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Max Page, the 7-year-old actor best known for playing a "mini-Darth Vader" in a 2011 Super Bowl ad for Volkswagen, underwent successful surgery to replace his pulmonary valve Thursday at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
"The surgery today went very well," according to Dr. Vaughn Starnes, who performed the operation and is co-director of The Heart Institute at CHLA.
"The surgery took two hours without complications, and he is recovering very well in cardiac ICU," he said.
Hospital spokesman Lorenzo Benet said Max was expected to remain hospitalized until early next week. The recovery time for the operation is about six to eight weeks, he said.
Max's mother, Jennifer Page, said it was a nerve-wracking morning, but the surgery apparently went "extremely well."
"The next 48 hours are so crucial in Max's recovery," she said. "We love the outpouring of support that everyone has shown, and the kindness from strangers, family and friends."
Max, who also appears on "The Young and the Restless" and "Prime Suspect," was upbeat when he and his family talked to reporters at the hospital Wednesday.
Asked by his mother what he was looking forward to after the surgery, he said, "Well, I'm looking forward to -- because I love baseball, my dad says I'm gonna be a first-round draft pick."
Max was born with a congenital heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot. Doctors said the valve-replacement surgery was something that has long been anticipated -- it was just a matter of time.
Starnes said efforts had been made to preserve Max's pulmonary valve, but it deteriorated over time.
"It has not grown very well so it's creating a problem for the heart to empty out into the pulmonary arteries,'' Starnes said.
Jennifer Page said her son was frightened at first but knew the operation was inevitable.
"He took time to cry, he took time to be scared and then he really jumped on board and was like, 'Let's just figure out what I can do and let's just do that,'" she said.
Max has been treated at the hospital since he was an infant. He is now an official "junior ambassador" for the hospital, speaking to groups and helping raise money for pediatric research and treatments. He has also visited Washington, D.C., to help oppose cuts to Medicaid.
His family is encouraging people to make donations to the hospital's Children's Fund in Max's name.
"Little Vader" Undergoes Successful Heart Surgery
Max Page will spend a few days in the hospital before he goes home
Max Page, the 7-year-old actor best known for playing a "mini-Darth Vader" in a 2011 Super Bowl ad for Volkswagen, underwent successful surgery to replace his pulmonary valve Thursday at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.


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text: Disclaimer: I am an authorized Olympus dealer and some links are to my site. Olympus Imaging has recently reved it's 2009 Stylus lineup with new rebranded "Tough" cameras and now the new PT-045 and PT-047 housings. The T-8000 now sports 12MP, with the T-6000 at 10MP. Both cameras are practically indestructible and feature a shock, crush, freeze and water-proof design. The T-6000 is depth-rated to 10' and the T-8000 to 33'. Both have a great 3.6x lens with a 35mm equivalent of 28-102mm and dual image stabilization for blur-free photos, first seen on the 1030sw. Built-in macro can shoot down to .8 of an inch. New is a "Tap" control where you can access certain camera features simply by tapping the side of the camera case, even with gloves on. Besides their durability and depth rating, what makes these cameras ideal for underwater photographers is their four built-in underwater settings to adjust the camera for different types of shots. These include Underwater Snapshot, Wideangle 1 & 2, and Macro. This is great for new users to capture different shots right out of the box. More advanced users will enjoy Programmed Auto and other modes. Much more information is available from Olympus. As nice as these upgraded cameras are, what makes their release for underwater photographers even better are the sexy new black housings the PT-045 (T-8000) and PT-47 (T-6000). Olympus has copied features from their run-away best-selling PT-EO5 housing for the Olympus E-520 DSLR camera and brought them to point and shoot simplicity. Features of both the PT-045 and PT-047 housings are nearly identical. New is a locked twist cam closure, that along with simple drop-in alignment, makes this a plug and play housing, no trays, screws or other internal mounting is necessary. But the black isn't just there for looks, divers that use an external strobe have for years blocked off all the light coming from the camera's flash, except for a small area where a fiber optic sync cord is mounted to fire an external strobe. The trend today is for manufacturers to include a plug-in port for an optical sync cord on many DSLRs. Olympus now extends that idea with a black slide-in plug mount that replaces the strobe diffuser. The plug fits the standard Olympus, Sea & Sea, Fantasea and other plug-in cords. Other intelligent features of the Olympus housings (that are on the last generation as well) include a "hotshoe" style mount for a small strobe or focus light and ranked, labeled, camera controls that are separated both by position and height, so that use with gloves is much easier. Ports have 55mm screw-in threads and accept external wide and macro angle lenses from Fantasea and others. The cameras and housings are available separately or in bundles together. Besides the above cameras, Olympus also released the value-priced PT-046 housing for the new FE-3010. More photos here.


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Savannah Miller wrote:Robert Niessner wrote:No. The longest shutter is 1/24 (360° at 24 fps) or 0,0416 seconds
Would long shutters be a simple firmware update or do you run into problems because its not a dedicated stills camera?
timbutt2 wrote:Technically you can shoot 12 fps, which would mean 360° would be 1/12 shutter speed.
Robert Niessner wrote:timbutt2 wrote:Technically you can shoot 12 fps, which would mean 360° would be 1/12 shutter speed.
How would you shoot 12fps on the Ursa Mini? Did I miss something?
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rick.lang wrote:The most important advantage shooting 2K for HD deliverables may be the image stabilization it affords to remove those little flaws and help smooth camera movement. May mean no loss of sharpness if your micro jitters are no more than a few percent of your frame.
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Hi, hello, how are you. I found this place linked to the Rpgworldcomic website and it caught my attention, and so, through the combined usage of both my mouse and the link button, here I am. ^.^
I'm kinda nervous about being here because I've never been a part of an online RP this large before (so much information @_@), but hopefully I'll be able to pick it all up quickly.
Umm...some basic personal info: I'm 16, a girl, a big nerd, I live in South Carolina, and I have a terrible first name for a girl (Seth -_-), so most people just call me Mog.
I look forward to Rping with you all.


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AT&T + Silicon Beach Fest Hackathon
AT&T Developer Program
Friday, June 14, 2013 at 6:00 PM - Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 10:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Silicon Beach Fest is back and we're better and bigger than ever. Our dedication and commitment to the developer community makes this by far and away the most anticipated hackathons in southern california. This year we're proud to announce our partnership with AT&T which will make this hackathon one to remember. Come eat and compete for awesome prizes and build the products of tomorrow.
There's only one rule, everything coded and evaluated in the competition must be either a publicly available api or coded on site.
Event Schedule. The following is a list of the weekends agenda:
Opening Day
6PM - Kickoff event with dinner, networking, and developer dating which leads into idea pitches and team formation.
7PM - Lightning talks.
8PM - Idea pitches and team formation. Pitch your ideas and form teams or just start coding with your preformed teams.
12AM - Code the whole night through
Second Day
10AM - The fun continues with an all day hackathon. Work with the teams that you formed the night before to produce the app. Senseis will be available throughout the entire event to help you code up your solution.
1PM - Lunch
7PM - Dinner
12AM - Code the whole night through
Final Day
10AM -The fun continues with the final day of the hackathon. Continue to work with your team to finish coding and polishing your app. Senseis will be available throughout the final hours to help you code up your solution. App submissions will be accepted throughout the day with a deadline of 6PM.
1PM - Lunch
4PM - 6PM Pencils down. Please sign up your teams to present via this link: http://bit.ly/hackprezreg Pitches start promptly at 4PM and are limited to three (3) minutes per team. No powerpoints unless you are only presenting an idea.
Prizes. The following prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge:
Over $22,000 in cash and prizes
Best Hackathon Overall App
1st Place - $9,000+ in cash and prizes. This includes $1,000 in cash for the team to split (cash provided by Scopely)! One Nokia Lumina (Provided by Nokia) For the entire team to share, a "Copy for Companies", 500G, 1 year ($999 value https://www.copy.com/price/) Each team member will receive the Copy Pro 250g for 1 year(value $99 each https://www.copy.com/price/) Each member of the team will receive free tickets to the Silicon Beach Fest (Each ticket valued at $495). Peak hosting credits of $6,000 ($500 per month for 12 months)
2nd Place - $5,500+ in prizes - Each team member will receive the Copy Pro 250g for 1 year(value $99 each https://www.copy.com/price/) Each member of the team will receive free tickets to the Silicon Beach Fest (Each ticket valued at $495). Peak hosting credits of $3,000 ($500 per month for 6 months).
- 3rd Place - $3,500+ in prizes. Each team member will receive the Copy Pro 250g for 1 year(value $99 each https://www.copy.com/price/) Each member of the team will receive free tickets to the Silicon Beach Fest (Each ticket valued at $495). Peak hosting credits of $3,000 ($500 per month for 6 months)
Best use of Esri ArcGIS Online for developers services & APIs:
- $2,500 cash prize for team to split
- 1 year subscription to ArcGIS Online (Level 1) developers.arcgis.com esriurl.com/sbf
- Ask-Ziggy Challenge - TBA
- 1st Place - $500 for the team to split. A 1 yr subscription to Ask Ziggy NLU API at Power user level.
- 2nd Place - A 1 yr subscription to Ask Ziggy NLU API at Power user level.
- 3rd Place - A 3 month subscription to Ask Ziggy NLU API at Power user level.
- 1st Place - $500 for the team to split. A 1 yr subscription to Ask Ziggy NLU API at Power user level.
- Algorithms.io & Mashape Challenge - TBA
- 1st Place - $500 for the team to split. A 1 yr subscription to Algorithms.io at Advanced user level.
- 2nd Place - A 1 yr subscription to Algorithms.io at Advanced user level.
- 3rd Place - A 3 month subscription to Algorithms.io at Advanced user level.
- 1st Place - $500 for the team to split. A 1 yr subscription to Algorithms.io at Advanced user level.
- Productsy Challenge - TBA
- 1st Place - An awesome new tech gadget TBD (Either Apple device (tbd) or Samsung Galaxy S4) & 1 year of our Productsy premium API and support
- 2nd Place - 1 year of our Productsy premium API and support
- 3rd Place - 6 months of Productsy premium API and support
- 1st Place - An awesome new tech gadget TBD (Either Apple device (tbd) or Samsung Galaxy S4) & 1 year of our Productsy premium API and support
All team members that present a final app on Sunday will recieve a discount coupon for 50% of a ticket to the Silicon Beach Fest.
All Senseis that work with team throughout the entire hackathon will receive a free ticket to Silicon Beach Fest.
Judging Criteria. Apps will be judged based on the criteria below
Biggest Technical Challenge
Broadest Potential Disruption
Social Media.
Follow us @attdeveloper for live updates and photos from the event
"Like" us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/attdeveloper
|Alex Donn, Senior Marketing Manager at AT&T, is based out of sunny Seattle! His passion is educating developers young and old about mobile application development best practices through events like hackathons that fuse the collective interests of multiple technology and business leaders. He loves bacon and is allergic to all types of gluten.
|Myles Sutherland manages Esri's Emerging Business team working with startups and entrepreneurs around geo-location, mapping, and location analytics. He has a background in engineering, product management, and business development. He's also a Kiwi, geographer, surfer, and outdoors geek.
|Shai Leib is the founder and CEO of Ask Ziggy. Shai has over 20 years of software development experience, and ran his own IT Consulting company. Shai spends his time focusing on developing the Ask Ziggy NLU API to enable the developer community to enhance their applications using Natural Language Understanding, while focusing on creating great apps, and avoid dealing with the details of machine learning and AI. Shai Has a B.S. degree in Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University.
|Eytan Elbaz is currently the Co-founder of Scopely and of Deep Dive Media. He previously served as Google's Head of Domain Channel from April 2003 through September 2007. Prior to Google, Eytan was Vice President and founding member of Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo), which was later acquired by Google.
|Sameer Maggon is a product & technology executive with expertise in cloud infrastructure, mobile & search. He helps startups, agencies & enterprises with product & technology strategy, implementation and delivery. Sameer is currently the co-founder at Productsy that offers cloud based infrastructure for mobile developers to quickly build mobile apps and provides scale as they grow."
|Thor Clark is a business and growth-driven CTO with a background as a professional developer and systems architect. As CTO at SignNow, recently acquired by Barracuda Networks, Thor manages a team of experienced technologists building out the world's best online signature platform. At Yahoo! he worked with sales and technology teams to increase revenue generated by key search products. As CTO at INVESTools (a NASDAQ listed company acquired by TD Ameritrade) he managed product and technology and supported a 10x increase in market value. At Tabula Interactive, an innovative financial content startup, he was employee #6 and led the technology growth of the platform, supporting a successful $50M exit and a significant return on investment. Mr. Clark earned his Bachelors degree in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.
|Andy Bartley: CEO & C-Founder of Algorithms.io
CTO Coaches & Senseis
Jameel Al-Aziz is a Platform Engineer at Scopely. He went to UCLA to become a doctor and left with a degree in CS&E. Al-Aziz is a DevOps engineer at heart, but somehow ends up working on platforms!
Josue Bustos is a designer, developer for Zukini Mobile. Specializing in enterprise and cross platform mobile application development targeting the Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone vendor platforms.
Josue also Co - Founded Mobile Camp Los Angeles in 2012; a premier un-conference and training event for working professionals of all levels to discover, share, and innovate for the mobile wireless application industry.
|Cheston Contaoi is a cross-platform mobile developer and President of Driveframe LLC servicing mobile app development, API implementation, and app store submission and marketing. Cheston has won numerous Hackathons sponsored by AT&T, Salesforce, Microsoft & BlackBerry.
|Francis Nickels is currently the Director of Operations at Riot Games, and has help grow the team, live service, and global infrastructure for League of Legends over the past three years. Currently the most played online game in the world with over 32 million monthly active players and in excess of 5 million concurrent players. Prior to Riot he has worked at firms including Blizzard Entertainment, Roll Global, UCLA and Experian Consumer Direct. Graduate of UCLA's School of Engineering with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
|Lance Bradely is a 12 year startup veteran, whom over the years has worked in creative and engineering roles. He founded and sold a Natural Language Search Engine after graduating from college. Following that he was an early employee at Zynga where he worked in Risk Management, then built out the highest trafficked Ruby on Rails installation in the world. After Zynga, Lance worked for Geni.com in Los Angeles building graph databases in Clojure, a community in which he as many open source contributions. He is now a Senior Engineer on the Platform team at Scopely, where he works on scalable social platforms and data engineering.
|Peter Couture is a CTO & Solutions Architect with over 10 years experience innovating in the streaming media world. His core talent includes the conception and implementation of live streaming infrastructure for 100,000+ audiences on web and mobile. His systems have been used by Imgen Heap, MTV, Coachella and the ESPN. He's advised and implemented infrastructure for AEG's Staples Center and Adobe's Flash Media Server 4.5. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology for a BS in Information Technology.
Mark Mironyuk was born in Kiev Ukraine, started programming when he was 14. Mark attended UC Davis for Computer Science before jumping aboard the Ask Ziggy train when it was only five members strong. He is currently a front-end developer and Lead of user experience.
|Carlos Cervantes is a CTO/Founder at Gumball a local social marketing startup that recently came out of the Boost incubator in Silicon Valley. He worked at DRX(acquired by Connecture), a Los Angeles healthcare technology company, as a Software Architect before quitting to pursue his own agenda. Carlos has 7 years experience in web, mobile, and startups with a variety of different platforms.
|Ilya Pozin is an entrepreneur, writer and investor. He is the founder of Ciplex, a digital marketing agency, and a columnist for Inc., Forbes and LinkedIn.
|Nathan Chandra, provides marketing and business development for the AT&T Developer Program, and is the Co-Founder of WeLink. Nathan is entrepreneurial in spirit and thrives off ideas. Some of his accomplishment include selling 2M+ physical CD albums (this was prior to the popularity of the MP3); successfully starting a multimillion dollar private law practice (the practice is still thriving); and starting 2 technology companies (one failed, the second is stable and growing)!
|Reed Shaffner - Prior to joining Scopely, Reed was general manager at Zynga where he oversaw the company's mobile platform and the Zynga With Friends network. Reed also is associate partner at Ironfire Capital, which invests in early stage mobile, big data and cloud computing start-ups in China and the U.S.
|David is the Managing Partner of TenOneTen Ventures. He has nearly two decades of experience as a technology entrepreneur. After graduating from MIT's Media Lab in 1995, David co-founded Firefly, an early pioneer in personalization and privacy technology. Firefly was acquired by Microsoft in 1998. After Firefly, David co-founded PeoplePC, which went public in 2001 and was acquired by Earthlink in 2002.
Since leaving his last company, Spot Runner, David has dedicated his time to helping entrepreneurs. He is an active mentor in several Los Angeles accelerators, including Amplify, LaunchPad LA, and MuckerLab. David lives in LA with his wife, three daughters, and a ludicrous number of pets.
When & Where
604 Arizona Ave
Santa Monica,
Friday, June 14, 2013 at 6:00 PM - Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 10:00 PM (PDT)
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AT&T hosts both developer and creator competitions, as well as workshops. Please join us at one of our free events listed here. The full event agendas are in the Eventbrite description. Also, check out the AT&T Developer Program for more information about our platforms. See you soon!


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The classroom and beyond
Education support and activities 2012
This publication offers an overview of our education work.
For more information on any of the projects, to access resources and for full details of all the support available to teachers and students, browse our education section.
- The classroom and beyond (PDF, 8 MB)


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For those of you needing an introduction, J.W. Hulme Co. is the purveyor of fine leather products out of St Paul, Minnesota. With an enduring history in curating the needs for adventure, the skilled hands at J.W. Hulme do not skimp when it comes to craftsmanship and use of quality materials. Up for your viewing pleasure with close ups of their well thought-out trimmings and finishing touches, is their Weekend Satchel.
Featuring their ultra rugged but supple Greystone canvas bolstered by a full leather bottom, this bag will take a beating. Weather you have 12 gauge shells strewn along the bottom or a respectable selection of ambassadors from your wardrobe for a weekend outing, it puts the "man" into gentlemanly.
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IRS Tax Tip 2009-23
As an alternative method for donating to a charity, certain taxpayers may transfer funds from their IRA to an eligible charitable organization. Here are ten things taxpayers who are thinking about making such a donation will need to know.
1. The IRA owner must be age 70 ½ or older.
2. The donor must directly transfer the money tax-free to an eligible organization.
3. The maximum amount that an IRA owner may transfer annually tax-free is $100,000 to an eligible organization.
4. This option, created in 2006 and recently extended through 2009, is available to eligible IRA owners, regardless of whether they itemize their deductions.
5. Distributions from employer-sponsored retirement plans, including SIMPLE IRAs and simplified employee pension plans – commonly referred to as SEP Plans – are not eligible.
6. To qualify, the funds must be contributed directly by the IRA trustee to the eligible charity.
7. Amounts transferred are not taxable and no deduction is available for the amount given to the charity unless non-deductable contributions are transferred.
8. Not all charities are eligible. For example, donor-advised funds and supporting organizations are not eligible recipients.
9. Transferred amounts are counted in determining whether the owner has met the IRA's required minimum distribution rules. Where individuals have made nondeductible contributions to their traditional IRAs, a special rule treats transferred amounts as coming first from taxable funds, instead of proportionately from taxable and nontaxable funds, as would be the case with regular distributions. If non-deductible contributions are transferred to an eligible organization, a charitable contribution deduction may be allowed if itemizing deductions.
10. More information about qualified charitable distributions can be found in Publication 590, Individual Retirement Arrangements.


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Time to write one of those anecdote thingies I've been promising. ^^; Well, here goes…
If you guys don't know by now, I make a living[1] delivering papers. And, as you guys also know, I'm rather lacking in what I call "good judgement" – brash, rude, lazy, a procrastinator, not looking where I leap, don't know when to quit, always got to be right…
Wait, where was I?
Oh yeah, delivering papers.
One night[2], I saw one of the usual cats[3] sitting in the middle of a driveway. Now, this kitten was (one might say unusually) voracious/eager, so to see her just sitting in the driveway seemed, well, odd. Still, I walked up and stroked her head. Even more unusually, she didn't move at all.
Then I noticed what was in front of her.
There was this poor little sparrow, lying sprawled against he pavement. It's eyes were still open, and for a moment I stared at it, not realising I was still stroking the kitten.
And then they blinked, and I realised with horror what had happened – that it was still alive, and the last thing this poor magnificent creature would ever see is big evil Man congratulating his proud pet on another kill.[4]
If you've ever looked into a small birds' eyes, you'd know they contain in them a sort of wonder, a curiosity, a spark in their beadyness that few others posses. I guess you have to be observant when the world is out to get you and your food's smaller than your head. To see that spark there, even at the last vestiges of life, really gives this feeling of… great sadness, I guess. It sobers someone to the reality of things that we ignore day-to-day.
But there's also another thing I saw in that little birds' eye: hope. A hope for the future, that there'll be no more death and killing and disease and poverty…
A hope that tomorrow's going to be better.
Do not go gentle into that good Night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-- Dylan Thomas
[1] Of course, I don't mean a proper living (I get to board free with my 'parents :D), but $20 each week isn't too shabby IMHO.
[2] Oh, um, Boss, did I say night? I meant day! At 4:30p.m., even! ^^;
[3] It's odd - some cats like me, some are scared of me, and some like to put stitches in my hand. ^^ Just kidding about that last part, that's what my doctor does.
[4] "Man" here is the same Man who killed Bambi's mother. Yeah, we're a horrible bunch. (And that it's not my pet is beside the point, we're talking about the sparrow's perspective.)


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Spacious & stunning
The sprawling 11-room colonial house at 40 Farmstead Hill Road in Fairfield could probably pass as a modern-day castle with its noble exterior, gracious grounds and stunning interior. The only difference is that most castles are dark inside. This house is well lit, with numerous windows and skylights that welcome in the sun.
Designed by award-winning architect Roger Ferris, the 5,155-square-foot house was built in 1986 on a 2.22-acre level property in the heart of the Greenfield Hill section of town. The road is a kid-friendly, quiet cul-de-sac, and directly across from the house is a wooded area.
It is an ideal home to raise a family, entertain or recreate. Inside there are four bedrooms, each with its own full bath, and outside there is a large lawn on which to play. Inside there is a spacious kitchen with a wet bar, and outside there is a spacious red brick patio. Inside there is a workout room with its own full bath and sauna, and outside there is an in-ground Gunite pool surrounded by Kool decking and enclosed by a black wrought-iron fence.
The house is set back from the road. Its attractive architectural fa�ade of pale yellow vinyl siding over clapboard and white trim is enhanced by the two-car garage, which is topped with a cupola and connected to the main house by a logia. In the front of the house there is a circular paved driveway that is lined in Belgian block, attractive landscaping and lots of open lawn.
Red brick steps lead to the covered porch of the front entrance, which has sidelights with 10 panes each. On the interior side there is a large recessed area above the front door and a huge Palladian window.
The two-story foyer is a cavernous center hall and it has a marble floor of light and dark tiles installed on a diagonal. The powder
room off the foyer has the same marble floor and
black fixtures.
To the right of the foyer is the formal living room, to the left is the formal dining room and at the end of the center hall are the stairs to the second floor and access to the kitchen and the family room. Although there is oak hardwood flooring throughout the house, there are some rooms that have wall-to-wall carpeting, the living room being one of them. Two French doors separate the living room from the foyer.
Throughout the house the double-hung windows are generally taller than most, including in the living room. There is also an oversized fireplace, which has a marble hearth and a white wood mantle with dentil molding.
One of the characteristics of a Roger Ferris home is the layout that includes two entrances to each room on the main living level. The living room has two French doors that lead into the sizable family room.
In the family room there is a fireplace with a white ceramic tile surround, recessed panels and two columns, a white wood mantle and red brick hearth. This room also has deep crown molding, and a recessed bay window area with a large "true view" picture window. There are two French doors to the backyard patio, both of which are flanked by two atrium windows. One of its most unique features is a built-in bookshelf that includes a television cabinet that can be opened and closed by remote control to conceal the TV.
The dining room has the same crown molding of the living room, recessed lights, a hardwood floor and a cafe door into the kitchen. The kitchen has a six-by-six-inch white ceramic tile floor, and L-shaped counter topped in white Formica, and white cabinets with space above for displays. The large and tall center island is topped in the same ceramic tile of the floor, as is the backsplash, both of which have the added feature of decorative hand-painted floral designed tiles in blue, green and a hint of lavender.
Housed in the center island is a Thermador range top with a grill and storage cabinets. Other appliances include a Miele dishwasher, Sub-Zero refrigerator and two wall-mounted Thermador ovens. Over the long stainless sink are two crank-out windows with nine panes each that overlook the red brick patio and the in-ground pool.
On the side of the kitchen closest to the family room is a wet bar with a sink and beverage refrigerator disguised behind two sets of bi-fold doors. There is also a pantry with two pull-out doors. Off the kitchen is an octagonal breakfast room or eat-in kitchen area that is larger than some houses' formal dining rooms. It has the same tile floor as the kitchen, six tall double-hung windows overlooking the backyard, a skylight, recessed counter area with cabinets and drawers, and two French doors to the patio and pool. This room can also be accessed from the family room.
On the other side of the kitchen is a large area that includes a hallway to a laundry room, mudroom, workout room and access to a second-floor bonus room above the garage. The laundry room has a ceramic tile floor, cabinets and a General Electric washer and dryer.
The mudroom has benches and hooks for coats, and also provides access to the full unfinished basement.
The workout or exercise room has one solid door into the back hallway and two French doors to the patio and pool. This room has its own full bath and sauna, with three-by-three-inch ivory-colored ceramic tiles on the floor, dark brown fixtures, and a walk-in shower.
This area of the house, at the end of the hallway, also has a door to the logia and into the garage. From the logia, one can also go into the front and backyards.
The bonus room is really the size of two rooms. It could be used as a fifth bedroom, an office or play room. It has lots of under-eaves storage, a vaulted ceiling, and built-in bookshelves. The "hallway" above the logia into this room has porthole windows.
Going up the stairs to the second floor there is a dramatically large window with 30 panes of glass overlooking the backyard. The hardwood floors on this second level are all covered in wall-to-wall carpeting.
The master bedroom has five double-hung windows, each with plantation shutters. The walk-in closet has a soaring vaulted ceiling and skylight. There is a second long closet lined with mirrors, and a third closet for storage.
White four-by-four-inch ceramic tiles with a dotted Swiss pattern line the floor of the master bath. The next owner may have to hire a lifeguard for the tub, because it is so large it resembles a pool. It is surrounded in the same dotted tile. There is a bay window area, a walk-in shower with gray mosaic tiles on the floor and four-by-four-inch stone tile walls. Inside the shower there is also a Carrera marble seat. Also featured in this bath is a separate water closet-like area, but with no door, and a long dark gray vanity with two lighter gray sinks.
Outside, the pool is unusually shaped and lined in red brick. Closer to the house there are landscaped areas with lots of shrubs and trees. There is also open lawn. The exterior sprinkler system has 100 sprinkler heads set on a timer.
Throughout the house there are true divided light windows rather than the grids that give the illusion of separate panes.
For more information, or to set up a private appointment to see the house, call Donna Galbo of Fairfield County Real Estate at 203-943-1002.
TYPE OF HOUSE: Colonial
ADDRESS: 40 Farmstead Hill Road
AMENITIES: designed by award-winning architect Roger Ferris, two-acre level property, in-ground Gunite pool and Kool decking, patio, two fireplaces, octagonal breakfast room, workout room with full bath and sauna, numerous skylights, crown molding, recessed lights, French doors, oak floors throughout house, custom built-ins with remote to conceal television, wet bar, large pantry, ice maker, large bonus room above garage, five-zoned central air conditioning, sprinkler system, security system, exterior lighting, true divided light windows throughout house, invisible pet fence, surround sound
OTHER INFORMATION: four bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, high ceilings throughout, oversized windows, five-zoned oil hot air heat, two-car garage connected to the main house by a logia, two new furnaces (one installed in 2007 and one installed in 2004), new hot water heater (as of 2004), new driveway (as of 2005), new roof (as of 2002), copper roof installed in 2007, new siding over the clapboard (as of 2003), full unfinished basement, septic system, city water, walk-up attic
SCHOOLS: Burr Elementary; Fairfield Woods Middle; Fairfield Warde High
TAX RATE: 18.58 mills


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From Skills to Succeed to the environment, Accenture and our people work to make a sustainable, measurable difference to the communities in which we work and live.
Accenture's corporate citizenship initiative, Skills to Succeed, helps address the global need for skills that open doors to employment and economic opportunity.
It draws on two of Accenture's core capabilities: training talent and convening partnerships to achieve tangible, measurable results. By mobilizing our people, partners, clients and others, we strive to make a measurable and sustainable difference in the economic vitality and resilience of individuals, families and communities.
By the end of fiscal 2020, together with our strategic partners, we will pursue the following targets:
Demand-led skilling: Equip more than 3 million people with the skills to get a job or build a business.
Employment and entrepreneurship outcomes: Increase our focus on the successful transition from skill-building programs to sustainable jobs and businesses, and improve our collective ability to measure and report on these outcomes.
Collaboration for systemic change: Bring together organizations across sectors to create large-scale, lasting solutions aimed at closing global employment gaps.
Since fiscal 2011, Accenture has equipped more than 1.2 million people with workplace and entrepreneurial skills.
Our people are the driving force behind our Skills to Succeed initiative, and it is an enormous source of pride for them. They share their time, skills and counsel by volunteering and providing pro bono services for activities such as conducting soft skills workshops for jobseekers, creating new technology solutions for skills training, implementing new technology platforms for our nonprofit partners and providing long-term mentoring support for entrepreneurs.
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Our environmental strategy focuses on three areas: running efficient operations that reduce emissions and other impacts; enabling client and supplier sustainability; and engaging our people, leaders, partners and other stakeholders — and it's working: fiscal 2015 was the most energy efficient year in our company's history. We have reduced our per employee carbon emissions by more than 47 percent against our fiscal 2007 baseline—an eight-year reduction from an average of 4.04 to 2.14 metric tons of CO2 per employee. We also purchased more than 30 percent more renewable kilowatt-hours compared to fiscal 2014.
But we're not resting on our laurels. We started a pilot to track environmental, social and governance performance with our suppliers. And by the end of fiscal 2020, we will reduce our per employee carbon emissions by more than 50 percent against our fiscal 2007 baseline. It's these kinds of efforts that have landed us on CDP's "Climate A List" and the FTSE4Good Global Index, and kept us on the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index for 11 consecutive years.
Our people around the world develop innovative approaches to eco-smart work practices and support our efforts to drive their adoption across our geographies through Smart Work programs, Travel Smart Challenges and eco volunteerism. They also help our clients with business strategies and technology solutions — and that includes helping them improve their sustainability performance. As a company, Accenture supports the UN Secretary General's Initiative, SE4All, which aims to provide access to sustainable energy to the 1.3 billion people who do not have it.Learn more about Accenture and the environment.
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The Broadcast Film Critics Association unveiled its nominees Tuesday for the 18th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.
"Lincoln" led the way, receiving a record 13 nominations, including Best Picture, while "Les Miserables" was next with 11, followed by "Silver Linings Playbook" with 10.
The winners will be announced Jan. 10, with the ceremony airing live on the CW. Here's the complete list of nominations:
U.S. & World
Is "Les Miserables" doomed at the Oscars?
"Argo," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Django Unchained," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "The Master," "Moonrise Kingdom," "Silver Linings Playbook," "Zero Dark Thirty"
Bradley Cooper "Silver Linings Playbook"; Daniel Day-Lewis "Lincoln"; John Hawkes "The Sessions"; Hugh Jackman "Les Miserables"; Joaquin Phoenix "The Master"; Denzel Washington "Flight"
BEST ACTRESS Jessica Chastain "Zero Dark Thirty"; Marion Cotillard "Rust and Bone"; Jennifer Lawrence "Silver Linings Playbook"; Emmanuelle Riva "Amour"; Quvenzhan Wallis "Beasts of the Southern Wild"; Naomi Watts "The Impossible"
See who won big at the AFI Awards--and what it means for Oscar season
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Alan Arkin "Argo"; Javier Bardem "Skyfall"; Robert De Niro "Silver Linings Playbook"; Philip Seymour Hoffman "The Master"; Tommy Lee Jones "Lincoln"; Matthew McConaughey "Magic Mike"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Adams "The Master"; Judi Dench "Skyfall"; Ann Dowd "Compliance"; Sally Field "Lincoln"; Anne Hathaway "Les Miserables"; Helen Hunt "The Sessions"
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS Elle Fanning "Ginger &Rosa"; Kara Hayward "Moonrise Kingdom"; Tom Holland "The Impossible"; Logan Lerman "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"; Suraj Sharma "Life of Pi"; Quvenzhan Wallis "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE "Argo," "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," "Les Miserables," "Lincoln," "Moonrise Kingdom," "Silver Linings Playbook"
See who won big at last night's American Country Awards
BEST DIRECTOR Ben Affleck "Argo"; Kathryn Bigelow "Zero Dark Thirty"; Tom Hooper "Les Miserables"; Ang Lee "Life of Pi"; David O. Russell "Silver Linings Playbook"; Steven Spielberg "Lincoln"
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Quentin Tarantino "Django Unchained"; John Gatins "Flight"; Rian Johnson "Looper"; Paul Thomas Anderson "The Master"; Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola "Moonrise Kingdom"; Mark Boal "Zero Dark Thirty"
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Chris Terrio "Argo"; David Magee "Life of Pi"; Tony Kushner "Lincoln"; Stephen Chbosky "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"; David O. Russell "Silver Linings Playbook"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Roger Deakins "Les Miserables"; Danny Cohen "Life of Pi"; Claudio Miranda "Lincoln"; Janusz Kaminksi "The Master"; Mijai Malaimare Jr. "Skyfall"
Check out what big awards season prize Anne Hathaway has already taken home
BEST ART DIRECTION "Anna Karenina," "The Hobbit," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln"
BEST EDITING "Argo," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Zero Dark Thirty"
BEST COSTUME DESIGN "Anna Karenina," "Cloud Atlas," "The Hobbit," "Les Miserables," "Lincoln"
BEST MAKEUP "Cloud Atlas," "The Hobbit," "Les Miserables," "Lincoln"
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS "The Avengers," "Cloud Atlas," "The Dark Knight Rises," "The Hobbit," "Life of Pi"
Find out what flicks are up for Satellite Awards
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE "Brave," "Frankenweenie," "Madagascar 3," "ParaNorman," "Rise of the Guardians," "Wreck-It Ralph"
BEST ACTION MOVIE "The Avengers," "The Dark Knight Rises," "Looper," "Skyfall"
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE Christian Bale, "The Dark Knight Rises"; Daniel Craig, "Skyfall"; Robert Downey Jr., "The Avengers"; Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "Looper"; Jake Gyllenhaal, "End of Watch"
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE Emily Blunt, "Looper"; Gina Carano, "Haywire"; Judi Dench, "Skyfall"; Anne Hathaway, "The Dark Knight Rises"; Jennifer Lawrence, "The Hunger Games"
Oscar Buzz Cheat Sheet: Is Bill Murray a contender?
BEST COMEDY "Bernie"; "Silver Linings Playbook"; "Ted"; "This Is 40"; "21 Jump Street"
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY Jack Black, "Bernie"; Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"; Paul Rudd, "This Is 40"; Channing Tatum, "21 Jump Street"; Mark Wahlberg, "Ted"
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY Mila Kunis, "Ted"; Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"; Shirley MacLaine, "Bernie"; Lesliel Mann, "This Is 40"; Rebel Wilson, "Pitch Perfect"
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE "The Cabin in the Woods"; "Looper"; "Prometheus"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM "Amour"; "The Intouchables"; "A Royal Affair"; "Rust and Bone"
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE "Bully"; "The Central Park Five"; "The Imposter"; "The Queen of Versailles"; "Searching for Sugar Man"; "West of Memphis"
BEST SONG "For You," Keith Urban, "Act of Valor"; "Learn Me Right," Mumford &Sons, "Brave"; "Skyfall," Adele, "Skyfall"; "Still Alive," Paul Williams, "Paul Williams Still Alive"; "Suddenly," Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables"
BEST SCORE Alexandre Desplat "Argo," Alexandre Desplat "Life of Pi," Mychael Danna "Lincoln," John Williams "The Master," Jonny Greenwood "Moonrise Kingdom"
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No doubt, dirty diapers can be stinky. But does a mom and her baby deserve to get booted from the bus over the stench?
Nichole Hakimian of Seattle was taking her sick 1-year-old boy with a bad case of the runs to the doctor on public transit. The boy pooped in his diaper right after boarding the bus and the driver shortly asked the mother and son to get off at the next stop.
"She said, 'your baby … smells really bad and it's not fair that we all have to smell that,'" Hakimian told ABC.
Hakimian, who is 4 months pregnant, said she had only two more stops to the doctor's office, but the driver wouldn't back down.
"I said, 'He has diarrhea," the mom told ABC. "I'm on my way to a doctor's appointment for him. She said, 'I'm sorry. It's unbearable. You need to get off the bus,"' she said.
Hakimian, who is 4 months pregnant, feels wronged. "You don't just come out of nowhere and kick a mom off a bus with a sick child," she told ABC.
The Seattle Metro apologized to Hakimian but she feels that isn't enough and plans to take legal action.
"This is a very unique situation. Our goal is always to balance the comfort of all of our riders with providing good customer service," a Metro spokesman told ABC. "The driver didn't violate Metro policy – she felt she had to advocate for her passengers by politely and apologetically asking the woman to exit the bus."
This is absolutely absurd! This mom never should have been told to exit the bus. Her baby was just doing what babies do.
What do you think? Was the mom treated unfairly?


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Place Your Bids
If you're one of the millions of consumers who've caught the online auction bug, you already know that you can save — or make — some serious coin on the Web, simply by knowing your way around the online auction community.
"I made my first major grounds maintenance purchase — a tractor — about a year ago. The sale went so smoothly, I decided I should be doing this myself: selling online by auction," says Rizwan Ahmad, vice president of Speedway.com, based in Waluwatosa, Wis., an online seller of grounds maintenance and related equipment.
Doug Young, a Reston, La.-based entrepreneur who sells fertilizer spreaders and salt spreaders online, agrees: "We've been at this about five years now. We made about $70,000 in sales on eBay last year, moving about 30 to 40 units during the winter months, and about five-to-10 units during the summer."
Both Ahmad and Young — along with millions of other Web cruisers — say eBay (www.eBay.com) is where the action is in online auctioning right now, whether you're looking for a killer price on some new or used grounds maintenance equipment, or you'd like to unload some of the older stuff around your shop. "I've tried bunches of other auction sites, but they just can't match the traffic that eBay gets," Young says.
No wonder. On any given day, there are more than 12 million items, in more than 18,000 categories, listed on eBay, according to Kevin Pursglove, an eBay spokesperson. And all told, that works out to $14.87 billion in gross merchandise sales for 2002.
Other than being pure fun — few things beat the rush of besting competing bidders on a popular item just before the online clock runs out — eBay and others continue to attract droves of buyers simply because there are so many great deals to be had. "Online auctions now offer millions of items. So many, in fact, that it's common to find overlooked (and therefore underpriced) items," says Dennis L. Prince, author of Official Guide to Online Buying and Selling. A well-established analyst of online auctioning, Prince also says buyers often find incredible deals because the sellers do not always know the full value of the items they're offering up.
Plus, you'll often find sellers are more eager-to-please in the online auction world, since many auction sites keep an easily accessible record of buyer comments for all to see. "We have no negative feedback on eBay, and we strive to keep it that way," says Speedway.com's Ahmad. "There's a lot more at stake when a buyer logs a written complaint at an online auction site like eBay. Immediately, that complaint is broadcast for the entire online world to see," he says.
"Some buyers actually feel safer buying at an online auction, because they can pick out sellers who have extraordinary records for customer service," Ahmad adds. Indeed, some "power sellers" on eBay have written endorsements from hundreds of satisfied sellers — records that sellers in the brick-and-mortar world would be hard-pressed to replicate.
Moreover, the attraction for sellers, including grounds maintenance supervisors who are looking to unload older equipment, is equally sunny. With nearly every item, the potential population of bidders usually dwarfs what a seller would expect at a local auction — or the response he or she may receive by placing a classified ad.
Plus, the concept of online auctions is still so new, the novelty alone brings in traffic that otherwise would be nonexistent. "Online auctions are the hottest emerging trend in dynamic pricing," Prince says. "People drop by to see what's happening, and bid, bid, bid."
Of course, as with most business transactions, things can get ugly fairly quickly if you happen to run into an unscrupulous buyer or seller. Ditto for buyers and sellers who don't understand the game or don't communicate well in an online environment.
As a buyer, probably the easiest way to introduce yourself to the concept is to engage in a few inconsequential auctions on eBay. With 12 million items on any given day, you'll be able to find, bid on and win merchandise that will run you as little as a few dollars. Participating is a snap, really: You enter the amount you want to pay, monitor the auction and wait for an e-mail alert from the auction site informing you if you've won or lost the auction.
Once you're ready to move into higher ticket items — commercial lawn mowers, trucks, vans and the like — you'll of course want to focus a little more closely on the purchase. Prince suggests that you ask the seller for additional images of higher-end products, taken from varying angles. You'll also want a guarantee of a documented history of ownership with the sale.
Plus, if there's any negative feedback posted against the seller on the site, you have every right to ask for an explanation, Prince says. Inevitably, high-volume sellers will most likely encounter a tiny percentage of negative feedback — a crank or two who cannot be pleased, no matter what — and probably should be given the benefit of the doubt in those circumstances. But you'll want to be wary of any seller that generates a pattern of negative feedback over time.
Meanwhile, you'll also want to stay on the lookout for "bid shilling," or the placement of bogus bids by the seller in an effort to drive up an item's price. "With this scam, a dishonest seller will make use of multiple user IDs, or will enlist associates to place bogus bids."
You can minimize you're exposure to such ne'er-do-wells by watching for recurring user IDs that are used to place bids on several auctions run by the same seller, Prince says. Also monitor recurring patterns, in which the same bidder or bidders place last-minute bids with auctions run by the same seller. "You should also watch for bidders and sellers who regularly bid on one another's auctions, especially if they never appear to win," he says.
If you're looking to sell online, Prince suggests that you adopt the same best practices that any seller cultivates in the brick-and-mortar world, while taking advantage of some additional customer-pleasing tools that are only available to online merchants.
First and foremost: be sure to turn around a response to every e-mail within 24 hours. "Remember, sometimes bidders who ask questions are testing the water," Prince says. "Your responses beckon, 'Come on in, the water's fine.'"
If you're offering a high-ticket item, you may want to include a direct link to the item's product page on the original manufacturer's Web site. Such links save you from having to reinvent the wheel, and creating your own advertising copy to sell your merchandise.
You'll also want to clearly state the terms of the sale, including your policy regarding return of the item, and the rate you'll charge for shipping. Hint: you can save yourself a number of superfluous e-mails about shipping costs by posting the shipping dimensions and weight of your item, and then offering links to the shippers available, such as United Parcel Service (www.ups.com) and the U.S. Postal Service (www.usps.com). Potential buyers can calculate the exact shipping costs these and other carriers' sites by entering in your zip code and theirs.
Finally, you'll want to offer as many payment options as possible. Fortunately, even if you don't possess a credit card merchant account, a buyer can still pay for your item using PayPal (www.paypal.com). It's an online billing service that will transfer funds offered via credit card to any bank account of your choosing, in exchange for a small fee.
If you'd rather not sweat any of the cyber-details (hey, not everyone can wear a propeller), some online auction sites — including eBay — offer the services of independent agents who will handle all the particulars for you. For a model of such services, check out eBay.com's Trading Assistants Program at: http://pages.ebay.com/tradingassistants.html.
Joe Dysart is an Internet speaker and business consultant based in Thousand Oaks, Calif. You can reach him by calling (805) 379-3673, e-mail him at email@example.com or find him on the Web at www.joedysart.com.
"Official Guide to Online Buying and Selling," by Dennis L. Prince, published by Course Technology (www.course.com).
"Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit From Online Auctions and Exchanges," by Ajit Kambil et al, Harvard Business School Press (www.hbsp.harvard.edu).
BigLion.com Auction Directory (www.biglion.com/directory/Auction): Directory offering links to top auctions on the Web, including ebay.com, uBid.com and Bidz.com.
Online Auctions Network (www.online-auctions.net): An online auctions directory and meta-search engine. Performs searches for auction sites based on product category; offers special tracking of auction sites featuring computer equipment.
Auction Reviews Directory (http://www.ftpplanet.com/cgi/_listreview/catagory_view.pl?cat=Auction): An extensive database of auction site reviews posted by the users of those sites.
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It is always SO exciting to write a post and have readers telling me they can't wait for the sequel! Makes me really happy to share my stories with you guys! =D Thank you for making me happy! =DDDDD
I really wanted to churn out this post quickly but it's really hard work, you know! All that editing and making side-by-sides and adding text and writing and all. *wipes sweat. I spent at least 12 hours for each post.
But it's worth it, every time! 😀 I love knowing that people appreciate what I do and more so when I can help them better their lives even in the tiniest ways.
You would have read in <<My Smile Makeover At Orchard Scotts Dental – Part 1>> the things I didn't like about my original smile. Here's a recap:
The uneven gum line was corrected via Laser Gum Recontouring in Visit 3. Changes for everything else, you'll see in this post!
Visit 4 – Getting On Temporaries
So many moulds!
Check out the needles in the background. Actually I'm not afraid to visit a dentist. Having had funny teeth from young and braces before, I've had my share of encounters with dentists who were uncaring, rough-handling, and had BAD BREATH (OMG I wanted to die!), so coming to Orchard Scotts Dental and having Dr Jerry fix my teeth is like coming to Heaven from Hell.
Getting ready for the procedure with Dr Jerry. We're getting Temporary Veneers today! They call it 'Temporaries' for short.
I was given headphones that played soothing music while Dr Jerry worked on preparing my teeth for the Temporaries.
Orchard Scotts Dental was in the midst of putting together their corporate video, so I was asked if I was willing to be videographed. That's Joshua and Rudy from ReelityTV.
Yeah, this is how I look every morning when I wake up – with nice makeup and teeth, and just a little bit of messy hair, just like in the movies. BAHAHA!!
Taking a look at my Temporary Veneers for the very first time. =D
This is a side-by-side comparison of my before and after temporary veneers. Difference in lighting aside, in the 'before' my smile looked hidden and the right front tooth was jutting out. In the 'after', my teeth looked more aligned and brighter, and I took a FRONTAL SHOT! I never dared to take frontal shots and rarely from my right because of the yellow teeth and slightly crooked teeth on the right.
From the left:
From the right!!! (VERY RARE)
More pictures taken from the right: Lush Popcorn Lip Scrub | Shu Uemura Holiday Collection 2013
You can see bumps on my face because I was still recovering from the horrifying facial incident. It's even more obvious in the video because of close-ups. BOO. Whatever.
GOODBYE OLD SMILE (below)! Don't have to find specific angles no more!
My Temporaries Fell Out!
During my sleep on the night of getting the Temporaries, I suddenly felt something in my mouth – it was hard and awkward and I immediately spat it out and left it on my bedside. When I awoke I laughed to myself for having such a silly dream.
When I saw myself in the mirror I BURST OUT LAUGHING!!!
I laughed for a really long time. LOL. Mr Mode said I looked like I went to fight and got punched.
I tried to place them back but they wouldn't stay, of course. LOL. TOO FUNNY. Luckily I didn't swallow them in my sleep.
You can see that the inner teeth on my right had turned yellow because I ate some yellow bread the day before. Temporary Veneers do stain, real ones don't.
For your information, Temporary Veneers are made of acrylic. Real porcelain Veneers are made of specially crafted dental ceramic, and these thin shells fit right over the front portion of your teeth, enhancing the overall appearance by masking imperfections.
When Temporaries are fitted they feel rough and don't feel as comfortable as real teeth, or for that matter, real Veneers. The Temporaries are usually fitted as one big block – like dentures – rather than as individual teeth.
This will not happen to real Veneers!
I made for an urgent appointment to get my Temporaries fixed because the exposed teeth that had to have the surface removed were very sensitive, that and the fact that I looked hilarious.
Dr Jerry said I probably grind my teeth a lot when I sleep and that much abrasion caused my Temporaries to fall out.
Fixed! =D
Visit 5 – Porcelain Veneers
Dr Jerry and his team of nurses, who are always so friendly yet professional.
Dr Jerry meticulously placing the real Veneers one by one.
Before Dr Jerry made the final bonding of Veneers, he lightly placed them on first to let me see if I liked them. My shade of Veneers is B1. Here's me photographing with B2, because how I look in pictures is very important to me. Haha.
Seeing my old tooth for the last time. You can see that the Veneers are slightly longer to give the appearance of a wider and fuller smile.
Comparing photos from the previous session (Visit 4) with the final result (Visit 5). The Visit 4 photos are without the Temporaries.
In case you might wanna know, the red is YSL Rouge Pur Couture 01 and the pink is Chanel Rouge Coco Shine 87. 🙂
Comparing photos from the very first session (Visit 1) OMG MY YELLOW TEETH. =.=" with the final result (Visit 5).
My goodness, what a great difference! =O
After Laser Gum Recontouring my gum line is more even, and Veneers made my teeth brighter and bigger. Veneers are, of course, more natural-looking than those worn for the Smile Trial (Visit 2) and Temporary Veneers (Visit 4).
Let's take a moment to see how nice my teeth look now. Hohoho!
I love that the Veneers look really natural. They don't look like those super duper white, eyes-blinding kind we see on some celebrities. Mine reflect light and there's a natural gradient to each and every tooth, just like real teeth.
Oh dear, something has to be done to my receding lower gums though. You can see from this above picture that the lower teeth are all facing inwards (they were pulled inwards for braces a long time ago). The longer I delay treatment, the more my gums will recede and that increases the chances of gum disease and other complications.
Here's chronicling my Smile Makeover journey:
Wow, can't believe we've come so far! 🙂
I took a long time to make this chart, so please scroll up and take a look at it again. LOL!
Benefits of Veneers:
- Extremely versatile: Can be used to solve various teeth issues such as to close gaps between teeth, teeth that are stained or discolored, lengthen small or mishapen teeth, chipped or cracked teeth, misaligned teeth
- Undetectable: Porcelain Veneers are made to resemble real teeth, in that they are partially translucent just like your normal teeth. This means that in natural light or artificial light, porcelain veneers will look just like normal teeth. No need to worry about a fake-looking smile! Many people have commented about my nicer and brighter smile, but they can't tell I've had veneers done!
- Easy maintenance: Porcelain veneers are very easy to take care. No special instructions or considerations are necessary; just brush/floss as you usually would and your porcelain veneers will look great.
I don't know what made me laugh so much! LOL! But I really did chuckle to myself while putting this collage together. Laughter is contagious, even your own. HAHAHAHAHA!!
(My mum just walked past and said "Wah, laugh until so happy ah!" LOL)
I have a video for you!
Watch my Smile Makeover journey below!
(It feels very awkward watching yourself and hearing your own voice >.<" )
It was great fun filming with Rachell and ReelityTV! And Dr Jerry was really good at filming, Rachell and I kept messing up our lines but Dr Jerry was always a one-take, and he even had to explain technical terms! *applause!
In the video we also had Mr Gerhad, the doctor who artfully crafted each and every of my Veneers. Thank you, Mr Gerhad! 😀
Big THANK YOU to Dr Jerry for giving me my Smile Makeover! Now I can go be a bride with my new, bright, radiant, full smile! YAYYY!!!
You can go check out the other services Orchard Scotts Dental provides HERE.
Now that the Smile Makeover is complete, I'll do something about the receding gums soon.
I cancelled the 'ugly' in 'ugly crown' because Dr Jerry made it less ugly by smoothing it out a little.
I really wouldn't know the actual price for each procedure. Each one of us is different, and so will our requirements for a Smile Makeover. You can always give them a call or drop them an email. The people at Orchard Scotts Dental are very friendly and professional, it's something I really appreciate! =)
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I'll leave you with a picture of me laughing so wide you can see my new smile in its entirety. (Why do I keep laughing when I see this picture of myself laughing?!?!! LOL!!!)
As always, thanks for reading! =D
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Valdecoxib is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (also called NSAIDs) are used to relieve some symptoms caused by arthritis (rheumatism), such as inflammation, swelling, stiffness, and joint pain. However, this medicine does not cure arthritis and will help you only as long as you continue to take it. It may also be used to treat pain associated with menstrual periods.
This medicine was available only with your doctor's prescription.
Valdecoxib was voluntarily withdrawn from the U.S. market on April 7, 2005 due to safety concerns of increased risk of serious heart problems and skin reactions .
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Studies on this medicine have been done only in adult patients, and there is no specific information comparing use of valdecoxib in children with use in other age groups.
This medicine has been tested and has not been shown to cause different side effects or problems in older people than it does in younger adults.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
The following section is for information only, since the drug is no longer available.
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Ask your healthcare professional how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use.
If you will be taking this medicine for a long time, it is very important that your doctor check you at regular visits.
Stomach problems may be more likely to occur if you drink alcoholic beverages while being treated with this medicine. Therefore, do not regularly drink alcoholic beverages while taking this medicine, unless otherwise directed by your doctor.
Serious side effects can occur during treatment with this medicine. Sometimes serious side effects can occur without any warning. However, possible warning signs often occur, including swelling of the face, fingers, feet, and/or lower legs; severe stomach pain, black, sticky stools, and/or vomiting of blood or material that looks like coffee grounds; unusual weight gain; and/or skin rash. Stop taking this medicine and check with your doctor immediately if you notice any of these warning signs.
Serious skin reactions can occur during treatment with valdecoxib. Check with your doctor right away if you have any of the following symptoms while taking this medicine: blistering, peeling, loosening of skin, chills, cough, diarrhea, fever, itching, joint or muscle pain, red irritated eyes, red skin lesions, often with a purple center, sore throat, sores, ulcers, white spots in mouth or on lips, or unusual tiredness or weakness.
Check with your doctor immediately if fever, drowsiness, itching of the skin, tiredness, nausea, or stomach pain occurs; these effects may be the first signs of liver toxicity.
Valdecoxib may cause a serious type of allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. Although this is rare, it may occur often in patients who are allergic to aspirin, other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or sulfonamide-type drugs. Anaphylaxis requires immediate medical attention. The most serious signs of this reaction are very fast or irregular breathing, gasping for breath, wheezing, or fainting. Other signs may include changes in color of the skin of the face; very fast but irregular heartbeat or pulse; hive-like swellings on the skin; and puffiness or swellings of the eyelids or around the eyes. If these effects occur, get emergency help at once. Do not try to drive yourself. Call an ambulance, lie down, cover yourself to keep warm, and prop your feet higher than your head. Stay in that position until help arrives.
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Portions of this document last updated: Aug. 01, 2020
Original article: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/valdecoxib-oral-route/description/drg-20066654
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MIT boffins this week have taken the wraps off a new kind of nuclear fusion reactor, different from the humdrum tokamaks and laser-ignition chambers which have thus far offered such disappointing results.
The new kit is called the Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX), and features a half-ton magnetic doughnut suspended in midair by super powerful force fields. The underlying principles were discovered by observing the behaviour of space plasma interacting with the magnetic fields of planets such as Jupiter.
Most Reg readers will be familiar with the idea of fusion reactors, intended to replace today's nuclear fission powerplants. Rather than splitting heavy atoms to release energy, fusion machines would instead fuse light ones together - the same process which powers the sun and stars. This would have major advantages: less radioactive waste and abundant fuel - the necessary isotopes could easily be obtained from sea water, by contrast with scarce and troublesome uranium. And the hysterical levels of security which surround fissionable fuels would be unnecessary, as fusion juice can't be made into an atomic bomb*.
On the day that working fusion reactors are developed, the world's energy problems are largely over: the non-fossil (low carbon) all-electric future can actually be delivered with the whole human race living at Western levels of luxury.
So much has been known for many decades, however. Despite much experimentation, a fusion reactor able to put out more energy than it consumes to run itself seems almost as far off as it did to start with. Most research thus far has focused on "tokamaks" - toroidal chambers intended to crush and heat a ring of plasma to fusion conditions using magnetic fields - and laser ignition, where a pellet of fuel is almost instantaneously brought to fusion by high powered laser blasts coming from all around it.
But now boffins at MIT and Columbia University have built the LDX, which seeks to exploit the phenomenon of "turbulent pinching" seen in space plasmas interacting with the magnetic fields of Earth and Jupiter. This has never been recreated in the lab.
The LDX's hovering dipole, made of superconducting coils housed inside a steel container, "flies" inside the larger chamber in which the experiment's plasma is held. It's intended to use "turbulent pinch" effects to squeeze superhot 10,000,000°C deuterium until it begins fusing into helium. Deuterium is more common than the tritium needed for more commonly-researched reactions, which could be a useful feature if the machine can achieve positive power output. For now, the dipole must draw its million-amp current from external sources.
According to Jay Kesner, MIT's LDX honcho, the difference between his baby and a regular tokamak is simple: with the tokamak the plasma is inside the magnet, whereas in the LDX the magnet is inside the plasma.
"It's the first experiment of its kind," he says, and "could produce an alternative path to fusion," though he cautions that other methods are likely to be operational sooner. Kesner sees the floating-dipole reactor as "second generation" kit, though even the first generation has yet to materialise thus far.
Kesner and allied boffins have just published a paper on LDX fusion in Nature Physics, here (subscription required). ®
*Admittedly fusion fuel is one ingredient for building an H-bomb, but you can only make one of those if you already have a working fission nuke to use as the trigger.


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A seminar led by two former retail veterans revealed to me just how changable gourmet/specialty foods are, and how they're often able to boost natural sales simply by changing their color. Gourmet can be ethnic, or natural or be camouflaged as premium private label.
This is good, because the ability to sell a gourmet product in a natural/organic context usually brings higher margins than selling an item that's just "gourmet" or just "natural." Graham Mitchell, president of Sustainable Innovations, and Kim Greenfeld (pictured), president of Campo Verde Solutions, profiled a number of mainstream retailers who've been successful in blending the specialty mystique into their natural/organic selections. Examples are abundant in private label, and aren't limited to Trader Joe's: Albertsons' Essenza line ("better-than" products, according to Mitchell); Harris Teeter's HT Trader label (around the world in 250 SKUs, says Greenfeld); or Ahold's Simply Enjoy line of everyday luxury, indulgent items (which Mitchell helped develop for the retail giant).
Of course, gourmet brands have just as much potential. Take olive oil, for instance. It doesn't matter whose name is on the label, as long as consumers see it as imported, natural and healthful. With one product, you've captured the attention of the wellness shopper, the armchair traveler and the artisan connoisseur. As Greenfeld (who worked 14 years with Trader Joe's) told the audience, "Items that were once thought as unapproachable, limited to the world of hard-core foodies, are now everyday."
The economy being what it is, there are real questions how to sell gourmet these days. Is the category relevant? Certainly, according to Mitchell and Greenfeld. Consumers aren't eager to give up the good life, so if anything, they're looking for deals. And that's where retailers come to the rescue. Crafting your selection of gourmet items based on perceived value (quality + fair price) means shoppers will be able to take heart that they're still eating pretty well.


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We have had a lot of talk lately in the genealogy community about sourcing facts and events. I guess the fundamental question is why? Let's suppose you are entering your parents and grandparents into paper forms for that purpose for the first time. Does anyone really doubt your personal knowledge of your parents' names and their birth dates that you have celebrated all your life? Why on earth would you need to look at their birth or death certificates? And what possible reason do you have for spending the time to research the dates? If you extend these issue back, you can see that for many beginning genealogists, writing down that you looked at some kind of record, makes no sense.
But what if the information you have about these close relatives is either incomplete or contradictory? What then? Do you simply ignore the fact that you always celebrated your mother's birthday on a day different than the one she was born on? For example, in our U.S. culture, some children born on Christmas celebrate their birthday on another day so they can have presents and a party different than the celebration on Christmas itself. Is it important to document this tradition so that the "real" birthdate is not lost? This may seem like an oversimplified example, but the motivations to change dates for things like births are common. Two more examples, you grandmother got married when she was 24 but she always told everyone she was 19 (of course, this never happens) or your grandfather lied about his age so he could enter the military at age 16. But, you say, who cares? What difference does all this make in the long run?
The fundamental issue here is one of moving from orally transmitted folklore to documented history. This is an issue because many people, including genealogists, do not see a need for documentation. When I use the term "document," I mean anything that preserves past history. A document can be written, a painting, a map, a monument, a photograph, a computer file, a video or anything else where historical information is preserved.
I recently attended a meeting at which some representatives of FamilySearch spoke on the importance of stories as a way to involve people in genealogy (family history). One of the presenters talked about how a letter from an ancestor had influenced his interest in his family. Probably few in attendance realized the importance of one introductory statement he made; the letter was found by a researcher in the The Church History Library. In short, the stories and photos we all treasure as part of our family heritage are either discovered or preserved by people who value documentation.
I frequently hear stories about family history artifacts such as letters, photos, journals, and other items being discarded and thrown away. I have my own stories of valuable historical documents and photographs being rescued from destruction at the last possible moment.
When you begin the process of extending your family lines back beyond those people you knew personally, you are immediately immersed in the world of documentation. When we talk about "genealogists" we simply mean those people willing to search through existing records to find information about their families. To denigrate genealogy is to denigrate the whole process of historical preservation. There is a one-to-one relationship between the documentary information preserved about a family and the ability to find out information about that family.
Now we come to the issue of the process of recording and preserving our family stories and photos. Many families have their own store of documents. These are the very records that I have referred to as at risk of loss. These are also the same documents that the beginning researcher will consult to initiate the process of recording family history. Now comes the hard part; realizing that part of this process of preserving and passing along our history involves doing that accurately and consistently. Part of that accuracy is recording the source of each fact or event discovered in this process. As was written by George Santayana (Santayana, George. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905.) "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Those genealogists who do not record where they obtained information about their family are doomed to repeat looking the next time they, or their descendants, need to verify the same information. Finding and preserving historical information goes hand-in-hand with the concept of making a record of those sources you use to compile that same information.


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The Missouri Colleges Fund (MCF) recently announced that Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Mo., has become its seventeenth member. Member schools are independent baccalaureate degree-granting liberal arts colleges and universities in the State of Missouri.
The MCF was formed in 1952 as a non-profit corporation with the mission to acquire resources to help education students in its members' private liberal arts colleges and universities. Since inception, this corporation has raised over $30 million for needs-based financial aid.
"The Missouri Colleges Fund is very pleased that Lindenwood University, known nationally and internationally for innovation, entrepreneurship and extraordinary dedication to students, has joined the fund," said Mike Backer, MCF president. Lindenwood offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to approximately 17,000 students annually through values-centered programs that lead to development of the whole person.
Missouri Colleges Fund member schools include Avila University, Kansas City; Central Methodist University, Fayette; Columbia College, Columbia; Culver-Stockton College, Canton; Drury University, Springfield; Evangel University, Springfield; Fontbonne University, St. Louis; Hannibal–LaGrange University, Hannibal; Lindenwood University, St. Charles; Maryville University, St. Louis; Missouri Baptist University, St. Louis; Park University, Parkville; Rockhurst University, Kansas City; Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar; Westminster College, Fulton; William Jewell College, Liberty; and William Woods University, Fulton.
More information about the Missouri Colleges Fund can be found online at www.mocollegesfund.org or by calling Mike Backer, MCF president, at 573-893-3818.
Lindenwood University, founded in 1827, is an independent liberal arts university offering more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in diverse areas of study in traditional and accelerated formats. Lindenwood operates a residential campus in historic St. Charles, as well numerous extension sites throughout the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.


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In the last month I've noticed a few common things that do more harm than good. Since I have this outlet to complain about them, I will.
Yelling While Passing
I wouldn't consider myself a runner, but I do enjoy putting on my short shorts and running the loop in Cherokee Park a couple times a week. The other day I was running my way up to Dog Hill with my headphones on, listening to one of my favorite podcasts when I had an obnoxious biker scream in my ear that they were passing me on my left as they were passing me on the left. After jumping like a fish out of water and bringing my heart rate down to an already out of shape rate, I thought, doesn't the yelling at me that you're passing while you're passing really do more harm than good?
Let's consider what could happen if you don't yell at me:
- You pass me.
Let's consider what could happen if you do yell at me:
- You could startle me, causing me to jump into your line, resulting in a catastrophic crash that leaves us both paralyzed.
- You could bust me ear drum, resulting in me falling to the ground in pain as you run over my agonizing body.
- You could pass by me, scaring the crap out of me and raising my heart rate to an unacceptable level, resulting in heart failure.
So this begs me to ask, are you really such a bad rider that you can't navigate around a skinny guy running in an open lane? If you are then get off your bike, throw it off a cliff and please for gods sake do not get behind the wheel of a car. And don't give me that "it's just safer to make sure you know your surroundings" stuff. I know my surroundings. I won't run into you and you don't ride your bike into me. It's that easy people.
Taping Your Broken Light
Your brake light is busted. Maybe you got into a wreck. Maybe you backed into a school child. Maybe a member of the Mafia took a bat to it. Whatever happened, you have to replace it or put tape over it so the bright bulb doesn't blind me while driving. It's the law. Usually people will cover the red shattered plastic with red duct tape, matching the cover and still letting the light illuminate the back of the tape.
While driving yesterday I noticed a truck with brown packing tape covering the entire red portion of their tail light. It was so dark and layered on that even though covering my line of sight to the bare bulb, it was still doing more harm than good. Is me looking at no more than a Christmas light really going to obstruct my view so bad that I veer off the road? I would argue that not being able to see your brake light come on at all is actually doing more harm than good.
Laser Pointers
This one goes back a few weeks to Thunder Over Louisville. While watching the American flag fly by, hoisted over the hundreds of thousands of people and listening to my favorite part of Thunder, Old Glory, I couldn't help but be taken out of the moment by the American-hating pinko commie that was pointing his cat toy at the Red, White and Blue.
When I was a kid in the '90s, laser pointers were at their peak. Every kid had one. The cool kids had the ones that had the detachable tips that would create shapes with your obnoxious red light. I did not. I did however have enough of them pointed in my eyes that I still see red blurs from time to time.
Sure you can drive your cats crazy with them or point at a map from across the room, but the damage done by these things far outweighs the good. When was the last time you were giving a presentation or out at dinner and thought to yourself "I really wish I had a laser pointer with me right now?" Instead these pen size death rays are used by the dumbed down part of our civilization to ruin concerts and firework displays for us.
What do you think does more harm than good?