BARACK OBAMA, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20. 2009
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity, on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart -- not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
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November is American Diabetes Month
Posted on November 19th, 2008 No commentsYou might have noticed more diabetes stories than usual in your local newspaper this month. That’s no surprise: each year, several diabetes organizations promote November as “Diabetes Month” and encourage the media to publicize diabetes.
Among them: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), at what they call National Diabetes Awareness Month, and the American Diabetes Association (ADA), at American Diabetes Month.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) also promotws National Diabetes Awareness Month and has an Online Diabetes Support Team (ODST) made up of JDRF volunteers who are available to offer immediate, one-on-one support.
How to get involved:
Walk to Cure Diabetes
Ride to Cure DiabetesPedal for Prevention, stationary bike-a-thon ~ no really!
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Autumn Adventures & Picasa3.1 from Google
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 No commentsIf you haven’t already settled on a photo management and editor program, consider Picasa from Google. On the PC side, they rolled out a brand-new version of Picasa, with a slew of new tools like effortless web sync, movie editing, and photo-retouching capabilities. On the web, they launched “name tags,” a new feature that automatically helps organize your photo collection based on who’s in each of your pictures.
If you’ve been waiting to try the new photo-collage feature in Picasa, or been curious to see how clustering technology can automatically find similar faces across your photo collection, now’s the time to download Picasa 3.1 or opt in to name tags on Picasa Web Albums.
Having a truly global audience sharing and commenting on photos is one of the things that makes Picasa special. The people and places you’ll spot on our Explore page attest to this, as do the multilingual comments users receive on their most popular public albums. They also launched automatic comment translation on Picasa Web Albums, which harnesses Google Translate to make sure you know that “美麗的落日” means “Beautiful sunset!”
I posted some pictures using the new version of the application. Adventures include three Halloween costumes and some cotton candy.
Sam's First Autumn
