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Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Monday, December 4, 2006
doctor's visit
We had our two-month doctor's visit today. We have a big girl. Our "little" Naiya weighs 12 lbs. 3 oz. and is now 24 inches long. That puts her in the 90% range for weight and the 100% range for height (whatever that means). The doctor said that everything is coming along fine. She has the social smile going on, she tracks well with her eyes, has good reflexes and strong muscle tone in her abdomen (keep an eye out for the six-pack.) We thought she had a bruise above her bottom but it turns out it's some kind of birth mark (which is great because it's been there for a month and we were starting to worry.) It might go away the doctor said. Not a big deal if it doesn't. Her head is getting a little flat on one side so the doctor also said to work on having her turn more toward her left. This means laying her in her crib in the direction opposite that which we normally do and generally "forcing" her to favor the side she usually doesn't. Other than that all is well with all of us. Naiya has slept as long as six hours during the night but generally does more like four. Last night was an anomaly. She woke up every hour from about 5:30 to 8:30 this morning. I think she had some bad gas.
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
you've gotta put yourself in the picture
Every now and again I hold the camera out with one hand and snap a few shots. You know, so one day she'll remember that I was there.
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Thursday, November 9, 2006
doggy hat
I was the last of the six of us cousins on my father's side to have a child. The upshot of this placement is that I got a lot of hand-me-down things. Most of it is pretty nice. Every once in a while though, we'd pull a really odd or an especially sparkly bit of clothing out of a bag and just laugh. We'd never put that on our daughter I'd giggle to myself. The doggy hat was one such item...until we put it on her head. Damn, that's cute.
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Tuesday, November 7, 2006
most of the day
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Monday, November 6, 2006
is it the hat?
My aunt Grete makes the most beautiful handmade things. This is one of three lovely blankets she sent. Actually, as you can see, it came with matching hat. I think Naiya Sophia is not so sure about the hat.
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
what, you're not already married?
In addition to all the other excitement in our lives, we've also been discussing our wedding plans for next year! Yes indeed, we are getting married! (For those of you who wondered). We've got a location in Camp Sherman on the beautiful Metolius River picked out for the ceremony and are looking at reserving cabins at the currently renovating, but still quite delightful Lake Creek Lodge. Our idea is to have a quiet two or three day gathering that, in addition to the wedding itself, includes hikes, river and woods exploration and evenings around various fireplaces for our families and friends to get to know each other. Naiya will be just about a year old and it will be Ryan's favorite time of year on my favorite river in Oregon. I can't imagine a lovelier event. I also can't imagine exactly how I'll get these tremendous milk-filled breasts into a wedding dress. A year from now though this may be an entirely different body. Stay tuned...
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006
the word of the day is poo
story as told by daddy
Today was the fourth day of October and the fourth day of Naiya Sophia's life. We have been home from the hospital for two days with Dionne's parents playing a supportive role. Today we took a trip to Target to pick up a couple of nursing bras and some warm clothing for Anke. While they were in the dressing rooms I had been wandering around with my daughter. Upon hearing a small squishy explosion in her diaper I immediately began to search for her mother. Not to avoid the responsibility of the change, mind you, but to let her know I was headed into the bathroom for our first public restroom changing. I found her after about two or three minutes of searching and let her know what I was doing. Then the adventure began.
As I said, this was the first time I had changed her in a public restroom. It was also the first time I had opened up a public changing station.
As you walk into the restroom, the first thing you see is the changing station. You walk down a short hallway (four or five paces) and turn left to go to the stalls, toilets and sinks, but I stopped and opened the changing station. There were no changing table covers. The dispenser was empty, but I did not take this as a bad omen. I just pulled the blanket out of the car seat I had been carrying her in and laid it down on the table. I put a new diaper under the old one and opened it up.
I should say at this point that Naiya's poo isn't that bad at all. It's yellow, with some green chunks that look kind of like spinach. It doesn't smell, and changing her diapers is not difficult or disgusting. I say this with much thanks to the lords of karma that set me up in a Target bathroom today. Upon opening her diaper I found a pretty big mess, nothing I couldn't handle, but a mess. I wiped her bum, and pulled the bad diaper out, everything is looking great, at which point she decided she wasn't done. Now I know that kids have a tendency to continue going to the bathroom after their diaper is removed. I mean, who would want to sit in poo, but Naiya has some special powers I was unaware of. I lifted her legs to finish wiping her bum and she let loose. I don't mean she pooed or peed a little. It was an arcing shot of poo that literally traveled five feet through the air. Her yellow and green poo splattered all over the floor for a stretch of about four to five feet, right in the entry way. This is when three other people happened to be coming into the bathroom. So I am holding Naiya on the changing table (it hadn't occurred to me that those straps might be a good idea), trying to clean her all over again, getting out a third diaper, attempting to wipe poo off the floor, and directing traffic around the poo. One of the poor fools who happened in upon me was an employee too. At this point I was really wishing I had four hands. But I got everything cleaned up, and Naiya back in her car seat (which also had to be cleaned... I am telling you there was poo everywhere). I stuffed her blanket into our diaper bag because there was no way I was putting that thing back on her, and I went on to cleaning the floors. Now as you probably know, the brown paper towels they give you in a public restroom are really good at pushing liquid around, but they aren't all that absorbent. So I was pushing her puddles around for a while until I couldn't really see all the yellow color on the floor and picked up all the chunks. Then I grabbed my daughter and left as quickly as possible. I don't even know if the kid who worked there told anybody about the mess, but I left in a hurry and never found out.
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Sunday, October 1, 2006
born on her due date - the birth story in excruciating detail
I wrote this story the day we arrived home from the hospital so that I wouldn't forget it. I had been mostly awake for about four days so the writing is a bit frenzied and inarticulate. Take it then as you will...
Originally we thought she would be born on the third of October even though she was due on the first. I think I just wanted this because my mom and dad were planning to be here on the third. As my month off of work drew out though, we started to expect her earlier. I don't know if we just really wanted her to come or if I genuinely sensed that she was on her way. Little things changed…subtle things about the way I felt.
Ryan had planned two weeks off of work beginning on Sunday, but that whole week I think he expected her to come too. He called me a couple of times a day every day from work the few days before she was born. Finally on Thursday, his co-workers sent him home. So he was with me on Thursday…nothing happened…a few cramps…and Friday…more cramps. By Saturday morning though, something more started. I woke at about 5am to more intense pressure and a little bit of pain. We were up for about an hour and Ryan put our bags in the car, so sure was he that the moment had come. We laid back down in bed though and fell asleep until about 9am. The pressure and cramp feeling came back and was stronger then but didn't seem to be coming at any kind of regular interval. We took a walk and the feelings were random. We lay down again. I had the stop watch and started timing what began to seem like real contractions that were about 30 to 45 seconds and regularly about 7 minutes apart. I got in the bath though and they became further apart and irregular again. I thought we should just do regular stuff so I cleaned up the house a bit and we kept timing. When I would lay down they would get regular…less so when I moved. We called our doctor's office. It was a Saturday and she was not in so we spoke to the on call doctor (who ultimately delivered our baby but whose name I still can't remember…Dr. O' something). She seemed to think I might be in false labor and suggested that we walk around and do things and see if regularity and intensity continued.
We went for a walk around the block with Ryan timing contractions on our little blue stop watch. I couldn't walk very fast and it took us about 25 minutes just to walk around the block. The contractions were coming about every 3 to 5 minutes and were about 45 to 60 seconds long. They were uncomfortable but (little did I know) nothing compared with what was to come. Ryan decided this was close enough and we decided to drive to the hospital. I could easily talk between the contractions and was smiling and talkative when they weren't happening. It took us about 20 minutes or so to get to the hospital. We parked and walked to the main entrance where the reception person escorted us with a wheel chair up to the maternity ward. I just walked as sitting seemed like an uncomfortable option. At maternity reception the nurses started to ask us some questions which I was able to answer except during the contractions. It seems they didn't have my chart from our doctor but they walked us down to room 580 to check me out.
The nurse had me put on a gown but she seemed to think that we had come too early because I was smiling and happy between contractions and hadn't really been laboring very long at home. It seemed at that point like they were going to have us go home but she wanted to check with the doctor first. She left us in the room and the contractions got stronger. Also, I threw up and started to shake quite a lot. She checked my dilation after a bit (I think we had gotten to the hospital at around 3:30 and I believe at around 5pm I was still only the one centimeter dilated that I had been a week ago at our last OB visit). Because the intensity of what I felt seemed further along though, she gave us the option of walking around a bit for a few hours instead of going home. Actually, once she spoke to the doctor, they had decided we should stay (because I had thrown up several times) and that I should begin the antibiotic IV I was supposed to get because of my positive strep B infection result. Two nurses came in and began the IV (after popping one vein). At about this time, I think I started to lose track of time passing in the normal way. I was concentrating on breathing and was feeling strong contractions. Ryan tells me a couple of hours passed before the nurses suggested I try the tub for relief and I think they also thought it would help me relax and open me up. I think they thought I was going to be there for a long time. I got in the bath then and Ryan sat in the room and timed on our stop watch…assuring me when they were subsiding and relief was coming.
At around 7:30 (the shift change), the doctor came and sat in the bathroom asking me questions and telling me about my options. She was talking about drugs for sleeping and something else between the contractions. I told her I really didn't want any drugs and told here how I acted adversely to them but I was getting the impression that we had really come to early…that this was just the beginning and the staff was trying to think of ways to help us along. I don't know how long I had been in the tub. Because I didn't want the medication the doctor suggested checking my dilation so she could give me a better assessment of why and when the drugs might be an option (but she wasn't pushing them….just wanted me to be aware I think).
Luckily, I was about 3 centimeters (that she stretched to 4) at that point so she left us to continue as we wished. The nurses put a monitor on me for another 20 minutes or so and everything was fine so we went back to the tub. Ryan tells me we were there for another hour and a half or two hours. I felt alternately hot and very cold and my back started to hurt so we got out of the tub. I don't remember much. I would close my eyes in there and just relax. I think I actually fell asleep between contractions and the pain was more bearable if I had my eyes closed for some reason. Eventually my back hurt so much that I wanted out though.
Back on the bed I said to Ryan that I wasn't sure I could do this for much longer. I think I was still thinking that there was a long way to go. I asked him how much longer he thought it would be. Because if it would be many more hours, I was thinking I might ask for some relief. He said he thought it would only be two hours more. He seemed sure so I said okay and sat on the bed mostly with my eyes closed and him helping me with breathing through every contraction. My face was numb from the breathing (hyperventilating) and my nose burned from the breathing as well. It was getting very hard to follow the breathing because of this so I went back to longer breaths and moaning because it felt good to have the vibration in my chest. I heard him breathing but couldn't match his coaching. I remember him telling me when the pain was about to come and when it would start to go away and he was always right so I felt really reassured. I thought little phrases and visualized things from all the reading every now and again but mostly my mind seemed blank and full of breathing. I remember looking at the flowers Erika and Erin had brought and visualizing opening up like a flower. I remember thinking that..."you're going to be huge" and I think I mooed a couple of times. (Yes mooed. Everyone has their comforts.) In the bed though, my tailbone hurt in addition to everything else. It made it hard to maneuver whenever the nurse came to check me. I don't know when, maybe right after I got out of the tub, she had measured again and I was at, I think, 7 centimeters. I had wanted to walk around or squat or do something other than sit on the bed but my legs were so shaky that I didn't think I could. I remember being asked by Ryan and the nurse and saying something like I didn't think it was possible to stand. I did start to think though that the position I was in was preventing the baby from being able to descend easily because there was so much pressure on my bottom. I tried to sit on the edge of the bed and hung on Ryan a little bit but it was too difficult. I sat up in bed then with my left leg over the edge and my right folded on the bed. Ryan came and stood next to me and leaning into him was such an incredible comfort and relief. For the first time since they began, the contractions got a little bit easier when I could press into the warmth of him and feel my body stop shaking. For a few of them it began to feel manageable again but then quickly, the intensity increased and the pain was almost unbearable. I couldn't do the breathing and I think my moans were turning to screams. I couldn't have said how long contractions were or how far apart they were but Ryan told me later that they were a minute or longer and only 45 seconds apart. During them, the pressure was so great that I would put my fists into the bed and raise my body up off the bed to relieve the feeling of pressure. Ryan told me to grab his hand which sometimes I could do but I mostly felt like I really needed to get my bottom away from the bed. I remember the nurse had said something about the baby descending and I thought of her and what a difficult time she was having. I was visualizing here moving down the canal and how this was all for her…and wondered how could I help her.
In a really strong contraction I felt this urge to push and wasn't sure what to do. Another one came even stronger and I couldn't resist pushing some. When that contraction ended I asked Ryan to call the nurse and tell her I felt like I needed to push. She came and checked me again. There was quite a lot of bloody show and she said I was ready to push. I was actually kind of surprised. I remember asking her if the baby was ready for that. Because she had given me this permission, it seemed like everything changed. It was such a relief to push. I kept thinking though that I had missed something. I don't know how to explain that. I think I hadn't thought of the pushing part before. There may have been a few contractions before she told the nurse to call for the doctor. I don't know. I remember hearing her say that the doctor had said that she wanted to be called when the baby was crowning but the nurse thought she should come right away because things were moving so fast. Was this the point at which I moved to the end of the bed and hung on Ryan? I'm not sure. During the pushing I was no longer doing the breathing. I would just inhale and the moan would immediately turn into a scream which felt really good (but was terrifying Ryan I later found out). At some point I opened my eyes and there were all these people in the room with all this extra equipment. There was a mirror and a bright light and the doctor was there and a bunch of nurses. They said they could see the baby's head and moved the mirror so I could see. I felt so…I don't know…elated and calm between the contractions even though during I would scream so loud. The doctor kept telling me to push so I just did as told. Something in my mind seemed still to be telling me that I had missed something. I think I just hadn't thought about this stage of the process very much. It was weird that it was happening so... all of a sudden. I was pushing as hard as I could when the contractions came and then they would stop but I was still being told to push. I tried to push on my own but without the contraction, it seemed nothing was happening. The doctor told me that my screaming would be better directed if I kept it inside and used that energy to help get the baby out. I tried but still think I made quite a bit of noise.
There was something about them not being able to tell the difference between the baby's heartbeat and my heartbeat…they put a monitor on my finger but I guess that didn't work so they put an internal monitor on the baby's head. Apparently the bag of waters had not yet broken so they had to do that before putting on the monitor. I guess all the water though was being blocked by the head so nothing "gushed" out when they broke it. I went through some more contractions (or maybe just one?) and the doctor was concerned about the baby's heart rate dropping in between the contractions. She put an oxygen mask on me and thought that might help but really wanted to get the baby out at that point. She thought the cord might be wrapped around her neck and that might be what caused to drop in heart rate. She said she was going to use the vacuum extractor on the next contraction and I said no. She told me that I'd have to push harder then because it was getting to be really important that the baby come out soon because of her heart rate changes. We did two more contractions that way and then she said she'd do an episiotomy and that I would have to help and push really, really hard. So I pushed out the baby's head…then her body was an easy push.
I looked up at Ryan some time about now. He was standing on my left and holding my hand. I said, "You look terrified. Are you okay?" He said he was fine. (Turns out he wasn't. He thought I was going to die. He said later that he kept thinking that if anyone ever asked him about natural childbirth versus epidural he would say—epidural absolutely. He hated to see me go through that much pain.)
They put the baby on my stomach after they had just wiped her off a little bit and placed warm blankets over both of us. I was just smiling and staring at her and it seemed so strange. I was…I don't know…entranced…I couldn't look away from her…here was this new person and, I don't know, she didn't look like me and for some reason that seemed very odd at the time. I held her while the doctor stitched me up and I birthed the placenta which was not difficult at all.
What was painful and I hadn't read about and no one had told me was that after the doctor had finished stitching, the nurse did some pressing on my tummy to get any blood pushed out of my uterus. It was incredibly painful and at one point I tried to push her hand away.
The baby was still on my chest though and she was making not a crying noise but a strange kind of coughing sound. This seemed to concern the nurses and they took her and tried to better clear her lungs. They had her under the heat lamp and put a tube down her throat. I didn't feel too concerned about this because no one seemed to be panicking. I thought they would just fix it. They gave her back to us for a few minutes and hoped they would hear her make a few good loud cries. She did so a few times but they called the baby nurses back anyway. (Ryan later said this frightened him as well.) She was fine though after they took her the second time and Ryan and I just held her and looked at her while the nurses cleaned up the room. Eventually they left us alone for a short while and we just looked at her, at each other and I felt so much in love with them both.
The nurse came back and I had to pee. I was still shaking but went to the bathroom and was even able to step into the shower to clean off.
When I got back into the room the bed was clean and the baby had had her first bath with daddy's help. I took some pictures and felt totally fine walking around once I had on a sweater. After her bath we got back into the bed. Warm and clean. A family.
Three is the magic number…
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CENTRAL VALLEY — Vinny Vespa starts to work up a sweat as Monroe-Woodbury's wrestling practice ends with conditioning.
CENTRAL VALLEY — Vinny Vespa starts to work up a sweat as Monroe-Woodbury's wrestling practice ends with conditioning.
Vespa throws off his shirt, revealing a tattoo.
The tattoo on his left side reads: "I can do all things through Christ, he strengthens me."
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Still, Monroe-Woodbury coach Steve Fischbein wasn't sure how quickly Vespa would get back into form. He placed second in Section 9 at 99 pounds last year.
"I've never met a more determined kid than Vinny," Fischbein said. "I'd thought he'd get healthy and I didn't think he could go right away. ... He's gone full speed at practice and is one of hardest workers."
Vespa jumps in and grabs an ankle on Evan Barczak. Monroe-Woodbury breaks for some water and Vespa rolls around with senior 170-pounder A.J. Voelker. Monroe-Woodbury assistant John Gartiser, Vespa's personal coach, calls on him to demonstrate perfect technique.
Amazingly, Vespa practiced wrestling in his basement during treatments, but nothing compares to being back in Monroe-Woodbury's wrestling room.
"Throughout my chemotherapy, I was still wrestling, but it feels so much better to be here," said Vespa, who weighs 103 pounds. "Every day we are banging hard. Every day, you have to work a little bit harder."
Vespa says he feels "100 percent better than last year." He battled through breathing issues in matches due to the lymphoma, which was undetected at the time.
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Nick Stahl's rough 2012 got even rougher earlier this week after he was arrested for a pretty embarrassing offense, but at least his family knows where he is now. The incident in question happened yesterday at an adult bookstore in Hollywood, California. The actor was reportedly watching porn in a booth by himself when undercover officers allegedly saw Stahl touch himself.
According to TMZ, he was immediately hauled off to the police station and booked on a misdemeanor charge of committing a lewd act. After the paperwork was finished, he was released into the night. Because of the relatively small nature of his crime, it's unclear whether local prosecutors will follow through with the case and actually charge him, but when they make their decision, we'll keep you updated.
Stahl was once an extremely promising actor. He played a major role in Terminator 3, and his work in independent movies like Bully and Quid Pro Quo was widely praised. Unfortunately, he's reportedly been battling substance abuse problems over the past few years, and over the summer, he went missing on two separate occasions. If he can ever get his act together long enough, he could once again emerge as a rising star.
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WHITE HOUSE: The US Is Not Giving Information To Assad
The White House categorically denied a report saying it was sharing information with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad about the extremist group the Islamic State (also ISIS or ISIL) on Tuesday. Furthermore, the White House said it had no plans to coordinate whatsoever with the Syrian government in the ongoing fight against the group.
The AFP reported on Tuesday that the U.S. was "sharing intelligence about jihadist deployments with Damascus through Iraqi and Russian channels." AFP's report came just as White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters aboard Air Force One that the U.S. does not recognize the Assad regime and had "no plans" to coordinate with them in regards to any campaign against ISIS.
"As a matter of US policy, we have not recognized" Assad as the leader in Syria, Earnest said, according to a transcript. "There are no plans to change that policy and there are no plans to coordinate with the Assad regime."
When asked if Earnest's comments also represented a denial of the AFP report, White House National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said it did.
President Barack Obama has reportedly given the go-ahead for the U.S. military to begin surveillance flights in Syria to gather intelligence on ISIS. The intelligence-gathering could be a prelude for potential strikes on the group in Syria. The U.S. has already launched airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and multiple administration and military officials have publicly suggested any campaign to confront the group would need to be expanded into Syria.
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Monday the country was open to working with the international community against ISIS, however, he said the Syrian government would need to be notified. Some observers and analysts have accused Assad of facilitating ISIS' rise during the three-plus-year civil war in Syria, using their rapid gains as a ploy to present himself as the better of two options.
On Tuesday, Earnest said the situation was different today than one year ago, when the Obama administration pushed Congress to approve targeted strikes on Assad regime targets.
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Zona Tortona has been Milan's creative epicenter ever since Italian Vogue art director Flavio Lucchini and photographer Fabrizio Ferri brazenly opened studios along a row of abandoned warehouses back in 1983, spawning a creative migration and economic metamorphosis to the once industrial locale. Now fully established and recognized as a cultural hub with designers and artists abound, Zona Tortona plays annual host to newly branded Tortona Design Week, a satellite celebration of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, where Heineken-carrying design enthusiasts revel in sun drenched courtyards while DJs spin an eclectic mix of drum and bass. This is where we find a new school of design, ripe with innovation and fervor for doing things different and better than before. Young and established designers alike whose thoughtful design and manufacturing processes consider more than just the bottom line. Here at Zona Tortona 2011, we find design philosophies and principals that will save the world.
The MIKA, by Berlin-based furniture designer Stephanie Jasny, takes its inspiration from a conventional painters trestle and adapts the concept brilliantly to comprise the base of a glass table. Using eight wooden laths connected by extra-strength magnets resulting in ideal weight distribution, the MIKA allows space at the ends to comfortably seat four people for a spacious yet intimate dining experience. With its flat-pack packaging and regionally harvested timber, this table is sustainably delicious.
Designed by Portuguese architect, Jose Melo Ferreira, the Spleen collection of furniture has an understated, timeless aesthetic. Its sculptural beauty overshadows its perplexing structure and ingenious engineering. Made almost entirely from locally manufactured plywood, Spleen uses less than a millimeter of wood veneer, allowing the production of hundreds of furniture pieces from just one fallen tree, without compromising the intended design.
Belgium design Atelier, Wunderbar, uses FSC certified wood and their production process boasts eco-friendly, biodegradable, water-based finishes. Its products are all handmade by local artisans, and they produce their products near the markets in which they sell, lowering CO2 emissions by cutting back on transportation. To top it off, their clean-line designs and solid construction encourage sustainability through generations of enjoyment and use.
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Part rocking horse, part desk, the Doppelhoppel literally flips between playtime and craft time simply by turning the piece over. Created by German designer Thomas Wehage, it has the silhouette of a traditional rocking horse, but in a stripped-down, reduced form. Both modern and nostalgic, Doppelhoppel is made with environmentally friendly, robust materials that provide safety and lasting enjoyment.
Famed Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira was thinking green when he created Unda, a centerpiece of "Spectrum" glass produced by a handmade process that uses at least 50% recycled glass. It comes in black and white, and can be custom made in a variety of groovy, undulating colors.
Founded in 2004 by Alzira Peixoto and Carlos Mendoca, Simple Forms Design's aptly named Cork collection embraces sustainability with style in a variety of products, including bowls, serving trays, and lighting. Harvested from Portugal's cork forests, which is responsible for more than half of the world's cork output and is one of the most successful examples of sustainable agroforestry, Simple Form Design's products are made from a highly renewable and recyclable materials. This, coupled with their modern aesthetic appeal, makes Cork a must-have.
Another gem from the design duo Tweelink, the Madame Eiffel chandelier is comprised of 324 Eiffel Tower key rings with a foundation and three levels, just like the one in Paris. Kitschy up close, jaw-dropping elegant from a distance, Madame Eiffel's larger-than-life message is to "repurpose" materials to make something new and wonderful that can be used in a practical sense, such as lighting.
I fell head over heals for this Latex Roll Pouf by Italian design trio 13 Ricrea. Made from the industrial waste of the Italian shoe industry, this pouf comes in Black, Lilac, Green, Sand, White, Yellow, and Blue and are as comfortable to sit in as Italian-made shoes are to stand in.
For Portugal furniture manufacturer Myface, designing quality, long lasting, and recyclable products is the only way to do business. All of their products, including the Oslo Chair, come in a variety of colors and finishes, and can smartly be recoated to give it a few more years of life before recycling it.
Munich-based designer Stefan Diez created this lounge chair title EC03 Eugene for the internationally respected design brand, e15. The EC03 Eugene, made with locally manufactured plywood and sustainably harvested wood veneers, offers ample comfort and style without excess material. It's both minimal and highly expressive with a tasteful sense of humor.
Designers Valeria Cifarelli, Matteo Prudenziati, Davide Rampanelli, and Alessia Zema make up the experimental, participation-based design collective, Controprogetto. Always using discarded, scrap materials, Controprogetto puts into practice the "retraining of unusable materials and resources" to create a number of different products and projects, including furniture, interiors, temporary settings, and structures for public spaces. With the objective to share knowledge and educate people the potential capabilities of scrap materials, these passionate, young designers are playing a key role in changing the way we look at our fading resources.


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I found that this article, by Stephen Marche titled Literature is not Data: Against Digital Humanities, in the Los Angeles Review of Books, was very thought provoking as far as polemic goes. Of course literature isn't just mere "data"; but I also think that data about literature can still give you insight into it. One of the comments, by "mad scientist", sums up the biggest problem with this critique when it says:
… simply to insist — again — on the ineffable mystery of literature isn't particularly interesting.
Literature, like all art, does have an element of "ineffable mystery" but that's not the only thing it has.
Anyway the entire polemic seems to me to be misplaced. It might be a new feeling for academics of English literature to be relying on databases and software tools but I suspect most modern Classicists simply couldn't live without their Perseus or Brepolis access. Perhaps because Classicists are also nearly always Classical Historians and many of us have a close relationship with Archaeology and Archaeologists. Many of us Are Archeologists first and foremost (I'm not, however). Those of us trained in the Internet Age are completely normalised to the idea of databases and digital resources. Many of us have pocket Latin and Greek dictionaries in the form of smartphone applications.
But I think, in the Classical field, it goes to something deeper. Our field has always had an element of this: lonely scholars slaving over commentaries, compiling dictionaries or creating concordances. I certainly do not envy those who came before us and built up databases of texts with an index for every unique word stem used in it! That, to me sounds like such an amazingly stultifying job description, I'm glad I live in an age when all that prior hard word can be digitised and automated and made available for my daily use at the touch of a button!
But there's also a great insight that I think is yet to be fully realised. For example, the creation and classifying of stemma codicum, so important to us in understanding how the literature has been transmitted to us through the ages, I think may be an area that will benefit from future computational insights. Another could be understanding the relationship of texts and authors; and the identification of insertions and errata another. These are things which were once done by hand, now the use of computers can speed them up and let scholars do the important work of humanist analysis and understanding rather than the mere donkey-work of collating word-frequency tables and transmission of stylistic markers in different works. Where the understanding of texts intersects with the understanding of history, the use of computational analysis, like that of definitive archaeological data before that, will also help us to sharpen our focus and broaden our horizons.
I for one welcome our new computer overlords.


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I am referring to the article here. In a nutshell the article says that using data based on S&P 500 index going back as far as to 1950, dollar cost averaging is performing worse than a lump sump investment.
My question is, assuming that the market works according to random walk hypothesis, is it possible to show mathematically that dollar cost averaging is always worse than lump sum investment, as far as the return on investment goes?


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American Shakespeare Center comes to Austin!
Wed, February 17, 2010
The American Shakespeare Center's touring troupe will give two performances in Austin, on March 6 and 7 at 7:30 pm in the Texas Union Theatre. Performing Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle, the ASC will give Austinites a taste of their energetic performance style, in a visit sponsored by the Department of English, Plan II, the College of Undergraduate Studies and Shakespeare at Winedale. All proceeds will go to the UT sponsoring organizations. Tickets are $10, $5 for UT ID-holders, and are available through the Shakespeare at Winedale website. Audience members are encouraged to come early, as there will be pre-show music and entertainment beginning at 7:00 pm both nights.
The American Shakespeare Center (formerly the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express) has gained a national reputation by performing according to the principles of the Renaissance stage. Careful attention to the language, a fast and fluid performance style, and a creative use of music and dance are hallmarks of ASC productions. Actors and audience share the same lighting, as they would have in Shakespeare's playhouse, encouraging an intimate and festive atmosphere.
On Saturday night the company will perform Shakespeare's perennial favorite Romeo and Juliet. With its ravishing language and uproarious comedy, Romeo and Juliet celebrates love's triumph and its trivialities. Verona's walls embrace the volatility of youth as well as the wisdom and restraint that often escape young and old alike. Dance, athleticism, and swordplay share the stage with sonnets, bawdy wit, and soul-searching speeches in this profoundly human and always surprising masterpiece.
The Sunday performance will be a unique comedy, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, by Shakespeare's contemporary Francis Beaumont. Loaded with laughter and contemporary songs, The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a celebration of the way Elizabethan audiences expected to be a part of the action. A theatre company begins to perform The London Merchant, but an audience member stops the play and demands that the actors add a character to represent working-class citizens: "I will have a grocer, and he shall do admirable things." He and his wife bring their apprentice Rafe onstage to take on the new role. Swept up in the thought of heroic quests, Rafe transforms his grocer character into a fantastic knight-errant. Thus, the Knight of the Burning Pestle, enthusiastically improvised by Rafe, is thrust into the plot of The London Merchant, with hilarious results.
The ASC touring troupe last appeared in Austin early in this decade, under its previous name of the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express. The company now has a permanent home at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Virginia. The "Rough, Rude and Boisterous" tour will conclude in April, when the troupe will return to Staunton to present the spring season at the Blackfriars Playhouse through the middle of June.
"We scour the country for the right 10-12 actors to perform all these roles," said ASC Artistic Director Jim Warren. "Not only are we looking for the right talent to do these shows in true rotating repertory (a great lost joy in today's theatre world), but we're also looking for personalities we think will gel into a dynamic, well-balanced ensemble on and off the stage. On top of all of that, we're also looking for singers and musicians because we perform all of our music live and unplugged; join us for our pre-show a half-hour before show time for some musical treats."


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Catching up on some reading this week, and had this few-days-old post by Dylan Matthews on Ezra Klein's blog pointed out to me. Dylan asks if the conventional economic wisdom on the "marginal propensity to consume" of richer vs. poorer people (that it's higher for the poor mainly because they are too constrained and can't afford to save) is really true. He points to a couple empirical studies based on the lump-sum-type rebate/refundable credit portions of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts that suggest that the higher-income households were more inclined to spend their tax cuts than the lower-income ones were.
If these studies reflect today's reality about how rich vs. poor would spend extra money, then this would weaken the argument that we should let the tax cuts for the rich go ahead and expire because they wouldn't provide effective stimulus compared with tax cuts for lower- and middle-income households (and especially compared to other forms of deficit-financed stimulus).
But I have a couple of problems with leaping to such conclusions based on these earlier studies. First, the highest-income categories in these studies are much broader than the definition of "rich" being used in the debate about the Bush tax cuts–the latter being confined to households with incomes above $250,000. One thing I suspect is that households with income above $75,000 or $100,000 (the highest-income groups in these studies) don't just have more than median incomes, but also have more than median household sizes. (There is a strong income effect in moving from middle- to upper-income levels in terms of the number of kids people have; not everyone can afford to have four children, trust me.) It is not at all surprising to me that if one does not control for family size, that households with higher incomes are more likely to spend most of their lump-sum, windfall-type tax cuts than households with lower incomes who also happen to be (at least I strongly suspect) smaller in size. If you compared the spending propensities of households with incomes over $250,000 with those of households with incomes between $100,000 and $250,000, holding constant family size, I bet we would see the latter has a higher propensity than the former.
Second, economic circumstances have really changed since the tax episodes in those studies. Everyone (the truly rich included) had been in high consumption mode at the time of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, because wealth effects (via housing values and investment portfolios) encouraged consumption and borrowing against that wealth. A little extra cash in the form of a tax rebate would be likely to be treated like an additional windfall, and hence spent. But the subprime mortgage and then general credit crisis shocked households into changing their borrowing and spending habits. Now households cannot count on the wealth in their homes or retirement funds as a reliable source of savings, so their propensities to consume out of any extra money (like from a tax cut) are going to be substantially lower now. So now it is not so much that the rich can just afford to save more than the poor, so that they will in fact save more of their tax cut. Today it is more that the rich can afford to pay down more of their debt (versus need to use for immediate consumption)–i.e., reduce their "negative saving." But reducing debt or "negative saving" is the same thing as "saving more." So I think the rich still will tend to spend a lower fraction of any non-targeted tax cut than lower-income households and that the conventional wisdom–that tax cuts for the rich aren't great short-term stimulus (to boost aggregate demand)–still applies. (The issue of what types of tax cuts are the best for longer-term economic growth–to increase aggregate supply once the economy is at "full employment"–is a different matter entirely.)
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Family members have identified the San Diego man who was shot and killed outside a National City restaurant while attending a World Cup viewing party Tuesday evening.
According to loved ones, Josue Crook, 36, died from injuries sustained in a shooting outside the Rincon Del Mar restaurant at 324 Highland Avenue. As of Wednesday morning, his killer remained at large.
Crook's family members, who didn't want to speak on camera, told NBC 7 that Crook was active at Cornerstone Church of San Diego, giving sermons there on occasion. A family friend said the devout church man was "loved by many" and "touched many lives."
Crook's family said he was watching the Mexico-Brazil World Cup game with friends at Rincon Del Mar, enjoying the afternoon, when violence struck. They believe he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Family members said Crook wasn't a violent or aggressive person. The family has set up a memorial fund and an "In Memory of Josue Crook" Facebook page in honor of the victim.
A neighbor who has lived near Crook for 17 years said she was in utter shock over his shooting and can't believe someone would do this to him.
"I'm going to miss seeing him every morning," said neighbor Maryann Rodriguez, holding back tears.
"My heart goes out to his family because he was such a loving man, and he didn't deserve this. He didn't deserve this at all," she added.
National City police were called to investigate reports of gunfire outside the restaurant on Tuesday around 5:40 p.m. When officers arrived on scene, they discovered Crook suffering from several critical gunshot wounds. He was taken to UCSD Medical Center and succumbed to his injuries a short time later.
The suspect or suspects responsible for the deadly shooting were not immediately located.
Investigators said the violence stemmed from an argument that began inside the Rincon Del Mar restaurant. The fight spilled into the street and Crook was shot outside, about 30 feet away from the business. The restaurant had been hosting a World Cup celebration at the time, though it's unclear if the fight had anything to do with the soccer game.
The Rincon Del Mar restaurant addressed the incident on its Facebook page Tuesday night, posting: "We are glad everyone inside is OK and we are in disbelief just like all of you."
The restaurant manager spoke with NBC 7 on Wednesday morning and said Rincon Del Mar would remain closed for the day out of respect for the victim. The manager said the victim was a longtime patron who visited the restaurant several times a week.
NBC 7 spoke with two of Crook's friends who visited the site of the fatal shooting Wednesday. They said a prayer, lit a candle and left behind flowers and a bible to pay tribute to their slain friend.
Joshua Rodriguez said he grew up with Crook, who was like a brother to him.
Rodriguez said Crook was a man of God who always carried a bible and enjoyed preaching the gospel. He said Crook worked in construction and had his own mechanic shop in Chula Vista. Rodriguez said Crook leaves behind four children, including three girls and one boy.
The friend said Crook was trying to break up a random fight at the restaurant when he got caught in the crossfire. Rodriguez said that was in Crook's character, trying to help until the very end.
A pastor at Cornerstone Church also briefly spoke with NBC 7 and said the church will likely arrange a memorial service for Crook with his family, but plans have not been set yet.
The National City Police Department said the investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information should contact the NCPD Communications Center at (619) 336-4411, ext. 0.


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Pictured: Senior Andre Akpan tallied his third two-goal game
of the season Saturday at Fairfield.
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Akpan Named Top Drawer Soccer National Player of the Week
Akpan Honored on College Soccer News National Team of the Week
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard forward Andre Akpan
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Week, as he helped the Crimson improve to 5-0 on the season with a
4-1 victory at Fairfield Saturday.
With its fifth-straight win to start the season, Harvard is one of five remaining teams in the nation with a perfect record (Maryland-Baltimore County, Akron, Monmouth and Stetson). The Crimson has moved up to No. 6 in the Soccer America national poll, tying the highest ranking in program history, which occurred in 2007. Harvard appears No. 9 in the College Soccer News poll and is ranked No. 18 in the Top Drawer Soccer poll. Harvard's 5-0 start also matches the best start for the program since the 2007 season when the Crimson opened with a 6-0 mark.
Against Fairfield, Akpan, a senior-captain of the Crimson, started the scoring with an unassisted tally in the 33rd minute and later assisted on Brian Rogers's game-winning goal at 56:12. Exactly three minutes later, Akpan gave Harvard a 3-0 lead when he buried a shot after receiving a pass from teammate Robert Millock. A native of Grand Prairie, Texas, Akpan finished the contest against the Stags with five points and has now scored two goals in three games this season. Akpan currently ranks second in the nation with 3.20 points per game, having score six goals and handed out four assists for 16 points.
He is Harvard's all-time leading scorer with 113 points, having tallied 41 goals and handed out 31 assists over the course of his career. Akpan is now only six tallies shy of tying Chris Ohiri '64 for first in program history in goals.
The Crimson visits New Hampshire in a non-conference matchup Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 4 p.m.


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A buyer's guide to upright exercise bike
The Upright Exercise Bike is not only one of the most popular cardiovascular machines because it simulates the exercise on a conventional bicycle but also because it provides huge benefits for your health and your body:
- · Upright exercise bikes are kinder on your joints than any other cardiovascular machine.
- · Work and tone the muscles in your legs and glutes.
- · Keep you informed about elapsed time, speed, distance covered and the calories you have burned.
- · Provide an intense workout, burning fat and helping weight loss.
- · Reduce the likelihood of suffering from cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
- · Perfect for basic workouts and for overweight people and obesity sufferers.
- · Provide a complete lower body workout without having to leave home.
- · Programmes and applications for more interactive workouts.
- · Lower prices than other cardiovascular machines.
- · Improve mobility and help improve your posture.
If you are thinking of buying an Upright Exercise Bike, besides the size there are few other things you should take into account to make sure the machine you choose is the right one for your needs and your targets:
- 1) Type of resistance or braking system
- 2) Weight of the flywheel
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- 4) Comfort and adjustability
- 5) Maximum user weight
1) Type of resistance or braking system
Upright Exercise Bikes can have either a Magnetic or Electromagnetic braking system. On Upright Exercise Bikes with a magnetic braking system, the flywheel is slowed down and stopped through magnets, and on Upright Exercise Bikes with an electromagnetic braking system, the flywheel is slowed down and stopped with an electromagnetic field. Consequently, pedalling on bikes with electromagnetic braking is smoother and quieter and the braking is more precise.
2) Weight of the flywheel
The flywheel controls the smoothness of the pedalling action. The heavier the flywheel is, the smoother and quieter the bike is as the additional weight helps the flywheel to turn more efficiently.
3) Console and Training Programmes
The console is the part of the Upright Exercise Bike with which you can control all its programmes and functions. Also it monitors your workout and gives your important information: speed, elapsed time, distance covered, number of calories burned and pulse rate. The programmes and features vary in quality, comfort and entertainment level depending on the price and model. Fitness manufacturers are tending more and more towards consoles which can be used with smartphones or tablets for more interaction during workouts.
4) Comfort and Adjustability
How you can adjust your Upright Exercise Bike depends on the model. The saddle can have up to three adjustable positions: height, depth and incline. And, although in some models it is fixed, on most models the handlebar can also be moved forward or backwards to a greater or lesser extent. We recommend that you consider carefully the adjustment options for the saddle or the back support, as comfort is one of the most important points in every workout.
5) Maximum User Weight
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Justin Newcombe finds a way to conveniently store seasonal sports equipment.
As the nation's ski fields open, it's time to dig out the poles, skis or snowboard and head for the hills. I'm no expert in the snow but when I was 10 my dad took me on a ski holiday. We went to Ruapehu in Dad's Zephyr 6 with its cherry upholstery. He smoked the whole way with the windows up and seat belts were optional. We went skiing for the first hour then dad gave me 80 cents for a pie and left me to it. I had an excellent day but had to beg the uni-mog driver for a free trip as dad hadn't given me any money for the ride down (I had the best time, thanks Dad).
From my limited experience, skis seem heavy and awkward. In fact putting on skis seems like falling into a wild animal trap. It's fine once you're actually skiing but the difficulty for the novice is all the to-ing and fro-ing that gets you to that point. I'm much more at home on a snowboard which as I understand it, is seen by skiers as a low-rent option (not as low rent as my dad's shovel).
Skies are one of those seasonal objects which become clutter the rest of the year. To avoid this it is time to take the bull by the horns, spend an hour with a drill and hand saw and give those skis a home once and for all. Think of this way, it'll give you something to look at while you practise your Telemark landing.
Step 1
Work out how many sets of skis or snowboards you have and cut a base board to the appropriate length. You can do this by laying them out in their eventual formation and measuring them with a tape. I've used a length of 150mm x 50mm pine as my base.
Step 2
Lay the top of the skis across the base board then trace the curve of each ski. For this example I've also used my skateboard which has a taper much the same as snowboard.
Step 3
Drill two holes as close to the curved line as possible. I did this on a slight angle to encourage the skis to sit back against the wall.
Step 4
Apply glue to each hole and insert the dowel. I've cut each section of dowel at lengths of 120mm which leaves plenty of space on the dowel to hang the ski poles off the end. Make sure that each dowel is set on the same angle so the skis or snow board (longboard in my case) sit vertically.
Step 5
Turn the base board over and screw each dowel from the back.
Step 6
Sand any rough edges with sand paper or a sander.
Step 7
Give the ski rack at least three coats of paint and let it dry thoroughly so the paint is hard. There is no reason that you have to paint the rack though, it will work perfectly well left as bare timber.
Step 8
Screw the rack into position on the wall or in a cupboard. Use a spirit level to set the rack plumb, make sure your screws are long enough and that you are screwing the rack into something solid, not just plaster board.


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New-Home Sales Rise, Case-Shiller Index Jumps
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New-home sales rose 2.1% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 476,000 new homes, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. That was the highest level since July 2008.


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Obstacles. I have faced many of them, including a shortage of time, while writing this media series. The website for a documentary (Sidecars, mentioned in a previous post) I was going to review was taken down. Further, The Black Balloon, an Australian movie that focuses on the internal struggles of a brother who has an autistic sibling, is not available yet in the United States. It will be sent to me via Netflix when available. Amazon has it, but DVD players in the U.S. are not compatible with the DVD currently being sold at the site.
I hadn't planned on including webcasts in this series but did so in order to keep this blog updated regularly. I was grateful for the opportunities to do so. Speaking of that, here is a link to an online video. According to Alexandra Wharton, the vice president of Newsy.com, "the video summarizes recent studies on the number of those affected with autism and the controversy surrounding apparently growing numbers." Please note that I haven't had the chance to view it due to a shortage of time and some technical difficulties associated with blogging from my home.
Also, a big thank you goes to Jon Gilbert for sending me this link about the documentary Living the Autism Maze, a documentary about families in Vermont. It came out in 2005. It can be ordered by calling a toll free number found at the site.
On a final note, here are two films related to autism that were released in the last year: Mary and Max (a claymation film) and City Rats. I haven't seen either film, but both look promising. They both have yet to be released on DVD.


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Jenny and I lived out a childhood dream of being a mermaid, which was just a magical and a lot more effort than we thought.
One of our favorite hike and brunches is hiking the Butcher Jones trail at Saguaro Lake and following it up with our own favorite brunch recipe.
"what if you could feel safe going through life and safe in conversations? What if our differences and our diversity of experiences, education and backgrounds actually ended up being our strongest assets?"
Is the end getting near for Janell's sideline swimming?
Carole G tells us all about bullet journal and inspires us to get our adventures organized.
Rachel is catching waves in San Diego with WoA.


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The Poet Laureate of TV
By: Legacy Staff
7 years ago
Nipsey Russell wasn't called the Poet Laureate of Television for nothing. The frequent game show panelist and celebrity roaster truly had a way with rhymes.
We loved him for his poetry, but his prose made us laugh just as hard – as when he roasted fellow comedian Lucille Ball.
And we loved watching him creak and squeak, sing and dance as the Tin Man in The Wiz.
Russell was a fixture of television, appearing all over – as a guest host for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, as a regular on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as a policeman on Car 54, Where Are You?, on game shows like To Tell the Truth and Pyramid, What's My Line? and Match Game. Seven years after his death, we miss Russell's rhymes – and we miss him, too.
Written by Linnea Crowther


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It is the plight of the independent Mac developer. He (or she) works tirelessly night after night, often times working second jobs, perfecting code. Finally, he or she releases an application to much acclaim from the community and enjoy some success, maybe even fulfilling the dream of leaving their day jobs and becoming a full time developer.
Then it happens: Apple takes notice. Just like that, the dream is (sort of) over. It happens to varying extents: the Konfabulator saga ended well enough for everyone, and I have reason to believe Sandvox is still doing well since the introduction of iWeb, but applications like Watson were all but destroyed at the hands of Apple.
Ambrosia Software, Inc, shareware developer extraordinaire responsible for the cult classic Escape Velocity and countless others, seems as though it might be the next in a list of companies that have had their applications "eliminated" at the hands of Apple... and this application hasn't even been released yet.
According to MacRumors, Ambrosia is readying a release (currently in beta) of iTone. It is a shareware application enabling users to create ringtones on their Macs for the iPhone with a click of a button.
You simply drag your audio files into the window and hit the "Sync" button on iToner and you're done. No resetting of the iPhone necessary. "Advanced Settings" brings up a list of your iTunes playlists and lets you sync an playlist at once. From the iPhone, the synced files appear on your ringtone list in both Contacts and Settings.
We have heard rumors recently about Apple readying their own ringtone service or program, which must make the folks at Ambrosia a little nervous. There could be one saving grace for Ambrosia, assuming that Apple's pending service only allows users to use purchased songs as ringtones--Ambrosia could actually clean up on the market of users who acquire their music from their personal collections or through other online stores.
Even if Apple does release an application with the exact same functionality, Ambrosia probably won't be effected as badly, as the company does have a rather robust software library.


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Two terrific keynotes this morning. First, Alec Hendry went into great detail about MTV UK & Ireland's workflow, both from capture to distribution and among MTV offices in different territories — much of the content is entered by MTV's New York offices and then when it's approved for European distribution, it becomes available to the MTV UK offices, pending any edits that have to be made because of rights considerations (sometimes the music on the U.S. shows isn't approved for use in the UK). He also talked about how the MTV Overdrive player allows the network to achieve two of its core objectives: "It lets the user control MTV, but lets MTV control the content."
Digby Lewis from Dailymotion talked about the company's standing as the #2 video site in the world, just behind YouTube. "We don't really view them as competitors, because they're really in their own universe," he said. Dailymotion's strategy now is to focus not so much on user-generated content as on professional and semi-professional filmmakers and content producers. "It's about more than just skateboarding dogs and copulating kangaroos," he said. "That stuff might interest people for five minutes, but it's not content that's going to keep them engaged." He also shared a statistic worth reflecting upon. "Video now is where the internet was a few years ago. 60% of users feel overwhelmed by all of the content, while 40% feel they're able to cope."


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Today, I had a little fun and prepared the freshest, most flavorful, non-traditional grilled menu. We just set up our grill last week and after making one round of burgers, I was ready to dive into new ideas for the grilling.
I started with this appetizer that is a slice of tomato topped with goat cheese and grilled. During the grilling process, it is drizzled with a lemon garlic olive oil. After the grill, it is topped with fresh basil and fresh sweet corn kernels. I LOVED this... would've been great with some crusty bread. On the grill, of course.
I recently tried a grilled salad at one of our favorite restaurants and had to try to recreate it. I brushed mine with an olive oil, lemon, garlic and rosemary mixture, then topped it with tons of Parmesan cheese.
And finally, my favorite grilled dinner - herb shrimp with pasta tossed in a fresh pesto sauce.
I'll post all of the recipes later this week!


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Turner Sports Signs 14-Year Deal To Create, Manage NCAA Digital Operations
September 21, 2010: Turner Sports has signed a 14-year deal with the National Collegiate Athletic Association to form NCAA Digital, under which Turner will "manage and operate the NCAA's digital portfolio and strengthen coverage of all 88 NCAA championships."
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The length of the pact coincides with the NCAA's deal earlier this year with Turner and CBS for a 14-year television, Internet and wireless rights agreement to present the Division I Men's Basketball Championship beginning in 2011. As part of the agreement, the tournament will air on CBS and across Turner's networks: TBS, TNT and truTV.
The deal for NCAA Digital also includes Turner's operational oversight of NCAA "March Madness on Demand" on broadband, as well as March Madness mobile assets. Turner and CBS will also jointly share sponsorship sales responsibilities for MMOD and its mobile assets.
Turner said it would focus its efforts for NCAA Digital on all 88 NCAA Championship tournaments across 23 sports (men's and women's) in all three divisions, with a "commitment to increased original programming, studio shows, enhanced selection shows, live video for those events and related features." Turner Sports plans to re-launch NCAA.com during the first quarter of 2011, in time for the men's and women's Division I basketball tournaments.
Turner Sports currently manages a portfolio of digital assets that includes Nascar.com, PGATour.com and PGA.com; and jointly manages NBA Digital, which includes NBA TV, NBA.com, WNBA.com, NBA League Pass and League Pass Broadband and NBA Mobile. Turner Sports also oversees the operation of SI.com, and provides live video to and exclusively sells the Yahoo! Sports Nascar, NBA, professional golf and MLB sections.
NCAA Digital encompasses NCAA.com and additional NCAA digital platforms including mobile Web and applications, as well as other connected devices. Turner will enhance editorial coverage and the technology behind live video streaming, stats, highlights and social media interactivity, as well as manage ad sales for NCAA digital platforms. The new agreement does not include NCAA.org, the NCAA's public and administrative Web site, or all aspects of the NCAA's digital archival video rights.
"We are pleased to further extend our relationship with the NCAA to manage their digital portfolio of assets," Lenny Daniels, evp/COO for Turner Sports, said in a statement. "Turner's aggressive digital strategy has established a leadership position for the company in branded sports content on emerging platforms. We look forward to working with the NCAA, and using the knowledge, resources and digital expertise we've gained by managing some of the most popular league sites on the internet, to create a truly exceptional online fan experience on NCAA.com and its companion digital extensions."
"Turner's aggressive digital strategy has established a leadership position for the company in branded sports content on emerging platforms."
According to Greg Shaheen, NCAA interim evp for championships and business strategies, "Turner Sports is a perfect fit to manage the NCAA's digital assets. The agreement will enable Turner and the NCAA to enhance the coverage of all 88 NCAA championships across multiple digital platforms. NCAA Digital will provide fans, student-athletes and their families with reliable, in-depth resources to engage with NCAA championship events both live and on demand."
Shaheen also stressed that NCAA.com would showcase the "tremendous, everyday accomplishments of NCAA student-athletes on the court, in the classroom and in the community."
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