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Today I have spent most of the day boxing up to send out many items that I've hung onto for some time for various reasons.
Might use someday.
No one would appreciate it.
It just cost too much to give to goodwill - perhaps I'll find someone who will enjoy it.
It's not good enough to give to someone.
No one would want something that has an imperfection.
Etc, etc, etc.
I'll start off with what? my most precious, my most memorable, my most expensive item.
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Cuisinart electric skillet - used but not abused. I can add more...
Over a few decades I accumulated numerous cazuelas and other attractive glazed clay pottery and bakeware in Mexico and Central America but I don't know if there is lead in the glaze so I don't use them for cooking. Some I display as artsy pieces, others I gave to a neighbor I don't like and I'm watching to see whether a little lead may improve his dour personality, or dumb it down.
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I've been wondering: is it conscionable to give away some of the articles that one won't use because of possibility of lead or aversion to plastic or non-stick, when the recipient may not care. You all know the cliche: You gotta die sometime.
However, the 'beautiful' pieces that may end up as chards in a future archaeological dig will remain for my own appreciation -
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Of course, I knew you were kidding.
But it did bring to mind giving away items that one wouldn't use oneself; say, non-stick items.
One might go so far as to include a microwave in that list of items that one wouldn't use oneself that one gives away. Or would the microwave be disposed of before its time in that particular part of the dump that will dispose them for "hundreds of billions of years"?
Ah, the puzzlement.
I have several old fashioned enamel turkey roasters, some of which I bought used through the years. I'm not getting rid of them, even though I seldom use them anymore.
Most everything else I have has been chosen and is used by me. I have gotten rid of some stuff in the last few years. I used to have some vintage bread pans that were made of a textured steel folded in the corners like an envelope. I don't bake bread, but I loved those old pans! I hope someone who bakes bread is loving them and using them.
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My goodness! I missed your question back in May. No, I don't think so. One roaster came from Target about 20 years ago. Another came from a store that is no more: Grandpa Pidgeon's in Bridgeton MO. The others came to me used. Before I gathered cast iron, I must have gathered turkey roasters.
re: sueatmo
sueatmo: I don't have your bread pans but I will visit local thrift / re-sale stores looking for special items like them. Funny that you feel that way because I many times have sent thanks and blessings to the person who donated an item I have used. I have a set of old nesting pyrex bowls, solid primary colors, that I found separately over the span of 10 years. I love these bowls and appreciate that I have them. I picture all the scrambled eggs mixed, all the cake batters stirred over the years. So, I'm sure your pans have found their way into a bread baker's happy hands!
As for items: A 20 yr old hand mixer, bread maker (the round loaf kind - uggh) and my Vitamix (shamed-faced: That poor Vita just sits there with nothing to do. I *never* use it. I need to sell but I just can't bear to part with it.)
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I have a pretty picture in my mind of your Pyrex mixing bowls. I got rid of my nested set of Pyrex mixing bowls! I never thought they were aesthetically pleasing. I use Pyrex glass jugs instead. Every so often I see stuff in antique shops or in flea markets that was current about the time I got married (1970) and I can't believe I am that old! My old stuff is antique! :D
At this point I only keep my KA mixer for the pasta roller attachment. I've replaced it with the Cuisinart stand mixer which I do love, but I'm coveting the Electrolux Assistant now.
I need to find something to do with my margaritaville machine, it's been retired since I got the vitamix. Not sure what to do with it.
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Since there is no feature like that here, take a look at www.freecycle.org to find a Freecyclers group in your local area. You can list things that you have to give away and people can also post if they are looking for something specific. It's not just cookware, pretty much anything and everything gets listed.
One example, I gave my ancient stovetop pressure cooker to a middle school teacher who was looking for some cookers to set-up science experiments with his students. It was nice to know that someone got an interesting use out of it.
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thanks pam, i'm aware of freecycle, i was just thinking that since so many of us "know" each other at this point it would be nice if we could share the cookware wealth with each other. but yeah, it's neat that your pressure cooker ended up getting repurposed in the name of educating our youth :)
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My local county has a store where they take donations and it goes to the county to aid people. People get to buy cheaply and then the county system gets a boost.
Still cleaning out
Electric Tortilla makerNordic Ware Reversible Grill
Juiceman - not an expensive model
Cuisinart Frozen Yogurt-Ice Cream & Sorbet Maker
Waring Pro Professional Belgian Waffle Maker
Waffles - who needs wafles?
Villa Ware Crepe Maker
Crepe maker - who needs crepes?Toastmaster Bread Maker
George Foreman Grilling Machine - not an expensive model
Villa electric grill
Food Saver accessories
Clearing the way. Some of it bought on recommendation, used once or twice. Ice cream maker used enough to decide to get more involved.
George Foreman - our outdoor bbq is what we go to.
Food Saver - it broke down.
Bread maker? Saw a newer one I like. Just use it for pizza dough occasionally.
Tortilla maker? Can't regulate the heat adequately.
My mother gets rid of NOTHING. Ergo, when her kids want to "get rid" of something, we give it back to her. Because she keeps things forever, we have been known to...uh...accidently break something, thereby creating a bona fide reason for throwing it away.
I wonder where that fondue set is...
- fondue set. gave it to the handyman in my building because he happened to be fixing something for me when i took it out to drop off at Goodwill.
- KA 11-cup food processor. still worked, but i splurged on the new Cuisinart Die-Cast Elite earlier this year, so it was sitting in the cabinet as a "backup." gave it to a dear friend whose FP crapped out on her.
- cheap multi-level rice cooker & veggie steamer that i received as a gift *years* ago and never used once. gave it to the aforementioned friend along with the FP.
a few years ago when i moved back out to CA from NJ, i got rid of as much as i could because i was moving into a place with less storage & counter space. a friend who lived across the street inherited a Breville juicer, Nesco Dehydrator, my "extra" teakettle, and the complete library of Cooking Light Annual Cookbooks. it was her lucky day :)
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Years ago (single person) I took a job abroad, signing a contract for 2 years. I cleaned out my apartment. I gave most of my kitchen to a lady downstairs. I did not fulfill my contract -- couldn't stand the job and the country. I did get my TV back, but the lady downstairs would not give me one item of my kitchen items. She was adamant, even called me a name -- you probably know which one. As I look back, the items were nothing, but it was all I had; I had spent all the money I earned in the very short time for Air Fare return. Times were tough then.


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I have to agree with you on this one. And we have to make sure that Hilarious Liar, who is being setup to run in 2016, doesn't get into power. Remember she tried setting up national health care also. And the budget comes from both Congress and the Senate. Obama hasn't had a budget since he got into office. He'd rather give everything away to the have nots and turn us into a welfare nation.
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A babysitting boyfriend spent Christmas night behind bars after cops in Manchester, N.H., said he struck his girlfriend's 2-month-old daughter in the face because the infant girl wouldn't stop crying.
Brian Reeves, 33, of Manchester "struck the child with his hand when he became frustrated that the child would not stop crying," Manchester cops said. Reeves was charged with second-degree assault.
So this cowardly rodent is the mother's "beau"??? Is that how you spell "butthole"?
the baby had a futl diapher....you dope....change it
So, smacking a 2 month old baby so hard across its face that it bleeds and swells up is a way to make it stop crying? What an azzwipe!!! I usually sing to them... This pog needs a nice hot poker up his, maybe that'll teach him to stop abusing innocent babies. Mom needs a real man in her life, not an ape pretending to be one!
No excuse for this. He should get more than a slap on the wrist.
What is wrong with these woman? A man doesn't just decide to hit a child out of the blue. If these woman have no idea what kind of person they are leaving their child with then they absolutely should not be allowed to keep these babies. How many more "boyfriend" stories are we going to hear? As for the guy, can you say coward????
Please call me Manchester PD. I'd like to volunteer to spend ten minutes in a small room with Reeves to convince him of the error of his ways.
Another mom bringing a low life into her innocent child's life . Mom's bring them home and the police take them out and the ambulance takes the children ...
as usual, no mention of the baby's father. she has a 2 month old and a boyfriend, our culture in this country will be our downfall.
welfare baby.............
Who are you to judge anyone, especially a single mother who is obviously very naive when it comes to the opposite sex?? You don't know if she is on Public Assistance or not and so what if she is? If she is, it's probably because the father had walked out on her or denied that he was the father. You don't know her situation and it's none of your business. I don't agree that she needs parenting classes because she hasn't done anything wrong and hasn't been turned in to Child Protective Services, so you don't need to worry about that. What she needs to do before getting involved with anyone of the opposite sex is do a full and complete criminal backgrould check on each male that comes into her life so that she knows whether or not he's a registered sex offender and then she can make a mature decision on whether or not to leave her daughter with that person. If she has family, chances are they could possibly help her but most of these single mothers are abandoned by their families if the mothers have had their children out of holy wedlock, which is considered a sin against God. I was a single mom for many years because the father walked out on me long before our son was born and wasn't even there for his birth. I know what this young lady's going through.
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Hi all and thanks in advance. Need to format my old laptop so i can give to the wife nice and clean. Now i have never done this before and have been told i will need my windows installation disc to load vista and all the drivers on it again, but i do not have it anymore. So is there anyway of doing this. Sorry but as i said earlier i have not got a clue about formatting or cleaning the computer, as never had to do it before. Many, many thanks Clive.
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For a fresh install, you'll have to beg borrow or steal a Vista disk which is the same version as the COA sticker on your laptop (or buy from ebay if you have to). The installation is then easy, but you'll have some problems with driver; if the Ethernet driver isn't included in the windows disk, you'll need to locate the correct one and download it to a memory stick on another computer, then transfer it. Once you have internet access, there are free programmes which will scan the laptop and point you towards download sites (best to choose the manufacturer's own site of the bit of hardware involved).
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Make / model of laptop?
you may be able to rest it to factory conditions.
but then it will have to have all the updates reinstalled but this should happen automatically when it is connected to the internet
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Make and model is....Acer Aspire 5610z. How would i know if i can reset to factory conditions and how would i do this. Cheers all.
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If you go into "Start > All Programs", there may be an Acer folder containing a link to the Recovery option, which would return the Laptop to its out-of-the-box state.
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- At the white ACER BIOS screen, hold the "Alt" key and press the "F10" key simultaneously to start Acer eRecovery
- Once eRecovery has loaded, click "Restore to Factory Default Settings"
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- From here, the eRecovery process will update all the data on the C: drive and restore a fully functional factory image (approximately 10 minutes).
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Thanks to everybody and fruit bat once i do what you say and press "OK" to reboot the unit....Vista and all the drivers will still be there. Cheers, many many thanks. Will spend the next day taking off what i need to save and then will try it :)
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Culpeper: 26
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Loudoun: 135
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- TxWoof said...
Are you seeing any sort of discounts off of list in Arlington at all or same house sales with any big %?
- Xpovos said...
It's looking like the I-95 corridor is getting slammed (Prince William and Stafford both showing massive % upticks in foreclosure) while the close-in suburbs and I-66 corridor is slightly better off.
- Harriet said...
I've been mainly following Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties. I hope to update something on Arlington soon. But no, I don't think it's as dramatic as the outlying counties.
There is simply a lot of overbuilding (in Prince William especially, with all of its buildable land), whereas the inner suburbs have been filled in over the years. Condos are a slightly different matter, however, and there might be some losses there. - 5/17/07, 5:50 PM


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Calling for peace in Syria, Pope Francis condemns use of chemical weapons
Pope appears to be lobbying against threatened U.S.-led airstrikes
Calling for a ceasefire in Syria, Pope Francis resolutely condemned the use of chemical weapons. Speaking to his nearly three million Twitter followers earlier this week, Francis made it clear that he opposes military retaliation against Syria for the government's alleged use of the banned armaments.
Some have interpreted Pope Francis' recent remarks as being intended to dissuade the religious from backing appeals by President Obama, along with other Western leaders calling for punitive airstrikes against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The pope also called on Catholics and followers of all faiths around the world to observe a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria and the Middle East.
"Today, dear brothers and sisters, I wish to add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world, from every people, from the heart of each person, from the one great family which is humanity: It is the cry for peace!" the pontiff told the faithful gathered for Angelus prayers in St. Peter's Square.
Pope Francis declared in an earlier tweet, "War never again! Never again war!"
Some have interpreted Francis' recent remarks as being intended to dissuade the religious from backing appeals by President Obama, along with other Western leaders calling for punitive airstrikes against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Western government claim they have indisputable proof that Assad's forces unleashed poison gas attacks in Damascus suburbs August 21 that reportedly left more than 1,400 dead, including 426 children.
The White House has asked Congress to vote on its plan to attack Assad to deter him from further use of weapons of mass destruction. At least 100,000 have died in the nearly three-year-old Syrian civil war, which shows no sign of ending soon.
"There are so many conflicts in this world which cause me great suffering and worry, but in these days my heart is deeply wounded in particular by what is happening in Syria and anguished by the dramatic developments which are looming," the pope said, an apparent reference to the threatened airstrikes.
"I appeal strongly for peace, an appeal which arises from deep within me. How much suffering, how much devastation, how much pain has the use of arms carried in its wake in that martyred country, especially among civilians and the unarmed!"
Pope Francis also cautioned concerning judgments about responsibility for the deaths of innocents being made by laymen.
"There is the judgment of God, and also the judgment of history, upon our actions," he said, "from which there is no escaping."
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General Intention: Victimized Children. That children who are victims of abandonment or violence may find the love and protection they need.
Missionary Intention: Prepare the Savior's Coming. That Christians, enlightened by the Word incarnate, may prepare humanity for the Savior's coming.
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I would never give my Government the power to solve the problem in Syria because our leaders only limit their actions by raw power and by their own personal selfish conscience. There was a time when the power of our leaders was limited by the fact that all of us were subject to the law that was stated in the Constitution. Today all you here is some general statement about our government's right to enforce a general law of the United Nations which apparently is a free for all when it comes to enforcement. That fits America just ,fine because our executive thinks he has the right ,to do whatever occurs to him.
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Christopher Hitchens once averred that you don't. Religionists claim that it is divinely endowed. Others claim that all are freelancers subject to subornation by others. Your thoughts?
In my teen-age years I was always looking for a date with that outlook.
Free will is a construct of christian "thought". Within the christian delusion it solves the problem of god's authorship of evil.
If the universe is utterly deterministic free will is not possible. Strict determinism is an issue for science and who knows whether it will ever be known.
On the other hand if some aspect of consciousness is without defined and predictable parameters free will is impossible. By definition the absence of control negates freedom.
What about conflicted will in which an individual wants two contradictory things at the same time—the stuff of which many narratives are made.
If that question was for me it does not change my perspective.. Under strict determinism the feelings of conflict were inevitable and could not have been any other way.
On the other hand if the actor lacks full control of his thoughts he lacks free will.
On the other hand if the actor lacks full control of his thoughts he lacks free will.
Why is that?
Free insofar is not free.....attenuated is not free.....restricted is not free....
You equate freedom with absolute liberty from any restrictions whatever?
Then freedom does not exist and has never existed and is a meaningless concept.
Freedom is not the same as free will. And I do not think minor and necessary infringements of liberty eviscerate human rights. Civilization with its competing interests must of necessity curtail our liberty to insure it.
OK, so you meant free will when you used the word 'free.' So there is no free will unless it is absolute and unrestricted?
You still have not explained:
On the other hand if the actor lacks full control of his thoughts he lacks free will.
I am not exactly sure what you are referring to. Proponents of free will conceive a world of consciousness in which they are in control of their thoughts and actions. It is not so. There is an experiment in which it is demonstrated that subjects have decided before they are even aware of their answer. If decisions are made on an unconscious level surely the notion of free will is invalid.
And yes free will is only free if it is free of extraneous causation.
As long as we are talking about conscious or unconscious levels of decisions lets not minimize that dang old endocrine system of ours. Nothing like an imbalance to mitigate perception and action. As a lifelong sufferer of clinical depression i know whereof i speak. Constrictions and barriers do exist.
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Pirates on radar for Dubai talks
Global leaders are to sit down in Dubai for discussions on piracy, which the UAE's foreign minister yesterday described as "a global concern".
Already this year pirates have hijacked 13 vessels and 197 sailors have been kidnapped - with an estimated global trade cost of $12billion a year.
Announcing June's conference yesterday, the second of its kind in the UAE, HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said: "The UAE believes that maritime piracy, notably in the Gulf of Aden and the western Indian Ocean, remains of serious global concern.
"Pirate activity off the coast of Somalia continues to plague our region. Attacks by pirates endanger the lives of hundreds of seafarers, just as they undermine the prosperity and livelihoods of Somalia, its immediate neighbourhood and the world.
"This is the second time that the UAE is inviting foreign ministers, industry leaders and international experts to meet together in Dubai, and to coordinate our international response. We are doing so because we continue to believe that an enhanced counter-piracy response can be achieved through greater regional and international engagement."
Meanwhile, Somali pirates released the MT Enrico Levoli and its 18 crew this week after it was hijacked en route from the UAE to the Mediterranean four months ago.
The Italian-owned tanker left Fujairah in December carrying 15,750 tonnes of caustic soda and had been scheduled to rendez vous with Chinese armed forces - who were to provide protection on the high seas - when it was attacked off the Oman coast on December 27.
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Healthy Eating: Eating Less Sodium
Part of healthy eating is eating less sodium, or salt.
Does this sound hard?
It doesn't have to be, but you do have to think about it. You need to do more than just not use the salt shaker. After all, almost all foods contain sodium naturally or as an ingredient.
You can start reducing the sodium in your diet by:
- Reading labels to see how much sodium foods contain.
- Limiting packaged foods and restaurant foods, which typically are high in sodium.
- Not adding salt to your food during cooking or at the table.
- Using low-sodium spices and sauces to add flavor to your food. Low-sodium foods can still be tasty!
What amount of sodium is too much?
Why limit sodium?
How can you reduce the amount of sodium you eat?
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What amount of sodium is too much?
For good health, less is best. Most people shouldn't eat more than 2,300 milligrams (mg) of sodium a day.1
If you have high blood pressure, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease, if you are African-American, or if you are older than age 50, try to limit the amount of sodium you eat to less than 1,500 mg a day.1
Your doctor also may have suggested that you limit your salt to a certain amount every day.
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Why limit sodium?
Some people wonder why they need to cut back on sodium. And that's a good question.
You may not be able to see or feel how sodium affects your body. If anything, you can taste what sodium does, and for many of us, it tastes good.
But by limiting sodium, you may be able to control blood pressure. High blood pressure can be dangerous. It has no symptoms, so you might not know you have it. And high blood pressure can lead to more serious problems, like a heart attack or stroke.
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How can you reduce the amount of sodium you eat?
Getting started
- Talk with your doctor about sodium. You'll learn how eating too much sodium may affect you and how much you may need to cut back. Have questions ready to ask.
- Talk with a registered dietitian (RD). An RD can help you find out how much salt you are eating and find ways to cut back on salt. An RD can also teach you how to choose low-salt foods when eating out and make suggestions for low-sodium recipes and meals.
- Remember that the biggest source of sodium in the diet is not salt added at the table. In general, the biggest source of sodium is processed foods and foods from restaurants. Processed foods include canned foods, frozen dinners, and packaged foods such as crackers and chips. They also include dry mixes, such as those you add to hamburger or noodles.
- If you'd like, keep a sodium record. It can show you how much sodium you eat at a meal or during the day. If you have heart failure, use a record that allows you to also record your weight(What is a PDF document?).
- If you don't cook for yourself, let those who help you know that you want to eat less sodium. Show this information to family members, friends, or senior centers or other organizations.
Avoid high-sodium foods
Try not to eat high-sodium foods. These include:
- Smoked, cured, salted, and canned meat, fish, and poultry.
- Ham, bacon, hot dogs, and lunch meats.
- Hard and processed cheese and some types of peanut butter.
- Frozen prepared meals.
- Canned vegetables and soups, broths, and bouillon.
- Salted snack foods, such as chips and crackers.
- Pickles, sauerkraut, seasonings high in salt, and other condiments. These include steak sauce, onion salt, garlic salt, mustard, ketchup, and especially soy sauce. Even light soy sauce is still very high in sodium.
- Most restaurant food, especially fast food like french fries, hamburgers, pizza, and tacos.
Cook with less sodium
- Use fresh fruits and vegetables (or frozen vegetables) and fresh meat. These contain less sodium than canned foods or meats like lunch meat, bacon, ham, and jerky.
- Pick dairy products that are lower in salt, such as milk and yogurt instead of cheese.
- If you use canned vegetables, drain and rinse them with fresh water. This removes some—but not all—of the salt. Or choose "no salt added" canned vegetables.
- Flavor your food with garlic, lemon juice, onion, vinegar, herbs, and spices instead of salt. Make your own salt-free seasoning, salad dressings, sauces, and ketchup without adding salt.
- Take the salt shaker off the table to avoid adding salt to your food. Try using half the salt a recipe calls for.
- Don't cook with (or drink) softened water.
- Try a low-sodium cookbook. It can be a big help if you aren't sure how to reduce the salt in your cooking.
Know how to find sodium
If you know how much sodium is in foods, you can have more flexibility in what you eat. If you eat one high-sodium food, you can balance it with very low-sodium foods during the rest of the day. To do this:
- Use the Nutrition Facts on food labels.
- Learn how to find sodium. This includes finding hidden sodium, keeping track of milligrams of sodium, and understanding what labels such as "low-sodium" mean.
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In general, the biggest source of sodium in our diets is:
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Where to go from here
Now that you have read this information, you can begin to cut down on the sodium in your diet.
Talk with your doctor (family doctor, dietitian, or nurse).
If you would like more information on the sodium content of foods, how to limit sodium, or how to follow a diet for heart failure, the following resources are available:
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Visit the American Heart Association (AHA) website for information on physical activity, diet, and various heart-related conditions. You can search for information on heart disease and stroke, share information with friends and family, and use tools to help you make heart-healthy goals and plans. Contact the AHA to find your nearest local or state AHA group. The AHA provides brochures and information about support groups and community programs, including Mended Hearts, a nationwide organization whose members visit people with heart problems and provide information and support. | |
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Free range fun for all the family at Greenacres Farm open day
Families and those who fancy a taste of the country are invited to a great day out at Greenacres Farm in Walford Heath on Sunday 29 July 2012.
Visitors can come and meet the resident sheep, pigs and chickens and get involved in a host of activities at the farm open day, from 10am to 3pm.
Greenacres Farm is a 16 acre smallholding run by Shropshire Council and provides employment and work experience for adults with learning disabilities.
As well as meeting the animals, children can enjoy a range of fun farm activities including welly wanging, splat the rat, jam jar ping pong and Greenacres Treasure Hunt.
Visitors can enter a raffle with prizes including gift sets, chocolate, wine, food and gardening hampers and plants. They also have the opportunity to take in the beautiful scenery and local wildlife on the Greenacres Farm country walk.
The farm shop will be selling free range eggs, vegetables, jams, pickles and chutneys, all made from produce grown on the farm. Perennial garden plants, tubs and baskets, stepping stones and garden ornaments will be on sale. Light refreshments including home reared pork baps, sandwiches and homemade cakes will also be available.
Councillor Steve Charmley, Shropshire Council's Cabinet member for disabilities, said:
"As a council we are committed to providing adults with learning disabilities with the skills and confidence to work in their local communities. This is a great opportunity for families and friends to come along, meet the staff, have fun, and purchase some of the fantastic produce and products made at Greenacres. The open day has been extremely popular in previous years and I know our dedicated team at the farm will offer a warm welcome to all our visitors."
Aggie Caesar-Homden, Shropshire councillor for Ruyton and Baschurch, said:
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For more information about the event and the products produced by Greenacres, please call 01939 291109. All profits made by Greenacres are reinvested into the farm.
To get to Greenacres, follow the brown signs at Walford Heath on the B5067.
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SARAH PENNA: THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NEW MEDIA ENTREPRENEUR YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF | Published: 18/07/12 |
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Having made the transition from cable TV to YouTube, 28-year-old Sarah Penna is shaking up the Web video landscape with fresh ideas and digital attitude.
Penna cut her teeth as a producer of reality television for cable channels like Discovery, HBO, Oxygen and Bravo. Rather than continue in her comfort zone, though, she left TV for a digital journey with Big Frame, a 15-employee company specializing in YouTube talent. Founded a year ago amid Los Angeles' budding tech scene, Big Frame made headlines last month for raising three million in venture capital.
"I make up the rules as I go along," she laughed in a phone interview.
In addition to working within the growing YouTube industrial complex - which includes production, special effects and talent management companies - Big Frame has been tapped by more than 100 brands for various Web projects. The client list includes 20th Century Fox, Home Depot, Levi's, Sony, THQ and Virgin Mobile. The company recently handled online video promotion of the Hollywood surprise hit film "Chronicle."
Penna's traditional TV experience shaded naturally into her work on the Internet. "It wasn't really a culture shock switching from producing reality shows with cable networks to producing for YouTube, because I also worked at Current TV and then a scripted Web series studio, so I had a gradual transition," she said.
Explaining the digital content industry to brands has been a challenge, she says, "because I look really young and I am a woman." This difficulty was one of the reasons why she invited Steve Raymond to be CEO of Big Frame. "Having an older man in the room was helpful to push through some of these deals," Penna said. "Brands want to be in this space, they want to understand it," she added.
Penna's primary role at Big Frame is head of talent, the guiding hand behind Web celebrities like sassy goofball and aspiring comedian What's Up Elle and rapper (and former ghostwriter for Bad Boy Records) DeStorm. She believes Big Frame stands apart from similar companies like Maker Studios, Revision3 and Full Screen for its "hands-on" time. "We also have much more of a family feel to the network. People stay at my house, they collaborate together and some talent even works at the office from time to time," she said. "I feel like I have 65 kids already!"
Penna is practically YouTube royalty in this YouTube family. She's married to Joe Penna, aka Mystery Guitar Man, the long-standing musical Web celeb, though Penna admits she is more an off-camera personality and "loves being behind the scenes." She isn't shy about her strategic marriage and admits it is beneficial to the business.
"Being married to Joe and being part of the YouTube community allows me to really understand where the talent is coming from in everything they do. Since I am in the trenches with my talent, I am able to have a view into what's going on in the community and I can act rather than react."
And Penna has been in the trenches for a long time. One of her first YouTube projects was creating Philip DeFranco's "Like Totally Awesome" (LTA), which to date has collected 51 million views. Besides running the channel, Penna also cast it. The star of LTA, Toby "Tobuscus," has since gone on to become a major YouTube celebrity in his own right.
And she's the driving force behind the DigiTour, the multicity musical tour that started in 2011 featuring YouTube-centric acts like the Gregory Brothers (of "AutoTune the News" fame) and Dave Days. This year's tour took flak from the community for controversies over brand deals and being "terribly produced," but Penna's publicist was quick to point out Penna was in no way affiliated with the 2012 tour.
Another Penna project worth mentioning is Bammo, a special-effects channel made "by YouTubers for YouTubers." Bammo is one of the premium content channels in Google's multi-million-dollar investment in original Web programming. The channel has collected five million total views since launching in March.
As for the future of YouTube and Web content, Penna was quick on the draw: "I think YouTube is not the future, but the present. People are making a living at it and we are getting more traditional writers, directors, actors, etc. wanting to work in the YouTube space. Of course, TV and film still hold prestige, and many online personalities want to go there. But we believe that, especially once the in-home entertainment technology catches up with the content, we are going to see online video very much reflecting that of cable TV."
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Sarah Penna: MysteryGuitarMan because he's my husband and would make music out of the coconuts, Richard Ryan because he's a master of survival techniques and would get us off the island, and Sonia's Travels because she would unlock the secret code of the island.
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Spotify wasn't built for discovery. The Swedish music streaming company realizes this and instead of trying to natively bake a zillion features into its service, it�launched a platform for third party developers about a year ago.�
Spotify's app directory now features almost 60 HTML5-based add-ons for the service's desktop client. These apps perform a lot of different functions - some are social, w...
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FACEBOOK LOOSENS ZYNGA'S LEASH - CAN CHANGING THE RULES SAVE ZYNGA? | Published: 30/11/12 |
If this were a certain social network, Zynga and Facebook could probably agree that their relationship status is: It's complicated. Two new SEC filings on Thursday revealed that the social game-maker and the social network are putting a little distance between themselves, amending some rules of their multi-year agreement to give both companies a bit more autonomy.
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CHILL DIRECT: A FARM SYSTEM FOR VIDEO DISTRIBUTION | Published: 30/11/12 |
What's the biggest hurdle to getting people to watch your film or video? Getting it in front of them in the first place. Unfortunately, your options are limited.
Chill Direct, a new service from�the social-video site�Chill, hopes to expand those options and act as a new farm system to get content to TV, theaters and film festivals.
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TIME WARNER CEO THINKS YOUTUBE'S $100 MILLION CONTENT INVESTMENT IS "CUTE" | Published: 30/11/12 |
Much has been made of Google's foray into original content with its $100 million investments in its bid to compete with television. But as Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes pointed out at this week's Business Insider's IGNITION conference, Google's content investments are essentially chump change - nowhere near enough to challenge Big Media's established players.
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ANOTHER GLOOMY SALES REPORT ADDS TO WINDOWS 8'S TOUGH WEEK | Published: 30/11/12 |
Just how well is Windows 8 selling so far?
A month past the launch of Microsoft's revolutionary operating system, data released this week seems to add credence to the idea that consumers just aren't adopting Windows 8 as fast as the company may have hoped, with negative implications both for the Holiday shopping season and beyond.
In a report released Friday, StatCounter found that by November...
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GOOGLE BUYS BUFFERBOX TO MATCH AMAZON'S LOCKER FOR CONVENIENT SHIPPING | Published: 30/11/12 |
Google has acquired Canadian parcel delivery start-up BufferBox Friday for an undisclosed sum. BufferBox is like a PIN-protected P.O. box for packages that solves the problem of missed deliveries. It's a service that mirrors the Locker service�Amazon began offering earlier this month. Google's acquisition of BufferBox signals that it's serious about going head to head with Amazon on retail.
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IDC: DEVELOPER DISINTEREST COULD KILL RIM & WINDOWS PHONE | Published: 30/11/12 |
There is no doubt, 2013 is going to be a very interesting year for the mobile industry. Apple and Google will continue to strive for worldwide domination with iOS and Android - making it very difficult for other competitors to squeeze out profits. The day of reckoning may be at hand for old school mobile players like Research In Motion and Microsoft even as manufacturers like Nokia , HTC and even ...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: MY SMALL BUSINESS WAS HACKED! | Published: 30/11/12 |
Last September, shortly after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, a company tweeted me that they were going to make our site, SmallBizDaily.com, their "small business resource of the day." My joy was short-lived when the next morning they tweeted that my site had been hacked.
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WHY DO TECH COMPANIES DOMINATE "BEST PLACES TO WORK" LISTS? | Published: 30/11/12 |
When the Great Place to Work Institute released its 2012 World's Best Multinational Workplaces list this month, ranking the world's 25 best employers - tech companies ruled. High-tech companies grabbed 9 of the 25 slots including 4 of the top 5.
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ORACLE HAS PROBLEMS TELLING THE TRUTH IN ITS ADVERTISING | Published: 30/11/12 |
Oracle seems to have a problem with truth in advertising. Since April, the tech giant has had to pull three ads that claimed Oracle computers performed much better than IBM's.
Each time, Oracle offered no proof of its claims and the ads were dropped after IBM complained to the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Better Business Bureau (BBB). This sleazy behavior, called "strategically stupi...
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