Capella University is an accredited distance learning institution that was founded in 1993 and headquartered in Minneapolis WI. They offer graduate degrees in business, information technology, education, human services, and psychology as well as bachelor's degrees in business and information technology.
Capella offers 76 career specialties and 16 certificates in these areas of study. There are currently about 16,000 students from all 50 states and 63 countries. They are a national leader in internet education, and are committed to academic excellence.
Sometimes it's easier to fit schooling in when you can work at your own pace. Education is very important and online learning makes it easier to take a class or two that interest you, or go for your bachelors degree.
Dale L Edwards
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Tips for Taking Wedding Pictures
I've found taking pictures to get more difficult as I get older and those tiny little viewers regular cameras have are just impossible anymore. Using a digital camera helps especially if you look for one with a large viewer. With some planning, we should be able to take the pictures of our wedding, or in my case the wedding of one of my children. I've only one left to get married, but I was thinking about doing the pictures myself when he gets married.
To get the wedding camera shots we want we need to do a little advance planning. We need to consult with someone who is knowledgable about cameras and what would be best for our situation and special concerns. We also need to practice with the equipment, so when the day comes no matter how nervous we are it'll be second nature to use our equipment.
Getting children to sit still long enough to take their pictures can be a problem, especially if they are bored and hungry. Bored because a wedding really isn't that exciting to a child and hungry because there is nothing they want to eat. A way to overcome the boredom problem would be to cover child size tables with brown butcher paper and have enough small boxes of crayons for each child to do their artwork on the butcher paper. A little forethought about entertainment for the children will make the event go much smoother. Children are picky eaters and things will go much more smoothly if you take their menu preferences into consideration. Have kid friendly food like hot dogs and chips for them. It'll be worth the little extra work you have to go to make sure they have something they will like to eat.
Be prepared for any type of weather. It would be sad if the bride's dress was ruined because of inclement weather. When making arrangements be sure to prepare for bad weather and hope it's a beautiful sunny day. Golf umbrellas are a good precaution because they are big enough for two, and would make an appealing picture of the newlyweds. Think about mud if you're planning a reception outside and prepare accordingly.
Your pictures will last a lifetime and if the flowers look droopy in your wedding pictures, your pictures won't give you as much pleasure as they would if you weren't reminded of droopy flowers every time you look at the pictures. Might even keep you from wanting to look at them as often as you would if the flowers looked better. Keep the flowers in a cool place away from sunny windows and radiators. Soft flowers like gardenias, lilies of the valley, and tulips are more likely to wilt than sunflowers, gerbera daisies, dahlias, lilies, and hydrangeas which have woody stems. Take good care of your flowers and they'll stand tall. Last, but not least, be sure to wash the vases with bacterial soap so nothing in the container will promote decay.
Be sure to write all details down, even those changes decided over the phone. I don't know about you, but I can't remember all the details. It's easy to get confused about what was agreed on if you don't have it written down. You want all the details in front of you when you go to write out the checks for the bills. Have the vendors e-mail a short note outlining what was agreed on to make sure you and the vendor are on the same page.
If your guests have to travel any distance from the place of the wedding to the location of the reception, be sure each guest understands where they are going and how to get there. Especially those who are from out of town. You don't want to lose any guests, you want them all to be there to celebrate the wonderful occasion.
Be prepared for problems and hope there are none.
Dale L. Edwards
To get the wedding camera shots we want we need to do a little advance planning. We need to consult with someone who is knowledgable about cameras and what would be best for our situation and special concerns. We also need to practice with the equipment, so when the day comes no matter how nervous we are it'll be second nature to use our equipment.
Getting children to sit still long enough to take their pictures can be a problem, especially if they are bored and hungry. Bored because a wedding really isn't that exciting to a child and hungry because there is nothing they want to eat. A way to overcome the boredom problem would be to cover child size tables with brown butcher paper and have enough small boxes of crayons for each child to do their artwork on the butcher paper. A little forethought about entertainment for the children will make the event go much smoother. Children are picky eaters and things will go much more smoothly if you take their menu preferences into consideration. Have kid friendly food like hot dogs and chips for them. It'll be worth the little extra work you have to go to make sure they have something they will like to eat.
Be prepared for any type of weather. It would be sad if the bride's dress was ruined because of inclement weather. When making arrangements be sure to prepare for bad weather and hope it's a beautiful sunny day. Golf umbrellas are a good precaution because they are big enough for two, and would make an appealing picture of the newlyweds. Think about mud if you're planning a reception outside and prepare accordingly.
Your pictures will last a lifetime and if the flowers look droopy in your wedding pictures, your pictures won't give you as much pleasure as they would if you weren't reminded of droopy flowers every time you look at the pictures. Might even keep you from wanting to look at them as often as you would if the flowers looked better. Keep the flowers in a cool place away from sunny windows and radiators. Soft flowers like gardenias, lilies of the valley, and tulips are more likely to wilt than sunflowers, gerbera daisies, dahlias, lilies, and hydrangeas which have woody stems. Take good care of your flowers and they'll stand tall. Last, but not least, be sure to wash the vases with bacterial soap so nothing in the container will promote decay.
Be sure to write all details down, even those changes decided over the phone. I don't know about you, but I can't remember all the details. It's easy to get confused about what was agreed on if you don't have it written down. You want all the details in front of you when you go to write out the checks for the bills. Have the vendors e-mail a short note outlining what was agreed on to make sure you and the vendor are on the same page.
If your guests have to travel any distance from the place of the wedding to the location of the reception, be sure each guest understands where they are going and how to get there. Especially those who are from out of town. You don't want to lose any guests, you want them all to be there to celebrate the wonderful occasion.
Be prepared for problems and hope there are none.
Dale L. Edwards
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Coloboma
A coloboma is a hole in the structure of the eye. One eye only or both eyes can have a coloboma. This is usually a congenital caused when two parts of the eye doesn't connect before birth. The effects of a coloboma on vision varies widely from one person to another depending where the hole(s) is and how big it is.
I had never heard of this condition until I started researching low vision. There is a support group at Yahoo! for those with this condition. It's a self-help group with 498 members when I checked the site. The group also has a website with more information.
There are so many different types of colobomo that I am just going to give an overview of the condition. The MACS site is concerned mainly with children with the condition and their families. It's devestating for a parent to be told their baby is less than perfect no matter what the medical condition involved.
The CHARGE Family Support group has a website about this condition. This is a rare condition that affects more than one part of the body without a known cause. The name of the condition, CHARGE, is a first letter list of the conditions most commonly associated with CHARGE. C stands for coloboma, H stands for heart defects, A stands for atresia of the choanae, an abnormal narrowing or blockage of the nasal passages at birth, R stands for retardation of growth and developmental delay, G stands for genital anomalies, and E stands for ear anomalies.
Uveal Coloboma occurs when the normally occuring gap in the eye, the optic fissure, fails to close after the 5th week and occurs in about 1 in 10,000 live births. There is also a possibility the condition is hereditary. It's been noted that sometimes more than one family member has the condition.
The Handbook of Ocular Disease Management is filled with pictures of eyes from a list of eye diseases and conditions. They have pictures of the inner eye that has a coloboma. The Digital Reference of Ophthamology also has many pictures of congenital conditions affecting the eye.
We'll delve farther into the different congenital conditions in later posts. If you have a condition that you would like me to research first, please leave a comment, and I'll see what I can find.
Dale L. Edwards
I had never heard of this condition until I started researching low vision. There is a support group at Yahoo! for those with this condition. It's a self-help group with 498 members when I checked the site. The group also has a website with more information.
There are so many different types of colobomo that I am just going to give an overview of the condition. The MACS site is concerned mainly with children with the condition and their families. It's devestating for a parent to be told their baby is less than perfect no matter what the medical condition involved.
The CHARGE Family Support group has a website about this condition. This is a rare condition that affects more than one part of the body without a known cause. The name of the condition, CHARGE, is a first letter list of the conditions most commonly associated with CHARGE. C stands for coloboma, H stands for heart defects, A stands for atresia of the choanae, an abnormal narrowing or blockage of the nasal passages at birth, R stands for retardation of growth and developmental delay, G stands for genital anomalies, and E stands for ear anomalies.
Uveal Coloboma occurs when the normally occuring gap in the eye, the optic fissure, fails to close after the 5th week and occurs in about 1 in 10,000 live births. There is also a possibility the condition is hereditary. It's been noted that sometimes more than one family member has the condition.
The Handbook of Ocular Disease Management is filled with pictures of eyes from a list of eye diseases and conditions. They have pictures of the inner eye that has a coloboma. The Digital Reference of Ophthamology also has many pictures of congenital conditions affecting the eye.
We'll delve farther into the different congenital conditions in later posts. If you have a condition that you would like me to research first, please leave a comment, and I'll see what I can find.
Dale L. Edwards
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Retinitis Pigmentosa
Retinitis Pigmentosa is the name given to the group of inherited eye diseases that affect the retina. The retina consists of rods and cones which process light. When the rods and cones no longer function we loose sight. Rods are located around the edge of the retina and help us see images in our peripheral vision and they help us see in dimmly lighted areas. Cone cells are located in the macula are responsible for fine visual detail in the center of the visual field and to perceive color. Together rods and cone cells are responsible to change light into electrical impulses that carries the image to our brain.
RP is the result of the gradual degeneration of the rods and cones of your retina. Night blindness is usually the first symptom followed by a gradual loss of peripheral vision, however in some types of retinitis pigmentosa the cones are affect first and cause color problems and fuzzy center vision.
RP is a genetic disorder that is usually hereditary. The link will lead you to John Wenberg's Retinitis Pigmentosa Page, a veritable gold mine of information about RP. There are several different ways the disorder is passed on to the next generation. Even members of the same family don't show the same degree of disability. Some may have obvious problems with their sight from childhood on. Others may not notice symptoms until they are much older.
Accepting and living with the vision loss RP causes is difficult because you know that it won't get better. Not only it won't get better, but it's very likely to keep getting worse. Now, you can panic or learn how to regain as much independence as you can through low vision aids. A normally sighted person who runs into fog suddenly on the highway has two options; panic or deal with the situation by taking precautions. The way you deal with RP will determine the quality of life you and your family have.
Vitamin A has recently shown promise in slowing the progress of RP in a study of the effects of Vitamin A on RP. Vitamin A can be toxic in large doses, so you need to take care when you take these supplements and only take 15000 IU. Don't take more than that. While Vitamin A helps, a dose of 400 IU of Vitamin E causes the RP to worsen more quickly. Consult with your doctor before starting a regimin of Vitamin A.
Dale L. Edwards
RP is the result of the gradual degeneration of the rods and cones of your retina. Night blindness is usually the first symptom followed by a gradual loss of peripheral vision, however in some types of retinitis pigmentosa the cones are affect first and cause color problems and fuzzy center vision.
RP is a genetic disorder that is usually hereditary. The link will lead you to John Wenberg's Retinitis Pigmentosa Page, a veritable gold mine of information about RP. There are several different ways the disorder is passed on to the next generation. Even members of the same family don't show the same degree of disability. Some may have obvious problems with their sight from childhood on. Others may not notice symptoms until they are much older.
Accepting and living with the vision loss RP causes is difficult because you know that it won't get better. Not only it won't get better, but it's very likely to keep getting worse. Now, you can panic or learn how to regain as much independence as you can through low vision aids. A normally sighted person who runs into fog suddenly on the highway has two options; panic or deal with the situation by taking precautions. The way you deal with RP will determine the quality of life you and your family have.
Vitamin A has recently shown promise in slowing the progress of RP in a study of the effects of Vitamin A on RP. Vitamin A can be toxic in large doses, so you need to take care when you take these supplements and only take 15000 IU. Don't take more than that. While Vitamin A helps, a dose of 400 IU of Vitamin E causes the RP to worsen more quickly. Consult with your doctor before starting a regimin of Vitamin A.
Dale L. Edwards
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