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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Scattered Pictures
You asked if all my kids shared bedrooms. Nope, I just put them on the book and game shelves to sleep.
Ni-night kids
Hibiscus blooming in February! The picture turned out pretty light, but it was absolutely beautiful in real life.
The night I got home from Texas, I tucked Clay into bed and walked out into the family room. Immediately, he started yelling, "There's something outside my window! I'm scared. I don't wanna go to bed." Used to his stalling, I, of course, replied, "There's nothing outside your window, now go to sleep." He seemed pretty freaked out though, so Savannah took pity on him and went into his room to settle him down. A second later, she yelled, "There's something outside his window! There's an animal!" We all rushed back to take a look. This is what we found sitting on the window sill...
An opossum! It's not like we live in the woods or anything. I have no idea where this little guy came from, but he posed nicely for his picture, didn't he?
Last night we had a full lunar eclipse here. Austin and Savannah went out and took pictures as the eclipse progressed. Cool, huh?
OK I'm off to make birthday cakes...
62 comments:
- Jillie Bean (AKA Bubba's Sis) said...
Eewwwww! I hate possums! We get them around here, too. Icky. They're like giant rats.
- February 21, 2008 at 11:56 PM
- Jenn @ Juggling Life said...
Did they come with bookcase or where they sold separately?
- February 22, 2008 at 12:06 AM
- Mary said...
I love the picture of your little ones on the shelf! Very cute!
- February 22, 2008 at 12:09 AM
- Putting the FUN in DysFUNctional said...
When I worked in child care, the babies loved to knock all the toys off of the shelves and lay on them. I used to take their pics and email them to the parents.
Good times! I miss the babies. - February 22, 2008 at 12:10 AM
- Emily said...
A oppossum? That's awesome. LOL!
The lunar eclipse was way cool!
Too bad the rain clouds covered it up...not that I'm complaining! Rain in AZ is almost as rare as that lunar eclipse! Haha
I miss being able to fit into places like that...those crazy kids of yours ;) Haha - February 22, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Very cool pics of the eclipse, and I just love how Savannah took pity on her brother and went to him to make him feel better (even if she got a fright too....lol)
A big sister who likes their younger brother?? As a big sister myself I did not know that option existed and I was under the belief that he was solely here to torture me and me to belittle him....hmmm :-)
My bookcase looks like that often as well, I mean with the books scattered in front of it, my 3 haven't decided to climb onto the shelves.....YET!
Thanks again for being here, we love you DAWN!!! - February 22, 2008 at 12:15 AM
- Sherry said...
You might check Clay's room... that opossum looked hungry.... lol. Thanks for the pics of the eclipse. I was too wimpy to go out in the cold to take any myself. Speaking of moon, do your kids act out worse when there's a full moon? Some months I just know there's a full moon without checking the calendar.... like today. The natives were restless and wild today. Driving me crazy (alright, not a long drive - ;0)
- February 22, 2008 at 12:19 AM
- Debi said...
We had way too many clouds in the sky for me to see the elcipse from here , so i'm glad you posted them.The kids got really great shots of it.
- February 22, 2008 at 12:27 AM
Runs in the family, huh?? Your parents made you sleep on a shelf, & you make your kids sleep on a shelf! :-)
- February 22, 2008 at 12:28 AM
- Michelle Kemper Brownlow said...
It was cloudy and rainy here so we missed the eclipse - thanks for sharing!!!
:) - February 22, 2008 at 12:30 AM
I'm from Illinois too, and my butt was on the porch freezing itself off (new weight loss program?) anyways, my pictures didn't turn out near as good as the kids'! I'm jealous! LOL Great pics!
- February 22, 2008 at 12:45 AM
AWESOME eclipse photos - kudos to your young photographers!
- February 22, 2008 at 12:50 AM
- Jennifer Foster said...
Is it bad to say I was admiring your tv in the corner of that picture? Nice 'lectronics Dawn!
http://www.funjennysblog.blogspot.com/ - February 22, 2008 at 12:51 AM
Hahaha! I love how your little stud there has his finger jammed up his nose in the second picture :)
Opossum? Scary! Those things are creepy looking. - February 22, 2008 at 12:55 AM
- Rebekah D. said...
The shelf picture cracks me up b/c I just posted a picture like that this week of my 3-year-old. Only, instead of being a couple inches off the floor, he had climbed up the closet shelves to the one that is about five feet off the floor! My friend actually suggested that if I keep on having kids, I could just stick them all in the closet for bedtime.
- February 22, 2008 at 1:29 AM
- roseys madhouse said...
very cool photos of the eclipse.
Our possums look nothing like those lol - February 22, 2008 at 1:46 AM
Years ago when my kids were little we were playing "hide & seek" and my second son pulled all the pots and pans out of the cupboard and hid on the shelf....as if no one would notice the stuff all over the floor. Your kids on the shelf reminded me of that...good picture and good memory!!
Nice eclipse pictures too...looked the same in California!
'possums...yeck! - February 22, 2008 at 1:47 AM
- Tonya Staab said...
Love the photos, especially the kids on the shelf. Oh how I tried to get eclipse photos last night. I don't know how many times I wandered outside with the camera, but wouldn't you know it sunny San Diego actually decided to get a ton of rain and it was horribly overcast that I couldn't see a dang thing.
- February 22, 2008 at 1:55 AM
- Jawan said...
Wonder what your son did with the booger he picked in that picture. It probably stuck between the pages of one of those books by his head. Are you gonna take a picture of that, too? HA! I can't believe I just typed that.....
- February 22, 2008 at 2:56 AM
those were cute pictures!
- February 22, 2008 at 3:26 AM
ADORABLE picture of your two little ones!! Also, I just read your google search post, and I was cracking up! Especially at the butt references, go figure. And I didn't know you could google, like, a whole paragraph!
- February 22, 2008 at 4:40 AM
I think Brooklyn is so beautiful, she got really nice eyes and lips, how cute!!!
I wanna know, do which kid get along better with which one? Seems like Clay and Brooklyn are partners in crime :)
Corrina - February 22, 2008 at 5:20 AM
- Sally Jo said...
These are all great pictures!!!
- February 22, 2008 at 7:30 AM
- MaBunny said...
How adorable:)) They are soo cute.
We tried to see the lunar eclipse in Dallas Texas but it was so cloudy and drizzly that we didn't get to see much of anything. Nice picture taking from Austina and Savanah.
MaBunny - February 22, 2008 at 7:51 AM
- Lysa said...
Maybe the opossum was looking for a turkey and cheese sandwich?
Be careful of those things. They are MEAN and dumb. They do not know to rub when you try to scare them away. When my kids were little I had set a bag of trash right outside back door because it was raining. It had baby food jars in it. An opossum came up on the deck and was eatting into the bag. I opened the door thinking it would scare it away. NO!! He sat up, looked at me, and beared his big ugly teeth at me. OMG, what if he'd ran into the house???
Nasty nasty critters!
Cool picx of the moon and I love the one of the kids in the shelf. You have some tiny kids or that shelf is much larger than mine!
Love your blog! - February 22, 2008 at 8:16 AM
- FLmom7 said...
The kids "sleeping" on the shelves is hilarious! The eclipse was cool. We got to see it too (in Florida).
- February 22, 2008 at 8:19 AM
Shelving the kids! Love it!
- February 22, 2008 at 8:23 AM
- Stacey said...
I have to comment about yesterday's post. You definitely shouldn't be judged because of one sandwich. Sheesh! Check out this video:
I love the picture of your kids on the shelf and the eclipse. Great pictures! - February 22, 2008 at 8:25 AM
- Brenda said...
King of like compact bunk beds ; ) I love the eclipse picture. I planned all evening on watching it and forgot!
- February 22, 2008 at 8:27 AM
Cute pics of the kids on shelves!! Opposums are really creapy there was one across the road from us when we bought our house and our dog barked so much we thought she would lose her voice!! I wish I would have gotten to see the eclipse unfortunately it was very cloudy due to the rain so I didnt get to see it :( however one of my friends on myspace posted some really nice pics and also they managed to use their telescope to record saturn you can even see the rings it was awesome!! I dont know if you can see this but I will try to link it to you if you would like a view
Love your blog
sasha - February 22, 2008 at 8:34 AM
- Michelle said...
Can't wait to see the Birthday cakes:)
Call critter control...that would freak me out.
Yum..now you have your own antibiotics at home...no need to go to the doc...just keep pinching off a piece of that sandwich:) - February 22, 2008 at 8:38 AM
- Erica said...
OH my GOSH! We had a lunar eclipse here too! We must be looking at the same moon! Weird. *lol* Thanks for making me laugh by saying that you had one there. We had an earthquake here the next morning. Talk about freaky. Love your blog!
- February 22, 2008 at 9:05 AM
I hate oppossums!! we have them here. (NWI) AT one time we thought we had a cat sleeping in our garage, I found a baby oppossum sleeping in a bucket!! eewwww My husband got into a fight with it, with the oppossum at one end of the broom and him at the other!! My husband had to use the hose to get rid of it!! They are ugly!! I hope your son is able to sleep now, my wouldn't!! Keep us laughing!! I read you every morning!!!
- February 22, 2008 at 9:26 AM
- Unknown said...
Cute picture of the kids on the shelf. My daughter prefers the kitchen cabinets - which is probably why a lot of my cookware and bakeware ends up in a toybox. It was funny to see your photos as I posted a toddler-in-the-cabinet picture yesterday.
- February 22, 2008 at 10:33 AM
- Kisha said...
Those pictures of the moon look so great!!!!I wish mine and come out like that (hint hint hubby). Gotta love those silly kids.
- February 22, 2008 at 10:33 AM
- Christine said...
I love your pictures of the eclipse! We knew that it was happening but it was too cloudy for us to see anything. We hardley ever get rain down here in Southern California and the one night we don't want it we get it. Checking your blog is my daily routine. Love it!
Christine - February 22, 2008 at 10:54 AM
those pictures are too cute... if only i had shelves big enough!! your oppossum totally reminded me of something and has given me something to blog about today. :)
btw, i stumbled on your site from the bloggers choice awards... and i love it! - February 22, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Sigh. If only we could "put them away" when we're done playing with them.
Cute, cute, cute. - February 22, 2008 at 11:25 AM
- TheHMC said...
ahaha! Love the pics of the kids on the bookshelf. Reminds me of when my *almost* 20 month old clears out the bottom shelf of my linen closet and climbs in. She hardly fits, and screams everytime she does it, but still insists on doing it over and over again.
Your eclipse pics are great!! My friend(here in CO) said she watched it with her son the other night and I wish I'd known about it before the fact.
I thought of you this morning. I was in my boys' room and saw my sons paint set(Spin N' Paint) on the floor, exactly where I told him NOT to put it last night. Now, upon putting it in the closet, I made a discovery that I thought you might appreciate. I must preface this with the fact that I don't go into the boys' closet all that often. The oldest 2 have the majority of their clothes in there, and when I do laundry, I make them put their own things away. This is why it's taken until now for me to make the discovery that my 8 year old took a box of doughnuts OUT of the trash that I threw out almost 2 weeks ago. My husband had bought them, we didn't eat them all, I threw them out about 5 or 6 days after the fact, and at the time, said 8 year old started jumping up and down, talking about how he wanted one. I refused, because he doesn't need to eat them, and they were stale. Unbeknownst to me, the child TOOK them out of the trash and not only ate, like 4 of the stupid things, but then he stashed the box and the remaining 3 doughnuts in the top of his closet.
I guess I should be labeled a bad mother now too, for letting doughnuts chill in the top of my kids' closet for almost 2 weeks.
TWO WEEKS! I apparently need to investigate the closet more often. - February 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM
appropos of nothing at all, have you seen the William Tell Mom on YouTube?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxT5NwQUtVM
She is soooo funny! - February 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM
- Irishmama said...
Oppossoms freak me out. I'd have passed out if one were looking in the window......
By the way, is it 'an' oppossom or 'a' oppossom? What is the rule when the 'o' is silent? I've always wondered.....maybe one of your readers will know. I've always avoided putting the term in written word. - February 22, 2008 at 2:29 PM
The opossum picture really weirded me out. About a week ago I had a dream that there was an opossum on my window sill and I let him in and was carrying him around the house. The dream alone was bizarre enough, but now to see that opossums actually do go up to peoples windows........
- February 22, 2008 at 2:57 PM
- Becky said...
LOL on the Possum...I guess my little guy should be glad all he had was a cricket!
Your son will never, ever forget that! - February 22, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Hi Dawn, I have a few question's for sunday sound out. #1. How long have you and Joe been married? #2. Did he propose to you in a unique way? #3. What time do you put the kiddo's to bed on school nights and weekends? Kristine in Michigan.
- February 22, 2008 at 3:50 PM
- AlaneM said...
Ewwwww I hate opossums, they look like huge rats with an attitude. I prefer to see them as roadkill, much better than the skunks we get around here anyway!
And those pix of your kids in the shelf...soooo cute! - February 22, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Wow, its cute pictures, especially a lunar picture... very nice..
- February 22, 2008 at 3:59 PM
- Keeley said...
Oh my gosh, your children on the shelf were so DANG CUTE! Did you just have to grab them and kiss their cute little rosy cheeks? =)
Lovely pictures of the eclipse. You're an excellent photographer. - February 22, 2008 at 5:10 PM
- Unknown said...
That was nice of you to gift the guesser of the mystery sandwich..BUT..who gets the turkey & cheese?
- February 22, 2008 at 5:15 PM
- Shari said...
You crack me up! Thanks for sharing.
- February 22, 2008 at 5:57 PM
- Lynne's Somewhat Invented Life said...
absoultly loved the pictures of the kids in the book and game shelves. Too cute. What did you do with the critter?
- February 22, 2008 at 6:11 PM
- human carvery said...
Hi dawn, I think it's cruel to let 2 children sleep on 1 shelf, should let them have a shelf each & call them bunk beds!!! Seriously, cute picture. I used to sleep in a drawer - for real!
I started my own blog about 10 minutes ago, nobody has commented yet, any tips? You can save teh question for Sunday if you like, long time reader, first time poster, thanks for making me laugh - February 22, 2008 at 6:32 PM
- MaNiC MoMMy™ said...
LOL!!! - February 22, 2008 at 6:41 PM
I agree with Mary--very cute!!
Jenn--LOL! Loved your funny comment! :) - February 22, 2008 at 7:28 PM
- Marilyn said...
Possums are cool! They are actually quite beneficial to have around. They eat slugs, snails and small rodents. They also clean up roadkill. Their body temperature is too low to incubate the rabies virus so there's no worry of them being rabid.
- February 22, 2008 at 8:47 PM
- Mom Of 3 said...
My oldest used to clean out the entertainment center and climb under it too. Kids are so funny!
- February 22, 2008 at 8:53 PM
- Joanie said...
Now that you're a famous mom, you probably get this a lot, but I must tell you the smiles on your two tiny ones are just gorgeous. What a beautiful family you have. So adorable!
- February 22, 2008 at 9:16 PM
- Patty Jo said...
I love your blog. It is hilarious and so down to "true life"! I have three of my own and they make my head spin at times. I am usually the one with moldy food, Just Kidding! Thanks for sharing your stories! I love them! Wish I could get over here more to see your daily posts!
- February 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Wow! Clay and Brooklyn have the same bedroom I had as a child, only my doors were the sliding kind. I, too, have the picture to prove it. Mine was actually a record cabinet, but it was my favorite hide away place until one day the cabinet just shrunk!!! I thought Mom was going to have to use Crisco me to get me out! Ah, the good old days when Crisco was good for you, oh and yeah the fond memories of hiding in a place where you could eavesdrop on the grownups without detection, until one of them played the stereo and found out about your wonderful hideout because your wiggling kept making the record skip. Dads take it very serious when their albums get scratched. Oops, now I have aged myself :oj
P.S. I live in opossum country and my girlfriend actually ate opossum stew!!(of course she was told about it after the fact -did NOT taste like chicken, according to her) Mean and nasty little critters, even the cute babies. - February 23, 2008 at 1:17 AM
- Unknown said...
At the very least you could let them sleep on separate shelves! Cute picture!
- February 23, 2008 at 9:07 AM
- Debi said...
The picture of them in the bookcase is priceless! My 18yodd use to love to climb in the kitchen cabinet, one of my favorite pictures of her! Enjoy them, the days pass quickly.
- February 23, 2008 at 8:13 PM
- Wineplz said...
oh, that 'possum is WAY scarier than the neighbor's cat that tried jumping and jumping and jumping into my window in the middle of the night when I was in elementary school.
But I'm so glad your kids got pics of the lunar eclipse...we missed it because it was too cloudy out that night out here in VA. - February 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Nice pictures! When they grow up, they will remember and appreciate you more as their loving and kind parent.
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For a long time there have been discussions of what we in Xiph would change in the Ogg container once we considered it appropriate to break spec. transOgg is an updated Ogg container (ie Ogg v 2) that makes some changes to the Ogg transport layer and more directly tackles metadata. transOgg: Changes from Ogg summarizes the major changes from the original Ogg container design. This page presents an overview of nebulous transOgg design points and rationale.
As of today, transOgg exists only in the form of the whitepapers and structure proposals here. This spec is only in the very early stages of being written. No code exists as yet.
Design Points
In no particular order:
- transOgg is degined for local storage and packet-based transport. Some intended uses include:
- HTTP push/pull streaming (eg, HTML5, icecast/shoutcast).
- local file storage (eg, digital video storage and online distribution)
- physical media (eg, digital video distribution on optical media)
- packet broadcast (eg, UDP multicast, encrypted multicast)
- transOgg is designed for variable, unpredictably sized data payloads with no minumum or maximum size.
- The transOgg container is structurally designed for streaming (both live and progressive download). It is not possible to construct a valid transOgg stream that is unsuitable for streaming.
- transOgg defines two steam types: continuous-time and discontinuous-time. Continuous-time streams are gapless media such as video and audio. Discontinuous-time streams are media types with unpredictably or irregularly placed data, such as subtitles and timed metadata.
- transOgg metadata is structurally encapsulated into the transport stream but located at fixed, predictable positions (excepting streamed metadata, which are treated as a discontinuous stream).
- transOgg retains Ogg's flat page structure. The new/tweaked page primitive is a blend of Ogg pages, Matroska clusters/blocks and NUT packets. Achievable minimum overhead drops to under .04%; practical overhead improves upon NUT, Ogg and Matroska.
- A transOgg stream always captures and begins demux within 128kB maximum. Fine-grained capture is necessary for efficient streaming, seeking and scrubbing. The overhead tradeoff of a frequent capture pattern is negligable and fully offset by other improvements.
- Multiplexing of multiple elementary streams is performed by interleaving at the page level. The multiplexing algorithm is fully specified, deterministic and delivers optimal buffering behavior. There is no educated guessing or multiple possible practices.
- transOgg buffering is simple and explicitly specified.
- transOgg implements nonlinear features such as menus, chapters, loop points, and branch points out of its linear stream transport by borrowing from CMML, Skeleton and Matroska's EBML metadata specification.
- Valid transOgg streams may be concatenated to form a new, valid transOgg stream. Mandatory reverse linkage at the end of each stream eliminates the need for interpolated bisection search when opening concatenated streams. Cross-link metadata provides file-global indexing and chaptering for chained streams.
- transOgg metadata begins and ends every stream. Metadata is mandatory, fully specified, and part of 'container knowledge'.
- A transOgg stream must begin with the master metadata header. This master header is the first page[s] of the physical transOgg bitstream as well as the logical master metadata stream.
- The metadata stream is a discontinuous stream that may provide additional timed metadata and events throughout the stream, similar to NUT 'info packets'.
- A transOgg stream must end with metadata footer page[s] that provide, among other things, reverse linkage to the beginning of the stream.
- Tags (user contributed metadata) and Cues (the index) may appear at the head of the stream or in the footer, as may any other metadata elements that could not be known before stream end in a live stream (eg, duration). Single-pass creation tools write these elements in the footer metadata. Tools can later move these elements to the header metadata. All other metadata elements may appear only in the header.
- Headerless capture, multicast, and stateless unicast MAY be supported within the metadata stream using "rolling headers", similar to the "rolling intra" mechanism proposed for the Theora videocodec. This allows stream capture and playback in a bounded timeperiod without OOB transmission of headers or bitrate spikes. It also facilitates file recovery in the event the stream headers are lost.
- Structural codec metadata, such as timebase, keyframing, coding delay, page duration, etc, are replicated in the transOgg container. Unlike Ogg (and to a lesser degree Matroska), no knowledge must be queried or assumed based on the specific codecs in use inorder to mux, demux, remux, repaginate, transmux, or seek in a bitstream.
- As in NUT, all streams have their own rational timebase. The encoding used is a parameterized generalization of Ogg granule positions. The granule timebase and parameters are fully specified and declared in the container. The granule mechanism is capable of exact sample positioning without approximation, expressing PTS and DTS of out-of-order encodings, preroll/delay of keyframe-lesscodecs, and distance from last syncpoint.
- All encapsulated packets are stamped with full DTS, PTS, duration, delay, and syncpoint distance.
- Whenever possible, the transOgg specification presents a single, correct, optimal MUST behavior. Whenever possible, the container design seeks to make MUST behaviors structural. We avoid handwaving essential behaviors into 'best practices' documents 'to be specified later'.
- the core transOgg container seeks to avoid optional structures, switches, code paths, and features in its framing mechanisms. Optional structures and features are acceptable (and necessary) within metadata.
High level design
The high level transOgg design consists of a transport, metadata, and specified practices. These pieces are conceptually seperable, but the container cannot succeed missing any one.
Transport is the mechanism of encapsulating and delivering data. transOgg uses a modified/updated Ogg page mechanism for data and metadata delivery.
Transport benefits from a simple, fixed encoding. Optional features, arbitrary extensibility, recursive or non-flat heirarchy, and conditional semantic encoding are undesirable complications in a low level transport and should be used only when clearly advantageous or unavoidable. Specifying transport as a self-contained layer also seperates correct transport behavior and corner cases from the rest of the container behavior.
Raw A/V media is fundamentally time-linear in atomic form. Networks and storage media deliver data for consumption in a time-linear stream of bytes. Both suggest that a linear encoding is optimal for the low-level encapsulation. Metadata can build non-linear presentation from linear segments. Nonlinear structural metadata appears at the beginning and end of the stream; as such, this metadata can also be placed in the linear transport easily as the beginning and end of data. Encapsulating metadata in the transport like the streaming data also makes it trivial to support streamed metadata and 'rolling headers' using preexisting transport mechanisms. (*-- discuss both chaining and multi-segment; metadata that can reach across segments? etc?)
Metadata is everything in a stream/file that is not the media stream itself. transOgg proposes use a packed encoding for metadata types unlikely to see much flux, and an extensibly-structured encoding for more free-form types (eg, Matroska-style metadata in an EBML encoding for stream tagging).
Metadata encompasses a number of semantically quite different concepts, eg:
- 1: data about how the individual streams are encoded and encapsulated (codec id, timebase, continuous/discontinuous encoding, codec private data, etc). This metadata is essential to base container operation and must function as container knowledge. It is always located in a fixed position at the beginning of the file as it must be read to bootstrap container operation.
- 2: data about navigating the file as it's currently arranged (linkages, indexing, chapters). This data is either essential to high-level container operation or essential to the application depending on how the implementation abstractions work out.
- 3: data about how the streams are presented for playback (langauge, primary angle, available soundtrack languages, menus). This data is needed by the application.
- 4: user-supplied comments, one-shot auxiliary data (tags, album art). This data is needed by the application and the user.
Each kind of metadata shares some basic traits. It is heirarchical, largely conditional, and benefits from a rich stable of optional elements to be used as appropraite. It is also likely that aside from the MUST elements required for playback (mostly from list 1), not all metadata will be interesting to all players. An obvious use case is a memory and CPU constrained mobile device with no bitmapped display which would want to entirely ignore/skip large album art chunks.
Specified practices
Specified practices provide the instruction manual for proper use of the container system in all cases where the container structure allows multiple behavioral or encoding possibilities. 'best practices' is a more common term, however 'best' connotes that such guidelines are merely suggestive. Specified practices are effectively MUST clauses that govern proper behavior rather than valid data.
Specified practices are an especially weak point of current FOSS container offerings. Developers of open projects often value a system that offers many equivalent ways of performing a task, and leave it to higher-level developers (or worse, the user) to somehow make an informed decision of how to proceed. In the container space, this is undesirable bordering on disaster; 'more' is 'less'.
To choose an absurd example, it might be technologically nifty to be able to place an index into the middle of a file, but what could it possibly accomplish? Absurd flexibility results in absurd bugs. When absurd or clearly suboptimal choices are structurally possible, the spec should not be silent on the subject. The spec MUST explicitly address allowed and disallowed behavior to the most complete degree achievable.
Proposals / Commentary Requested
transOgg is a specification in the early stages of design. As such, we're soliciting feedback on specific design proposals below, with more to be added over time as the design process approaches new milestones.
- TransOgg_Seeking_Proposals: Three proposed seeking mechanism variants for transOgg.
- TransOgg_Page: Specification of transOgg page primitive
- TransOgg_Transport: Specification of transOgg stream
- TransOgg_Metadata: Specification of transOgg stream metadata


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Harvard Is Getting Wiser.
The Healthy Eating Plate, created by nutrition experts at Harvard School of Public Health and editors at Harvard Health Publications, was designed to address deficiencies in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s MyPlate. The Healthy Eating Plate provides detailed guidance, in a simple format, to help people make the best eating choices.
Use The Healthy Eating Plate as a guide for creating healthy, balanced meals—whether served on a plate or packed in a lunch box. Put a copy on the refrigerator as a daily reminder to create healthy, balanced meals!
- Make most of your meal vegetables and fruits – ½ of your plate:
Aim for color and variety, and remember that potatoes don't count as vegetables on the Healthy Eating Plate because of their negative impact on blood sugar.
- Go for whole grains – ¼ of your plate:
Whole and intact grains—whole wheat, barley, wheat berries, quinoa, oats, brown rice, and foods made with them, such as whole wheat pasta—have a milder effect on blood sugar and insulin than white bread, white rice, and other refined grains.
- Protein power – ¼ of your plate:
Fish, chicken, beans, and nuts are all healthy, versatile protein sources—they can be mixed into salads, and pair well with vegetables on a plate. Limit red meat, and avoid processed meats such as bacon and sausage.
- Healthy plant oils – in moderation:
Choose healthy vegetable oils like olive, canola, soy, corn, sunflower, peanut, and others, and avoid partially hydrogenated oils, which contain unhealthy trans fats. Remember that low-fat does not mean "healthy."
- Drink water, coffee, or tea:
Skip sugary drinks, limit milk and dairy products to one to two servings per day, and limit juice to a small glass per day.
- Stay active:
The red figure running across the Healthy Eating Plate's placemat is a reminder that staying active is also important in weight control.
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The main message of the Healthy Eating Plate is to focus on diet quality.
- The type of carbohydrate in the diet is more important than the amount of carbohydrate in the diet, because some sources of carbohydrate—like vegetables (other than potatoes), fruits, whole grains, and beans—are healthier than others.
- The Healthy Eating Plate also advises consumers to avoid sugary beverages, a major source of calories—usually with little nutritional value—in the American diet.
- The Healthy Eating Plate encourages consumers to use healthy oils, and it does not set a maximum on the percentage of calories people should get each day from healthy sources of fat. In this way, the Healthy Eating Plate recommends the opposite of the low-fat message promoted for decades by the USDA.
Your Questions Answered
Are the relative sizes of the Healthy Eating Plate sections based on calories or volume?
The Healthy Eating Plate does not define a certain number of calories or servings per day from each food group. The relative section sizes suggest approximate relative proportions of each of the food groups to include on a healthy plate. They are not based on specific calorie amounts, and they are not meant to prescribe a certain number of calories or servings per day, since individuals' calorie and nutrient needs vary based on age, gender, body size, and level of activity.
What about alcohol? Isn't alcohol supposed to be good for you in small amounts?
Alcohol in moderation is beneficial, and it's illustrated in Harvard's Healthy Eating Pyramid from 2005. But it's not for everyone, which is why it is not included in the Healthy Eating Plate.
Will the Healthy Eating Pyramid be going away?
Generations of Americans are accustomed to the food pyramid design, and it's not going away. In fact, the Healthy Eating Pyramid and the Healthy Eating Plate complement each other.
Consumers can think of the Healthy Eating Pyramid as a grocery list:
- Vegetables, fruits, whole grains, healthy oils, and healthy proteins like nuts, beans, fish, and chicken should make it into the shopping cart every week, along with a little yogurt or milk if desired.
- The Healthy Eating Pyramid also addresses other aspects of a healthy lifestyle—exercise, weight control, vitamin D, and multivitamin supplements, and moderation in alcohol for people who drink—so it's a useful tool for health professionals and health educators.
- The Healthy Eating Plate and the companion Healthy Eating Pyramid summarize the best dietary information available today. They aren't set in stone, though, because nutrition researchers will undoubtedly turn up new information in the years ahead. The Healthy Eating Pyramid and the Healthy Eating Plate will change to reflect important new evidence.
When was the USDA Food Guide Pyramid first created?
In 1992, the USDA created a powerful icon: the Food Guide Pyramid. This simple illustration conveyed what the USDA said were the elements of a healthy diet. The Pyramid was taught in schools, appeared in countless media articles and brochures, and was plastered on cereal boxes and food labels.
However, the information embodied in this pyramid was based on shaky scientific evidence, and it was seldom updated to reflect major advances in our understanding of the connection between diet and health.
The USDA retired the Food Guide Pyramid in 2005 and replaced it with MyPyramid. Critics complained that the symbol was vague and confusing, so in June 2011 the USDA replaced MyPyramid with a new and simpler icon, MyPlate.
The USDA's pyramids and MyPlate had many contributors. Some are obvious—USDA scientists, nutrition experts, staff members, and consultants. Others aren't. Intense lobbying efforts from a variety of food industries also helped shape the pyramid and the plate.
As an alternative to the USDA's nutrition advice, faculty members at the Harvard School of Public Health created first the Healthy Eating Pyramid and more recently the Healthy Eating Plate. Just as the Healthy Eating Pyramid rectifies the mistakes of the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid, the Healthy Eating Plate addresses flaws in the USDA's MyPlate. Both the Healthy Eating Pyramid and the Healthy Eating Plate are based on the latest science about how our food, drink, and activity choices affect our health.
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Will following the Healthy Eating Pyramid and Healthy Eating Plate guidelines really make me healthier?
According to research done at Harvard School of Public Health and elsewhere (1-3), following the Healthy Eating Pyramid and Healthy Eating Plate guidelines can lead to a lower risk of heart disease and premature death:
- In the 1990s, the USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion created the Healthy Eating Index "to measure how well American diets conform to recommended healthy eating patterns." (4) A score of 100 meant following the federal recommendations to the letter while a score of 0 meant totally ignoring them.
- To see how well the principles embodied in the Healthy Eating Pyramid stacked up against the government's advice, Harvard School of Public Health researchers created an Alternate Healthy Eating Index with a scoring system similar to the USDA's index. They then compared the two indexes, using information about daily diets collected from more than 100,000 female nurses and male health professionals taking part in two long-term studies.
- The eleven components assessed by the Alternate Healthy Eating Index were dairy products; vegetables; fruit; nuts & seeds; bread/grains; meat, poultry & fish; cholesterol; fat; sodium; alcohol; and multivitamins.
- Men who scored highest on the USDA's original Healthy Eating Index (meaning their diets most closely followed federal recommendations) reduced their overall risk of developing heart disease, cancer, or other chronic disease by 11 percent over 8 to 12 years of follow-up compared to those who scored lowest. Women who most closely followed the government's recommendations were only 3 percent less likely to have developed a chronic disease. (5)
- In comparison, scores on the Alternate Healthy Eating Index created at the Harvard School of Public Health did appear to correlate more closely with better health in both sexes. Men with high scores (those whose diets most closely followed the Healthy Eating Pyramid guidelines) were 20 percent less likely to have developed a major chronic disease than those with low scores. Women with high scores lowered their overall risk by 11 percent. Men whose diets most closely followed the Healthy Eating Pyramid lowered their risk of cardiovascular disease by almost 40 percent; women with high scores lowered their risk by almost 30 percent.
- In a 2014 study looking at trends in diet quality among adults in the US, researchers using The Alternate Healthy Eating Index found that there was steady improvement from 1999 to 2010, but that overall dietary quality remains poor. (6)
Two studies offer further evidence of the disease prevention benefits that accrue from following a diet similar to one based on the Healthy Eating Pyramid:
- A study that tracked 7,319 British civil servants for 18 years found that men and women with the highest scores on the Alternate Healthy Eating Index had a 25 percent lower risk of dying from any cause, and a 42 percent lower risk of dying from heart disease, than people with the lowest scores. (3)
- Another observational study in 93,676 post-menopausal women found that following a Healthy Eating Pyramid-style diet (as measured by adherence to the Alternative Healthy Eating Index) was superior to following a low-fat diet at lowering cardiovascular disease and heart failure risk. (1)
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The Healthy Eating Plate image on this Web site is owned by Harvard University. It may be downloaded and used without permission for educational and other non-commercial uses with proper attribution, including the following copyright notification and credit line:
Copyright © 2011, Harvard University. For more information about The Healthy Eating Plate, please see The Nutrition Source, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, www.thenutritionsource.org, and Harvard Health Publications, www.health.harvard.edu.
Any other use, including commercial reuse or mounting on other systems, requires permission from the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health. To request permission, please contact us to use the Healthy Eating Plate reprint request form.
1. Akbaraly, T.N., et al., Alternative Healthy Eating Index and mortality over 18 y of follow-up: results from the Whitehall II cohort. Am J Clin Nutr, 2011. 94(1): p. 247-53.
2. Belin, R.J., et al., Diet quality and the risk of cardiovascular disease: the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). Am J Clin Nutr, 2011. 94(1): p. 49-57.
3. McCullough, M.L., et al., Diet quality and major chronic disease risk in men and women: moving toward improved dietary guidance. Am J Clin Nutr, 2002. 76(6): p. 1261-71.
4. U.S. Department of Agriculture and Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, The Healthy Eating Index (PDF), 1995.
5. World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, Continuous Update Project Report Summary. Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Colorectal Cancer, 2011.
6. Wang DD, Leung CW, Li Y, Ding EL, Chiuve SE, Hu FB5, Willett WC. Trends in dietary quality among adults in the United States, 1999 through 2010. JAMA Intern Med. 2014. 174(10):1587-95.


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In the decade following the Alexandria Lacrosse Club's founding, Tom McHugh's happily watched participation spike, fulfilling early hopes of cultivating his love of the sport in the city's youth.
When ALC celebrates the start of its 10th season later this month, more than 500 children and teenagers on dozens of teams will face off against one another. That's up from 300 when McHugh, wanting a program for his kids closer to home than Fort Hunt, first organized the league.
It's a testament to the sport's growing popularity. Baltimore-based U.S. Lacrosse estimates national youth participation rose by about 30,000 from 2009 to 2010. About 625,000 athletes grabbed a crosse for an organized team in the same time period, up from roughly 250,000 in 2001.
"[Lacrosse] gets into your blood," said McHugh, a former collegiate player. "It's a great game. It's football, basketball, soccer and hockey — all these things rolled into one game. And you have a good time on top of it."
When he founded ALC, most of the players had ties to the city's private schools, which already offered various lacrosse programs. With Alexandria's public schools discovering the sport, the club is seeing an ever-diversifying mix of athletes, he said.
Which, along with keeping local kids active, is one of the group's goals. It gave the city's middle schools about $3,000 to start a girls lacrosse program in the hopes of sparking interest and further expanding its allure, said ALC Commissioner Bruce McCulloch.
While he's proud of the initiative, McCulloch isn't sure lacrosse needs much help in attracting new players. Lacrosse is the "it" sport of the decade, he said.
"Lacrosse is being seen as the cool sport and it's because of word of mouth: that it's a fun sport, it's fast … and it's constant movement and there's a lot of scoring," McCulloch said. "The real growth is at the younger levels."
The club increasingly acts as a feeder to the high school programs, particularly at T.C. Williams High School. Where prospective lacrosse players once might have joined T.C.'s program without having picked up a stick, about half come with some experience, boys coach Michael Mulherin told the Times last year.
Despite rosy news of the sport's rapid growth, fans and supporters fight a constant battle against lacrosse's less-than-favorable public image. Though it's changing, there's still work ahead, McCulloch and McHugh said.
An elite sport
"Former University of Virginia lacrosse player" was how the Washington Post described George Huguely V when reporting on his second-degree murder conviction in February.
Huguely was convicted in the beating death of his former girlfriend, fellow UVA lacrosse player Yeardley Love, in the latest high-profile criminal case to mar the sport. In 2006, three Duke lacrosse players were accused — and ultimately exonerated — with sexually assaulting two exotic dancers during a party.
Two years later, eight lacrosse players were suspended from the University of Massachusetts' team for allegedly sending three people to the hospital in a nighttime brawl. Three were charged in the incident, during which lacrosse sticks were wielded as weapons.
"The trial down in Charlottesville certainly didn't help the image of lacrosse at the college level," McCulloch said. "[Private schools were] where it was for many, many years. I played at St. Stephen's and at that time T.C. didn't have a team. That's what we are combating … the image and the cost."
It's hard to talk about lacrosse without mentioning the nagging negative connotations; that it's a sport for the upper class, for prep schools and ivy-covered colleges. A 2010 New York Times profile of lacrosse star Paul Rabil don't get far before portraying him as the man with the potential to overshadow the sport's bad publicity.
But outside of the Mid-Atlantic, lacrosse has enjoyed a wider, more diverse audience, said McHugh. What's viewed as a white-collar endeavor here is a regular sport in places like upstate New York. McHugh and McCulloch remain committed ambassadors of the sport in Alexandria.
"If you look at the roster at T.C., it looks like the United Nations," McHugh said. "At the ALC level, we need to increase our diversity in terms of the [city's] population. It's a little bit challenging just because the game is viewed as a predominantly Caucasian sport … We're not going to ever turn a kid away because mom and dad can't write them a check [to play]."
Leveling the playing field
When T.C.'s female lacrosse team takes the pitch this year, Don West will be the man with the whistle in his mouth. He's less concerned with the sport's image than McHugh or McCullogh and more focused on making sure the girls on his team have a bit of experience under their belt.
He credits ALC with sending veteran players his way. While Alexandria doesn't have as deep of a well to draw from as, say, Lake Braddock or Robinson, West believes all a good lacrosse player needs is athleticism.
"You can give me an eighth-grader or ninth-grader that are very good athletes and they can pick up the sport relatively quickly," he said.
And like his fellow lacrosse enthusiasts at ALC, West is a firm believer in the sport's innate enjoyment and accessibility. As long as he's played and coached, lacrosse has grown increasingly popular.
"[I] always liked the sport," West said. "It is a blue collar sport and a white collar sport and I don't think anyone cares who is what … It's just a great community to be involved in."


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Dehydration, Heat Exhaustion, and Heat Stroke
I had luckily purchased some gatorade powder/mix for any influenza outbreaks in our household, so with the help of my 12 year old, mixed that with water and drank that most of the day. I also took a cool-to-cold shower and rested on the bed.
I'm still a bit shaky but this goes to show that we need to be careful whether in normal every-day circumstances, or prepping for a particular situation.
Be careful yourselves. Here's some info from: http://www.umm.edu/non_trauma/dehyrat.htmWhat is dehydration?
Dehydration can be a serious heat-related disease, as well as being a dangerous side-effect of diarrhea, vomiting and fever. Children and persons over the age of 60 are particularly susceptible to dehydration.
What causes dehydration?
Under normal conditions, we all lose body water daily through sweat, tears, urine and stool. In a healthy person, this water is replaced by drinking fluids and eating foods that contain water.
When a person becomes so sick with fever, diarrhea, or vomiting or if an individual is overexposed to the sun, dehydration occurs. This is caused when the body loses water content and essential body salts such as sodium, potassium, calcium bicarbonate and phosphate.
Occasionally, dehydration can be caused by drugs, such as diuretics, which deplete body fluids and electrolytes. Whatever the cause, dehydration should be treated as soon as possible.
What are the symptoms of dehydration?
The following are the most common symptoms of dehydration, although each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- thirst
- less-frequent urination
- dry skin
- fatigue
- light-headedness
- dizziness
- confusion
- dry mouth and mucous membranes
- increased heart rate and breathing
- dry mouth and tongue
- no tears when crying
- no wet diapers for more than 3 hours
- sunken abdomen, eyes or cheeks
- high fever
- listlessness
- irritability
- skin that does not flatten when pinched and released
Treatment for dehydration:
If caught early, dehydration can often be treated at home under a physician's guidance. In children, directions for giving food and fluids will differ according to the cause of the dehydration, so it is important to consult your pediatrician.
In cases of mild dehydration, simple rehydration is recommended by drinking fluids. Many sports drinks on the market effectively restore body fluids, electrolytes, and salt balance.
For moderate dehydration, intravenous fluids may be required, although if caught early enough, simple rehydration may be effective. Cases of serious dehydration should be treated as a medical emergency, and hospitalization, along with intravenous fluids, is necessary. Immediate action should be taken.
How can dehydration be prevented?
Take precautionary measures to avoid the harmful effects of dehydration, including:
- Drink plenty of fluids, especially when working or playing in the sun.
- Make sure you are taking in more fluid than you are losing.
- Try to schedule physical outdoor activities for the cooler parts of the day.
- Drink appropriate sports drinks to help maintain electrolyte balance.
- For infants and young children, solutions like Pedialyte will help maintain electrolyte balance during illness or heat exposure. Do not try to make fluid and salt solutions at home for children.
What is heat stroke?
Heat stroke is the most severe form of heat illness and is a life-threatening emergency. It is the result of long, extreme exposure to the sun, in which a person does not sweat enough to lower body temperature. The elderly, infants, persons who work outdoors and those on certain types of medications are most susceptible to heat stroke. It is a condition that develops rapidly and requires immediate medical treatment.
What causes heat stroke?
Our bodies produce a tremendous amount of internal heat and we normally cool ourselves by sweating and radiating heat through the skin. However, in certain circumstances, such as extreme heat, high humidity or vigorous activity in the hot sun, this cooling system may begin to fail, allowing heat to build up to dangerous levels.
If a person becomes dehydrated and can not sweat enough to cool their body, their internal temperature may rise to dangerously high levels, causing heat stroke.
What are the symptoms of heat stroke?
The following are the most common symptoms of heat stroke, although each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- headache
- dizziness
- disorientation, agitation or confusion
- sluggishness or fatigue
- seizure
- hot, dry skin that is flushed but not sweaty
- a high body temperature
- loss of consciousness
- rapid heart beat
- hallucinations
How is heat stroke treated?
It is important for the person to be treated immediately as heat stroke can cause permanent damage or death. There are some immediate first aid measures you can take while waiting for help to arrive.
- Get the person indoors.
- Remove clothing and gently apply cool water to the skin followed by fanning to stimulate sweating.
- Apply ice packs to the groin and armpits.
- Have the person lie down in a cool area with their feet slightly elevated
- Intravenous fluids are often necessary to compensate for fluid or electrolyte loss. Bed rest is generally advised and body temperature may fluctuate abnormally for weeks after heat stroke.
How can heat stroke be prevented?
There are precautions that can help protect you against the adverse effects of heat stroke. These include:
- Drink plenty of fluids during outdoor activities, especially on hot days. Water and sports drinks are the drinks of choice; avoid tea, coffee, soda and alcohol as these can lead to dehydration.
- Wear lightweight, tightly woven, loose-fitting clothing in light colors.
- Schedule vigorous activity and sports for cooler times of the day.
- Protect yourself from the sun by wearing a hat, sunglasses and using an umbrella.
- Increase time spent outdoors gradually to get your body used to the heat.
- During outdoor activities, take frequent drink breaks and mist yourself with a spray bottle to avoid becoming overheated.
- Try to spend as much time indoors as possible on very hot and humid days.
- If you live in a hot climate and have a chronic condition, talk to your physician about extra precautions you can take to protect yourself against heat stroke.
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