| Five secrets for better digital photos
Digital cameras have raised the bar. With no more worries about wasting film, the number of family pictures per event can easily number into the hundreds. But if you're not getting many keepers, it may not be the camera, it may be you. Here are some tips to improve your picture-taking. Step back for portraits Far too many people think they should get close and personal when taking a portrait. Cameras can make features look distorted up close. For example, noses and eyes can appear exaggeratedly large. When shooting portraits, try standing about 15 feet from your subject. For a tight shot of the subject's face, use your digital camera's zoom to get the cropping you need. For full-length shots, zoom out. But use care. Wide-angle shots introduce distortion, which leads to unflattering shots.
Project promotes locally grown produce Wilson County News April 22, 2008
Consumers on the lookout for locally grown, organic products now have an opportunity to address their needs. A Wilson County area list, consisting of organically and sustainably grown goods, organic or conventionally grown, and locally grown, is now available online. The Local Food List Web site is being developed by Shannon Davenport, founder of the Local Food Project. The Local Food Project is Davenports pet project. She was interested in finding sources for anything locally grown, particularly eggs. The purpose of the list is simply to get the word out to Wilson County residents that there is locally grown food available just a phone call away, she said. With the help and encouragement of the Coopers at Coopers Garden Place, Davenport contacted area gardeners and established commercial growers to join her in the project, and to be added to the Local Food List.
Former Kalamazoo police officer may be near the end of a long, hard journey
SOUTHFIELD -- With 250-some muscular pounds packed into a 6-feet-1-inch tall frame, a 54-inch chest, "Popeye" arms and "chicken" legs, John Minehart was built like a bulldog. Everyone called the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officer "Spike." The upper body is still big and the forearms are still formidable, but on Thursday the wrists were wrapped with padded restraints as Minehart lay in a Southfield hospital bed. A ventilator breathed for him. Tubes ran down his throat carrying liquid food, vitamins and antibiotics as well as a cocktail of pain medicines. A tube ran from his chest, draining fluid from his right lung. Doctors had suctioned mucus out of his left lung Wednesday after it had collapsed for the second time in a week. Pulse-monitoring patches were stuck on his chest, a blood pressure cuff wrapped around his right arm and monitors recording vital body functions fanned around the head of the bed.
Free women's health screening scheduled
POINT PLEASANT - The Mason County Health Department will offer a free screening clinic for women 1-7 p.m. Monday, April 28.Services that will be provided include free pap tests to detect cervical cancer; clinical breast exams to detect breast cancer as well as instruction on how to perform a self breast exam; cardiovascular screening to include total cholesterol levels and risk factors for cardiovascular disease; and weight, height and body mass index.In addition, Pleasant Valley Hospital will provide screenings for osteoporosis by performing a bone densiometry, and local physicians from Pleasant Valley Hospital will conduct screenings for skin cancer.All of these services will be provided free, but participants who are eligible for enrollment in the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program or the Family Planning Program will be enrolled in those programs.
The diabetic foot and its management
Diabetes is a disease where the body doesn't produce or properly respond to insulin. Insulin is a hormone the body needs to convert sugar and other food into energy (Jarvis & Rubin, 2003). Type 1 diabetes affects approximately 15 per cent of all people living with diabetes (DoH, 2001). It is an autoimmune disease where the body destroys it's own (beta) b cells in the pancreas It tends to occur in the younger population and is thought to be genetically predisposed. The remaining 85 per cent have type 2 diabetes, this is where the pancreas is unable to produce enough insulin or there is insulin resistance present and the body can't respond to the insulin the b cells produce.
In the United Kingdom 3.7 per cent of the population have diabetes, which is nearly two million people.
St. Petersburg council hopefuls talked about race, stadium
ST. PETERSBURG — No topic was off limits, not even skin color. The five City Council applicants vying for Earnest Williams' vacant District 6 seat fielded questions from the public Monday night. More than 50 people showed up at City Hall to pose questions about budget cuts, the Tampa Bay Rays' proposed stadium and whether race matters when representing a predominately black district. Karl Nurse, the only white applicant, said the district's increasingly diverse population deserves a color-blind leader. More than 55 percent of residents in District 6 are black. The district includes parts of Midtown, uptown, downtown and Coquina Key, are black. "You need to address issues in a fashion that does not pertain to race," said Nurse. But others said a shared cultural background make its easier to tackle problems in the black community.
Global wool industry reliant on Australia
The International Wool Conference has highlighted how the entire world's wool industry is almost solely dependent on Australian wool growers. The tension surrounding mulesing is bringing that clearly into sharp focus. The few hundred high powered businessmen, technical boffins, beaurocrats and journalists at the Beijing conference owe their livelihoods to Australian woolgrowers. Many here represent multi-billion dollar businesses, employing thousands of staff from across the globe. The plush marbled environment of the enormous Kunlun Hotel in Beijing and the busy ants' nest of noisy taxis and the pollution from a city the size of Belgium, is a world away from the dusty yards, battered utes and familiar woolsheds that surround those that drive this global industry. Without Aussie farmers there is no wool industry, there are no pure wool suits or fashionable catwalk garments.
TASTE THE BEST: Control your cholesterol and enjoy your meals at the same time
Cholesterol is a soft, fat-like, waxy substance found in the blood stream and in all your body's cells. It is normal to have cholesterol. It is an important part of a healthy body because it is used for producing cell membranes and some hormones, and serves other needed body functions. Too high a level of cholesterol in the blood is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease, which leads to a heart attack. It is also a risk factor for stroke. Hypercholesterolemia is the term for high levels of blood cholesterol. You get cholesterol in two ways. Your body makes some of it, and the rest comes from cholesterol in animal product that your eat. Such as meats, poultry, fish, eggs, butter, cheese, and whole milk. Food from plants like fruits, vegetables and cereals do not have cholesterol. Some foods that do not contain animal products may contain trans-fats, which cause your body to make more cholesterol.
MRS. PERFECT
Zooming into the country club parking lot, I snag a spot close to the club pool. Okay, technically it's not a spot, but there's nothing else close and I'm late. Nathan says I run late often, and yes, sometimes I do, but not always. It's just that my schedule all summer has been ungodly. I've always been busy, but in the past year I have taken on way too much, sat on far too many committees, agreed to assist too many organizations. The problem is, everyone needs help, and I hate inefficiency, I really do, which is how I got to be on so many committees in the first place. I know how to get things done. I've always known how to get things done, and for me, it's relatively easy organizing functions and raising money. And as we all know, everything these days is about raising money. As well as improving the quality of life for the kids.
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