups of coffee to simulate the unsteadiness that one may encounter.
This image was shot on a Canon 5D Mk II with 24-105mm F/4 L IS at 105mm, 1/50th of a second, F/4 and at ISO 800 using spot metering and focusing on the "FM10" characters. Image stabilization was on, resulting in a much sharper image. As you can see, there is no camera shake in the 100% crop of the image below.
The details are very clear and blur free despite shooting at a slow shutter speed. The rule of thumb is that your shutter speed should be the reciprocal of your focal length. Since this photo was shot at 1/60th of a second and at 105mm, the image stabilization was able to compensate shaky hands.
Like the previously shown image, this image was shot on a Canon 5D Mk II with 24-105mm F/4 L IS at 105mm, 1/50th of a second, F/4 and at ISO 800. This time though, image stabilization was off and camera shake became very apparent.
This image has a lot of blur and upon even closer glancing, you can see some trails. This is camera shake. Had the image stabilization been turned on or shot at above 1/100th of a second at a higher ISO,this image may have been sharper.
Another way to ensure that your images will be sharp is to shoot at the reciprocal of your focal length. Meaning that if you are shooting at 100mm on your 35mm full frame sensor camera, that you should shoot at 1/100th of a second. To be fair, there are professionals that can shoot down to 1/15th of a second with image stabilization enabled and still shoot photos without camera shake. Many of these image stabilized lenses and systems allow for up to three to four stops of stabilization.
So how do you tell if you need image stabilization or not? Well, if you use Canon, Nikon, or Panasonic and are seeing blurry photos with trails, then you'll need to perhaps shoot at a higher shutter speed combined with a higher ISO setting and a wider aperture. If that combination doesn't do the trick, then it's time to consider purchasing an image stabilized lens.
Other systems like Olympus, Sony, and Pentax put the image stabilization into their camera bodies. This is done by moving the sensor around inside the camera body to compensate for camera shake. This makes any lens attached to the camera image stabilized.
When you're not using a tripod, what do you do to not get camera shake in your images? Let us know in the comments below.


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STATEN ISLAND -- When it comes to what Staten Islanders expect from their newly elected borough president, residents say Councilman James Oddo should simply stay the path.
"He's wonderful. I want him to just keep doing what he's been doing all these years for Staten Island," said Chris Anne Galyas, who was shopping at the Shop Rite in New Dorp on Wednesday following yesterday's election.
She and her friend, Jennifer Darcy, both lost their homes last year in Hurricane Sandy, and praised Oddo for "trudging through the mud with us."
As borough president, they hoped he could do more to better protect the Island from future storms.
"He's done a great job already, but we need to make sure this never happens again."
Ben Schiavone, a retired firefighter from Grasmere, also threw his support behind Oddo.
"He's already done a great job for the Island. That's why we elected him borough president," he said.
He too hoped Oddo could ensure the Island's safety from future storms.
"They already brought back the boardwalk. Now they need to keep it safe."


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Over at NBA.com, they've set up much of what you'd need to make your own split-screen thingamabob. Much of what you'd need, but not all of it. They're short on technical expertise, because I haven't been able to pull this off.
I really wanted to combine Nick Nolte's mug shot with Kobe Bryant's head shot. But I couldn't. Maybe you can. Or use someone else's mug shot. Or any other photo. Make a statement, social, political, comical.
This, blogticipants, could be art.
It could even be a contest.
There's Blog Bling on the line.
There can be only one (NBA.com)
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Forget the TV evangelist who puts his hand on a sick person's head and proclaims them "Cured!" and they fall to the floor seemingly released from the bondage of their illness or crippling debilatation.
That's not what we're talking about.
On the contrary.
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Dr. Jeff Sterling demonstrates anointing
The subtle but strong healing power of prayer is the basis of healing services, "Healing Beyond the Walls," that have been held in Warren - and more are planned - at The Crossing, coordinated by a group of local churches.
"This isn't about 'laying hands on someone' and the blind seeing and the lame walking," said Gary Lester, director of Family Services of Warren County. Lester was asked by coordinators to be on hand at the first service in case counseling was needed by anyone participating.
"It's more about belief in the power of prayer, caring ... spiritual healing," Lester said.
"I hope that we will be able to share the love of Jesus with those who come," said Mary Schall, who had the initial idea for healing prayer in a public forum, "that we will be present with them, to care, to listen to anything they would like to share. There is not one way that we do this. Some may choose to be annointed, some may choose to have two or three persons pray with them," she added, and prayer can be out loud or silent. "There is no 'service.'"
The next healing is planned for July 3 when a group of local pastors and church lay leaders will offer prayers for healing and anointing with oil at The Crossing, Warren's Christian coffee house ministry. The gathering will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., over the lunch hour, and from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., explained Dr. Jeff Sterling, pastor of First United Methodist Church, Warren, and past president of the Warren Area Ministerial Association.
"Any person desiring anointing and prayer for him or herself, or for others, is welcome to drop in during these times," he explained.
"Anyone who desires to do so" is welcome, Schall agreed. "The Bible tells us that Jesus healed those who came ... those who doubted or those who believed."
Coordinators hope for the comforting aspect of prayer to benefit all who attend.
"Prayer isn't a guarantee that God will give us what we think we want, but he always listens, always cares and always walks with us," Schall said. "Prayers are answered in different ways. Sometimes they are answered by giving us peace or strength. Sometimes they are answered by giving us others to come alongside us. Sometimes they are answered in other miraculous ways. Sometimes the healing is emotional, sometimes physical, sometimes spiritual."
"We have been offering simple anointing in the name of the Trinity and prayers for healing every so often during our Sunday worship services, with great response," Sterling said. Mary "had the vision of opening this up to the public outside of our church, and The Crossing, in the center of town, was a logical venue."
The first of the healing services was held in March, and "quite a number of persons," came in for prayer, Sterling said. "One individual even 'clocked out' from work to come, and was then returning to work."
Pastors and leaders from several area churches have volunteered to participate including First UMC, the Salvation Army, The Harbor, Faith Fellowship, Warren Wesleyan Church, as well as Rev. Charles Wells (chaplaincy ministry), Gary Lester of First Lutheran Church, and Rev. Jon Swart, of Warren County Prison Ministry. Several other local churches have offered prayers of support.
This will not be a worship service or a meeting, but just a "drop in" opportunity for persons to be anointed with olive oil and a simple prayer said for healing, Sterling explained, and the "healing" addressed may be physical, emotional, or spiritual.
"For the person stopping in, this may be as simple as having a pastor and lay person apply a little oil in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and saying a very brief prayer-five minutes and out," Sterling said.
However, pastors will be available to talk privately with persons about faith issues or to offer more specific, personal prayer for those who desire.
The concept of using oil to anoint for healing comes from the book of James in the Christian scriptures: "Are you sick? Call the church leaders together to pray and anoint you with oil in the name of the Master. Believing prayer will heal you, and Jesus will put you on your feet." (James 5:14, The Message)
"Most Christian denominations believe in healing prayer, and many make it a regular practice to offer anointing, but this kind of cooperative, public event is somewhat unusual," Sterling said; "If people respond positively, it could be the first of several, and we expect that more of our local church clergy and lay leaders will be involved in future gatherings."
Questions about the healing prayer times may be addressed to Dr. Sterling at First United Methodist Church, 723-4930. The Crossing is located on the corner of Hickory and Pennsylvania Avenues. Refreshments will be provided by the staff at The Crossing.


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What is in this article?:
- USDA offers new conservation initiative
- Signup is March 12-April 6
• New USDA conservation initiative to protect up to 750,000 acres of the nation's most highly erodible croplands.
• Initiative will assist producers with targeting their most highly erodible cropland.
• Will enable planting of wildlife-friendly, long-term cover through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
More About:
Signup is March 12-April 6
The USDA will conduct a four-week CRP general signup, beginning March 12 and ending on April 6. Currently, about 30 million acres are enrolled in CRP.
CRP continues to make major contributions to national efforts to improve water and air quality, prevent soil erosion by protecting the most sensitive areas including those prone to flash flooding and runoff.
At the same time, CRP has helped increase populations of pheasants, quail, ducks, and other rare species, like the sage grouse, the lesser prairie chicken, and others.
Highlights of CRP include:
• CRP has restored more than two million acres of wetlands and two million acres of riparian buffers.
• Each year, CRP keeps more than 600 million pounds of nitrogen and more than 100 million pounds of phosphorous from flowing into our nation's streams, rivers, and lakes.
• CRP provides $1.8 billion annually to landowners—dollars that make their way into local economies, supporting small businesses and creating jobs.
• CRP is the largest private lands carbon sequestration program in the country. By placing vulnerable cropland into conservation, CRP sequesters carbon in plants and soil, and reduces both fuel and fertilizer usage. In 2010, CRP resulted in carbon sequestration equal to taking almost 10 million cars off the road.
In 2011, USDA enrolled a record number of acres of private working lands in conservation programs, working with more than 500,000 farmers and ranchers to implement conservation practices that clean the air we breathe, filter the water we drink, and prevent soil erosion.
Producers are encouraged to contact their local FSA office or visit FSA's website at www.fsa.usda.gov/crp for additional information regarding CRP.


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NEW YORK (MainStreet) —An uptick in men's underwear sales bodes well for the economy at large—given the suggestion that men have enough disposable income to buy an item they don't often update. Though 2012 men's apparel sales rose a meager 1% to $57 billion, underwear sales shot up 13%, according to NPD group. Even former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan has used this economic indicator to take the temperature of the economy.
"Around the recession in 2008, things were more basic oriented, not fashion oriented," said Michael Kleinmann, editor-in-chief of The Underwear Expert. "Underwear was more multi-pack-oriented, more about value items."
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From August 2007 to August 2008, underwear sales fell 27% at online retailers, 8% at department stores, and 6% at national retail chains, according to DNR. Sales at discount retailers increased 8% over the same period in an indication that men were penny-pinching on their briefs. A May 2008 Kelton Research survey of 1,001 adults found that 26% of respondents wear underwear that is five or more years old, with 11% wearing underwear that is 10 or more years old. These are inevitably the jankity boxers, those that have lost their elasticity or no longer fit.Now with the economy plumped up, companies are being more adventurous with their undies to meet the purchasing demand.
"The brands that are launching now are not launching black, white and gray underwear," Kleinmann said. "They're launching in color or have some special style."
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Though Hanes, Fruit of the Loom and Jockey have dominated the market, there are more options than a famous Seinfeld episode would suggest. Fabrication has become more advanced, as well, with performance materials like in C-In2's Grip featuring moisture-wicking properties to absorb sweat from the body and transfer it to the side of the fabric away from the skin. The emergence of more fashion-forward brands like 2-xist also indicates the available variety in briefs for men.


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Gweek Seal Sanctuary, Cornwall have a busy seal rescue and rehabilitation programme in place to help injured and abandoned seal pups found along the West Coast of Britain.
We go out and rescue seals, bring them to the Seal Rescue Centre for treatment then release them back into the wild, and without this help, many seals would die or be left unwell to survive.
The team at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary work around the clock with young seal pups who need feeding every 4 hours. As it costs over £1,500 to rescue, rehabilitate and release 1 seal pup we carry out as much fundraising as we can to ensure we can continue our valuable work.
To get involved or enquire about helping us at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary, please email: email@example.com
The Cornish Seal Sanctuary is working with SEALIFE to ensure the conservation of the marine world. The main focus of the Cornish Seal Sanctuary is the rescue and rehabilitation of seals. Just by visiting us, you are supporting this great cause, but if you want to help more, getting involved in our beach cleans will have a huge impact on helping these animals to survive in the wild.
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