Ask Questions About How Food Is Grown And Raised

Food choices are important, right? Questions about how food is grown and raised and how farmers and ranchers provide consumers with a variety of choices can be answered at www.fooddialogues.com or USFRA’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/USFarmersandRanchers"

Get their answers to the tough questions – How are farm animals treated? What are farm animals fed? What are genetically modified crops? How does farming impact our natural resources? And can this impact my food? www.fooddialogues.com/videos shows how food is grown and raised.

According to One2One Network, of which I am a member, here is some info about USFRA:

"America’s farmers and ranchers founded the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) to start and lead an honest dialogue about American agriculture. USFRA has set the table for conversations with Americans to answer their questions about food and food production.

USFRA connects farmers and ranchers with consumers as a way to provide information and insights as to how our food is grown and raised.

USFRA tells the stories of real farmers and ranchers and connects consumers with farmers and ranchers to answer questions.

Active dialogue on USFRA Facebook’s page provides insights for today’s consumers and highlights recent media activity around how food is grown and raised.


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New Yanni Truth of Touch CD: My Review of some great music

I have always loved classical music. Perhaps it's my background in piano lessons as a little girl where I practiced the Minuet, and then continuing on the guitar years later. I have usually listened to something like Mozart or Vivaldi as a means to relax.I also enjoy jazz, not to mention many other kinds of music.
     I'd never had the opportunity to listen to Yanni's music. But now that I have heard his "Truth of Touch" studio album CD, his music will definitely be on my listening list for relaxation not to mention other moods. I recommend it!
     Most of this album is purely instrumental. Though some of his songs make me think of the classics by the old masters, they are each brand new and unique. Yanni has an amazing style and his songs are bound to be seen as clasxics themselves someday.
     Some of the tracks are gentle and relaxing, while others have catchy rhythms to energize, inmcluding some with an exciting tone reminiscent of a jungle beat. A couple of the tracks feature hauntingly romantic and beautiful female vocals that are wonderful. One features Yanni singing in his his native tongue.
     I've never had the pleasure of seeing Yanni in concert, but I can tell from this CD as well as a commercial I saw on TV that I would love to hear his creations in concert someday;. Meanwhile, his CD will at times help me relax, at others rejuenate me and at others serve as romantic background music.
     On March 22, Yanni launched a 40-date tour of the US. The tour will take him through theaters in major cities across the US including Radio City Music Hall in NYC and the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

This is Yanni's first instrumental release of original compositions in over eight years and is a return to the genre Yanni helped create and advance.
     “I work the rhythms in this album,” explains Yanni about the new material. “There is a beautiful complexity in these rhythms, a new sound design. I think the melodic content is very strong and very memorable. I was having fun with this album and that’s going to become apparent.”
     It is! Thanks One2One Network for letting me review his album!

Spring Clean with Fellowes: Some Handy Tips To Prevent Identity Theft

Spring Cleaning Tips to Protect from Identity Theft

Thanks to the OnetoOne Network, I have some great hints and tips to share with you:
The Identity Theft Resource Center recommends their

Top 5 Tips for spring cleaning the home office: I know mine can always use some organizing. These tips should help with your homeschool too!

Begin with the Basics: Sort through the piles of paperwork on your desk and in your office drawers.  Place them into two categories: ‘save’ and ‘shred.’

Proper Storage: Organize the "save" pile into labeled folders (I personally suggest the Dymo Labelwriter Pro (see another of my earlier blog entries for more info on that.) 

Be sure to put anything confidential into a fire-proof lock box. My dad gave me one a few years ago and it gives me a nice sense of comfort knowing at least important documents will be safe :)

 The "shred" pile should be properly disposed of with a Cross-Cut shredder, such as a Fellowes P-12C. 

Cross-Cut technology is an important feature for a shredder because it provides high security, destroying confidential information into unidentifiable pieces.  Equally important are enhanced safety features, such as Fellowes' SafeSense technology, which shuts the machine down when hands come too close to the paper opening, which is so important if you have children. Doesn't that sound cool? Wish I had one. :)

The Fellowes P-12C paper shredder is a durable, innovativeand affordable machine. With Fellowes’ industry-leading technologies, the P-12C provides high-security and is safe for family environments. 

* To ensure high-security against identity thieves, the P-12C features Cross-Cut technology, which destroys a single sheet of paper into nearly 399 particles. 

* The P-12C also includes Fellowes’ patented SafeSense technology, which disables the shredder when it senses hands or large pets come too close to the paper opening.

* The P-12C can also shred staples, credit cards and paper clips to help speed up your spring cleaning process.

* Its slim profile design allows the P-12C to fit in any officeenvironment, including under desks or in kitchens and other rooms.

The P-12C has a suggested retail price of $89.99 and is available at Target Stores nationwide.http://www.target.com/Fellowes-P-12C-Cross-Cut-Shredder-SafeSense/dp/B003ID0EFC/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&searchView=grid5&keywords=p-12c&fromGsearch=true&sr=1-4&qid=1297964460&rh=&searchRank=target104545&id=Fellowes%20P-12C%20Cross-Cut%20Shredder%20SafeSense&node=1038576|1287991011&searchSize=30&searchPage=1&searchNodeID=1038576|1287991011&searchBinNameList=subjectbin,price,target_com_primary_color-bin,target_com_size-bin,target_com_brand-bin&frombrowse=0

Hey! After you shred all that paper, you can maybe use it to make your own recycled paper in a blender (I'll find some how-to's and share in a later post) 

Get a Digital Makeover: Refresh your home office computer bydeleting files you no longer use and backing-up important data onto an external hard drive.  Clean out your inbox and change all passwords.  Refreshing your computer is a good practice to follow throughout the year as well.

 (I just personally had to do all of this, especially change my passwords etc., because Facebook notified me that someone on a mobile phone across the country from me (they even knew the location) had tried to access my account. Then I found out (after installing a couple free virus protection and malware identifying and removal softwares for free that my brilliant computer genius 14-year old found for me), that I had 48 files infected with Malware and Trojans (the worst ones.) Not to mention the many high and low risk viruses that the virus protection software had found earlier. Jeepers. So many days without my computer drove me nuts. :) Hopefully it's all better now though. ...I still have file cleaning up to do like they suggest here.

Make Life Easier: Plan ahead by purchasing organizational tools for your desk, such as computer risers or file folder holders.  This will help clear clutter from your desk top while keeping things within arms reach.

Freshen Up: Get rid of dust and germs that easily build up on office equipment such as keyboards, telephones and cabinets.  You'll feel instantly more productive with a clean workspace.