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A pretty good mystery, even if the title makes no sense.
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Flavia de Luce, age 12, is a genius who solves local mysteries in post-war England. Smart & snappy.
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hahahaha, this was totally MY kind of book. I think, at heart, I am a seclusive, slightly annoying, poison-obsessed eleven-year-old girl. Oh, yeah, and the book's writing style was brilliant. That was nice too.
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An English Nancy Drew, who as smart or smarter than the police around her.
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Hooray for Flavia! This feisty young heroine will win your heart, tickle your funny bone,and draw you into to her world of poisons and schemes to best her older sisters. The mystery is a fine one as well, with Flavia matching wits with the police to find the killer. Bradley has created a wonderful and engaging sleuth, and you will be racing to get the next book in this series.
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Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is a sly, secretive child. Her favorite hobby is concocting poisons in the upstairs laboratory of her old manor home. She has an extensive vocabulary, a knack for picking locks, and an unflappable sense of determination. So when a dead bird with a postage stamp stuck through its beak is found on the doorstep and a murdered man is found in the cucumber patch, Flavia rises to the occasion like no other detective, young or old, we've ever met before. Set in a small English village in the 1950s, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is chock-full of traditional mystery characters—the gossipy cook, the gardener with a mysterious past, the stoic police inspector. Then there's Flavia's family—a deceased mother whose presence still lingers, a passive father who is devoted to his stamp collection, and a pair of older sisters who cling to their own interests as obsessively as Flavia clings to her chemistry flasks and beakers. Of course out of all these finely-drawn characters, it is Flavia who takes the cake, saves the day, and wins the hearts of readers. This is author Alan Bradley's first book, and besides winning the prestigious Canadian Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, it is only the first of a series that stars this highly original girl sleuth.
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If you do not read another mystery this year, you will want to read this one. The young miss slueth has all the wit and charm of Stephine Plum, the smarts of Sherlock holmes, and tenacisty of a bull dog on a bone.
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For a fast food place their chicken is seriously good. And the guacamole salsa is the perfect compliment to it.
I like to hit the smaller local fast food places. Bravo Burger and Johnnies in Pomona, Tam's, places that have a little wider menu, and seem to have a fresher product. Main stream places, it would be In and Out or Carl's.
I guess you have to break down fast food into 2 categories for me: Sober & the condition I spend Frozen Fury in :manybeers:
Sober: Hands down In-N-Out (which we stop at in Burbank on the way to every Kings game we attend). Plus I am sick as a dog right now & my throat feels like hamburger meat... I would literally kill for a choc. shake of theirs this morning.
Drunk: Ya can't beat the greasiness of Jack in the Box when your Soberly Challenged. Did somebody say 2am Monster Tacos???
Farmer Boys
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Trader Joes frozen food. Half the cost, half the time - and twice as good as any place on the poll.
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Harnessing Nanotechnology to Improve Global Equity
The less industrialized countries are eager to play an early role in developing this technology; the global community should help them.
Developing countries usually find themselves on the sidelines watching the excitement of technological innovation. The wealthy industrialized nations typically dominate the development, production, and use of new technologies. But many developing countries are poised to rewrite the script in nanotechnology. They see the potential for nanotechnology to meet several needs of particular value to the developing world and seek a leading role for themselves in the development, use, and marketing of these technologies. As the next major technology wave, nanotechnology will be revolutionary in a social and economic as well as a scientific and technological sense.
Developing countries are already aware that nanotechnology can be applied to many of their pressing problems, and they realize that the industrialized countries will not place these applications at the top of their to-do list. The only way to be certain that their needs are addressed is for less industrialized nations themselves to take the lead in developing those applications. In fact, many of these countries have already begun to do so. The wealthy nations should see this activity as a potential catalyst for the type of innovative research and economic development sorely needed in these countries. Strategic help from the developed world could have a powerful impact on the success of this effort. Planning this assistance should begin with an understanding of developing-country technology needs and knowledge of the impressive R&D efforts that are already under way.
To provide strategic focus to nanotechnology efforts, we recently carried out a study using a modified version of the Delphi method and worked with a panel of 63 international experts, 60 percent of whom were from developing countries, to identify and rank the 10 applications of nanotechnology most likely to benefit the less industrialized nations in the next 10 years. The panelists were asked to consider impact, burden, appropriateness, feasibility, knowledge gaps, and indirect benefits of each application proposed. Our results, shown in Table 1, show a high degree of consensus with regard to the top four applications: All of the panelists cited at least one of the top four applications in their personal top-four rankings, with the majority citing at least three.
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Top 10 Applications of Nanotechnology for Developing Countries
|Energy storage, production, and conversion
|Agricultural productivity enhancement
|Water treatment and remediation
|Disease diagnosisand screening
|Drug delivery systems
|Food processing and storage
|Air pollution and remediation
|Health monitoring
|Vector and pest detection and control
Source: F. Salamanca-Buentello etal., "Nanotechnology and the Developing World," PLoSMedicine2 (2003): e97.
To further assess the impact of nanotechnology on sustainable development, we asked ourselves how well these nanotechnology opportunities matched up with the eight United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals, which aim to promote human development and encourage social and economic sustainability. We found that nanotechnology can make a significant contribution to five of the eight goals: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; ensuring environmental sustainability; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; and combating AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. A detailed look at how nanotechnology could be beneficial in the three most commonly mentioned areas is illustrative.
Energy storage, production, and conversion. The growing world population needs cheap noncontaminating sources of energy. Nanotechnology has the potential to provide cleaner, more affordable, more efficient, and more reliable ways to harness renewable resources. The rational use of nanotechnology can help developing countries to move toward energy self-sufficiency, while simultaneously reducing dependence on nonrenewable, contaminating energy sources such as fossil fuels. Because there is plenty of sunlight in most developing countries, solar energy is an obvious source to consider. Solar cells convert light into electric energy, but current materials and technology for these cells are expensive and inefficient in making this conversion. Nanostructured materials such as quantum dots and carbon nanotubes are being used for a new generation of more efficient and inexpensive solar cells. Efficient solar-derived energy could be used to power the electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen, a potential source of clean energy. Nanomaterials also have the potential to increase by several orders of magnitude the efficiency of the electrolytic reactions.
One of the limiting factors to the harnessing of hydrogen is the need for adequate storage and transportation systems. Because hydrogen is the smallest element, it can escape from tanks and pipes more easily than can conventional fuels. Very strong materials are needed to keep hydrogen at very low temperature and high pressure. Novel nanomaterials can do the job. Carbon nanotubes have the capacity to store up to 70 percent of hydrogen by weight, an amount 20 times larger than that in currently used compounds. Additionally, carbon nanotubes are 100 times stronger than steel at one-sixth the weight, so theoretically, a 100-pound container made of nanotubes could store at least as much hydrogen as could a 600-pound steel container, and its walls would be 100 times as strong.
Agricultural productivity enhancement. Nanotechnology can help develop a range of inexpensive applications to increase soil fertility and crop production and thus to help eliminate malnutrition, a contributor to more than half the deaths of children under five in developing countries. We currently use natural and synthetic zeolites, which have a porous structure, in domestic and commercial water purification, softening, and other applications. Using nanotechnology, it is possible to design zeolite nanoparticles with pores of different sizes. These can be used for more efficient, slow, and thorough release of fertilizers; or they can be used for more efficient livestock feeding and delivery of drugs. Similarly, nanocapsules can release their contents, such as herbicides, slowly and in a controlled manner, increasing the efficacy of the substances delivered.
Water treatment and remediation. One-sixth of the world's population lacks access to safe water supplies; one-third of the population of rural areas in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has no clean water; and 2 million children die each year from water-related diseases, such as cholera, typhoid, and schistosomiasis. Nanotechnology can provide inexpensive, portable, and easily cleaned systems that purify, detoxify, and desalinate water more efficiently than do conventional bacterial and viral filters. Nanofilter systems consist of "intelligent" membranes that can be designed to filter out bacteria, viruses, and the great majority of water contaminants. Nanoporous zeolites, attapulgite clays (which can bind large numbers of bacteria and toxins), and nanoporous polymers (which can bind 100,000 times more organic contaminants than can activated carbon) can all be used for water purification.
Nanomagnets, also known as "magnetic nanoparticles" and "magnetic nanospheres," when coated with different compounds that have a selective affinity for diverse contaminating substances, can be used to remove pollutants from water. For example, nanomagnets coated with chitosan, a readily available substance derived from the exoskeleton of crabs and shrimps that is currently used in cosmetics and medications, can be used to remove oil and other organic pollutants from aqueous environments. Brazilian researchers have developed superparamagnetic nanoparticles that, coated with polymers, can be spread over a wide area in dustlike form; these modified nanomagnets would readily bind to the pollutant and could then be recovered with a magnetic pump. Because of the size of the nanoparticles and their high affinity for the contaminating agents, almost 100 percent of the pollutant would be removed. Finally, the magnetic nanoparticles and the polluting agents would be separated, allowing for the reuse of the magnetic nanoparticles and for the recycling of the pollutants. Also, magnetite nanoparticles combined with citric acid, which binds metallic ions with high affinity, can be used to remove heavy metals from soil and water.
Developing-country activities
Understanding how selected developing countries are harnessing nanotechnology can provide lessons for other countries and for each other. These lessons can be used to provide heads of state and science and technology ministers in less industrialized countries with specific guidance and good practices for implementing innovation policies that direct the strengths of the public and private sectors toward the development and use of nanotechnology to address local sustainable development needs. The actions of developing countries themselves will ultimately determine whether nanotechnology will be successfully harnessed in the developing world.
We found little extant useful information on nanotechnology research in developing countries, so we conducted our own survey. This preliminary study used information we could collect on the Internet, from e-mail exchanges with experts, and from other publicly available documents. We were able to categorize countries based on the degree of government support for nanotechnology, on the presence or absence of a formal government funding program, on the level of industry involvement, and on the amount of research being done in academic institutions and research groups. Our results revealed a surprising amount of nanotechnology R&D activity (Table 2). Our plan now is to conduct individual case studies of developing countries to obtain a greater depth of understanding. Below is some detailed information we have acquired in the preliminary study.
China. China has a very strong and solid Nanoscience and Nanotechnology National Plan, a National Steering Committee for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and a National Nanoscience Coordination Committee. Eleven institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are involved in a major nanotechnology research projects funded partly by the Knowledge Innovation Program. The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology actively supports several nanoscience and nanotechnology initiatives. The Nanometer Technology Center in Beijing is part of China's plan to establish a national nanotechnology infrastructure and research center; it involves recruiting scientists, protecting intellectual property rights, and building international cooperation in nanotechnology. China's first nanometer technology industrial base is located in the Tianjin economic and development area. Haier, one of the country's largest home appliance producers, has incorporated a series of nanotechnology-derived materials and features into refrigerators, televisions, and computers. Industry and academic researchers have worked together to produce nanocoatings for textiles that render silk, woollen, and cotton clothing water- and oilproof, prevent clothing from shrinking, and protect silk from discoloration. Nanotech Port of Shenzhen is the largest manufacturer of single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotubes in Asia. Shenzheng Chengying High-Tech produces nanostructured composite anti-ultraviolet powder, nanostructured composite photocatalyst powder, and high-purity nanostructured titanium dioxide. The last two nanomaterials are being used to catalyze the destruction of contaminants using sunlight.
Table 2.
Selected Developing Countries and Their Nanotechnology Activity
|Front Runner
|National government funding program
|South Korea
|Nanotechnology patents
|Commercial products on the market or in development
|Middle Ground
|Development of national government funding program
|Some form of existing government support (e.g., research grants)
|South Africa
|Limited industry involvement
|Numerous research institutions
|Up and Comer
|Organized government funding not yet established
|Industry not yet involved
|Research groups funded through various science and technology institutions


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The holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year for Tri-State business and restaurants.
No one knows that better than the folks at PizzAroma in Owensboro.
On Sunday, they celebrated 50 years of business in a very special way.
It was a packed house in the dining room as former employees, customers, friends and family piled in to celebrate the restaurant's 50th birthday, and to thank the man who made it all possible.
Bob Leucht, 81, opened PizzAroma in 1963. Both he and the restaurant are still going strong.
Bob said he started the business with a friend out of desperation. The first few years were tough, but as time went on things started to pick up.
"Our intent was, of course like all small business starting out, to make a living," said Bob. "It has far exceeded that."
For Bob and his employees, past and present, PizzAroma is more than just a job.
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text: Testimony on Comparative Effectiveness Research Frank Kondrad, AstraZeneca PharmaceuticalsOn April 3, 2009, public testimony on comparative effectiveness research was given at a meeting of the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality. The testimony represents the views of the presenter and not necessarily those of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) or the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). April 2, 2009Public Comment Submission to:Deborah QueenanCoordinator of the National Advisory CouncilAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality540 Gaither RoadRockville, Maryland 20850Delivery via E-mailRe: Submission of Public Comments on Comparative Effectiveness Research to AHRQ's National Advisory CouncilDear Ms. Queenan:AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP (AstraZeneca) is pleased to submit the following comments on Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) National Advisory Council (NAC) for consideration at their meeting on Friday, April 3, 2009.AstraZeneca is a leading global healthcare company dedicated to the research and development of new medicines in therapeutic areas including cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, oncology, respiratory, and neuroscience. AstraZeneca is committed to the discovery of drugs that will allow patients to lead longer, healthier and more productive lives, and to supporting scientifically robust research that improves the delivery of effective, high-quality care to patients. AstraZeneca is also committed to patient health; including helping ensure that patients have access to the most appropriate therapies in the most appropriate setting.Healthcare reform is a top priority for our nation's policy makers. As a company that puts "patient health first," AstraZeneca believes that today's discussions – whether about healthcare coverage or healthcare costs - are important steps toward enhancing patient health and improving the quality of healthcare in the United States.AstraZeneca believes CER, the comparison of one diagnostic or treatment option to one or more others, is an important component of healthcare reform. The goal of CER is to conduct or support research to evaluate and compare the clinical outcomes, effectiveness, risk and benefits of two or more medical treatments and services that addresses a particular medical condition. CER offers the promise of improving healthcare quality and outcomes by making it easier for patients and their doctors to choose the best treatment or treatments through evidence-based decisions. Yet, given today's financial challenges and political dynamics, AstraZeneca is concerned that CER could be used to deny coverage or reduce payments for interventions, thus limiting patient access to treatment options.At AstraZeneca, we are committed to ensuring that patients and their health care providers have the best information available to support their decisions regarding treatment. In support of that commitment, we have been, and continue to be, engaged in CER activities. To ensure patients and their health care providers receive the most value from CER, AstraZeneca is proud to share the principles that guide our discussions related to this issue:Outcomes FirstFocus on improving individual patient outcomes rather than short-term, population-based cost control.Drive, Not Limit InnovationEncourage the development of innovative healthcare interventions and not be utilized as the sole rationale for product approval, coverage, pricing, or reimbursement decisions.Research Across All InterventionsEmploy rigorous, transparent research methodologies applied across the range of healthcare interventions and treatment modalities.In addition, AstraZeneca believes:The current decentralized approach to conducting CER in public and private settings has yielded highly useful information in an efficient manner.If CER is centralized, it should be a public/private partnership, funded from both public and private sources, focus on the patient, and be distinct from any organization making coverage and policy decisions.Funds applied to CER should focus on diseases where there is a significant burden to the patient and the health system. For example, the impact of providing better care to patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma and heart disease, could be profound if the breadth of research includes comparative benefit designs, prevention programs, delivery systems and medical and behavioral interventions.CER offers the promise of improving healthcare quality and outcomes by making it easier for patients and their doctors to choose the best treatments.CER, when focused on clinical-effectiveness and not short-term cost-effectiveness, will encourage the development of innovative interventions.AstraZeneca thanks you for the opportunity to comment on CER. We look forward to continuing to engage in a thoughtful dialogue around this important component of the future of our healthcare delivery system in the US. 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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) – Whether driving in your car or sitting in your home, keeping an eye on the weather is a must during South Dakota's storm season. To error on the side of caution will help keep KELO AM/KELQ FM listeners safe from what nature throws our way.
"The problem with water, it's going to go where it wants to go and there isn't much we can do," said Todd Heitkamp, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service Office. "We can only hope that dry weather over the next 24 to 48 hours will help dry things out."
Heitkamp warns, if there is water washing over the road ahead, don't drive through it. Cars driving through flooded areas will stall where they are. You have no idea if the road is still there and the current will take you away. It only takes 18 inches of water to make a car buoyant and that includes SUVs.
"When it comes to severe weather like in Moore, Oklahoma, what the viewers see on TV is amplified 100 times over when you are there in person," said Heitkamp. TV pictures don't do justice to the damage, the emotions, the smells and everything that goes with it at the scene. For example, the devastation we encountered at Spencer, SD was so much worse on the ground than on TV."
Heitkamp said that in the event of a tornado, you have to use the best shelter you have available at the time. If there is no basement, put as many walls as you can between you and the storm as possible and get to the lowest level as possible. For example, the plumbing in your bathroom will give the walls a little more stability and that is where most people without underground shelters go.
"Get to the best shelter and get under something sturdy in case something fall on you," said Heitkamp. "Tornados don't kill people; it's the flying debris that kills people. A basement or a small interior room is where people need to go to increase their chances of survival."
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If an Emergency Financial Manager is appointed, we're told we can expect to see more protests such as the one that shut down parts of I-94 in the city of Detroit on Monday. But that's something the Michigan State Police says will not be tolerated.
Political activist Sam Riddle said on Tuesday, "the governor has unilaterally moved to shut down and take away the black vote. This is going to become a national and international issue. It's not a game for us. The right to vote means a lot."
Riddle and Reverend Charles Williams with the National Action Network said more traffic tie-ups are planned in the coming days. The Lodge Freeway at I-94 was at a crawl during the morning rush hour on Monday. Protesters, angry about a possible Emergency Manager moving in tried to slow things down on the freeway. Riddle and Rev. Williams say the didn't organize the traffic tie-up, but they expect more of them.
"What you're going to see in the next few days, what you're going to see in the coming weeks a lot of organic demonstrations, just like this. No one organization, no one person, but people who are feeling like they are being stepped on by the state of Michigan and governor Snyder" Williams said.
A sea of brake lights on Monday met with a sea of blue state police vehicles as officers arrived quickly to write tickets for impeding traffic. So far three highway protests in the last week have meant 15 tickets written for blocking the roads.
Michigan State Police Lieutenant Mike Shaw said, "There's nothing that can be done by blocking off the freeway. You're not making any statement all you're doing is affecting people's lives. People can't go to work, people end up running late, you're just not making a good statement. And then we're also concerned with the fact that you could also end up killing somebody."
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At a Rensselaer County home, a lid was left open on a five-gallon pail that contained chlorine tablets allowing moisture to enter the pail. The chlorine tablets reacted with the water, producing chlorine gas and a strong odor in the area. An environmental agency and a hazardous materials team responded to the home and conducted cleanup.
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Okay, that's putting it mildly. He seems to be in the throes of a hardcore yogurt addiction is what I really want to say. This baby needs yogurt like Edward needs to tap Bella's jugular, you dig?
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At least this boy is getting plenty of active cultures in his diet. Activia should ditch Jamie Lee Curtis and make this baby their next spokesperson.
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It's kinda creepy-cute. But on a more serious note, I'd be concerned about the fact that he bugs his eyes like that consistently. Check that thyroid.
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Eat@ Restaurant. If you're stuck for somewhere to eat when traveling on business or vacation in the UK, or just bamboozled by the multitude of restaurants available in your local area then Eat@ Restaurant is for you. With Eat@ from Appdragon you can locate and research over 5,000 restaurants and cafes across the UK, view a selection of restaurant food on offer via the menus and dishes feature and tantalise the taste buds. Browse restaurant photos, view the restaurant on a map and read other diners' reviews and ratings. The real advantage of Eat@ is that our restaurants provide exclusive food discounts, vouchers and offers, all in one place and ready to download to your Android mobile or tablet. Dine out with stylish convenience.
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- Global expansion (Singapore, New York, Germany and Spain coming soon)
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You will need to be connected to the Internet (wifi or 3G) for Eat@ to work as the database is accessed remotely.
Eat@ Restaurant - the definitive find a restaurant app.
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Men's 5K overall: Chris Hagen, 37, of Little Falls, took first with a time of 17:16; in second was Kieran Kelly, 19, of Chanhassen, 17:34; in third was Jeff Fiebelkorn, 20, of Baxter, 20:00; in fourth, Tyler Shilson, 14, of Maple Grove, 20:09; and also in fourth, Tyler Spaulding, 32, of East Gull Lake, 20:09.
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On Thursday, July 9, the Colorado State Board of Dental Examiners (SBDE) held a public hearing on the proposed rule addressing anesthesia permits and administration.
Numerous dentists and patients attended the hearing and relayed their concerns about the rule proposal to the State Board.
Several testimonies were presented at the hearing. Some were supportive of the rule proposal and simply requested a few clarifications. Others vehemently opposed the rule, most frequently contesting the rule proposal's potential impact on oral sedation permits and expressing concern about patient access to oral sedation services should the new rule be implemented. Dr. David Lurye, president of the Colorado Dental Association, testified regarding the range of concerns conveyed to the CDA by its members.
HCPF Fluoride Claims Adjustment
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July 10, 2009
Attention Medicaid Providers: The Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing contacted the CDA today wanting to inform members of a temporary system glitch in the Medicaid system. The computer error is denying dentist providers the fluoride varnish (D1206) reimbursement.
The Medicaid office is quickly rectifying this situation. Claims for these codes submitted under fee-for service that have been denied will be "mass adjusted" to pay in approximately 10 days.
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The Colorado State Board of Dental Examiners (SBDE) has issued a new draft of the proposed rule on anesthesia permits and administration. The revised rule proposal includes new sections that outline how the Board intends to transition current licenses and further detail the requirements for nitrous oxide administration. It also makes some editorial changes for clarification.
State Board Revises Anesthesia Rule and Permit Structure
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The Colorado State Board of Dental Examiners (SBDE) recently revised its rule on the administration of anesthesia in an attempt to better define and clarify the permit structure. The proposed rule would reduce the four current anesthesia permits to two proposed permits. The new rule is based on an "anesthesia continuum" that ranges from local to general anesthesia, and focuses on the sedation level of the patient rather than on specific drugs or routes of administration. Requirements become more stringent as one progresses to deeper levels of sedation on the continuum.
Under the new rule, licensed dentists could provide local anesthesia, analgesia and anxiolysis without a permit. In most cases a permit would not be required for nitrous oxide applications performed by a dentist.
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Kathleen T. O'Loughlin, D.M.D., M.P.H, has been selected by the American Dental Association Board of Trustees to serve as the next ADA Executive Director/Chief Operating Officer, effective June 1, 2009. Dr. O'Loughlin becomes the first female executive director in the ADA's 150-year history.
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations require any business that may provide credit to customers to develop written plans to prevent and detect identity theft. The FTC has deemed dentists and physicians as creditors who are subject to the rule when they don't receive payment in full from their patients at the time of treatment.
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After nearly nine years, the CDA's Executive Director Gary Cummins will be leaving the CDA to pursue other opportunities. As a result, the CDA formed a search committee to recruit and select a new leader for your 3,000+ dentist association.
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On my eighth birthday, I remember slogging ass out of bed and down to the kitchen for a bit of toast before beginning the day's activities. A late riser as well, my father happened to be sitting at the counter as I toasted my bread.
Always one to poke fun at what a she-beast I am when I first wake up, my father boomed a loud, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, REBECCA! PUT ON SOME GODDAMNED PANTS!"
Because I was eight, I rolled my eyes at him and grunted a monosyllabic "thanks" under my breath, hoping he'd shutthefuckup until I'd been awake for longer than 30 seconds.
"How's it feel to be THE BIG EIGHT?" he twinkled, obviously enjoying my annoyance.
I thought about it while I gnawed on my toast. Did I feel any differently? Were things different today than they were last night when I went to bed? Have I developed boobs and gotten my first apartment? Did Vanilla Ice finally get all the fanmail I'd sent? Will he finally show up in his wicked ride to pick me up from school? Did I win the Nobel Prize in Awesomeness for sleeping?
No. I was, give or take the bleariness I tried desperately to wipe out of my eyes, the exact same person I was 12 hours before. I shook my head no and scuttled back upstairs to put on some pants.
The "goddamned" was implied.
I feel the same about New Year's. I understand the need that some people feel to celebrate the ending of one year and the coming of the next the same way that I recognize that a monthly purge of my house makes me happy in the pants. I get it – it feels good to be rid of the baggage of the last year, or, erms, well, actual baggage.
If only it worked that way.
December 2012 was a dark, dark time for me. I don't mean that as a pithy country song, I mean it was so damn dark I couldn't tell my ass from my head. Days would pass before I'd speak to another person. I continued the job hunt that had consumed my life since July without any real hope I'd find something. Turns out, trying to eke out a career path after being out of work for so long isn't as simple as throwing together a resume and watching the offer letters pile up on my desk as I sat back and evaluated which Fortune 500 company I'd opt to become president of. I'd been making ends meet by freelancing and selling off any of my possessions that had value, but my nerves were shot each month as I cobbled together enough money to keep the electricity on.(PSA time!)
Hey kids! All of that bullshit your parents spewed in your general direction about learning to manage a household? Turns out – you kinda need to know it. And I'd made the cardinal mistake most married couples do – Dave and I had decided to divide and conquer. All of the things that he'd done for us? I never learned to do. And the converse.
I'd been managing for a few months, still sorta in that daze between what-fuck-just-happened? and this-is-my-fucking-life and once reality hit, I started to take stock of whether or not I actually needed to grace the earth with my presence. I'd try and come up with reasons that I should stick around for another year and usually came up short. Only reason I'm here typing this to you now, Pranksters, is because I knew that my kids needed me. And the thought that it would be days or weeks before anyone found me had my stomach heaving well before I'd realized that my cats would probably quite literally eat off part of my face before I was discovered as departed. No one wants to put that burden on another person.
I woke up January 1, 2013 and nothing had changed. Sure, I could've gone to bed and said, "Self, tomorrow, everything will be different! You won't wake up in a jolt of anxiety like your no-no square had just been tasered! You'll be gainfully employed! You'll be happy! All because YOU resolved to do it!"
I've been around this planet long enough to know one divine truth: The Universe has far bigger things to worry about than my resolutions.
But things did begin to turn around – slowly. By February 1, I was gainfully employed in a job I really enjoyed. I couldn't call myself happy, but I was too busy to notice the sad bits. The anxiety got worse before it got better. I quit that job and took another. And another.
And now I find myself gainfully employed at a job I love working downtown in the best city in the world (apologies, New York). I no longer wake with that squirming ball of anxiety rolling around my gut like the world's nastiest bowling ball – most days. I've learned how to keep the electricity on and my phone bill paid – most months. I no longer worry about someone discovering my half-eaten body. While I'm not always bouncing off the walls with glee (which is, quite frankly, a good thing – it'd be more likely than not to get me institutionalized), I can say that I'm happy.
That can all change tomorrow. I may go into work and find that my job has been given to someone overseas or find that my office has been converted into fancy lofts in Lincoln Park. I may have to go without food or electricity for a spell. Depression may rear its ugly, lying head and tell me what a total piece of shit I am for thinking happiness could happen to someone like me.
I don't know what tomorrow brings any more than the meteorologist on Fox News know what the weather will be like. Educated guesses. Life is a series of educated guesses.
Tonight, I can resolve to lose 395 pounds or wake up an heiress and still wake as, well, me – Your Aunt Becky. Life isn't about empty promises or a guarantee of a happier tomorrow. Good shit happens to bad people. Bad shit happens to good people. Shit happens, usually on some idle Tuesday in the middle of the month when you least expect it. You can rage against it all you want, but I'd surmise that nailing Jello to the wall would be easier.
Instead, I will go to bed tonight knowing that while I may not know what will happen tomorrow, it's another chance for me to make messes, get dirty, and have fun.
And that (NOT the Hokey Pokey) Pranksters, is what life is all about.
The White House has instituted an annual White House Science Fair to focus attention on the importance of science education in the nation's schools. The fair involves more than 100 middle school and high school students who display their inventions and projects for the president, education officials and the media. In his address at the 2013 fair the president linked the importance of science and technology to America's future, as well as to his own educational policies. President Obama said "The belief that we belong on the cutting edge of innovation, that's an idea as old as America itself.
You think about our Founding Fathers – they were all out there doing experiments – and folks like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, were constantly curious about the world around them and trying to figure out how can we help shape that environment so that people's lives are better.
According to comparative studies American students score 23rd in science when compared with 65 other top industrial nations, behind countries such as Estonia, Finland, Hungary and New Zealand. This, scientists and other educators believe, is unacceptable. The President's own Council of Advisers on Science and Technology issued a statement which declared that "economic forecasts point to a need for producing, over the next decade, approximately 1 million more college graduates in STEM fields than expected under current assumptions."
Science educators are thrilled to see the increased emphasis on K-12 science education. Many of these educators have banded together to create a list of suggestions that, they believe, will return America's students to a top place in science education. These suggestions include:
*Concentrate on front-load STEM-related teaching. Tap into the students' natural curiosity and integrate science education into the school's curriculum as early as first grade. One Chicago school has shown considerable success in beginning science education in preschool by integrating it into story time, puzzle time, play time and just about any other time of the day.
*Include science education in teacher training programs. More science-knowledgeable teachers will feel comfortable with science and will be motivated and prepared to integrate science curriculum into the children's daily lessons.
*Don't segregate science classes from the rest of the curriculum. Schools that "specialize" in sciences shouldn't be the norm – every school should see science as a subject that is as important to the students' future as math and English.
*Find ways to adopt forms of scientific methods in the pedagogy of all classes, including building models, arguing from evidence-based facts and communicating findings. These techniques can help develop students' critical thinking skills and make science into a comfortable and familiar way of thinking.
*Stay in contact with nonprofit organizations (such as Project Lead Way) that are dedicated to supplemental training of teachers in the sciences. Good teachers will be open to additional training and their curiosity will inspire their students. Students who take courses from a well-trained teacher will be more dedicated to their coursework and more interested in the subject matter than their peers who don't have well-trained teachers. Lowell Milken, an educational leader, has notes that "The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher."
*Additional corporations and non-profits should be encouraged to donate towards enhancing teachers' abilities. School districts and principals should make full use of these auxiliary institutions.
Ask any adult "Don't you wish you had better and more engaging access to science education when you were in school?" The answer will almost always be: "yes." With the proper attention and resources now America can make that wish a reality for today's student.
On September the 10th, 2005 at 11:15 in the morning, Dave and I were married in front of 150 of our closest friends and family. We drank sangria and danced with our loved ones until the wee hours of the morning, celebrating our union.
Today, December the 31st at 11:17 in the morning, Dave and I were divorced in a courtroom filled with absolutely no one we'd ever met. There are no cakes or balloons, no flowers and excited friends, no dancing, and certainly no sangria. No divorce party awaits me when I'm off work. Hell, I don't even get a cookie for the years I put into the marriage.
Today, I woke up married and will go to bed divorced.
I don't know if there will be tears or if I've cried them all out. For me, grieving the loss of the dream of a happy marriage began three and a half years ago (four?):
Me (rolling over, going to sleep): "I love you."
Dave: (nothing)
Figuring he was asleep – the man could sleep through a tornado being serenaded through our house in by the world's largest marching band – I wanted to make sure he heard me. "I love you" This time, a bit louder.
Dave: (nothing)
Jokingly, I said, "what, you don't love me anymore?"
"No," he stated as flatly as if I'd asked him if I could pave the driveway with cheese. "I don't."
With that, he rolled over and fell asleep.
I laid awake, eyes wide in the dark, until the sun began to peek through the shades.
There it was, the awful truth, all wrapped up in absolutely no pomp and circumstance: my husband didn't love me. As someone who'd already deemed herself probably unlovable, this crushed me. It was my fault, I guess, in that sense. He didn't love me anymore. We (obviously) separated shortly thereafter. Turns out, there's not a whole lot of places to go when the ugly truth is spoken.
I was, understandably, devastated. While I plastered a smile onto my face and went about my business as usual, there it was in the back of my head: "I should get the dishes unloaded and reload the dishwasher and oh yeah, Dave doesn't love me anymore. Wonder when we'll get divorced," and "maybe if I pluck my eyebrows, I'll look less like a sea hag and oh yeah, my husband doesn't love me anymore. It's probably time for a divorce."
I couldn't escape those words and what they meant no matter where I went.
I'd try to talk about divorce to my married friends sometimes, which proved a lesson in futility. They'd either minimize it, "Well, you can be married without loving each other," or avoid me like the divorce plague was catching. Not sure I blame them on that one. What do you say to someone who's husband doesn't love her? I don't know. Like, "I just got divorced 12 minutes ago," I don't know that there's much that can be said.
I don't know what we intended to have happen during our separation. Maybe he'd somehow learn to love me again? Maybe we'd wake up one day and this would all be a dream? Maybe a separation doesn't mean divorce? Maybe I'd be able to live with knowing that, at one point, my husband didn't love me? Maybe things weren't as bad as they seem?
They were.
And separation didn't, obviously, help.
The D Word was thrown around. Dave had already made a "special friend" by the time I moved from the home I'd once jokingly stated I'd have to be pried out of with a crowbar on October 1, 2012. I now reside in my beloved tiny apartment a mere 6 minutes from the home I once tenderly loved my flowers, my children, my husband in. The family, the dream I'd desperately wanted, within walking distance – light years away.
I may no longer mourn what might-have-been's but I can't help but wish that I'd paid more attention to those last times. It's funny, when you're married, you begin to make presumptions about the future; there's always time to make more happy memories, the last time is the last time for now, tomorrow is another day.
Like the last time you see your baby crawl before she starts walking like a big girl, you don't know it's going to be the very last time you see a child of yours crawls. You don't know that the last time you make love to your partner of ten years is going to be the last time. You don't know that the last time you sit, eating dinner and shooting the shit around the big table you spent weeks of your life polishing will be the last time. It simply doesn't register as something that should carry any more weight than it did. You don't think to memorize the details, the way the food tasted, the way his body felt, the giggles of laughter during conversations around the table. There'd be other nights, other dinners, other conversations.
Until there aren't.
What I wish, more than all, is that I could go back in time and re-experience those memories. I'd watch my husband dance with our daughter before her surgery because, "he was her legs because she couldn't use hers yet," knowing that memory would be one I'd cherish for the rest of my days. I'll never again laughingly serenade Dave with my best (terrible) Rod Stewart impression while he does the dishes. That's over. Those were the last times. Ever.
Oh, how I wish I'd have taken the time to recognize those moments as fleeting, soon to be only a memory stored under "Happyness," in my brain. There are always new good times to be had, for sure, but never again will I be able to be proud to call someone "my husband," so excited, so proud to use that term for someone who had simply been "my fiance," mere months before.
But today, for the first time in ten years, I can say that I am totally and completely a single woman. There will be no cakes or parties tonight, only a quiet recognition of the way things are.


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Mercedes-Benz has announced an all-new luxury off-road SUV that has 6 wheels and 536 horsepower. Rumor has it, the limited edition vehicle will have a price tag well into the hundreds of thousands.
It's nice to know that Jay Z and Justin Bieber can now become friends and have off-road weekends. Meanwhile, the rest of us will continue saving up for a pair of second hand roller-skates.
Samsung's new Galaxy S4 phone is taking a revolutionary approach to interfacing with rumored tracking software, that will enable users to perform functions with nothing more than eye movements.
Giving a whole new meaning to the term "wandering eye!"
Brands are beginning to ride the viral coattails of the Harlem Shake phenomenon by releasing their own versions of The Shake tied to their own products.
These brands are just watering down The Shake and making it uncool. It's like your mom shopping at American Apparel - it just shouldn't be allowed!
This guy is on a quest to travel the globe to meet and photograph all 788 of his Facebook friends, some of whom he's never met in person.
He didn't have the funds to finance the project, so he had to turn to Kickstarter to help raise the money… Isn't that what "Friends" are for?
LinkedIn announced that their fairly new feature allowing people to endorse one another's skills, talents, and abilities, has reached the very brag-able 1 billion mark.
I'm gonna make an endorsement, right here, right now... I'm giving the Michael Bolton AMA on Reddit two super enthusiastic, non-sarcastic thumbs up!
Visit my website for more information about my mission and my face. RECOGNIZE!
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